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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-07-03

NEW STORE!
NEW GOODS !
John W. Bi||ings|ey,
Formerly with James Billingsley,
HAS OPENED A NEW
Dry Goods and Notion
STORE AT
5o7 NJ Cay ST.,
Between Front and High Streets.
as STICK consists Ct az the I1TEsT N9y
&c, to be found. Will name few of our many
Bargains:
One lot % inch Dress Goods. imitation of French
styles, only cents, real value 10 cents.
Beautiful Double-width Plaid, only 10 cents,
worth 20 cents.
Yard wide Henrettas, in all the latest shades, 25
cents.
Yard wide Satines, s cents, worth Il.
French Saline II cents, same as others sell for 90
DRESS GINGHAMS, in all the styles made.
OUTING CLOTHS. 6x, 8, 10, IL cents.
One case of WINE CLOTH, in short lengths. for
~ to 10 yards, Blk cents, real value 70 CENTS
This is no common trash.
TABLE DAMASKS. SHEETINGS, MUSLINs,
WHITE GOODS,
CuHNrU,cs, T,TrDNrcTTHrr rnnDc
consisting of Hosiery, Collars. &C.. &c.
W-A large assortment of Embroideries.
Laces, &C., all of which we will sell at such as
tonishing low prices that our competitors can
W-Gfve US call and be convinced that we
mean what we say.
JOHN w. BILLINGSLEY,
307 N. Gay St., Baltimore.
17ap
SALE!|
IMW0LD, KAISER & co. |
WILL OPEN At
PIP w. Lexington, near Park Ave.,
Including eos Clay Street,
With an entirely new stock of C4RPETINGS
as soon as rebuilt and extended. In the mean
time they will sell promptly and without loss of
time EVERY ARTICLE OF FLOOR COVER
ING at their Old Stand, N. e. Cor. Baltimore |
and Ho,cdrd Sts. Having secured large Stor-
age Capacity they will store and lay goods in for
Fall, if SO desired.
Positively Clearing Out Sale
AT GREAT SACRIFICE.
YOUR CHOICE Or
hOQuebteS AT
Body Brussels ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LOO |
-REHNANTS.-
BODY brussels at....... on ctS |
w All other goods in proportion at tempting |
prices, as we certainly mean business.
IMWOLD, KAISER & CO.,
224 and 226 w. Baltimore ST.,
N. Howard ST., BALTIMORE.
7nov
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-07-03
Ugh RoLTON q co., established 1898.

HUGH ROLTON d CO., established 1888.
OF and 200 McElderry's Wharf, Baltimore, Md,
manufacturers and dealers in Glass, Oils, Paints,
and Naval Stores and Ready Mixed Paints of all
kinds 7Je1y
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Tested Recipes.

OYSTER SHoRTCAKE.-Sift o gener-
Gus teaspoonful of baking powder and
a scant half teaspoonfu of salt with a
heaping pint of flour. Mix into this
one tablespoonful of butter, then stir
in enough sweet milk to make a soft
dough. Roll out half of it and fit to a
round tin; moisten thoroughly with
melted butter, then roll out the other
half and lay on the first. When baked,
split apart, lay upon a platter and cover
with oyster sauce.
THOSE who like cheese dishes will
enjoy the following, as some one said,
" when eggs come down." Beat the
whites of four eggs to stiff froth, add
the yolks well beaten, one-half tea
spoonful of salt, and a speck of cay
enne. Mix gently and add a cup of
grated cheese and one-half cup of milk.
Pour into small buttered dishes, like
small custards, sprinkle the tops lightly
with some plain bread crumbs, set in
the oven and bake eight minutes in a
moderate oven. OF course, this dish
must be served hot Immediately after
taking from the oven.
THE cooks who do not know how to
make caramel are deprived of one of
the most delicious tlavorings. For cara
mel ice-cream, brown one cup of granu-
lated sugar in an omelet pan or small
frying pan, stirring continually until it
becomes brown. Be very careful not
to let it scorch. This is the flavoring.
Now mix together one half cup of
sugar, tablespoonful of salt and an
egg. Add pint of bot milk and cook
twenty minutes. Add the hot caramel
gradually to the cooking mixture. Cool
and add quart of cream.
OYSTER SAUCE.-Melt in saucepan
piece of butter the size of an egg,
and put with it two and one-half cup
fuls of milk and the skinned oyster
liquor When it boils, thicken with
flour rubbed smooth in a little milk.
Season with one teaspoonful of salt and
pinch of pepper, and add the oysters.
When they boil up once, pour over the
shortcake and serve before it soaks into
the crust.
For freezing creams use three parts
of ice to one of salt; when it work:
down add more in the same proportion
1t will take about twenty minutes tt
freeze the cream. After cream il
frozen it should stand one or two hour;
to ripen. Always turn the freezer
slowly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
A Word for the Commonplace.

When the friends of that quaint poet
and physician, Sir Samuel Garth, told
him that he was dying, he replied that
he was glad of it, for he was tired of
pulling off his shoes-a testimony to
that sense of monotony which so often
attaches to the routine of life. Not I'M
frequently duties link themselves into a
chain of bondage that frets the flesh
and fevers the blood. The things we
know well, or the tasks we repeat often,
are apt to seem commonplace and I'M
lovely. Work thus loses its charm,
and the splendid possibilities of the
spirit are neglected amid the small la
bors perpetually necessary to the susie
nance of its tabernacle of dust. There
is so much of lying down and getting
up, and sitting at table, and inevitable
plodding, and methodical returning. at
nightfall to pull off ones shoes. While
deploring the universal flatness of this
state of being, perchance there is one
walking in our very shadow whose eyes
look on the same scenes where we have
gazed, but with an answering flash that
beholds an apocalypse of beauty; whose
spirit is encompassed by bonds of COM
munion that have left us cold, but in
which he finds wealth of comfort and
baptism of good cheer. Let us listen
to this outer one, to whom the COM
monplace is fascinating and the ordi-
nary sublime. He whispers few SIM
pie things, which perhaps we have al
ways known but have lost the meaning
of utterly, in that we have never trans
lated them into life. He says any act is
noble that responds to law of God;
fidelity takes no account of the appar-
ent magnitude of an action, and there
fore makes no distinction between great
and small duties. Nothing is cheap
that an immortal can do, and no sphere
common where an immortal toils.-Rev.
Wesley X. DaviS, ID. d., IN Christian
nj Work
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

Those who have suffered from the
annoyance of chapped hands will gladly
welcome these five tested recipes and
instructions: Q) Mix one part fannie
acid, 500 parts glycerine, 5000 parts
rose water. (2) An excellent ointment
consists of one and one-half ounces
lanolin, one-half dram olive oil, thirty
grains salol, fifteen grains menthol.
CD For hands or lips, dissolve boric
acid, one part, in glycerine twenty-four
parts; add lanoin, five parts, free from
water, and vaseline seventy parts. The
mixture may be colored and perfumed.
(4) Whenever taking the hands out of
water wipe dry, and while yet damp,
rub well with corn starch or clear starch
powdered. (5) Take common starch
and grind it with knife until it is re-
duced to the smoothest powder; put it
in a clean tin box, so as to have it con-
tinually at hand for use. Then, every
time that the hands are taken from the
suds or dish-water, rinse them thor
oughly in clear water, wipe them, and g,
while they are yet damp rub pinch of
starch thoroughly over them, covering
the whole surface. The effect is mag
ical. The rough, smarting skin is cooled
soothed and healed, bringing and in
surfing the greatest degree of comfort
from this by no means insignificant an
noyance. -Americdn CultiUdtor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Young People Should Keep House.

"The great increase in the number
of divorce cases IN recent years." said
an old lawyer, who scores of times had
asked aimony for ill-used clients, I" is
due in great part to the tendency of the
middle classes of society to live in
boarding-houses and family hotels.
With no Homework to supervise, nor
even the care of their own apartments,
young wives and middle-aged wives
also find themselves with too much
leisure on hand. To vary the monotony
of such life, protracted shopping ex-
cursions, street promenades and fire.
quent theater matinees are resorted to.
My advice to the newly-married cou-
ples," continued the venerable vender
of legal lore, sis to settle down to house
keeping, no matter on how modest a
scale it may be. Even if the bride has
to soil her white hands with housework,
she will be happier than if exposed to
the dangers which Turk in the indolent
life of boarding house existence. y
Selected
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
A Laundry Lesson.

The following practical comments on
Mondays work are taken from an ar
ticle in DemoreSt'S Monthly. Starching
is a process about which almost every
laundress has some favorlte theory.
Many use flour starch for coarse clothes,
and laundry starch for fine ones; while
others claim that, all things considered,
laundry starch is better for all clothes,
and most economical. Flour starch
turns sour very quickly if the clothes
are left rolled up for any length of
time before ironing, and causes them
to become yellow. When the starch
sours the only remedy is to put the ar
ticles into the wash again, as neither
airing nor perfume will make them even
tolerable. Laundry starch is properly
prepared by stirring the necessary
quantity of starch in cold water until it
is quite dissolved, then adding boiling
water and stirring continually until the
opaque white of the mixture becomes
semi-transparent, and the starch is
thick almost like jelly. Almost every
laundress has a way of her own for
making starch, and is tenacious of her
opinion as to what will make it iron
without sticking. Wax, spermaceti, a
bit OF talloW candle, salt, soap, lard, oil,
and score of similar articles are
recommended, each, no doubt having
it's advantages; but the most simple,
effectual and inexpensive addition to
starch is kerosene, dessertspoonful
of which, stirred into two quarts of
starch Immediately after the boiling
water is added, will prevent sticking,
and be conducive to fine finish. The
gloss which distinguishes professional
laundry-work is produced by various
processes, one of which is to coat the
articles again and again with thick,
boiled starch, ironing it in as long as
the material will absorb it, and then
polishing with irons made specially for
the purpose. Collars, cuffs and shirt
fronts may be treated in this way.
Other garments usually require but lit
tie starch. Table and bed linen should
have just enough starch to be smooth
and glossy but must not be at all stiff
ETchdnqe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
The Speaking Leg.

Have you ever heard the story of the
crossing-sweeper with the wooden leg?
No? Well, here it is: He was quite
an old man, with white hair and pleas
ant twinkle in his eye. He limped
about on his wooden leg and kept his
crossing as clean as possible. A gentle
man passing by one day, looked at him
with interest and entered into conversa-
ton: cam sorry to see, my friend,
that you have a wooden leg" Yes,
don't be sorry" GA good thing to
limp about like that9" Yes, sir.
Years ago was overseer in a large fac
tory, but it did not prevent me from
drinking One day, when | had taken
more than l should, had to climb up
an awkward staircase to overlook the
workmen above. My head being I'M
steady, | slipped and fell My leg was
so badly broken that l was taken to
the hospital. 1t was soon found need
full to cut it off, and | was there a good
while. The nurses were very kind to
unexpectedly one good lady, to whom
shall be forever grateful. She first
showed me the evil of drink, and got
me to sign the pledge. Yes; and she
did more thon' that; she taught me who
could give me strength-poor weak
wretch that | am-to keep it; and he
has helped me so far, using this old
wooden leg as an instrument more than
once" " suppose that is why you
feel grateful to your wooden leg. Do
you mind telling me about it?" "Shall
be glad to, sir Well, this leg is talk
ing leg. When pass public house
and the smell of liquor tempts me, my
wooden leg calls out, Don't go inl
don't go IMP and l obey. Once,
though, 1 nearly broke my pledge. 1t
was very cold, and | felt badly in need
of the old grog; so 1 put my leg on the
first step of the public house door.
Down it slipped, and l with it, of course.
That was saying as plainly as wooden
leg could, l won't 60 in there, and you
can't 90 without me; so you'd better
stop OUT So have ever since. It's an
old saying but true one, that the best
side of public house is the outside.
THANK you kindly, sir. Good-day. p
| The Young Reaper.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
The Buttons on the Back of a Coat.

An American missionary was once
laboring with much learned argument
to convert Chinaman, but found HIM
self nonplussed when the listener re-
torted: " You are profound scholar;
you know everything. Tell me, then,
why you wear those two superfuous
buttons on the back of your coat"
Whether the Chinaman received a
satisfactory answer to his query or not
will probably never be known; but one
thing is certain, it set investigators to
work, and it has since been ascertained
that the two buttons are the survival of
q mi-barbaric custom, and that they
were originally sewed on to hold up a
belt at the time when every gentleman
wore a sword. Louis Republic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
How to Bake Cake.

The best dish to make cake IN Is
large yellow earthen bowl. Have at
hand a smaller bowl in which to beat
eggs. if YOU use patent beater, or a
Matter. if YOU prefer light wire whip
such as professional cake bakers use.
Have ali the materials for making the
cake ready before you, so there will be
no need of the cake resting after you
beoin. Weigh or measure out your
butter. Turn boiling water into your
earthen bowl, and in two minutes turn
it out and wipe the bowl quickly, and
put in the butter. Beat the butter in
this warm bowl and it will quickly come
TO cream; add the sugar gradually, re-
membering that if the grain of the
cake is to be fine the butter and sugar
must be thoroughly beaten together.
As soon as the butter and eggs are
ereamed add the yolks of the eggs,
straining and beating them through
gravy strainer. Beat the cake thor
oughly now, and if there is milk to add
stir it in, or if there is soda in the cake
add it to the milk and beat it. The next
thing to be added is the flour, and the
cream tartar mixed with it, if the cake
calls for cream tartar. Remember that ii
YOU use only flour enough to make the
cake light, and no more, it will be more
tender. The flavoring can be added
now, before the cake is baked, or it can
be lightly rubbed over the bottom after
the cake is out of the oven. 1t is then
slipped back into the pan and allowed
TO cool there. A more delicate flavor
is obtained by the last method, but 1t
is something of risk to handle warm
cake, lest it become heavy. The last
thing TO be added to any cake should
be the whites of eggs, beaten to stiff
froth Stir the cake well, but quickly,
pour it in the pans, keeping it little
higher at the sides than in the center,
to insure its rising evenly without
the center. The oven for cup cake
and pound cake should be just hot
enough to color piece of white writ
ing paper shut up in it for five minutes
light yellow, and only a little hotter
for sponge cake. 1t is very injurious to
cake to be baked in too hot an oven.
A slow baking gives fine-grained,
delicate cake. Where raisins or other
fruit is used add them at the last
minute before the cake is poured
into the pans. Always line cake pans
with creased teapaper. 1t is better to
cool all cake in the pans in which it is
baked; sponge cake, cup cake, angels
food and all cakes which are not heavy
with fruit are better baked in tins that
can be turned upside down and rest on
little legs at the four corners. A cur
rent of air passes over and under the
cake, and the result is much lighter
and better than can be obtained in any
other way.-NeD York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Use and Abuse of Quinine.

Quinine is a drug which is liable to
abuse, while it has unquestionable value
in the class of diseases for which it has
shown specific qualities. But it en-
phatically is not to be taken without
medical direction and supervision. Its
effects upon different persons differ
greatly. While it seems to be easily
assimilated by some, and to produce
quite the desired effect, others are I'M
able to use it without alarming results,
while still others apparently receive no
benefit from its administration. This
may be partially explained by the fact
that the sulphate, in which form it is
generally employed, is very insoluble
in water, requiring 500 times its weight
of distilled water for solution, and
oftentimes. needing the administration
of acids to enable it to yield its full eff
feet. A weak stomach, therefore, would
be unable to assimilate the sulphate at
all. The hydrochlorate, which is a
more recent form of the drug, is now
coming into use to large extent, ow-
ing to its great solubility, which re-
quires but fifty volumes of water.
Still, even that is not to be habitually
employed, and if the condition is such
as TO demand its use, it is such as to re-
guire medical attendance. A substitute
for quinine, a medical agent much more
effective and whose use is said to be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

made, to enforce them implicitly. One
into a contest over point that can not
be enforced. A child may be made to
do certain things, but no power on
earth can force him to do others, or to
say words that he has made up his
mind not to say. The prudent mother
will enforce her authority and teach
obedience on ground that she is sure of
being able to hold. Points that she
knows she can not carry she will avoid
until the habit of obedience is formed,
and then there will be no discussion
The Ladies' Home Journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
1tlural ann Beligiuus.
A Decennial Poem.

The following beautiful poem, published
in the Religious Herald, was written by Rev.
David j. Burrill, ID, OF Minneapolis, for
the tenth anniversary of the Christian En-
deavor movement.
An angel came from heaven down
TO speak word and speak II ever
To quicken hearts and kindle eyes,
And move dull souls from sloth to rise
And win glorious renown,
With one brave word, Endeavor"
Ten years in service thus he wrought,
And then at heavens gate besought,
"My Lord, what wilt thou now2'
Return" said he, and ten years more
Proclaim thy message DER and DER;
BE faithful thou
And them" And then serve ten years more.
And ten years more, and so forever,
For angel ne'er had nobler task,
Nor Of his Lord could nobler ask,
Than to proclaim forevermore,
That potent word " Endeavor"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

attended with none of the evil effects
liable to follow the use of the latter
drug, is being experimentally used. II
is oil of eucalyptus; but readers should
not, from any printed reports of its
qualities, jump to the conclusion that
ii is a thing to be used by them in pro-
miscuous dosing Good H0u sekeeping
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

THE SPRING MEDICINE.-The popu-
larity which Hoods Sarsaparilla has
gained as a spring medicine is wonder
full. 1t possesses just those elements
of ealth-giving, blood-purifying and
ppetite-restoring which everybody
seems to need at this season. Do not
continue in dull, tired, unsatisfactory
condition when you may be so much
benefited by Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t
puri6es the blood and makes the weak
strong.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

HERMANN is up to many tricks; but
he will never take in as much as DR..
BULBS Cough Syrup in its big raid on
coughs or colds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Making Children Mind.

A mother should be careful to make
only reasonable demands upon her
child's obedience, but, when once
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Gbe 3uusebulo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DR. 4. II. HosKiNs, Newport w.t. OF III
Sao,lv IN THE wATcuMAH Publishing COMPANY
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Tired Brain and DebiI-
itated Body.

Do not neglect the first symptoms. Thou
sands become completely Frustrated, paralyzed
or insane by not knowing or realizing that
nervousness, gloom of the mind, loss of men,
DRY, nervous weakness and depression show an
exhaustion of nerve force which will In time
result in utter mental collapse and absolute
prostratlon Of nerve and physical power.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

WE indorse all the proprietors have
ton Oil. 1t is nonpareil.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
Sure and Positive
Means Of Cure.

II is an absolute specific for nervous
debility and physical exhaustion. Persons
with weakened nerves and exhausted vitality
can regain their strength and vigor by its use.
1t restores lost energy and invigorltes the
weakened vital powers In old and young.
Co DR.. Greene, OF "a Temple Place, Boston.
Mass, the famous and successful physician In
the cure Of nervous and chronic diseases, can
be consulted free OF charge, personally or
by letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11
All who Are Weak and
Nervous.

These are the feelings of which so many com
plain. They are weak, tiredand exhausted :
they have no life or ambition ; they become
irritable, cross, blue, and discouraged in some
cases there are pains and aches in various parts
Of the body, and there are often indigestion,
dyspepsia, gas, constipation, duh head and
general dispirited feeling.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

Shattered Nerves and
Exhausted Energies.
Save yourselves from these terrible results
while there is time by the use of the wonder
full nerve inyigorator and health restorer, DR..
Greene's Neryura. Its effects are truly wonder
full, aud it is only necessary to use it to be
convinced OF its remarkable restorative and
strength giving powers. II inyigorates the
blood aud tones up the nerves.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

THE FORUM begins its eleventh
volume with the current number.
Throughout the whole period of the
ten volumes now finished, the pub
fishers announce that there has been
an uninterrupted increase of their
BUSINESSMAN indication of the steady
growth of the popular interest in the
free discussion of the most important
subjects of the time. So great has been
the growth of the magazine that it is
necessary to procure larger otfice-room
than the quarters now occupied by The
Forum, which, three years ago, seemed
large enough for an indefinite period.
Among the more interesting articles in
this number are "The Nicaragua
Canal" Silver as a Circulating Me-
dunn" by George S. Boutwell,; "The
Ring and the Trust" by Rev. DIR. Will
liam Barry.
No Blots on the Escutcheon: But
you have no ancestors, ye know" said
his lordship. "No," replied Miss
Lakeview, "we have the advantage of
you there. "-Puck.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-11

follow. Neglect of these symptoms results in
excessive nervous prostration, mental depres-
sion, insanity or paralysis, with numbness, rem.
bling, cold feet, poor circulation, and weakness
of the limbs. Do not fail, nervous sufferer, to
use the great remedy, DR. Greene's Neryura,
which is beyond all doubt the