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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-21

Es-Jas. G. Young, Bel Air, Md, has in his
store large stock Cantons. like you bought of
him last season, cheaper then ever.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-21

&a- Boarde's Wanted by the Day, Week or
Month. Mrs. Sweet, Bond street. Bel Air.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-21

s-A convenient and desirable House
Rent, on Broadway, Bel Air. Enquire at
IE'0ts office. 21oc
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-21

ES-For Sale.-A Thorndale Idol Mare,
four years old, handsome bay, sound, gen
tie, well-broken and fearless Of steam. Also,
a two or three-horse Wagon, Wilson Hopkins
make. Joseph Edge, Darlington. 7oct
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-21

Eo-For Sale.-Merritt Type Writer, near
ly new. viii be sold very cheap for want of
use ENQUIRE at this Office. 29au
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-10-21

%ae-Trespassing with Dog and Gun is posi-
lively forbidden on my premises. John G.
Norris, near Bel Air. 23sep7t
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
A BACK DOOR TO BOTANIC SCIENCE.

A Shoemaker Who Found Health and
Pleasure in an Interesting Way.
Years ago, in Brattleboro, among the
green hills of Vermont, lived man who
was worthily earning his living as a
shoemaker. He was fairly successful
in business point of view, but when hs
had reached the age of thirty-five or
forty his health gave way. Going to
New York to consult an eminent ply
stefan he was shown into an anteroom,
and was looking at some plants in the
window when the doctor came in. Elk
aiming the case carefully this wise
physician said: "You do not need medi-
cine. What you want is outdoor exer-
else and mental employment saw
you looking at the flowers in the win
dow. Are you interested in botany"
The shoemaker replied that he knew
nothing about botany, but had always
been fond of flowers. s'Well," said the
doctor, sgo home, and every day this
summer go out into the woods and fields
and gather one flower, bring it home
and find out the name Of it,"
He at first felt as little as Nsaman did
at his prescription of washing in the
river Jordan, but finally, like Naaman,
took his prescription and began the study
of botany. Soon he became deeply in
terested, and in two or three seasons had
collected nearly all the Towering plans
of that vicinity. Having his attention
called to moses, he wrote DR.. Gray, ask
ing for some textbook on that subject.
This being before the day Of "Gray's
Manual" the only work DIR. Gray had to
recommend was in German.
Nothing daunted, the shoemaker
bought an "Ollendorff' and soon learned
German enough to read his textbook.
Awhile after French book on that SUBJ
ject coming in his way he studied French
until he could manage its contents, and
then took up Latin and Greek sufficiently
to be able to trace the derivation of boz
tanical names. At last, having fairly
mastered the more common divisions OF
the vegetable kingdom, he began the
study of fungi, and there, as he told o
friend, he had found work to last a
lifetime. This necessitated the purchase
of more books, and finally of Beck's
microscope, and for years he could beseen
every day in his shop, on one side his
lapstone, his bench and the other nipple
ments Of his daily labor, and on the other
a library of botanical works in three or
four Languages, and on shelf over his
head his beautiful microscope.
And thus he spent the evenings of his
days until his death, a genial, cultivated,
intelligent Christian shoemaker botan-
ist. In reply to question as to the
amount Of time he had devoted to his
studies he said, s'Always an hour day
and as much more as possible" Such
was the record of Charles G. Frost,
man whom it was privilege to have as
a Observation-Disclosures Pickering in Chris
tan Union.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24

ders. Mrs. jackson possessed a lovely
disposition and deep personal ,piety. In
her youth she contracted an unfortunate
alliance with one her inferior in every
respect, and from whom she was di-
vorced. The love of General Jackson for
his amiable and interesting wife amount
ed to idolatry, and during his momen-
tous career he never escaped from the
influence she left behind her. He wore
her miniature on his heart till his death,
and, no matter what his cares or pleas
ures, at the close of each busy day the
president retired to quiet room to COM
mune with the portrait and the Bible of
his dead wife.
Mrs. jackson cared very little fer the
honors of this world and longed for
nothing SO much as the hour when her
husband would finish with politics, for,
he assured her that when that time ar
rived he would become a Christian.
When Jackson was elected president his
wife said to those about her: For Mr..
Jackson's sake ] am glad; for my own
never wished it. would rather be a
doorkeeper in the house Of my God than
to dwell in that palace in Washington.
1t was while making preparations for
her departure from the dearly loved
Hermitage and the little chapel built by
her husband for her own especial use
that this gentle soul received the rude
shock which caused her death. She was
like mother to every servant on the
estate, and wishing to leave all comfort
able for the winter made a trip into
Nashville to buy supplies and clothing
for those who were dependent on her
Weary from her shopping she went into
the parlor of a hotel to rest while waiting
for the family coach to carry her back to
The Hermitage.
Suddenly she heard her name spoken
in an adjoining room and her character
basely and cruelty illuminated. For
some time she sat there, pale and cold,
listening to accusations against herself
which had been freely circulated during
the campaign, but which her chivalric
husband had carefully kept from her
knowledge. The popular tradition adds,
that she was seized with spasmodic dis
ease of the heart, from which a few nights
later she died.
The grief of Jackson was agonizing,
and from that hour he seemed to live
to avenge her wrongs. Probably during
no other administration Of the govern
menu hiss personal feeling entered so
largely into official appointments as in
the offices filed by Andrew jackson.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
The Different Hedge Plants.

Prospective planters Of hedges may
be assisted in making decision by the
following from Country Gentleman,
whether the hedge be for ornament or
with a view of forming farm Enclosure:
"The selection must vary with locality,
some succeeding well in one place and
not in others. Where there is a good
natural or artificial drainage and the
winters are not too severe the Usage
orange is quite successful. In other
places the honey locust does well, pro-
vided tbs well cut back at the right
time of year. The privet has hand
some natural hedgyS growth, but is apt
to die out in patches The buckthorn is
a hardy, thick grower, requiring less
cutting back than some others, and
when two or three barb wires are
stretched lengthwise through its center
while growing it becomes an efficient
barrier. The barberry makes beauti-
full hedge with little cutting and forms
a good barrier with the barb wire CEN
ter. Beautiful evergreen hedges are
made of Norway spruce or hemlock,
strengthened with wire in the same
way. The arbor vitae, or white cedar,
has been much used, but will not bear
its own shade without becoming too
thin in foliage.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
A Beautiful Story.

When Gabriel Dante Rossetti was
very young-scarcely more than a boy
he was deeply in love with young girl,
and having poets gift he sang poets
love in numerous sonnets and verses to
her.
She died young, and by her wish the
manuscripts of these poems were placed
in casket and laid under her head, so
that even in the last sleep they should
be, as they always had been-kept be-
meath her pillow. .44
Years passed by. and Rossetti's fame
grew until every line Of his composition
became precious, and some of those who
priced his writings most asked him for
copies of the songs that had been buried.
He had kept no copies, or they had
been lost. At all events, he could fur
nish none, and when they asked him to
rewrite the verses he declared that he
was utterly unable to do so.
At last his friends importuned him for
permission to have the original manu-
scripts exhumed. He consented after
some hesitation, and all the necessary
preliminaries having been complied with
the grave which had been concealed for
many years was opened in the presence
of wondering few.
/. Then strange thing was found. This
casket containing the poems had proves
to be perishable material, and it's cover
had crumbled away. The long tresses
of the girl had grown after death and
had twined and intertwined among the
leaves of the poets papers, coiling around
the written words of lovein loving en-
brace long after death had sealed the lips
and dimmed the eyes that made response
to that love.-Chicago Post.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
Christmas in Norway and Sweden.

In Norway and Sweden the Christmas
season is called the Julefred, or Yule
peace At Julefred all the courts are
closed and every one stops disputing and
quarreling, and if people are feeling angry
with each other, or children are. they make
up and are loving and kind, and there is a
deal of feasting and good humored rnerri-
ment. On Christmas eve the shoes of ali
the family are cleaned very carefully, and
brightly polished and set in a row before
the hearthstone, to indicate that during the
coming year everything will he peaceful
and pleasant in the family. In the country
places almost every family who can spreads
table with the good cheer of the season.
and then the doors are left open so any one
can come in and eat and drink and be
merry The way that the presents are
given is very peculiar the person who
wishes to give a present wraps it up in q
quantity Of straw or paper or rags, and
slyly filings it in at the open door or win
low when no one is in sight. Isn't that q
droll way?-Cincinnasi Commercial Ca
Eette-
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24

sonal articles of jewelry and clothing,
his watch, seal, cornelian ring topaz
breastpin, gold pen and pencil, tobacco
box, walking stick, slippers, flesh brush,
dressing gown and a marvellous regalia
of beads presented to him by Sam Hous-
ton, Of Texas.
There is his library, a collection of
several hundred volumes, nearly all of
which contain his autograph. There Is
an extensive collection OF snutfboxes,
one Of which belonged to Lafayette and
was presented by himself. There is a
wilderness of curios, medals, coins,
pipes and swords, among the latter be-
ing the one presented jackson by the
citizens of New Orleans in commemora-
ton of the famous battle.
There are all the beautiful old mahog-
any, the rosewood, the mother OF pearl,
the gilt and the damask Of those days.
There are pitchers, vases, lamps. candel-
abra, andirons, clocks, statuettes, servers,
mirrors, candlesticks, china and silver,
including the family tea service. There is
silver dish which belonged to Decatur,
letter from Jefferson, an exquisite por-
celain miniature of Mrs. De Witt Clinton,
presented by herself and accompanied
by letter couched in stately persifage
of that day; an armchair presented by
the wife of Chief Justice fancy, George
Washington's Office chair, small panel
from the floor of Napoleon's room at
Longwood, st. Helena, q piece of candle
found in Corvallis hut at the sur
render of Yorktown and sent to Jack
son with the request that he light it
on every recurring 9Th Of January,
and a penholder made from a portion Of
the tree under which Washington first
unsheathed his sword in defense of
American liberty.
The generals state coach is preserved
as well as his carriage, made Of a por-
ton of the old ship Constitution.
In cupboards and closets are stored
away many rare old bits of faded fnery
and coquetry. There is the full set of
pearls and topaz presented by New Or
leans women to Mrs. jackson. There is
beautiful pink brocade worn by jack
sons niece at the court OF Berlin, and
the wedding gown of the wife of Jack
sons adopted son, a Miss Yorke, Phila-
de1phia belle. This dainty combination
of lace and satin has been worn as a
wedding gown by brides of three success
sive generations
Cali houses wherein men have lived
and died are haunted" says Longfellow,
and The Hermitage is no exception. It
is peopled, to the imaginative visitor,
with company of illustrious shadows,
among which perhaps the phantom of
gentle Rachel jackson moves with the
most tender and melancholy interest,
seeming indissolubly blended with ev-
cry nook and corner of the home to
which she was devoted, and from which
destiny decreed she should not wander.
The story Of Rachel Jackson's life is
like romance. She was wonderfully
beautiful woman, and her portraits linn
a face of winsome and innocent express
sion. The throat is full, the lips sweet,
the brow rounded, and the eyes are large
and limpid. A cap of soft lace crowns
the dark curls which fall over the Shout
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
A New Potato Food.

A new substance called torrefied pulp
is being prepared from the potato. Its
main use is for feeding cattle, but with
boiling water it is said to form palata-
BILE soup, and can be made into good
breadssuf when mixed with wheat Or rye
flour. The potatoes are ground, and the
pulp, after. being pressed until most of
the water is excluded,is sliced nddried
In q furnace. The heating process is
continued just longaenough tosgive a
pleasant taste to the product without
converting it's starch into dextrin Ex-
change.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
The Black Hole of Middle Mountain.

Up until about tho middle of April,
1890, the BLACK hole of Middle noun
tain was one of the best known of Vir-
ginia's natural curiosities, the natural
bridge'of course always excepted. The
Black hole was natural well about
twenty feet in diameter, situated at the
foot of Middle mountain on the farm of
A. FL. Slitlington, in Pocahontas county.
1t was of unknown depth and locally be-
lieved to be poisonous from the fact that
cattle, horses and other animals in com
mon refused to drink of the water al
though almost furnishing from thirst.
Black hole has been known since at least
100 years before the opening of the Revo-
lutionary war, and was given the name
it bore because its waters looked as
black as ink. even though the eyes of
the beholder were not more than two
feet distant from its surface. VIII n
dipped out by the cup, pail or barrelful
it appeared as clear as crystal, the orig
inal coal black appearance being phe-
nomenon never satisfactorily accounted
for.
Black hole, which had stood with its
waters at uniform level for two CEN
turtles of white mans history during
which time the water line had never in
the least been affected by flood or
drought, suddenly disappeared. One
Warner, who lives on the Slitlington
farm, was the first to discover and an
nounce what was considered neighbor-
hood calamity. He had gone to salt the
cattle which usually congregated in the
shade around the brink of the pool, and
was amazingly astonished to find that
the old ''bottomless well" had suddenly
become thing of the past. Its waters
had been mysteriously drained, and its
sides had fallen in.--SS. Louis Republic.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24

Did ne lave the slightest suspicion that
a man had neglected to espouse the cause
of his beloved wife he lost no time in
removing him. Upon her tomb he caused
her virtues to be enumerated and her
good deeds recited, ending the glowing
tribute with these touching and eloquent
words: "a being so gentle and so virtu-
GUS Islander might wound, but could not
dishonor. Even death, when he bore her
from the arms of her husband, could but
transport her to the bosom Of her God.
EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
WALTER WELLMAN.
The invention OF The Cotton Gin.

The invention OF the Cotton Gin.
No invention has played larger part
in our history than the cotton gin, which
was the work Of Eli Whitney. Whitney
was the son of a poor Massachusetts,
farmer and worked his way through
college without assistance. Soon after
the revolution he settled in Georgia and
became a teacher to the childrenof Mrs.
Nathaniel Greene, widow of the famous
General Greene. One day when a com
pany of planters Were assembled at Mrs.
Greene's house near Savannah the de-
pressed condition Of the southern states
came up for discussion, and it was gem
orally agreed that the chief cause of the
existing condition Of atfSirs was the diff
fculty Of raising cotton with profit, ow-
ing to the great labor of separating the
fibers Of the cotton from the seed. One
of the planters suggested that perhaps
this work could be done with a machine,
and this prompted Mrs. Greene to re-
mark. "Gentlemen, apply to my young
friend, Mr.. Whitney. He can make any
thing"
Whitney was sent for and the situa-
ton explained to him. He told the
planters he had never seen pod of cot
ton in his life, but he would try what he
could do. Next day he procured some
unclean cotton, shut himself up in his
room and set to work to invent the ma
chine required. From early boyhood he
had exhibited wonderful skill in me-
chanics, and this aptitude was of the
greatest assistance to him in his present
task. He was compelled to make the
tools and the wire with which he
worked, but before winter had ended he
had completed his machine. Then he
set it up in shed and invited a number
of planters to come and see itwork. The
delight of his visitors. at what they saw
was unbounded. Whitney's engine could
clean as much cotton in one day as man
could clean in a whole winter. New
York Herald.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24

not one that fills the bill for this honor.
Mr.. Carlisle would be better for that
than for finance, but he.is too poor. Sen
ator Gray, of Delaware, comes well to-
ward the ideal, but | make my guess as
to the man who will get thames C.
Carter, the leader of the New York bar,
a great lawyer, a wealthy man, an en-
tirely respectable figure and warm
friend of Mr.. Cleyeland's.
WALTER WELLMAN.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24

Ii you want to be on the safe side, stick to
the old reliable, DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. 1t is
old by dealers everywhere.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-24
AT JACKSON'S HOME.
The Historic Mansion Of the Hero Of
New Orleans.

What tho Ladies of Tennessee Are Doing
to Preserve The Hermitage and Also
the Cabin in Which the Warrior and
Statesman Spent His Boyhood.
fCopyright. 1892, by American Press Associa-
toni
Englishnlen are proud of their soldiers.
"Hearts of oak they call them. The oak
is a majestic tree, unmoved by storms
land defying hurricanes. But the tough,
sinewy, gnarled and knotted hickory is
our synonym for the audacious, per-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-05-06

THOSE who habitually carry deadly
weapons upon their persons are otiicers
of the law, who need them to enforce
their authority; criminals. who need
their aid in perpetrating outrages upon
society; DULLES. who require them tc
give them tho courage na!gare o has :. e &c;
nicd. and fools either OF tender years
or those unable to profit by experience
who think it smart TO go armed.
Added to these are men who have SC
conducted themselves that they have
reason to fear personal violence from
particular individuals A revolver is
a dangerous possession, both to the
owner and those with whom he comes
in contact. Left at homo under the
pillow, on the mantel or in the bureau
drawer, it threatens the lives OF those
of the household and carried in the
pocket it is dangerous to its owner
and to all with whom he comes in con-
tact.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-05-06
THOSE who are disturbed by tn

THOSE who are disturbed by tho
number OF divorce cases in our courts
and the divorce scandals in the nows.
papers should comfort themselves,
once in while. by gIancing over the
weekly list OF marriage licenses and
noticing the enormous disparity be.
tween the two II marriage Is a fail
ure. it is evident that tho majority Of
young men and maidens have not
found it out and are daily entering
upon matrimony with the old-time
roseate hopes of happiness. A little
observation among our friends and
acquaintances will confirm the belief
that the great majority Of marriages
are happy in their results Let any
one count up the number OF happy
marriages among his friends and ac.
quaintances, and strike a balance be-
tween them and the number OF those
who have made shipwreck OF their
happiness on the matrimonial sea, and
he will no longer be distressed by the
magazine and review writer's on mar
riages or the proceedings of the di'
vorce court
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-05-06

One great advantage which the in
creased use of the best machinery il
TO the farmer is seldom spoken OF By
the manufacturers, or by the farmers
themselves. Perhaps the farmers dc
not realize it, while the makers nigh
think it would hinder instead OF help
ing, the sale of their machines If i
were known. 1t is fact that the
use of the machine soon makes moro
careful farming necessity Tho
hand scythe could be worked among
rocks and stumpa and along hedge
rows and ditches and carried through
the boys, but one who wants to pro
ftably use the moving machine mus
remove the Instructions ana Gil up OIL
drain the places where the horsef
would mire or the machine pillow up
the ground.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-05-06

AMERICAN fiction has distinctly for
Iaken the expansive and the illimit-
ible to run after tho contracted and
!he limited Instead of a national
aovel we now have rapidly accumu-
ating series of regional novels-or.
rather so far has the subdividing and
minimizing process gone, of local
tales. nelghborhood sketches, short
stories confined to tho authors back.
vard. At the same time that Ameri-
ian fiction has thus been leaving the
prairies and taking up with pasture.
Il has also. in some OF its manifesto
lions grown little shaky in its pa
,riotism, and shown a sneaking liking
Tor the effete monarchies OF Europe,
and q prediction for foreign themes
in general.