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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
THE DEADLY COLD BED.

If trustworthy statistics could be
had of the number of persons who
die every year or become permanently
diseased from sleeping in damp orcold
beds, they would probably be aston
ishing and appalling. 1t is peril that
constantly besets travelling men, and
if they are wise they will invariably
insist on having their beds aired and
dried, even at the risk of causing much
trouble to their landlords. But &C.
cording to Good housekeeping, it is
peril that resides also in the home, and
the cold spare room" has slain its
thousands of hapless guests, and will
go on with it's slaughter till people
learn wisdom. Not only the guest,
but the family, often suffer the penalty
of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling
their bodies, at the time when they
need all their bodily heat, by getting
between cold sheets. Even in warm
summer weather, cold, damp bed
will get in its deadly work. 1t is a
needless peril, and the neglect to pro-
vide dry rooms and beds has in it the
elements of murder and suicide.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
VARIETIES.

1t has been Dissolved that music
comes out of a barrel organ in slaves.
old gentleman Opening parlor
door Just as the young man stole kiss.
-"Well, l am surprised " Young
man (confused).-"S am l."
One thing that really kill great
many people is laZiness, though the
doctors generally manage to find a
more respectable name for it.
Poets Wife-''The wolf is at the
door" Bring him in, and I'll
read him what l have just written.
He won't trouble us any more.
What color in eyes do you think
most beautiful, Mr.. Edgerly - asked
Miss De Peyster And Mr. Edgerly, af-
ter taking swift glance into her lovely
orbs of vision, answered, promptly
Brown
You had a lot of books this year,
didn't you, Mollie ~ "Yes," replied
Mistress Mollie, with all the serious
ness of perfect sincerity, II had five
improving books on my Christmas
tree and two to read.n
Are your eggs fresh - asked the
lady, and the conscientious market
man told her: They're a little off
for bilin', mum, but they makes as
| fine an Omelette as ever you sunk
tooth i'm
"A clerk at large shoe store ON
Sixth avenue is very much given to
spells of Observation-Disclosures. Miss
Murray Hill went into the shoe store
not long ago. what can do for you,
miss p he asked, timidly. 81 want a
pair of Shoes Have you-haYe
you brought your feet with your
You must come over and play
with the baby some time" said Wis
itor to a little girl. Eyes, ma'am,
maybe WILL" answered the little
girl. us it a walking baby, or just a
wagon baby?" .
An exchange mentions a little girl
who had been used to seeing only men
| on horseback. One day several young
women from the city rode out where
she lived, and stopped directly in front
of the house. Mary stood at the gate
looking at them then, as they rode
| on, she ran into the house 80
mamma" she said, 'if they can ride
sitways, i guess I'll get horse and
ride myself ~
An employee of the Kongo Free
State writes that he had in his SER
vice black man who was almost al
ways accompanied by an ape, of
whom he seemed very fond. One day
the native appeared without the ami
NAL. What have you done with
your monkey - asked the white man.
Monkey? Me eat him upr' "You
ate him Are monkeys good to eat,
then?' "Um-taste same like white
man! ' said the negro, with an air of
kaan apDraciafion
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
"RI1sTED.u NOT BROKEN

Doubtless our unlettered friends
have fine distinctions in the use of
words, for which we do not give them
sufficient credit. A new pupil in d
colored school took shattered lamp
chimney to show her teacher.
"Ahr' said he, your chimney is
broken, is it p
mo, sir,'' she answered, Its
busted"
In her distinction of terms lay all
the difference between confession of
guilt and an assertion of innocence.
The word broken" she understood to
mean that the mishap had occurred
by her own fault; and in correcting
to "busted" she meant to imply that
some unknown agency, a current of
cold air, perhaps, had caused the
break.
Here is distinction as clear and
real as we make in more scholarly
terms,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
THE WIDOW.
Louisville Courier-Journal.


In the funniest farce which has
struck New York there is one sentence
which would, if the roof were nova
BILE, take it off the house, for the au-
dience think it is SO desperately, dia-
bolically amusing that they laugh
until they can't laugh any longer.
This is the sentence: A young man
masquerading as footman is talk
ing to the servants, and after they
tell him how good and kind the mis-
tress is, he says: "She must be a
rara avis The servants look at him
aghast, and eventually the lady's
maid says, with knowing shake of
her head, "Oh, no, she amt; she's a
widow" This is what convulses the
house. And what | want to know is
why should widows always be a sub
the same trouble that did, and ask
the men about it, you will find that
the American widow, like the orchid,
is regarded as the finest product of
the Nineteenth century. Now, why
shouldn't she be?
Isn't there every reason in the
world why a widow can make young
man happier than young girl can ?
You see, she has gone through it all.
She knows the small WEAKNESSES, the
nagging tendencies, the tiresome Gu
riosity and the tiny fault-finding pc
culiar to mankind. She knows how
to ignore all this, and to blissfully ac-
cept all the great, big virtues that,
thank the Lord, are predominant in
man. She knows how to cater to his
appetite, material and mental; she
knows how to make him think as she
does, and she doesn't adopt the tao
tics of young girl for this. Oh, no
not by long manner of means. When
young girl doesn't agree with the
young man she contradicts him.
That's first blood for him. A widow
does nothing of the kind /; she agrees
with him, and then she talks to him
tells him just how clever he is, dain-
tily brings forward her own view,
suggests to him that she knows that
he has been thinking that way all the
time; that he was only trying to see
if she could guess it, and hey, presto
before he knows anything he has
veered around to her opinion, and
hasn't the remotest idea that he has
changed his mind.
Then widow has learned the de-
light of quiet, and although she likes
to go out and enjoy herself, an even
ing alone, with the man she has mar
ried is special pleasure to her. She
is ambitious for him, interested in all
his pursuits. l know a widow who
said she would pay 100000 to have
her husband made Governor of the
State in which they lived she is pre-
siding over the gubernatorial mansion
now. She has limited that she will
give million to have him made
President of the United States, and,
as he is young man, and clever
man, and million is a good bit of
money, and money talks extensively
nowadays, shouldn't be surprised to
see her doing the gracious in the
White House yet.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
GENERAL CUCKOO.

Many hard-worked individuals in
other lands than Russia will appreci-
ate the longing for liberty which at
tends the coming of spring. In Am
erica it is, perhaps, when we hear the
bluebird calling, instead of the
cuckoo, that we long to run away
but whatever the musical summons,
it is not to be denied. Hundreds of
convicts at the mines in Kara, says
George KEENAN, in siberia and the
Exile SYSTEM escape in the summer
and live wandering life in the forest.
The signal for this annual movement
is given by the cuckoo, whose notes
announce the beginning of the warm
season.
The cry of the bird is taken as evil
dence that an escaped convict can
once more live in the forest, and to
run away is, in convict slang, to Ego
to General Kukushka for orders, -
Kukushka being the Russian name
for the cuckoo.
With many convicts the love of
wandering through the trackless for
ests and over the great plains of east
ern Siberia becomes a positive mania.
They do not expect to escape alto
gether they know that for months
they will live as hunted fugitives,
subsist ON berries and roots, sleep ON
the water-soakedg ground, endure hard
ships innumerable, and face death at
every step; but in spite of all this,
they cannot hear the first soft notes
of the cuckoo without feeling pas
sionate longing for the adventures
that attend the life of a brOdyag-a
vagrant or tramp.
Il once had convict servant said
prison official at Kara, who was
one of these irreclaimable Migrants,
and who ran away periodically for
the mere pleasure of living nomadic
life. He always suffered terrible hard
ships :; he had no hope of escaping
from Siberia, and he was invariably
| brought back in letters, and severely
punished. Still, nothing could break
him of the practice.
Finally, after he had become old
and gray-headed, he came to Inc one
morning in early summer, and said,
BARN, l wish you would please have
me locked up Locked upy said l.
What for7 What have you been
doing?' . s.
al have not been doing anything,
said he, but you know am brOd'
ydg. l have run away many times
and if l am not locked up | shall run
away again. am old and gray now
/ can't stand the life in the woods
and l don't want to run away but il
1 hear General Kukushka calling me
must go. Please do me the favor to
lock me up, your High Nobility, SC
that can't 60
''He was locked up, and kept in
prison most of the summer. When he
was released the fever of unrest haG
left him, and he was quiet, docile and
| content d.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
FULTONS FIRST PADDLE BOAT

1t was said of the boy, Robert Full
ton that he was what might be called
dull scholar, and once when chided
by his teacher for his inattention to
his studies, he replied that his head
was so full of original notions that there
was no vacant place to store away the
contents of dusty books.
One of the neighbors of his father,
one Dentef Grummp, was very fond of
fishing, and he had built for this pur-
pose a -bottomed boat or scow, and
he used to avail himself of the labors
of his son Christopher and his neigh
boris son Robert to aid him in his pur-
suit by getting them to pole the boat
over the waters of the Conestoga,
while he fish-poled the perch and the
bass into the boat. AS well may be
imagined this was not much amuse-
ment for the boys, but one of them
put on his thinking cap as he pushed
his way along, and, as usual, pushing
and thinking won in the end.
firing of pole pushing, Robert Full
ton concluded that he would go over
| the hills and make his aunt visit OF
a week or so, and it was in the garnet
of his aunt's house that he built a
small model of Denter Grummp's flat
| boat, to which he planned and arrang
ed pair of paddle wheels on a cross
shaft, having ON it hand cranks
Coming back home he confided to his
chum Christopher his invention, and
securing his aid, they together rugged
up a paddle shaft with wheels and
cranks for the fiatboat of the elder
| Grumpp. This was so arranged thai
the whole machinery could be lifted
off and taken to a place of safety while
not in use.
1t was not long before the elder
Grumpp had, as many another since
has had, longing to try his luck
again ON the waters of the Conestoga
and he summoned the beforetime re
luctant boys to help him out. What
his surprise was we perhaps can i'm
agine, us he looked back from the boat
and saw the two boys struggling dowr
the river bank with a queer looking
| conglomeration of iron and wood il
the shape of cranks and wheels or
ttheirshoulders land just how the boys
Echuckled together as they saw the sur
prise in the staid old Dutchman's face
! we can also imagine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
FOR SALE OR RENT.
nor SALE.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE-That the sub
Il scribers have obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters Tesla
mentary on the personal estate of
SILAS KENNEDY,
late of Hartford Co., deceased. All persons
having claims against said deceased are hereby
notified to exhibit the same with the legal
vouchers thereof,
On or before the 14th day of Sept, 1902,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of said estate. All persons in
debted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal, this 18th day
of March, 1892.
ELMIRA KENNEDY,
1Smh Executrix.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
NOT TO BE BORNE.

That dogs are affectionate is uni
versally allowed, and that they are
Jealous no observer can doubt; but
that dog may show true philosophy
in accepting hard situation is occa-
sionally proved. Says the London
Spectator:
A young man had for some years
owned dog which was his constant
companion. Recently, however, he
married, and moved with his wife
and dog into a house on the opposite
side of the street from his fathers
house, his old home
The dog was not happy, for atten.
ton which had once been his own
were now given to the young wife.
His master tried to reconcile him to
the altered state of things, and the
bride endeavored to win his affection,
but he constantly showed his dis
pleasure and misery.
One day his master came home and
sat down putting his arm about his
wife. Jack was lying by the fire, and
at once rose, approached the two, and
| made the usual exhibition of his dis
approval.
"Why, Jack!'' said his master.
"This is all right. She is good girl, :"
anu DIS ue spohe he pdIteu Ills vile
arm.
Jack looked up at him, turned away
and left the room. In moment they
heard noise, and going into the hall
found him dragging his bed down
stairs. He reached the front door and
whined to be let out. The door was
opened, and he dragged the bed down
the steps and across the street to his
old home, where he scratched for ad-
mittance. Since then he has never
returned to his master, and has re-
fused all overtures toward reconcilia-
| tiOn
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However, after suppressed giggling,
they hung the shaft in its place, and
the wheel over the side, taking their
places at the crank, and then and
there started the first paddle wheel
boat ever seen on the new continent OF
America.
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-Alice-"What has Jack gone out
for % Maid-"Oh, Jack likes to be
taken for d real bad man" Alice
"How do you mean ?" Maud-"Why
he goes out and eats cloves between
the acts, so that people will think he
has been drinking"
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Dealer: Il am sure, madam, you
could look the city through and not
find handsomer carriage than this. ,
Mrs. D'Avnoo: ooh, it's handsome
enough, but it looks too comfortable
to be stylish"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25

Help! Murderl Fire Fire y
Policeman-"Hark Some one must
be rebbing that. woman" Friend
-'.How do you know it's robberys
She is crying everything else. "
THAT'S just why l think So
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE.-That the SUBJ
Il scriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters of Ad-
ministration ON the estate of
JAMES w. EWING,
late of Hartford Co., deceased. All persons
having claims against said deceased are hereby
notified to exhibit the same with the legal
vouchers thereof,
On or Before the esd day of August, 1892,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of said estate. All persons
indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal this 23d day
of February, 1892.
ISAAC w. BAYLESS,
26feb Administrators
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Il VALUABLE OPINION.

The late A. 7. Stewart was harassed
by a certain treasury decision which
vastly increased his payments of
duties His lawyer, says the New
York Press. called one day about an
other matter. Stewart spoke in an
exasperated way about the treasury
decision.
LET me see the decision" said the
lawyer. After reading it through he
said:
This law speaks of 'all-silk' gar
ments. Why don't you have a thread
of worsted run into these goods when
they are made abroad -
Twill that come within the new
law p asked the great merchant.
Certainly"
Glow much do you want for that
opinion p asked Stewart few months
later. -.. ...-.. s...-
Fifty thousand dollars" said the
lawyer. And he got it. He was mod
est, too, but a dollar went further in
those days than it does now.
Stewart years after told his legal adj
wiser that the casual suggestion made
that day had been worth over one
million five hundred thousand dollars
to the merchant.
So the fifty thousand-dollar fee was
not high.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-25

INHIS is TO GIVE NOTICE-That the SUBJ
i scriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Nd, Letters of Ad-
ministration on the estateof
BENNETT GRAFTON,
late of Hartford Co, deceased. All persons
having claims against said deceased are hereby
notified to exhibit the same with the legal
vouchers thereof,
On or before the 9th day of Sept, 1892,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of said estate. All persons in
debted to said estate are requested to make i'm
mediate payment,
Given under my hand and seal this 9th day
of March, 1892.
CORBIN GRAFTON,
limb Administrator
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John A. GREENLAND.
A. PRESTON GILBERT, Attorney.
Nor.rp I'd CRrDxTnpS
Il. JOHN ROGERS,

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE-That the SUBJ
i scriber has obtained from the Registeriof
Wills of Hartford county, Nd, Letters of Ad-
ministration on the estate of
X. JOHN ROGERS,
late of Hartford county, deceased. All persons
having claims against said deceased are hereby
notified to exhibit the same with the legal
vouchers thereof,
On or Before the 18th day OF Feb, 1898,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of said estate. All persons
indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment
Given under our hands and seals this 18th day
of February, 1892.
SARAH ELIZABETH ROGERS,
Il. EDWARD SWARTZ,
19feb Administrators, c. t. a.
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Pnetica1.
THE AW4KENING YEAR.


THE AW4KENING YEAR.
The bluebirds and the violets
Are with us once again,
And promises of summer spot
The hillside and the plain.
The clouds around the mountain-tops
Are riding on the breeze,
Their trailing azure trains of mist
Are tangled i'll the trees.
The snow drifts which have lain 80 long,
Haunting the hidden hooks,
Like guilty ghosts have slipped away,
Unseen, into the brooks.
The streams are fed with generous rains,
They drink the wayside springs,
And futter down from crag to crag
Upon their foamy wings.
Through all the long wet nights they brawl,
By mountain homes remote,
Till woodmen i'll their sleep behold
Their ample RATS atioat.
The lazy wheel that hung so dry
Above the idle stream,
Whirls idly in the misty dark,
And through the miller's dream.
Loud torrent unto torrent calls,
Till at the mountains feet,
Flashing afar their spectral light,
The noisy waters meet.
They meet, and through the lowlands sweel
Toward the briny bay and lake,
Proclaiming to the distant towns,
1.-The country is awake!'
II. BUCHANAN READ.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
ALEXANDER c. MORGAN.

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE-That the SUBJ
l. scriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters of Ad-
ministraton on the estate of
ALEXANDER C. MORGAN,
late of Hartford county, deceased. All per-
sOns having claims against said deceased are
hereby notified to exhibit the same with the
legal vouchers thereof,
On or Before the 10th day of August, 1892,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from ali benefits of said estate. All persons in!
debted to said estate are requested to make i'm
mediate payment.
Given under our hands and seals this 10th day
of February, 1892.
JOHN Fl. COCHRAN,
MALVIN A. MITCHELL,
10 Administrators.
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NOTICE.

Executors and Administrators who have not
settled their accounts according to law will, at
an early day as possible, with vouchers there
Of report to the Register of Wills for the set
Element of said accounts. All deiinquents will
be called on to appear before the court.
By order of the Orphans Court,
G. SMITH NORRIS,
1Ssep Register of Wills of Hartford Co.
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GEORGE L. vANBIBBER, Solicitor.

GEORGE L. vANBIBBER, Solicitor.
ORDER NISI.
In the matter of the estatel In the
of George Lochary, Orphans Court
late of Hartford County, of
deceased. Hartford County.
ORDERED, this 10th day of March, 1892, by
" the Orphans Court of Hartford County,
that the sales made and reported by Mary G.
Randolph and John Lochary, Executors of
George Lochary, late of said county, deceased
said sale being that of the real estate of which
the said George died seized, be finally ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the 18th day of
April, 1892; provided a copy of this order be
published in some newspaper, published in
Hartford county, once week for three sue
cessive weeks before the said 18th day of April
next.
The report states the amount of sales to be
$4,000.
JNO W. BARTON,
JAMES NJ. CAIN,
HUGH 7. BAY.
G. SMITH NORRIS,
limb II. w. H. County.
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WATCHES AND JEWELRY.

Bellies have been rung since rings
came into fashion and out of fashion
rings will never go until tropical trees
grow at the North Pole Rings are as
old as nursery rhymes and as new as
the latest news We have some of the
handsomest specimens that ever gave
an added charm to a lady's finger.
We make a speciality of rings, but not
of rings alone, for you have never seen
and are never likely to see anything
handsomer than our display Of jewel
ry of all conceivable varieties. You
will be especially pleased with what
we have to show in Engagement and
Wedding rings, Solid and Silver-Plat-
ed Ware, Bric-a-brac-especially APP
propriate for Christmas gifts.
Mac DONALD'S,
CHARLES AND BALTIMORE SFS., BALTIMORE, I'D.
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A. PRESTON GILBERT, Attorney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE-That the SUBJ
l. scriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Nd, Letters of Ad-
ministration on the estate of
JOHN A. GREENLAND,
late of Hartford Co., deceased. All persons
having claims against said deceased are hereby
notified to exhibit the same with the legal
vouchers thereof,
On or Before the 18th day of August, 1892,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of said estate. ALI persons
indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal this 18th day
of February, 1892.
X. CORNELIA GREENLAND,
19feb Misunderstanding
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FOR SALE.

Nt For cash or good paper, 1 Grey
8 Harry Arlington Mare, years old
in fual to Duncan. One Sorrel Horse
-NRADt4 wears old. Both good workers an(
drivers. Asd 3 three- year-old colts. Make first
B. F. DARBIE,
21ian Clermont Mills, Md.