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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
Rich Treasures.

One who has not been accustomed to pre-
serve short articles, poems, and anecdotes,
and the like, in scrap book, cannot possibly
realize the entertainment il affords to turn
over the familiar pages in after years. Here
piece of poetry meets the eye which would
have long since been lost had it not been for
this convenient receptacle, and on the next
page there is witty anecdote which will
make you laugh heartily, although it may be
for the tenth time. Next comes a valuable
recipe. which had quite slipped from your
mind, and perhaps it is found just in time to
answer your purpose. And there is sweet
little story which had cheered and encourag-
ed you when heavily laden with life's press
ing cares. Indeed, you can hardly turn
single page without finding something to in
terest and amuse you. So let us hoard up
with care the precious gems of thought which
kle along the wayside, and see at the e
of The year what a rich treasure we possess.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
Larger Ears. Larger Aches:

Seven-year-old Jack was afflicted with ear
ache, and screamed frantically with the pain.
Hush, Jackie. DEAR" said nurse soothing
ingly. "Don't cry so; it only makes it worse.
Don't you mind how little Ned behaved when
he was having earache9 He never cried this
way"
"Huh - yelled Jack Indignantly. "Wbat
does that baby know about earachef His
ears ain morn half as big as NINE"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
Christmas.

NE IT KNOWN to all per-
* sons that Thomas Thad-
- deus Santa Claus, of
Somehow, America, has this
day been admitted as special
partner in our business for the
next thirty days. He is great
dispenser of happiness-will
give you a hearty welcome
You will feel good if you meet
him, and be sorry if you don't.
You will be most welcomely re-
ceived, and always find him in
a good humor. He has presents
to dispense for all classes and
conditions of mankind.
Presents for the little maid,
the big maid, the young maid
and the maid. For your
brother, sister and some other
fellows sisters, for sweetheart
and wife, your mother and
mother-in-law. So you will
be sure to be suited and go
away well pleased if you will
call at
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
His EXPLANATION.

A teacher was impressing upon the schol-
ars of the primary school the Importance of
perspiration. Having, as she thought, fully
explained the matter, she asked, "Now, john
ME, if the pores of the skin got filled up, what
and then answered, briskly. "We'd bust
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
Two Lives.

Perhaps every one of us always lives, in
measure, two lives. There is the life for the
world, our friend and neighbors, the very
loved ones by our side; the other is the life
which is hidden, is underneath, is known
only to God. The underneath life is your
own to train as you please. You may be q
which are false as the power of evil may make
them; you may belle the goodness which
is q part of that life by taking to yourself
q careless exterior. which impresses every
one with a wrong view of your character.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
The EgS and IltGlGgGlcer.
Is Published Every Friday by
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Terms---$i.5o A YEAR, in Advance.

Transient Neutrality-suspicious. Square, 8
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Figure-work double price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications will
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
The Detection OF Dishonest Church OH.
GERS Forgery.

When the experts in handwriting meet on
the witness stand and swear hard against one
another, the jury has difficult task. Never
tbeless, there have been remarkable cases Of
Identification of handwriting.
An English gentleman offered large sum
of money tor the discovery of marriage re-
gister, the production of which was necessary
in an important lawsuit. An officer in q
country church wrote him that the missing
register had turned up in the vestry box Of
his own parish. A lawyer and an expert in
handwriting were sent to examine the docu-
ment.
The man showed them the marriage regis
ter, and after careful examination they
went to lunch.
AT the table, the expert expressed an opin-
ion unfavorable to the genuineness of the re-
gister. 1t was modern handwriting and did
not, therefore, possess the antiquity claimed
for il.
"Then how in the world did it get lheref"
asked the church officer.
why, you forged it yourself" quietly re-
piled the expert, who had studied the hand
writing in the note sent the gentleman.
The man, being threatened with prosecu-
ton, fled the country, and thus confessed his
crime
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22

In pursuance of the requirements of the By
Laws of the Company, the undersigned, its
Executive Committee, have examined the
books and accounts of the Secretary and Treas
urer and found the above statement of the
condition Of the Company to be correct. The
Executive Committee takes this occasion to
congratulate the Company ON its prosperity
and healthy condition, and as an evidence in
which it is held Will state that many of the
former members who had left 1t have since re-
turned, satisfied that the security which the
Company offers can not be surpassed. The
amount OF assets of the Company are increas-
ing year by year, being larger this year than
ever before.
JOHN 8. DALEAM,
JOHN STIRLING,
Executive IinmmitteR.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
Having Eyes He Saw Not.

A young man, blind in one eye and par
TALLY so in the other, walked into an Office on
Broadway, and approaching the first desk
said that he had come 10 thank the man there
for aid he had given TO him some months be-
fore.
lyon may not remember it, but was ask
ing for money with which to buy book of
raised print such as the blind read" he said,
"and you gave me fifty cents. Other gentle
man in the building gave me more, aud got
the book. ! learned 10 read, and now my
one eye is better and am at work. / am liv-
ing in Baltimore, where am making ten dol
lars a week working on wicker baskets. I
want to thank you for your kindness"
The man behind the desk did not recall
the circumstance, but accepted the thanks
and said that he was glad TO learn of the nm
fortunate's improved circumstances. He
made mental note that the mans gratitude
was commendsbe Understanding to be
admired.
Now want to do something to show you
that Apr. ciate your kindness" the young
man continued, 81 am going TO send little
gentlemen who helped me. / have them all
made. am going to put silk lining into
each, and IL you will buy sixty cents worth
of silk and send to my address in Baltimore
the basket will be here within week"
The man behind the desk said he would
send the silk along. "Or," went on the CRATE
full young man, eff you allow me to buy the
silk, can get enough to finish the basket for
fifty cents, buying large quantity, and so
make ten cents myself would buy the silk
Tor the Innings myself but can afford to do
it."
The man behind the desk gave the other
sixty cents for the lining. The grateful young
man said that it was pleasure to repay those
who had aided him, and promised that the
fancy basket would be sent in three or'four
days. Before leaving the grateful one show
ed the business cards of half dozen men
who were each soon to receive token of his
remembrance. Each had given sixty cents
for silk for lining, he said.
But the baskets have not yet come, and the
men who were to receive them believe that
they are the victims of confidence game,
and that the blind, grateful young man is a
rank fraud. But he was certainly clever
fellow
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
VARIETIES.

Jokes imported from England are always
far fetched.
-She-'I don't believe in long engage.
ments. do you" He-"No people are apt
to find out too many things about each other"
Ethel: "Does this picture do me jus.
tice :" at does something nobler, dear. It
shows you mercy"
81 think she is two-faced creature"
said one of the girls Indignantly. "Oh, no."
returned Miss Cordial; "if she had two faces
she would never use this one" e
The elders are quite willing to acknow-
ledge that they do not do their duty but
they don't want the ministers to tell them of
1t. 'T'm poor sinful creature, ''said pious
old lady to her pastor. yes" he said, $50
your neighbors tell me-" ''Pm enough sight
better'n them as talks about me-" replied the
good woman, hotly.
The extreme of constituencies was that
shown by French author who was hlndered
from travelling because he was afraid that be
might be obliged to sit opposite man whose
face would be disagreeable to him.
And when it is all over, and our feet will
run no more, and our hands are helpless, and
we have scarcely strength to mWmur last
prayer, then. we shall see that$ instead of
needing larger field, we have left untitled
many corners of one single acre, and that
none of it is fit for our Masters eye were 1t
not for the softening shadow of the cross.
"A certain downtown girl evidently has
a rather poor opinion of stronger sex.
Upon being asked asked why she did not
marry, she replied: II have considerable
money of my own. l have parrot that
swears, monkey that chews and chimney
that smokes, so you see I am not In need ola
husband very badly"
What divine calling is music. Though
everything else may appear shallow and re-
pulsive, even the smallest task in music is 30
absorbing and carries us 30 far away from
town, country, earth and all the worldly
things, that it is truly blessed gift of God.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22

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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-01-22
"a
oFTHE CONDITION OF THE
Mutual Fire Ins. Co. in Hartford Co.
AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1891.

There were issued during the year 7N Policies.
The Risks on which, including Endorsements
on open Policies, amount to-...... SGT, 767. 90
And Premium Notes, including in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02
GAME HE WAS NOT LOOKING FOR.


ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Dec. 1.-The sensation
caused by the arrest of n half-dozen promi-
nent people who had been indicted by the
grand jury on the charge of renting houses
to be used as dives" was increased when
it was learned that had it not been for q
mistake of the grand jury as to the ownor-
ship of certain property, the judge to whom
the warrants were returned might also
have been indicted. The judge is Silas
Woodson, ex.Governor of Missouri. HIS
nephew, Stephen Woodson. president of
the Saxton National Bank, was indicted on
the suppositlon that he owned property on
the corner of Fourth and Francis streets.
and a portion of which. II is alleged,
is occupied by street walkers" An in
v~estigation of the county records showed
that the property was owned by Judge
WoodsOn. His nephew, Stephen Woodson,
admitted the fact, but declared that be
was the agent for il. and that his uncle
knew nothing about the people who occu-
pied it. Had the grand jury been cognizant
1t would undoubtedly v indicted the
judg &c, who had Just charged it as to its
duty. 1t is now believed that the grand
jury was spurred on to make these fnvestl-
cations by the cnarge of Judge Woodson,
who particularly impressed on them the
necessity of looking after gamblers and
observation-disclosures. All those indicted
have been placed under bonds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02
THE PROHIBITION OF IMMIGRATION.

A proposition to prohibit immigration
for n year is under consideration by
the Senate committee, to which the
whole subject has been referred, and
may come before that body. There are
some special reasons in favor of il and
no very valid ones against it. Immi-
grafton of the most Objectionable charac-
ter has been practically prohibited dur
ing the past two months. As the result
we have at least eighty thousand less
human beings in our large cities than
there would have been but for the chol-
era scare. Looking at the matter SIM
ply from an American point of view. it
is fair to assume that we are better off
because we do not have these eighty
tn ousand people. We have been re-
ceiving between 300. 600 and 400, 600 of
this same quality of immigrants for sew
eral years. Because of the general
prosperity of the country the greater
part of them have found employment
and are self-supporting. 1t may be
said, ia addition, that it is prob
able that this class of immi-
grants a enter the market for
common labor and generally take
care of themselves, for the reason
that they can live on less food. in less
decent houses and wear less costly cloth
ing than natives or the better class of
immigrants with whom they come into
competition. That is, in the opinion Of
the Journal. the strongest reason why
immigrants accustomed to squalor and
Indifferent food should not be permitted
to enter into com etition with those who
are not. Humanity and the public well
fare alike protest against q policy which
must lower the standard of the living of
the many thousands who are known as
unskilled labOrers. The slightest change
in the business and industry of the coun-
try may interrupt enterprises employing
thousands of these laborers. and there
would DO more men than could find en-
plOyment. Under such conditions, which
are liable to come, it would add very
much to the suffering to continue to pei
NIT that class of immigrants to come to
our shores. Several European govern
ments have come to the conclusion that
the victims of their bad systems can
be sent to America. Sometime they
must learn that this cannot longer be
permitted. What better time than the
present to give them notice that they
must take care of their ownf The
pressing eason for the prohibition of
immigration at the present time is the
danger of cholera infection. That dam
ger will be as great 9 season as it
was last. but it can be averted by the
adoption of the proposition to prohibit
immigration for a year. If the plan is
unsatisfactory immigration can be re-
sumed when the year is over. If prohi-
bition is attended with satisfactory re-
suits it can, before the year is over, be
extended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02

AT the instigation of the ministers of
PittsburR the Mayor of that city, on
Wednesday, issued an order directing
the immediate enforcement of a long
disregarded law forbidding the keeping
of houses of i'll repute. The unhappy
inmates were given but a few hours in
which to prepare for departure, the ex-
pressed purpose being to so limit the time
as to prevent the women securing rooms
elsewhere and thus compel them to leave
the city at once. The order was rigidly
enforced, and affects about seven hun
dred u~nfOrtunates. Yesterday $50 of
them, f%riendless and moneyless, called
on the Mayor and asked what they were
to do, but he could not extend assist
ance. The action of the authorities
seems harsh to the verge of cruelty, and
the outcome of this attack on a monster
evil will be watched with the greatest
star
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02
A REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE.

The public has become so accustomed
and events in the far West that it has
almost ceased to wonder at them, but it
may be excused for experiencing a mild
sensation of surprise at the latest. 1t
comes from Boise City, Ida, and re-
lates that while three travellers were re-
Gently bathing in Lake Chelan n Of
them was seized by the foot by a marine
monster and was being pulled into deep
water, when his creams attracted the
attention of his companions, who came
to his rescue. Up to this point the
story is not very marvellous. The ma
rine monster might have been a big cat
fish or a member of the sea serpent fam
lily, whose large connection and wide
dispersion is we'll authenticated by
many Witnesses. But this was no cat
fish nor ommon sea serpent. The story
goes on to say that the rescuing com.
panions pulled the man ashore, the mon
ster hanging to his foot. cit had legs
and body" says the narrative, like an
alligator and the head and eyes of a
serpent. Between its fore and hind
legs were large ribbed wings. The men
tried hard to tear the monster from the
foot of their companion. and finally
tried fire, which had the effect of caus-
ing the animal to rise suddenly into the
air. taking its victim along. and finally
landing in the lake. where bot b disap-
peared from sight"
The first impulse of almost every per-
son will be 10 doubt the story, and if
there were only one surviving witness
of the occurrence the public would be
justified in refusing to believe it. But,
it will be observed, there were three
persons in the party, one being taken
and two left. There are, therefore, two
eye-witnesses of the occurrence. One
Idaho man might lie, but it would be
very unkind to intimate that two would
do so.
There are some features of the story
that entirely d~ifferentiate it from the
we'll authenticated accounts of the sea
serpent. The Idaho monster had wings
as we'll as legs. and was equally at home
in the air or in the water. Its c%arnivor-
Gus propensity also marks it as entirely
different from the sea serpent. as the
latter was never known TO attack any
body. Sharks are fond of human beings,
but sharks have no wings. The Idaho
creature could not have been a sala-
mander. because the salamander lived
I'm fire. while this new monster could not
stand fire at all. 1t is very unfortunate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02
A MUawUMP ASSAULT UPON UNION VET
GRAMS,

The New York Evening Post, one of
the most positive of Cleveland and free
trade organ and the most rabid of the
Eastern papers which have assaulted the
present pension laws. makes a letter of
inquiry the subject of a three column
article On 'our pension extravaganza"
The letter of inquiry closes with the
following sentence:
Iwould ask you then to tell your readers
what changes were made by Congress in
successive laws opening the way for skuIk-
ers and de5erters to profit by the Nations
solicitude for the welfare of her old
soldiers.
In the answer which the Post gives
several references are made to the
enactment of laws to relieve deserters
of that charge. No such law was ever
passed. An act was passed by which
the charge of desertion could be re-
moved in cases where the records of the
War Department show that the man
against whom the charge stood was not
guilty-cases where men were marked
been discharged from hospitals. No
general attempt was made to relieve
real deserters of their crime until the
meeting of the last House, when four
thousand bills were presented providing
for the removal Of the charge of deser-
ton in as many cases. Half the time
of the sessions devoted to private pen
sions was taken up by such measures.
AS 500 as the scheme was discovered
veteran organizations raised a cry
against it. the Indiana Encampmsnt of
the Grand Army protesting in resolu-
tons sent to the Indiana delegation.
Therefore, the assumption of the Post
that general laws have been passed re-
lieving those really guilty of desertion
of the charge is false and mischievous.
The remarkable feature Of the Posts
review OF pension legislation since 1880.
which makes the most of every act in
favor of the veterans of the war for the
Union and of subsequent Indian wars,
is that two lines contain the only refer
ence to the passage of the Mexican serv-
ice pension act. Seven lines are de-
voted TO a mention of pensioning a
handful of survivors and widows of the
Jeanette expedition and TO the relief
of the sufferers by the wreck of tho
United States steamer Ashuelot. To
these acts the Mexican service pension
law is added in twelve words. as if it
were q matter of no import. The men
who are being pensioned under the dis
ability pension act are referred to as
''skuikers and deserters," put the thou
sands Of men who served longer in the
rebel army than they did in the Mexican
war, officers of high rank as we'll as en-
listed men, are made the objects
of no hostile criticism. 1t is right
to give every man whose name
was on the rolls of the Mexican wal
sixty days a pension on arriving at the
age of sixty-two years, and before. if he
is IN object of private or public charity,
even if he fought three years aRainstthe
Union; but the Union soldier, who can
not be pensioned without an honorable
discharge. is denounced by a mugwnmp
Cleveland newspaper as a "skulker and
deserter.n because he is pensioned under
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02

JUDGE BUsKIRK declines to become a
scape-goat for the sins of the Mayor and
Police Board when he says if the city au-
thorities ever had any well-defined or
permanent policy in regard to closing
saloons and gambling places he never
heard of it. If this statement is true, as
It doubtless is. the Judge is right in re-
fusing to assume entire responsibility
for the wide-open policy which has pre-
vailed, not only since he came into of
fee. but since Mayor Sullivan came into
Office. This, however, does not relieve
the judicial friend of the rascals from
the responsibility that comes from fail
ure to enforce proper penalties upon law
breakers. The law was and is in exist
ence, whatever the "policy" may be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02

the same disability provisions under
the act of June %. 1890. The act, three
fourths of whose beneticiaries served in
the rebel army. is not criticised; but
the act of 1890. which confers less favors
upon the Union soldier, is stiematized
rs Infamous" The former Mr.. Cleve-
land made a law by his signature. A
bill similar to the act of 1890 Mr.. Cleve-
approval of President Harrison. If the
disability pension act is infamous the
Mexican pension act is more infamous,
unless the man who fought to destroy
the Union is a more deserving man than
the one who fought for the Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-02

A PERIODICAL issued in the interest
of the Chicago worlds fair contains an
article by Prince Bismarck, in which he
says: international exhibitions / re-
gard as q necessary evil. Large bodies
conRregate not so much for purposes of
assiduous and profitable study as to in
dulge in indiscriminate curiosity and
trivial Sightseeing" This is some
what dogmatic. as might be expected
from one so long accustomed to promul-
eating undisputed opinions. This one,
however, is subject to qualification.
While it is doubtless true that a very
large proportion. perhaps a majority, of
those who visit q worlds fair go simply
to satisfy curiosity or be entertained,
this is by no means true of all who at
tend them. Many go solely for instruc-
ton. Artists, artisans of all kinds,
skilled workmen, m~achinists. engineers.
inventors and many others go to see and
study the latest discoveries, inventions
and achievements Of science. art and