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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-15
Farm for Sale.

HIS ACRES, in high state of cultivation,
with sufficient timber of best quality; in
good neighborhood with all public conven;
fences. About a and miles from Bel Air ana
VanBibber Stations, respectively, on the pub
lie road from the former to the latter place
Now one of the best thoroughfares in the
county. Will be sold at a bargain, ii imme-
diate application be made to the undersigned,
and full information furnished by
GEO. Y. MAYNADIER,
bap Attorney at Law, Bel All, Nd,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-15
THE EGISAND lNTELLIGENCER.
Is Published Every Fridayby
FRANK E. GORRELL.
A Year in advance.

Transient Adrertisencnts.-One Square, 8
insertions or less $50. Each subsequent in
sertion % cents. Longer advertisements in
the. same proportion. A space equal to six
lines makes u square. Figure work double
price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications
will be inserted at 10 cents per line.
Yearly Advertisements at Special Rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-15
Marvellous Results.

From n letter written by Rev. j. Gunderman,
of DimOndaIe. Mich, we are permitted to make
his extract: II have no hesitation in recon-
mcndiug DR.. Kings New Discovery, as the re-
suits were almost marvellous in the case of my
wife. While was pastor of the Baptist church
Pneumonia succeeding La Grippe. Terrible
paroxysms Of coughing would last hours with
little interruption and 1t seemed us if she could
not survive them. A friend recommended DIR.
Kings New Discovery; it was quick in its
work and highly satisfactory in result" Trial
bottles free at Thomas g. ForwOod & Cos
Drug Store, Bel Air. Regular size so cts. and
81 90.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-15
READ YOUR LETTER AGAIN.

Never mail a letter written at night
until it has been reread in the morn
ing. You may materially reduce the
number of your correspondents by
persisting in this course, but you will
gain in reputation for prudence and
common sense. What seems philoso-
ply by candlelight is but folly by day,
and the brilliancy of night lacks
sparkle in the morning.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-15
9netiral.
Il DREAM.

Oh, it was but a dream | had
While the musician played
And here the sky and here the glad
Old ocean kissed the glade.
And here the laughing ripples ran,
And here the roses grew
That threw Il kiss to every man
That voyaged with the crew.
Our silken sails in lazy folds
Dropped in the breathless breeze,
As DER a field of marigolds
Our eyes swan DER the seas,
While here the eddies liSped and purled
Around the islands rim,
And up from out the underwood
We saw the mermen swim.
And it was dawn and middle day
And midnight-for the moon
On silver rounds across the bay
Had climed the skies OF June,
And here the glowing, glorious king
OF day ruled DER the realm,
With stars of midnight glittering
About his diadem.
The seagull reeled on languid wing
In circles round the mast;
We heard the songs the sirens sing
As we went sailing past.
And up and down the golden sands
thousand fairy thrOngS
Flung at us from their flashing hands
The echoes of their songs.
james WhitcOm6 Riley
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
A LOST DINNER.
While Visitor Talked About Art the
Goose Burned to a Crisp.

While a Visitor Talked About Art the
Goose Burned to Crisp.
When George p. A. Healy, the Ameri-
can portrait painter, was living in
Paris, very poor and quite unknown in
his profession, he had, says Youths
Companion, the usual ups and downs Of
an artist's life. He and his wife had
inexpensive rooms, neither of which
was kitchen.
But, he says, our big stove boosted
of something which might pass for an
oven, and this Mrs. Healy was deter
mined to utilize. She bought a goose
and we rejoiced at the thought of es-
Gaping the day from the monotonous
meal in an ill-ventilated room, over
crowded with famiShcd mortals. In
due time the goose was shut up in the
oven.
The bell rang and a gentleman en-
tered. He was an important person
age, very rich; and possible sitter;
one to be well received by a struggling
young artist. l forgot all about the
goose and showed my work to this
amateur, who seemed to be interested
in 1t.
He was prolix talker and liked the
sound of his own voice. / encouraged
this weakness, and presently we were
launched in an interminable discussion
on art; art in general, art in the past, art
In America, art everywhere. Our con-
versation was soon accompanied by a
low singing sound which became q
sizzle, and then a veritable sputter
ing. The goose had burst in upon the
artistic talk.
A strong odor prevailed the painting
room, and glance convinced me of my
wifes utter Indebtedness. But we'll
primed talker is not to be stopped by
trifles. Once or twice our visitor looked
up, little startled by the sputtering
and seemed astonished by the strong
odor, but l suppose he concluded that
the kitchen was inconveniently near,
and the discussion went on.
When, at last, he took his leave we
both rushed to the stove. The singing
had ceased; the goose was little more
than a cinder.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

players were playing sure game
They were professionals and were aft
err big bundle of money that ne had
in his possession, as well as looking for
that which the fifth player, a mining
operator named Durllin, was known to
have. Wolcott knew in twenty min
utes after the first hand was dealt that
the intention was to rob him, and
wearied his wits trying to find way to
get out of the game without making
trouble, but he couldn't discover a
means to save him. At last he was dealt
a pat flush of diamonds, made up of the
five, seven, eight, nine and jack. He
skinned these cards over and did u
mighty piece of thinking. He felt In
his bones that flush would be no ac-
count in the world when it came to a
show down, but he Clipped in and
stayed to draw cards
ITO his surprise he WASH raised before
the draw. He looked over his bright red
diamonds again and concluded to draw
a card in order, if possible, to straight,
en- the sequence. He pondered a long
time between discarding the five spot
or the picture, and at last tossed away
the jack and called for a card The
dealer looked surprised at his wanting
any, but gave him the card. Wolcott
picked it up and found he had got the
six spot of diamonds. lie never turned
hair. The betting began, and he
nurSed his sequence. and Just STAYED
along, the other fellows doing the rails
ing At last it got down to WOlcott
and one of the professionals. Finally
there was call, and the other man
showed four queens. Wolcott laid
down the five, six, seven, eight and nine
of diamonds and swept in the pot. The
game stopped right there. | reckon
that was the greatest piece of luck tina:
any man ever had in poker game"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
SEA HORSES In GOTHAM.
Gentle Little Gre atures in tho
Castle Garden Aquarium.
They Bear a Striking Resemblance to
Horses - Something About Their
Mode of Living-Ars Fond of
Human Company.

Among the wonderful things to be
exhibited at the aquarium in Castle
Garden at its opening will be the sea
horses. 1t may be that to some persons
they will be disappointing in size. In
reality the sea horse seldom exceeds
six inches in length and one so long
would be rather unusual. The single
sea horse pictured here measures about
five and n quarter inches in length.
There are in the aquarium two which
each approximate six inches, besides
others smaller.
The sea horse is found in many wa
tiers, says a writer in the New York
Sun. Perhaps he most abounds in the
Mediterranean. The little creatures
are not unusual upon this coast, though
they are not now so common as former
ly. They are found, of smaller size, in
the Hudson river, in the lower bay, and
on the adjacent fishing banks. Those
here depicted were all taken from tho
bay or the banks. Sea horses are often
caught in the nets of fishermen, who
find them with their tails around cords
AL bllI NUS. lily arc OllIu pullCN "a
at the end of fishing line on grasy
sea weed, in which their tails may
be caught, and they are sometime;
taken ten or fifteen miles from shore
Three of the sea horses at the aquarium
were caught in this manner from fish.
ing steamers.
The sea horse has the head, neck ani
chest of horse, and a prehensile tail.
He has on his head two fins, like ears
which spread out like little fans; ana
he has one large fin on his back. Fa.
miliar as one may have been with thC
appearance of the sea horse through
the medium of pictures, one is almost
certain to find the creatures resem.
blance to horse much more striking
than was expected. There is about him
at times pride of bearing that is ut
terly unlike anything associated with
the idea of a fish, and which can be
likened only to the proud mien of a
young stallion. The sea horse by no
means always presents pride in his
port; indeed, he is likely to display such
a degree of alertncss only when hum
CRY. He is never fierce, and when he
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
WORSE THAN DEATH.
Belgium Has a System Of Refined Torture
That Kills In Three Years.

Belgium Has a System Of Refined Torture
That Kills In Three Years.
Though the death penalty was prac-
tically abolished in Belgium over thir-
ty years ago, the punishment of those
convicted Of capital crimes is so awful
that none has yet been able to endure
it more than three years. Another Curl
GUS thing is that little Belgium until
recently had two public eXecutioners,
while one was sufficient for her vaster
neighbor, France-Diebler, otherwise
known as Monsieur de Paris" The
king of the Bclgians recently ordered
the retirement on pension of one
thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven francs of the executor of high
works" las he is euphoniOusly termed),
who was stationed at Liege. The exc
cutioner at Brussels still holds his
place.
The duties of the public executioner
in Belgium are singular, but not ardu-
ous The courts still continue to SEN
tence malefactOrs to death, but the
guillotine has been replaced by a scat
fold, on which is posted a copy of the
sentence. Much ceremony is observed
in atfiXing this document. A troop of
gendarmes, with their imposing he'll
NETS plumed with horsehair, is drawn up
about the place of execution, which
they gravely guard with sabers drawn,
while the red-robed executioner mounts
the steps, nails up the decree of the
court, and after moment takes it
down again.
But the condemned man might more
mercifully have persisted by the AK or
rope. He is placed in a dungeon so
constructed, that from the moment he
enters it he will never hear the sound
of human voice nor see living being.
His food is passed in through a sliding
panel in the door of his cell.
Not one of these prisoners has been
able to survive this confinement more
than three years. The authorities have
striven in vain to prolong their lives by
varying their food as much as possible,
but those who are moderately or light
ly nourished gradually waste away,
while those who are generously fed go
mad and die raving maniacs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

on the night watch has got to meet the
weather with rubbcrs and thick over
coats.
THE monotony of the watch at night
is broken by the cemetery watchnar
who comes around every hour. The
regular city mounted policeman also
rides through, and he generally stops
to bid the time of night. In the sum
mer time the job is all right Then
sit down on the steps of the tomb and
smoke and read by the light of Ian
tern.
"A man gradually learns to surround
himself with little comforts, no matter
how he is fixed. For instance, carry
a little spirit lamp ont there, and when
l feel like it heat myself Il cup of good
hot coffee. The day watch is as pleas
ant an outdoor berth as any men would
want. Capt. Gastlin and | have been
on this post for two years, and in all
that time | have had no adventure
worth speaking of.
"No attempt has ever been made to
modest the tomb. Anybody that tried
it would get a good game. l have the
means for sounding an alarm that
would be pretty near general and could
summon all the assistance | might
need.
when am on the day watch l have
to act as a sort of guide and tell visit
ors all about the mausOlcum. | have
got the story down very pat, and it
don't take me long to rattle it off
This plot is one acre in extent, and
is called Lake View, because it over
looks Woodlawn lake. 1t cost $50, 900.
The mausoleum cost $4,000 and was
completed in December, 1888. Mr.
Gould stipulated that it should be as
strong and massive as possible, not pre-
tentiously large, and as simply beauti
full as possible.
1T is built throughout of granite, is
SO feet long, % feet wide, and 20 feet
high to the apex of the roof. The
double doors are of bronze, each sec
ton being eight feet high and two feet
wide, and weighing one ton each. The
interior is 2Ox7X13 feet. Its ceiling is a
solid slab of granite weighing six
tons. The floor is of one marble slab.
The catacOmbs are twenty in number,
ten on each side. The roof of the struc.
ture is of slabs of granite. The total
weight of the entire mausoleum is 200
tons, and it rests on a concrete founda-
ton eight feet thick"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
THE GOULD MAUSOLEUM.
Two Wen-Paid Officers Watch 1t
Day and Night.
Tho Late MiIIionaire's Remains Are in a
Massive Tomb with Big Bronze
Doors-Many Visitors Come
to See 1t.

More than two years ago the remains
of Jay Gould were deposited in one of
the catacOmbs of the mausOleum at
Woodlawn cemetery at New York
which had been erected under his own
personal supervision nine years before.
Among the many beautiful and costly
monuments in this country the Gould
mausoleum is unQuestiOnably the
strongest. The most perfect of bank
breaking tools would be required to
force an entry through its granite walls
or double bronze doors, each of which
weighs ton. The Gould family, how
ever, are unwilling to take any chances
of a repetition of the ~ I. Stewart
grave-robbing conspiracy, and they
have caused the massive resting place
of the bones of the great financier to
be closely guarded by day and by night.
The guards are two well-paid special
policemen, eX-Police Captain G.. w.
Gastlin and eX-POliceman Richard
Holloway.
Each does twelve hours duty in the
twenty-four. BY mutual agreement
the two watchmen exchange watches
every month. At the present time Hol-
loway is on duty at night, and he re-
mains in the immediate vicinity of the
the tomb, sheltered in Indictment
weather only by the portico of the
mausoleum. Woodlawn cemetery is
regularly patrolled at night by watch
man, who makes the complete round
once every hour, recording his move
ments by means of an automatic clock
at each of the three gates.
This Waterman crosses over Central
avenue, which passes the Gould tomb,
and part of his duty is to note the
presence of the special Waterman, of
which he makes report every morning.
Waterman Holloway was seen by
New York World reporter. There is
nothing to tell" said he, except that
the captain and l are employed to
watch the tomb. 1t is little lonesome
at night, and during the winter and on
rainy nights it is very uncomfortable.
But then there are men who have much
worse places. The cemetery authori-
ties would not, of course, permit the
erection of a sentry box, SO whoever is
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

has been well fed he is slow of move
ment and gentle in manner. His pre-
vailing mood is one of gentlencss, and
he is pretty sure to inspire affection in
those who see him often or have much
to do with him. Toward his own kind
he is affcctiOnatc. So far as they have
been observed in the aquarium the
creatures never fight. Sometimes two
of them will lock the tips of their tails
together and swim breast and breast
like team. Again, one will curl the
end of his tail around the neck of an
other, and then the other, with seeming
pctulancc, will pull his head away.
The glass tanks in which the sea horses
at the aquarium are kept are covered
at the bottom with pebbles and are
also provided with fragments from
mass of scrpula tubes. hanging float
ing in the water is sea lettuce, of a
beautiful green; it is said that the sea
lettuce nowhere else reaches the per
lection that it does in the waters here
abouts. Pretty as it is to look at, the
primary purpose of the sea lettuce i'll
the tanks is to produce natural acra-
ton. The serpula is n little bit of
snake, a wOrmlillc animal from an inch
to six inches in length, and as thick as
a darning-ncedle, which lives at the
bottom in salt water and builds tube
like shell around itself. These tubes
curve and twist and cluster in masses
that sometimes run together, covering
acres upon the bottom. There is found
on the mass of serpula tubes minute
crustacca, upon which the sea horse
feeds, and that is why the fragments
of serpula are placed in the tanks.
The sea horse very rarely eats SER
pula. One might lift its head up out
of its tube close by sea horse and yet
remain undisturbed. But the sea horse
does eat them sometimes, as was seen
the other day at the aquarium, when
sea horse seized the end of projecting
serpula in his mouth, wrapped his pre-
hensile tail around stone and backed,
pulling the serpula out of its tube.
The scrpula apparently held back and
chung to its tube all it could, but the
sea horse pulled it clear and proceeded
to slowly eat it.
Other food is given to the sea horses
at the aquarium regularly daily. The
sea horse is rather delicate in captivity,
and it has to be looked after carefully.
The largest of those at the aquarium
have now been there something more
than two months. They have not
grown perceptibly in length, though
they do appear to have gained flesh.
They are tame, and seem to recognize
the person who feeds them regularly.
The sea horses tanks are upon one
side of the room, the doors of which
are upon the opposite side. In the
morning, when the first man enters,
the sea horses all come to the side of
their tanks toward the door. It'may be
that they are simply lookAy for food,
but the attendants prefd to believe
that they are welcoming bman com
partnership at the beginning Of another
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
A Wonderful Salt Mine.

The most extensive salt mines in the
world are located at Wieliczka, nine
miles from CracOw, an Austrian city,
in the crown land of Galicia. These
mines are worked on four different
levels and have a total length of be,
tween 40 and so miles. They are cut
out in the shape of longitudinal and
transverse galleries, the large, vaulted
chambers being supported by many
massive pillars of pure rock salt. The
salt deposit is of an average depth Of
l 200 feet and has been worked con-
tinuously for upwards of OOyears. The
lower level of this immense mine is oc-
cupied by the miners and their families
who there have a regular village in the
bowels of the earth. About l,2OO PEG
pie live in this underground village, and
many never saw daylight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

navy, and few weeks later the en-
perOr took his small son down to Kiel
to formally enter him as a sailor.
Prince Adalbert is, perhaps, the finest
looking of the six imperial brothers,
and is certainly the most mischievous.
He is always up to some prank with
Eitel-Frcderic, the two being regular
comrades in fun, very unlike the sedate
young crown prince, who too often
seems overpowered with the prospects
of his future responsibilities. The ac-
companying portrait is from a photo
graph by Kegcl, of Cassel.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

According to Prof. j. Kratter, of
Graz, who has for some time been per-
forming experiments on the effect of
electrical shocks on animal life, death
is most usually caused by sudden ces-
sation of respiration and consequent
suffocation. During the suffocation
the heart continues its action. If the
asphyxia lasts more than a certain
time, about two minutes, the heart
stops, this being a secondary phenome-
non. Generally speaking, the animals
used-cats, dogs, rabbits and mice
were not easily killed by 100000
volts alternating. The danger appears
to lie in the nervous system, and to de-
crease with the amount of brain de-
velopment. Frequently death occurs
by momentary stoppage of the move
ment of tie heart, but a slow cessa-
ton of the hearts action, such as has
been observed in cases of human death,
was never observed. In no case was
any anatomical alteration observable
to which death might be attributed,
but there are sometimes LESSONS, break
ing of blood vessels, and the diagnosis
is rendered certain by the peculiar
burning at the position of contact and
by the escape of blood from the capil-
laries, which indicates the path taken
by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Record.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
Proved He Was Wrong.

Relief, Russian man of letters, had
been implicated in the conspiracy of
1925 and sentenced to be hanged. He
was launched from the fatal ladder,
when the rope broke and he was thrown
to the ground, severely bruised, but con-
scious. He picked himself up and said,
quietly: They can do nothing in Russia,
not even to Irvine a cord properly" 1t
was customary in Russia to pardon the
condemned after similar fasco, but
on Relieff's words being reported to the
late Gar Nicholas and his pleasure de-
manded, he rejoined: prove to him
that he is wrong" And they did.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07

A wonderful anturG.. cavern was dis
covered in Lafayette county, Georgia,
in 1891. 1t has the usual complement
of rooms, galleries, "'domes, pits, y
etc, but its sole title to being some
thing out of the ordinary in the cavern
line is a wcll-like abyss in one of the
rooms, which, as far as anyone knows,
may once have served as the chimney
Of hades. 1t is known locally as the
bOttomless pit" Stones of large size
have been thrown into it with hope
that they would be heard to strike bot
tom after awhile, but, according to re-
ports, there were no reverberating
sounds borne back to the ear by which
its enormous depth could be gagged"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
GREAT LUCK AT POKER.
How Senator WoIcott Got Ahead of "A Gan
of Card Sharps.

-
of Card Sharps.
81 suppose Senator Wolcott is one of
the coolest men living when engaged in
n game of chance" said Albert Watson,
of Denver, to a Washington Post re-
porter. Like most men whose early
manhood has been spent on the frontier,
he learned the value of poker hand
and the best way to keep cases as soon
as he learned law, and he was known
as limit player all over Colorado be-
fore his fame as a lawyer had spread
outside of Denver. When playing faro
he always did, and does yet, bet as
much on the turn of a card as the deal
cr will allow him to do, and when he
sits in a poker game the other people
want to keep their eyes wide open and
play their cards mighty close up to
their chests.
"Wolcott once found himself in a
game of poker where three of the other
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-07
YOUNG NAVAL OFFICER.
Third Son of the German Emperor Com
missioned In the Navy.

Princes of the house of lIohenzOllcrn
assume their duties in life very early.
On their tenth birthday they received
their commission in the army, and so
last July the third son of the German
emperor and empress, Prince Adalbcrt
Ferdinand Bcrcngar Victor, received
the usual family honors. But as two
of his elder brothers, the crown prince
and Prince Eitel-Frcdcric, were in the
army already little Prince Adalbert
was destined for the sister service, the