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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-10-09

good Steady Salesman to show line OF
staple everyday goods. Good salary to II good
man. Send references, as the goods are sold
on time Address.
Nh WED Gr.nnnnhnrn
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-10-09

A Canadian patent covers the provinces
Of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Prince Edwards Island, Manitoba
sud British Columbia.
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baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Co. on or
ders left ut ticket Offices, n. W. Cor. Calvert
and Baltimore SITS, 23O s s. Broadway or Cam
den Station.
N crfrTT c. Dossnpuor uont
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SUNDAY TRAINS.

Sunday trains leave Baltimore for Delta and
intermediate stations at $50 A. NJ, and 400
p. NJ, stopping at Bel Air at ! l a. NJ. and $50
2. NJ. They will leave Cardiff for Baltimore
and intermediate stations at $50 A. NJ and
$50 p. NJ, stopping ut Bel Air ut T.55 A. NJ.
and 4.3O 2. NJ. An additional train will leave
Bel Air for Baltimore and intermediate sta
tiuns at $40 z. NJ. and Baltimore for Bel Air
at $50 A. NJ, arriving at Bel Air ut s Z. NJ
and Baltimore $50 p. NJ.
j. K. kLlNEFELTER,G Gen. Pass. Agu.
NIInRIN Nm
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Dr.. Piercc's Common Sense Medical
Adviser a 1000 page doctor book, profuse'
illustrated, Of which $50, 600 have been sold
at 81. so copy, will be sent FREE OIL re-
ceipt of 81 cents to pay postage and wEap-
ping oNlp. WORLDS DISPENSAIlY Med
icAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Sometimes il seems

Sometimes il seems
to weary woman that
she must certainly
give up. The sim
=plest and easiest
work becomes an
almost insurmount-
able task. Lassitude
almost overComcs
Il cr. Nervousness
a II 4 sleeplcssncss
and pain harass her
and l:fc seems hardly
worth the living.
MI. . ~
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REPAIRING AND UPHOLSTERiNG !
:DoNE IN THE BEST MANNER.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of
the Fifth Election District that the undersigned
Tax Collector will he at u ESLEY MCDOON'S
store, Dublin. every TIL ESDAl. and ut JOHN
o. STEARNS' every SATURDAY., from 8
O'Clock A. NJ. to p. NJ. during September,
October, November ana December, 1906, for
the purpose of receiving State and county
taxes. discount will he allowed on all
county taxes of per cent. if paid in Septem-
Der, 4 per cent. in October, 3 per cent. in Nos
vember. per cent. in December, 1896.
L. j. COOK, Collector,
Eau Glenville, Md.
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TRAINS SOUTHWARK.

An additional train will leave Bel Air for
Cardiff and intC'mcdiat stations at q 10 A. NJ,
arriving at Cardiff at 1923 A. NJ. Train Will
leave Cardiff fC:' Bel Airand intermediate sta
tiuns ut $50 a. NJ, arriving at Bel Air ut ! 10
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In Effect January 9, 1896.


Trains marked thus run daily
Express trains for Wilmington, Philadelphia
and New York leave Havre de Grace ut II 4l
1.51, GA and 1854 A. NJ, 2.0S, 3.5S and 81
=. NJ. Other trains leave Havre de Grace for
Newark, Wilmington, Chester, Philadelphia and
principal Intermediates stations, .16, 739 TO- 3
a. NJ, Dos, 35S, 6.l2 and 7.57 p. NJ On sun
day trans leave Havre de Grace ut 12.41. Isl.
7.:S9 A. NJ, Dos, 3.5S, 6.12, 7.57 Z. NJ.
Peninsula eX., north, 3.4S 7. M.-week days
Leave Havre de Grace for Port Deposit
branch, 5.21. 7.39, 9.11, 1854 AN, 2.OS, So
6l2 L. NJ. Returning leave Port Deposit D AZ,
S32: 1904, 1912 A. NJ, and IL 40, 8. Is, 6.18
aid $50 7. NJ.
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There is nothing of which men are so
'ond and withal so careless as life.-Eru-
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The operation Of testing quicksand may
be made Il very simple matter, says La Ma
turc. Taking Il certain quantity of quick
saEd and drying it artiticially it may he
again made into quicksand by putting it
into Il box and pouring water upon it caro-
fully, when instantly the water is soaked
up, and on measuring the volume, or, bet
tc:, the weight of the sand, it will be seen
That the latter takes upa quantity of water
that measures so Ter cent of its own vol
ume, or 20 per cent by weight, while the
rest remains above the layer Of sand. On
piercing u small hole in the bottom of the
boz pure water runs out, tho sand forming
n kind of immovablc filter, or by turning
the box upside down Tic S;ind will be seen
to keep its form like n stopper. But it Is
the reverse of t!lis proceeding that results
in the real quicksand-viz, putting the
water into vessel and Sitting In the dry
sand in thin stream while shaking the
vessel lightly, the outcome being the thick
but easily flowing compound known as
quicksamd. That the mixture may keep
its mobility it is necessary that the guam
tity of water be not less than 81 per cent
by weight and the whole be continually
though lightly shaken. Increasing the
proportion or interrupting the agitation
for an instant causes the mass TO settle
down, retaining about 20 per cent of wa
ter, while the surplus, II it exists, rises to
the TOD.
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Crazed by the Lack of Snow.

One of the most prosperous lumber
merchants of Sangerville, Me, is now
III an insane asylum because of lack
Of snow during the past winter. Last
fall he took big contracts to cut and
deliver lumber, and, after cutting it,
could not deliver it because there was
no snow, most unexpected and I'M
usual contingency. Disappointment and
anxiety did the rest-Boston Herald.
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Al Paris terminus madame, from q
corner of orc compartment, furtively
watched Il man enter another. There was
less risk of discovery leaving Paris thus
than together, and when the train glided
out Of the station the sweet breath of relief
famed madnme's face, but it was only
fransitory. Danger would lurk until the
frontier was safely crossed and the Ian
guase ard costume changed from French
to German.
Madame was unaccUatomCd to solitary
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S. NJ. PROVOST,
G en'l Manager.
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sleep, and then cut them into pieces, salt
ing them and putting them into picking
tub with some pork which was there
already, meaning to sell the whole as
such. The Bishop. however, having had
vision of this impious tran saction, i'm
mediately resorted to the inn and calling
the host to him reproached him for his
horrid yillainy. The man. perceiving that
he was discovered, confessed his crime
and entreated the Bishop to inter-
cede on his behalf to the Almighty
for his pardon, and the good Bishop,
being moved with compassion at his
contrite behavior, confession and thor
ough repentance, besought the Almighty
not only to pardon the murderer but also
for the glory of his name to restore life to
the two innocents who had been so in
humanity put to death. The saint had
hardly finished his prayer when the two
youths were restored to life. Some writers
hold this to be sufficient explanation OF
the naked children and tub, which are the
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well-known emblems of st. Nicholas, and
from this circumstance st. Nicholas be-
came the patron of scholars. The mariners
also venerated him and sought his protec
tion in the hour of danger. Armstrong in
his History Of Minorca" Q756) writes of
Cindadella:
Near the entrance of the harbor stands
chapel, dedicated to st. Nicholas. to
which the sailors resort that have suffered
shipwreck, 10 return thanks for their
preservation and to hang up votive pic
lures representing the danger they have
escaped) in gratitude to the saint for the
protection he vouchsafed them and in ac-
complishment OF the VOWS they made in
the height Of the storm" Another legend
waters to some mariners and saved them
from an ocean grave. From the circum-
stance of scholars being anciently de-
nominated clerks the fraternity of Par
lsh Clerks adopted st. Nicholas as their
patron. In Shakespeare robbers are called
st. Nicholas clerks. They were also called
St. Nicholas knights. st. Nicholas being
the patron saint of scholars and Nicholas,
or Old Nick, cant name for the devil,
this equivocal patronage may possibly be
solved or, perhaps, it may be much bet
ter accounted for by the story OF St.
Nicholas and the thieves, whom he
compelled to restore some stolen goods
and then converted to pious life.
st. Nicholas probably became the darl-
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How the Captains
Dollar Is Increased
BY
BY S. w. Booth

On Christmas evening there is pretty
sure to be a dinner given to them by some
one of the societies that make special
effort of looking after the sailors inter-
ests. These feeds are always good, and
as rule modest young ladies take the
part of Mattresses and the absent boys
feel for couple of hours as though they
really did have some friends in the un-
sociabIe port of San Francisco. After the
dinner comes an entertainment, at the
close of which another attack will be
made on a restaurant. Not content with
filling themselves with as much as they
can eat the apprentice will have an eye to
the future. He will watch his oppor.
tunity, and when no proprietor or waiter
is looking in his direction he will empty
the sugar-bowl in paper bag which he
had in his pocket for that very purpose.
This will greatly help out his whack for
the week and make 1t unnecessary Tor him
to beg a few extra sweetenings from the
steward or obtain them from one OF the
crew in return for new shirt or something
of equal value Before going on board it
is the inyariable rule to compare funds
and see who shall purchase the rooty for
coffee early the next morning. A rooty is
the sailors name for loaf of broad, ana
while in port the apprentices always take
care that there is soft tack for the early
morning meal. When all these things
and their expenses have been summed up
each boy finds that he has spent happy
Christmas on about 81 so, and still has
something left for the coming Sunday.
When polishing the brasswork the next
morning the captain, if he be genial kind
of fellow, will ask the lads what they did
on Christmas day, and when they have
completed their narration he will wonder
how In the world they accomplished so
much on a dollar.
This is not sailors yarn, but an expe-
rience that all the boys on our ship went
through many times.
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ing of the little folks from the fact that it
was customary in many countries OF
Europe for parents on the vigil of st.
Nicholas to convey presents of various
kinds to their little sons and daughters,
who were taught to believe that they owed
them to the kindness of st. Nicholas and
his train, who, going up and down among
the towns and villages, came in at the
windows, though they were shut, and dis
tributed them. This legend has been
POLITICALLY perpetuated in verse, and in the
well-known Christmas poem, "'Twas the
night before Christmas: ''etc., st. Nicholas
and his train of tiny reindeer are charm
ingly described "The stockings were
hung by the chimney with care, in hopes
that Saint Nicholas soon would be there"
This popular custom undou btedly origin
ated in the old converts of Europe, where
it was customary on the eve of Saint
Nicholas for the boarders (young lady
pupils) to place each silk stocking at the
door OF the apartment OF the abbess, with
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Experts as Eoe-Eaters.

s'Do you like eggs2" was the question
that stirred up 'n49-er" to make some
talk In Bangar store the other day. He
was an old man and he Strengthened up to
something like the height of his prime as
he answered:
"I had a surfeit of them once. Twas
many years ago when / was on the way
home from California. We left the 18TH
must on good brig bound for New York,
but ran into coral reef in the Caribbean
Sea and were wrecked. 1t was patch OF
sand just out of the water, but you ought
to see the hocks of seafowl that nestled
on it! They had to move out OF the way
to give US room to stay there and that was
about all they would do. Their nests were
everywhere and there were eggs in abund-
ance. We ate about barrel of them every
day during the twelve days we were there.
"Some of US got off in q boat and went
to San Juan, in Nicaragua, where we got
a vessel to go after those we lett on the
reef. That vessel was commanded by
William Lawrence Of Bath, who was killed
by man named Wilkinson while he was
policeman there. We tried to get to the
reef, but bad weather stove US up so we
had to set in for New Orleans, where we
found the rest of the men rescued by an
other vessel; but eggs" the old mans
face took on peculiar expression
iston (Me.) Journal.
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Stoyy o5 ST. Nl<holac.
Popularity Known Among the Little
Folks as Santa Claus.
Yreka, Cal.
By Mrs. f. K. BENTz.

The memory of st. Nicholas, popularly
known among the little folks as Santa
Claus, and whose name is so closely asso-
ciated with the festivities of Christmas,
was born at Patara in Lycia, and though
a layman was for his piety advanced to
the bishopric of Myra. He died on the
Sth of the ides of December A. D. 343. In
the Roman calendar his feast is marked
for the 9th of December. Many are the
legends entwined with the name of St.
Nicholas. He is the patron of schoolboys,
mariners, clerks, nay, even robbers, while
virgins do him special honor, and little
children in the olden time, as. well as In
the present day, locked up to him as the
donor of sweetmeats and pretty things.
Ahe fame of st. Nicholas virtues was so
Asat that ar Asiatic gentlemen, on send
his two sons to Athens for education,
red them to call on the Bishop for his
iction; but they getting to Myra late
day thought proper 10 defer their
II the morrow, and took up their
s at an inn, where the landlord,
Ire their baggage and effects
self, murdered them in their
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Christmas? We have all kinds and
original brands of our own besides.
In the sunny southland there is the
Christmas of birds and flowers, of Eastern
tourists and balmy sunshine. In the
middle comes Christmas of velvet lawns,
odorous violets, gorgeous chrysanthe-
NUNS and perhaps a rain, but who in San
Francisco minds rain? Then up in the
mountains comes, most beautiful of all
to some of US, the white Christmas OF the
north.
1t Is winter, but not the steady winter
of the East. The snow has been down
and set its seal on the valley and the hill
sides are leahess. but the white king has
retreated to his mountains again and the
fields are growing green. The fall-soWn
wheat peeps up and the grass OF the pas
ture land shows its color boldly. The
children begin to wish it would snow be-
| fore Christmas and the grandmas repeat
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piece of paper inclosed. recommending
themselves to ''Great St. Nicholas of Her
Chamber" and the next day they were
called together to witness the saints at
tention, who never failed 20 fill the silken
stockings with sweetmeats and other trihes
of that kind with which they made gem
eral feast. These are some of the principal
legends associated with the memory of
Saint Nicholas, go dear to the childish
heart under the popular name of Santa
Claus.
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the old adage about green Christmas

the old adage about green Christmas
and fat churchyard.
A week before the wonderful day soft,
sighing wind comes over the valley. The
sun still shines warm and clear and the
leafiess branches hardly shake.
But ever and again through the day
comes that gentle sigh. All day we hear
it. and at night the Sigh turns to steady
whisper ana now and then moan. The
next day the wind grows steady and
sweeps over the valley with a steady MUIR
mur. In the afternoon comes white
haze over the mountain tops and we know
the snow is falling there. Still our fields
show green, and still we have no, storm.
The third day the weatherwise children
announce that Its going to snow this
afternoon" and lessons are forgotten as
they watch the white veil creeping, creep
ing, ever so slowly across the slopes down
into the valley, hiding all it covers.
The little town across the fiat disSI
pears IN white mist; the passing Da
heard but not seen; first one fee
then another is swallowed; and/
comes. The first flakes are so
crystal they are almost invR
the doorstep and the fef
furred with white, then tk
call them frosted cakes,
! grow larger, winter, more
| The snow has come. A
all night the soft whit
down and heap itself 9
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perception, as well as mere biog-
for not one of them but seems to
I'd the genius of literary discrimin-
the faculty of knowing what to
and what not to write; the power of
'ging and drawing out the most dra-
nc incidents in the character of their
TO- 1t was character rich in material
|Jr both the artist and the poet, and it
Seems as though these early writer's lost
not a word, incident or scene of real dra-
matte. historic and romantic interest. As
the life OF Jesus is told by Matthew, by
Luke or by John, and even to a very large
extent by Mark, this carpenters son set
every chord of humanity in vibration.
His touch was upon the entire range of
passions and emotions and inner aspira-
tions, and the whole octave of human
sympatnes were awakened by his master
hand. And in saying all of this one does
not vitiate or weaken or detract from, in
the slightest degree. the religious and the
dogmatic estimation in which the story
of the Christ is held by the churc hes.
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fall down to embrace it and make pictures
of themselves in the yielding surface.
Boys Will bring out sleds and men will
begin to furbish up the sleigh so long idle,
and eyes will glitter to rival the glistening
snow. A Joy for any time, but doubly a
Joy at Christmas.
Where have the hummocks and hollows
of the valley gone? Where are the patches
of rock land amid the field? All gone
Covered with white shielding mantle.
The vale is one level sheet of white. The
pines hang heavy limbs piled high, and
the manzanitas are only mounds of white,
the forest graves. The bare twigs OF oak
show through, and the shaggy juniper re-
fuses to be decked except in spots.
The relatives will come from higher in
the hills ard from other valleys in sleighs
with hiina,s~1-.......--..ss~u. be only the
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Meditations of a Wall Flower.

Is it wicked to sympathize with a man
who does not make good husband?
What makes your mother cross when
you say you believe in giving men great
deal of liberty?
When the wife of the man you used to
like has sprained her ankle why do you
ask them to dinner?
When you meet your brother driving
with a person why doesn't he see your
Why is ne deferentiaI afterwardP
What makes you believe stupid man
must be worse than he seems? What
makes you think bright man can't be so
bad as he seems2-New York Press.
The money deposited in the corner
stone of new church at London, Ont,
excited the cupidity of some mean thieves
and they stole it.
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larry enough, his is the
four Gospels the authentic
never been questioned by
found and critical OF tR
scholars. Yet John was a
without education. He was
and was mending his nets on
GaliIee when he first met the
Son.
To speak Of man as being uuN
in these latter centuries OF the ChS
era means as a rule that he lacks\
higher or classical education, but in tn
first century after Christ that man was
famously educated who could but read
and write. How John could have written
his wonderful narrative of the life of Christ
is mystery indeed. Even in our own
day the fishermen who can read and write
are very far from being qualified to engage
in the simplest kind of literary enterprise.
But here was a lowly fisherman who be-
came the biographer OF the greatest figure
and personality known to the Western
world, and his account stands out among
all the others as remarkable for its strength
and purity of literary construction.
Matthew was tax-gatherer, and OF
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conformity, I've r.,,sy, IT'S beauty aud it's
strength of technical literary construc-
ton. Technical greatness alone is not
true greatness, and there must be some
thing more than technical accuracy to
make lasting any work OF art. OF course
the biographers of Jesus were particularly
fortunate in the subject about which they
wrote, even for time laying aside the
question-or the fact. as one may view it
of his divine and miraculous origin.
But while this is true, it is also fact
that his biographers were poets and artists
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a memory and that children hunting the
first wild flowers on the hill will come up
on the dead brands of the bonfire they
coasted by and exchange reminisce noes of
''the fun we had last Christmas when it
showed" A white Christmas near glorious
Shasta is fraught with pleasures galore.
OLIVE HEYDEN.
Yreka, Cal.
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Handshaking came into vogue during
the reign of Henry II in England.
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earth. To- morrow we will rise to find the
trees trimmed as we never can trim
our Christmas tree, and the whole world
will be white. We shall not be buried
We do not go to extremes. A foot of good
solid snow is plenty for sleighing and
The children will clasp the soft. dry
beauty with happy red hands. and will
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-24
A BUSY FORENOON.
Important Business by the Odd Fellows at
Dallas Springfield, H., the Next
Place of Meeting.

Dallas, Tex, Sept. 23.-The Odd Eel
lows sovereign grand lodges session
this morning was one of important busi-
ness Nearly the entire morning was
taken up with the presentation of reports
and resolutions and the referring of
them to the various committees. There
was no session this afternoon.
Tomorrow the most important part IF
the meeting begins, as egslation will be
taken up. The committees will get down
to work and attend to the matter en-
trusted to them and prepare reports.
The place of meeting for next year was
selected this morning. Springfield, ILL.,,
was the successful candidate. This re-
suit was obtained after a heated discus
sion. There were three candidates:
Springfield. Hot Springs and Baltimore.
Richmond, Va, was presented but with
drawn before ballot was taken. The
first ballot decided the matter The
grand lodge adjourned at o'clock until
fOmOrrOw morning.