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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-17
THE
Maryland Agricultural College,
COLLEGE PARK, MD.
Maryland School Of Technology.
Your Course of Agricultural, Mechanical,
Instruction., Scientific, Classical.

Your Course of Agricultural, Mechanical,
Instruction. Scientific, Classical,
Each Department supplied with the most
modern and approved apparatus. Practical
work emphasized in ali departments. Gradu-
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work Boarding Departments supplied with
all modern improvements Bath rooms. closets,
steam heat and gas, books, room, heat, light,
washing. board, medical attention, Sl34 tor
scholastic year. So caution money on en-,
trance. So for material for each practical
laboratory. A 12O page Catalogue, giving full
particulars sent on application. Daily sani-
tary inspection by physician to College. At
weeks in Agriculture. Particulars sent on aD-
plic5tion. Term commences Sept. 10. Early
application necessary for admittance.
r. w. SYLVESTER,
23iy1O President NJ. A. q.
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Total Resources Sl,0OO.OOO.OO
Hon FRANK BROWN, President, Governor
of MARYLAND from lS92 to 1896.
JOHN K. BLAND. First Vice-Pres and Gcnl.
manager Sec " Merchants and Mfg. Association
from $50 to 1896.
j. KEMP BARTLETT, JR., Second Vice-President.
ALEXANDER PAYSON KNAPP, Secretary.
TOWNSEND SCOTT, Treasurer, Bankers estab-
liShed 1882.
GBO. W. TRUITT, Superintendent of Agents.
Hon. IsIDoR RAYNER, General Counsel.
MARTIN LEHMAYER, WIN. b. RAYNER, Assist
ants to General Counsel.
Deposited with the Treasurer of the State OF
Maryland for security of all Bondholders
S100000.00.
GIVES SECURITY FOR
Executors Administrators, Trustees, Receiv-
ers, officers of Banks, Officers of Corporations,
Officers of Lodges and Societies. Contractors,
Clerks. Messengers, Conductors, Motormen and
all other employees.
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Vim, vigor and victory; these are the char
acteristics of DE Wits Little Early Risers, the
famous little pills for constipation, biliousness
and all stomach and liver troubles.
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Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Co. on or
ders left at Ticket Offices, n. w. Cor. Calvert
and Baltimore SITS, $50 S. Broadway Mt Roy
al Station or Camden Station.
W. NJ GREENE, Gen. Manager.
d. b. MARTIN, Mgr. Pass. Traffic
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RAILROAD SCHEDULES.
P, W. & B. R. R. TIME TABLE.

Trains ArriN" al and Leave II8Irc dc
Grace on and after November Is,
1896. as follows:
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18
DOusCl,ltn,

The pride of the south has always
been it's beautiful and cultured wo.
mon. Every southern state has had
its historic herolnes, tho vory name
of which trills a patriotic chord in
thousands Of warm southern hearts.
Among the many whose names are
sacredly enshrined on tho historic
page, is that Of Louise Holcomb, one
of Texas fairest daughters, who was
intimately associated with much that
was dear to every southern heart,
and the subject Of most touching
and pathetic romance.
Ia 1865 she was married to tho
dashing and historic Colonel Pickens,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18
SLEEPING CAK ,E1yICIS

Double daily passenger service between Flor
ida and New York. '' e'n 'oi
r ?9' M23 81 ana d;S-Mashin%ton and Southwestern
hihit.ca; SOLID NrS;ihu,cd train with dinin1
GUS anu nrSt class coaches north OF ChariottT
nv ui'i'i"n di3twI:if loom sleeping cars between
amn re-, '1ckSonvillo, .",nnan, Washington
Nov York. N"b"s'" ana
Puilman drawing room buffet slrrmnr cn,.U In' ~
Tween tween !ack#"nNi'ln and New York and Au.
uf' EnS,h nh4 Shari"tio. Pullman sleeping cars
Nshcvilc. ~ ''''''"''' via
w. III. GREEN, + M CJup
q. Snnt., Washington. r. NJ, Wasbnpton.
w. a. TCRK, s. ii HAPHIVIRsXGo
G. +. a.. WuShiny yton A. g. y aia,n.,
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18

"child Of South Carolina." She
married DIR. Dugas, of Augusta, but
died soon after at Edgowood, her
ancestral home, and buried in tho old
family burrying ground. Above her
green mound rises tombstone boar
ing the ono word, the name given
by tho great Russian empress,
"Douschka."
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18

I, y. III. ~,
TT, Inv and 10 carry c,rrru, l,r,,,,on
elecplng cars between EpIulrii., and Ashgyito
chroote daily between Jack 5onvl! lie and Cincin.
natl. ~ ~ ON'h
Ir9ins leave Spar'anburg, a. 81 c. division
n0rthbound. 6:i2 II. III, a:l; g. u G:iS D. m
AteShhuie i.imitC'D; Srnihhrun.i T.: L n m
Bl5 p: m, II 80 H. m, ,Nrs.ihu!r ;ir,ifr,, '''
Trains leave Grr"nvi'.r, a. ami G. .jyision
H00rtnnound "A n. m, 2:3l p. IN. and o:;u y. m,
iGeStibuicd Limited) souihbound 10 n n,
A'eo p m.' l2:=S p. M. tVcatibulrd Limitcl).
Pullman Service.
ga " 9u1lIhan palace sleeping cars Trains IS and
CO. % ana ~, 'n y. ard G division.
W. FL GkI1tGN, j Al Cu "A,
NSi. .Hul'ciihteitdont, Hu lintii" Ng'r
w mGirrntinSt"!h ~ y. W"aHiIi,:loii, ID 0
w. ~, ohh, s.. H. RARpWiGK
WI. HsS' ASt; As'tii".. i't>s. hg't.
INo2.llns Ion, -. y. A,.aut., Ga
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18
Hoods Pills t..:,r, easy to @ npGrA;S, nrE s.S ,c


fr"Eramme "t State rrarhrrs' Assoc'at ion.
The twenty sixth animal meeting
Of the South Carolina stat, Tcnch-
rrs Association will he held at Hotel
Altamont, Paris Mountain, Grccn-
Vile, June Both to July lth, 1897.
PROGRAMME.
Wednesday, Juno 3Oth-Opcning
exercises; address Of welcome; re-
sponsc by president Of association;
organization; address: The Teacher
as a Social Factor, Supt. W. IL.
Hand, Chester Graded School.
Thursday, July lst--Addrcss: Eff
feet Of Recent Constitutional Action
on Education i'll South Carolina, w.
ID. Mayiiela, State Superintendent of
Education: intermission; business;
Voice Culture, Mrs. NJ. Il. NOVEL;,
Anderson, 5. G.; discussion; How
Should Spelling be Taught? Supt.
5. b. Watkins, Laurens. Graded
School; discussion; address: Argon
and Atmosphcr", Prof. NJ. B. IIar-
din, Clemson College.
Friday, July 2nd-Drawlng, Miss
Condor, Winthrop College; discus
sion; Manual Training, Prof. S.
Tomkins, Clemson College; discus
sion; intermission; Some Common
Faults in Speech, Prof. j. p. XII
nnrd, Winthrop College; business;
address,
Saturday,, July 3rd---A Talk on
Child Study, Pres. j. \. Rice, Co.
lumhi" Female College; discussion;
Nature Study, Miss Sarah Withcrs,
Darlington, s. G.; discussion; inter
mission; Talk along Kindergarten
Lines, Mrs. Ida Marshall Lining,
Charleston, $. c.; discussion; olcc
tion OF officers; miscellaneous busi-
ness; literary and musical evening.
Sunday, July 4th - Adrrcss: The
Christian Citizen, Rev. G.. b. Moore,
-. d., Furman University; convon-
,!on of Sunday School workers; AS
soclatiOn sermon, Pres II. p. Pell,
Presbyterian College, for Women,
Colu'Abia, S. G.
Department Meetings--The sov-
eral departments will meet in tho
afternoons Of duly lst, 2nd and Bird,
as follows:
Thursday Primary department,
Miss Hattie Pope, Grcenvillc, presi-
dent. |. Botany as an Aid in Pri-
mary Work, Miss Knto Hubcrnicht,
Spartanburg. 2. Child Study, Miss
Minnir .Macfeat, Columbia. 3. Tho
Primary Teacher and tho Black
board, Supt E. l.. Hughes, Groen-
Vile 4. Open conference on sub
jects pertaining to primary work.
Friday-Department of Superin-
tendonco, w. H. Hand, Chester,
President. 1. The Essentials Of
Course Of Study, by G. A. Groasor,
Darlington; discussion led by w. T..
Moncrieff, Anderson. 2. Who Should
Select Assistant Teachers? by A. M.
Rankin, Orangeburg; discussion lod
by j. w. Thomson, Rock Hill.
The College Department and tho
Department of County Suporinton-
dent, Of which Dr.. James Woodrow
and Supt. w. Banks Thompson are
the respective presidents, will meet
on Saturday afternoon. Their pro-
grammes havo not yet been reported
to executive committee.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18
UM Aer"'a ana MWs
SARGE PLUNkHTT
4 WORD 10 ruE rEOrt.E rnAE roSE
AS 'EkENHMERS"
Are We All HpyocritsSs--Some OF tho Din.
ersnrcs In the Trrat'ucnt Of Grimes
ana Criminals,
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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18

| t,,rn, ,> ,h> ,,,,> ~ h,>u t,l,,r
hn,len a,w, IA haalth branded in
! ,har.,t,r aoI NHh .hr,, .m,nths
ola h,hr I, rois, an, ,,,,, f,r This
N}f, Ala nh sh, Ln,w h,yv Inf sh,
! Iijn1 know mnrh Sh, j. ilGt,,ot,
nua Door. ana MI th, consolation sho
has received was ,h, reminder TINT
! h,r husband ,u ,Lt NOT IN hov, stnl,n
! cotton. And yc, thor, mr., ton.
I thousand. dollar thieves all over the
! land who pass in the "hcst society"
and cvcn pose as "refolmrrs" them
selves, God save tho mark.
have watched the return of soy.
rral poo, anon from the prison pens
| rf the Gcorria prnitruiiary, \ short
time n,ro [ Witnessed in, rr,urn of u
man who hal boon shut M thcrn for
fifteen wears, It Nns pnth,tic. Whom
he left his home thry, WAS pl,nty
t there. TN, farm MAS n,nish;nr
| his wife WAS lriuht and ho,nr ona
! there were five AS rr,.tty litiI, chill
/ lrrn ~ you ever laid ewes uron in
Gcortia or any other Stat, H.,
spent tie greater portion Of wbot u,
| had in his arf,us,, and this l,ft th,
| mo,hrr aud children in hard way 10
| live.
After fifteen wears abscuc, h, r,.
turned 10 hul rvrrythinr cbour,d
The children were crown. n,w roo1s
had been made. ncw propl, moved
| in. the farm that he had left hIonm.
! inv had rou, into wrock bnt IN,
worst thinr and th, thino that
touched the heart of tn, man with
sorrow, was that the mothor hol
grown old and wrinklcl The wife
that he had left in her thirties was
| now nearing the fftics, but. God
bless such women. she had been
true to the criminal. No divorce
asked for-nonc dcsired-for thor.
WAS never q time in all those wears
that this woman would NOT hnyo lnid
down her life for the man in str;ros
This man las told me how he felt
upon his arrival in Atlanta upon his
RETURN. The town was stranue
grown clear beyond his knowledge,
the few old friends he bad in tho
Years before his misfortune we're in.
different wien he approacnel thom.
They barely gave him the tips of
their fingers when he offered his
hand, and rushed on to business. II
WAS raining hard when he walked
from under the curshed. but he had
to tramp it home through rain and
slush and his people never knew of
his coming until he had arrived at
his dorr. And yet, some return
from this same penitentiurv amid the
blowing of hrgles aud the sounding
OF aru;i.*, - be weighted down with
congratulations as infamous as they
are insincere.
don't pretend to account for
these differences, but wish to give
ii as my opiA;on that there is no re-
form through h,pocrit,cal "re-
former" aud will make the further
statement, that many of these "rc.
formers who feel themselves per
fectly concealed hv their hypocrisy,
ar" known 10 the world Il great deal
better than they ever dreamed Of,
and either to themselves or to their
children there will come day of
reckoning aay when these mon
VIII bp known in tbnir a., ,L,,,n
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18
Schedule In Effect Feb. 7. tao,

connodt,nIf,, ~, nIHIh TON AuguSta mokcs cIoso
senboSrd AZ u. Gnln"nn Falls for ali points t" on
ON HssSe connection nt Greenwood foro,,,o,,,
Spartanbmnrgn m nmn nI, G and q. Railway, and '''as as
For 'f any ihgarmS W1,h Southern Railway. ''"" at
rates. schedules, address, '''''' TO tickets
EN-. NoRMf;t2I' RM;2' CRA RA iG, Gen, Pass. Agent
He'n' Augusta Ga.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-18

Tho twenty sixth ANIMAL mccting
Of the South Carolina State Trnch-
NrS> Association will he held at Hotel
Altamont, Paris Mountain, Grccn-
Vile, June Both to July lth, 1897.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-04-09
old spots which AVE become endeared to

old spots which have become endeared to
them.
Hundreds of others view with indiffer-
ence the rising waters, and remove from
first floors to second floors. and ut last to
floating RATS and slowly withdraw to
higher points, only to be again pushed
back. The apparent Indifference of some
of these people is astounding. They have
always lived in the same spot, and when
offers are made to remove them to places
of safety. they shake their heads and re-
fuse to be aided. With sacks of corn
carefully preserved. and with an OCCASION
al rabbit or bird, they exc out Il scant ex-
istence. To them a place of safety is n
strange land in which they have no kim
dred. and where existence can only be Sc
cured by eXcrtion. They have passed
through other periods of flood and manag-
ed to live through it somehow and the
most graphic description of the horrors to
come fails to move them. The water
will drap bimeby,' they say.
The situation is worst about fifty miles
above Memphis. There the water stretches
us far as the eye can see. 1t is nearly
forty miles across at this point. Little
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-04-09

ordered out by the War Department. Thus
thousands were saved who might have
persisted from hunger and cold. Nearly
10000 persons were carried to Memphis
alone. Not all the Villages, however, are
deserted. From some of them, which
stand on high ground, and where the water
runs through the streets at a depth of
only a few feet, none of the residents have
departed, but make the best of the situa-
tion by plying about in small boats.
Some of the scenes are graphically de-
scribcd by a writer who covered the en-
tire section when the water was Mt it's
highest. OH n steamer, which made its
way slowly over the vast body of water.
and stopped wherever human beings were
i'll sight to pick them up. He says:
"In this body of water are occasional
spots formed by what under normal con-
ditions are lofty bluffs and high ridges of
land. On these are gathered the popula-
ton for miles about, sleeping and living
in the open mir or beneath the meager pro-
lection of a bit of canvas hoisted above
them on strips of lumber or rough drift
wood snatched from the encircling waters.
Hunger. sickness, privation, loss of life
and property abound. Hundreds of these
Southern settlers remain in the inundated
districts and battle %stubbornly with the
resistless waters, 'clinging tcnaciously to
their few belongings, and 10th to leave the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-04-09
Notes of Curreut Eyent..

The Massachusetts House defeated by
a vote of 90 to 81 the resolution for a
monument in Stute House yard to Gen.
Benjamin Il. Butler.
The claim of Edward ]. Ivory, the al
legged dynamite conspirator. for 100000
damages against the English Government
for false imprisonment. has been forward
ed to Secretary of State Sherman.
Joseph Blantier. the murderer of Mrs.
Langfeldt in California. committed sn:-
eide while in Jail ut Meridian. Miss. by
taking poison. Officers were expected the
same day TO take him back to California.
The board of trustees of the Catholic
Mutual Benefit Association concluded its
meeting Mt Buffalo. The annual report
shows that the total receipts for the year
aggregated $749,3G4: disbursements,
$743,390. balance in treasury Dec. 81,
1896, 1898. The addition to the reserve
fund during the last year was $46.459.
mnking the total fund at the end of the
year $20l,5S5.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-04-09

the part of the country that lies unpro-
tected. where millions of acres of fertile
fields and hundreds of homes belonging to
the laboring people are absolutely at the
mercy of the remorscless waters.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-04-09

places of safety by Mississippi steamboats,
which pick their way among the tree tops,
while other thousands still cling to their
homes and refuse to leave. Beds, stoves
and other furniture have been carried to
the roofs and there these stoical people
eat and sleep and sigh as they wait for
the waters to fall. In many cases, chick
ems, pigs and cows are with them on the
housetops. Should the waters rise to
where they are encamped these stoics will
build RATS, encamp on them and drift
whittier the winds and currents carry
them. Then, indeed. will the death list
be swelled to appalling figures. But the
prospect is not so dismal, for the waters
are falling.
Though worse may come, existing con-
ditions are bad enough. From Cairo, ILL.,.
to Memphis, a distance of nearly $50
miles, the river is over it's banks and the
average width of submerged land is TWEEN
ty-five miles. 1t is a long line of black
ness and despair, with the surface of the
muddy waters covered with floating tim
bers, wrecked houses, eddies of bloated
dead animals. with al occasional lifeless
human being mixed with the debris. Here
and there is a mound or housetop. On
some of the latter are found suffering.
IudllcSl1INcu Aullld UelusS aiu Ou liz
former small groups Of shivering animals,
wild and tame. 1t is not an
thing to see cattle, hogs, sheep, coons,
rabbits, deer and bears thus herded to-
lgcthcr.
The Mississippi is a cruel stream and
never a spring passes that does not see it
leave it's banks and overflow the lowlands.
These lands are mostly devoted to the cul-
ttivation of wheat and corn in the central
l~section and cotton and sugar in Louisiana
and Mississippi. Above Memphis there
ARE no levees to speak of. There IRE a
few. but they IRE as chat when the big
floods come. Tennessee is but little affect
ed ever at the highest stages of the river.
The banks OH the left are high md are
supported by rocky hills that creep up al
most to the rivers edge. The volume of
water is therefore thrown with all its ter
irible force to the unprotected sides of
Arkansas territory, backing up the small
er rivers and streams, causing them to
overflow the lakes, thus creating an inland
sea that adds new territory to its cruel
waste hour by hour until the entire sur
plus waters of the north nave gone to
join the salty waves of the southern seas.
A few weeks ago the SHOWS began to melt
in the Allegheny and Rocky mountains,
and this, with the spring rains, caused the
little mountain streams to pour great vol
umes of water into the Missouri, Ohio
and Cumberland rivers. These, in turn,
swelled the Mississippi into a turbulent
torrent, and the waters broke through tho
leyees between Cairo and Memphis and
caused a flood greater than has been
known in five years.
As soon as the reports reached Memphis
and other points, relief boats were sent
out to bring the half-drowned people to
places of safety. Government boats were
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-04-09

pants lie basking in the sun, some blessing
God for its warmth, while others grumble
and curse nature for the abundance of
water. Some of the queerest sights to
be seen are where the settlers take to what
they call the 'scatfolding PLAN Groups
of four or five houses stand among the
trees, in which the stoves. rough beds and
a kitchen table are raised on scaffolds so
close to the roofs of the houses that the
occupants are obliged to stoop over as they
stand on floating platforms leaning over
the stove or table. The women and chill
dren are forced to lie on the bed while
the head of the house cruises about the
vicinity and gathers driftwood to be dried
and used for fuel"
The flood of 1892 destroyed growing
crops and property to the value of $780,
100000. The present cannot be aver ap.
proXimately estimated. but it will far ex-
coed that of FIVE years ago. From st.
Louis to Cairo, all of that immense basin
that was created by the earthquake fifty
years ago. is deep enough to swim a steam
boat. This section embraces n remarka-
bly, big part of the wheat fields of SOUTH
ern Illinois and Missouri. The submerged