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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31
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THESTORT IKItTNEIEEG EOUS OLD
Welcome thrice welcome oh, glad Christmas
time,
When our hearts swell! with rapture and music
sublime:
For thou brimgcst glad tidings that Oft have
been told
In the story that never, no never grows old
Oh. how gladly we welcome thee back to our
With thy Peace and Good Will, with thy music
and rhyme:
With richest OF blessings that fall like pure
With the story thai never, no never grows old.
Oh, the mcm'ries OF childhood. How sweet
they appear
To each amateur heart rs old Christmas draws
Fond rccollcctions loom up manifold
OF the story that never, no never grows old!
Ring out from each stcepIe, oh sweet Ginning
bells
Ring Ger the hilItops and ring through the
dcllS:
Peal out the sweet message-now softly, now
bold,
OF the story that never, no never, grows old.
Tell it, We children. with anthems of praise:
Let each little heart with pure gratitude raise
Let the church be i!lumlned and from 1t I'M
fold
The story that never. no never, grows old.
oh, let the old homestead. with music and
miTth,
Beam like Paradise here upon earth;
Bring all the absent ones back to behold
The Joys of the story that Lever grows old,
Christmas, dear Christmas! We greet thee
once more
In the church, in the home, with wide open
door,
Where md anthems aud praises, again will be
told.
The story that never, no never grows old.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31
The Eagle Hotel !
UATE ROUSE HOUSEJ
G. A. MCGAW, Pro'pr.

The undersigned has assumed charge of this
Old and wcIl-knOwn hotel and proposes to
cater TO the travelling public i'll the most APP
proved manner. To those VINO know the stu
alton and advantages OF the Old Eagle" no
comment * necessary. II is unsurpassed for
its quiet, beautiful and hOmelike attractions.
As IL summer boarding place il is nCXcelled,
and its reputation ats Il stopping place for COM
mcrcial men and tourists will he carefully nur-
tured. Everything viii be under the personal
care of the proprietor. and his ambition is to
make the saying Irue-"Onca customer, al
ways a cuStOme". Special terms for large
parties on applCG zion.
7mv c. A. MCGAW.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31
Notice to Trespassers.

All persons are hereby forewarned from
troSpassing ON he lands OF the undersigned, or
10 hold in possession any properly which may
he stolen from me. The law will be strictly
enforced against all offenders
JACOB LIN EZEY.
Church ViJIp. Nd.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31
John BOIgianO's Horse Fly Liquid Is
Fs,a Resi-,

None genuine without our signature on each
can John BolgianO." Beware of false imita-
tions. We manufacture nothing but the best.
Drives flies and insects of all kinds of horses,
COWS, dogs. &c. Pint. 25c.; quart, SOC; gallon,
$50, We also manufacture J. b. House Fly
LIQUID Drives mosquitoes, reaches, ants
chinchrs and all other insects out of the house
permanently. Bottles DC. and 25c. pint,7,c;
quart. 81 %. The John Bolgiano Co., Manu-
facturers. 81 East Lombard ST., Baltimore, Md.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31
JOHN A. YOUNG,
PRACTICAL
Matchmaker and ODdcial.

Twenty-Five years as watch repaircr, 3
years apprentice. one year under instructions,
3I6 years Il foreman and the balance of my
time in business for myself, during III this time
l have made study of "optics, fitting Spec
tacles and Eye Glasses properly, as they should
be fitted.
The lenses are ground to their proper axis
and are fitted and adjusted by myself in Spec
tacles and Eye Glasses of Gold, Silver, Nickel
Steel, Rubber or Zylonite frames, and am re-
sponsible myself for all mistakes.
In fitting Lenses to the eye my specially is in
Myopia, Hyperopia, PresbyOpia and AStigma-
tism, which are near-sighted, far-sighted. old
sighted and poo- lghted. Nearly all cases of
astiEmatIsr. cen in children, causing pain in
the rubbing of the eyelids, pain above the
ty -ctoT ,oachc, letters running together,
Sc. rave complete set of instruments and
fest cards which IuSe TO correct the sight in the
Young as well as in the old or middle-aged.
EFSI refer to DR.. Vim. ). Richardson, DIR. E.
Hall Richardson, DR.. w. B. Munnikhuysen and
DR.. J. Ward Scott.
JOHN A. YOUNG,
16mh Main Street, Bel Air. Md.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31
THE EGISAND INTELLIGENCER.
Is P"bijshed Ere.y Fa.idnyby
FRANK E. GORRELL.
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price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications
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Yearly Advertisements at Special Rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-12-31

ED-TRUSTWORTHY AND AC
w TIN f gentlemen or ladies to travel Tor
responsible, established house III Hartford Co.,
Md. Monthly $4,000 and expenses. Position
steady Reference. Enclose set-addressed
stamped envelope, The Dominion Company,
Dept w. Chicago.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
Secretary and Treasurer John Stanton
Of the Atlantic, lett for tbeeas yesterday
morning.
Theosophy.

It would seem natural that theosophy
should come to us in the wake of spir-
itualism and that both should seek in
the occultism of the far east the slim
illus of mystery necessary to the propa-
cation Of the one and the rehabilitation
Of the other. But here we must be care
full not to wrong the new gospel, for
theosophists, we believe, are now anx-
ious to disavow connection with spirit
ualism, though Ito explore the hidden
mysteries of nature and the latent pow
ers of man" is one of the prominent
aims of the brotherhood. The sibyl of
the society we know, at any rate, dab
bed largely in necromancy and spirit
ism, and in her work, Isis Unveiled, "
much space is given to divinations and
to the laudation of the occult sciences
OF India and Egypt. Moreover, when
Nine Blavatsky accompanied Colonel
Olcott to India, her sojourn there was
marked by such an exercise of so called
supernatural powers as to lead the Psy-
send out some of it's trusted members to
lnVestlcate the phenomena, an action
fatal to the pretensions of the founder
OF theosophy. Moncure Conway has
since also told us how the high priest
ess OF the new religion was laughing in
her sleeve while she was sending re-
ports of these alleged miraculous occur
rences to her devotees in England.
1t is disingenuous, therefore, in the
adherents Of theosophy to disclaim kim
ship with spiritualism. Is it not claim
ed for Nine. Blavatsky that she spent
~ years of her life in the study of the
occult sciences, and that in propagating
her gospel she was the chosen medium
Oh mysterious brotherhood Of adopts,
called mahatmas, who in Tibet had
reached an incredible age through the
practice Of magical arts?-Self Culture.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
The Two Hundred Guinea Fee.

When railroads had become general
throughout the country, it was felt by
some of the leading physicians and sur
geons of the metropolis that an easier,
less tedious and less expensive mode OF
travelling ought in fairness to the public
to be met by some reduction in the rate
of remuneration, and after full con-
sideration of all the circumstances it
was concluded in sequel to conference
between DR.. Paris and Sir Benjamin
Brodie, on the part respectively OF the
College of Physicians and OF the COL
lege of Surgeons. that'a reduction Of
one-third would be fair to all parties
and meet all the requirements of the
case. and thus that physicians jour.
ney of 800 miles would imply fee OF
200 guineas in the place of 300, as it
had previously done.-''Life Of Sir
Henry Halford
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
M0Ore's Apology.

Senator George +. Hoar possesses tho
original of letter written by Thomas
Moore in 1916 to the editor of the Phil
adelphia Portfolio. 1t is as follows:
"This life is just long enough to COM
NIT errors in, but too short to allow us
time TO repair them, and there are few
of my errors l regret more sincerely
than the rashness l was guilty Of in
publishing those crude and boyish ii
rades against the Americans. My senti-
ments, both with respect to their ma
tional and individual character, are
much changed since then, and | should
blush. as lover of liberty, if l allowed
the hasty prejudice of my youth to blind
me now to the bright promise which
America affords of a better and happier
order of things than the world has ever
yet witnessed. If you but continue to
be good republicans as we Of Europe
seemed determined to be good royalists,
the new and the old world need soon
have no other distinction than the hem
isphere of freedom and the hemisphere
of slaves. New York Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
Didn't Correct the Error.

An old writer tells the Lewiston Jour
nal that "to err in human" and he struck
n weak spot In mans make up when he
wrote that truth.
A few months ago in one of Names
county seats lawyer and clergyman
were chatting together. In the course OF
conversation the subject of mistakes and
miscalculations came up.
"Do you ever make mistakesT' asked
the minister Of the lawyer.
"why, yes, sometimes, " was the answer.
IL suppose you rectify them, n'tyour'
inquired the clergyman.
mo, not always. If it Is large mis-
take. correct it, but If it is small one l
let it CO. How about yourself, Brother
B.p I suppose you sometimes make mis-
takesf'
ooh, yes, sometimes" answered the
minister, "but treat them as you do.
For instance, in my sermon few Sundays
ago said, THE devil is the father OF all
lawyers, but it was such slight mistake
that let it CO."
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
n Moment of Peril.

Whei she Ironsides, commanded by
Captain - afterward Admiral Dahl
gren. was off Morris island, South Caro-
lima, while removing coal from her
bunkers. it was discovered that the YES
sci had sustained serious injury from
q Confederate torpedo. 1t became nec-
essary 20 know to what extent the hull
had been affected externally under the
water
The divers boat was brought along
side and the diver descended. 1t was
low water and the instant was seized
when the tide ceased to ebb. The diver
went carefully over the part of the bot
tom at the damaged portion, and then
reaching the keel concluded to pass un-
der it and look at the other side.
He had accomplished this and was on
the other side, when he perceived that
the ship was swinging to the newly
flowing tide He had found just space
between the bottom and the keel to pass
under, and now saw that the vessel, in
swinging, would pass close to shoal
ridge of the sandy bottom, and even
grind into it. This must inevitably cut
off the slender and delicate tube which
conveyed air to him and also sever the
lines by which, in case of accident, he
was to be drawn up. Fastened down by
his heavy weights, it would be instant
suffocation.
With all the speed that his incum-
ORANGES permitted he endeavored TO
reach the keel and pass under it before
it was too late. The ship was coming
round rapidly He passed his head and
body, but began TO feel the pressure OF
the keel against the soft ooze
With great effort he succeeded in
dragging his limbs and tubes clear, and
the water became a little deeper, bat
one arm was so painfully crushed that
it was some days before it was in con
dition to use Youths Companion.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
An English Wife.

None but housekeepers know how very
little of their money is really spent on
themselves. Most certainly every wife
should have her private purse, for, as
wretched woman said only the other day:
~ would rather go without dinner for
week. or dress for year, than go to my
husband on Saturday morning with the
books. He is always wanting extra deli
cacies Mt table and then grumbling be-
cause the butchers bill is FL los. Cd. this
week, when it was only FL lis. 4d. last
week. vainly remind him he insisted
on having sweetbreads on Tuesday and
fillet on Friday and that that has made
the difference. but he cannot or will not
see it and grumbles and haggles until he
makes Inc quite Ill, and then he pays the
books, leaving me with few shillings for
current expenses till the next Saturday.
He ordered some wood the other day for
which shillings had to be paid at the
door. He forgot TO leave me the money,
and when cook brought the bill l had to
own / had not got shillings and to Dor
row that sum from her. Oh, the humili-
alton ot itr And her eyes filed with
tears as she spoke That mans income is
probably $500 or e900 year, and his wife
has to borrow shillings from her own
servant to pay for flrowood!
Such husband ought to be ashamed OF
himself. He degrades himself; he lowers
and harnesses his wife. Let him go seri-
ously into the subject of his income, de-
eide how il is to be portioned OF, hand
the wife over her monthly allowance, and
never discuss bill or butcher with her
again. 1t is TO her interest to do her best,
and she is certain To do it, and life will he
made brighter for both neutrality-suspicious.
don Queen.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
Potash Soft Soap.

A simple rule is given in Textile Indus
tries for making potash soft soap for en-
gineers' lubricating purposes. The meth
cd pursued in this case is to dissolve 20
pounds of absolutely pure, fine, strong
caustic potash in an iron or earthenware
vessel with gallons of soft water, this
strong I've being added to 8 gallons of oil
heated to about l40 degrees f.. pouring 1t
In small stream and stirring continually
until the two are combined and smooth In
appearance, some ten minutes being neces-
sary, and the mixture may be done in a
wooden barrel. After being wrapped In
blankets to keep in the heat generated by
the mixture itself combining and turning
into soap 1t is placed In a warm room and
left for three days. The result will be 100
pounds of the finest concentrated potash
soft soap, pure, free from adulteration.
Any of the vegetable or animal oils Will
be found serviceable, but pale seal oil Is
found best for wire drawing and lubricat-
ing.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
BILL BASSETT.
A Modern Rip Van Wrinkle Who Came
Home With a Pile.

Speaking Of eccentric characters, said
Representative Anderson OF Tennessee.
'sthe most eccentric character i ever heard
of was Bill Bassett, mountaineer who
lived several years ago down In my district.
''Bill lived with his wife and two small
children, a boy and girl, In cabin In
one of the mountain coves of Greene coun-
ty. His domestic relations, while not
what might be termed strained, were not
marked with any degree of felicity.
Bills wife was a strong minded, hard
working woman and did not like his tend
ency to stop work for three or four days
out of the week TO hunt and fish. He never
quarreled and went about silently, doing
his wife's business, thus preventing any
chance for row. They were very poor,
and Bill had to carry most OF the wood on
his shoulder, as he was not able to have
horse and wagon.
"Bill was pouting In the chimney cor
ner one day, and his wife asked him to go
80 the woods for an armful Of bark to make
Goals for baking bread The paterfamil-
las, without word, left the house In the
direction Of the woods.
''He never came back that night, and
the next day parties of men hunted the
country over for him, but he could not be
found. Time passed on, the wife and
children gave him up for dead, and the
days heightened into months, and months
into years but Bill did not come back.
No trace of him could be found or any evil
| dence of his fate His wife believed him
dead, but she never married again anc
| was sorry she had been so strict with him.
! 1.-The boy grew up and was married,
| and the girl was engaged TO neighbor
/ boy. The wedding was to occur the next
| day. The old mother had her baker in
| full blast and needed some bark to make
| GOALS. Tho daughter was sent TO the
| woods for it, She had scarcely left the
| door before Bill, her father, entered with
| his arms full of bark. This he dumped
| upon the hearth in the old place with as
little emotion as if he had been gone only
an hour instead of Ii years. His wife
turned and saw him. He smiled, but said
| not q word She thought he was ghost
and tainted. Bill caught her In his arms
and revived her. She soon found that he
was the same flesh and blood that had left
her years before and covered him with
! welcome kisses.
"Bill had gone off mad and foolishly
sworn that he would rot return until he
had made 1000. He had drifted over
several states and finally settled down In
the lumber business in Arkansas, where
he had at last reached the limit OF his oath
and returned.
ellis escapade was almost equal to the
story of Rip Van Wrinkle and has given
him name over the country. He hvec
happily with his wife after that, and when
she wanted any wood he told the hiret
man to hook up the horses and haul IT,
LAS long as he lived, however, he would
go on the anniversary of his departure ant
return and carry an armful of bark from
the woods for his wife to bake cak
with. "-Washington Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
Our Manners.

The courtesy Of the London shopkeep-
er charms me today precisely as it did
years ago Perhaps he says "sir" too
often, and perhaps he is too profuse III
his general politeness, but he is better
than the American clerk who will sell
me an ounce of tooth powder as though
he were comforting upon me an especial
favor The English tradesman may
think himself quite your equal, but he
doesn't thrust upon you this article Of
belief The American tradesman not
only thinks so, but makes his conviction
patent. 1t all comes to this, one has
manners and the other has not. MAN
ners are not idle " a great poet has said,
but we of the west, masses and classes
alike, persist in ignoring them. Our
classes ignore them--our male classes,
l now mean-to a degree that is woeful.
Let any gentleman in New York
searchingly ask himself how many other
gentlemen he knows whose manners are
really gentlemanlike. Nearly every man
of good manners whom / have met III
America is more or less unpopular. If
he is suave of speech, gracious and high
bred of department, he is at once pro-
nounced "stuck up, larry, " affect
ed. If he dislikes listening at his club
to certain style of story, he is called
"stiffy" and "chump" If his mode of
speech is refined, his language choice
and thoroughly grammatical, you will
hear somebody say of him behind his
back, "Oh, that teller bores me out OF
| my boots Edgar Fawcett.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
Monosu1phide.

In addition to his other achievements In
the domain of chemistry, DIR. Deninger OF
Dresden is now reported to have prepared
carbon monosulphide. CS pure, Tor the
first time, and finds that instead OF being
as described in the textbooks, an amor
phous red solid, it is really colorless gas.
He prepared it by heating dry suiphide OF
sodium with chloroform. or, preferapiy'
iodoform, in sealed tubes, to $50 degrees
c., the gaseous products being mace 70
bubble through aqueous oaustic potash'
which absorbed the sulphureted hydrogen,
and the carbon monosulphide passed
through unabsorbed. by acting upon car
bon disulphide with sodium, In the pres
ence of some aniline, the new gas was also
obtained. 1t is colorless and easily con-
.densable to clear liquid, which evapo-
rates rapidly and is extremely explosive
Nav York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
"GWlNE s~cK HOME TO pIE.n
"A Pathetic Incident In Negro Life Seen
ON the Train For selma

on the Train For Selma.
They told me in the dining car of a train
on the Louisville and Nashville road that
IN the smoking car was an old oolored man
who was going south to see his old plan
tation home again before death claimed
him. by and by l went in to have talk
with him. He was wrinkled and white
haired and evidently very old, and when
expressed wonder that his friends In Ken
lucky should have let him set out ON such
long journey he replied:
"Dey jest couldn't help deirselvos, sab.
tole de chill'en 1 was bound to cum, an
dey jest had to let me-"
land how long since you left the old
plantationP''
WAY back In wah times, sab. l dun
went right off wild some Yankee sogers, an
OATS do last l cher did see of Mars
Thomases folks. I'ze gwine down to
'sprise EN-
"Where is it?''
"Jest little ways out o. Selma Dey
tell me dar am great changes bout Selma,
but reckon l kin walk right down de
road an find dc plantashun in de night.
Bress de Lawd, sab, but l doan' reckon I
could hev closed my eyes in death If dey
hadn't let me cum. Oars been SIGH a
longin to sec do ole place agin dat
couldn't stand it."
Three or four Of us Clipped in to got
his meals and make him comfortable, but
we saw that the journey was telling on
his strength. On the morning of the day
we were to reach Selma l could SOC that
he was weak and nervous, and when l sat
down beside him he said:
AI'1p fpalip sort a, clrnort ,hn,1t ,,,vcal
dis mawnin. l had dream last night
dat l was walkin long do road an met O
funeral, an when l axed who was gwinC
to be buried white man spoke up and
said: ''Pon my soul, if dat hain't Mars
Thomases ole niger Job, who ruined of
doorin do wah Heah, boy let me tol(
you sumthin. Yo has cum too lato to SCI
| yo'r ole mars OATS him in do coffin, al
he was akin bout yo' jest de day befo' h
| died Z"
told him that dreams did not signify
| and after a bit had him quite chirped up
| got him some tobacco for his pipe, saw
| that he had breakfast, and as left him IN
smiled all over with happiness as he said
"Only two hours mo- to Selma. Pz
moas' dun got dere. -
Thirty minutes later the conductor beck
| oned to three or four of us to come int
the smoker. The old man sat in his sea
leaning against the side of the car an
seemed to be sleeping.
| He's been dead ten minutes" quietl
| observed the conductor, land he died Il
| peacefully as child falling to sleep"
| So he had. There was a smile on hi
old black face-a smile of anticipation
and the pipe had not fallen from his fin
| gers. Death had come like soft an
fleecy mantle, and its touch had been pain
less.-Detroit Free Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-09
The Turn of Life.

The turn. Of life is turning either
INTO prolonged walk or into the grave.
between the ages of 40 and 80 a man
VINO has lived a proper life ought to be
considered in his prime. His matured
strength of constitution renders him al
most lmpervious to the attacks of dis
ease' and experience has given him
s 30 and ripeness of judgment.
rus mind is resolute. firm and equal !;
aii MS functions are in the most perfect
oiuer de assumes mastery over his
business, builds up a competence OH the
foundation he has formed in early man
nood and passes through period Of life
attended by many qualifications Hav-
Jug gone year or two past go, he ar
i'ves at standstill But here comes
Wnat we have termed the turn Of life,
which. II successfully negotiated, leads
W old age AT this period agout and
apopiexy lie einwait for the traveller
Inc system and ,powersy having reached
sneir utmost expansion, now begin
e''ner to closenini like flowers at sunset
OF 70 break down at onoe. One inyudi
c'ous stimulant, q single excitement.
may force 10 beyond its strength. while
: careful supply Of props and the neces-
ly care and attention should sustain
s1e system lin health. and vigor. New
York Ledger.