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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-10-05
We have some new and elegant styles
of box paper. GARRETT d AYREs.

The NEWS HERALD and National Stock
man and Farmer one year for 81 80.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-10-05

You can get "Blsck Cat" hose at Hib.
ben's.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-10-05
Attend Spargur's Millinery Opening
Thursday and Friday OF this week.

Shopping made easy by buying your
goods Of Kelly.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-10-05
new GOODS
Are arriving every day and at
prices that will sell them.

New logger figs, per lb. lb................15 .15c
Large new prunes, per rlb............1 .1Oc
Choice new dried peaches, per lb. .10c
Seeded raisins, per lb. lb......"........10 .10c
Cleaned currants, per lb.. .l0c
New cream nuts, per lb. -. ....... .10c
English walnuts, per h.. .10c
New home made sorghum mo!asses
as fine as can be made, per gal. .40c
We are selling a good roasted coffee
A better roasted coffee, per lb. 80. .10c
Other grades, nothing better at the
price, 129 to. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .35c
Come and trade with us and we will
do you good.
We guarantee satisfaction in every re-
spect.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
1t is rumored that a movement is
on foot to raid Canada.
ALl.eax strenk of Muuse

Several persons standing in front OF
show window on Fourth street
watching Il procession of Japanese
mice in cage as they ran in at one
door of their sleeping apartment and
out at another with lightning rapidity
became involved in dispute as to how
many of the animals there were. One
said there were only two mice, While
others thought there were at least
three.
They were very active, curious little
animals and, instead of being of the
proper mouse color, were black and
white marked in large blotches like
Holstein cattle or old fashioned swine.
The holes into and out Of which they
ran were close together, and they chas-
ed around so swiftly that it was i'm
possible to count them, for sometimes
there was n mouse at each hole and
sometimes one outside and the others
inside, and sometimes it appeared as If
there were just one long mouse in q
circle revolving on pivot, with noses
and tails at intervals. -
The mad race was kept up for some
time, and finally all the mice disap-
peared as if by magic. One of the spec
tators went into the store and asked
how many mice there were in the cage,
stating that he and his companions had
not been able to decide, as they moved
too quickly to be counted. A clerk said
there was only one mouse, and it was
impossible to count it except when 1T
was asleep and, seeing look of in
credulity ON the countenance Of the
caller, raised the top Of the cage and
showed one little black and white
mouse nesting on a piece Of cotton In
a corner.-Portland Oregonian.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

Down to Charles IFS time it was GUS
tomary to name and baptize ship aft
err she was launched, sometimes a
week or two after. The old Tudor
method used for men-of-war was still
In use. Pepys' "Diary" shows that.
The ship was safely got afloat, after
which some high parsonage went on
board with n special silver standing
cup" or "f1aggon" Of wine, out Of which
he drank, naming the ship, and poured
libation on the quarter deck. The
cup was then generally given to the
dockyard master shipwright as. a me.
mento.
When did the present usage Of nam,
ing and baptizing n ship before she Is
sent afioat come in? l trace the last
explicit mention of the old method to
1864, when the Royal Katherine was
launched (see Pepys). The first men
ton of smashing a bottle Of wine on
the bows of British man-of-war that
l have found is in contemporary
newspaper cutting of May, 1ISO, de
scribing the christening of II. NJ. S
Magnanime at Deptford, but nothing
is limited that it was then n new Gus
tom.-Notes and Queries.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
HOPE.

The New Year brings US many hopes
and bright promises. We look back
on the past as a vexatious, troubled
dream in which there were many dis
appointments and few successes.
Since the fall OF Adam it has always
been So. No matter what we have ac-
complished we can but look with re-
greet at our many failures. No matter
how hard we have strived or bow
many sleepless nights we have spent
in attempting to gain the coveted goal,
or how honest our intentions may
have been, yet we are doomed to be
unsatisfied. Sometimes our crosses
have been so great that envy creeps
into our hearts as we see our neighbors
smoothly sailing by on an unruffied
sea of prosperity, while we are at
tempting to reach our aim, perhaps
in leaky tub with one broken pad
die.
We should, however, bear in MIND
that while others do not appear tc
have such heavy burden as ours, il
is only because we do not know theil
Utmost thoughts. A smiling face hides
many an aching heart. No, there il
no such thing in this world as perfect
contentment and perfect happiness
God never intended it. We can only
look for that beyond the grave. Toll
suffering and pain is the punishment
for our inherited sin, and there is nc
escape from it.
But there is one thing left US an6
without that all would indeed be gone
The one remaining blessing in Pan
dora's box is hope. What a blessing
it is, and how closely it clings to us
When all else is gone. friends forsake
us, our money takes unto itself wings
and flies away, perhaps even the crue
hand of death has robbed us of som;
dear one, yet even then there remaini
hope to uplift our down trodden hearts
and taking US by the hand again en-
deavors to lift up the crushed spirit
What would this world be withou
hope, this earnest longing for better
things2 Yes hope stays with us unit
the end, and leads us beyond the darl
river of death to a blissful Immortality
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that the candidate may be VIGOROUSLY
unfit etc. II we go into the subject
more deeply we think that it will be
apparent that the object of parties is
the concentration OF strength to carry
into execution the doctrines and prin-
ciples of the particular organization.
We have the highest respect for the
independent voter but his place il
not in the primaries of either party.
His turn comes on the general election
day. Let US interject however, ouI
most utmost contempt for those Dem
ocrats,-the more holy than thou art
species, who like the Cowen and War
field like, proudly proclaim their
Democracy and yet never vote the
ticket without one of their own stripe
is on it. We cannot keep these out
without the law. We heartily con.
cur in the statement that a primary
election law cannot be made uniform
throughout the State. The local con.
ditions are different in different
localities. For instance it will not re
quire the same amount Of money pre-
rata to. conduct an election in the
counties as in the cities.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
DWIGHT L. MOODY.

The death of the great Evangelist
D. L. Moody, demands more than
passing news note. He was one Of
the most striking characters of this
age, his being strong and unique
personality. A poor farm boy until
seventeen years of age, in the rugged
mountains of Massachusetts, his OPP
portunities for education were neces-
sarily very limited. But as a shoe
clerk in Boston and in Chicago; as a
worker under the Christian Commits
sion in the Civil War; as lay mis-
sionary of the Young Mems Christian
Association in Chicago and as an
Evangelist in this country and Great
Britain, he impressed himself most
strongly on men in every rank of life,
of all shades of character and all
types of culture. He became ulti-
mately a very we'll read man, and the
last years of his life were devoted
to the establishment of the school for
boys at Mt. Hermon and for girls at
his old home in Mortified, where
others might have the advantages of
education which had been denied to
him, and where manual training and
Bible study are most judiciously
combined with the ordinary school
curriculum.
His copsecrated common sense was
his prevailing characteristic. His
humility and self.restraint was as re-
markable as his bold assertiveness,
uncompromising devotion to simple
Bible truth and Bible teaching, and
untlring energy. He never claimed to
be anything but a lay-preacher
Thousands flocked to hear him where
ever he preached. And though some.
times ungrammatical and little I'M
| couth of speech, and with none Of the
graces of oratory, he was none the
less a speaker of unusual force and
magnetism, held the closest attention
of his audience and influenced even
the highly cultured most powerfully.
He was essentially q man of decision
and action. He gathered about him
men of strong faith, earnest zeal and
fine culture, SO that his influence for
good was multiplied many fold. He
was bulwark against the inroads of
materialism and skepticism and a
strong aggressive face in assaults upon
the citadels of sin.
Men of all stations in life and all
shades of Guardianship honored
him and were delighted to cooperate
with him in his self-denying labor.
The Bible Institute at Chicago and
the two schools at Mortified, (these
last being magnilicently equipped and
representing an investment of at least
a million dollars, stand as enduring
monuments to this great and good
man. Servant of God, well done. "
"We give thee hearty thanks for the
good examples of all those thy ser,
wants, who. having finished their
course in faith, do now rest from their
i 10 horD
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
LIQUIDATION MUST GO ON.


We have had the hurricane of liqui-
dation and its sudden reduction of
800, 900, 900 in the shares of less than
fifty prominent corporations, chiefly
industrial. The storm centre has
been broken, and an immense amount
of liquidation was accomplished at
fearful loss to holders and bankruptcy
to many.
We have now improved monetary
conditions and they are likely to con-
tinue to improve, but if any assume
that the work of liquidation has been
accomplished they are grievously
mistaken. The liquidation necessary
to place our shares and securities,
which are SO largely speculated in on
the stock exchanges on sound and
safe basis, has only been fairly begun
and it must continue until the work
is consummated. The tempestuous
liquidation of Monday last only
started in violence what must con-
tinue under more tranquil conditions
until hundreds of millions of our pres
ent purely speculative shares are
effaced from the market.
All persons of average intelligence
will accept the admonition SO i'm
pressively given by the panic of Mon,
day. 1t is notice that the purely
speculative shares without present
earnings and with little prospect OF
future profits, must be abandoned by
those who have invested in them, and
new investments made in securities
which have not only present, but
substantial and enduring profits
That should be the infiexible rule oil
all who seek to invest in the present
unsettled condition of the market. II
is no time to speculate, but it is the
best opportunity likely to be had fol
| some time to make investments in
securities which are certain of salts
| factory and continued returns.
The ease with which securities with
out any intrinsic value have beer
| floated on the markets at enormously
inflated prices will make holders Of
such shares reluctant to part with
them. They will hope for another
tide of initiation and expect to retrieve
their losses, but there is no reason
whatever to warrant such conclusions
Speculative enterprises whose profit,
| are solely founded on the exaggerated
| theory that they will be realized il
| the distant future, can never have ar
| inviting market hereafter. The ont
thing that all dealers have beer
| taught is that it is safe to invest only
in shares which command credit al
collateral because of their positive
earning capacity.
Thus the liquidation that has be
gun in the tempest must go on more
| quietly until the purely speculative
lines of our stock markets have beer
practically eliminated. Those wht
Judge otherwise will be very likely tt
lose their money, while those who a
once turn to present profit-earnins
and substantial securities will us'
their money most wisely. Profit
earning securities must steadily ad
vance, and those which are withou
profit earnings must steadily decline
Such is the memorable mandate of tn,
liquidation hurricane of Monday last
l. PhiZndeLDhin Times
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
Up to Date Bobby.

Robert has positively declined to
learn to spell. Womanly intuition adj
monishes Roberts mamma that Robert
will doubtless say something very
bright If pressed, and she accordingly
argues with the boy.
"All great men learned to spell when
they were little boys" she says.
"Well, that was before you could hire
a stenographer for So week." replies
Robert.
OF course Roberts mamma loses no
time in telephoning for the newspapers
a brief outline of what has happened
and bidding them send their best re-
porters right up.-Detroit Journal.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
A Novel In n Nutshell.


Met MIN.
Met him again-in love with him.
Met him again-no longer In love
with him, but he in love with me, be-
cause am so beautiful.
Met him again-he is still more in
love with me, not only because l am
beautiful, but because l am also good.
Sorry for him.
Again l met him-he Is colder than
he was. Think he has forgotten my
beauty and my goodness. 1, however,
am inclined to think that l am in love
with him after all. How lucky he is,
and how angry mamma will be!
Mamma proved to be strangely
pleased. Makes me angry, for l know
she is not a good judge of n young
girls heart.
Flirted with him outrageously to
make mamma mad-didn't succeed.
Engaged to him-glad.
Married to m-sorry.-London An
SwprS.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

The British will now begin the war
in South Africa de novo. They began
it once when they were not ready, and
persisted in foolish attacks until each
of the commanders of the several
armies suffered defeat with great loss
of life. They fought these battles as
if England had learned nothing since
the defeat of Braddock nearly a cen
fury and half ago.
Lord Roberts has now been sent to
the field in command of all the Eng
lish forces, and he took the wise pre-
caution before starting to be assured
that he would not be interfered with
in his army movements by the War
Department at home. 1t seems that
the English War Department has
much to learn to meet an enemy like
the Beers. Redtape and old-time
methods will not give victory to an
English army engaged in warfare with
a foe like the Beers of the Transvaal.
They want Stonewall Jackson or a
Phil Sheridan, and until they get an
officer of that type they will not be
likely to win important victories.
The factthat Lord Roberts demand.
ed that General Kitchener be detach.
ed from his important command in
the Soudan to become chief of staff of
South Africa, clearly indicates that
Lord Roberts means to commit no
military mistakes. Kitchener is the
best organizer in the English army,
and Lord Roberts evidently intends
to make no movement against the
enemy until he is fully prepared for
his task, and then he will move quick.
ly and keep moving until he shall
have overwhelmed the enemy. Thus
the English are just now beginning
the real war with the Beers.
There is not likely to be any battles
fought in South Africa during the
next two months unless the Beers
shall initiate the English by attack
ing strongly-entrenched positions.
That is not their method of warfare,
and, therefore, it is reasonable to as
sumo that there will be little or no
active military operations in South
Africa much if any before the first of
March; but when the war does begin
again it will be one of the bloodiest
of modern times.
The Beers are desperate fighters;
they have the advantage of interior
lines and of mountain passes, and
their familiarity with the country will
enable them to resist an army much
larger than their own. This is well
understood by Lord Roberts, and his
policy doubtless will be to overwhelm
the enemy by superior numbers, and
force the war to a speedy conclusion
when he shall have his armies in
hand for the desperate undertaking.
-PhiIddelphiG Times.
-"Silver Dollar" Smith the motor
ious Republican politician of New
York, died on Friday. He gained his
peculiar soubriquet by cementing
2, 800 silver dollars in the floor and
bar fixtures of his drinking house in
New York city.
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"A general order was issued by t

"A general order was issued by the
War Department last week an
nouncing the death in Luzon on De-
cember IS, of Henry w. Lawton,
major general Of U. s. Volunteers and
colonel and inspector-general of the
U. s. regular army. Flags were
ordered to be placed at half mast and
IS minute guns ordered to be fired at
every military port and station as 8
tribute to his memory.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

ST showed them my card at the
door," the actor was complaining. "and
they referred me to the manager. And
what do you suppose he said? He said
he was sorry. but the demand for seats
had been so great that he had decided
TO discontinue the professional free
list"
"Well," said his friend the sharper,
"did you expect to beat full house
with a single card ?"-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

Two little folks went to church alone,
1t was only around the corner from
their home, and their mamma k1Rw
they would be safe. During the lag
sermon they got tired, and the older
one, supposing that the school rules
held good in church, led his sister up
In front of the pulpit and said, "Please
may we go home" Much surprised
the clergymen gazed at them over his
spectacles. Then he understood, and
said, Certainly, my children" And
the two toddled out while the congre.
cation smiled.-Weekly Bouquet.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

According to the Hong Kong
papers the British steamer Labuan
which left Saudakan on November 2S,
was seized by the United States
Steamship Castine, on Thursday last,
at Caldera Bay and sent to Manila
| under a prize crew.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

"A dispatch to London from Cape
town, says:-It is learned from Afri
kander Bund Sources, hitherto singu
larly we'll informed, that 5000 Euro
pean officers and men skilled in mod
ern military tactics, particularly il
artillery, are in Pretoria as a reserve
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

The battleship Texas, with 1871
bodies of the victims of the battleship
Maine, sailed from Havana for the
United States on Thursday, Deem
Der 81.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

The Salvation Army distributed
Christmas dinners to $4,000 persons in
New York city on Monday, baskets
being used in the delivery. 1900
were served with dinner in the head
quarters.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

The jury in the Potomac pollution
case, which was on trial for several
days in Hagerstown came to an end
on Friday by the jury returning a
verdict of Not Guilty" The verdict
caused great deal of dissatisfaction
and indignation among the people OF
the city of Hagerston. The costs in
the case are very heavy $1,000 having
been paid to the witnesses for the de-
tense, and the witnesses on the other
side are said to be even more numer-
GUS,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

The Duke of Westminster died on
Friday from pneumonia. He was
said to be the wealthiest landowner
in the world, his fortune being esti-
mated as between 800, 100000 and
5000, OGO, 900.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

Hon. Charles 7. Reifsnider, of
Westminster, qualified last week as
Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial
district.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

"A severe earthquake shock was
felt in Southern California on Christ
mas day. The centre of the shock
was in Riverside county.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
BEL AIR. MD
FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. 20, 1899.

vNOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS
communications intended for publication must
be accompanied by the real name of the writer
though not for publication unless desired,
otherwise they will receive no attention.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

1t was reported on Friday that
the Fillipinos had placed in Europe
Il large order for artillery.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

Hon. Isidor Rayner took the oath
of office as Attorney General of the
State of Maryland, on Saturday morn
ing.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

A Literary Note.
The denizens Of the forest were or
ganizing literary club.
1--WE must make the porcupine presi-
dent" said Br'er Wolf. "His style is
full of good points"
Permit me-" remarked Br'er Rabbit
"to recommend reptile friend OF
mine. He can put up n rattling tail."-
Catholic Standard and Timna-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

The Beers have surrounded the
forces of General Methuen on the
Modder river, Cape Colony.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
A GRACEFUL ACT.

Mr.. Edwin F. Abel, editor Of the
Baltimore San, has presented to Union
Chapel, near Wilma, a handsome
church bell, which weighs 500 pounds
This graceful act on his part will be
greatly appreciated not only by the
members of the congregation but the
community at large.
Mr.. Abel spent an early portion Of
his life in Hartford county, having at
tended the private school of Captain
Mcleod which was then a progress
sive institution of learning at Union
Chapel. The donation was presented
through Miss Lydia Robinson.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN
beauty Is blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. M
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy CathGr.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
purities from the body: Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents All drug,
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, JGc.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29
The EGISAND NTELLIGENCER.

"THE EGIS is the Oldest established
newspaper in Hartford county. 1t has a larger
circulation among intelligent farmers, Gamers
paper publ he'd in the county. These facts
make it q valuable advertising medium for
reaching all Q sses.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

Mr.. Dwight L. Moody, who was
perhaps the most widely known and
influential evangelist since the days
of the Wesley Brothers, died at his
home in Mortified, Mass, on Friday
of heart trouble superinduced by over
work. Mr.. Moody was in many ways
very remarkable man, and few who
heard him speak could forget him.
Immense audiences were drawn and
held spellbound by his magnetism
and the conviction that he possessed
that great attribute of a preacher,
which so few possess, deep earnest
ness. Probably more souls were con-
victed and converted under his preach
ing than of any other man of the
Nineteenth century. Born upon a
farm, he started in the work of evan
gelization in Chicago and from there
travelled over the world holding won
derful meetings everywhere. His
place will be difficult to fill.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-12-29

Admiral Schley arrived at Buenos
Ayres on Tuesday. All the news
papers welcomed the hero.