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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03

Augusta is. arranging for grand
81 gala = weak, Ne beginning on Monday, 10th
INST, and we are in receipt Of a letter
al the people Of, this section
to j; attend it. Along list Of attractions
have been engaged for the occasion,
and free exhibitions will be given on
the streets Of the city every day
throughout the week. The progressive
citizens Of Augusta win make it inter-
Sesting toiall of her visitors on this oc-
gcasion
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03

The Treasury department. estimates
that: the next census will show fully
y 500, 900 population in the United
states Thes statisticians figure an In .
crease 5srs,:, Of, say 14O, 900 every month, a
possible gain Of I, ,50O, ,O;:;s ser osv;ery year.
IN 1890 the population was g., ,Ss1 .ooo,
and in 1880 SC, 600, 600 IN round num-
bers. The records demonstrate that
the ratio Of increase has been 100 per
cent. in every thirty years since the
foundation ef the Government, thus
the figures for 1900 will probably show
more than double what they we're IN
1870. The rapid growth Of the country
can, perhaps, be better appreciated
when it is understood that the increase
in the past ten years is about equal to
the entire population in 1910.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03
DR.. ]. Il. BURGESS,
DENTIST.

IN Pendleton every Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday.
At Clemson College every Thursday
Friday and Saturday.
April 26, 1899 A 6m
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
TO BRING AB0UT SLEEP.

Difficulties in going to sleep are
sometimes physical, more often men
tai. The physical, under ordinary
circumstances, are due to the circula-
ton. The following are a few prac-
tical hints: Some sleep better half
sitting up with three pillows, some
better with none; some with little
covering, some with much. Hot drinks
or a hot bath just before sleep, hot
bottles to the feet, are often useful.
Tobacco often increases sleeplessness.
Sometimes, after long walking, a small
meal will bring sleep. Some, especial
ly invalids, wake after two or three
hours; a cup of hot, fresh tea will
often send them to sleep again. Some
times the darkness seems exciting,
and one can sleep with lighted
candle. Intermittent noises, as of q
rattling window, are always bad, but
a continuous noise is often lullaby.
Moderate fatigue aids, but exhaustion
prevents sleep.
Oftenest sleeplessness is mental and
springs from want of self-control.
Either one subject engrosses the mind
or a succession of ideas. In either
case the sleepless must make the
effort to stop thought. tits best done
by attending continuously to some
monotonous and unexciting idea,
which is self-hypnotism. Some count,
some breathe slowly as if asleep, some
look at imaginary sheep going through
a gate. One of the best ways is to
watch those curious appearances
which comes to closed eyes, purple
hair fading into star, which becomes
an irregular line, and again changes
to something else. They cannot be
seen when first sought, but will come
with little patience. In all these
the purpose is to fix the attention on
some object which will arouse no
associations. Itrequires steady effort
to do this and to prevent the thoughts
wandering, but exercise increases the
power to succeed. The half hour be-
fore bedtime should be spent quietly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
AMIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

1t happened that in the last month
of the region of Charles l. certain
ship chandler of London was foolish
enough to busy himself over a barrel
of gunpowder with lighted candle in
his hand. He paid the price of his
folly. A spark fell into the gunpow-
der and the place was blown up.
The trouble was that the man who
did the mischief was not the only one
to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked,
and the number of people who were
killed was not known.
In one house among the 90 a mother
had put her baby into its cradle to
sleep before the explosion occurred.
What became of the mother no one
ever knew, but what became of the
baby was very widely known.
The next morning there was found
upon the leads of the Church of All
Hallows a young child in a cradle,
baby and cradle being entirely unin-
iured by the explosion that had lifted
both to such a giddy height.
1t was never learned who the child
was, but she was adopted by gentle
man of the parish and grew to wo-
manhood. She must surely all her
life have had peculiar interest in
that church
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
HOW TO CDRE WORRY.

Some worries come quickly, others
very slowly; but whatever character
they may take, some change of act,
thought, or scene Is the thing to be
sought for. Holidays generally cure
worry, as almost everyone has expert
enced, more or less, though any i'm
provement in health is generally pub
down entirely to some curative prop
erty existing in the air or natural
waters that have been taken. One
might almost consider holidays to be
a specific for worry, and they ought
not to be very difficult to obtain now
adays. once the necessity for them
could be realized; there are such ex
cellent and cheap ways of getting into
other regions at the present time.
What is often SO annoying to medi-
cal adviser is that some people will
not be persuaded to take holiday; it
is often feature of their worrying
disposition that they scout the very
thought of holiday. You must go
away for change" says doctor to
a dyspeptic worrier. "Change! No
thank you," he replies. II am wor-
ried enough with my business as it is;
l could not leave for the world.
Things would go worse than ever
then.' The worried state will not
permit of steady reflection on advice
given, in very many instances, and it
is generally true that the man who
takes the most persuading is the very
man who needs the advice given the
mnat
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06

The cashier was the first to enter,
and, grasping my hand, drew me aside,
saying in an undertone, "Thompson,'
you need not hurry home, for your
wife is all right now"
Believing the cashier spoke thus for
the simple purpose of calming my
agitation, l pulled from his grasp, say
ing, with tinge of feeling, please,
Mr.. Ashton, do not detain me-" and
dashing down the steps, | ran more
than walked homeward.
When | arrived home the door was
opened by my eldest daughter. To
her look of surprise / moaned, SIS
mamma alive ?n But before she could
reply, pushed by her aud rushed up
the stairs, fully expecting to find my
wife either lying dead, or breathing
her last. Dashing almost breathless
into her bedroom / saw her quietly
engaged with her usual morning work.
Mary" | cried, throwing my arms
around her neck, what does this
mean, are you really alive p
have a faint recollection of hearing
my wife give lond scream. then felt
my head reel, after which | became
unconscious. When | came to myself
| was lying il bed, with my wife seat
ed beside me.
made an effort to rise, but was too
weak. subsequently ! was told by
my wife that had lain in a delirious
condition for nearly five days; also
that Mr. Ashton, having followed me
home and, seeing my serious state,
summoned medical aid immediately
at his own expense.
In a few weeks, with careful nursing,
had sufficiently recovered to enable
ne once more to resume my duties at
the bank.
Perhaps it is needless to inform the
reader that the visit made to the bank
by the cashier, and the message he
brought, were but a ruse concocted by
the officers Of the bank for the purpose
of testing my fitness for the position
of night Waterman.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
RETURN OF THE CRADLE.

When physical culture came into
vogue and was applied to the up
bringing of babies, the first act of the
reformers was to discard the old-fash-
toned cradle. 1t was said not to be
healthy for the baby to be subject to
the sea-sawing motion of the cradle.
Now, a Chicago woman physician has
come out with the idea that the baby
needs cradle to get a little exercise
and a healthy circulation of the blood.
She discarded the cradle for her own
children, but for her grandchildren
she has grown wiser. She declares
the cradle is not an adder of infantile
brains, but only sends the necessary
amount of blood to all parts of the
body. Something of this theory has
made its way into big babies hospi-
tai in New York city, where a doctor
is arranging something in the way of
baby exerciser, and we may hear
before long of the baby gymnasium,
in which every day the baby will be
properly exercised.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
WANTED THE EARTH.

please, sir" said the bell-boy to a
Texas hotel keeper, mo. 40 says there
amt no towel in his room" "Tell him
to use one of the window curtains. a."
He says, too, there AIM no pillows"
'Tell him to put his coat and vest un-
der his head" ''And he wants a
pitcher of water" "Grumblerl He's
the worst l ever saw in my life. Garry
him up the horse-pail." "He wants to
know if he can have a light" Here
confound him, give him this lantern,
and ask him if he wants the earth,
and if he'll have it fried on only one
side or turned over.''
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06

NO LEAP YEAR.

The familiar rule that leap year is
every calendar year with number di-
visible by four will be broken in 1900,
which fact need not be regarded as
au Indication that even then it will
be time for change. This rule of
the almanac may account for the
proverbial activity of the new woman
at the close of every century. Then
there is no leap year for eight years.
February, 1905, will have but % DAYS
the extra day not appearing from 1896
to 1904. Centenary years are not leap
years. That rule will be broken in the
leap year 1000, when the interruption
may be regarded as an indication that
it is time for change. Centenary
years divisible by 400 are leap years,
consequently there were twenty-nine
days in February, 1900, and the same
number of days will be given to Feb
ruary, 1000, and again in 240O. The
object of this rule is to make the cal
endar year coincide with the solar
! year.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
pneticaI.
THE SILK TORM'S SONG.

Q let me alone, I've work to be done,
That can brook not u moments delay,
White yet breathe, must spin and weave,
AND may rest not, night or day.
Food and sleep will never know,
Till my blessed work be done,
Then my rest shall be sweet, in the winding
sheet,
That around me have spun.
have been base and groveling thing,
And the dust of the earth my home.
But now | know that the end of my woe,
And the day OF my bliss has come.
In the shroud make, this creeping frame
Shall peacefully die away,
But its death shall be new life to me,
In the midst of its perishirg clay.
7 shall wake, shall wake glorious form
OF brightness and beauty to wear,
] shall burst from the gloom of my opening
tomb,
And breathe in the balmy air.
1 shall spead my new wings in the morning sun
In the summers breath I'll live,
will battle me where, in the dewy air,
The flowers their sweetness give.
1 will not touch the dusty earth,
I'll spring TO the brightning skys
And free us the breeze wher'er please,
On joyous wing I'll fly.
And wherever go, timid mortals may know,
That ike me from the tomb they Shall rise,
And the dead shall be given by signal from
heaven,
A new life, new home in the skies.
Then let them like me make ready their
shrouds,
Nor shrink from the mortal strife,
And like me they shall sing as to heaven they
Deqti is not the md ofHfe.
FRANCIS 5. KEY, author of the Star Spangled
Banner"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
COW AND BICYCLE.

An Irish farmer recently went into
an iron.monger's shop to purchase a
scythe. After serving him the shop
man asked him if he would buy a
bicycle.
what is that2" queried the Irish
man.
Its a machine to ride about the
town on"
And shure, what might the price
of it be %
"Seventy-ive dollars"
''I'd rather see $75 in cow"
riding round town on the back of a
cow"
"Shure, now," replied the Irishman,
mot half such a fool as I'd look try
ing to milk BICYCLE
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
VOL. XLIV---NO 50
VARIETIES.

Mr.. Podgers-"I see that old hen
just came out of the cellar. What
has she been doing down theref''
Mrs. Podgers-"l guess she's been
laying in COAL"
1t was a colored preacher who
said to his flock: I'VE has d colIec-
ton to make dis mo'ning, an fo' de
sake of yo' reputation, whichever Of
you stole Mr.. Jones' turkeys, don't
put anything on de plate" One who
was there says: Every blessed Mig
ger in de church came down wild de
rocks"
He was at breakfast, wrestling
with piece of Remarkably tough veal.
His wife said to him: "You always
said there's something to be thankful
for in everything. l fancy you'd be
puzzled to find something to be thank
full for in that veal.' Not at all:
was just thinking how grateful we
should be we met it when it was
young"
(which weeds are the easiest TO
kill?" asked young Flickers of Farm
er Sassafras, as he watched that good
man at his work. widows weeds"
replied the farmer. You have only
to say, Wilt thouf and they wilt"
-"Can you tell me what kind of
weather we may expect next month";
wrote farmer to the editor of his
county paper, and the editor replied
as follows: lit is my belief that the
weather next month viii De very like
your subscription BILL" The farmer
wondered for an hour what the editor
was driving at, when he happened to
think of the word unsettled" He
sent a postal note.
DE Gauche (who has just broken
a plate)-"Oh, l am sorryr' Mrs.
Flash-''It's of no consequence; don't
apologize" Flash, Jr. Gagged fve)-
No, don't matter; it's only borrow
ed one, amt it, map
Freddie, do you know what the
Bible says about lie?" asked his
mother with feigned severity. "Yeth,
ma'ma," lisped Freddie; "a lie is an
abomination unto the Lord and a
very refuge in time of trouble"
Did you ever see anything like
this?" said young lady to her escort,
at a church fair. "Only once.'
when was that?" "Well, was on
a Western train one time when it was
robbed"
Phil McCann-"J ust lay that fish one
side, and I'll be round after it later"
Dealer-''I'Il send it if you say So"
Phil McCann-"Oh, no, I'll be back;
I've got to go home and tell the folks
I'm going fishinpD
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
ROWING HENS.

At farm in Perthshire, Scotland,
the mistress wondered why the hens
eggs were so scarce. She spoke of it to
her husband, who suspected old Willie,
the cattleman, of stealing them. One
day he saw Willie going into the
stable, where he had no right to be,
and where the hens nests were. As
Willie was coming out, the farmer pre-.
tended to accidentally push him
against the doorpost. "Lod man,
Willie, what's that drippin' frae yer
pouch ?" asked the farmer. To which
Willie looking at his pouch, said, "Eh,
MIGHTY me, declare thae hens lay in
uuare places %
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06

c. A. Snow & Co. one of the Oldest and most
successful firms of Patent Lawyers, whose
offices are opposite the United States Patent
Office, in Washington, ID. c., and who have pro-
cured patents for more than II 900 inventors,
says that, owing to the improved conditions in
the United States Patent Office, patents may
now be more promptly procured than at any
previous time in their experience of twenty
five year
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
AGENT FOR LEGoRE's LIME BEL A1R.MD
NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
For 1899.
is Hereby Given of the Times
and Places of Registration.

All persons who are entitled to register and
vote at the next election in Hartford county,
Maryland. are hereby notified that all Inc
Boards of Registry in said county VIII II, Sit tor
dates in all the Election Precincts in said coun-
ty, as follows
First Sitting-Tuesday, October 8.
Second Sitting-Tuesday, October 10,
And on Tuesday, october II, for Revision
only.
NO ONE CAN REGISTER AFTER TU EsDAY,
OCTOBER 10.
The places of Registration in the different
precincts are as follows:
LIST District, LIST Precinct-Price's Hotel,
LIST District, I'd Precinct-John H. Turner's
I'd District, ist Precinct-Dell's Drug Store,
I'd District, % Precinct-;A.kin's Shop, Level:
Residence, PERUVIAN.
Sd District, LIST Precinct-Grand Jury Room,
Sd District, I'd Precinct-Chesney's Shop,
Sd District. Sd Precinct-E. T. Anderson's
Sd District, 4th Precinct-Mrs. Pyle's Store
4th District, LIST acknowledgements Hotel,
4th District, I'd Precinct-Thomas A. Kelly's
Residence. Upper Cross Roads.
4th District, Sd Precinct-John Woodrow's
9th District, LIST Precinct-R. Lamar Nc
Canns Shop. Dublin.
9Th District, I'd Precinct-H. w. Guilfoyie's
Shop, Cambria.
9Th District, LIST Observation-Disclosures Court
Room, Havre de Grace.
HOURS-S A. NJ. to- Pm.
Any voter who has removed into some other
precinct from the one he was registered in
must apply in person before the Board of
Registry which registered him, for removal
certificate. which he must present to the Board
n RaUiQfFv nrnninnf which
lives before he can registered and vote in that
precinct. Failure to comply with the above
will forfeit to him the right to vote this fall.
ID. A. BAY, President,
S. NJ. BAYLESS,
EDWARD FERRY,
Board of Supervisors of Election for Hartford
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
FREDERICK THE GREAT.

1t is said that Frederick the Great
was never conquered but once, and
that was by the sparrows. Going into
his cherry orchard one day he found
many sparrows there and ordered them
all killed OF driven out of the orchard.
The result was that the next summer
his cherry trees were covered with
worms and he had no cherries. He
ordered the sparrows to be again ad-
United to his orchard, and so the spar
rows did what the armies of Europe
could not do-conquered Frederick
the Great.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
Cheap Lumber.

| have a lot of OAK BOARDS Eight Feet
Long, of good quality and not suitable for
shipment, being so short; good for sheathing
and for fences or other uses iii buildings. that
l will sell for eight dollars per thousand and
other boards of other lengths, of notsuch good
quality, at the same price. All well piled and
seasoned.
April 26. 1899. e. NJ. ALLEN.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06

When Jimpkins got married for the
fourth time, and his friends leased
him about it, he said that he could
not help it, as he's Benedicted to it for
some years.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
TWO MOST USEFUL TREES.

The cocoa-nut tree is probably the
most useful tree that grows. 1t affords
food, drink, domestic utensils, and ma
terials for building and matching. In
parts of India and other countries, the
white albumen of the nut forms nearly
the entire food of the natives. and the
white fluid, or milk, serves them for
drink; it also yields wine and sugar.
Cocoa-nut oil is obtained by pressing
the albumen, and when fresh it is
transparent, and used in cookery; the
thicker portion, called ''stearine," is
used for making candles. The oil is
made into marine soap, Which will
create a lather in salt water. The clear
oil is used for burning in lamps. Glyce-
rine is obtained in the process of puri-
flying cocoa nut oil. The fibre was
formerly used only for making rope,
but within the last 80 years it has been
manufactured into foor-matting,
brushes and brooms, and has been
used for many other purposes. The
hard shell is made into cups and other
domestic utensils. The wood is used
for ornamental joinery, and takes
fine polish. The root is chewed in the
same way as is the areca nut. The
bamboo is, perhaps, of even greater
general utility than the cocoa-nut
palm, but it cannot be called 1.-The most
useful tree that grows" as it is in real
ity Il grass. Of a writer, after giving
a long account of the various purposes
to which it is applied, says, at is as
difficult to say what the bamboo tree
is not used for as what it is. 1t is in
universal demand in the houses, in the
fields, on water and on land, in peace
and in war. Through life the China
man is almost dependent upon it for
support, nor does it leave him until it
carries him to his last resting place on
the hillside"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
KENTUCkIANS PLAN TO KEEP
APPLES SOUND FOR YEARS

AA<O ~ - WI Il Wv L A<AAtS1'
Mr.. E. H. Daniel has a number of
perfectly sound apples which he has
kept over from last year. Mr.. Daniels
process is a good one and may be re-
garded as something new in the way
of preserving fruit. He has cellar
which is kept at the same temperature
all the year; and he has discovered
that by putting apples in it in such
way that they will not touch each
other they may be kept sound for
months and possibly years. He also
has q method by which he will in
the future buy eggs at the time ofyear
when they are cheap and keer<them
for months when he can receive a
handsome price for them. He finds that
by permitting pure fresh water to run
over eggs constantly they may be kept
sound for months. He will likely try
the experiment this season, as he has
a system of waterworks by which he
can easily keep a large supply of
them.-Plinceton Rg.) Republican.
HEALTHFULNESS OF SUNSHINE.
1t is really astonishing how few
people there are who properly estimate
the hygienic value of the SUMS rays.
A Valua Die lesson on This point may De
learned by observing the lower ami
mails, none of which ever neglect an
opportunity to bask in the sun. And
the nearer man approaches to his
primitive condition the more he is in
clined to follow the example of the ami
mails. 1t is natural instinct, which
civilization has partially destroyed in
the human race. The effect of sun
shine is not merely thermal; its rays
have chemical and electrical functions.
1t is more than possible that sunshine
produces vibration and changes of
particles in the deeper tissues of the
body as effective as those of electricity.
Many know by experience that the re-
lief it affords to wearing pain, neu-
ralgic and inflammatory, is more effec-
tive and more lasting than that of any
application whatever. Those who
have faceache should prove it for
themselves, sitting in sunny window,
where the warmth falls full on the
cheek. For nervous debility and in
somnia the treatment of all others is
rest and sunshine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-10-06
THE OLDEST INHABITANT.

Longevity, as is we'll known, is of
frequent occurrence among the Rus
sian peasantry, but not all the Russian
Methusalehs have arrived at the age
of the hero of the following anecdote.
An American travelling in a remote
part of Russia, on passing through q
small village, heard of one of the peas
ants who had long since passed the
century mile stone on the road to
eternity, and who was still hale and
hearty. Anxious to see such a veneer
able specimen OF humanity, he inquir-
ed his way to the villagers cottage.
On a wooden bench in front of the
house man was seated. His form was
bent with age, and his face wrinkled
and shrivelled like that of mummy.
The old man was weeping as though
his heart would break. The stranger,
not doubling that he had found the
man he was seeking, approached him,
and, in sympathetic tone, inquired
the cause of his grief.
Oh replied the old man, II am
crying because father has beaten me. :"
Rather surprised to hear that the old
man had a father still living, the
traveller ventured to ask the reason
for the infliction OF such castigation.
Why" was the answer, father
beat me because he says was disre-
spectful to grandfather. Boo hoo %