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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
THIEF TAKING IN ZANZIBAR.
a Medicine Mans Way of Working
the Third Degree ON Suspects.

the Third Degree on Suspects.
This story of thief taking in Zanzibar
was told by a woman who was one OF the
guests at luncheon.
"The English consul" she said, Twas
robbed Of silver dinner service, and the
police advised him to call in a medicine
man If he wanted to get it back. So he
sent for the medicine man and invited his
friends in to see the fun.
s'The day came and with it the medicine
man, who was a little, old, squat, repul-
sive looking negro, so small as barely to
escape being n dwarf. The only things
that the medicine man brought with him
were four little sticks 10 or 16 inches long
and as thick through as my little finger.
He asked for small low table, squatted
down before it Turk fashion, held two of
the sticks, one in either hand and ordered
the consul to sit opposite him and hold the
other two sticks, allowing the tips to rest
gently on the table. All the servants were
in the next room, with the door closed.
The medicine man rolled his eyes ceiling
ward and began muttering some gibberish
that we took to be an incantation.
Il soon noticed that the consul looked
distressed and uneasy, and, bending over
him, l asked him the reason. He said:
why, 1 can hardly hold these sticks.
They tug as If some one had hold of the
other end and was trying to pull them
away from me- He was jokcd Il bit
about his vivid imagination. One Of the
men offered to and did relieve him, only
to find that it WAS no joke. The magic
power of the medicine mans incarnation
made holding the sticks n real physical eff
fort Did 1 try holding them myself
Yes, but can tell you very little of that
satisfied me. What do think it iss Oh,
1 don't know-devil worship or some
thing else. But let me go back to catching
the thief
"One of the servants was admitted and
ordered to place his two hands on the to-
BILE He did it. Nothing happened. The
medicine man kept on his lamentations for
a minute or more, then said to the SER
want: You can go. 1t Is not you. One
after another was called, with no result.
The performance was beginning to grow
monotonous, when In came the coachman,
o man who had been in the consul's en-
ploy for years. Scarcely had he put his
hands on the table when the sticks held by
his master gave mighty tug and closed
around one of his wrists, while the two
sticks in the medicine man S hand snapped
hold of his other wrist. The coachman
did not wait to be accused, but blurted
right out: L did not do it alonel There
are others in it too Well, sure enough,
] there were others in 1t, who at once con-
fesscd. The dinner set was recovered -
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
HARD 10 PLEASE.
why Mrs. Blumer Asked Her Hus-
band to Stop FlatterinS.

band to Stop FlatterinE.
ST am SO proud of you'll"
With eyes tenderly expressing the fond
appreciation and tender love of a devoted
husband John Blumer turned gently and
imprinted kiss upon his wife's forehead
Eyes, my DEAR" he continued, ~ feel
somewhat conscience stricken when think
of how silent / am, as a rule, about all
those qualities of mind and heart which
you possess. As go about among my
friends and talk with the brilliant and
cultivated women who shine with such
splendor, how glad it makes me to think
that you are not such as They'll Give me
the quiet, simple woman, who Is content
to stay at home, who lives but for her hus
band and who prefers the domesticity of
the home circle to the artiflcialty of So
ciety. No one knows better than l do
that when you go out you suffer greatly
in comparison with other women, whose
glamour of intellect blinds the senses.
Beauty in women l can admire-indeed I
do admire it-and yet, after ALL prefer
YOU What do care If you are not beap-
tiful when know that you are gooda
What difference does it make to me If you
cannot be bright and witty, no mattsr
how hard you try, with others? Helldf
What's the natter" a.
Don't you think" replied Mrs Blum
er as she took her handkerchief from her
eyes and glared at him with a combined
look of sorrow and anger, THAT you have
said enough"
John Blumer rose from his chair with
a despairins gesture and looked out of
the window savagely, with hard, set look
on his face.
"That's just like woman" he NUT
tered Indignantly to himself. "Give her
one word of praise and she turns on you'll"
kansas. City Journal.
Roasting Meats.
One Of the small but essential points in
the roasting of meats often neglected or
not understood by the average kitchen
priestess is that hot fat, rather than hot
water, should be used to haste them. Start
the fat of the roast with little butter or
good drippings and then depend upon the
Juices to continue the process. 1t should
| be remembered, too, that all roast meats
need q hot oven to start with. Afterward
the heat should be tempered.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

Now, for my part, l do believe that
the worst tempered persons in the world
arc less so through sensibility than selfish
ness. They spare nobody's heart on the
ground of being themselves prickcd by a
straw. Now, see if 1t isn't SO. What, after
all, is good temper but generosity in
trifles, and what, without it, is the happi-
ness of life? We have only to look round
us. 1 saw woman once burst into tears
because her husband cut the bread and
butter too thick l saw that with my own
eyes. Was it sensibility, wonder? They
were at least real tears and ran down her
checks. "You always do 1t" she said
Browning Letters
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

A very subducd looking boy Of about IS
years, with long scratch on his nose and
an air of general detection, came to his
teacher in one of the Boston public schools
and handed her a note before taking his
seat and becoming deeply absorbed in his
book. The note read as follows:
Miss B.-Plese excuse James for not being
thare yesterday. He played trooant, but
CESS you don't need to lick him for it. as the
boy he played trooant with an him fell out, an
the boy licked him, an man they sassed
caught him an licked him. Then his pa licked
him, an had to give him another for sassing
me for telling his pa, SO you need not lick him
until next time. I CESS he thinks he better
keep in school hereafter.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
VOL. XLIV---NO Is
CLASSICS LOST TO US.
Not One Work of Menander or Varro
Remains to the Present Day.

Remains to the Present Day.
What with barbarisn, religious intoler-
ancc and Indifference, little could have re-
manned to us of the literatures Of Greece
and Rome but for their almost inexhausti-
bic wealth.
OF Sappho we possess only an ode or
two and quoted fragments. Her works
were burned in the eleventh century, by
order of the great Hildebrand Addison
says, by way of consolation, that they
were filled with such bewilderipg tender
ness and rapture, it might have been dam
gerous to give them q reading"
OF 10S comedies of Greek domestic life
the work of Menander, writer whose
field was never occupied by anybody else
and whose purity of style Plutacrh de-
clares to have been surpassed by Homer
alone, not even what may be called q
fragment remains Stray lines are quoted
here and there. Twenty-four of the plays
are known to have existed until the seven
teenth century, when they were erased
from their rolls to make space for the
works of an ecclesiastical writer
OF the 276 dramas of the great Greek
tragcdians, Eschylus, Sophocles and Eu-
ripides, only 80 are possessed by the world
today.
The brilliant Livy, to whom Macaulay,
among moderns, is often hkened, wrote
40 volumes or rolls of his ANNALS" Of
Rome. OF these only So remain to us.
OF the 80 historical volumes of Tactitus
we have four.
OF Pliny the Elder, the sole great nat
uralist Of the Roman race, but one work
has escaped destruction.
Varro, a Latin biographer, placed by
common consent beside the otherwise in
comparable Plutarch, is totally lost to us.
OF Caesars orations, for which his con-
temporary fame was as great as for his
generalship or craftsmanship, not one has
been preserved.-Demorest's Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
Roasting Meats.
The BouIeyardier In His World.

1t is often said and repeated that for
the real boulevardier Paris is the whole
world. Countries situated beyond the for
tifcations are foreign lands that only SUI
perior force could make him visit. This
is true of the Frenchman in general. Nov
ing terrifies him; the idea of a voyage Is
fearful to him.-Paris Figaro.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
TERMS.-sI.OO A Year in advance
Pnettral.
IN THE FASHION.

IN THE FASHION,.
Tknew you drew all hearts to you
To hold them in disdain,
And, teaching men the way to woo.
You let them WOO IL vain.
knew to worship ut your feet
Mere prudence would forbid,
And yet sought and found you sweet
And loved, as others did.
In matchless style with many u vile
You played charmcr'. part
Till, witless of your craft and guile,
showed you all my heart;
Then, lightly meeting love with scorn,
OF me you soon were rid
And left me, hopeless and forlorn,
To sigh, rs others did.
Now well know one may outgrow
Full many greater care,
But then thought no human woe
Could equal my despair.
My hopes forcgorc, my life undone.
The cruel fateS l child,
Then-met my own, loved, wooed and won
And we'd, as others did!
Pail Mall Gazette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

"You best man when he gets the worst
of it," says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. you worst him when you
get the best of it. That Is to say, to best
and to worst mean exactly the same
thing Curious is language and Its de-
velopments!"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

Teacher-Willy, what is n mushroom?
willy Heatitt-A mushroom is one Of
those things you think you eat, but don't,
and 1t kills you.-Norristown Herald.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
Wear of Coins In Circulate,

The loss incurred by the wearing Of
coins in circulation has been made the
subject Of a number of precise expert
ments, from which it was ascertained that
$500 worth of S. goldpieces lost over SIS
of their value in 100 years.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated
impertinence; forget it and forgive it; but
keep inexorably ut a distance from him
who offered it.-Lavater
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

In the announcement of marriages in
Spain the ages of the contrasting par
ties are always given. q.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
The Decorative Possibilities In Vines

Vines indeed may cover u multitude of
sins-foundations, bare walls, unsightly
board fences, often covered with signs and
implanted sheds; vines may serve as
screens and give privacy to the yard; vines
may give shady nook in the little corner
that has SO often worried us to care for;
but, above all, vines may make our houses
homes indeed, adding grace and beauty to
even the stateliest mansion. There is such
an endless variety Of vines and most of
them are SO easily cultivated that they ap
peal to the veriest novice or the busiest
housewife. In planting you may have all
of one kind or choose many varieties.
For quick effects over balcony, fence or
screen the morning glory, moon flower,
nasturtium, Cobe scandens and cypress
vine give most pleasing effects. For slow
er and more permanent results are the
iTies, woodbines, honeysuckles and their
kind.-E. L. Shuey in Woman's Home
Communion
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

The University of FL Ayhar in Cairo
is the Oldest in the world. 1t has record:
dating back /, 900 years.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
He WINS Well Licked,

Ungratefulness is the very poison Of
manhood. p. Sidney.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12

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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-05-12
FURNITURE
AND CARPETS

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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Poor Health Conditions.

Savannah. Ga, July 1.--Dr. W. f. Brun-
ner. United States inspector at Havana,
arrived here yesterday. At midnight DR..
Brunner ceased to be sanitary inspector
of Havana and became health officer of
Savannah. DR.. Drummer is not highly
pleased with sanitary conditions in Cuba
The figures that have been published to
show how healthy Havana is in compari-
son with former years, he states, are mis-
leading. The years taken for reference
are those when war was on in the island,
at which time, naturally. public affairs
Jagged. 1t is a good t!ling for Americans,
he says, that the rainy season is late in
starting in Havana. Fevers will come
with the wet weather. A few weeks of
rain and there may be trouble. They
said they had Santiago in fine fix, ap-
parently. but when the rain came the
fever came with it.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Call For Arms.

Springfield, H., July 1.--Acting Gov
ernor Worden today received a telegram
from Sheriff Gray at Carterville saying
he was pOwerless to control the rioters,
and asking that rifles and 200 troops be
sent at once. The acting governor or
the sheriff, and ordered rim to summon
and arm a posse No troops will be or
dered out until the sheriff's resources are
exhausted.
The sheriff telegraphed that a coroner's
inquest was held over the body of the
negress killed yesterday and several war
rants issued. The sheriff arrested three
men, but when on his way to the Jail his
carriage was surrounded by the mems
sympathizers, the horses cut loose and
the prisoners released.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Filipinos Encouraged.

Chicago, July 1.-Brigader General
Harrison Gray Otis, who was with the
Eighth army corps at Manila for nearly
a year, and who spent part of yesterday
in this city, left last night for New York
on private business. Thence he will go
to Washington for four or five days, and
will then depart for his home in Los An
geles. Before leaving for the east Gen
eral Otis said
II have no doubt that the delay of the
senate in ratifying the treaty with Spain
served to encourage the Filipinos in OPP
posing American control. This delay
served to make a dangerous condition,
which might have been avoided by any
thing approaching prompt action by the
senate. The substance of some of the
speeches made in the senate and which
We're communicated to the Fiipinos by
their emissares in this country. encour-
aged them in the belief that they could
count on no little support here. In this
connection, too. there is not the least
doubt they are being encouraged to con-
tinue their opposition by the report that
our people are not in sympathy with the
governments course, and that after the
coming election the incoming administra-
ton will discontinue the war and they
will be granted their independence.
when they talk about their republic,
however, they talk about something
which never existed. l know of a rather
significant incident in this connection.
1t concerns Agunaldo and an American
consul in Asia. This man, who has shown
much concern for the Filipinos, wrote
Aguinaldo before the so-called republic
was established, to have the government
4 republic. Agunado demurred, how
ever. He preferred a dictatorship. he
said, because in this way he would be
the only one to make the terms and Sc
cure whatever benefits might accrue
The republic was established but it has
been succeeded by the dictatorship,
Agunaldo's preference"
General Otis declared that with $4,000
men there should be no difficulty in sub
DUNG the insurrection by the close of the
coming dry season. He denied that his
trip to Washington had anything to do
with the reported offer of a cabinet posi-
ton.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

the official military view. According to
this, the situation is now we'll in hand
and the campaign has been as successful
as possible. The natives are tired of the
insurrection and are more friendly toward
the Americans than toward the insurg-
ents. The insurgent army is made up al
most entirely of brigands, who can no
longer be held together by their leaders
The war will soon be over, it is declared,
If the wet season holds off. The force Of
troops is sufficient for the emergency.
Business is picking up. The disorgan-
lied insurrection. deprived of it's re-
sources, is held together at present en-
tirely by the hope given the rebels
through the anti-annexation movement
in the United States and the American
papers which reach here. The insurgent
leaders are actuated solely by selfish, per-
SOnal ambitions.
The second view, which is held by mill
tary men in the field and leading thinkers,
is that, as the ability of our troops to
drive the insurgents at will has been
proven, the suppression fthe insurrec-
ton depends upon the ability of the men
in authority to cope with the situation
and not upon muzzling the American
press. The outlook at present is more
gloomy for a speedy ending of the war
than ever before. The methods of maxi
ing raids into the country and then with
drawing, leaving the friendly natives at
the mercy of the returning insurgents,
has tended to ALLEVIATE the population and
not m q far tn inc, &c
The organization of the insurgents is still
good, and their resources are not great
ly impaired. The failure this season to
take the railroads running through the
valley of the rice country above San Fer
nando leaves to the enemy immense re-
sources and fails to protect the inter-
ests of foreign merchants. With the
present methods of the war with the Fill
pinos they can continue Indefinitely.
The only true method to pacify the
country is to garrison all the important
towns. TO do this, more than twice the
number of troops already here, including
the volunteers, are necessary, with sew
eral regiments of mounted cavalry. Four
thousand men being in the hospital, 4SO0
in the southern islands and 10000 in Ma
Mia, Cavite and small garrisons, this
leaves only 5000 men for active cam
paigning. On account of the small num-
ber of troops available new advances are
constantly required and frequent changes
of the exhausted regiments. The nom
combatants are more friendly toward the
insurgents than toward the Americans
on account, mainly, of the petty tyranny
of the soldiers.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Result in the Destruction
of a Town.
UNION MEN DRIVEN OUT
Sheriff of Carterville, Ills, Asks For
TrOOpS--Threatened Strike in Pitts
burg District Did Not Take Place
--Signing the Wage Scale.

st. Louis, July IA PostDespatch
special from Carbondale, ILL.,, says: Union
City, named from the fact that it is oc-
cupied by union miners, was the scene of
a battle last night about midnight, and
as a result the town is in ruins. The nom
union negroes and other men employed by
Brush at his mines near Fredonia hav-
ing become crazed over the killing of
the woman yesterday, went to the camp,
which consists of nine houses, and opened
fire on them. which was at once returned.
The battle ragged until the union miners
ran from their homes and took refuge
in cump of timber close to the village.
The non-union men at once applied the
torch to the houses and all were burned
to the ground. After the men had de-
stroyed considerable property, previous
~ occupied by the union men, they
moved on the woods and until daylight
the fusilade was kept UP. No lives have
so far been reported lost.
Union miners have been arriving at
the scene of the trouble all night, and
the outcome must be a long drawn out
battle.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
HETU AND HIS GUN.

L. NJ. Hetu, the Montana street saloon
keeper was adjudged guilty of drawing
a revolver on Officer James Murphy at
yesterday afternoons session of. Judge
Sullivan's court, and was fined $50 and
costs.
Murphy's version of the affair was that
ne went into Hetus resort to get drink.
Hetu kicked him on the shin, pulled off
his star and called him names that were
not nice. Hetu wante dto fight. Witness
not nice. Hetu wanted to fight. Witness
ual brandished big revolver and dared
the officer to do his duty. Murphy walked
away, but later arrested Hetu.
Hetu denied the gun play. He said he
made jocular remark for Murphy's benz
eft and the latter replied in a very surly
manner. He then grabbe dAIurphy by the
collar and told him if he would take off
his star he would whip him.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
SOUTH BUTTE PRESBYTERIANS.

At a meeting of the congregation of
South Butte Presbyterian church last
week it was decided to call the church
the South Butte Presbyterian church in
stead of the Third church. On Tuesday
night was held a public reception, or
house warming, when the new parsonage
was thrown open to the general public.
A most pleasant and social meeting was
held, and everybody enjoyed themselves
hugely. This church is only three yea rs
old. and has never had regular pastor
since it was built until Rev Mr.. Tonge
was invited to come and look over the
field last January. Since then the mem
bership has doubled, and the congrega-
tions are steadily increasing every Sab
bath day. parsonage has been built,
which was made possible through the
kindness of the Rev. E. j. Groeneveld of
the First Presbyterian church. 1t is one
OF the most comfortable manses in the
synod of Montana. It is so arranged that
the study is clear away from the domestic
part of the house and isolated from all
noise, hustle and confusion, Great credit
is due to the Ladies' Aid society and the
Christian Endeavor led by the late Mrs,
Snell who built this church and have
paid off every cent of debt upon the build
ing. so that it is probably in better
state financially than any other church
in the city. Many improvements are be-
ing contemplated to make it more COM
Portable during the coming season than
ever. Services are held every Sabbath at
II a. III. and p. m.. and the Sabbath
school at 2:3O p. M. with the Christian
Endeavor at p. m. It has been decided
to change the mid week service to Tues
day afternoon next week.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Signed the Scale.

Pittsburg, July 1.-The new scale for
the year of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers began to-
day with a better record for the union
than has beer made for half a dozen
years. Nine individual firms and the
representatives of the American Hoop
company, Republic Iron and Steel COM
pany and the Iron and Steel Sheet Manu-
tacturers' association have signed the
scale so far, and a number of other sig
natures are expected before the day
closes. AS result of failure to agree
upon the tinplate scale. all the mills in
the country are idle today, barring four
non-union plants, and nearly $4,000 work.
men are idle pending a settlement