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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12

The curiosity Of others enables some
men to make O good uving.-Chicago
News. - $3.50 F;z.,Sw
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12

his strapping native wife appeared
with bottles and mugs. At the sight Of
their guest she could scarcely conceal
her surprise.
"Prosit," said Englebert, touching
glasses. You know dem six ayers Of de
Pasgoe estate" he said, looking very
hard at his companion; Every nice little
place, very sheep, yoost behind your
store"
Kinross nodded, but his face fell, in
spite of himself.
81 from the American consul bought
him." went ON the German, every
sheep-$200 Chile money"
Kinross looked black.
"Dey are yours. Pay me back when
you have de money. 1 buy dem only
to spite you. My friend, take DEM"
paul Paul." cried Kinross, II don't
know what to say-how to thank you'll
7 Only this morning 1 got money from
home, and the first thing meant to DO
was to buy them"
"All de better" said Englebert, "and,
my boy, you blant coffee. It's de gof-
fee dat bays, and will get you blenty
leetle drees from my friend, de gap
tain in Utumbau plantation. Yoost
one glass beer. Ho, Malta, de becrI'
Kinross tore himself away with diff
ficulty and started homeward, his
heart swelling with kindness for the
old Prussian. He exulted in the six
acres he had so nearly lost, and they
now seemed to him more precious than
ever.
Then he remembered he was leaving
Vaiala, and again he heard the hum of
London in his ears.
He found Leata sitting on the floor
spelling out 1.-The Good News From
New Guinea" in the missionary maya
zine. He sat down beside her and
pressed her curly hair against his lips
and kissed It.
"Of all things in the world what
wouldst thou like most, Leata?" he
asked.
ITO have thee always near me, KIM
rosi," she answered. Before had no
understanding and was like the black
people in the missionary book, but now
my heart is panied, so full it is with
love-"
But If I gave thee a little bag of
gold" he said, land took thee to Apia,
my pigeon, what wouldst thou buyY'
"First would give $40 to the new
church." she began. 'Then for my ia
Their I would buy an umbrella and a
shiny bag in which he could carry his
cartridges and tobacco when he goes
to war; for my mother, also an UNI
brella and picture book like that Of
the missionary's, with photographs of
Queen Victoria and captains of men-of-
war; for my sister, a Bible and n
hymnbook, and for my brother little
pigeon gun"
Tomorrow we shall 60 to Apia and
buy Them" said Kinross. ''This morn
ing the pastor brought me letter from
Britain with a present of many dol
lars"
"Oh, Kinirosi," she cried, ut was
breaking my heart! 1 feared the letter
would make you go back to the white
mans country"
His resolution was taken, be 1t for
good or evil. 81 shall never 60 back"
he said.-Ainslee's Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12
THE POEM.

He lifted his head,
ASd the Vision that stood there smiled.
"Oh, Poet" she said,
81 have come at thy bidding; no child
OF thy fancy, dead,
But living and breathing as thoui
Take me nowl''
Ills heart, how 1t burnedI
But he thought, "'Tis dream. II move,
1t will vanish" and yearned
With an infinite yearning and strove
With his doubts till she turned
She, the Vision-and sorrowful went
Ere he knew her intent.
He leapt to his feet
And seized on her undulnnt veil,
With its odor as sweet
As the Maytime, and, 10, it did trail
In his hand, all completed
She had gone, and he cherished, forlorn,
The veil she had worn.
The veil he appraised.
he showed it to men, and they cried
As they noted, amazed,
The diaphanous wonder, "What pride
OF invention!" and praised.
But swceter and saddcr he grew
And replied, '1f you kncw!"
Henry Bannister Merwin in Atlantic.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12
Mirrors In Show Windows.

Effective results in show windows
are often produced by the aid of mir
rors, doubling the exhibit, or even
seeming indefinitely to extend it. A
curious illustration of the effective
ness of mirrors in such use was shown
in a window Of big toy store. Ranged
in companies and battalions, following
one another upon foot wide strip Of
glass raised above the floor of the win
dow and extending along close to the
window in front and along the entire
width of it, was long column of toy
soldiers, marching, or seeming to
march, the figures being all in march
ing attitudes. At the side of the win
dow was a mirror standing vertically,
but running back from the front at
an angle slightly acute. Seen from
the sidewalk and at little distance
from the window, the reflection in the
mirror Of the marching column Of SOL
diers had the appearance Of continu-
alton Of it, the column turning at the
mirror, ut n slight angle from the
course of its march along the glass, the
effect being produced by the angle at
which the mirror was set.-New York
Sun.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12

"Didn't sleep a wink last night" said
the dyspeptic.
"Overwork
'No; heard one of those songs about
slumber sweetly, sweet dreams be
thine, and the COMPOUNDED tune kept
running through my head all nightF'-
Washinyton Star. s:sssssasssss;Sss,sss-..sse:
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12
HOPE ON.

F1OFG YIN,
Though black and angry clouds may rise
To hide the blue of summer skies
From strained and weary waiting eyes,
The sun will shine when clouds are gone,
And when Gods hand dispels the gloom
The birds will sing, the flowers bloom
Cheer up, faint heart, hope on!
Though steep the way and dark the night,
With ne'er friendly ray of light,
And dim and feeble be the sight,
Still happiness waits in the dawn;
There, just beyond the darkness, lies
loves sweet, sunlishted paradise
Be brave, poor heart, hope oni
For every heartache, every tear,
For every patient, struggling year, q
For every sacrifice made here, :
When heavens mystic veil is drawn,
A rich reward, ten thousandfold,
VIII come, with happiness untold
Hope on, dear heart, hope onl
Memphis Scimitaz.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-12
A COnNiuernte Enfher.

The Impecunious Son-It was rath-
er hard for you, father, not to send me
need of it.
The Thoughtful Father-It was my
desire to send you ample means imme-
diately, but it was such n pleasure to
read your letters asking for remit
tances-so finely worded, you know
that | could rot deny myself the salts
faction of having more and more Of
them.-Boston Transcript.
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tie veil suspended from a crown upon her head; a pretty sight truly. Dotted null af- forded the material for a very tasteful lit- the May-party dress, now nearly com- pleted, while white ribbons were its garni- lures. The skirt had deep flounce of the null and the waist was one of the new folded blouse waists over a vest with tucks laid from side to side.
 Very pretty afternoon dresses for grow ing girls are made of white tucked organ die, the tucks running round and round the skirt. At the foot there are ruffes of the organde, each ruffle being edged with the narrowest white satin ribbon. White satin ribbon in very narrow width is shirred at the head of the ruffles, and is finished in true lovers knots upon the side of the skirt.
 Many of these tucked waists are very pretty, with the tucks laid in groups of three, and with only half an inch of space between the groups. The tiniest house coats are made up with these waists; they are of tucking, and are just large enough to fit the arm-hole.
 Graduation dresses will be very pretty this year with their trimmed skirts and
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THE YOUNG CERES
 SUMMER GOWNS
TuckS and TuniceS are Used for the $ Decoration of the Pretty
 Light Dresses.

Paris April 14-The young girls season begins in Paris in April and lasts until June. In April the girl dresses in white. is confirmed and takes her first commun- ion. Later there follow little entertain ments among the very young set, and the girl is launched into pleasant though inn mature society of young people.
 Confirmation dresses closely resemble graduating dresses The prettiest are or silk nuns yelling, trimmed with lace of the empire The underskirt is accordian plaited or is laid in very narrow tucks from belt to hem. The tunic is pointed, the points being trimmed with lace. Double box plaits, the plaits very tiny, are laid upon the sides, with the lace points falling be- tween. Surprise waists are confined at the belt with deep girdles of the nuns yelling The surplice falls over vest of lace, while the sleeves have little caps of lace.
 The May party Is another event in the life of the young girl. For this she has a white dress, most coquettishly trimmed, and when she goes forth she wears lit
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be acted without offense. Its moral is, perhaps better than that of Camille" But whether by intent or by ignorance, and for public purposes it makes no differ ence which, Miss Nethersole so presented the play that to most who saw it perform ed the lines reeked with suggestion.
 The remedy for this is in the hands of the play-goer. The public has the stage 1t desires. A few score persons in this city by resolute absence could censor the stage as no law can. When a recent en- gagement passed in this city without a box being sold or a box party appearing a sharp lesson has been read to all con- cerned. Boxes and box parties play, it is true, but a small share in aggregate thea ter receipts, but they are visible and sym pathetic. What moves those seated in them moves the larger number who attend with less ostentation and in greater num- bers.
 When a play makes 8 young man and young woman seeing it uncomfortable 1t is doomed, and ought to be. The censor ship needed, safe, effective and certain, Is general recognition of the fact that the effective way to express an opinion on the stage is to stay away from plays which do this Scarcely a person who reads these lines but can exercise this censorship If this personal responsibility were acknowledged, accepted, and acted upon no objectionable plays would see its second month.
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music is an incendiary kind of thing, any how, and the old captains drumming was particularly stirring.
 Well, one night after the captains drum had given the usual overture, I com menced my speech to the public, which had been lured to the scene by his drum. I noticed at the foot of the rostrum, the same being a big dry goods box, bright eyed little fellow about 12 years old, who sat through the speech, following me with great attention. It pleased me very much. Any fool can interest an audience of adults but takes genius to hold a child.
 50, after the speaking, I went down and spoke to the little fellow and after shak- ing hands with him, asked him how he liked my speech.
 oh, it will do,' he said: but if l was you I would keep the captain a-drummin' all the time.' "
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trimmed with many bands of banana-col- ored satin put on in great curving rows from the front to back. The Dreyfus fam fly, among the wealthiest of their set in Paris, are going out little again, and are gowning with exceeding richness.
 Such expensive materials as the season boasts! Satins and chiffons are the least expensive of the materials, for there are the Oriental silks, enough of which for a waist costs $20 and more.
 Many of the members of the royal fam fly of England have ordered Paris gowns this season, unknown, it is said, to the queen, who patronizes home products al ways A dress which was said to be for the duchess of York, Englands future queen, was of leaf-green satin cloth, paid ed with narrow stripes of black silk stitch ing. The skirt was laid in tuc:is around the waist, but fuled out just at the hips. It requires the highest type of the dress makers art to fashion these tucked skirts properly, for unless they are carefully managed, they will make the hips very full
 The bodice was of pale green silk muslin, over which was to be worn a sleeveless
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DESIGN FOR EMBRoIDERING A rUNIc

body of the plaid satin, and with this there was girdle of plain, dark green satin It was one of the handsomest gowns in green that has been turned out this sham rock spring.
 While these gowns are beautiful beyond description and very admirable in every way, they. are too expensive for ordinary use. But for those who want the same gown with less expense, there come beau tiful little cotton stuffs that make up very prettily, upon the Paris models. Many Of the wealthier women of the American col only order the most inexpensive little dresses fashioned precisely upon the lines of their elegant Paris dresses that have cost them 6 fortune. Challies, light weight cashmeres, wool, cotton mills, madras, and even cambric are made up in this way. They say that, after the craze for violet Is over it will be rose summer, and that rose and bluebell blue will be the two pop ular shades and that white will verge toward banana, cream, lilac, platinum, pearl, pistache and cloud blue-anything except dead white
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 Who Write.

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 The remedy has a peculiarly grateful ef- feet of warmth and seems to act direct to the desired location, giving strength and development just where 1t is needed. It cures all the ills and troubles that come from years of misuse of the natural func- lions and has been an absolute success in oll cases A request to the State Medical Institute. 455 Elektron building. Ft. Wayne. Ind. stating that you desire one of their free trial packages will be compiled with nromptly. The institute is desirous of reaching that great class of men who are unable to leave home to be treated and fine free sample will enable them to see how easy 1t Is to be cured of sexual weakness when the proper remedies are employed. The institute makes no restrictions. Any man who writes will be sent a free sample, carefully sealed in plain package so that it's recipient need have no fear of. embar- rassment or publicity. Readers are re- uuested to write without delay.
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GETTING RICH QUICK
John w. Gates the Steel and Wire Chair
 man

From the New York Journal.
 During the late rise in railroad stocks John W. Gates has made between $3, 900 and $4,OOo,OOo, principally in Baltimore & Ohio and Union Pacific. So says w. A. Holland, his secretary.
 John w. Gates is the chairman of the board of directors Of the American Steel and Wire company. He Is CnfLago man, who spends a good deal of his time and makes good deal of his money in New York Getting rich is his business, and he is successful in it.
 When he began business, in 1881, in St. Louis, he was about 30 years old and poor, with only some small savings. He knew something about the manufacture of wire. He and William Edenborn, a man of his own age, saw that there were millions in the manufacture of barbed wire for fences. The Washburn & Moen con- pany owned the patents and charged a royalty to manufacturers that took all the profits away.
 The two young men deliberately infringed the patents and made a successful stand against the lawsuits of the monopoly They broke the patents, and in fifteen years owned all the factories in the barbed wire business, even that of the Washburn &s Moen company.
 The trust idea got strong hold of Gates and with Roswell P Flower and other cap italists the Federal Steel company was or ganized. It took in the Illinois company and a lot of other plants in the latter part of 1898. MT. Gates unloaded his interests in this steel combination, which is one of the three or four steel companies that came near joining the Carnegie interests in a billion-dollar trust not long ago. MT. Gates is reckoned to have quit that busi- ness $5,O00, GOO to the good.
 He decided on a trip to Europe. In the years when he was fighting for millions he had read books and studied pictures. A self-made man in fortune, he was self-cul- tured as well.
 MT. Gates got in on the ground floor in the reorganization of Baltimore & Ohio and is reputed to be a large holder of the company's stock and bonds. He knew that the company was going into the great all liance engineered by W. K. Vanderbilt and A. J. Cassatt by which Pennsylvania and New York Central would dominate the railroad situation. He got into Union Pa cific as an inventor some time ago. MT. Gates hopes to be elected United the best clubs in Chicago gives dinners and his wife gives receptions to which the best people of Chicago go. He got a Meissonier from the A. T. Stewart colec- ton, and owns a lot of other good paint ings. He likes books, the theatre, philo- sophical speculation and poetry of the sturdier sort He has a son, Charles, who is married, and is treasurer of several cor porations in which Gates the elder is in terested.
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fancy little waists. They are made of thin materials and afford fine glimpse of the silken lining underneath; fortunately there are so many substitutes for silk that the lining need not be very expensive; even If it were all of silk, it would not cost heav- fly, for there comes a kind of white Ori- : ental silk at F cents or whereabouts a yard.
 The question of the trimming of skirts is unsettled. Shall the skirts be trimmed or untrimmed? While one coterie of modistes are declaring that the fancy modes will not prevail, another set is trimming the : skirts and maintaining that no skirt will l be fashionable in midsummer unless it has its quota of ruffles and lace.
 A fashionable American woman went to a certain famous Paris dressmaker the j other day, and asked him to make her q half-dozen dresses for Newport in Au- gust Impossible, madame said he
 But I will pay you any price you ask for them,' replied the woman.
 Impossible" repeated the famous dress Anything might make for you now would be out of style In August and positively Gothic"
 Notwithstanding this authority the cou- turieres fashioning some very beauti- ful summer gowns. One in particular is a foulard in Roman blue, with small white figures Falling over the entire dress like A tunic is an overdress of ribbon put on in a large square lattice work, so as to show the foulard underneath. The waist Is made in the same way, while the yoke and sleeves are of tucked organdie with narrow bands of lace laid in between the tucks. There is a Josephine fschu of or gandie edged with lace.
 A pretty gown made for Mrs. Langtry is shawl dress of lightweight cashmere with glossy surface. It is made up with the fringe bordering the tunic which Is long and cut in many points. There is a little bolero with very deep points, a very deep white satin collar, and covering fully
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"Sapho" and the Theaire-G GOeI


 The burning .Sapho'' of New York, which has loved in public and paid counsel fees in private, has come unscathed from the tepid fires of New York courtroom, and played last Saturday night to the enormous and lucrative house which the advertisement of a trial has given the play.
 A profitable advertisement this is not, as every theatre manager knows. No tenn porary rush of business can make up for the association of the unfortunate actress, Miss Nethersole, and the play, the man. agement, and the theatre with plays so nearly deserving suppression that only the verdict of a jury can keep actress, play, management, and theatre before the pub lie. What has always happened will happen now to "Sapho." After few nights of the very largest receipts, attention, attendance, and support will suddenly collapse, and the last estate of the play will be worse than the first.
 The real censor in these matters always must be not the courts, but the public. The foolish and inept judge who maund- cred on about isolated lines and nude statues to the jury in New York shows what we are liable to get from the censor ship lymen who do not understand that it IS not the line which is written, but the action and expression with which 1t is said, not the utterance, but the in- depreciation which renders a dramatic performance good or bad.
 Measure for Measure" could me made uncomfortable by an actress who chose to emphasize the wrong note. In the hands of Mme Modjeska it stood forth a noble moral lesson drawn by great genius and Illustrated by a great actress "Sapho' was written by Daudet as it's preface shows, to teach his boy the lesson set forth in a chapter in Proverbs. Clyde
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a third of the bodice is a very deep Turk ish girdle of Roman red satin.
 Hats run toward the conventional walk ing hat, turned up sharply at each side and brought down to point in the front. The top Is trimmed with punches of rib- bon and flower garden of roses or violets The Alsatian bow is another revival of the fashions of previous years of which there have been so many. A bow with four large loops, all well spread out, is fastened upon the front of the hat, and great buckle is secured in the middle of the bow. This simple style of trimming is one that is much observed upon the early spring hats
 Sara Bernhardt, who wears always some novelty, drove the other day in the Bols de Cologne with the back of her carriage filled with violets, but they were merely a setting for a handsome robe of satin faced cloth, cut princess shape, which set off their wonderful figure. Her hat was an English walking shape, with rolling sides. The top was creased from front to back, and the crease was filled with violets. twist of violet velvet was secured under her red gold hair.
 "Gyp" another Parisian celebrity, ap- pears this spring in a banana cloth dress, with princess tunic of black cashmere
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Found the End
From the London King.

From the London King.
 An Irishman who was out of work went on board a vessel that was in the harbor and asked the captain if he could find him work on the ship.
 Well" said the captain, at the same time handing the Irishman piece of rope, If you can find three ends to that rope you shall have some work"
 The Irishman got hold of the rope, and, showing 1t to the captain, said: That S one end, your honor." Then he took hold of the other end, and. showing it to the captain as before, said: And that's two ends, your honor." Then, taking hold of both ends of the rope, he threw it over- board, saying: And, faith, there's anoth- CT end to it, your honor"
 He was immediately engaged.
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Don't miss the Two Stage Vaudeville at the Jefferson Theatre Monday night.
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He Missed the Mntlye

FrcSl the Washington Star.
 This is a story which Representative Eddy of Minnesota tells on himself. Mir. Eddy not only enjoys the situation when the laugh is turned against him, but has a sense of humor which leads him to start the laugh sometimes himself.
 Tn making the campaign in my dis trict one year." said MT. Eddy, q toook along as an attraction a veteran ot the war of 1872 and of the civil war, who was a famous hand at beating the drum He was a drummer from away back, and could arouse a whole township. Drum