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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-18
WABASH.
PhfIadelphia and Return n. 90

June IA to 10, via Niagara Falls-stop over
allowed. Good returning until June Z6-iong-
er limit at slight additional cost. Wabash
Ticket Office. Broadway and Olive, south
east corner,
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-18

rheumatism, more painful in this climate
than any other Affection, cured by prescrip-
ton No. 2s5l. by Elmer 4 Amend.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-18

Solid Gold wedding Rings.
Newest designs, g to $40. at Mermod &
uaccard'A Broadway and Locust.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-18

'Messrs. d. Crawford & CO.:
'St. Louis, Mo-:
Gentlemen
Enclosed please find check for Sl2S. nal
ance due on account of piano. for which
kindly acknowledge receipt.
'The piano has been the admiration OF
all my friends. and all pronounce II one
Of the hest they nave ever seen. and espe-
cially praise its light touch and beautiful
tone. which was remarkable after coming
1000 miles. I congratulate you on being aoie
TO sell such an excellent instrument at such
O moderate price.
Yours truly.
az. o. MATTHEW'S.
agent Mex. Central r. X
H fashionable ladies' corrective tonic
Is DIR, Siegert's Angostura Bitters.
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TRICK or A sHREWo CASHIER.
How He savea $4,000 For His Bunk
hy PROMPT Action

4 cashier employed in a large western
rity recently went over the collateral held
by his loan clerk simply by way of pre-
caution. lie noticed that one Of Tie
banks best customers had over $4,000
out on bills of lading of cattle on the way
north. AS the house in question had an
abattoir this was not surprising. The
firm was rated at over $500, ZOO, and its
transactions We're on Il large scale. Sud
denly il occurred to him that the way
bills looked very much alike. Compare
son showed that they were written by the
same hand. He took one to the railroad
which was supposed to have issued it and
found that it was a forgery. The hand
writing OH the bills was that Of Il member
of the firm which was borrowing the
money. This could mean but one thing
the firm was in desperate financial diff
cultics and about TO go under.
1t was now too late to do anything in
the matter that day. The cashier did not
say anything to anybody, but went home.
He did not sleep that night, but planned
out his campaign for the next morning.
The loans were all subject to call at any
| time. He waited until after the clearing
house returns were in for the day to ex-
cite no suspicion. Then he had the guilty
partner in the cattle firm rung up on the
telephone.
Very sorry" he said to the cattle man
nonchalantly, but we are debtors in the
clearing house today. Money is a little
scarce. Guess We'll have to ask you to
repay that $4,000 worth of loans today.
Sorry TO Inconvenience you, and If you
want the money a little later will he glad
to have YOU call "ound."
Every WELL" ne the reply. "Will
you have chez. on our count in your
bank or on our ,.er bank
Better draw on the her bank, as
that is customarr replied the cashier.
In n few mir rs he check. duly ccrti
| fed by the cash of the ilval institution,
was sent in. 7: cashier ok the pTccau
ton to send ar III to tn oil or bank tC
make sure tn: the ce-i :icate was ne
forgery. Then sent f. the forgcr.
"Now." said &c. II have my money
and | can spea plainly. | want YOU to
take your accor,.. oIt of this hank"
"What do yoi: mcan?" demanded the
cattle dealer.
you know perfectly well what
mean" was the reply. "Yci may take
your account out OF this bank and keer
it out. We have no rSt' FOR it,
The account was Withdrawn. Within
less than 30 days the failure Of the cattle
firm was announced. - Chicago Inter
Ocean,
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JUST LIKE HER FATHER.
She Got In a Stipulation Protecting
Her Own Interests.

The wooing had progressed splendidly.
1t hnd even progressed Ia 1 point where
she had hcea wun-th2t *, oStenSibly
Wun. If she proved Ia lie Il truthful girl,
sh,. would in time he his wife. If she
were not truthful-wcll, no man wants d
wife who is not truthful. That's the way
some men console themselves when they
fail To marry.
But she seemed to he truthful. As he
drew her closer To him he whispered:
".And when we are married, dearest,
we will have the happiest home in all the
wide, wide world"
YES, George" she replied.
There can never be u harsh word in
our home"
mo, George"
and when 1 come home tired and
worn out with work at the Office and the
worries of business you'll be kind II
me-
Yes. George
Il knew you would. You'll soothe mt
and put me in better humorT
"Ye-e-s; but say, Gcorge!"
Yes, dearest"
"Why shouldn't you do little of this
YOURSELF"
"Why, darling
"Yes, that's all right. But to com,
right down to business, as papa says
why shouldn't you also be kind to me
when things go wrong? l don't want t.
do it all, you know. You're not looking
for private nurse, are you?'
why, Mabel!''
"When the cook leaves unexpectedly t.
go to the bedside of her second cousin
you might be just trifie considerable
you know
How strangely you talk, pet"
"Well, they say I'm papa's girl, yor
know, and | notice when any one tries t.
make Il bargain with him he generally
gets some stipulations to his own Interest
put in just as precaution."
George and Mabel have now been mar
ried exactly years and months and a
the moment of going to press have nevel
had single quarrel.-Pcarson's
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

Sweet butter can't be made i'll sour
churn. The stomach is cturn. A foul
stomach fouls the food put into it. When
the food is fou1ed the blood made from
it is fouled also. Foul blood means dis
ease. Cleanse the churn and you have
sweet butter. Cleanse the stomach and
you have pure blood. The far reaching
action of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery Is due to its effect on the
stomach and organs of digestion and
nutrition Diseases that begin in the
stomach are cured through the stomach.
uDr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has
proved a great blessing to me-" writes Mrs.
Ellen l.. Bacon, of Shutesbury, Franklin Co.,
Mass uprior to September, 1897 had doctored
for my stomach trouble for several years, going
through course of treatment without any real
benefit In September 1896, l had very sick
spells and grew worse; could eat but little. I
commenced to take DR.. Pierce's medicine and
in short time could eat and work. l have
gained twenty pounds i'll two months"
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send
II one cent stamps for paper bound
volume, or 81 cents for cloth binding, to
DIR. R. V. Pierce, 663 Main Street, Buf-
falo. N. Y.
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Almost Successful.

Phcre are men in this world who are
almost successful. almost Peligious, al
most happy. almost well. But u miss is
rs good as mile.
4 recruit who is feet 9la inches in
height when the standard is feet 10
inches is rejected just as surely as il he
were only four feet in height. 1t is of lit.
ile avail how valiant, how strong. how
experienced and how willing TO fight he
may be. He is not up 10 the standard
and so be is rejected. II you run and
jump seven feet after a ferry boat leaving
the dock and the boat is ~ feet away.
you fall into the water just as surely as
a little child who jumps only one foot,
and you sink just as deep. for you both
go to the bottom.
Almost is dangerous word. 1t looks
so large and is really SO weak. What
you require is a certainty. You want to
be assured. You want definite answers.
You want definite things.-Inland Print,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
A PHYSICIANS WARNING.
Successful Country Doctors Should
49,. xr..<....

Successful Country Doctors Should
Keep Away From New York.
DR.. Shrady. one of the famous New
York physicians, evidently thinks the
successful country doctor should not go
to New York, Judging from his advice Oh
this subject in Success:
The medical profession is one of the
very hardest in which to get a foothold
in New York. 1t is rare that an out OF
town doctor succeeds in establishing him
self here. l have seen some most tragic
failures. A few years ago n celebrated
doctor from New England town got Il
place on the staff of one of the city col
leges to lecture ON q small stipend. He
brought his family TO the city, and his
wife soon became popular In society, but
he could get no practice. He got deeper
and deeper in debt. and one day he COM
mtted suicide. Soon after popular
physician from New Jersey town came
into my office and sid he had a notion
to come TO the city and cast his lot in
with the rest of US. He had seen q va
can't house ON Madison avenue and
thought he could buy it for $4,000. i
told him it would cost him 100000. |
also told him about the tragedy men-
toned above and others. He did not
come.
mo, n country doctor can do nothing in
New York. The conditions are altogeth-
err different. There everybody knows him,
knows his horse and his trap, and they
see him every day. There he is a stand
ing advertisement. Here the only place
where lie can put his name is OH the win
dow or door, arg it might stay there till
doOmsday and no one ever know any
thing about him. But il he comes here
at first and is willing to work and wait
lie stands IL chance. IL he has not enough
money, however. to pay his expenses for
the first five years. there is danger that
lie will drift into quacksry. the patent
nostrum business or criminal practice.
and once there the odds are against his
ever becoming n reputable physician.
81 can think of no condition in our life
more discouraging than that of n doctor
in great city without money. without
friends. with nothing to show for him
self but his sign on his door and his
sheepskin on his office wall"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
Voting In the Comm Ons,

When the house OF commons votes, il
marches out into the Hobbies, where tho
members are counted by the tellers.. The
average distance trayersed by each mem
Der from his seat TO the lobby is 24O feet
so that at an all night sitting ON an I'M
Portant bill, when 33 divisions were
made. each member tramped exactly Il
mile and half. without counting unofli
cial excursions to the smoking and re-
freshmen rooms. As a division usually
takes II minutes, the house was six
bours and half on its feet that night
London Globe :
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

Gold Of the Baltic sea. as amber is Of
ten called, is found in various places On
the globe. but nowhere in such abundance
as on the shores of the Baltic from Me-
mel to Dantzic, and there principally on
the coast of the oblong piece of land jut-
ting out into the sea between the XII
rische and the Frische Half. 1t is, in
fact, a vegetable product, fossil gum
Of coniferous tree, and from time i'm
memorial it has beeH used as q jewel by
many a fair lady,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
Anotiter Kind.

When johnny Hobbs left his home VI
among the New Hampshire hills to visi
his grandmother in Worcester, Mass. h.
was cautioned by his mother that hl
would find things in the city strangely
different from those at home.
Johnny arrived in the early afternoon
and long before tea time his grandmoth
err, who lived most simply, told him Il
run out to the pantry and get :: bowl OF
milk which she had left there "for hun
cry boy"
\ moment later she followed him and
to her amazcment, beheld her grandson
bravely at work on bowl of spearmint
tea, which she had forgetfully put i1
the place where she had told him 10 tiRf
the milk.
"Why, child" she cried. seizing tho
bowl from poor Johnny, don't you know
this isn't milk 2"
II knew it wasn't like Hillbury
milk" stammcred Johnny, with u fina
gulp, "but | thought maybe it was the
kind folks had in Worcester"'-Youth' :
Communion
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

ado you give gas here" asked n wild
looking man who rushed into IL dentist ;
Office.
1--WE do" replied the dentist.
docs it put fellow to sleep"
ut does
wouldn't feel III"
"IIe would know nothing Of it,"
"Well. that'll do. Got 1t all ready for q
fellow TO take?'
"Yes. Take n seat In this chair aud
show me your tooth"
Tooth be hanged" said the excited
caller, beginning rapidly to remove hIs
coat and vest. II want you to pull II
porous plaster off my back"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
THERE WAS NO CONFUSION.
He Had a Very Good Reason For Not
Going Into the House.

Going Into the House.
The man was sitting on the front steps
of his house at 3 o'clock in the morning
us the policeman came by and noticed
him.
Hello exclaimed the startled guard
ian of the peace. What are You doing
there" And he drew near cautiously.
"Stting here" responded the man.
"What are you sitting there for:'
ats my house. and | guess I've got Il
right to, haven't II
"Oh, excuse me-" apologizcd the police
man, coming closer. Il didn't recognize
you. What's the matter? Lost your
nightkey?"
NO." very CURLY.
Forgot it when YOU came Out:'
"No."
"Afraid of disturbing somebody that's
sick if you Knock
"No."
waiting for the milkman perhaps?"
vcntured the policeman, taking another
tack.
NO." shorter than ever.
"Want to get in early TO breakfast per-
haps:'
"No."
Sitting here to get cool before going to
bcN lViSSilah
Killed., for the thermometer marked con-
Sidcrably below freezing.
"No."
Are YOU began the policeman when
the man interrupted him.
'Say," he cried, do have to reveal to
you the sacred secrets of my household:"
NO" said the policeman, almost as
shoit as the man had said it.
DO have to communicate to You my
domestic infclicites:'
"No."
DO have to tell you that my wife is
waiting at the head OF the stairs in there
for meg
NO"
''Do have to inform you that she has
declared war;"
NO." stammercd the astonished police
man.
well, then" commanded the man,
you go OH away from here and attend
TO your own business. I'll sit here till the
middle OF next week il want to-" And
the policeman, thoroughly abashed, apol-
ogized TO the man and went on around
he Star
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
IRVING AND MONTAGUE.
One of Their Practical Jokes That
Scnred Their FrieudE


In SCOTS The Drama of Yesterday
and Today" the author tells of practical
joke played by Irving and Harry Monta-
que upon number of their friends. and
Gin its execution was seen the first dawn
ing glimmer of that tragic force that was
ultimately to find expression In Hoods
Dream of Eugene Aram' and The
Bells" Irving and Montague, hitherto
the best allies, began to quarrel on their
way to picnic, and their friends feared
some tragic consequences. After lunch
con both Of the men disappeared.
Smale's face turned deadly pale. He
felt that his worst fears were being real
lied. With one wild cry: They're gone:
What on earth has become of them?' he
made a dash down the Dargle over the
rocks and powders, with the remainder
Of the picnic party at his heels.
At the bottom of dreadful hollow
behind the little wood" fearful sight
presented itself to the astonished friends.
There on stone sat Henry Irving in his
shirt sleeves. his long hair matted over
his eyes, his thin hands and white face
all smeared with blood and dangling an
open clasp knife.
He was muttering to himself in q saw
uSe We u. VI uOuc
said would! | said would"'
Tom Smale, in an agony of fear. rushed
up to Irving. who waved him on one side
with threatening gestures. "For Gods
sake. man." screamed the distracted
Smale, tell us where he ISL
Irving. scarcely moving muscle, point
ed to Il heap OF dead leaves and in scpul-
chral tones cried: Hes there, there.
I've done for him! I've murdered him."
Smale literally bounded TO the heap and
began tlinging aside the leaves in every
direction. Presently he found the body
Of Harry Montague lying face downward.
Almost paralyzcd with terror, Smale just
managed to turn the head round and
found Montague convulsed with laughter.
with a pocket handkerchief in his mouth
to prevent all explosion. Never was bet
ter acting seen ON any stage.
REPAIRING SEVERED ARTERIES.
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He Had His Reasons.

A scholar on coming into a parlol
where the doctor had laid a fine bunc!
of grapes for his own eating took it ny
and said:
Il publish the hanns between these
grapes and my mouth. / any one knows
any just cause or impeachment why these
two should not be joined together, let
them declare IT,"
The doctor, being but in the next room
overheard all that was said. aud. coming
into the school, ordered the boy who had
eaten his grapes to be taken up, or, as
they called it. horsed on another boy
back. But before he proceeded to thu
usual discipline he cried out aloud, as
the delinquent had done:
81 publish the banns between my rod
and this boys breech. If any one knows
any just cause and i'm sediment why
these two should not be joined together
let them declare it."
II forbid the bunns" cried the boy.
"Why?" asked the doctora
Because the parties are not agreed,
replied the boy.
Which answer so pleased the doctor,
who loved to find any readiness of wit
in his scholars, that he ordered the hos
10 be set down.-Iondon Tit-Bits.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

$50 that's General Fullgore, is It? II ]
remember rightly, everybody used 10 call
him colonel"
ayes, but that was before he gave the
town big barbecue at his own expense.
Hes General Fullgorc now."-Chicago
Tribune
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
Tie, Eglsapd.. Iptelligsacer:
BEL AIR, ND. MAY 10, 1900.
THE SUICIDE.

Toll worn, hut trusting Zenos mad belief,
A soul Mcnl waiting from the world vi grieS;
A wild hope led the way,
Then suticnly-dismayl
Lo, the old load was there
The duty, The d,spairl
Nothing had changed; still only one escape
Frc,a its Old self irin tire angel shape.
edwin Markham in Ssribncr's Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

Gentlemen of the jury" said the
judge, ''the prisoners plea is insanity.
That is the question to be settled. Is he
insane or. not? On that point he is to be
judged by jury of his peers."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
Enr Ills SYSfcm.

"CharIcy, DEAR" said young Mrs. Tor
kins, 81 want you to promise me some
thing"
"Wbat do you want now|
81 want you 10 promise that you will
take some new medicine l have bought.
| notice that whenever the races come
TO town you are always complaining
about your system. Last year you said
your system went wrong, and it cost you
$50. So think you ought to take some
thing right away and save doctor bills"
Washington Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

SUNDAY TRAINS.
Sunday trains leave Baltimore for Delta and
intermediate stations at $50 A. M and 400
z. M, stopping at Bel Air at 10 a. NJ. and $50
P. NJ. They will leave Cardiff for Baltimore
and intermediate stations at 6.55 A. NJ. and
$50 p. NJ, stopping at Bel Air at 7.55 A. NJ
and 4.3O =. II. An additional train will leave
Bel Air for Baltimore and intermediate sta
tions at $40 z. NJ, and Baltimore for Bel All
at $50 p. M, arriving at Bel Air at P. ID
and Baltimore $50 P. n.
J. X. KLINEFELTER, Gen. Pass. ARt.
w. A. MOORE. Gen'l Manager.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

We believe it will be found that, next
to electricity, fattery is the greatest force
In the world.-Atchison Globe.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

Smith (drafI-N,'nat is the matter
Jones?
Jones-Tve got the headache.
Smith (who mistook it for toothache)-
Why don't you have it 6llsd?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
RECKLESS AARON BURR.
Intes tsting and Dramatic Story OF
His Marriage In Old Age.

His Marriage In Old Age.
In an article on historic homes of New
York Truth tells the following interest
ing story of Aaron Burr's marriage in his
old age to the widow of Stephen Jumel,
who was we'll known in the early history
of the city:
Conceive, if you will, the picture of
Burr, gifted adventurcr that he was,
broken i'll health, branded in the popular
mind as the murderer Of Alexander Ham,
ilton and returning from a long exile to
find himself an outcast in the city where
he had once been the political monarch of
all he surveyed and a distinguished figure
in society and at the bar. Conceive, if
you can, this ialnentnble old man, smirll-
ing through his wrinkles, bowling and
prancins rather stiffly because Of his
rheumatic joints and with his mouth
full of pretty platitudcs, paying court to
the widow of Stephen Jumel, herself in
the prime of years and health. Remove
from the picture its surface incongruities,
and you have bit of pure pathos une-
Gualed In the annals Of foolish great
men.
But something of his old time power
to charm the gcntler sex must have stood
Wy illH III SculS VI pls OH
al misery, for in his suit for the widow
Jumel's hand and fortune he won-glori-
ously, dramatically. Itebuffed repeatedly,
Burr finally declared in passionate rage
that on given day he would arrive at
the Jumel mansion accompanied by n
clergyman, who should marry them on
the spot. He would give his prospective
bride no quarter, no chance OF escape
from the inevitable.
"She was amused at the threat and dis
missed the old man with more than her
usual GOODNESS of demeanor. Burr stuck
to his avowal and one July day rolled up
in 4 carriage, and with him q minister
the same who so years before performed
the marriage ceremony for Burr and the
mother of his daughter, the beautiful
TheodosiG. There was something Of a
scene in the old house on this day. There
were tears OF anger on the part of Burr.
Relatives reconstructed: Burr remained
immovable. All feared scandal. The
minister, book in hand, stood unobtru-
sively in the background. There were
more tears, more declarations Of undying
love, and the widow Jumel became Mrs.
Aaron Burr.
"They were married in the great draw
ing room of the Jumcl mansion. Burr
squandercd with reckless hand the wealth
acquired by Stephen Jumel and left for
the enjoyment of his marital partner.
There were many bitter quarrels between
the i'll mated pair. and they were soon di-
vorced. Burr died in 1896, but madame
lived until 1865, dying 4 recluse and Il
miser, the money received from the Jumel
estate boarded in an unused chamber"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18

Some people wear glasses because they
CANT believe their own eyes.-Chicago
News.
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OF Intere est 10 Inventors,

VI Interest 10 InVehtGrS,
c. A. Snow s. Co., one of the oldest and most
successful firms of Patent Lawyers, whose
offices are opposite the United States Patent
Office, in Washington, d. c., and who have pro-
cured patents for more than IL, 900 inventors,
says that, owing to the improved conditions in
the United States Patent Office, patents may
now be more promptly procured than ct any
previous time in their experience of twenty
five year
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-05-18
TRAINS SOUTHWARK.
LEAVE. IAM,IA.M,IP. NIP. MIA. M.
SUNDAY TRAINS.

An additional tram will leave Bel Air, for
Baltimore and intermediate Stations, at 7.15.
ON SATURDAY evenings only. Returning,
will leave Baltimore the same evening at II. 30,