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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
LUMBER CAMP LIFE.
How the Day Is Spent From Rising
to Retiring.


to Retiring.
Now. these in brief are the ways of the
camp, says Rollin Lynde Hartt in The
Atlantic. At 3, at the blast of the chore-
boys horn, all hands turn out, to gather
about the long breakfast tables in the
cooking camp" There, as at every
meal, dead silence reigns. Breakfast
over, the days work is on, with the sing
ing of the crosscut saw, the crash Of the
falling pine, the ring of the ak. With
the horn again for dinner and the toll
again till dark. so runs the day.
Then follows an evening of jovial hilar-
ity, and many n log shanty reels and
shakes while the men play "scuddy" and
"shovel the brogue." Squatting in wide
circle, they beat the person of their cho-
sen victim with an old potato hid In
sock. The victim, struck from behind,
must detect his assailant, which is by no
means easy, rs the elusive old potato
keeps making the round of the ring. Aft
er the game, why not fight, "just to see
who's the best man?' And then why not
a song to soothe those savage breasts!
"The Lumberman's Alphabet" cries
leading spirit and starts the tune, which
Is sung with great yigor:
"a is the AK, as you very well know,
B is US boys, who can swing it also,
c is for chopping, which now does begin,
D is the danger that we are all in,
E is the echo that through the woods rang,
F is the foreman who headed our gang"
and so on and OH.
But, whatever the evenings sport
scuddy, fight, song or poker-the horn
blows curfew at 0, and the lights so out
unless, of course, it be Saturday night or
the night of stag dance. And of all odd
spectacles, pike poles and pevie hooks,
that is the oddcst-ferocious, unshaved
woodsmen, hats on and coats off, pranc-
ing through a quadrille in yellow shoe
pacs or Dutch socks and trousers ''cut
pompadour," while fiddle walls forth
highly Gregorian melody!
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
PEGGY'S kERCHIEF.

Yellow, for the passing years
Have with scar touch dimmed Il,
And the hands are vanished long
That in the old times trimmed 1t,
While a sweet lady's fragrance faint
Each ilmy fold discloses-
The muslin kerchief, broidered white
With roses.
Peggy, she my great, great aunt,
On gala days to don it,
With her skillful fingers feet
Put broideries upon 1t
And, as other maids, wis,
OFT sat with dreamy glances,
The while she weayed tween dlken stitch
Romances.
When % fine and daintily,
Flower broidered, Peggy made It,
With slender sprigs Of lavender
Away with care she laid 1t,
Yet as springs to summers turned
And years the years succeeded,
Soft, fold on fold. the kerchief lay
Unheeded.
For as a springtide blossom dies,
So Peggy, ere she wore it,
And with the scent OF lavender
That subtly hovcrs DER it,
Breathing OF the years ago
All undisturbed reposes
The muslin kerchief, broidered white,
With roses.
Home Journal
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
welIinEton's Modesty.

In his life of Wellington Sir Herbert
Maxwell quotes the duke as saying to
Lady Salisbury concerning his feeling at
Waterloo when the guards withstood the
famous charge: at is very singular, but
l have no recollection of any feeling of
satisfaction. At the time l was by no
means secure of the victory nor till long
afterward. | can recollect no sensation
of delight on that day-if | experienced
it. My thoughts were so entirely occu-
pied with what was to be done to inn
prove the victory, to replace the officers
that were lost, to put everything in prop
err order, that had not leisure for an
other idea"
TO Lady Salisbury's suggestion that he
must feel "how infinitely he had raised
his name above every other" he answer
ed: perhaps there is no man now exist
ing who would like to meet me on a field
of battle. In that line l am superior.
But when the war is over and the troops
disbandcd what is your great general
more than anybody else? / am
necessarily inferior to every man in his
own line. though may excel him in 9TH
ers. ] cannot saw and plane like a car
penter, or make shoes like a shoemaker,
or understand cultivation like farmer.
Each of these, on his own ground, meets
me on terms Of superiority. ! feel ! am
but man."
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09

thing, she declared. Il ought 10 nave
had something for you to take, and 1
ought to have let you take it. l didn't
have anything, and you didn't get any
thing, SO I'm in your debt. Now, you
come and walk up the street with me to
/ the place : here | live. l want to pay
up"
The mans face showed even greater
wonderment than before.
You mean you want to give me some
thing?"
Polly shrugged her shoulders. eff you
want to put it that way. I'd rather call
it paying n debt. It's. something"-her
voice again grew soft, and she stepped
up and laid her hand on his arm-"it's
something that l owe the wife and the
kids"
"After-after tried to hold you up?"
The man turned his head away.
ooh, I've forgotten that. l wish you
had and had got something. Now, come
on
The man did not move.
Polly tugged at his sleeve. Still he did
not move. Then she held the Derringer
up in front of his face. Come" said
she lightly. See, | can make you"
lie looked down into the smiling face,
his own facc-Polly saw tears on it
caught a bit of the smile he saw there
and without a word he walked away
with her. When they reached the house
in which she lived, Polly hurried within
after ordering him to wait 4 minute. AT
its end she was back beside him.
Here. this is yours" she said holding
IL bill out to him.
He made no effort to take it, and Polly
could see that his hands were twisting
about each other.
"IIow much?" he asked finally.
"Oh. not much-only So"
give dollars! No, no: can't take
til can't" he cried brokenly.
Polly took one of the twisting hands
and thrust the money into it. But you
must. It's for the wife and the kids"
she whispered.
eyes. yes. for Them" he said eagerly.
and his hand closed about the bill.
There was leng silence. The man
was breathing heavily, and Polly was be-
ginning to feel as though she wanted to
cry. She was the first to speak, and for
the first time that night she was timid.
"If you don't mind" she said wistful-
ly, 81 think Id rather like to shake hands
with you"
The man seized the hand Polly held
out to him.
Good night" she whispered.
"I-I"- He started, but something
caught in his throat, and his voice broke.
Polly felt the fingers about her hand
twitch nervously. He tried to speak
again. and again his voice broke.
Suddenly he dropped her hand, turned
about and, head down. hurried away in.
to the darkness.-St. Louis Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
HOW TO AVOID LocKJAW.
Causes of the Dreaded Tetanus an
the best Treatment For 1t.

Causes of the Dreaded Tetanus and
the best Treatment For 1t.
Bathers have long looked upon death
by drowning as their chief danger, but
there is another peril, less known, but a
thousand times more frightful, the peril
of a death beside which drowning is a
summer afternoons diversion - death
from the germ of tetanus, or lockjaw.
The bacillus tetani distills a poison so
terrible that the venom of a rattlesnake
Is nectar compared to it. One grain will
kill 800 men.
These death dealing creatures love q
hot, damp climate. Any grain Of sand,
any tin can or rusty nail or scrap Of meat
or broken clam shell, may have q score Of
them clinging to it.
These are precisely the conditions Of
our American beach resorts-the moist,
warm air, the beach too often strewn
with rubbish and in any case Uttered
with broken shells and with bits Of
wreckage from which nails protrudc.
1t is strange that the most deadly work
of the germ is done in late spring and
early autumn. Fifty per cent Of the
deaths from tctanus are due to wounds
on feet or hands.
After the bacillus has entered the
wound from to 10 days may elapse.
The bacilli do not themselves pass into
the system. They remain in the wound,
but generate q poison which does their
work.
In most cases there are preliminary
symptoms similar to those of an ap-
preaching coda dull ache, located be-
fore the ear. followed by stiffness in the
muscles of the lower jaw. There is q
growing difficulty in opening the mouth,
and attempts to swallow exaggerate the
symptoms. The jaws then become lock-
cd, and the disease passes downward to
the rest of the body.
In the open air the bacillus remains in
active. 1t is only when it enters more
deeply AID gets away from the air that it
becomes dangerous. 1t may be rendered
harmless hy cleansing the wound with a
mixture of l part Carbolic acid in 20
parts of water. Aftcrward the wound
should be filed with tincture Of iodine.
If the wound should be deep one,
caused, for instance, by 4 nail, or il it
should be laceratcd wound, caused, for
example, by gInpowdcr, or n crushed
wound, as with hammer, the operation
of cleansing may be u difficult matter,
and a physician should be called in, who
may inject aptitoxip, san Francisco
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
Her Correction.

The public schools of certain New
England city have an exacting form Of
art. The pupils are placed before a
model and told to sketch as they see.
One day little girl was seated in
chair on the platform. and her classmates
were given the usual order.
The results varied. Some of the draw
ings looked like human being in a state
Of repose, others like wooden dolls. But
one little girl had drawn the chair and
a tiny figure standing in front of it.
MARY" said the discouraged teacher,
"didn't l say, Draw Amelia as you see
herT"
"Yes'm."
"Well, is she standing in front Of the
chair"
"No'm. She's sitting in it."
"Then why didn't you draw her sit
ting?"
Tears came into the child's eyes. She
was misunderstood.
"But hadn't got to it," she said. II
was just going to bend her down when
you rang the bell."-X9uth's Compapiohs
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
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Save Your Money.
One box of TUFTS Pills will save
many dollars in doctors bills
Theywillsurely cure all diseases
ofthe stomach, liver or bowels.
No Reckless Assertion
For sick headache, dyspepsia,
malaria, constipation and bilio-
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TUFTS Liver PILLS
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
The Eais and Iptellieepcer:
10 Published Erery Friday.
FINNEY s DASHIELL.


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lines makes q square. Figure work double
price.
Obituaries and Personal Communication
will be inserted at 10 cents per line.
Yearly Advertisements at Special Rates
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09

There is n tradition to the effect that
when domestic lighting by gas was still
a novelty Sir Walter Scott introduced il
into every room and staircase Of the
house that he was building at Abbots-
ford and did so without provision for any
expected failure. His entering into
possession was made the occasion for a
house warming on n scale of considerable
magnitude. and in the very middle Of the
festivities NIL the lights suddenly went
out. The guests were left in absolute
darkness until such time as mounted mes
sengers could return from Melrose. with
er they had been dispatched with instruc-
tions to collect all the tallow candles and
tin sconces or candlesticks which the vii.
Iage contained,-!.ondon Times.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09

THE PASSING OF YOUTH.
Youth passes away
Like summers day,
Glides into the past forever,
And leaves but q trace,
On the careworn face
OF the days that return, oh, neveri
Like sunshine bright,
Ills beautiful light
That shines on each life at its dawning,
But it fades away
AS the passing day
Or the dew FROM the flowers at morning.
As we wander on
Through lfe's busy throng
Do We know that youth is going9
Then good seed sow,
So that time may show
A harvest Of goodly growing.
Marian L. Kuhn in Weekly Bouquet.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09

levIng nm free, believing. that 1 was
dear to him as is the half of life to me.
But now, ali, he may-nay, he ought still
love you, and
"Let us see," the other interrupted,
and, the nurse following, she led the way
nor paused until they stood again at the
door Of the sick mans room. 1--WE will
go in together, and then She said no
more, for at that moment mans voice
was heard, high, querulous: Margaret!
Margarctr'
Both women entered. The nurse adj
vanccd.
"Yes; nm here. Do you want any
thing?"
"Only you stay with me, dearest" His
voice Quavered, but with tender cadence.
His eyes were glazed with delirum. She
brought him glass of water and slipped
her arm under his head that he might
drink. His eyes roved restlcssly about the
room. They alighted on the still, gray
clad figure by the door. His teeth clatter-
ed against the goblet. The water dripped
from his nervclcss lips. Pointing with one
bony hand. he said hoarsely: "Who is it,
Margaret? Look there! Who is it?" The
figure sank into a chair out of his sight,
and the sufferer fell back on his pillow
Il
That night he raved with fever, and
neither woman left his bedside. "Marga-
ret" he would gasp, .'send her away if
she comes again" Then to the other: II
don't know you, but you look like ghost.
When you meet that other one, her ghost,
tell her-when heard she-was dead |
was sad. Then | was sick and Margaret
came. and-was l sad still. MargaretY'
"EpS very rlurh
''Of course l did not want her to die,
for loved her once, but now-ah, now
love you. don't |, Margaret?" And he
held both her hands and cried over them
like tired child. And Margaret wept,
too. but the ghost only grew whittier and
slipped out and up to the deck. Low
hung and wan the moon cleaned sickly
through window sheet up at her with
dry. wide open eyes. You brave old
thing!" the woman said. Your heart is
dead and yet you smile and shine. Well,
so shall r.
In n day or two his fever was broken.
''You do not need my help now," she said
to Margaret. HE is out of danger. He
will soon be well, and you will be happy"
Then she made her eyes shine and her
lips smile. And when-some time-let
him know he was mistaken. | did not
die. But do not tell him yet. The ghost
must trouble him no more"
At Stka, on the site of old Baranoff
castle, there is a high knoll overlooking
the sea. One evening at sunset n woman
stood there and watched a small boat put
out from shore. 1t was the Dora, bound
for Cooks inlet. On the forward deck
stood two figures. The man seemed lean
ing. US il for support, upon the shoulder
of the woman in nurses garb. Both
faced the sun. copper globe on the hori-
ION. Before them, all the western sea
and sky glowing caldron; behind, the
dim mountains, the darkening east, and
the lonely watcher ON the castle hill.
When the boat was mere speck and the
sun down, she turned to go. The bell
from the convent called to prayer, the
sunset gun doomed out, and the echoes of
war and peace enwrapt her as she de-
scendcd.-Chicago News.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
Hospitality.

"Use one teaspoonful of this cocoa in
hot water every day. The can will last
80 days"
But suppose there's company, mis-
sis?"
why. then, of course use more hot
water."-Fliegende Batter.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-02-09
ANYTHING to Suit.

81 never give money to beggars on the
street." said the pedestrian.
''Oh. very WELL" replied the seedy indi-
vidual. "here's my card. Kindly call at
my Office and leave your contribution
with my bcokkeeper. News.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-03
Roberts will be Heard on Thurs :
day, but Matter is Prejudged'
MAYBE TWO REPORTS FILED
Majority VIII Recommend Exclusion
and Minority May Advise Admls-
sion and Expulsion.

Washington, Jan, 2,-The report Of
the committee OF the House Of Repre-
sentatlves which Is investigating the
case Of Mr.. Roberts Of Utah viii be
made soon after Congress reassembles.
and there Is reason to believe the ma
jorty report will recommend that Rob
erts be excluded from the House and
be not permitted under his credentials
TO exercise any prima facle right Of
being sworn in.
Whether the report will be unanl-
nous is open to doubt, as three Of the
members Of the committee are not
counted on as positively favorable to
the course indicated, and this may re-
suit In the submission Of a minority
report, The minority view, IL submit
ted, probably will deal with the prima
facle right to be sworn in on creden-
tlals which are regular. and VIII rec
ommend that Roberts be sworn in and
thereafter expelled.
The committee will resume It's hear
ings on Thursday al Ii o'clock The
testimony Is closed. however, Chairman
Tayler Of Ohio having learned that the
remaining witnesses in Utah Will not
come on.
II is expected, therefore, that Thurs
day viii be given 10 Mr.. Roberts for
his argument. A vote IL likely 20 fol-
low the latter part Of the week The
chairman, II is expected, will be au-
thorlzed to draw the report and pre-
sent it TO the House.
Mr.. Tayler and Mr.. Mcpherson Of
the committee were IN conference TO
day examing law books and prece-
dents with view to the preparation Of
the committees report.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-03
COFFEE HEADACHES
Left When Change Was Made to
Postum food Coffee.

"As long as drank coffee, once every
month. regularly | had bilious sick
headache, had often read In the papers
about Postum Food Coffee, but, like lots
Of people, / thought you were praising
your own goods TO sell them.
Finally I asked my husband TO buy
me small package TO try. / boiled II
not quite as long as your directions
said, and did not like II. The next morn
Ing ] made coffee for breakfast and had
a sick headache.
The third morning / tried Postum
again, boiling II about twenty min .es,
Then II tasted good, and the longer
drank IL. the better | liked Il. That
was about three months ago. We have
had Postum ever since. and never In all
this time have / had the least kind Of
q headache or been sick In any way.
Il told brother-in-law OF my exper-
lence. He suffered with bilious head
aches. and was threatened with nervous
prostration. He stopped coffee. and be-
gan using Postum Food Coffee. which
he did not like al the first trial, but soon
got 50 he liked II very much indeed,
when they learned to make II right. 1t
has cured him also.
THE following friends have been
helped by leaving of coffee and using
Postum: ID. 3. Wieatt. his wife and
sister: J. II. Mathews. his wife and
daughter. We are naturally very strong
advocates OF Postum Food Coffee"
Lille z. Mathews. s6s Gath St.. Detroit,
Mich.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-03
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Ex-senator j. s. c.. Blackburn was
nominated for United States senator
last evening, by unanimous vote Of the
Kentucky Democratic legislative eau
Gus.
John Pain Of Boulder. one OF the VIC
TINS Of the Union Pacific wreck at
Brighton, died last night AZ 81. Joseph's
hospital, Denver. and it was announced
that w. G. Tompkins Of Kansas City,
another Of the Injured, cannot survive
the night.
Won Bloch, the Russian writer an
nounces that the proposed Russian war
exhibit ct the Paris exposition viii be
omitted, upon the cars order.
The Cleveland. o., Leader, says that
Senator Mark Hanna win be chairman
Of the Republican national committee
during the next presidential campaign.
Senator Allen denies that he is a can
dldate for head Of the Democratic
presidential ticket. He will support
Bryan.
The New York World says the Danish
government has offered the Danish
West Indies to the United States for
$3,000,0 900.
The mayor and city council Of Mil
waukee, Wis. ignored three injunc-
lions by the courts last night. and
passed an ordinance requiring street
railways to sell % tickets for ST.
one hundred and fifty feet OF the
sea wall at Mare Island Cal. went into
the bay last night, in a landslide.
A heavy wind and rainstorm swept
San Francisco yesterday, causing much
inconvenience and doing some damage
10 property.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-03

brings definite charges against those
in high military places, Of whom he
rays that they have shown themselves
unequal to their work.
He suggests that British generals
do not know their business. and that
the commander In chief Nord Wolseley)
was by his own admission insuficlenuy
Informed as 10 the BOer forces. All
theee charges may be true, and Il Will
perhaps be necessary 60 discuss them
In the future"
The Daily Mail today says
Lord Wolseleys unusual silence i'm
plies that he would be the laft person
to court any kind Of an inquiry on the
vital question whether he Is responsible
for the many blunders that have made
US the laughing stock Of the world.
The Inquiry is one that he Will strict
~ avoid"
The row between the civil and the
military branches OF the war office Is
slowly coming TO q head, and Il Is ac-
companled by guarded discussion in
private OF impending changes In the
cabinet.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-03
owners have lodged complaint with
the British foreign office.

Washington, Jan. 2,-'rhe state de-
partment today received from Ambas-
sador Choate at London by cable
statement Of the facts he had deyel-
oped In connection with the seizure by
British warships OF American goods on
the three merchant vessels Beatrice,
Mash0na and Maria. The goods COM
prised not only -four, but miscellane-
Gus articles Of common trade They
were. shipped for BourcnZo Marquee In
British and German ships, but our OFF,
Gals contend that they were not sub
ject 10 seizure. They could not, how
ever, lodge representations on the sub
Ject until they were possessed OF a
knowledge OF the facts. and as soon as
Mr. Chuate's statement came 10 hand
today, instruction was cabled TO him
TO inform the British government that
We could not admit the right OF the
seizure In these cases.
This Is the preliminary step usually
taken In such negotiations. Next I'm
order viii be a report from our consul
lar representative at LourenZo Mar
quez respecting the present condition
Of the seized or detained goods and the
damage sustained. The state depart
ment is not fully Informed on these
points necessary TO the further pre-
sentatlon Of the eases. II Is not even
known lust where the goods are, or II
they have all beeen seized or only in
part. Il win be the duty Of our con-
sular agent at Lourenzo Marquee 10
ascertain and report these facts and he
Is now engaged in doing this under the
original instruction Of the state de-
partment.
While the department is acting as It
promised IN the beginning to firmly
protect all American rights Of trade, II
Is showing no unseemly haste In the
presentation OF the case. Todoy's in
structloh TO Mr.. Choate was not a de-
mand for the release OF the goods nor
yet for indemnity. but rather precau-
tionary notice TO the British govern
ment 20 save all of our rights in the
case. II will be sufficient TO initiate
the settlement Of the matter by nego-
tiation, the state department having
not the slightest doubt that the British
authorities will make full amends TO
the owners Of the goods, when the fasts
are all laid before them