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Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Estiag For q HnshanA

When the parents Of young man In
Russia decide that q certain young
Lady would make suitable mate for
him they say nothing about the matter
to any one, but on some evening they
win drop around Unexpectedly to the
prospective brides home and VIII stay
for supper. During the neal they will
keep q close watch on the young lady.
II she eats fast she. viii perform her
work speedily; IL she goes neatly and
cleonly about her plate she viii per-
form her work neatly and-cleanly; r
she does not talk much, she wilpwork
and not talk and prove q faithful and
obedtent wife to her husband; II she
prefers rye bread to white, shs win
be satisfied With her lot: n she. does
not gaze and stare at the visitors she
VIII be wife tInt win not continually
ply into her husbands business, and II
she Immediately proceeds to clean Up
the dishes after the meal, she will
bring prosperity to her husband, and
WILDE economical with bis money.
A most peculiar thing about the mar
rage ceremony Is the fact that when
the couple enter the church both groom
and bride make a dash for the plat
form on which Is the puup&tI 1t 10 be-
lieved that the one whose foot touches
the platform first will live the longer
and that the children VIII take after
that one In size, health and beauty
New Orleans Picayune.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

1 concluded 10 try your medicine and
/ can truly say It does al that 700
CLAIM for It to do. s
Ten bottles of Lydia e. PinkAamh
Vegetable Compound and seven pack
ages o. Sentative Wash have made o
new ~~nan of me. have had no
womb --ouble since taking tho ffth
bottle. - Ugh more than I have In
years; ernS all my own housewor,r,
sleep well, have good appetite and
now feel at life 10 worth living. I
owe ell {; " E. Pinkhsmas vegcts.
be Cor;IA feel that is has saved
my hfc AM d not be without it for
anything ways glad 10 recon-
mend your 70 A1my sea, for I
know IL -: - your directionA
they, VIII i."-MRs: AxxEn
THOMPSON, s,'.," Springs. Ark. .
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Iner,a.InG Growth Of Fruit Urea

Barnya1d manure increases the
wood growth Of nearly all fruit treeA
while potash tends to increase the fruit
growth and favor as well without O
new growth Of wood every yeGr the
prospect Of getting q crop OF fruit
would be greatly reduced All this
shows that in order to get the best
fruit we should Iook out for the inter
ests q the tree py applying tina proper
amount Of barnyard maDsse and to
look out for the quality Of the fruit
AZ web By supplying the correct
amount Of potash to the soil.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Crooked Knrk.

'rHuhr" exclaimed Growells ihe
other evening when he came hpne.
az see more evidence of crooked work
around hare"
"Why, John, what do you mean?"
asked his astonished better half.
"Oh, you csn'tdeceive me. madam, -
he replied. ''You have been trying
to drive nails again Chicago News.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. LIST, 90

ALLOW me TO thank you for the good
your Tetterioe has done me. Four
boxes cured me Of . case of letter,
after trying specialists and spending
several hundred dollars and getting no
benefit from then--Henry ". john
son, 281i Marietta street. 80 cents
box at druggists, or by mail from j.
T. Shuptrine, Ssvsanah, Ga
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
His New Life.

Madame" said the tramp, II was
oncet a member Of the legislature.
"And are you sure" she asked, in
clined to believe him, "that your re-
formation is completed" -Philadelphia
North American.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Medical Book Free.

know Thyssx," book for men only,
sent Free, postpaid, sealed, TO any male
reader mentioning this paper; &c. for post
age. The Scienee of Life, or self-Prese.-
vation, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise, the
best Medical Book OF this or any age, $40
pp., With eAgravings and prescriptions.
Only 26c., paper covers. Library Edition,
full GUT. e1o0. Addaess the Peabody Med
icsl institute, No. Bulhnch St., Boston,
Mass, the Oldest and best In this country.
Writ@to-dayfor these books; keys to health.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Are You Using Aliens Foo,-Ease?

1t is the only euro for Swollen. Smarting,
Tired, .Acb ng, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns
and Bunions. Ask for Aliens Foot-Ease,
a powder to be shaken into theshoes. Cures
while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe
stores, &c. Sample sent FREE. Address
Allen 3. Olmsted, Leroy, n. Y.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
How Il Hannenad.

$50 you were defeated for the senatorshipfr
"YeS" "HoW dtd 10 kappenf" "Oh, Is was q
pure ease Of forgetfulnees. ] had my plans all
made, but when got t. the capitol Just before
the voting began, I found ia forgotten nv
check book, Rnd hAnd't moro than e15, 900 or
e20. 900 In my pocket"-Chtcaso Evening Post
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

II you want good digestion to wait mp
on your appetite" you should always chew
a bar OF Adams Pepsin Tutti FruttL
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

THE Pennsylvania railroad IL said TO have IL
eyes ON the south fine Geld for railroad en-
terprise. T is indicates that the Pennsylvania
people know O good th11g when they see II.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Atlanta College Of Pharmacy.

Well equipped laboratories; excellent
teachers. A free dspensary where hun
dreds Of prescriptions by the best physicians
are compounded daily by the students. Stu
dents obtain flrst-class practical instruction
as we'll as that OF atheoreticsi nature. There
Is q greater demand for our graduates than
we can supply. Address DR.. George F. Payne,
Dean, 4SI1 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Vice Versa

A railway brakeman does both ne coupling
and the switching, while q clerkymAn docs nm
ly the coupling, and the coupled ones do tn
switching lsier.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
Little EncouraRement.

He-Would you mind q little semporsyy in
convenience, dear; o few years Of poverty when
you marry met
she-Good gracious, Don't you expect 70 live
any longer man thaI3''-Lue.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
OuickIv Suhduad-

Daughter, notice that Harry isn't BIT gal
liant 70 other women"
NO. indeed, me; broke him OF that right
after We were married '-IndianapoLs Journal.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

FITS permanently cured No fifs or nervoss
ness after drst Days nee Of DR.. Kline's 0real
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
DE-. r. h KLENE, Lad, o61 Arch St., Phtla-. PA
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption ssved
BINS, Maple ST, Norwich, n. Y, Feb. IL, 1900.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
When Courage fails

The bravest man in the world was
probably never brave enough to admit
to his friends that he knew Il y
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

THE average duration Of marriages in RnR-
land is Iwenty-ei years; in France and Ger
many, twenty -si1; Norway, twenty.four' Russia
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

E.B. wal,hsii s Co, B.uSgists, Horse Cave,
Ky, say: Halls Cstarrh Cure cures every
one that takesit" Sold by Druggists, 7Sc.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

They ssy hobart Granite story Of sUnlesven-
cd Breed l. selling extensively"
Yes, u naturally brings IN the dough-
Cleveland Plsip- Dealer.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

DyeInQ Is SIS simple as washing whom you
use PUTNAM FADELEss DYEs. Sold by ell
dru0gista
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

Mr. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces tnnamms-
ZION Hllays rain cures wind collie. &c. q bottle.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
The Best Prescription for ChIIIs

and Fever Is q bottle Of GROVES TAsTELEEs
CHILL Toxic Ii is simply iron and Quinine IN
a IasIeloss form. No eure-po par. = Price SOC.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29
To Cure a Cold I'm One Dav.

Take LAXATIVE BRoNo QUnCNz TABLETS. An
druggists refund the money II &c fails 70 cure.
4. W. GROVES signature IL on each box. 25c.
Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1900-06-29

Letter and % Con
PinkhAm's Vsgstal
Cure Female veal
81 have been tro'
weakness In its
about ten years
and was 90 weak
do my housework.
ipg Of the womb an
hs womb and oys
and ct menstru
periods I suffered te
rihly. At times my
back would ache
very hard Icould q
not lift anything :
or do any heavy
work; wasnotable
to stand on my feet
Ny husband spent
hundreds of dollars I
for doctors but J
they did me no :,
good. Afterat time 1
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23

of them, but she must know Just how
to combine the proper colors to pro-
duce the most fetching gowns. Yet
still she would not be complete unless
skilled in the art Of flirting. We do
not mean one of these hard-hearted
creatures, like you read OF in books,
who go about with It dozen or so scalps
dangling at her wampum belt, hut
just one Of the lfsht-hearted, appar-
emily sincere girls, Who in the most
engaging manner can convince the
man who is fortunate enough to
possess her attention that, for the
time being, he IS the only person
about whom she has the slightest
thought, she must also be able
though to SHOW this self-same lord
of creation, just when he commences
to feel his bump CT conceit rising, that
there are others.
Such is the Summer grip and she
is all right. Her mission on earth il
to make this duI! old sphere seem
brighter and more cheerful and wei
does she fulfill her calling. No one
eau fail to have become the better by
her acquaintance AID while the iu
dividual is soon ont of sight. out OF
mind, yet her kindly Influences fol
good are always more or lees lasting
So when the shades of wiuter draw
down upon us, and the chilly north
wind asserts il rule, we can all look
back with m@ny pleasant memories
of the past acd while the girl herself
is forgotten her COED works still re
main.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
4 STRIKING COINCIDENCE.

eahing of condolences it seems
rather remarkable that Lieutenant
Colonel Russell Harrison. son of ex-
President Benjamin Harrison should
be mustered out of service, with an
honorable discharge of course, so soon
after the election.
Ga the principle 'to the victor be
longs the spoils" or reward yonr
friends and punish your enemies" iie
should have been discharged. His
illustrious father not only showed nc
recognition of an obligation Tor this
appointment, but did not even con
ceal his disapproval of the Mckinley,
Hanna military policy. OF course he
holds no office himself that he CAR be
discharged from, so the next best
thing to be done to show the managers
contempt for his anti-imperialism pol
icy was to chop off his sons head.
1t is far from our intention to allegE
any such picuayne motive, but as we
remarked before the coincidence is
striking. 1t is rare thing to redu &C
the volunteer staff as yet, ard the
only way that it has been thinned
out is by voluntary resignation. The
department is said not to be over
crowded. If as some allege he was
not an efficient officer, why was he moi
removed long ago?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
INFORMAL BANKING.
Country Financial Houses More Free
and EaSy Than City Ones

IF there is one place more than an
other that is business from start TO finish
and repeat" said the man who gets
around occasionally, 1T is Il city bank.
The big ones are almost oppressive in
their fOrmality, and even the little ones
on side streets don't encourage a man to
loaf and invite his soul after he has at
tended to what he came there for. But
it is very different in the country, espe-
cially in the south. In the town down
there where | spend a few weeks every
year there are three banks, all good ones
of Il quarter of Il million capital each
and with handsome buildings, but instead
of the narrow, penned up accommoda-
lions for customers as is the rule in city
banks their rooms are commodious, and
they are furnished with chairs and desks
20 write ut and plenty of cuspidors for
the tobacco cLewers. The clerks are be
hind ratings and counters, but theirs
are the restricted quarters, and most of
the space is set apart for the comfort
and convenience of customers. They are
the general meeting places for farmers
and other visitors to town, and during
business hours they are never empty.
The work of the bank goes on just
the same, for everybody is used to that
sort Of thing, and the crowd outside,
more like a barroOm than bank, laughs
and talks and chews tobacco as if that
were part of the banking business. In
the summer afternoons the big arnchairs
are carried ont into the shade, if the
bank happens to be on the shady side of
the street, and they decorate with their
occupants the whole street front of the
building. In the winter there is a big
stove, red hot most of the time, that
makes it pleasant for the people who
have ridden five or ten miles through the
cold, and the crowd is thicker than ever
because the weather is not propitious for
street corner conferences as it is in sum-
mrr. ! have never seen the staid deco
rum of the city bank in the country, and
| am sure If any man with newfangled
notions Were to attempt to conduct q
bank on such lines he wouldn't get
enough business to declare a centennial
dividend of a quarter of l per cent. The
pc0p" simply wouldn't have it, and if
they couldn't make the bank their head
quarters for trading talk and their gen.
eral meeting place they would not go
there at all."-New York Sun.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
A CURIOUS EXPERIMENT.
1t Can BE Performed at 4 Cost Of {
Few Gents.

1t Can Re Performed at = Cost Of q
Few Cents.
A curious experiment which any one
can perform al the cost OF I few cents is
herewith explained:
Buy an ounce Of liquid sodium ANAL
gam, sheet OF aluminium costing Il few
cents and about Sly inches OF stout cop
per wire. With Il file sharpen one end Of
the copper wire 50 as 10 give it the shape
OF pencil. Rub off the surface OF the
aluminium plate with Il knife just before
beginning the experiment.
Dip the pointed end of the wire into
the ainalgam and after removing ii, cav
cred with the liquid alloy, write or draw
on the aluminium plate. Dip your wire
into the amuigam from time 10 tine just
as if you were writing with pen and ink.
Never mind the fact that your ink is Il
metal and that your pen seems 10 write
nothing but scratches. Finish your work
and then watch and see what happens.
The lines just traced by your pen will
suddenly assume a duh wi.itlsh tint, con-
trasting with the brightness of the metal.
Then the! will rise above the metallic
surface at the rate of about one inch an
hour. In less than five inmates your
drawing will lie in strong relief. You
may wipe out the white substance which
has thus sprung from the metal, but il
will develop again with the same vigor
as would some kind OF mushroom gifted
with the rather abnormal property Of
thriving on metallic ground.
These white formations consist princ-
pally of alumina. The cause Of their
growth is the formation of an umaIgam
of aluminium in which that metal is in Il
molecular state altogether different from
that in which it exists in its coherent
form. Although mercury has less affinity
for oxygen than aluminium as soon rs an
alloy of the two metals is made alumni
ium loses its previous chemical inertia
and undergocs Il slow combustion the
product of which is aiuEiHa.
Sodium plays no direct part in the reac
ton, yet without it l found it diliicult TO
get the mercury to adhere to the aIasnini-
UNI. Sodium facilitates also the adhesion
of mercury TO the copper wire. The best
results are obtained in damp weather II
the air is dry at the moment OF the ey-
pertinent, results just as good will he oh
tanned by breathing gently from time TO
time on the drawing, so as to slightly
moisten the am@lsam of aluminium
Scientific American.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
DON'T LIKE WHITE DOCTORS.
ChinaM.en Prefer the CIujle 3Iedicn-
tinn of Their Own i,h.-niclams.

tiUn OF Their own fh.EicianS.
"You would think that with as large Il
Chinese population ~ is possessed by
Chicago some 1T least OF thc While pAysi-
clans of the city w0Uid have Il fair sized
Chinese practice" remarked a physician
few evenings ago, Respectfully when it
is remembered that in this climate a
great many Of the Mongolians are given
to various sorts of bodily ills"
Don't white physicians practice among
the Chjncsc?'
Not to any extent. Once in awhile
they are called in by some OF the Chris
tanned and more Intelligent Of the Chi
aamon, but the masseS-tho9c who are
neither Christianized nor intelligent, ac-
cordins to our standards-will have moth
ing to do with white doctor except as n
last resort. And some OF them won't
even then
make their own medicines, 1 sup
pose"
NO They have their own doctor. l
forget his name, but he makes his head
quarters in one Of the Chinatown stores
His presence is said TO bc SO jeaioUS!y
guarded that few, if any, white persons
ever come in contact with him. He is Il
venerable looking chap, with gray hair
and 4 struggling gray beard. Steel bowed
spectacies serve to give him Il wise look.
His prescriptions are filled from native
drugs and herbs brought over from Chi
ma by New York firm Of Chinese i'm
porters 4 peculiar thing about a sick
Chinaman is that he cannot be induced to
take his medicine in doses at regular in
tervas as we Americans do. He wants
to feel that lie is doing something for his
complaint when he swallows what is pre-
scribcd for him. and as Il consequence the
Chinese doctors medicine is administer
ed in doses of 4 pint or i quart each.
Having taken one desc, the patient set
ties himself back to wait for the next day
to bring the hour for taking another. l
suppose this custom has something to do
with the refusal of the MongolIans TO
have anything to do with American doc
tors and their doses of spoonful or two
every hour or half hour.
sThe Chinese doctors charges are only
q quarter a visit, so that he has the ad-
vantage of us on the score Of chcapncss
too In extreme cases. like advanced
stages of consumption. for instance, /
have been called upon several times. but
never to attend 4 patient afflicted with
any ordinary i'll, while scarcely one out
of all the hundred odd physicians Of my
| acquaintance has ever been into China
| town professionally at au."-Chiclgo
| Chronicle.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
THE MYSTERY OF HAIL.
Nobody Really Knows How These
Frozen Gio5ules are Formed


Hail is i mystery. Nobody knows how
it is formed. though there are several the
cries. A hailstoHe is made like an onion,
of Il series Of concentric coats. These
coats of ice are apparently put on in sue
ccssion by repeated freezings, but in
what manner is unknown.
One notion suggested is that the frozen
raindrop, which is the nucleus, is alter
nately attracted and repealed between op-
posing storm clouds of positive ard mega
tive electritication respectively, and that
it gradually increases in size as it is car
ried to and fro, and continually takes on
freezing coats of moisture.
Another theory is that the particles Of
hail are carried i'll a sort of giant whirl,
first aloft and then downward, as por-
tons of cumulus clouds are sometimes
seen to move, and that they gather sue
cessiye coats OF moisture at the lower
levels and convert them into ice in the
frigid strata of the higher atmosphere.
Extraordinary conditions must be re-
Quired to account for the formation of
the huge hailstones which sometimes fall,
occasional specimens actually reaching
the size of hens eggs. A number of
years ago a storm of this kind destroyed
$1,00O,OO0 worth of glass in the city of
Philadelphia, and many persons were Sc
verely hurt by the larger stones-verita
bic projectiles of ice-which dropped
from the skies.
Sometimes hailstones assume strange
and irregular forms, which is perhaps
uue to the joining of two or more of them
in the air. An odd phenomenon is OBJ
served in the billiards of the western
plains-the true billiards., which are to-
tally unlike the billiards., so called, in the
east. The air is filed, not with snow
flakes, but with actual needles of ice,
which sting painfully wherever they
strike the flesh.
A SnowStorm in q room actually &C.
CURED at court ball in St. Petersburg.
Tia temperature indoors had gone up to
segte 90 degrees, and, several ladies hay
ing tainted, rush was made to open the
windows. There was no storm outside,
but as soon as the windows were thrown
up snow began to fall inside the ball
room, the moisture in the air having been
suddenly condensed by the extreme cold
without.
1t is believed by some that the cirrus
clouds, popularity known as mares tails"
which usually float at an elevation Of
about seven miles, are composed, not Of
particles of water in suspension, but of
needles of ice, the temperature of the air
at that height being much below freezing.
Saturday Evening Post.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
POTENCY OF A DEFINITE FACT

1t is related that Il youn- lawyer
from one of the western States was, q
few years ago, EARNESTLY arguinga case
in the Supreme Court of the Uoited
States, when the Chief Justice, who
had just held Il whispered consultation
with his nearest associates, suddenly
interrupted him III the following
'Mr. Blank, the Court would like to
inform you that your time is limited;
and would also say TO you that the
Court re supposed to be thoroughly
familiar with the general principles
of the law"
This admonition would have serious
ly discoUcerted much older and more
experienced lawyer, but the young
Hoosier bowling most respectfully, re-
piled
May it please your Honor, l am
aware that my time is limited; and
have always supposed that a Court
were thoroughly familiar with the
general principles cf the law; l
thought the Supreme Court of my
State were, but | find myself here
arguing this case"
1t is said the Court found much
difficulty in suppresaing a smile, and
that he was permitted to proceed
without further interruption.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23
A Use Fer the Thumb,

In the notebook OF the late Bishop Fra
ser of Manchester there is story of a
former young curate of the English vii
lage of Stoke which shows the value of a
little common sense in deciding a knotty
point. The curate, being exceedingly
anxious at all times to do things in the
order OF the liturgy, once insisted when
marrying a couple on the ring being put
on the fourth finger. The bride rebelled
and finally said:
Il would rather die than be married on
my little finger"
For an instant the curate wavered;
then he said. But the rubric says sou
Matters were at a Standstill-the bride
fearful, the groom uneasy, the curate de-
termined-when the parish clerk stepped
in and said:
''In these cases, sir, the thoomb counts
as a digit
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-11-23

The Baltimore County Union (Re'
pubiicau) republjshes the explanation
of the Bel dir Times as TO the cause
of their defeat in this county at the
recent election. The Times attributes
the loss eff the county to have been
caused by the failure to get out their
vote in some of the precincts. The
Union very tersely asks why was
this NOT done" We would like to in
form both of our esteemed contem-
poraries however that the explaDa-
ton is altogether wrong. The true
cause is that Harfold is a naturally
Democratic county and may he relied
to go that way every time unless there
is something radically wrong with
some of the nominees on the ticket.