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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
The PEN i'm the
Hand is worth
two i'm the
Mind.

If you have "a good mind to
write to DR.. Pierce" take pen in
hand and begin. Then you'll
avoid the experience of Mrs. M. P.
Davis, of Honaker, Russell Co.,
Va. She writes:
"For seven years was confined to
bed most of the time. had liberation
of internal organs and female weakness.
had four doctors and they said 1 could
not be cured. w After the doctors said
l could not be cured l wrote to Doctor
Pierce for advice. L followed the
advice he gave. i feel better than |
ever did. My friends say 1 do not look
like the same woman. lam sorry I did
not take DR.. Pieyce's medicine z0jien I
first began to haze poor health. could
have saved what paid to hu1nbugs."
No one ever regretted writing to
DR.. Pierce for advice. Many have
regretted not writing sooner.
Sick women are invited to con-
suit DR.. Pierce by letter, free, and
so obtain the opinion and advice of
a specialist in diseases peculiar to
women. All correspondence pri-
vate. Address DR.. R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser,
1908 pages, is sent free on receipt Of
stamps to defray expense of mail
ing only. Send 81 one-cent stamps
for paper covers, or 81 stamps for
cloth. Address as above.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

An English writer, telling of a trip of
an ocean steamer. said that out of 300
cabin passengers we had only one little
girl on board, aged about 10. or course
we all made much of her. One day / was
making sketch from memory of Fastnet
rock. My little friend was by Inc. and
she asked:
How can you sketch u thing that you
do not seer'
II remember it. I have an impression
of it." | said.
what is an impression?"
explained by making an impression
with the round end of the pencil on the
back of the hand and then saying,
''There is an impression. and one is also
made by seeing-only in a different man.
ner-on the mind or brain" With this
explanation the little girl seemed to be
satisfied. The next day | was talking
with a bishop on board and said to him,
My little friend here can tell you what
an impression is"
And what is an impressionT he asked.
"Oh," said she. lit is just round hole
made on the back of your hand by press
ing pencil on it"'
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
SELECTING A JURY.
Queer Faculty That Lawyers Some
times Seem to Possess,

times seem 10 fOBBebB.
Selecting Il jury seems to be a matter
of intuition with some lawyers" said a
prominent member of the bar, land those
who are most successful at it are often
unable to give any reasons. That man
will be against us, or That man will be
for u.s. they say. and make their chal-
leuges accordingly. but if you ask for
the why's and wherefores they are non.
pluSed. 1t is most valuable faculty in
an attorney and. boiled down. is of course
nothing more or less than unconscious
deduction from acute observation.
One of the cleverest men in this line
l ever knew in my life was the old law
yer in whose office | studied. The way
the colonel as we called him, could spot
case of potential hostility in selecting
a jury was next door to miraculous.
remember on one occasion he was repre-
scntins Il railroad company in damage
suit brought by u man who claimed 10
have received severe spinal injuries in an
accident. His hurts We're not visible 10
the eye; but, according to his story, he
was in continual agony.
'One of the jurymen was a solemn
looking chap who was in the grocery
business. While the colonel was ques'
tioning him he noticed a little chain
hanging out of his upper vest pocket.
WHAT'S attached to that chainT he asked
abruptly. "A pocket thermometer re,
Piled the juryman. Without assigning
any definite reason the colonel tried des.
peratcly to get the man off, but the judge
passed him
The jury gave stiff verdict for the
plaintiff, and it developed that the grocer
had been his chief advocate. i knew he
would oppose us as soon as heard about
that thermometer said the colonel after.
ward at the office. ANY grocer who car
ries u pocket thermo meter Is necessarily
Il hypochondriac, and, as our defense
was based on the theory that the plain
tilf's injuries were entirely imaginary
the argument naturally gave this chap Of
Tense. He had probably heard that sort
of talk applied to himself
Ibid you figure that out on the spotT
l asked.
mo he said, but l felt it in my
bones "-EXchanEe.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
LIES TOLD BY FOOTPRINTS.
Telltale Shoes Worn by n Man In
Searching Party.

TelltaIe Shoes Worn by n Man In O
Searching Party.
Showing how misleading circum.
stances may be-" said Il railroad man, "a
remaI kable affair happened a good many
years ago in south Georgia. The keeper
of Il little store near the Florida line was
murdered one night and the place set on
hire. Several negroes We're suspected, and
the whole countryside turned out to
search for evidence. In the rear of the
burned store was a marshy place, in
which the footprints of the murderer
were plainly discernible. showing that he
had worn Il pair of heavy brogans. the
!ight heel of which seemed 10 have been
spit in Il very peculiar manner directly
across the middle.
among the scarcherS was a well to do
young farmer. and as soon as he saw the
footprints he was Mortified TO recognize
tn" marks of his own shoes which he had
IN at that very moment. The split heel
was the result of chance blow with an
TX while cutting wood. and the impress
sion III the marshy soil was absolutely I'M
miStakablc. The crowd was worked ND
TO Il pitch bordering on frenzy. and, real
lzlu@ his extremely critical position. the
YOUNG man had presence enough of mind
10 make some excuse and slip away. He
went straight home. put on another pair
If shoes. hid the old ones and rcjoined
the party.
Two or three days later the crime was
traced by certain evidence to n negro who
worked on his farm. The fellow broke
down and confessed and incidentally
cleared up the mystery. On the night of
the murder. according tn his story. he had
noticed the brogans ON the porch OF the
farmhouse and appropriated them. in
tending at the time to merely rob the
store and fly the country. After killing
the storekerper he changed his plans and
came home. thinking to divert suspicion
by remaining quietly at work. Conse-
quently he returned the shoes where he
found them.
After b" had made this confession the
farmer told his own story and produced
the tvlltalr t""tgear Heaven only knows
what might have happened had he been
caught with them on his feet the first
day Of the search.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
THE BOOK AGENT.
1tudies Human Nature and IL Skilled
In Dlnloruacv

In Diplomacy.
The book agent Is q student Of human
nature. He attacks man at his weakest
points. What Is calculated to minister
to mans vanity more than to have Il
gentleman, well groomed and of pleasing
address, approach and offer to sell him
some literary production? The fact that
the book agent is there presupposes that
the man is lover of literature, that
he has leisure to read books and that
he has money to spend for them. The
joke about the book agent being unwel-
come will have to be relegated along
with the mother-in-law joke. The facts
will not sustain it. The book agent ap-
proaches a man, presents himself and
proceeds to business. 81 am introducing
new work, Mr.. Jones, something that |
know you will appreciate" Is Jones GO
ing to throw a man out of the third
story window who thinks he will appre-
ciate new book? Not much.
The agent continues: Mr.. Brown sug-
gested that you might like to look it
over. He takes set in half morocco"
The fact that Brown thinks it will inter-
est him pleases Jones still more. He
values Browns opinion. He likes to
have Brown think he appreciates good
literature. Brown must also think he
can afford it. He looks over the book,
predisposed in its favor already. Then
comes the objection that he cannot af-
ford it. The book agent treats that ex-
cuse as a joke. His actions say: II know
you can afford it. Brown knows you
can afford it." The book agent evident
ly believes that he is talking to man
of means, and Jones does not care to
have him believe anything else. Per-
haps the set of books sells for $50. He
talks to Jones as if that were an insig-
nificant sum. not worth hesitating about,
although. if the truth were known. the
book agent really thinks the $40 he will
get as commission for making the sale
is so large sum that he can afford to
lay off the rest of the day and go fish
ing.
Jones hesitates, the book agent drops
his fountain pen. Jones picks it up and
he is lost.
The agent folds up his prospectus and
after assuring Jones he will never re-
greet the purchase starts for the door.
But a thought strikes him. and be comes
back. "By the way. Mr.. Jones' do you
think of any of your friends who might
like this work F'-Chicago Record.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
Knew When He Had Enough.

A story is told of Il citizen of Glasgow
which shows that contentment is n virtue
really existent in some cases One of
the inhabitants was making his way
homeward on u certain evening and tak-
ing a good deal more than his share Of
the pavement when he encountered a
Glasgow town councilman walking along
la a respectable fashion, The council
man, noticing his unbalanced condition,
stopped and shouted with wrathful Dig
uity:
What dye want?"
To this his fellow townsman blithely
replied:
II want naething. I'm as fu' s l can
hand"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
Heliogrnphs In 1860.

In '"The Art of Warre." by Nicholas
Machiavelli, dated 1860, and translated
by Peter Whitehorne, at the end of the
book the translator has added some origi-
nal matter. Here is How to write and
cause the same that is written to be read
afar off without sending any message"
"A captain besieged in any town or for
tress unable to communicate without by
letter may, by night. so far as light can
be seen, and by day, as far as a FURNISHED
glass can cast the sun on a hut or such.
like, may be descried-he having arranged
with his friends the order Of signal-one
or two lights being flashed, hidden or dis
played again." What is this hut the
Aeliograph of the present day ?-London
Chronicle
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

Running from Phillipsburg to Newark
N. j., there is a remarkable canal. 1t i,
60 miles long and was operated befor,
any railroads were built in the state. Al
times it runs side by side with the Lack
awanna railroad. Locks are not used
the boats being drawn up and down elr
yations on great cars on a track 18 fee
wide
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
Tie 4Egls and Iptelllgeqcer.
BEL AIR, MD. AUGUST II, 1900.
FAITH.

A happy child plays on the floor
And stacks his blocks and sings,
And he knows naught of ancient lore
And naught of worldly things;
But faith is in his heart, and when
IT'S dark he kneels to pray,
And what is all the lore of men,
The faireSt fruit OF brush pen,
Against the faith he has, the faith !, too
could claim one day.
Beside the great cathedral door
poor old woman stands,
stranger unto worldly lore,
With knotted, tired handsi
But faith is rooted in her breast,
She hears the bell above,
And on the book her lips are prest,
And when it's night she goes TO rest,
Triumphantly believing in her Saviour's holy
love!
Oh, sage, what is the lore you teachf
Oh, man of science, all
The wise conclusions that you reach
Are pitiful and small
Beside the faith OF him who plays
About the floor
Beside the faith of her whose days
Were sunless If she might not raise
The book to trusting lips to say Ave at the
door!
S. E. Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

The personal Recollections of Suther-
land Edwards" English music critic. re-
cords that after the peace of 1915 it used
to be the rule Tor every huSsar to wear
n black mustache, and those who had
neither a black mustachc nor fair one
which they could dye were required IL
paint the semblance of a black mustache
OIL their upper lin.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

haue passed through London. haus
scene many of their Bills fixed vpon posts
in the streetes, to solicite men to afford
them some service: which argueth. that
either the trade decayeth. or they are not
ilfull. that beg employment so publicke-
for, Vino yendibili suspense hedera
est opus. A good. workeman needs
tand in the streetes.. Surveyors
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

"Is your cousin sensitive about he
deafnessY
"Oh, no; she says she isn't deaf. but
that people nowadays humble awfully
when they k."-Iudianapolis journal
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17
TRAINS SOUTHWARK.
SUNDAY TRAINS
IN EFFECT MAY 8, 1900.

An additions. tram will leave Bel Air, for
Baltimore and intermediate Stations, at Z. 10.
on SATURDAY evenings only. Returning,
will leave Baltimore the same evening at i 80,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

SUNDAY RAINS.
Sunday trans leave Baltimore for Delta and
intermediate stations at $50 A. NJ. and 400
P. M, stopping at Bel Air at 10 A. NJ. and $50
P. N. They will leave Cardiff for Baltimore
and intermediate stations at 6.55 A. N. and
$50 P. NJ, stopping at Bel Air at 7.65 A. M.
and 40 7. M. An additIona! train will leave
Bel Air for Baltimore and intermediate sta
tions at 8. 10 +. NJ, and Baltimore for Bel Air
at $50 p. NJ. arriving at Bel Air at p. M.
aud Baltimore $50 P. M.
J. K. KLINEFELTER, Gen. Pass. AGL.
wa MOORE. Gen; Manager.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-17

N. stops to take on passengers for Baltimore
and points south. stops TO let off pa ssengcrs
on notice 10 conductor. Is stops to let off pas
seDgers from baltimore and points south
Trains lparkea Lnur > run daily.
Express trains leave baltimore. Union Sta
ton, for H.vre de Grace at 3 %, 1853 A. NJ
LIS, 3GS, $40, 4.20, $50 and lI.35 P M,
week Us. Sundays, ] 0S, S.03. 1OUS A M
]. 10, sos, 4.2U, $50. 80 Z. ".
Express trains for Wilmington, PhiIadelphia
and New York leave Havre de Grace at 1341,
200, BIS. T. 80, $50 10 80 and 1854 A. M,
2.06, 81 and 5.09, 6.33, 81 P. NJ. every day
Sunday trains leave Havre de Grace at 1911,
2O2, 7.39, $50, 1884 A. M, 200. $50. 500,
6.33, 7.57 P. NJ.
Peninsula express. north, 4 O6 P M week
days.
Trains for Port Deposit branch leave Perry
vile at 6.35, 30. 9.10, 1l.25, A. NJ; lib,
2.15. 400, SOC. $40 P. N. Returning leave
, Port Deposit t.4S, S.32, 1904 and IL .O3 A NJ;
1888. 1887, 1855 and 7.5O P. NJ.
J. X. WOOD,
- Gen'l Pass. Agt.
], B. HUTCHINSON,
Gen'l Manager.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
Notice to Voters.

All voters in the county are re-
quired to register on or before the
18th day of May, 1900. in order to,
be qualified to vote. Registration
may be made before the county
clerk or before a notary public or
justice of the peace. All natural
lied citizens must exhibit their.
naturalization papers to the regis
tering officer; those unable to sign.
their name and mark their ballots.
must have two witnesses present at
registration. AT least one registra-
tion officer in each precinct will be.
furnished with the proper supplies.
]. H. L,UTz.
County Clerk.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
In Minnesota.

The following from Benson
(Minn. } paper is handed us by Hans
Olson, formerly a resident of the
place:
Among the patrons of the Benson
creamery who have good records for
the year 1899, to look back upon,
we call attention to few to illus
trate, not that these are the best or
are all the good ones, but they are
selected from localities and are rep
resentative Of the results secured.
A herd of IS COWS netted Reinhart
Mattheisen $357.45, including the
amount paid into the sinking fund
which goes TO pay for stock. This
is an average of SIS. SO per COW.
Add $40 for the calf secured, and
Mr.. Mattheison realized S45.S3 for
every COW in his herd. lanes
Neale milks s COWS. They brought
him S25I.46, or an average of SAL
43 per COW for milk, besides the
value of the calves raised or sold.
CLAUS Widdal has I3 cows in his
herd and his credit on the creamery
book for the year is $35S.39. The
creamery yielded him $27.56 per
COW, and his calves were worth $40
apiece, anyway. Eric Dale, with
1S COWS, earned $3.50. SO, an average
OF 25.o5 per COW for the milk deliv-
cred at the creamery. Frank Krull
has I2 COWS and the value or the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
The Best Medicine For Rheumatism.

The Best Medicine For Rheumatism.
"I think would go crazy with
pain were it not for Chamberlain S;
Pain Balm" writes Mr.. w. H.
Stapleton. Herminie, Pa. IT have,
been afflicted with rheumatism for
several years and have tried rene.
dies without number, but Pain
Balm is the best mediciue / have,
got hold of" One application re-,
lieves the pain. For sale by o. O..
Krogstad, druggist.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
NOTICE F0R PUBLICATION.
Usited States Land Office,

bAlJeu Lana OtllCo,
oregon City, Oregon,
January 26, 1900
Notice is hereby given that in com piiance
with the-provsions OF the act of Congress of
June z. 1873, entitled can act for the sale OF
timber lands in the States of California, Or.
egQn, Nevada and Washington Territory" as,
extended to all the Public Land States by Act
~ August T. 1892, Robert Hayes of Sugarloaf.
county OF Polk, State of Oregon has this day
filed in this office his sworn statement No, 5l4S.
for the purchase of the lots 3, 4, Q and TO- sec
z, and lots 3, and ., sec. is, in Township No. s
south, Range No. West, and will offer proof.
to show that the land sought is more valuable,
Tor its timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes, and 10 establish his claim TO said,
land before the Register and Receiver of this
office at Oregon City, Oregon, on Thursday.
the 26th day OF April, 1900.
He names as witnesses:
Andrew L.. Porter, William Henshaw, of
Sugarloaf, Polk county, Oregon, James Kent of
Dallas, Polk county, Oregon. Elmer Reynolds
OF Falls City, Polk county, Oregon
ANY ana all persons claiming adversely the,
aboye-described lands are requested to fiie,
of April, 1900.
CHAs. b. MooREs, Register.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
Amen.

Editor LEADER: Several weeks
ago read with pleasure clipping
calling your readers attention to
the condition of our rural district
schools. 'Tis sad, but it is true,
and unless there is united effort
of those people who live in the
country, district schools will soon
be thing of the past in many
districts. A majority of the dis
triCts of this county do not have
over three months of school each
year, and what is true of this
county has PARALLEL in almost every
county in this state. Now some
thing must be radically wrong. Is
it that the parents are so far for
getting their duty as not to care to
educate their children? Or is it that
our colleges are being fostered and
perpetuated, directly or indirectly.
at the expense of the district school
system? Many families move, each
fall, into the towns and cities to
send their children to school, this
helping the stronger districts and
adding insult to injury to the coun-
try district; for usually those chill
dren are listed for, and draw the
per capita school money in a dis
trict that they do not make their
home; thus each year less money
goes to the school children that
need it most. The real intent of
the district school system is to help
educate the children of our poor
and honorable home builders. Time
and again have our legislatures
been asked to give us some law
that would act as a remedy for this
unnecessary wrong, and each session
would do its duty by designating
several colleges as state institutions
and literally appropriate money for
the State Agriculture horse trot. "
Experience is teaching US that the
more colleges we have the less
months of district school. College
education may make a General
Otis, but never a General Miles.
The more prominent are the Cleve-
lands and Carriers the less popular
are the methods of Douglass and
| Garfield. Let the colleges be built
upon their merits, as are the Mount
Angel, Bishop Scott and several
other good schools, and let the
money that is being appropriated to
colleges and fairs be given to the
district schools and see if it is not
possible to produce parallel Of
Lincoln or Blaine. I am not opposed
to colleges or higher education, -
| but l do not think the state should
appropriate money to any college
until we have at least six mouth:
of school in each district of ouI
state, and thus educate the masse:
instead of the classes.
D. P. BLUE.
Yaquina, Or, Feb. 8, 1900.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16

A farmer threw his daughters;
lover over the iransom and was
arrested by the victim. The Justice,
decided the case as follow: ut
'pers that the young feller was
courtip' the defendants girl, in the.
defendants parlor; that the defend.
ant lntruded and threw the PLAINTIFF
out into the cold, hearlless world.
Courtin IS necessary, therefore the.
laws of Nedrasky will hold that no,
parent has right in any room
where courtin' is going on. Defen>
dapt is fined five dollars and costs
and if he interferes ag' in in plain
tifrs rights he will be fined 81, ,ooo
and given thirty days work on the.
roads"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
Real Estate Cheap.
H. l,UTZ,
County Clerk

/ have for sale the following
property: I-9I acres; a-I6o,
acres; 3-7H acres; 40 acres;,
500 acres; 6-28o acres. Also
number OF lots and houses in
Fredericksburg and Olssou's addi-.
ton to Newport.
JOHN A. OLssoN,
8-II Newport, Ore.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
BIDS WANTED

Sealed bids will be received at the,
office of the county judge at Toledo till
10 O'Clock a. m, of Monday, Feb. 26,
1900, for building wagon road on the
hillside above the railroad nj what is
known as the Hays creek bridge near,
Chitwood, Oregon. Said ,,oad to run
just above the right-of-way, as near as
practicable, and to be graded out to a
good roadway, not less than II feet wide.
u +. STEWART,
County Judge.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land 0aice at Oregon city, oj

Land OHice at Oregon City, Oregon,
January ~, 1900
Notice IL hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof In support of his claim, and
that said proof Will be made before j. II iutz
County Clerk of Lincoln County, Oregon, AT
Toledo, Oregon, on January l6, 1900 viz:
Peer a. Miller. II. i. No HIPS, for the VII of
se4, nol4 of sw4 and swJ4 of neId Of Sec 10. II
10 S. of r. 9,W.
He names the following witnesses to prove.
MS continuous RESIDENCE upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
James Mcdonald and Dudley Trapp of Nor.
rison, Oregon; Titus Kurtechanov and AIonzo
Mcdonald of Chitwood, Oregon.
CHAS B. M0oRES, Register.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-02-16

For ammunition at 20 per cent.
below all competitors go to Conroy,
Son & Co.
For boots and shoes, hats and
caps at clearance prices go to Con-
roy, Son & Co..
Before you buy a new suit Of
clothes call at Lugger & Pruett's S
and get their prices.