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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
XXI TABLETS"

This is no remedy discovered by the Quick
Ilack Indians or any other ignorant persons.
L Is the result of five years experimenting by
scientific specialist, and you can take It with
he certainty that it will do no harm if it does
not do you much good !twon't keep your hair
rom falling out. nor VIII it cure any and every
iisease All it is good for is Rheumatism, Kid
lev trouble, and kindred diseases, but 1t Is
mighty good for them.
Still, it won't cure every case of Rheumatism.
Some cases can't he cured. But it will abso-
utely RELIEVE ANY CASE. and II properly
akei cure most of them. Neither do You have
o wal: two months for results. This remedy
aims to give ALMOST ms FAINT RELIEF, and
;ou will begin to feel results the very first day.
We have enough confidence in its merits to
furnish trial package of twelve tablets, enough
o give relief TO the most stubborn case. We
7end this for twenty-five cents ito cover cost Of
material, packing, and .postage). Then. if you
are satisfied, send for fil-sizcd package (price,
ioci of fifty tablets W. 'ch will put you in fair
way to complete recover
The tablets are not nasty, hut easy to swallow.
You see how plainly we tell you just what we
have to OFF,. That $ because we are using hon
est methods with All honest remedy.
Q Address: XXI CHEMICAL CO.,
Room 33sA, EquitabI. Bldg, Baltimore, Mo.
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What Women Don't Know.

zone Of the mistakes of women"
said a woman's lecturer the other day,
"is in loving too much. They can nev-
er make mistake in loving. but they
ought to be careful in picking out the
man. They are rather apt to do it ON
the grab bag principle. Another of the
mistakes of woman Is not knowing
how to rest, and still another is not
knowing how to eat. What women
don't know about both has built 10000
hospitals. Consider the way of man
and be wise. Women worry too much.
They are misers to jollity, and they
nearly always die leaving n large &C.
count In the Bank of Merriment."
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
A Primer Qmeafinn.

"And clothes" argued the missionary
further. "are as cheap as dirt"
The tropic heather did not conceal
her misgivings.
eyes; but are they as hygienic" fall
tered this simple child Of the forest.
Her health was quite perfect now,
and there was no telling what might
not be the effect Of corsets and skirts
which do not hang from the shoulders.
to say nothing Of the wells with dots
In them.-Detroit journal.
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The Egls and 1ptellieepcer
BEL AIR. ND. JANUARY 5 1900
A STAR FANCY FOR A CHILD.

When summer nights warm and dry,
The scorpion, with his flaming eye,
Down in the south as twilight grows
Watches the lily and the rose.
He sees the poppies and the stocks,
The sunfowers and the hollyhocks;
Though all the trees thick and green,
With his red eye he looks between.
But when the nights begin to freeze
Eastward behind the naked trees
Orion lifts his head to spy
Those stars that in the garden lie.
The Scorpion told him how they grew,
Purple and pink and white and blue;
So night by night Orion goes
To find the lily and the rose.
Night after night you see him stride
Across the south at Christmastide;
Though all the fields are white with snow,
He watches for those stars to blow.
But when tits near his time to rest,
Leaning his head toward the west,
When April nights are sharp and clear,
He sees those garden stars appear.
For just before he sinks from sight
lie sees the borders strown with light,
And, looking back across the hills,
Beholds the shining daffodils.
q. Forester Scott John Halsham) in Spsc
Not
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q aMe.n

Tfeainmher a cultured, refined, edu-
Gated poop j 81 Slip pto error in the
use of 81" andsrme" is Mrge and ap-
pears to be continually growing. Their
trouble lies in their inability to sepa-
rate the first person from the third,
where both are referred to, as in the
expression, "Tom asked he and 1 IT,"
etc.
1 heard a very clever man say yes
terday, George said that him and me
were the only two in the store" A
lawyer in Pine street, well known as a
man Of unusual ability, gets 1t wrong
nearly every time by striving hard to
get it right. He is so afraid that my
client and l" is incorrect that he COM
promises on my client and myself"
He knows MY "client and me" will not
do.
By separating the first and second
persons this stumbling block is instant
ly removed, and even n child cannot
err. George said that him and me
were" might fool some people, but
George said that him was" could not
trip any one. Neither could George
said that me was" Now, altogether,
George said that he was; George said
that 1 was; therefore George said that
he and 1 were."-New York Press.
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"Woman's work Is never done"
quoted the sympathetic citizen.
''That's right" answered Mr.. Meek
ton earnestly. ~ have observed 1t In
Henrietta's case. Woman's work is
never done. There is always enough
Of 1t left over to keep her husband
busy from the time he gets through
his dinner till he's so tired he has to
60 to bed."-Washington Star.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
BrIdegrooms Fatal 1ndrscretion.

A queer case of cannibalism is re-
ported as having recently taken place
in the Solomon islands. The Jeanette
took from Noumea a kanaka who had
acted as orderly to the immigration Of
flee there and was on his honeymoon
with his wife, intending to land at
Aoba, where his wife's tribe lives He,
however, made the mistake of disem-
barking among the wrong tribe and
was at once seized by the natives, over
powered, killed and eaten.
The widow was provided by the tribe
with second husband.-London Mail.
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Bliffers-What's wrong today? You
look blue.
Bluffers-T'll never forgive myself. l
kicked a caller out of my house last
night.
Huh! kicked many n one. Young
fellow. I suppose"
"No: past middle age"
"Well. these old dodgers have no
business coming round sparkling
young girls. l kicked out one Of that
sort last week"
"Yes. but I've found out that this
man wasn't after my daughter: he
was after my Observation-Disclosures
York Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
FLOWERS OF WITCH HAZEL.
They Bloom when Everything
Around Them Is Ice Laden.

they BI0om When Everything
Around Them tx Ice Laden.
The witch hazel is common in damp
woods all over the United States, and its
popularity Of producing flowers in the
autumn is the same irrespective of eli
mates. From the shores of Lake Michi-
gan south. the bushy, many angled little
tree will clothe itself in light yellow
flowers after the leaves have fallen from
all the trees of the forest surrounding it.
and although Gray and Wood are good
authorities, and both say, in their botan-
les, that ''the witch hazel blooms from
November to January" observation has
shown the writer that the blooms begin
to open in September before the leaves
arc cast. In October the leaves fall and
still more flowers appear, and in Novem-
Der every leaf will have been stripped
from the tree and the full flush of blooms
will clothe the branches from end to end.
The flowers are perfect, or merely po-
lygamous, and in clusters on the curiously
and sharply angled branches. and the
stamens and petals show plainly how
they are inserted in the calyx. Now, after
November the stanicns appear dendened,
but the petals retain their golden hue,
which is the reason our botanists have
for saying it blooms till January.
By u right combination of circum-
stances the witch hazel in yellow blooms
will be covered with snow and ice, when
the holly side by side with it is bright
with berries. Until after January the
flowers cling to the leatiess branches, and
then another curious phenomenon ap-
pears. At this stage the fruit. or seed, is
edible and hangs on the branches until
spring. The little fruit consists Of an
oblong, woody case, about half an inch
in length, inclosing two hard nutlets
somewhat resembling the seeds of an ap-
pie. These seeds are expelled with a
swapping sound, and any one curious to
witness the phenomenon may stand near
the witch hazel on n warm, dry, sunny
day and see it SOW it's seeds. The case
splits nearly to the base, and after the
seeds have been sent bounding the APP
peurance Of the seed cases is like the
wide open mouth of IL serpent. 1t is an
interesting experiment to cut the
branches with the embryo fruit and help
them in a warm room until the expulsion
sends the seeds bouncing a5out.-Vick's
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Not a Bit of n Popular Hero.

"Nobody seems to know much about
that man in uniform who Slipped out
Of the carriage while the crowd was
cheering the general and went back to
the hotel"
"Bless you. no. He isn't one of the
heroes. While the brave fellows were
fighting at the front. he was nursing
yellow fever patients In the hospital"
Chicago Tribune
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05

The wealthy Russians are said to be
extremely profitable to hotel and shop
keepers in the lands in which they are
travelling. A Swiss authority insists
that 200 Russians will spend more in n
month than 1000 English men and
women for the same peElod. Of time,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05

The driest of all fishes Is. perhaps,
the river eel, yet. according to an anal
ysis by a German chemist 10 per
cent Of its substance Is water. Salmon
comes next. with Ola per cent. Lob
sters and oysters are four-fifths water.
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Dusk on the wide, low plain,


The WRIT OF Life
Here is what caught reporters eye
In q two minutes study of the streets
Of New York on down town corner.
On the sidewalk, three urchins, evil
Of face, industriously shooting craps.
From the doorway of Il frowsy saloon,
ten yards away, a gray haired woman
Issuing with jug Of beer, though it
was only 10 o'clock in the morning.
A burly iceman and q negro roustabout
discussing, loudly and with much pro-
family, the advantages Of each others
Jobs. A whir and rattle Of wheels
and an undertaker's wagon drives up
to the door of a modest red brick
tenement. A white coffin, three feet
long, is brought out and received by
venerable old man, with a flowing
white beard, who comes to the door
coatless and in slippers. You then
notice for the first time the knot Of
white ribbon on the door handle. The
under his arm and retires within, fol-
lowed by the undertaker's men. He is
solemn, but fearless. There is a
story there somewhere-the slippered
patriarch in the final stage Of life per-
forming the last dolorous offices for
one lost in its beginning.
And over on the dock are the hue
and hustle, the scurry and scamper in
cidental to the getting to sea Of the
great ship. Sharp are the contrasts Of
O town.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
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Not Particular "A. to weapons.

The waiter girl knew thing or two
about table etiquette. so she shifted
scornfully as she said. ITS not our
custom to serve a knife with pie"
"No?" remarked the patron In sun
prise. '"rhen bring me an ax."-Phila.
delphla Record,
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"Mary Prim doesn't distribute tracts
any more"
"No. met her the other day. and
she smelled dreadfully Of peppermint"
"From tracts or extracts, eh|-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05

Sunday trains leave Baltimore for Delta and
intermediate stations at $50 A. N, and 400
P. NJ, stopping at Bel Air at 10 A. N: and 6.oO
and intermediate stations at 6.55 A. M. and
$50 P. NJ, stopping at Bel Air at 7.65 A. N.
and 4.3O p. n. An additional train will leave
Bel Air for Baltimore and intermediate sta
tions at BIO p. M, and Baltimore for Bel Air
st $50 P. NJ, arriving at Bel Air at 3 Z. N.
aud Baltimore $40 P. NJ.
W A MOORE. Gan'I Manager.
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The critic was the most prominent
leader of Bowery society. He Is slow
of speech and hesitates, sometimes
painfully, but when he does speak ev-
cry word hits. He does not go about,
as is the manner of less cultivated
speakers, but strikes home with few
words, mainly figurative. Although he
is full of the instructive aversions and
tastes of a man Of culture, he is a re-
tired prizefghter and spends most Of
his time in an uncommonly dirty sa-
loon.
At q ball which this leader of Bow
cry society gave "hard walk took
place, in which there were contestants
for a prize, to be given to him who
was the most natural. Any one who
should burlesQue the walk Of the Bow
cry tough was to be excluded. If the
tough walk was to be given, it was to
be given right.
"You must do it ON de level" said
the leader of society, giving prelimina-
ry instructions. You must give us de
real ting. 'Tain't no cake walk, dis
hard walk. Walk jest as If you was
walking ON de lane [Bowery1 wild yer
.N1aA2e [girll on yer arm. Anybody
taSgh, but want you to look
- sfea& ting. de bloke on de
s. 81 s. Id npa hafaer. Atlantic.
n - n - = ~ <a3SsS
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A woman with pale ears can be safe
iy set down as one whose heart is hard
to reach. while she whose ears are pink
along the curled rims and downy lobes
is q creature Of sympathetic and re-
sponsive temperament.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
DIRT CLEARANCE

l1sTlT is good plan for every bather to know
IAAga something Of the soap he Uses. There is a
lgm1E wel-founded objection to using hoor-clean-
lssZ4J ing soap Upon the human body. Ivory Soap
is the bather's SOAP 1t costs more than common
soaps, but the difference is in the ingredients and
making. Why not treat yourself with little respect.
Is not the human skin with its marvellous delcacy
entitled to pure soaps Ivory Soap-it floats.
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"Friends? | should say so. Never
suspected that had so many. Have
to let them In one door and out the
other. Best lot of fellows you ever
saw. Give 'em n big stag party to-
night"
Then the misguided youth sat down
and drew n check against the gener-
Gus legacy he had received within the
month and resented an insinuation
that his finish was visible.-Detroit
Tree Press
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TRAINS SOUTHWARK.
LEAVE.
SUNDAY TRAINS.

An additions. tram will leave Bel Air. for
Baltimore and intermediate Stations, at 2. 10.
on SATURDAY evenings only. Returning,
will leave Baltimore the same evening at 11.3O,
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DUSK ON THE WIDE, LOW PLAIN.

Dusk on the wide. low plain,
And CLINT In the foreground lying
Water fringed by ring Of tremulous whispering
reeds,
And over 1t circling bats
And the sound of the kildees' crying,
And around 1t the sigh Of the wind In q network
Of shivering weeds.
Dusk on the wide, low plain,
And a star in the distance peering
Over the serried peaks Of shifting, vanishing blue,
And oak tree black on the sand,
And hare Looping off through the clearing,
And, out where the tarweeds toss the bleat Of
wandering eve.
Dusk on the wide, low plain,
And | crane to the pools descending,
And soft where the mulleins wait. the dit Of
ground owls wing,
And hawk beating home to his perch
Where the clouds with the crests are blending,
And shades Of the fastening night round the less
ening foothills cling.
William Hisgs in Youths Companion.
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He-Yes. she made fool Of me.
She-I wonder why 1t Is Il man never
RECEIVERS from thing of that kind?-
BROOKLYN Life, --.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-01-05
When you dream
that somebody is
pushing you over a
precipice it's time

YOU looked after your stomach and liver.
You may not believe in dreams but that
particular sort of dream is likely to come
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
NEW BOATS
II Ordered. Some Will BE Built at the
Tries Yards.
Washington Bureau, The Times.
5I5 Fourteenth Street


Washington Bureau, The Times,
515 Fourteenth Street.
WASHINGTON, April 2S-Special-The
House Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries have reported faTorably
the bill authorizing the establishment, at
sscme point in North Carolina, of a sta
ton for the investigation of problems
connected with marine fishery interests
of the Middle and South Atlantic Coast.
The House Committee on Naval Al
fairs to-day gave a hearing on the prop
osition authorizing the Navy Depart
ment to contract for twenty torpedo
boats of the Holland type. Admirals
Dewey and Hfckborn We're present and
advocated their purchase. Ex-Congress-
man Trigg was also present, and after
ward gave out that If the torpedo boats
were ordered pant Of them would be
built at the Trigg yards, at Rich
rnona.
Secretary Gage to-day submitted com
:nunica ton TO Congress advocating the
establishment of a Standardizing and
Testing Bureau to accurately test and adj
just all instruments of precision used in
physics. The communication contained an
endorsement from Professor Francis II.
Smith, of the University of Virginia.
Representative Kluttz, of North Caro-
lima. to-day introduced the following
war relief claim bills: Authorizing the
payment of $3.50 to J. B. Fitzgerald, OF
North Carolina, for stores and supplies
seized by Union Army during the civil
war: authorizing the payment of $4,000
to George ". Fisher. Of North Carolina,
for property appropriated by Federal
troops during the civil war.
The President has approved the act
authorizing the holding Of regular terms
OF the District Court of the United
States for the Western District, at
Charlottesville, Va.
Senator Daniel to-day introduced bill
authorizing Secretary of the Treasury to
pay TO Samuel Good s1-2ao for supplies
seized and used by Federal troops during
the civil war.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
Attempted Suicide.

WILLIAMSBURG, VA. April 23-Spec-
ial.-Mr. Robert J. Wilkins, an attendant
at the Eastern State Hospital. attempted
to commit suicide early yesterday morn
ing, by drinking a large quantity of
laudanum. The act was discovered imme-
diately after the drug had been taken,
and only the heroic efforts of the hos
pital physicians saved him.
About a year ago Mr. Wilkins lost his
wife and recently all his children moved
away, leaving him alone. Continual brood
ing over his loneliness had made him
Respondent and lead 10 tie act.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
UNDERSI 'NDING
BET NEEN ARIES
North Carolina Populists and Re-
pubIicans to Work Together.
JOINT DEBATE REF USED.
Chairman Simmons of tho Dcmocrtic
Party Calls the Turn on Butler.
several New Companies
Chartered.

RALEIGH, n. c., April 2S.-Speciaa.-
In reply to Chairman Buffers proposition
20 Chairman Simmons 10 divide u.ne
with the pupilsist nominees Tor senate
and Sseie officials, Chairman Simmons
says: THE Populist Convention SAD lile
conssis tnfio1af amendment would mol De
rnaGs party question. but must be set
tied by the judgment and conscience cl
each voter. You ask for joint debate
upon The amendment, thus disclosing your
purpose TO commit your party to posi-
taol which IL refused to take IN the con-
yention This shows q secret .under-
standing with the Republican party
UNDERSTANDING.
lit is known that there is perfect under
standing between the two parties, ana
1he nomination Of State ticket and the
request for a Joint debate is 10 direct
and divide attention of white voters, while
the Republicans fasten negro rule on tae
State Under these circumstances 1t Is
impossible for the Democrats 20 consider
the proposition of the PopulistS- Be-
sides this the Democrats have no noTni-
nee for the Senate as yet, nor will not
have until the amendment is settled
The Mebane Land and Improvement
Company. capital stock $1,000; the Ore
diin Manufacturing Company Tor iuIia-
ture. and the Sprecks Manufacturing
Company, 10 manufacture barrels, crates,
etc. at Beaufort, were all Incorporated
Saturday.
NEusE RIVER POWER
Work has begun in earnest on the new
electric plant on Neuse River, five miles
from here. III is said the plant will be
ready for furnishing power and lights TO
the city by the end of the year, If not
sooner.
In a yard in the centre of the city here,
there is a Japan walnut tree in full
bloom These blooms are ten or twelve
inches long and are very peculiar There
is Persian walnut tree in the same
yard, but il has never bioomed.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
ENTHUSIASTIC CONFEDERATE
Will Paint the Stars and Bars on His
Roof.

Roof.
FREDERICKSBURG, VA. April 20
Epecial-An enthusiastic ex-Confederate
IN Madison county will paint Confed-
crate flag on the roof OF his residence.
The first excursion OF the season to
this city will be given by the Ladies
Aid Society OF Calvary Baptist Church,
Richmond county. up the Rappahannoek.
by a Weems Line steamer, May I'd.
Many distinguished people will attend
the encarnpment of the Army of the
Potomac In this city May 18th and Goth.
General FitZ. Lee, in acknowledging an
inyitation, writes that he is anxious to
he present, hut cannot determine until
later whether his official duties will ad-
unit of his absence from Cuba at that
time.
The vault at the clerks Office at
spotsylvania Courthouse will be re-
modelled and enlarged for safe keeping
of the court records.
Judge J. z. Mason has appointed the
following Pension Board FOR Westmore-
land county: ]. P. jenkins, ]. w. Har-
vey. L. Washington. Dr. ". II. Fairfax
j. ii. Beale.
Mr.. Eugene Foster has purchased Of
Mrs E. S. boswell two handsome
building lots on Chariels Street, one Of
which he at once sold to Mr.. Hugh D..
Scott, who will erect this spring mod
ern residence.
Circuit Judge ]. e. Mason will leave
81 a few days with his family for his
country residence, in King George. where
e,e will spend the summer.
The finances of Spotsylvania are in
good condition. The county is out of
debt and has 5000 in the treasury.
Hall as large as hickory nuts fell for
81 short time near Zoan Church. in this
county, yesterday.
-. q 9,sy,I n- OF
day afternoon lightning struck St.
Georges Episcopal Church, but did only
slight damage. a lady who was attend
sing choir practice at the time was
stunned.
Rev. S. K. Forrer preached special
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-24
SEALED PROPOSALS.
Commonwealth of Virginia,
Office of the

Commonwealth of Virginia,
Office of the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
Richmond, Va, April 8. 1900
ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY CON
ferred upon them by law. the under
signed Commissioners Of the Sinking
Fund of Virginia, hereby advertise that
they will RECEIVE OFFERS FOX
THE SALE OF $4,000 OF BONDS OF,
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, issued
under act of February IA. 1SS2, known
as "Riddleberger, or act or FEBRUARY
20, 1892, known as Century Bonds
All proposals must be in the hands Oh
the commissioners at or before j.
o'clock NJ on MAY /. 1900.
All offers must be in writing, ad-
dressed to the Commissioners of the
SINKING Fund of Virginia, must De
sealed and will be opened by the com
missioners, or a majority of them, on
the I'd of May, 1900. at noon, IN the pres
ence of the Governor of the common
wealth; or, in the event OF ms az
sence in the presence OF the secretary
OF the Commonwealth.
The bonds offered at the lowest price
shall be purchased to the extent ABOVE
named, provided the said commissioners
shall have authority TO reject any ana
all bids, or accept a portion or the pchdS
that may be offered by any party
JOSIAH RYLAND, JR.,
A W. HARTMAN. JR-,
MORTON MARYE.
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund OF
Virginia. apo