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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1901-08-08
pHYsIcIANs AND suRceoNs-

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diseases OF women. EdIn burgh
Medical Institute. Boston block.
DIR. MILES, removed to 1915 Heus-
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men. chronic diseases Wash. bldg.
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bldg. Tel White $50: res Bun cal.
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Tel Black $50. res. Green 1851.
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-03-15
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY.

The Florida and Metropolitan Limited
and Florida and Atlanta Fast Mail are
the finest and fastest trains operated be-
tween New York and the famous health
resorts of the Carolianas and Florida.
Pinehurst, N. c. is a model New Eng
land town, nestled among the pine-clad
sand hills of the old North State, and
only eighteen hours from New York, via
Seaboard Air Line Railway. 1t is one of
the healthiest and most enjoyable winter
resorts in America, with the finest and
most palatial hotels and best eighteen
hole golf links in the South. Through
sleeping-cars from Washington, D. c.
Passengers from north thereof can take
through car by passing from New York
Sleeper to Washington and Pinehurst
Sleeping-Car at Washington.
Camden, S. c. is one of the nearest re-
sorts for northern tourists where they
ern winters. Besides its fame as a health
full and attractive winter resort, the his
toric interests connected with the town
and locality are most quaint and inter
esting.
The Health and Pleasure Resorts of
Florida are too we'll known to need more
than passing alluSlon. lhere you ma
the most luxurious hotels and most at
tractive and popular winter resorts in
America.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway is
positively the shortest and quickest route
operating solid vestibuled limited trains,
with Pullman's latest improved service,
including Dining, Observation and Pull
man Compartment Cars, between New
York and Florida.
For information and tickets call on or
address Chas. l.. Longsdorf, New Eng
land Passenger Agent, BOG Washington
Street, Boston, Mass; ]. c. Horton,
Eastern Passenger Agent, 1906 Broad
way, New York; w. NJ. Mcconnell, Gen
eral Agent, 1884 New York Avenue, Wash
ington, D. c., or r. E. L. Bunch, General
Passenger Agent, Portsmouth, Va.
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CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES.

Borrow Napoleon's idea For Use In
Your Business Affairs.
This was Napoleon's brief statement Of
the art of war:
"The art Of war consists in having al
ways more forces than the enemy on the
point where the enemy is attacked or
where he attacks"
Napoleon won victories apparently as
easily with an inferior as with a superior
force-that is to say, Napoleon with a
hundred thousand men was perfectly
ready to meet another general with 200,-
900 men or 100000 men. He simply took
care that his men should be more numer-
GUS and better placed at the point of &C
tual decisive struggle.
Don't think that Napoleon's view Of
success in battle applies only to emper-
ors or generals or military men. Life Is
a battle, and successful strategy in one
kind of fighting means successful strate-
gy in another. I
Napoleon, beginning his career as an
ambitious, cautious young soldier, repre-
senting a republican nation intensely
jealous Of military glory, knew that he
must not expect too great support from
home-that he must win or perish.
Very often he could not equal his adj
versaries in numbers but always he man
aged to surpass them in numbers at the
particular point where the hard fighting
occurred.
ITO march always on the enemy at an
angle and destroy his forces in detail"
Such was his successful plan. On one
occasion three armies marched against
him. They took different routes, sta
toned themselves in what they consider
ed to be superb strategic positions. The
army was almost three times as great as
his own. He attacked one-third of this
foolish force and destroyed it while the
other two-thirds looked helplessly on.
He attacked the second third and won
the day. He could not have beaten the
three-thirds had they combined their
forces at every fighting point as he COM
bined his.
"What has that to do with the agent
trying to sell lot of goods? What has
that to do with the unemployed man look
ing for job?
If you ask one Of these two questions,
we can answer easily. Every man who APP
proaches another with an object attacks
him on some one point He need not be
In all ways the equal Of the man whom
he approaches. Let him simply be better
prepared on the point of attack. If he
wants work from the other man, let him
be prepared to show that he can do the
work and that the other man needs to
have 1t done.
II he wants to sell merchandise, let
him be thoroughly prepared to prove that
his goods are the best and that they are
really needed.
II the man who wants to win on a GER
tain point will concentrate all his forces
on that point, he can carry the day. Bor-
row Napoleon's idea. Learn to concen-
trate your forces.-Chicago American.
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Fla wouldn,t Quite DO.

IT would like" she said, marching up
to the counter with swing that was cal
culated both to attract attention and in
spire awe, ito see the manager Of this
department"
The clerk, seeing that she was beauti-
full, smiled at her in his blandest way, felt
that he ought to avail himself of any
opportunity there might be to explain
things to her and sweetly replied:
81 don't see him anywhere around just
now. Won't dot"
She looked up and down him few
times, permitted an expression that he
didn't quite understand to overspread her
features and then replied:
''No, don't think you will. I'm his
wife, and
But the clerk had gone to hunt for him.
Chicago Times-Herald.
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CRANK LETTER WRITERS.
individuals Who Make Trouble For
the PostofHce Omcials.

Individuals Who Make Trouble For
the Postomce Ofhcials.
Eccentric letter writer's move the post
office employees to profanity and their
correspondents to mirth and doubts as to
their sanity. Many people have a ma
mia for putting stamps on envelopes In
unusual prices. What especial pleas
ure they find In this 1t Is difficult to say,
but they evidently find It, for they dis
play considerable ingenuity In selecting
strange places on the envelope. The
back of the envelope, the lower left hand
corner, the middle of the envelope, etc,
are sought out by this form Of crank.
Then there are the people who persist
In affixing the stamp ''skew cornered"
and those who have a mania for putting
It on upside down. All these eccen-
tricities cause great annoyance to the
postal clerks Probably the criminals
who commit the deeds consider that their
stamp juggling shows individuality"
A person well known to the British
postal authorities always writes the ad-
dress on the postage stamp. An inter
view with a mail clerk on a lonely road
would probably not be pleasant expert
ence for this person, but to the credit of
the service it may be said that these sim
gularly addressed letters have always
been delivered punctually and correctly.
In st. Louis is man who always
writes his letters In rhyme. Even note
to the butcher is a poem" This highly
gifted individual says that he can write
verse bt ter than prose; hence his "drop-
ping into poetry" A pedantic young
London doctor is accustomed to write
his letters to his intimate friends In
Greek characters. As his circle Of &C
quaintance is fairly well educated, the
result Is not so perplexing as 1t might
be. A cotton manufacturer of Manches-
ter, England, uses different colored inks
when writing letters, making the color
appropriate to the occasion. Thus for
business purposes he uses black ink, for
personal acquaintance red ink, and to
ladies he writes in ink of delicate violet
hue. Some people try to get all the
stamps they can on a letter instead Of
using one stamp of the required denomi-
nation. letter recently was received
from a French crank which had on II Is
stamps to make up the cents required.
This extraordinary collection consisted
Of ten stamps each of 2 centimes value
and five Of l centime value each.-New
York PrssA
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-03-15
A Word of encouragement.

Great things have resulted from q
word of encouragement. Down in the
bottom of her heart Nathaniel Haw-
thorue's wife may have felt bit dis
couraged when her husband came home,
ell sad and depressed, after having re-
ceived word that he had lost his posi-
ton in the custom house. He did not
then know where to turn for new en-
p!oyment and said so. But his wife babe
him cheer up and write. When the dis
heartened man told her he could not af-
ford to labor with financial results I'M
certain, she showed him the little store
Of gold that she had put by and told him
to sit down and write the book he had
been talking of wanting to write. And
not long after that the world had 1.-The
Scarlet Letter." which it still prizes
Exchange
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-03-15
Examiners Notice.

The undersigned examiners, appointed
by the County Commissioners ofHarford
county, to locate public road in the
Second District, beginning at point on
the public road leading from the Aberdeen
to Havre de Grace road to Robin Hood
School House. in the I'd Election District
i'll Hartford county, said point OF begin
ming being Just north ofSwan Greek cross
ing the p w. s, B. r. r. Co., and running
thence through the lands of Charles B.
Osborn and the p, w. & B. r. K. Co., i'll
a northeastern direction until it inter-
sects the public road as now located, rum
ming from Aberdeen to Havre de Grace, a
short distance north ofOsborn's crossing.
And also to open the public road from
a point on the Aberdeen and Havre de
Grace road, said point being about half
way between the point where Swan
Creek crossing on the Robin Hood School
House road intersects said. public road
and the said road crosses the P, w. &
R. X. at its grade crossing known as Os-
born's crossing and running thence in a
north westerly direction through the
lands of Laura c. Hipkins and Thomas
Hopkins, her husband, and the p, w. &
B. K. X. Co. until it intersects the first
mentioned proposed road. And to close
said public road leading from Aberdeen
to Havre de Grace from a point on said
road where the last mentioned proposed
road starts to point just north OF Os-
born's crossing on said railroad where
the first mentioned proposed road inter
sects the said road and also to close that
part of the public road leading from
Aberdeen and Havre de Grace road over
the tracks of the P. W. & B. R. K. Co,
leading towards Robin Hood School
House at point known as Swan Creek
Crossing, that lies across the right of way
of the said p, w. & B. r. X. Co., hereby
give notice that they will meet on the
ground, on Wednesday, April 10, 1901,
at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, for the purpose
above designated.
w. T. CLARK,
w. S. SILVER,
VIM. WEBSTER,
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TEDDY.

Seemed that all the sunshine left the house when
Teddy went;
Never CLEANED so bright . beam as Teddy's black
eyes sent.
Whsther they dash 10 anger or glow with ferveni
love,
They're the dearest eyes in all the world
The eyes Of the girl love.
Oh, yes, she's girl, is Teddy, though she bears
such qucerish namel
She was christened Nell, but she and like this
one Just the same.
daughter of old Virginia; one of the fairest,
too,
With jeweled mind that watches above,
A heart that Is brave and true.
But, alas, our northern winters were too wild for
my Southern Rose,
And she's gone away to the southland, away from
its winds and snows,
But I'll welcome her back In the springtime,
When the violet opens her eyes, and I'll count
the time of her coming
Not by months, but bye and byes.
Rose VanB. Specie in Scranton Tribune,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-03-15
.AcKsoN's FAMOUS COTTON BALES.
Even Though They Never Existed
Their Memory Is Cherished.

Their Memory Is Cherished.
81 was very much surprised to learn
the other day." said a visitor from Bur-
lington, VT, at one Of the hotels, shat
jackson had no cotton in his fortifca-
tons during the battle of New Orleans.
Whether the younger generation Is bet
ter advised / am unable to say, but the
cotton bale legend is believed religious
ly by middle aged people all through
the New England states. They are proud
Of 1t as a master example of what might
be called Yankee cunning, and before
you could shatter their faith in the story
you could persuade them that WASH
ington didn't cross the Delaware and
that Benedict Arnold was a high minded
American patriot.
II attended public school when was Q
boy at Greenfield, Mass" continued the
speaker, "and l remember distinctly the
account of the battle Of New Orleans that
was given in our intermediate History
of the United States 1t described the
cotton bale Notifications as q happy in
spiration which came to Jackson at the
last moment as a possible means of Off
setting the immense preponderance Of the
British forces. According to the narra-
tive the cotton was piled up in a gigantic
wall, and when the enemy's artillery
opened fire the projectiles bounded back
from its surface like rubber balls thrown
against the side Of a house. | remember
that the incident tickled US boys inn
mensely. We thought it was such good
joke on the Englishmen, and years after
ward whenever anything would remind
me of the battle Of New Orleans would
Instantly have mental vision of crowd
Of astonished artillerymen lodging their
own cannon balls. The small American
loss was attributed solely to this remark
able piece of strategy, and the chapter
was embellished with a full page wood
cut, which is as clear to my minds eye
as II had seen 1t yesterday. 1t repre-
scented what was evidently intended to be
one Of the fortifcations-a solid, square
sided, rectangular wall of bales, with reg
ular apertures for cannon. On one side
was q line of men dressed like the tradi-
tionsl dime novel trapper, each with Q
coonskin cap on his head and a rifle
about nine feet long, and on the other
side was a dense mass Of British grena-
diers, wearing what looked like bishops
miters. A number of cannon balls were
seen lying on the ground outside, where
they had bounded from the elastic ram
parts, and the grenadiers were plainly
getting the worst of It.
"That picture stands today as the &C
cepted New England version Of the bat
tie, and the man who attempted to pluck
out those venerated cotton bales and sub
stitute ordinary Mississippi river mud
would have a disagreeable job on his
hands. wouldn't like to undertake it,
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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FOR SALE. II II
. GOOD FARMS.

1st. A FARM of PIP ACRES, half
mile north of Churchville, about $50
Acres under cultivation, balance in good
Timber. The land is good, well watered,
well fenced. Two good DWELLING
HOUSES, comparatively new, new Barn
and large Cattle Shed, Granary, Tool
House and Smoke House. Good Apple
Orchard. Price $500.
I'd. A FARM of 166 ACRES, two
miles from Fallston, on the road to High
Point. About 100 Acres under cultiva-
ton, balance in good Timber. Land is
good and easily worked. Large Dwell
LING HOUSE, old but in thorough re
pair; Barn and Stabling for 10 cows and
6 horses, Granary, Ice House and Car
riage House Price 81, 100.
w. BEATTY HARLAN,
Churchville.
D~On Wednesdays in Bel Air.
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he Ass and 1ptelligeqcee,
Is Published Epery Friday.
FINNEY & DASHIELL.
..TERMS.-$1.OOA Year in Advance. /

Transient advertisements Square
3 insertions or less $1.50. Each subse-
quent insertion 25 cents. Longer adver-
tisements in the same proportion. A
space equal to six lines makes square
Figure work double price.
Obituaries and Personal Communica-
lions will be inserted at 5 cents per line.
Yearly Advertisements at Special Rates.
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He Wasn't.

Costigan-Don't say you amt done
nothin.
Madigan-And why not?
Costigan-Because that isn't good Eng.
lish.
Madigan-Faith. I'm glad to hear it,
for BY the powers, nayther am I.-Phila.
delphis Catholic Standard aud Times.
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THE EAGLE HOTEL,
CHAS. A. McGAW, Proprietor.
BEL AIR, ND.

The undersigned has assumed charge
of this old and wel[known hotel and
proposes to cater to the travelling public
i'll the most approved manner. To those
who know the situation and advantages
of the ''Old Eagle" no comment is neces-
sary. 1t is unsurpassed for its quiet,
beautiful and homelike attractions. AS
a summer boarding place it is unexcelled
and its reputation as a stopping place
carefully nurtured. Everything will be
under the personal care of the proprietor,
and his ambition is to make the saying
true-"Once a customer, always a custo-
MGR" Special terms for large parties on
application.
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Different.

Hell wish was worth million dol
lars.
She-I don't like to hear you talk that
way. 1t sounds mercenary.
He-So that could give 1t all to you,
dear.
She-After all, it is not money that one
cares for, but the things that money will
buy.-Boston Transcript.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-30
Especial to Inter Mountain,)

Bozeman, Nov. 30.-Farminy is an
honorable profession. Men who TIL the
soil and reap the harvests of the earth
follow more closely the pursuit which
Providence intended them to than any
other class OF people on this mundane
sphere. When it comes to independence
there is not another profession in exist
ence to compare with it.
The tanner follows the seasons-in
the spring his thoughts turn towards
the pillow and the seed with which to
SOW his land; in the summer he watches
the young shoots of wheat, oats, barley
or other cereal or grasses slowly but
surely pass from their infancy to matu-
rity; and in the fall he gathers in the
golden harvest and prepares to trans
port his crop to market; and, lastly, in
the winter, he feeds his stock for the
spring market and plans the next years
work.
And SO farmers life is not a lazy
one, but Is one continuous round of
seasons which bring with them hopes
and wishes, disappointments and despair,
successes and failures the same as in
any other calling in life.
An Unborn Instinct.
Not every man can be a farmer, for
like other professions there must be
that Unborn instinct that directs the
thoughts in the right direction SO that
the body may work in unison with the
mind. Any man can hold a pillow and
drive team after fashion, but if he
does not care for his LOB" he will not
make very good plowman or teamster.
In the West, where the virgin soil
produced so abundantly, very little
knowledge of the profession Of farming
has been brought into practice, but a.
the country grows older and more thick
~ settled it is becoming more and more
apparent that the science of husbandry
must be learned in order that the best
results may be obtained and that at
minimum expenditure of labor or cash.
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SHIPMENTS OF GOLD
BREAK ALL RECORDS.
GSSSoeSSGHSSSSSSSSSSS

On the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse Of the North German Lloyd COM
pany. which sails from this port tomor-
row. will be shipped $7.o50,0oo Of gold by
American firms. This will be the largest
consignment Of gold in one ship in the
financial history Of the country. The
shipment is remarkable in many ways
and particularly in the fact that this
great output will be shipped to Europe
with only 100000 Of it covered oy in
surance, SO that II any accident should
happen to the steamer in her journey
across the Atlantic over $4,000. 900 of it
will turn out dead loss.
None of the insurance companies Of tbs
city will undertake risk Of more than
5000. 900 of money going out Of the coun-
try. The foreign exchange bankers, in
their eagerness to get 1t across the At.
lantic to the continental financial cen-
tiers. where just now there is an enor-
nous demand for gold, have thrown all
restrictions aside and assumed the re-
sponsibility for over one-third Of the linz
mense amount that will be shipped TO-
morrow.
shipping gold from this country to
shipment has been showing steady
gains. The demands for gold from the
other side have been proportionate,y in
creasing. and they were met as quickly
and as fully as they could be.
Ofsthe firms that are interested in the
gold shipment Lazard Freres have .
consignment Of $2,500.000 Hai ieloach,
Ickelheimer & Co. $l500.O00; Goldman
Sachs & Co.. ST. 00. 900: Kidder. Peabody
& Co.. $75O.OO0 and the National City
Bank. 81. SOC. 900. making a total Of $780,.
600. The total gold exports this fall have
been ST. 00O,0 900 in round numbers.
Assuming that the shipment is $685.
900. it means, should the shipment be In
the usual form, eagles. the entire ship
ment would weigh $50, S9S. 600 grains. each
eagle weighing 25S grains. In avoirdu-
pois, the shipment would weigh 1853
pounds. or nearly 13 tons. Given to men
to carry. each man being supposed to
take 100 pounds. it would require 256
men, with a boy to carry the balance
that would be left over. 1t would be q
load for freight car or for seven
trucks. Expressed in cubic inches. the
shipments contain 1902. $50 cubic inches
Chicago Record-Herald.
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and took an enthusiastic interest, dis
cussing the various ways of making the
most of soils. economic irrigation and
other topics pertaining to horticulture
and agriculture.
Give Farmers the Benefit.
AS stated above the stan Of the ex-
pertinent station will attend the various
institutes and give the farmers the
benefit of their studies along the special
lines embraced in their respective pro-
fessions.
Director Fortier, who is one of the
most widely known engineers in the
West. will devote the greater portion of
his lectures and addresses to irrigation.
There is probably no better posted
man in Montana, or even in the arid
states than Mr.. Fortier on irrigation,
and as nearly every farmer, be he grain,
ruit, cattle. sheep or diversified rancher
depends more or less on irrigation to
grow his grain and fruit. or raise hay
to feed his stock. it is important ne
should learn all that he possibly can in
this respect.
DR.. Traphagen has spent a great deal
of time the past summer and fall gath
ering together samples of the various
soils of the state for the purpose Of ex-
amining them to determine whether SUI
gar beets will prosper and pay for their
raising. and also what can be done with
alkali lands. He will. of course. take up
other important subjects which he has
investigated as chemist of the Agricul-
tural college.
DIR. Blankenship has spent much time
during the summer vacation in investi-
eating the poisonous plants of the state,
and especially those which have proved
fatal to sheep and other stock. He will
also talk on new varieties of grasses