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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-02-01
CAR FARE COLLRTtRAL.
Some OF the Things offered For
Rides In New York.

az wish to 20 to One Hundred and Six
tcerth street, and l haven't ticket.
Here is Il S. umbrella. Couldn't you lot
ne i;uc ii ! leave it rs security"
The qu"sticuer, a handsomely dressed
woman. Scene, the elevated road sta
ton at Tweuty-third street. The woman
was rcering through the ticket sellers
window with an anxious expression on
her face.
The dispenser of tickets looked at the
woman scrutinizingly a moment. Then,
without a word, he passed a ticket
through the little window. In exchange
the woman thrust her closely rolled, silk
covered umbrella through the aperture.
There was a bail of enameled copper on
the end of the handle, and to outward
appearances the umbrella was worth ey-
cry cent Of the woman's estimate.
oh, we get plenty of that sort" said
the ticket seller aftcrwurd. Il had wo-
man offer me a French poodle, but as it
is against the law TO let dogs on the train
l couldn't take the collateral. A byStand
er bought her the ticket, however, and
she went off.
'Au sorts OF things are left. One day
nm old gentleman left a pair of gold cuff
buttons as security. lie never came back
Whether he forgot what station it was or
whether he left town l never knew. That
was six months ago. | am wearing the
buttons now.
p "Saaetimcs they leave books, but I
have refused TO take these, as the read
eIa never call for them. y well known
cluh>aan LETT a fine matchbox one night.
Ii mad his name and address on it. lie
forgot il, ard three weeks aftcrward L
mailed it to him. lie sent me 81 for my
trouble and said 1 had cleared up a mys-
terry He had suspected one of his serV-
ants OF stealing the article. 1t was late
one night when he got on, and perhaps
he had been out to some little extent.
q have had pockctkniyes, brooches.
umbrellas. walking sticks, workbaskets,
gloves and suits of clothes left with me.
Usually the owners redeem their 5 cent
pledges the same day. Sometimes
keep them weeks and months. The great
stations for these things are Twenty
third. Twenty-cighth, Thirty-third and
Fourteenth streets on the west side and
Ninth and Twenty-eighth streets on the
east side.
Besides leaving personal property for
rides, some travellers do curious things.
Persons in a rush will hold their tickets
in one hand and throw whatever they
have in the other into the ticket box.
Women are the offenders in this line. l
saw 4 woman drop her baby on the top
OF box one day. 1t was only the ter
rifcd cry Of the infant that brought her
to her senses. The act was a thought
less impulse, of course, and as the baby
was moi hurt the incident created no en-!
of amusement
sometimes they drop small packages
into the boxes. a woman broke the
glass in the box on the station with her
umbrella not long ago. She was making
a rush to catch Harlem train and
thrust the umbrella instead of the ticket
into the box.
There is an old gentleman who gets
on at Siyty-siXth street who invariably
tErusts his morning paper into the tickle
box. The guard at that station has had
to call him back several times."-New
York World.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-02-01
HUXLEY WAS A SMOKER.
So His Speech, to the Antitobacco
LeaaIIc WINS DisnDDoiQtiur


The late Professor Huxley during one
of his leCturing tours received an invita-
ton to preside at a meeting 10 be held
the following night by the Antitobacco
league. Though somewhat surprised, the
professor accepted the invitation and the
following evening was duly installed in
the chair. There was a large gathering,
and the learned gentleman received a
hearty reception.
Ladies and gentlemen" said the pro-
fessor on rising. y shall open this meet
ing by relating a little incident which oc-
CURED some years ago. | was on a visit
to q very dear friend of mine who was
at that time deeply interested in dis
covcTy then recently made in connection
with science. and being mach interested
in the same subjccl myself we frequently
exchanged views, which naturally led to
much animated discussion. However,
aotwithsi alLing tie similarity of our
tastes in various studies. there was one
point on which We diffprci-my friend
was an invPtcrate smoker. while |, on the
contrary, detcStrd tobacco in any form.
tGreat applause.l
after dinner we usually retired to his
study in order to discuss this important
discovery. Finding myself on one of these
occasions nearly sutfOcatcd with the
smoke from my friends cigar mildly ex-
postulated, whercupon, pushing the CT
gars toward me. he exclaimed, Take one
yourself, old man. it's the best remedy
Knowing from experience it would be
impossible to induce him to relinQuish
his, reluctantly took cigar and smok-
ed it, and since thar time, ladies and gen
!,
me-[supprrSSrd applause would in
duce me-" resumed the learned chair
man. ito forcgo my after dinner weed"
To-
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that, but he knew that the singer I'M
DER. TODD the situation, and the words
stuck in his throat.
Meanwhile the success Of the per
formancc and of the new singer grew.
Before the end was reached the mem
bers of the company had congratulated
Miss Evans heartily upon her triumph.
The last traces of the girls nervous
ness disappeared. She walked as on
clouds. and in the final trio she poured
forth such a flood of voice as she had
never known that she possessed. The
audience was stirred quite out of the
habit of putting on wraps during the
last scene 1t sat delighted and called
out the singers after the final curtain
had fallen. The men called "Brava!
loudly. ard the recall became an ova-
ton. Alice Titus companion leaned
forward. waved her handkerchief cried
"Bravaw and did what she could to
stimulate the excitement. Somebody
cried: Evans! Evans" and Maras-
Guin led forward the trembling but
happy Marguerite.
men lIlt iutIiSlltp Bi'-St-l " 80 'iil.
but the woman in black sat still. Her
lips were white. and when her COM
paniOn rose she did not move. The
other woman averted her face and bus
led herself with her wrap. At last the
passage to the stage door was cleared.
and the woman in black rose heavily
and walked slowly toward it.
e%i in c-4p
clothes. outside his dressing room. The
woman In black passed in without
word. Faust dismissed his dresser.
entered and closed the door. His wife
was leaning on the back of q chair.
sobbing. He raised her to his arms.
saying softly: ''There, darling, don't
take It so desperately. Think Of all
the drudgery you escape by being ont
of the harness"
She still cried. nesting on his shoul-
der. Presently she raised her face.
kissed him and said: You're wonder
fully good to me, Fred. but even your
tenderness cannot disguise the fact
that am gray. l was told Of it TO-
night by a chit of q girl with pink
cheeks"
The mans face flushed with anger
and his wife fastened to add: she did
not mean any harm, dear. and she did
not think l could hear. She was sur
prised into speaking too loudly when
was pointed out to her as your Wife.
She could not believe 1t, and | must
say" with a rueful glance into the
large dressing mirror, that | can't
blame her."
Nonsense, 6earl OF course It was
only the make up"
ooh. / know all about that. and
know 1 could look 20 on the stage to-
morrow. But for all that l would do
every bit of my hard work over again
for the youth of that little chit behind
me- Time is more cruel to women
than eternity can ever "-Br0oklyn
Eagle.
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The First EleVnfNr.

Elevators are by no means the recent
inventions generally supposed. An
amusing account of what was probably
the first attempt at an elevator is told
by ST. Simon, and. according to him,
1t was from NJ. Viilayer that the idea
of flying chair" first emanatod. This
ingenious person set up a pc sable
prototype of the modern elevator in his
house in Paris. working It up and down
between the walls.
The daughter of Louis XIV was so
delighted with the novelty that she
had one put up in her own apartments
Mt Versailles This homer was. how
ever. the undotng of poor N. Villagers
machine. The chair suddenly stopped
moving while the princess was be-
tween two landings, and she had to
remain blocked up for three hours I'M
til the workmen broke hole through
the thick wall. The king was so an
noyed at this that he forbade any fur
Their experiments in the same line.
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RARE LUXURY OF THE TABLE.
Bird That Lives on Poisonous In
sects In a Delicate Morsel.

you would scarcely suppose" said ex-
Mayor Frank Holland of Dallas, That q
bird that fattened itself on an insect
which will blister your flesh almost az
quickly as the burning head of a parlCr
match would be such a table luxury, but
there is such a bird, and compared with
it your woodcock on toast is common
place. Few persons in the north ever
heard of this bird, l guess, much less
ever tasted one, but every one knows
Spanish fly.
1.-The bird is called the papabote, and
folk who profess to be sharp on such
things say it belongs to the piover fami-
ly. 1t is about the size of the woodcock.
with sober gray plumage and short,
hard bill. The coming of the Spanish
ny upon the foliage in the localities it
frequents is sudden and mysterious. No
one knows whence it comes or whittier it
goes. 1t disappears as mysteriously as it
comes. 1t is most destructive insect,
coming in countless myriads, and eats
ravenously of growing things. But the
papabote comes with it, stays until tie
fly disappears and consumes millions of
the pest. The birds grow so fat on this
corrosive insect that they become literal
Iy balls covered with feathers. When
they fall before the hunter, they burst
open like ovcrripe fruit.
The hunter who goes out with dog
and gun expecting to fill his bag with
p2pabotes after the methods of the sci
entifc hunter will return without any
The papahote is the s!iyest of birds and
can be approached with gunshot in only
one way, for. unlike all known birds, it
will not crouch to the dog. 1t is heavy
OF wing. keen of sight and hearing and
rises long before the hunter is III range
resembling in this respect your common
meadow lark. 1t can be shot in no real
ly spnrtsmanlike way and only by using
a horse and wagon. The bird will per
NIT horse to walk q"ite close to it,
and the hunters take advantage Of this
and in open bugGies and spring wagons
ride about among the feeding grounds
and drop the birds as they rise on every
side in easy range.
"The papabote is considered so much
Of q delicacy in Texas and Louisiana
that small armies of men and boys make
it highly profitable shooting the birds
for market during its season. There is
not a case on record, so it is asserted, OF
person once eating Of the Spanish ny
fattened papabote who did not have IN
unconquerable desire for more. New
York Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-02-01
"Up THE SPOUT" IN CHINA.
Pecu7inrities of Pownshop Dunine,

/ ~ fHfiDp bUTlneS9
| la ihe Flowers Kingdom.
! VIVA. tie public house or hotel il to an
English town the paWU>hDp is to a Chi
ness community.
Its lofty. solid building rcars itself
above the houses and forms the most
prominent feature OF The birds eye view
of any city or town. they are now ma
tional institutions ana were known to
exist in the days of CDafUcius, over $500
years ago.
In those days usurers charged exorbi-
tant interest for money Irnt, and very
frequently the borrower disappeared
| with his booty for good. To one ingcn-
iOus lender there cane an idea. As
hostages were given i'll war as Il gnaran-
tee of good faith why Should not Dor
rowcrs deposit PLEDGES for The money
lent them? Thus originated pawnDroking
in China. The paWnshOp is a square
building. towering to some 40 or 50 feet
above the ground. The first 20 feet arc
built of sciid granite. tie remainder of
best brick. rs precautions against fire
and thieves they are most solidly built
No woodwork is allowed IN the outside
and the walls aIr raised several feet
above the roof. The windows are very
small and tightly laced with thick iron
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rronn- AVID 40 ,I.r,,n j. tfIl.,t,'I ,J
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vanres Of less than 1G s,:fiIings so mr.
cont r,oi, .,r.,rtf,, j.. ,fY...,,l f,n,,, IN sh;l
lines 10 Il - ,,r c,nt AMI On I,r,,ar
sums stig.,tIy los
But during he winter n,o,tns articIos
can be raGe;.r..d nj = reduction of one
third IN the Interest. as = concession to
the needs of The ponr,
A pls,i.-e NAV hold GOOD for ty,roa Years.
After ,h.t time II cannot be- redeemed
Pnrindi.,lir tb, ro,.nehn,,,. .orl ,fr tI,oi-
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On micrutir,, +, AusirsIio Amprica or
elsewhere, the Chinamau pawps his i'm
nIcneots Of ,vor.hin--cnrecr urn trinnd
etc tbus I.,r-;,,., +h,,, in snrp,;tr iii he
rcturn TawnsI.ns arc olso nsod no
banks.
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HAD FUN WITH THE CONDUCTOR.
After Awhile the Conductor Had
Fun with the Girls.


After Awhile the Conductor Had
Fun With the Girls.
There are six New York schoolo:rIs
who ride on the Sixth avenue cars ever =
day whose special mission in life seems to
be to have fun with the trolley conduct
ors.
The other day when the conductor
came for the fare one of them opened her
purse and began slowly and laboriously
to count out 80 pennies, which she drop
ped one by one into his outstretched
hand, while her companions gigeIed glre-
fully at the look of surprise that Cratu-
ally spread over his face. But he was
equal to the emergency and said politely,
"Thank you, MISS" as he went away.
They wanted transfers for Fifty-rinth
street and when thev got them sacb ono
put hers In her mouth and baca, TO chcw
it up. Then each transfer was rolled into
q small ball, and sharp teeth went to
work to make il a hard ball at that.
Rv this time tho nossoneers varo oII in.
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Struck 1t Rich.

AS a vessel was approaching New
York harbor the captain took his last
soundings in order to ascertain the nature
of the soil Mt the bottom of the ocean.
1t is sometimes the practice to attach a
large piece of tAllOw around the lower
end of the sounding lead. The sounding
had been made and the lead was all but
landed. when a Scottish emigrant went
to the side of the vessel 10 see the haul"
Observing the talow, he cried out:
come tae the land O Goshen moo and but
ter at the bottom o't"-Scottish Ameri-
cen.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-02-01

STORIES Of WiLnCS.5 turning the laugh
against cross examining counsel seem Il
interest everybody. One is related of thu
first Lord Ashburtpu. then Mr.. Dunning
He was trying to get at the facts as tc
the residence of Il witness who was
known to be in debt all over the place
and finally found that the man was lodg
ing in the verge of the court-that is
sanctuary.
oh said Duaning. land what reason
have you for residing therc?"
"Only TO avoid the rasoally impcrti
nence Of dumling," replied the witness.
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ga bride and groom" he said, "were
crossing the Atlantic for their honey.
moon. The weather was rough The
third day out the stewardcss came to
the groom as he lay moaning in his
berth.
"'Your bride'-she endeavored to
break it gently to him-'last night gave
up the ghost and now is rocked in the
cradle of the dcepv
we'll was the languid answer
what of It? can't help it! Don't
BOTHER me about ii now
Dear, dear" mournfully exclaimed
one Of the two Scotch gentlemen who
were being addressed Dear. dear
And. pray, who were the parrhtiesY
-Harper's Bazaar.
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OPEN tbs DOOR.

Open The door. Let in the sir;
The WINDS aTe sweet, and t,a flowers arc fair.
JOY is abroad in The war.i t,iay;
II our door is wide, it may come this way.
Open the docvI
Open the door, let in t." srn:
He hath s..liic f5F oyc!. 's,;
He hath made Of the r-.E.ir.. GOLD and gems,
He may change our tears TO .iadcms;
Open the door!
Open the door Of the soul; Jet in
Strong, pure thOuehts which shall ba7isl, in.
They will grow and bloo.l with = g.,,,.a divine,
And their fruit shall be swaeter than that OF til,
vine.
Open the Goorl
Open the door Of the h-crt; II ~
Sympathy sweet Cor STRANGER AM in.
1t viii make the halls ii tie heart 50 fair
That angels may cRt1- ra.a"are,
Open the door!
british Weekly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-02-01

"As I understand it," remarked the
stranger. as the procession disappeared
over the hill, 'the coroncr's jury re-
turned Il verdict OF death from natural
causes"
Yes" replied Rattlesnake Pete, you
see, he was naturally slow, and so wus
slower with his gun than the other fell
low, which made 1t very easy to get
Il k verdict."-Colorado Springs
Gazette.
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.s;5sssz u ssssssssss.s
~ sKs@say5 EeK9

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were premature births; one lived to be one wear
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TIE IEais and 1nrlliaencer:
BEL AIR, Md, FEB. I, 1901.
THE LESSON OF SORROW.


This Is the tale Of what sorrow did
Did king of old
30. q king who lived as a king may live
In palace ablaze with gold.
Snow, have Joy and liie.'' said he,
"And all things in th,ir scope.
Ho! Tell me, men of wisdom great,
What need have / OF hopper
'SWhat need have Of hopeH" cried hes
"Of hope for future thingsH
Have not all that gold can give,
That gold can give to kings"
The wise men reasoned with the king
In voices sage and dim,
But naught could show, and none could tell
Why hope should come TO him
Yet sorrow came In her sombsr garb,
All habitcd in woe;
Size taught the king mighty truth
That all men come to know.
She taught the king lesson sore
A Lesson grave and grand
Fer smiling hope. with gentle clasp
Held sorrow by the hand.
This is the tale Of what sorrow did
Did for the King OF old
The king who lived as a king may li1e>
All psnoplied in gold.
'Ah, men of wis!3In!" cried the king,
''Your teachings were in vain,
For have learned when scrruw comes
Then hope comes in her train"
Josh Wink in Baltimore American.
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"Why, YOU wicked boy. You were
playing games with those naughty chill
dren Oh the Sabbath day. l must punish
you severely"
"But, mamma. these were the children
Of thai man on III" avenue that YOU said
made million dCi!arS 'ast month"
''Gh. "vll don't 'ot ! happen again.
Cleveland Iiain Dee...r.
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Amateur Tenor twho has been abroad
--Ah, my man, you are an eye doctor, /
understand?
Oculist-I am nm oculist. sir.
Yes; well, what want to know "a
whether there is any way to prevent the
eyes from filling with water while sing
Ing?"
None that know Of except to steel
your heart against the sufferings Of the
audience. London Tit-Bits.
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Nodd-Iiow do you like your country
home?
Todd-It's great place. The only
drawbacl; is that l can't sell it.-Har-
per's Bazar.
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"a wise guy" once said. Every foil
ure is step toward success" This may
explain why the oftener some men fail
the richer they JCcome.-Chicago News.
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If you have quit cdstieS In The air.
work need not be lost. That is where
they should be. Now put foundations un-
der them.
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There are tive reasons why some people
do not mind their own business. One is
they haven't any business. and the other
is they haven't any mind.