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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08

Husband you think that you
are rather unreasonable to expect Inc
to take you to Il ball, stay awake until
4 o'clock and tlE-n get up at S to go to
my work:
Wifc-I may be little unreasonable,
but it's perfectly brutal of you to men.
ton it-Ncw York Weekly
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08
Arizona.

Arizona exceeds i'll area the following
ten states combined: Rhode Island,
Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Maryland, West Virginia and
South Carolina.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08
TRAINS SOUTHWARK.

All additional train will leave Delta
for York and intermediate stations at
5 rs A. NJ. Returning will leave York
at 5 05 F. NJ
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Sunday trains leave Baltimore for Delta
and intermediate stations at $50 A. NJ
and 4.OOP. NJ, stopping at Bel Air at 10
y. NJ. and $50 p. NJ. They will leave
Delta for Baltimore and intermediate
stations at 655 a. NJ. and $50 p. NJ,
stopping at Bel Air at 1855 A. NJ. and
400 p. NJ. An additional train willleave
Bel Air for Baltimore and intermediate
stations at SO p. NJ, and Baltimore for
Bel Air at 10 90 2. NJ, arriving at Bel Air
at II 90 F. NJ. and Baltimore $50 =. VI.
CA. FIFER, General Passenger Agent
]. S. NORRIS, General Manager.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08
Plenty of Truth.

Perhaps" venturcd the unsuccess-
full contributor. you didn't consider
my little ode true to life"
"Oh, it was true enough" replied the
editor. II assure you there was more
truth than poetry in what you said"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08

The most expensive wine in the world
is some 171S Madeira recovered from Il
wreck in the Scheldt i'll 1911. 1t was
sold at Ella per bottle.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08
A Sinm Custom.

When a parsonage Of high rank dies
in Siam, the king helps battle the body
and prepare it for cremation and final
ly lights the funeral pyre.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08
Do You Enjoy
What You Eat I?

You can eat whatever and whenever you
like if you take Kodol. By the use of this
remedy disordered digestion and diseased
stomachs are so completely restored to
health, and the full performance of their
functions naturally, that such foods as would
tie one into a double bow-knot are eaten
without even "rumbling" and with posi-
tive pleasure and enjoyment. And what is
more these foods are assmilated and
transformed into the kind of nutriment that
is appropriated by the blood and tissues.
Kodol is the only digestant or combination
of dgestants that will digest all classes Of
food. In addition TO this fact. it contains, in
assimilative form, the greatest known tonic
and reconstructive properties.
Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia and al.
disorders arising therefrom.
Kodol Eigests What You Eat
Makes the Stomach Sweet.
Bottles only. Regular size. S 90. holding ~ times
the trial size, which sells for so cents
Prepared bs E. O. Dewitt d CO.. Chicago u
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-05-08
THE EAGLE HOTEL,
CHAS. A. McGAW, Proprietor.
BEL AIR, MD.
BEL AIR, MD.

The undersigned has assumed charge
of this old and wcll-known hotel and
proposes to cater to the travelling public
in the most approved manner. To those
who know the situation and advantages
of the "Old Eagle" no comment is neccs
sary. 1t is unsurpassed for its quiet,
beautiful and homelike attractions. As
a summer boarding place it is unexcelled
and its reputation as stopping place
for commercial men and tourists will be
carefully nurturcd. Everything will be
under the personal care of the proprietor,
and his ambition is to make the saying
truc-"Once customer, always a custo-
mer." Special terms for large parties on
application.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
With Makers an0 Lovers of Literature
FRESH CUT LEAVES
Conducted by Edward Young Clarke. Jr.

and none of them have quite the ring of sincerity-Henry T. Coates and Co.,, publishers, Philadelphia.
 Stories of western life and adventure are always interesting to eastern readers. Tomorrow's Tangle, by Geraldine Bonner. pictures California just after the gold fever of 1850. when western society was in process of construction. The opening chapters give many vivid descriptions of the scenery in the Sierras. while the sketch of the lonely camp of the miner. Moreau, and the noble character of the man are particularly delightful. The heroine is beautiful girl of the type so often seen in San Francisco in those days" She nobly foregoes a fortune for the sake of principle. The home and wife and children of a bonanza king are well drawn, and the character of the villain of the story Is welFdone.
 One fault the book has in common with many other books of the day. from start ing out in a strong and sane style about half way it begins to retrograde and ends at last in a perfectly mauldin and impos- sible way-the heroine. healthy young woman twenty-five under the effects of a multiplicity of troubles, too numerous to mention, and too numerous, indeed. for the writer to have mentioned if she were wise, ruSheS out alone Into storm ana wanders about in the rain all night. From this perilous situation she is rescued by the hero who has long loved her secretly. This brave man carries her to the fire where she becomes quite warm again. The Bobbs- Merrill Co.,, publishers, India napolis.
 Place and Power" by Ellen Thorny- croft Fowler, Is an English story dealing with the nobility and middle classes of England. It Is somewhat religious in Its tone. the principal theme being that peo- pie are punished for their sins not by God but by the sins themselves, in their natural sequence. The Idea is not well carried out, however. Conrad Clayton. an infidel who has openly defed God. catches a Gypsy boy of 8 years poaching on his land. Although this is the first offense and the boy pleads for mercy. Conrad sends him to jail. Here the Gypsy Is thrown among hardened criminals and through the effects of this Imprisonment afterwards becomes & hardened criminal himself. In this capacity, after the lapse of several years he does a terrible injury to Conrad's wife and child So that Con- rad, by making a criminal of a more or less innocent boy. prepares a weapon for his own punishment. In this straightfor-
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Victim of Conscience, by Milton Gold smith. is a finev defence of the Jewish re- Iieion, and incidentally a thrust at the Christian religion The writer makes a very strong contrast between the Chris tain atonement for sin through beier m Jesus, which, he says Is an absurd ana impossible atonement, and the Jewish mode of living down crime and doing penance for It. He also makes the point consciously or not. that conscience is the fear of being found out. confess sion the antidote for that fear. He says the Jews worship of one God is a far more sensible idea than the Christian worship of a good. Jew,"h (Jesus) who suffered death at the hands of his enemies as did many another philosopher and re- former of that day. The worship or Jesus as a divinity he looks upon as an absurd superstition, but he is mangnani- nous enough to admit that 1t is harm
 less one. His limitations of the popu- lar phrases of some Gentle preachers are rather good.
 It is the story of a Jew of good birth and education who comes to America to seek his fortunes. But instead of for tunes he finds only misfortunes. and after sinking to the very depths of poverty and despair he conceives the idea of going to California to dig gold. He appeals to Rabbi Kaufman for money to make the Journey, and the kind-hearted Rabbi un- dertakes to raise the money among mem bers of the congregation. His visits to different Jews of the community, and the conversations recorded make one of the delightful features of the book.
 The Jews our hero. goes West and after two years returns a rich man; but while in that wild country he has killed man. The deed Is done in self-defence, but he
 feels that he has murdered man, and remorse for the deed and the effects of concealing 1t from his friends so preys on his mind that he becomes a victim of con- science. It is not until, after two years, he confesses to his wife and friends that he at last finds peace of mind. This Is the weakest point of the book, for any grown man would know the difference
 between murder in self-defence and true murder, and whatever his haunting fears might be they would hardly be due to concealment and fear of punishment and ostracization. His mysteries over the supposed crime are more the terrors of a sensitive child than the conscience. bangs of a man. It is a pity that all writers have not murdered a man-it should be Included Is the education of a writer for so many novels contain a murderer
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LITTLE LITERARY SIDE ISSUES

character tried to do this through incl dent, rather than by analysis"
 Another case of mistaken identity Is that of Mrs. Barbour, the author of the fine detective story, "The Mainwaring Af- fairs" A. Maynard Barbour has very mannish look and then, too, her detective methods were of the shrewdest and most natural description. She lived among the people described in David Harum, and is an invalid. She modestly disowns any gen. ius in her work. and says that her man uscripts have been submitted to her hus- band; and that without his knowledge of English life and his years of association with the highest Scotland yard officials and with the finest detectives in the coun- try, That Mainwaring Affair" would never have been written.
 John Strange Winter has written over seventy books, and of them all, "Bootles Baby" has proven the most salable Mrs. Stannard lives in London and has many friends, being a particularly fine hostess and conversationalist. She disavows any desire for woman's rights though she be- lieves in woman's influence and in her responsibility.
 George Moore, original and wise. has told this story of the finding of a sub ject After all. 1t is accident to which We owe the subject of a book. It is an accident that enslaves us to an idea for months, perhaps, for years. I remember buying paper and finding in 1t an arti- cle upon servants. In this article occur red the phrase: That though we often complain of the trouble servants are to us. we never seem to think of the great trouble we are to servants!' How true is this, I thought; what an admirable sub Ject for a novel. And before I had walk ed three hundred yards I had sifted the subject down to the central idea of Esther Waters down to the fact that a servant girl can bring up a child upon Is pounds year. but not upon 14. There fore 2 pounds Is the margin between life and death for the illegitimate.
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man, even if a genius, to depend upon a definite plan of work. He thus writes about 1t: Even great mental gifts are are not tied down to definite tasks We cannot accept the famous definitiony of genius as an infinite capacity for taking palms. for no amount of pains will itself accomplish the highest relative work of no profit to himself nor to the world. sim ply beause he never submitted to the drudgery of work. There have been in England few men of such astounding ge- nius as Coleridge This is the testimony of all who knew him, and Is our testi- mony also from the brilliant fragments of work he has left; and yet his life is all most a tragedy in it's barrenness. His plans and schemes and lesser prospectuses of books he meant to write, his resolu- tions about the great work he intended always to begin, make a pitiful story. His infirmity of purpose grew on him till he lost all power of decision and all ca pacity for work; and he died as he had lived, a nerveless soul. There had rot perhaps been a man of greater mind since Shakespeare" and yet in prayer writ! ten by him near the end of his life he had to lament as all the world has to la- ment his unused talents and neglected op- portunities.
 The Successful Literateur Seldom a Ge- done well, and with a care" is the law that makes the charac- ter of nearly all literary work. How easily recognized is nasty and immature work? There are notable instances of what we call the inspiration of the moment, but back of that inspiration has been the prep aration for it, although unthought of by the author. A certain trend of thought or bias of mind has terminated in the ex- precision of a settled conviction. or the re- finement of a sentiment. When all the circumstances of a mans life conspire to bring about the best that is in him, then indeed Is he sufficient for a definite task, and for the production of whatever he is most capable. But despite circumstance the man who 1t built up fin all his powers is that on who works with definite pur- pose. recognizing as he pursues his way that he Is about the one thing which is his best Ruskin tells us of the impress sion which the industry of the great painters made upon him. During such as have been able to give to the lives of the artists whose works are in all points noblest, no fact ever looms so large upon me. no law remain: so steadfast in the universality of Its ap- plication, as the fact and law that they are all great workers; nothing concerning them is matter of more astonishment than the quantity they have accomplished in the given length of their life.
 Aaron NoAirrah.
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By Aron Nosirrah.

Woman's Influence Upon the Literary dan.-That the literary mans companion or Ire has much to do with the final out. fome of his work Is no more longer a nooted question. What would have been ne inference in the character of Car isies work, if he had been daily under a nore complacent influence, we will not Renture to assert; but we have sometimes nought that the aesehetic need not have occupied so large place in his thought nad his atmosphere been more genial
 Me would not intimate that much of his vIe lll-humor may not be laid to his fnarge-despite the effort at present in pterary criticism, to relieve him of reput-
 "a narshness. Mrs. Carlisle's letters be- ray a pitiable state of physical disorder her own case; and the tension of her Pervous system is described in little be- Fraying paragraphs, here and there throughout her correspondence as being
 xasperating. When we put such a state
 s this into an opposing attitude with carlisle's nervous dyspepsia, we wonder hat the man ever did any sane work. It vas the example of the greatness Of the ntellect rising superior to physical hin france, but had the power behind the hrone been a real power and not deter
 ent. the world would have known a diff erent Carlisle. We imagine. both as a nan and as a writer. Oliver Wendall Holmes wrote the following beautiful figu- <ative expression of woman's subtle power help: "Oftentimes I have seen a tall |hip glide by against the tide as if drawn y some invisible bow-line, with a hun.
 red strong arms pulling 1t. Her sails Fere unified, her streamers were droop- Ing; she had neither side wheel nor stern
 Fheel still she moved on stately, in se- ene triumph, as with her own life. But
 know that on the other side of the ship,
 idden beneath the great bulk that swam b majestically, there was a little toll ome steam-tug, with a heart of fire and
 rms of iron. that was tugging 1t bravely z *n; and I know that if the little steam Bug untwined her arm, and left the ship,
 would wallow and roll about and drift
 ither and thither and go off with the efuent tide, no man knows whither. And have known more than one genius
 igh-decked. full-freighted. idle-sailed. ay-pennoned, but for the bare toiling rms and brave, warm-beating heart of he faithful little wife that nestles close him so that no wind or wave could part nem he would have gone down with the *tream and have been heard of no more.
 \ The Definite Task is Hugh Blacks Re *lirements for Successive believe that was Ruskin who said that, when told zf the promise of a young man for great Hbiiity, he always asked the question: NDoes he work?' MT. Black Is more posi- i've in that he makes the success of
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ward way his sin finds him out.
 Much of the story is laid at Castle Carnoch, an old Scotch castle. purchased by Sir Conrad Some of the scenes at this country home between Eileen. the heroine, and her lovers, are amusing and interesting. There are many excellent passages in the book. Speaking of the idiosyncracies of an old maid aunt. the writer says: There was one field in which she could not brook a rival--the field of ill-health. Towards any one who pretended to be unable to digest what she herself had digested she was as ada mant." Another good thing is this: "scruples in an election are like flies in amber The flies are stified and the ann Der Is spoiled, and their only value lies in the rarity of the combination"
 The attitude of the writer towards love, religion, human nature and politics is that of a woman, and that a woman who has not "seen life" or has seen 1t in only one or two phases. O. Appleton & Co.,, Pub fishers, New York.) -
 The Tu-Tze's Tower. A most delightful book. It is a temptation to praise it ex- travagantly. It relates the adventures of a woman explorer in Thibet, and her fall ing in love with the ruler of a province there. Although it is full of action from first to last there are only one or two points of the plot that might not have been facts. The author has the trick of getting at the human nature of her char acters even in situations of the greatest confusion and most difficult narration. It is a fascinating book, healthy in its tone and well written: and quite unob- trusively it points the moral that "a mans a man for a that,"-that beyond the mountains there are yet people,. CHenry T. Coates & Co., Philadeiphia.)
 Of not very healthy tone is "A Parish of Two" by Henry McVickar and Percy Collins Some of 1t is brilliantly written, but the love story running through it is absurd. The letters of the invalid clergy man are very fine and very true to his character. The character of the other main parsonage of the story is well drawn also His satirical and disloyal com ments on his wife when he has found and been captivated by younger and more attractive woman; his extravagant infat- uation for this woman and his impreca- ton against her and Heaven when she proves false to him-the betrayer of his wife-are all true to the letter. But 1t is not pleasant story, and the absurdity of the plot causes one to wonder at the ex- cellence of the other parts. U1othrop Publishing Co.,, Boston.)
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Pointed Tips From
A Critics Culver.

The pathos of incidents in the dueling period of the South, is retold in William Garrott Browns "A Gentleman of the South"
 If Richard Le Galliene had mind to interest us in the places made famous by the writings of noted men, when he wrote Travels in England' he did we'll to select such an illustrator as Herbert Railton.
 An amusing situation, well portrayed. Is that of the newly made rich young man and young woman who present them selves at the Waldorf-Astoria with the intention of having "the best in the house." Edgar Fawcett manages to show up the goodness of heart, as well as the freshness" in the "vuigarians.'
 For those who feel an interest in the conditions existing in the South just after the war. the story The Conduering of Kate' will give a ''view." There have been already many views"
 A very helpful, practical book on how to make the home beautiful. is Our Homes and How to Beautify Them"
 English social life has been favorite subject recently for the writers. Mir. E. Phillips Oppenheim proves himself real student of human nature in "A Prince of Sinners-" ss
 If much of the tragic were left out of should not be tired to the state of ex-
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IN POETIC REALMS
 OF FACT AND FANCY
A REED.

A REED.
 By Elizabeth Harriet Browning. I am no trumpet, but a reed; No fiatterfng breath shall from me lead A silver sound, hollow sound; will not ring, for priest or king, One blast that in re-echoing Would leave a bondsman faster bound. I am no trumpet, but reed A broken weed, the wind indeed Yet if little maid or child Should sigh within it. earnest. mild. This reed will answer evermore. I am no trumpet, but reed: Go tell thy fishers as they spread Their nets along the rivers edge, will not tear their nets at all, . Nor pierce their hands if they should fall, Then let them leave me in the sedge. pr. Van Dykes thought is always clear hear his call for life: No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. 'Tis life whereof our lives are scant, o life, not death for which we pant; {; More life. and fuller that l want
 Henry Van Dyke, D. D. Another strong clear thought is this If wisdom smile, let wisdom go!
 All things above This is the truest: That we know be-
 cause we love,
 Not love because we know.
 Arthur Sherburne Hardy. The Cary sisters seem to have had the inspiration of helpful teaching: Be careful to go strewing in and out The way with good deeds. lest 1t come
 about That when thou shalt depart, No low lamenting tongue be found to say The world is poorer since thou went st
 away. Tt But make so fair and sweet Thy house of clay, some dusk shall spread
 about When death unlocks the door and lets
 thee out.
 Alice Cary. This little gam from Bryant is familiar O all students of this poets songs of
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haustion. of blood and deati .yrea have finished the reading.
 The Flower Garden" by r es nett. is so practical that we r.s tsa almost any beginner might slS. .a8se It's tuteiage.
 MT. Bus in his introduction to the Child Housekeeper" has this sentence. Amy one who can put poetry into dish- washing. and spring sunshine into house cleaning has given the word a real boost toward the better day."
 The thrall of temptation is powerfully shown in Anne Carmel. and its resistance in the end is a still more powerful ex- ample. Should such books be written is the question.
 Marion Hariand has won her right ss authority in the household Her Com plete Cook Book Is more than a book of recipes; 1t Is a carefully prepared manual of the art of housewifery from experj- ence.
 Robert schumann's rules for young mu- sicians have been often quoted and Mrs. Crosby Adams has evidently made them a guide in teaching for she gives them prominent place in her book. Chapters from Musical Lfe''
 Invaluable is the volume in Appieton's Musical Education" by Albert Y.avig- nac Esther Singleton, who has done so much good work in musical literature. is the translator.