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NEW YEARS CUSTOMS.

French families always make We
ejaI point of being ry0nited at the Nm
Ycar.
The Romans always maze il a p3"..
IT, 10 =;-eaear il ae''=e3osh.A@ 2#-s1N
Near's day.
qaa aessau,s oG=la.... MI -, N9A
Year by heating Nt.dif "a fI,.:t- - i-
and shoNcls.
The custom of making gifts At ths
New Yea. is supposed Ia have original
cd With the ancient Romans.
ON Ncv Years eve CHINESE Msr
chants pull down tae.r cd a'.fef'.s
in- posters and pat VI neW on1s-
In greece the fathe,of q family, foN
ever poot.m giEe ass MlIe ana 4a.'z
elt,d a New Near present ot money
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Graphic's Daily Story

in the Alps he had worn a melancholy
micn. and no one could induce him to
speak of the adventure Letters came
from him from time to time to old De
four asking if Clochcttr had not re
Tented and would accept n handsome
pcnsion the amount of which grew
with every letter. Still she declined.
Years rolled by Gieehette IeNrr mar
ripd She had other suitorS, but her
answer to them AL was i am waiting
for Jean" But you can never have
Jean in this world He is dead. lie
will come TO me to tell me how be met
his death" At this they would think
the poor girls brain had been turned
by her sorrow and press her no fur
thpr. And SO Clocllrtt" grew IN middle
age, and when her father died she kept
the inn.
one spring she heard that ut Il point
down the valley the glacier had broken
and revealed Il dead body. perfect as
when it had been frozen in the ice
twenty years before She threw down
n toaSting fork she held in her hand
aud started to see this body. When
she arrived. lying on Il block of ice
near where he WIS found. She SAW the
lost Jean. There. WIS the same 1.-THE
figure. the same dark Wavy hair, the
features of a young man Of twenty
two Md there toe, WaS something
upon wlsell CIeehotte kept her eyes
fixed, seemingly WitlIaut the power to
withdraw them. Around the waist was
the climbers, rope, and but twelve
inches from the body the end showed
plainly that il had been cut
Those who stood about had not known
jean and were net aware whose body
lay before them till Clochette told
them. Tie first thing she did was to
take the r0p" from the waist, which
she kept in her own possession. The
body was laid away, and rs there We're
very few people near by who had
known Jean its finding attracted little
attention..
A week later the tourist who had
been with Jean twenty years before
received Il package by express. Open
ing it, he took out a rope, tied as it
would be about mans body, one end
of which had been cut with Il sharp
knife.
From that day the man. who had
been long rising in the governmental
affairs of his country and who was
looked upon as one soon to become his
partyS leader. withdrew from public
life and went into a retirement FROM
which he was never afterWard draV.'l.
On Jeans body WAS found Il ter
which he had received and on which.
in rough red letters-his oWA blood
was 4 message:
Sweetheart I may not &c for hours. He
slipped and pulled me off my feet, Ten
feet below him was level lee CreVasse
below me-. We must one or both die. I
cut the rope. He will provide for YOU.
Farewell. JEAN.
Then Clochette knew thai the tourist
would not admit that he had permitted
Jean to die for him He had made up
his story and flayed the end of the
rope with stone.
ELIZA WHITFIELD.
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THE GUIDE AND
THE TOURIST
iOriginal /

toiIEIIidi
Jean Carrier was Il Swiss guide He
was rather young for n guide being
only twenty-five, and many people be
licved that he did not take sufficient
care III crossing dangerous places, but
all admitted that he was brave and
That his impulses were noble Jean
lived At thamouniX, right in among
the mountains. and loved tlochottc, the
daughter of Antoine brfoUI, who kept
a little i'm III tiie valley below. Clo-
chntte. aS soon AZ sha saw Jean. lived
only for him. They W"r" to he mar
ri@d aS soon rs .t,';tn r"uid accumulate
5000 frames II could not be sooner
o"c;sl!Sc Ip"f0ur would give his daugh h
ter 10 no UGe Who {oss. .SScd less ;ud
Jean had only :::,ooo frames
one day an Eug1i~lluIn cHHln to
f'hAmouniT and asked for n Guido.
"'l'l=rr= are nt.';l5 guides" said tire per
son of nllota he Inquired, "havia@ dif
f@rent requirements If YOU Wish uHs'
who VIII give his own life for yolll', in
ease OF H"eeS~,ty would reconIIlcl,i
Jean Carrier" This seus enough ID y
WAS engaged. and the two started To
climb one of The smaller peaks.
The next day tll" stranger e,tIne back
without Jean and reported that When
they wer" passing an almost perpcn-
dicular point Joan had slipped, the rope
had broken and Jean had fallen into
the creNassa. The tourist showed tive
sope. which had evidently been broken
midway between hiH and his guide
There W:s no doubt that ii had broken
for the edge WAS tiaYod
THAT WAS just like Jean" every ore
! said. 40 20 cut with an imperfect rope
| He waS always careless Then. too, he
| did not stop to cut his steps properly
| Rut hc WaSa GOOD fellow, Il brave fol
+, low. and if either he or another Was
to go into the crevasse he would prefer
| to be the Ole to 90.
From tie moment the Englslman
! returned without lean, Clochctte was
| changed. He said he was rich and of
| fered her a pension. But Clochctte
would net have it. Her father endeaS-
| ored to persuade her to accept it, but
she still declined and When her father
| asked her to give her reasons she told
| him that she did not believe the Eng
| lShman'S story. THAT Is Il woman,
| reason" replied her father. What oh
| jeet would he have in lying2 And does
| not the frayod cnd OF the rope plainly
! show that it was hr0Ien% To this
CIochctte had no reply, but she would
not accept the pension.
on more than one occasion tourists
came to the valley who talked about
the case of the Englishman who had
lost his guide and spoke of him as be
! coming a marked man in his country
He was n lord, though he had not traV
eled as such, and had married the
daughter of a duke. He was honored
for his talents. but since his mishaE
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S1Uo Reward. $lUo.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased 10 learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional dioease, re-
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Halls Caarrh Cure is taken internal
ly. acting direCuy upon the blood and
mueus surfaces of the system, there
by destroying tic foundation of the
disease and givins the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work
fhe propretors nave 50 much faith in
is curative powers that they offer
one Hundred Dollars fer any case thar
t fails TO cure. Send for list of tes-
timonials Address.
j. CHENEY &. co. Toledo @.
sold by Druggist 75c
salts tamr, pills are the aesl
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-12

seotsae1 = "a. e. -s.....}7 e mon.
ey ON New A4at. 1=.Y 3s i, &s"y risky
proepe,l5a-.= =evrA 1Isoa..A i - in pay.
;neut ot a dslft.
In l.a.maa. E m4lnr a.a innings
#hsaeaeea "a Nen Nea;.@ l.. - il is
believed tlta7 iaenny We ae .eit''l tsl
all thl2!.lei..r XtaH.
IL Ja.s,n a; q" wv ''iia :
GoneraIjy IS ss.7...5's.ts 4. a ias# va
ana pues.c The r@.A.s..a eaQ y Is IL
9n!y na.. 5s..o 6ol.l@.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-02-12

t&estys44As AAsSAs LIZ otih t. "A
}. II. saq such annoying in
w. D. Il led the visitors to
-WALItifne forItheir visit.
vi, AMERICAN Is a consum
New Yorker as he
II. ~ N party up the moon
A. II. r1nument. "He travels
MILLER, parts Of the world.
G. E. i motley and generally
1p V two describing the
n he secs, when by re-
home he could have
i similar kind which
Vauglne p,I the spots off the
lm llas wasted his
..;iSspphs Of superla-
Mr.. Wer replied the ten
an addrd Nva'l street mans
that eiti on we have in the
loft Ne. e1x7rept in the old
'en Fs0rI
paf''o' Americans say"
wha' w man. "rhey go
liquor 81 as over European
test o.. Knowing that they
others ssa.,:s,Si collection of
conn taytsriA listen to this
taurled the doo lead
Wis ssi,rani' the nunuf1ont.
Jan; m:fll Of marblc and
thEx8Hlnf;,sfl il slender room
pfS fnr 4 ln,lf dozen dii"d
al |aE m nnr corner of tha
I, AvAril tho Whole party bad
M Way into The monument,
q ttest man ladc, i9aP,n be
! i and with .Yttn,ncd face in
low note III. echo WAS heard
'aya Tad nose marvellous re
ye mi have drawn travel
.ho It's Of Abe world and
,jects Sf brilliant de
nn Va daily press ana be
anSlle note stencd Instant
th lnto q moving hall of
col lit15sy TO the distant,stone
be distinctly traced 1t
aeSH waited upward like a
NE or a cottony dandelion
Mound decreased until the
se to strike the small. high
Gtefit fingered a moment be-
raucing its downward trip.
ucleasing in loudneSs, 1t
Wtle floor of the menu-
ssiaHys as loud and as intact
,,Wns uttered. The whole
tqnciuent occupied only a
psi. but every stage of the
TITO the top of the monu-
.iek:was as pronounced and
iced as though i had he"n
a toy balls'on\
AFR, e2cIs,f,ed the tenor in
fron2F pt<drpriso. i nef'r
"Wea1.velous echo existed
dumpiltery nj Pisa.
,,t .hse1a perfect riot of
narrow shaft. Count
iiia"e and coming il rapid
our irced an effect almost
a chears of the listeners
pleas of one of the women
of wvery slowly AND softly
f .La Donna Mobi1e.@
peculiarly beautiful
a'harl to be singing, one a
S'f a the other. rs in the
takian's experiment. each
takneard distinctly soaring
sc;,iIing and back. Al the
ote in its original NiSor
" the effect of a second
toroduced. The union OF
I tones of the beautiful
Onderful echo and the pc
igeness of the whole sttua-
ut cries Of delight from the
is as fine as the one in
Vie woman who coaches
c,"anf~ to think that we
thraaio I'd of II nefore:2 H x.,,.,..r
md illuminating the
NeW Workers
s:9s,,. bout New York.
.s, n hotel lobby or
messeak Pf echoes hut Il
ce1conmJ nee to dila'e on
he.ions dhey have heard
Ms German or Italian
"re ,f them knows of any
as i'll his own town.
scieon earth. New orA
of tertiser.
'ne uched.
lookd me a very touching
the And how much did
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SEMI=WEEkLY Ne DOLLAR A YEz
The Daily Globe-De1nocrat

TIE GREAT NEWSPAPER OF THE WORLD
paid:Daiy
$500;
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-23
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Road checks iSsued.-Jamcs T. Norris,
$12S.S0; c. Z. Creswell, $5S.75; b. F.
Richardson, $27; D. J. Doyle, $685.;
John T. Magness, S23.25; George w
Grim. SIPS; James Baird, $12; William
Harlan, SIG &c; n. o. Merrynan, $12 %;
Cornelius Murphy, $35.13; Isaac Slade,
$1+.13; Anderson and Ayrcs, $3.50; w.
H. Scott, $23 65; Thomas Norris, 500 %;
II. ]. Alexander, $11.62.
Orders on County Observation-Disclosures
land Telephone Company, for Sheriff S
office, $3.50; ]. a. Price, election rent and
repairing booth, $16.50; DR.. ". B. Kirk,
vaccine account, $50; Thomas Johnson,
burial permits, $3.50; Harry Preston,
labor at almshousc, $50; r. Z. Bouldin,
stamped envelopes, $1,000; freight for
Forest Hill road, $74; Mrs Edwin Rous-
sey, pension, $50; Noah Small and wife.
2months salary at almshouse, $40; John
! J. Brinkmap, constable, $50 50; Havre
de Grace Republican, publishing notices
to taxpayers. $3.50.
There being only two bids received for
building two bridges on Churchvilie and
Havre de Grace road, and no bids re,
ceived for the grading Of said road, the
bids for the bridges were returned to the
bidder, as bids for bridges and grading
were to be received at same time. Bids
will be received later on for this work
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-23
Mrs.. Forwood Burned to Death.

CASTLkTON, December l9.-MrS. Ed
ward ForwoOd, Il former resident OF Cas-
Teton, met with Il fatal accident at her
home III Lafayette, Pa, about three
weeks ago. After her husband had left
for work i'll the early morning. she at
tempted to put out Il lamp by blowing
down the chimney. The blaze reached
the oil, causing an explosion which scat
tered the blazing fluid all over her per-
son. No help being near, she ran cut of
the house and endeavored to quench the
flames by getting i'll a nearby stream of
water. Her clothing was nearly burned
of, of her. She was taken tp the hospital
and died in two weeks. Besides her hus-
band, she is survived by three children,
the oldest being fourteen years of age.
Her remains were brought to Hartford
and inferred in Darlington Cemetery.
Rev. Mi. Edwards Oticiated.
Mr.. George Curtis has returned to
Philadelphia, after short visit to his
mother, Mrs. Ellen Curtis.
Mr.. Joseph Knight has returned from
Redwood, West Virginia.
The cold weather continues with plenty
of snow and good sleighing. The Sus-
quehanna River is frozen it's full length.
The mercury registered two degrees be-
low zero on Wednesday night of last
week.
Mr.. Hugh A. Jones filled his icchouse
with good ice sometime ago. twas the
first iCehousc filled in this ncighborhood
Messrs Racine and Smith had five new
slei%hs shipped to Conowingo and sold
them all by the time they received them.
GREY
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Church Free From Debt,

ABERDEEN, December Last Friday
evening a large number of members and
friends of Grace NJ. Z. Church South met
at the church to celebrate in an appropri-
ate way the liquidation of the church
debt. The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Epworth League and
Ladies' Aid Society.
Rev. ]. Howard Wells, of Arlington
NJ. f. Church South, Baltimore, delivered
an eloquent address, taking for his theme
what Constitutes League Success :"
Special music was rendered bv Grace
Church Ouartette, composed of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Richardson, Mrs. {. II.
kriete and MIR. o. {. Michael.
Refreshments were served in the lecture
room by the ladies of the Aid Society.
The lecture room was beautifully deco.
rated with growing ferns and plants
also the league colors, gold and white.
The church and parsonage on lot adj
joining, valued at $4,000, is entirely free
| of debt.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-23
From Darlington.

DARLINGTON, Dec. 19.-Miss Garland
of New England, is visiting Mrs. X. E
Prigg.
The Methodist Sunday School will hold
its Christmas entertainment i'll the church
on Christmas Eve at $50 O'Clock.
Miss Ethel McNutt, of Washington
College, and Mr. MoultOn McNutt, ot
the Maryland Agricultural College are
home for the HOLIDAYS.
Mrs. d. Z. Thomas, Ir.. and Mrs. John
H. Price, Jr.. have returned from short
visit with relatives in Baltimore.
Several members of the Darling ton
Chapter attended the East Baltimore
District Epwotth League Convention
last week. Mr.. Harold {. Gibson gave
a bright talk at the Friday morning SEES
sion. He charmed the convention by the
interesting manner in which he handled
his subject place and Power
The Christmas entertainment will be
held in Grace Memorial Church on Tues
dav evening, December 9th.
Mrs. u. Clay Whiteford and son, who
are now living in Florida, sent sever al
of their friends III this nsi ghborhood each
box of delicious oranges from the
sunny South.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-23
The Youths Companion in 1905.

1t is impossible even to summarize in a
single paragraph the many and varied
attractions which the Youths Com
panion announces for the coming year.
A series of articles planned to interest
especially the forty-five millions of Ameri-
cans who look directly to the soil for
their subsistence will treat of New Fields
for Young Farmers, The Sanitation of
the Farm" THE Future of American
Cotton" How Women Make Money on
the Farm" etc
Seven serial stories and $50 short
stories by the most talented and popular
American writers of fiction will form part
fthe contents ofthe newvolume for 9O5.
Full Illustrated Announcement describ-
ing the principal features of The Com
panions new volume for 1905 will be
sent with sample copies Of the paper to
any address free.
The new subscriber who sends 81. 10
now for years subscription to The
Companion receives free all the issues of
The Companion for the remaining weeks
of 1904. also The Companion "Carna-
tons Calendar for 1905, Autographed
in twelve colors and gold.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION.
IA Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-23
From Aberdeen.

ABERDEEN, December 21.--Our people
are all busy with their holiday prepara-
tions, and the stores are thronged with
Christmas shoppers. The sleighing con-
tinucs good, and crowds are attracted to
the town every afternoon to witness the
racing.
On next Monday evening the Sunday
school of Grace NJ. F. Church South will
give its annual Christmas entertainment
in the church. The school of Aberdeen
NJ. L. Church will hold theirs the follow
ing night. Tuesday, 81. An elaborate
programme, with some entirely new tea-
lures. has been prepared, and the church
will be prettily decorated for the occa-
sion. The date for the entertainment of
the Grove Presbyterian Sunday School
has not vet been appointed.
Miss Edith kimmell has been transfer
red from the Aberdeen Graded School to
the Havre de Grace High School. She
will take the position as teacher of the
primary department, which has grown
so of late as to neceSsitate an additional
teacher.
AT the last meeting of the Literary
Club in the reading room of the Young
Mems League. aninteresting programme
was rendered, including humorous
reading by Miss Nettie Baker. The es-
sayist for this event was Miss Beulah
Baker. Mr.. d. Raymond Jamison read a
paper on current events, and Mr.. Hollis
K. Baker gave book review The i'm
promptu speaker was Miss Edith Kim
nell, and the president, Rev. Kenneth G.
Murray, lecturcd on Coleridgc. The de-
bate for the evening WAS, Resolved that
l,le tl,1,, ~
1t was decided in the Affirmative. The
next meeting will take place on Thurs
day evening. 22nd instant, and the au-
thor for this occasion will be Joel Chand-
Ter Harris.
On Friday evening of the holiday week
a masquerade party will be given in the
Young Mems League rooms. This event
will be similar to the one held at the NJ.
Z. parsonage last year. and all of the
young people in town and this vicinity
are invited. The Judges of the costumes
will be Mesdames John II. Baker, {. H..
kriete and George Slice.
Rev. Kenneth G.. Murray attended
Bishop McCabe's lecture on The Bright
Side Of Life in Libby Prison." which was
delivered in North Avenue NJ. E. Church,
Baltimore, last Thursday evening.
Mr.. Ferry \. NoWe, sophomore OF
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa, is at the
home of his parents, DR.. and Mrs. W. b.
Rowe, for the holidays.
Miss Lilly Keen spent part of last wcci;
i'll Baltimore. She will leave Aberdeen
on Thursday for Prince George county,
where she will spend the holidays with
her sister, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Linthicum, of Col
lngton.
Mr.. Charles Wooden, Princeton
sophomore, was guest of Rev. X. G,
Murray during the past week.
Miss Fannie c. Walker, of Bush River
Neck, spent last week with Mrs. William
H. Pentz.
Miss Mamie Morgan spent part of this
week with Miss Lillian Hanway at Miss
Haywa-d's School, of Qverbrook, Pa.
VIRGINIA.
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RELIGIOUS Notices,

There will be services at Centre, Viii,
liam Walters Memorial and Asbury ap,
pointments, West Hartford circuit. on
next Sunday, Christmas Day.
The Sunday evening preaching at As
bury NJ. E. Church, Iarrettsville, which
was discontinued on account of revival
work in other parts of the circuit, will be
resumed on next Sunday evening. Deem
%, at 7.30 o'clock.
At the Mountain Christian Church on
Christmas morning the minister, Mr..
Calf, will preach a Christmas sermon on
the origin of Christmas-the origin of
Santa Claus, with some thoughts on the
Incarnation.
Special services will be held next Sun
day at Grace NJ. Z. Church South, Aber-
deem, at l A. M. and 40 Z. NJ.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-23
Mother Goose at the Academy of Music, Balti.
more, Christmas Week.

Monday December %. klaw and Erlaugcr
will present their colossal production Of tir
greatest of English Drury Lane Specta cicS,
Mother Goose" beginning an engagement
ot one week with matinrcs Monday tNmas }
Wednesday, and saturday. An idea OF tic
immensely of this production may hc cleaned
from the fact that more than 400 comedians.
singers, dancers pant OinImiStS appear i'll
it. and there are scenes. each as elaborate
as an entire ordinary production and more
beautiful than ever before seen I'm Amcri-
can stage. The costumes number 1000 and
cost alone S75.OuO. Mother Goose ran an
entire year in London and all last wear in
New York city the New Amsterdam
theatre. 1t i described as being the mi = tiest
charming melody and specular magnificeucc
known TO theatrical history. Its production
here will he with the original east and every
detail of gor2eouSntS$ which has made the
production the most talked of and notable
theatrical event of the past two years i'll tho
United States. Never has 50 much i'll the
way of quantity been offered for the money.
The impression produced by M u thcr Goose"
is that of q beautiful dream of color, costumes.
calciCums and hosts OF beautiful women. Il
dream that never stops for a moment. Nov
ing pictures are as nothing to this dcliEh full
phante$magoria. 1t is Il succession of slartl-
ing changes. each more beautiful than that
preceding it, Then there are the wonderful
acrialistS who do amazing hallcts suspended
i'll the air, one OF them without warming
astounding the audience by darling over
theatre. all the while scattering natural
flowers 10 those below. The music is har-
moniouS and catchy; the tun rollicking and
i'll good taste: the speCialtes vel and entire
~ different from those seen in any other EN-
tainmcnt of the kind. From n mere casual
study of Mother Goose il deserves the
great success and lavish praise that have been
bestowed upon it by playGUcrs OF London
and New York.
Mail orders accompanied hy remittance
will he promptly attended TO.
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from RnnthhN Hill.

BonTIEY HILL. Dec. 20.-Our school
| has very small attendance
Misses Hazel and Julia Mitchell. are
rapidly recovering from slight attacl;
Of scarlctina.
Mr., C. Alfred Mitchell spent few
days last week in Baltimore.
MIR. Thomas Cain, WAS the guest last
week of relatives i'll Scranton, Pcnnsyl-
vania.
Mr.. Il. NJ. Devcr has fully recovered
from an illness Of several weeks.
MIS-. Martha CLANCY, spent portion
of this week in Baltimore
Miss Edith Ienning, of Baltimore, was
a visitor to this neigborhood this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence NJ. Taylor have
returned from their wedding trip. We
wish them long prosperous journey
through life. SANTA CLArZ.