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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09

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Iogennion1l exe<ciSe a. theee powers. fou
- peG1Dek fk11kness, hieh couSaee and
iI9bfe epiSit relieved him ffpm all cen
sure 6uch means when nsed at times
70 pecnze great ard honorable obiects,
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|of 1illE1 1o9unnn, Who, 10 unanaee
r. 11l nooe, = NY runi1y = - the
Iapnk g toooox 4E6onimnl 0oMan an
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and manly.
The session closed on the 4th Of
March, and owing to the pressure Of
Congressional business had not seen
Mr.. Clay for many days. Such was
his health, that it seemed doubtful IL he
would again return to Warrington
The Senate was detained BY some exc
cutiye business, and was FOR . while
sitting with open doors during the con-
sideration Of a contested election case.
Not being willing to leave without see-
ing Mr.. Clay, I walked in, and after the
usual salution, said to him 81 called last
evening to see you. but you were on" /"
81 am very sorry" he replied, mention
ing where he had been; "come this
evening. But no." said he, seeming to
recollect suddenly, 81 am to dine with
Sir Henry Bulwer; but you must come
and see me to morrow evening" "No,"
I replied, 81 leave in the morning. I
only called to bid you farewell. I shall
be candidate for reelection, but you
know that politics are uncertain and
We may not meet again. I wish you
to know that, though I have of late
opposed some Of your measures, the
greater part Of my life has been devo-
ted to the effort to make you President"
A wonderful change instantly came
over his countenance. It seemed as il
the remark called up to his mind the
images Of thousands of friends who
had labored so long, 50 ardently, and
SO vainly for his promotion. The tears
fell on his flushed cheeks, he covered
his eyes with bis hands for a moment,
suddenly recovered himself, and taking
me by both hands, said, in subdued
voice, "I know it, my dear fellow, and
am very grateful for it."
The disappointment was equally shared
by Webster and Calhoun. They all,
however, had the goood fortune to die
while their great intellects were still in
their meridian splendor, "before decays
effacing fingers" had robbed them of
a single element of strength or grandeur,
Mr.. Calhoun's last speech ranks among
his best efforts. When it was impres.
sively read by Mr.. Mason in q fine
masculine voice, as Mr.. Calhoun sat by his
side, thin and pale as marble, the move
ments of his brow, the active and inces-
SAINT compression Of bis lips, his rapid
glance from Senator TO Senator, with
an eve as bright as that of the wounded
eagle, told unmistakably that there
was no cloud on his intellect, and that
his noble heart was still unbroken.-
More than an hour passed alone with
Mr.. Clay shortly before his death, as he
lay on q sofa, because too feeble to sit
up, and With a cough SO distressing
that it was almost impossible for him
to utter complete sentence, showed
that while his mind was oppressed by
forebodings of great evil to the country,
his intellect was undimmed, and the deep
current of his patriotism rolled with
undiminished volume.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09
NetU AdUertisemenfs,
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NEW JERSEY.

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Science, Classics and Music, with degrees con-
ferred. Thorough instruction in nj. DEPART
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for catalogue.
Rev. wM. C. BOWEN. A. ~. Pres.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09

"Sav. Mister" said soiled-lookipg
boy on the wharf Yesterday, edo you evcs
give a piece o. watermelon TO poor boz
whose father n mothers dead, n who
goes to Sunday-School, n has got a
sore heel r' The man was deeply
touched, and gave him large slice Of
of n rotten one.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE,
ANNAPOLIS. MD.

JAMES N. GARNETT. LID, PRrxcrrAL.
opening Of Session and examination Of cam
didafes for admission. Monday and Tuesday.
sept Goth and 2fst. Terms for board and
tuition, S275 per anuum, payable semi-annual-
ly In advance. Several State Scholarships va
crnt. For catalogues containing full particu-
lars, address PROF. ". II. HOPKINS, Secre-
tary Of the Faculty, Annapolis, Nd.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09
rourn AND AGE.

<Wkes IN ~ usrsd 4 young. lad,
Ard III ~ sEsss sxs nreea; s
And evegy goem swan, Id,
Ard every hso . queen;
1hen aey - toot end hersa, laa
A1a aFuan1 - uor1d away!
Yoank blood uust hsve IL coassa, lad,
Al ssey dog hisdas.
VIA m ~ wosld = 90, ~,
Al IN the txeeo aRe hsoun
An1 ~ tn speris are s>a1o. ~.
~ q - uhec1D - 1c9ns
Yea loved ~hsn Ill vas yoang.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09

MA" said small boy, approach ing
his mother and exhibiting unniistak. be
symptoms of n severe pain in the is.~
els, do green apples grow in heaven
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09
For Sale.

r OCUST POSTS for sale. Apply to
- E. s ABELL. ST. lnigoes' Pos
Office, Sc Mary's county. Nd.
May 6, 1s15-tfs
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09

TIE AC The choicest in the world
enSs importers prices-Larges,
Company In America-staple ariic,e-pleases
every bod dy-Trade continually increasing
Agents wanted every " hcre-best inducements
don't waste time-scnd for circular TO Ron
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1857.
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-09-09

A head wind /? A sneeze.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
CNTIDY PEOPLE.

Men are said to be untidier than women.
"One boy creates more trouble in a
house. than three girls" says many a
suffering mother. But, after all, she's
to blame for it; there's no real reason
why boy should not form tidy habits.
One of the benefits that the mother of
sons can confer on her sex, and all the
world besides, is to form In them the
habit of putting things in place. This
can be done only by following them
round and requiring them, when they
have done with a book, to put it back
on the shelf where it belongs; when they
take off their overcoats to hang them on
the rack; when skates are unstrapped or
boots taken off that they be put some
where else besides on the hearth-rug or
under foot; when slippers are removed
that they at once rest in their appropri-
ate case. The law of habit thus imposed
will gradually extend its domain till it
includes everything the boy handles or
calls his own, and exercises an influence
ON all he is and does. La a house inhab-
tied by such men and boys, quitting
things to rights will occupy very brief
daily interval.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
SAVE MONEY.

"Put money in your purse if you
can, young man deny yourself few of
those expensive pleasures which are so
evanescent, and which leave sting be-
hind. 1t may come hard at first; few
take kindly to self-denial /; but in the
years to come you will thank yourself
for exercising prudence in youth.
Habits are easily formed and he who
does not begin to save when he COM
mences life for himself, will rarely be-
gin at all for where not even the nu-
cleus of modest fortune has been early
acquired, family expenses will, after a
time, grow as fast as the income, and the
two keep abreast ever afterward. The
saving and keeping Of the first hundred
or the first thousand dollars is the key
to future success, from the fact that it
builds up business character it COM
pels the formation of habits OF economy,
and fixes them for life; it puts the young
worker on the right road accustoms
him to keeping his financial matters
snug, and builds up granite determine
ton to force expenses below income.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29

That man must suffer is one of the
laws of life, and an immutable one.
The sin of our first parents entailed it
upon us, and it is as absurd to attempt
to exist without breathing as to strive to
escape this unalterable DEGREES of Provi-
dence. The endeavor is always as futile
as it is foolish. Yet many people waste
their time in laboring to avoid pain and
trouble. When they fail they become
melancholy, grabbed, and cynical. Hav-
ing possessed false ideas of life, their
establishment has proved too much for
them. They have degenerated into mis-
anthropes. Out upon the weaklings
Why, the very title is synonymous with
that of coward. We're it not for the
cares, griefs and disappointments that
fall to the lot of us all we should become
too enamored of life; and, when the
summons came 10 take our places III the
innumerable caravan that moves to the
pale realms of shade" we should shrink
back appalled,, and beg to "be not YET
cut off," A healthy man is never misan-
thropic; the condition is too unnatural.
Sickness sometimes excuses it, but even
a strong character generally keeps up
smiling face. What though the world
does grow cold, and fortune refuses to
smile! 1t is neither manly nor Christian
to grow morose and discontinued. Mis-
anthropy is only another name for des-
pair. AS long as man has hope, he is
not bothered by it. Life has its clouds,
but most of them have their silver lin
ings, If we only watch and wait.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
GRAMMATICAL BLUNDERS.

A slip of grammar In a recent number
OF the atlantic Monthly has revived the
discussion as to the necessity of new
personal pronoun singular that will do
for either sex. The atlantic permitted
itself to say: "We would rather set boy
or girl upon some one poet nearest akin to
their mental aptitude" Now this pecu-
har blunder is very frequent. If only
occasionally found in the best writings,
it is because the proof-reader interposes
his correction before the sentence reaches
the public, for every editor knows how
often even careful writer's make the mis-
take; while in the ordinary utterances of
the day it is as common as air. 1t may
be noted in the printed regulations of
almost every car and steamboat, and is
ubiquitous in advertisements and an
nouncements-as, for instance: every
passenger must pay their fare ON entering
the car" etc. To avoid this blunder,
either an awkward circumlocution must
be made, such as, every passenger
must pay his or her fare" etc., or else
one of the sexes must be boldly ignored.
1t is true that the pronoun of the mascu-
line gender may be used in these cases as
representative of the entire human fam
lily, but the instincts of justice are
stronger than those of grammar, and
hence the average man would rather
commit a solecism than ungallantly
"squelch the women in this jaunty fash
ion" as contemporary forcibly puts it.
Certain writer's assert very decidedly that
he pronouns are needed beyond those we
already possess, but this is simply dog
matte opinion unsupported by the facts.
No matter what pedants may say in the
matter, every man of dispassionate judg-
ment must see that if nearly all the wri-
tiers in the country, learned and I'M
learned, are continually betrayed into a
definite error of grammer, and an error
which can be avoided in many instances
only by either clumsy circumlocution
or half statement, there does exist a
radical defect in the language to cause
it. 1t will be sid that English-speaking
peoples have managed to get along a
good many centuries with the present
supply of pronouns; and this argument
sounds, no doubt, very conclusive to
some people. 1t is so old and ven
cradle an argument that perhaps it ought
to receive little respect; its equivalent
was used when gas, railways, and steam
boats were proposed; and it has at
tempted to bar the way to every improve
ment in our civilization.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
THE MODEL SUBSCRIBER.

Good morning, Mr.. Editor; how are all the folk
to-day?
owe you for next years paper, thought I'd come
and pay.
And Stuart is agoin to take it, and this is his money
here;
L shut down lendin' it to him, and then coaxed
him to try it year.
And here is few items that happened last week in
town,
thought they'd look good in the paper, and so 1
just dotted them down.
And here's bushel of russetts my wife picked ex-
pressly for you;
small bunch of flowers from Jennie, she tho't she
must do something, too.
You're don the politics bully, as all our family
agree,
just keep your old goose-quin happin'. and give
them good one for me.
And now you are chuck full of business and won't
be taking your time,
I've things of my own 1 must tend to-good-day,
sir, believe will climb.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
An ATHLETIC SQUASH.

When Weston walked 30 Chicago, he
took to lecturing on pedestrianism.
When Stanley found Livingstone, he
went to lecturing ON Africa. When Van
Pelt was converted from saloonatism,
he lectured on drunkenness and after
ward practiced it. Following the exam
pie OF those who have endeav ored to
make money out of their transient noto-
riety, the athletic squash of Amherst
College is now holding levees, and this
month is engaged at Horticultural Hall,
Boston. This squash, it will be remem-
bered, lifted nearly 1000 pounds weight
by means of peculiar mechanical ar
rangement, prepared by President w.
5. Clark, of Amherst College, for the
purpose of demonstrating the power or
growing force of some kinds of vegeta-
bles, in connection with the phenomena
OF plant-life. The squash weighs only
forty-seven and quarter pounds, and
its rind, three inches thick, unusually
hard and compact, and nearly filed with
fbrous tissue. The external appearance
OF the vegetable is very unique, growing
as it did in basket of strap-iron, firmly
riveted together. The marks between
the bands, which crossed each other at
right angles, were about one inch and a
half square, and impart a very rugged
surface to the squash.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
THE ORIGIN OF THE PIANO.

The piano began to make its appear
ance about the beginning of the
eighteenth century. Its invention, like
many others, is disputed, and England,
France, Italy and Germany, claim to
have share in the honor. Pianos were
certainly made for the first time in the
four countries within a very few years of
each other but in Germany alone did
they succeed. Sherman improved
upon the invention of Schroeder, and con-
structed pianos which met with Bach's
appreciation. From this dates the sue
cess of the piano in Germany. Fred
erick the Great had no less than forty of
Silbermann's pianos in his palace at
Berlin and when Bach visited him he
insisted upon the old man trying every
one. Stein of Augsburg was also cele-
brated maker and Mozart, in one of his
letters, describes the care taken by Stein
in seasoning the wood, which was ex-
posed to all sorts of weather, and after
wards had all the cracks filed up with
slips of wood glued into them. In En-
gland the piano made no sensible
progress until 1760, when twelve Ger
man workmen-afterwards called the
"twelve apostles arrived in search of
employment. Dibdin, at a concert in
1767, played on the first piano publicly
exhibited, and after that the instrument
became very popular, and harpsichords
more and more in disrepute. Sebastian
Erard made great Improvement in the
touch and Broadwood, who came to
London from Scotland in 1751, intro
duced what he called his "grand action,
which improved many defects. From
that day until the present the piano in
England has been improving.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
HoW L LOST MY HEART.

20 tell you just how lost it,
On, that were difficult task;
How the thing got away on that autumn dsy
never stopped to ask
Perhaps it was a glance that did if,
A soft caress to my hair,
A close warm grasp, or gentle clasp,
That captured il then and there.
You gee, there are things you can govern,
But hearts have way OF their own;
Like birds they fly, and you can't tell why
You only miss them when gone.
And why don't tell the story,
IT the reason you really must learn.
Z, though life grew bright with rosy light,
Yet won no heart in return.
Somebody's eyes were gentle and kind,
And his voice was soft and low;
Bat the heart wanted was given away
Ever so long ago.
And 20, while solace Lonely life
With cat aud q cup OF tea.
Somebody's arm is round hrs wife,
And her baby is on his knee.
And the loss met with results in this,
That mine is lonely part;
You cantor yo1r life make loving wife
OF woman without heart.
Another head rests on the manly breast
That wanted to shelter me;
Some other fair fsce-hss won my place,
So no mans wife III be.
But compensatory a law of life,
And though trials the gods vii send,
I've no one to scold Yhen bis beefsteak's cold,
And no small stockings to mend.
So the love that is lost never regret,
When l think what my troubles might be;
When dinner is late smile at Fate,
And nobody storms at re.
IrpeTs' Bazar.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
SPECULATIVE M4TRIMONY.

When some rich women marry some
poor men, they little imagine the misery
they are creating for themselves. A man
who woOes woman with mercenary mo-
tives is rather apt to hate her for being
worthy of a better fate, as she undoubt-
edly is, else her generous heart would
not SO run away with her judgment The
man who marries @ woman for money
had better kill her outright, and take i.
Indeed, that is what a creature who
makes match with such motive would
really like to do. He wants the hard
gold, not the soft woman who owns it,
and he hates her because he has to take
her also. Poor little heiresses. with such
delightful fortunes; poor little widows,
with snug little sum settled on you by
the husband that had your comfort at
heart, how much better that you should
be penniless women sewing for your iv-
ing. Then, some strong, loving hand
might gather you up to tender heart,
and you might be very sure it was all
for yourself all, every bit of it. But
now, nothing is left you but n lovelesS
existence-a broken life. All I its dan
gerous experiment to endow some men
with your earthly goods, in place of being
SO endowed by them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
LANGUAGE OF E4RS.

Large ears, says theorist, mounting
his hobby, hear things in general, and
denote broad, comprehensive views and
modes of thought; while small ears hear
things in particular, and show a DISPOSE
ton to individualize, often accompanied
by the love of the minute. Large ears
are usually satisfied with learning the
leading facts of case, with the general
principle involved-too strict an atten-
ton to the enumeration of details, espe-
cially all repetition of the more unim-
portant-is wearisome to them. People
with such ears Like generality, and are
usually fitted to conduct large enter
prises, to receive and pay out money in
large sums; they prefer to give with
free hand, without reference to the
amount. Small ears, on the contrary,
desire to know the particulars of story
as well as the main facts; take delight
often in examining, handling or con-
structing tiny specimens of workman
ship; are disposed to be exact with re-
spect to inches and ounces in buying or
selling, to the extent at least of knowing
the exact number over or under the
stated measure given or received. Peo-
pie nth such ears would, in most cases,
prefer retail to wholesale business.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
SOME comets require ITO, OOO, 900 of on

SOME comets require Ito, 600, 900 of our
years to complete the circuit of their
fight. In 1916 the earth passed through
one comet, and cut it in halves; in 1860
we passed through the prolongation of
another, causing most beautiful auro-
raj night. The mean velocity of the
wind on land is nine miles per hour in
the summer, and fourteen In the winter.
At sea, the mean velocity is estimated at
eighteen miles per hour.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29

THE Moody and Sankey revival in
Great Britain has caused the erection of
buildings in all the principal cities and
towns for Young Mems Christian Asso-
Citations. In the city of Dundee, S25, 900
in gold, in Edinburgh, S35, 900, and in
Manchester, $40, 900 have already been
paid in for these purposes, and in many
other towns lesser sums.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29

THE physical geographers are now at
work endeavoring to account for the ap-
pearance at the mouth of the Seine, near
Havre, of an hermetically-sealed bottle
in a wooden case. The problem its
presence suggests is this: During
Prince Napoleon's North-Polar Expedi-
ton ii 1860, wooden bottles of this kind
were thrown overheard daily in the
month of June. This was done in the
hope that the course taken by these
floating buoys would aid in determining
the direction of the great oceanic cur
cents. The test, however, failed COM
pletely, and for fourteen years none of
these bottles have been seen till the dis
covery of this one at the mouth of the
Seine. 1t is suggested that its appear
ance here indicates that polar current
must be borne into the German Ocean,
and thence through the channel to the
western coasts of France.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-29
PLEISINTRTES.

PLE1SAN1KIES.
A 'swELL disease-The mumps.
The father of all corns-pop corn.
A SMART thing-A mustard plaster.
ORDER is heavens first law, and it has
never been repealed.
If you are out in driving storm, don't
attempt to hold the rains.
UNCLE How did the mother of
Moses hide him." Niece" With a
stick"
ALTHOUGH flowers are the principal
trimming for the hats this season, it will
be well to stick on any portable article
that happens to be lying round loose.
WHY are sheep the least moral of ami
mails? Because they gambol in their
youth, spend much of their time ON the
turf, many of them are blacklegs, and
they all get feeced at last.
AUGUSTUS, DEAR" said she, tenderly
pushing him from her as the moonlight
flooded in at the bay window where they
were standing, 81 think you had better
try some other hair-dye your mustache
tastes like turpentine."
Snow, George. you must divide the
cake honorably with your brother
Charles" "What is honorable, mother"
cit means that you must give him the
largest piece" "Then, mother, I'd
rather Charley should divide it,
WHAT shall be done with an Indian
who kills another Indian, there being no
law for the punishment of that crime, is
painful inquiry made by the Christian
Commission. The New York Herald
answers "Give him a gun, quart of
whisky, string of beads and S."
A SIXTH street boy, in the house, was
yesterday making faces through the wiz
dow at another boy on the walk. The
latter had no remedy but talk, and, shak-
ing his fist at the window he exclaimed
ooh! 1 can wait A thousand years
from now I'll meet you around the cor
ner and just hammer blazes right out of
you.-DetrOa Free Press.
SMITH, the future poet laureate, has
beaten every one who wrote of the sea-
sons before. He has got the four sea-
sons into four lines, for which he charged
the editor of the Blue Buzzer four dollars
This is the poem
First comes the sneeze,
Then comes the pease,
Then comes the deas,
Then it begins to Freeze
YESTERDAY boot-black followed
man around for several minutes, repeat
ing the inquiry "Have shine 2" and
finally the man exclaimed "Didn't
tell you plainly five minutes ago that
didn't want my boots blacked?" "You
did, mister" replied the boy, "but 1
thought you might be lying about it l'-
Detroit Free Press.
THE DEATH WILLIE.
Willie had purple monkey, climbing yellow
stick,
And when he sucked the paint all of, it made him
deadly sick;
And in his latest hours, he clasped that monkey in
his hand,
And bid good-by to earth and went into a better
land.
Oh no more he'll shoot his sister with his little
wooden gun;
And no more he'll twist the pussy's tail, and make
her yowl for fun;
The pussys tail stands out straight the gun is
laid aside,
The monkey doesn't JUMP around since little Willie
died.
Toledo Biade-Obituarn