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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

SPEND YouR Mcxxr AT HoxE.-Au
exchange gires the following nine reasons
why people should spend their monev
at home. They are % forcible and we'll
put thst we cannot refrain frem pressn-
ting them TO our readers, hoping that
they will give them the confederation
which they deserve -.
lsk Il h your home; you cannoe im-
prove il much BY taking monsg Auay
q spsna I'D inxsst; ;.s.......r<zu.z.uu,~v-w
place 90 much rs by encouraging good
merchants, good schools, and good peo:.
'ple TO settle among you and spending
your money at home. :,
Sd. Spend your money A. Rome be-
cause there is where YOU GENERALLY gee
it. 1t 10 your duty.
4th. Spend your ,t.oney at home be-
cause when it is necessary for you To
get credit, it is Of your town merchants
YOU have generally to get it, and they
must wait for their money. Therefors
when you have the cash in hand spend
it at home.
5th. Spend your money ut home.
II will make better merchants; they
can and will keep better assortmeuts
and sell at lower rates than ii the only
business thev do is what is credited
out while the money goes to the other
places.
9th. Spend your money as home
You may have sons growing up VIII"
will some day be the best merchants
in town. Help to lay the foundations
Of them now. 1t is duty. 1t may
be your pride in after years to say;
by my trading at the store got my
son a position as clerk, and now he Is
a proprietor" Then you will think it
hard if your neighbors spend their
money out of town. Set the example
now.
9TH. Spend your money ut bome.-
Set the example now. Buy your dry
goods, groceries, meats and every
thing at bone. and .you VIII see .
wonderful change in q short time IN
the business outlook Of the place'
therefore deal with your home mer-
chants.
9Th. Spend your money OF hcwe'-S
What do YOU gain hy going ohs Count
the cost; see what You could have
done at home by letting your merchaus
have the cash. Strike balance and
see If Won would not have been just
as well OF, besiaesssslping your mer.
chant. =
9th. Spend your money at home
Your merchants are your neighbors;
without your trade they cannot KEEP
vour business. No stores. then no
banks. no one wanting TO buy prop
erty to settle on and build up your
place.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

- Postmaster General Jewell 10 8
humorist as we'll as an unusually polite
official. He wrote as follows, recently,
to woman who had applied for SIT
uatiou in the Dead letter Office: awe
have only 81 ladies employed ia this
Department, with the exception Of .
few trznslators and experts. and not
more than two changes have occurea
in that force for the .ast ak monshs.-
None Of them ever marry. or die, or re.
sign. In fact, the Dead Letter division
is sort of mausoleum of buried affecs
tions-a place not governed BY natural
laxs-for those who enter its charmed
portals seem to lose all the motives and
hopes, and aspirations which sway and
govern the deni,ens Of the outside
world. I regret that il isso, bat soitis"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

WHERE THE ADVANTAGE WAs-'1
had more money than he had to carry
on the suit" said . mean individual
who had just won law suit over his
poor ueighbor, land there's where
had the advantage of him. Then
had much better counsel than he, and
there / had the advantage Of him. And
hisfauaily were sick while the sui, was
pending. so he couldn't attend to it,
and there I had the advantage of him
again. But, then, Brown is a very de.
cent sort of a man after all"
Yes, said the listener, '.and there's
where he had the advantage of you"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

- EA little five-year-old friend, who
mas always allowed to choose the pref
tiest kitten for his pet and playmate,
before the other nurslings we're drowned,
was taken to his mothers sick room
The other morning too see two tiny,
new, twinn babies. He looked reAec-
lively from enc to the other for min
ute or two. then poking his chubby fin
ger into the chesk Of the plumpest ba-
hys said decidedly, "Say skis ose."
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

A Texas Judge is credited with
the following decision: THE. fact is
Jones, the Jail is an old, rickety affair,
AS cold as an iron wedge. You applied
TO this court for release on bail, Civ
ing it as your opinion that You would
freeze to death there. The weather
has not moderated, aud to keep you
from freezing, I will direct the sheriff;
to hang you as four o'clock this after
noens un - s-
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

S Coin up-street one hot day last
summer, man saw boy about eleven
years of age seated on the sidewalk,
bareheaded, in the full blaze of the
scorching sun.
'Bub, you ought not to sit there,
said the man.
Why!
because you win get all taned
up
Makes no difference to me whether
I sit in the sun or the shade sadly an
swered the boy; mother tans me up
three or four tunes day anyhow
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25
EA Milxaules belle. attending

.SA Milwaukee belle, attending =
theatre in this city recently, complained
IN one of the scenes that the light
was too dim to show the acting prop
erly. Wont ron try this glass p asked
her escort. handing her his lorgnet.e.
Hastily covering the suspicious lookin 2
oblect with her handkerchief, she placed
it TO her lips. took q long pull. and then
banded it back in great disgust, saying
why there amt drop in it,"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

S 'Man," says Victor Hugo, twas
the ocnundrum of the eighteenth GEN.
tury; woman is the conumdrum Of the
nineteenth century" We can't guess
her, but we'll never give her up-no,
never,
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

A wEArHER PxorHxcT-A A gentI@s
man who faithfully predicted tke'ehar
acter Of las, winter.io the West Chester
Ne,es has once more eiven il the hsnsft
of his prophecy, and this i rhef IA
saws about the wiu.er upon whi6 =
are fast approaching: Frem
/, through the entire wintszz
cold. cold, cold. and worse
there viii 30 no spring (ssEf
last year,. and you viii Cd =
comic: n. le antil the lss Of 1[ s.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-11-25

Il tte8olxn droussd my soice. Just
- - - lulled, and I heard an
- - p1lh Of; ths speaker Vas J.-
eo6 A1cL Iaeain shoutsd in my agony;
but ~ vo6os snd The wind rose togeth-
81 vas not beArd. I continued 70
e[1 - nlndman, thouRh i knew
- was eoue that I MAS
elone, Eks : Trapped mt n the sinking
rlo1xlz ! beet the deor. al the
r q - s.5.ae.s sls. ssseus
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
Offensive People.

II to be good man and a successful ,,o,,
Is offensive to the world at large. to be
praised Is eXasperating. No greater unkind.
ness can be done to any man than to nraiso
hlm much. People generally will stand =
moderate compliment paid to neiobbor
Whiie they are left to qualify it, or to admit
1t as a matter of generosity or courtesy
but praise persisted in will ruin the ronuto.
ton OF anybody. There is NOTHING moro
offensive to the average human being tbon
persistent laudation bestowed upon onotbor
10 hear man warmly praised is sufficient
10 make US hate him; and it is only neces.
sary to have the praise repeated often
enough to make us desire to shoot him
Praise is one of the articles we wonld Ill
TO have distributed little-if we know
ourselves. Virtue is good thing. penius
Is not bad thing altogether; but no man
Is to be mentioned so many as ten times nc
having either of them in possession without
making his name q stencil and an ofranso
to the nostrils of sensitive world. The
true way of getting along in the world is
not to make ones self offensive to ones
friends by excellence of character and
habits OF life, by success, or by doing any.
thing proiseworthy. Let us strike the
average as nearly as possible. Let us be
good fellows rather than good men, and
choke the first man, who dares to ascribe
to us single virtue. Let us all keep down
and out of sight. All that we do for our.
selves, and all we do for mankind, only
leeds hell with slanderers, and so betrays
the baseness of human nature that we NAV
well blush to think that we are members
oil the human race.-Dr j. G.. Holland, in
ScriJncr for October.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
How to Find Out Who any Given
Person Will Marry.

II doht require an astrologer, medium
OF gypsy with dirty pack of cards.
1t IS very simplc-les in nutsbolI
ana can be expressed in a very few words
They are these:
II girl expresses a fondness for majestic
men with large whiskers make up vou
mind that she will marry very smal! man
with none.
II she declares that "mind" is all she
looks Tor, expect to see her stand before
the altar with very pretty fellow who has
just sense enough to tie cravat bow.
II, on the contrary, she declares she
must have handsome husband. Iool,
about for the plainest person in the circle of
her acquaintance and declare that is tbo
man." for it will be.
Men are almost as bad.
The gentleman who desires n wife Will,
mind and mission, marries lisping baby
VINO screams at the sight of a mouse. and
hides her face when she hears sudden
knock at the door.
And the gentleman who dreaded on,.
thing like strong mindedness exults in tLo
fact that his wife is everything he detostod
II a girl says Of one "3Iarry him, I'd
rather die" look upon the affair as settled
ana expect cards to the wedding Of these
two people.
II man remarks of lady. Not nv
style at all, await patiently the appear
ance ofhis name in the matrimonial coIurr
IN connection with that lady's.
And if any two people declare tbon
selves friends and nothing more" Won
may know what will come next.
There is no hypocrisy in all this. and
Such marriages are invariably happiest.
People do not know themselves. and
make great mistakes about their intentions
Love Is terribly pcrplcxing when he first
ocsihs to upset ones theories, and when
ms arrow first pierces the heart there is
such tluttering there that it is hard 70
guess the cause.
Besides, man proposes and God disnos.
es' and 1t IS the " don't know what" with
which people fall in love, and not their
pecuiiarities which could be given IN q,
passport
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
Bishop Peck on Temperance.

bishop Peck, on Monday night. preached
sermon ON intemperance at the Bedford
street Methodist Episcopal Church. New
lork, before the New York Conference
temperance Society. Thcreyerend bisbon
took his text from st. Luke. ~And Josus
saith unto them, have faith in God" He
SaId that intemperance was grounded in tho
human appetite, which sustains n ve,,,
peculiar relation to reason. The annnti+os
are lmperlous while reason rcm,irod tI,o+
every object reached by it should be delibo-
rate and subservient to rightly-constitutod
authority It was seen at glance. there.
iofe, that the vice concealed IFS or;,,;n aud
mad ITS powers hidden below the roach of
human reason. The victim of the vice did
not consult his reason, otherwise he would
pause IN his downward steps. He makes
himself deaf to reason because annette ;s
cIaHorous, lmpcrious and disobedient 70
IaW' Animal appetites become morbid and
diseased, and are thus further removed
from the reach of reason. He tboroGoro
was forced to believe that it was imnossiIIo
10 arrest the progress of the vice. or TO con.
troll 1t by the application of the REASONING
powers. 1t was not in the power of nbilan.
thropists to, nor had they any affinity tbot
could enable them to grapple with, the vice.
But to master all lis public abuses and nri.
Vate wrongs and save its victims were
achievements too difficult for man. and 20.
quIred the exercise of powers too feeble. or
rather too mighty for human agents. He
khe" that those who had worked hard 70
destroy the vice had feeling of inadeouacv
ana despair at the results of their labor
lie argued that the appeal to the Infinite
one was reasonable resource. He felt
that the men who cherished and protected
the human organs and the soul from bo
coming debascd and degraded, and would
appeal to God against the oppressors Of the
race would have divine cooperation, when
they asked God to destroy the vice of in.
temperance.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
SMYRNA, Dell WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMRER o. 7075

ole and sweet and generous he was. Oh
papa, do love him p
Then Mr.. Cohen, finding his betrothed
altogether engrossed in the caress of he,
Iather, stopped and kissed the dead iapon.
lea in her hair.
After Easter, among the most brilliant
marriages the most notable was that of the
lovely and accomplished Miss Wintbron 70
the eminent financier, Mr.. Cohen.
Such worldly creature p said Miss Do
register to the Baron Wagner, who had
honored the magnificent nuptial ceremony
with his presence. "The whole affair was
patched up to save her father from bank.
ruptcy' But that nobleman, Struggling
his shoulders, recklessly displaying his tar.
mshed gloves, and lifting his eyebrows to
meet his hair, replied, "Ya.as." with tbo
accent of one who approved of the festivi.
", whatever brought it about.-Ha,osy,e
UeckM
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
Rev. ]. S, Willis on the Bible in the
Schools.

me American Common School LoaoIa
an organization recently formed IN Tou
York city, held a mass-mcctinc on We'd.
nesday OF last week, in Cooper Institute
The objects of the league is TO pronounoo
against the abOlishmcnt Of tho Billie from,
the public schools Rev. J. s. Willis for.
| merry OF Delaware was introduced rs tho
hrst speaker. He thought as a question of
propnety there could be no reasonable
objection to the Bible in the public schools
ihe Bible was not objected to in the courts
nor IN the halls of legislation. lie claimed
1t was the most dignifcd history in oxie.
tencc, and, therefore, could not be obiec.
tlonable. The gentleman referred 70 Cor.
many and Great Britain as countries which
have always had the Bible. and TO Franco
SPAN, and Italy as countries where tba,
had not. Where there was prooross
liberty and Christian civilization. thoro was
the Bible; where ignorance and intoleranc,
were, there the Bible could not bo
found. He held that it was the dosicn
OF the public school to awaken the moral
sense, to prepare the child for good citizcn.
snip. The perpetuity of the Government
depends upon the moral culture Of tba
children. He insisted that the objection
TO the Bible had been dictated by a counsel
OF Cardinals gathered beneath the shadow
oi the Vatican. The Bible is not Protes.
tant Bible, so far as it relates to the hubIic
schools, but it is an American Bible.
Republican book in every particular. lie
thought that Americans would do well 70
lmblbe the genius of Prince Bsmark. whose
treatment of the Roman Catholics was we'll
known. The establishment which furnishes
fhreetourths ofthc criminals of the country
Is the one which clamors against the inva.
sion OF rights when no rights were invaded
The speaker held that there was too mncb
oi spirit OF compromise. He believed in
not one single step in this
question The address was loudly annlou.
ded.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

CoLoRED PEOPLES RELIGIOUS FArru.-Tba
Episcopal Board of Missions. in sossior - ~
LOUISVILLE Ky, last week discusted plans
bringing the colored people within the
PaIe OF the Episcopal Church. The opinion
seemed to prevail that the Catholic was in
.,lr a laif way to win over the colared race, and
that II the Protestant denominations wished
to succeed in the matter, immediate action
must be taken. U''0'
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

DESTRUCTION TO BLACK BIRDs.-In a small
piece OF woods near the Five Mile House.
IN Cumru township, Berks county. Pa
where the blackbirds focked together in
great number to roost, not less than 500 Of
their number were killed during a recent
storm at night by the trees lashing against
each other. The ground was literally
covered with birds next morning.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

FoIitleal orators in the West indulge in
some . nigh'hown asseverations in regard to
.helr hrmness of principle. The following
IS moderate specimen: "Build a worm
fence around the Winters supply of Sum.
mer weather. skim the clouds from the skv
WIN teaspoon, catch thunder-cloud in .
bladder break a hurricane to bornaaa
ground-sluice an earthquake. lasso an
avalanche, pin a napkin on the crater of
an active voleano-but never expect to see
me false to my principles!"
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

The great railroad lines bavino rooo,,.1,
increased the freight tariff on grain and
other produce from the West to the eastern
markets. the western growers and dealers
nave determined to ship no more grain 70
'ne eastern cities until the increased freight
charges shall be taken off. Should fbe
carriers not recede from their advanced
rates and the western shippers hold to their
oe'ermlntlon to not ship, the demand for
gram IN the Atlantic cities must be increa.
Sed and the price will consequently bo
materially advanced. &c
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

Little Willie having hunted in all the
corners for his shoes, at last appears to
give them up, and climbing on a chair
oetakeS himself to big book on a side
table Mother says to him: "Wbat i
darling doing with the book?" aft ;tb
the dictionary; papa lookth in the die.
tonary for things, and I'm looking in If 70
see if | can find my shoes"
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

HASTE AND HEALTm-It is not ot oil
wholesome to be in hurry. Locomotives
nave been reported to have moved milo y
minute for short distances. But locon,o,
tives have often come to grief by such RI.
pididy. Multitudcs in their haste to cot
rich are ruined every year. The men who
90 things maturely, slowly, Deliberately
are mon who often succeed in life. ,oonio
who are habitually in hurry penoroIlv
have to do things twice over. The tortoise
beat the hare at last Slow men soldon,
knock their brains out against n most
Foot-races are injurious to health os oro
all forms of competitive exercise stoodv
labor in the field is the best gymnasium in
the world. Either labor or exercise oor.
ried to exhaustion or prostration. or even
great tiredness, expressed by tagged ont
ai"ay does more harm than the previous
exercise has done good. All running nm
stairs or to catch up with vehicle or ferry
ooat' is extremely injurious to every age.
sex and condition of life.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

a iankee has invented milking ma.
ori"e 'nat can be carried in pocket-book
VOW, II ne We're to invent milch cow that
could be carried in the coat.tail pocket h;s
ni"cnlnes would sell more rapidly.-Norr;s.
toOn Herald WITS
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

HE PHILADELPHIA -Philadelnbio
ladies propose to give several grand enter.
tainments during the winter in aid of the
Centennial Fund. In December there will
be Martha Washington Reception y
and in January, Historical Tabieaux -
andin February, "The Carnival of Authors -
as it is called. These entertainments arc
to be give at the Academy of Music.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
Saving and Having.

Either man must be content Will
poverty all his life, or else bo willirn ;,
oehy himself some luxuries, and save. f.
I''y the base of independence in the fpt1ro
but lfaman defies the future, and spcnds oil
he earns, (whcther his earning be one dol.
lar or ten dollars every day. let him look
lor lean and hungry want at some f,turo
tlme-ior it will surely come, no matter
what he thinks.
10 save is absolutely the only way to cot
SOLID fortune; there is no other cortoir
mode Those who shut their eyes and oars
10 these plain facts will forever bo moon
and for their obstinate rejection of tho
truth, mayhap will die in rags and filth
Let them so die, and thank themselves
but, no! They take sort of recomnopso
IN curslng fortune. Great waste of breath
They might as well curse mountains and
eternal hills. For can tell them fortune
does not give away her real. substantial
goods. She sells them to the bicbost
bidder, to the hardest and wiscst workers
Tor the boon. Men never make 50 fatal
mistake as when they think themsclve
creatures of fate; It's the sheerest folly in
the world. -
Every man may make or mar his life.
', he may choose. Fortune is for
those who by diligence, honesty, frugaIjtv
place themselves in position to grasp hold
oi fortune when it appears in view. The
pest evidence of frugality is the five hun.
ired dollars or more standing in your name
~ ~ the savings bank Or loan association
The bestovidence ofhoncstyis both diligence
and frusality.-Er.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

LOST TmNGs-Thcre are a great MANY
'hIng' lost that are found again, and a
great many others that are lost and novo.
found. There are regulations lost wLioh
cannot be regained; there are hopes lost
which come not back again; there are iov5
an" a lilendShlps lost, which are never found
Every man has at sometime lost somotbinn
|hlch he would give the world, if it were
ms 10 recover. 1t may have been bnt =
single pearl from the thread of friendsbin
or mere hope of his soul, but it was
preclously y dear to him, and life is sad and
dark without it, ''''N
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

The old ladies of Massachusetts oro
petl'i0ning Gov CASTOR of Massachusetts
not to hang Jesse Pomeroy for the rooso,'
that in the present delicate stnto ~ e"Son ,.u
health 1t would be impossible for him 10
survive the operation. ~ nm 70
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

The NEAR BALANCE OF PARTIEs.-The
New York HcraH makes comparison
between the number of democratic and
republican States, with their respective
electoral votes, the striking feature of
which is the near approach to equality in
the strength of the two political parties.
1t says: Mr.. Pendleton and his followers
must see that the possibility of electing
democratic President is staked on the vote
of New York, and that New York has be.
come so doubtful that the least squirting
to imitation in the democratic national plat.
form, or the slightest bias towards imitation
on the part of the democratic candidate
would given New York to the republicans. -
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

Because we happen to take our shotgun
and start out for Saturday afternoons
cunning, it is no reason why half dozen
impudent persons should inquire if we
were on tour for collecting subscription
money. The times are hard, and ammuni-
ton cost too much money to be wasted on
delinquent subscribers just now.-lfarqaette
Mining journal.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

a Lewiston (Me.) man boasts that bs
'f"ded horses nine times in one day, and
al night he had the same horse he started
with IN the morning, $45 in money. a watcb
Wort %or'n SSo' double-barrelled shotgun, and
four bushels of potatoes. '''"
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

What is that dog barking at" asked a
lop' whose boots were more polished than
ms ideas. Why" said bystander, she
sees another puppy in your boots