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POWER OF BEARING HEAr.-It

POWER OF BEARING HEAr.-It is
generally supposed that the human
frame cannot endure great heat, and, if
exposed to it, will soon sink into ex-
haustion. This is true in hot climates,
to which people have not been accus-
toned. But in this case the effect may
be due to influences from vegetation,
or to some disturbances Of nature. 1t
is certain that artificial heat is far great
er than the heat of the sun is in the
Torrid Zone, may be borne without
special suffering or harm.
The British Journal Of Science says
that the men in iron establishments,
work without any Inconvenience with
the thermometer constantly at one hun
dred and twenty degrees, and in pits
for making the Bessemer steel at ono
Lundred and forty degrees. In Tur-
kish baths the shampooners are often
busily engaged for four or five hours in
succession, with the temperature at one
hundred and ten degrees. In the Red
Sea Steamers the stokeholo marks one
hundred and forty-five degrees; and in
enamel works, the operators are COM
PEELED daily to endure heat of three
hundred degrees. The elastic power of
the body to accommodate itself TO ex.
trcmes is wonderful.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22
A South CAROLINA JOURNAL O

A SourH CAROLINA JOURNAL ON
PREsroS.-Thc Charleston Is. C.) News
aud Courier repudiates the sentiments
recently expressed by General John s..
Preston, Of South Carolina, at the Uni
versity of Virginia, in common with the
press of the South generally. The
Ners and Courier says: General Pres
ton is no longer a spokesman for the
people Of this State. With a small
class of equally sincere and equally un-
reasonable men his words will have Some
weight, because they express a Stub
bornly-cherished opinion; bu. he, and
such as he, however venerable or res
pectable, are no longer leaders in this
land of active purpose, high emprise,
and liberal opinion. The men who con
troll South Carolina, although their
strength has never been fully felt, are
the men who were young when the war
began, and went into the army and
stayed there. OF the older men there
were two classes-those who we're PHYS
icauy untitled for the the marchin.
and fasting of active service, and the
much larger class who we're first in war,
and E-st out Of it.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

Fam. DouerAssb - e1ruAr.ox.-
One Of the most lut times of the
day was uttered " rcd Douglass at
Hillsdale, near 61ff<fon City, in
an address = s3fs. III ll6a,zof the
ssl<9 He aid .plAinly and
kee& I'VE have been injured more
than we have been helped BY nen who
have professed to be our friends
They are lawyers without clients, minis
ters without churches, wandering teach
ers without schools" Such men had
gone begging for the "poor black peo-
pie" pretty much on their own hook,
and for every one hundred dollars they
collected, the "poor black people" got
about hundred cents. These men,
he said, must be stopped begging for
the colored people, a. they misrepre-
sented them and caused the country to
look upon them al poor and helpless
people. In like vein he referred to the
great fraud of the Freedmen's Bank,
and excoriated the white friends hav-
ing the run of that ill-starred institu-
tion with an unsparing hand. He con-
eluded by appealing to the colored peo.
pie to be independent of the wandering
mendicants who have followed them
simply for gain, adding, "and in the
future, if we want Moses, We viii
find him in our own tribes"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

Coon ApvIcE.-Foolish spending il
the father of poverty. Donot be ashamed
of work, nor Of hard work. Work for
the wages you can get, but work for
half price rather than be idle. Be your
master. and do not let society or fash
ION swallow up your individuality-has.
coat and boots. Do not cat up and
wear out all that you earn. Compel your
selfish body to spare something for pro-
fits saved. Be stingy to your own ap.
petite, but merciful to others necessi.
ties. Help others, and ask no help for
yourself. So that if you are proud, lot
your pride be Of the right Kind. Re
too proud to be Lazy; too proud to give
up without conquering every difficulty;
too proud to wear coat that you can-
not afford TO buy; too proud 70 be in
company that yon cannot keep up with
in expenses; too proud to lie, or steal,
or cheat; too proud TO be stingy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

A DEADLY SrRrxa.-A writer in O
California newspaper says: "About
half a mile over . mountain from
Bartlett Springs, there is what Is
called the Gas Spring. This is II ,ba-
bly, the greatest curiosity of tho noun
tains. The water is ice-cold, but bub-
bling and foan,ing as if boiling. and tho
greatest wonder is the inevitable dc.
structiou of life produced by inhaling
the gas. No living thing is to found
within circuit of one hundred yards
of the spring. The very birds, If they
happen to fly over it, drop dead.
1--WE experimental with q lizard on
its destructive properties by holding it
u few feet above the water. 1t str tchcd
dead in two minutes. 1t will kill hu.
man being in twenty minutes. We
stood over it about five minutes, when
q dull, heavy aching sensation crept
over us, and our eyes began to swim.
The gas which escapes here 10 of tho
rankest kind of carbonic, hence its suro
destruction of life; also Of quenching
of flames instantaneously.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

HATE Nor.-It i not worth whils 70
hate. Your life is not long enough To
make il pay 10 cherish ill-vill or hard
thoughts toward any ono. WhaAifthas
man has cheated you, or that womMn
has played you falseP What II this
friend has forsaken you in your time
Of need, or that one, having won your
utmost confidence, your warmest love,
has concluded that he prefers to COZ.
slider and treat you as q stranger Let
It all pass. What difference win II mako
TO you in few years, when you 70
hence to tho undiscovered country p
All who ill-treat you now will be moro
sorry for it then. than you, even in
your deepest disappointment and grief
can be. @
A few more smiles, few more tears,
some pleasure, much pain, little long
er hurrying and worrying through the
world, some hasty greetings, and abrupt
farewells, and our play will DO played
out" and the injurer and the injured
will be led away and ere long forgot
ten. Is it worth while to hate each
other?
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

HAprr.-I trust everything undcr
God to habit, upon which, in all ages,
the laws -giver rs well rs the schoolmas.
ter has mainly placed his reliance
Habit makes everything easy and casts
all difficulties upon the deviation from
n wanted course. Make sobricty hab-
it and intemperancc will he hateful;
make prudence \ habit, and reckless
proiligacy will bc avoided. Give child
habit of sacredly regarding the truth,
of carefully respecting the property of
others. of scrupulously abstaining from
all acts of improvidence which can in
volve him in distress, and he will Just
as likely think of rushing into an ele-
ment in which he cannot breathe "a one
of lying, cheating and stcaling.-Lord
Brougisham.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22
COMMUNICATED.
THE DAvIS-CRESwELL DISCUSSION.
Oakville, July 10th. 1875.

Oakville, July 10th, 1875.
To TIE EDITOR OF THE ST.. MARY's
BEAcoN-DEAR Sir Your readers
have no doubt borne in mind that some
months ago letter appeared in your
paper, reported to have been written
by Mr.. Jefferson Davis, and addressed
to VIM. F. Perry, Esq, III which Mr..
Davis denies that he said in February,
1861, at Stevenson, Ala.-"We will car
cry tho war where it is easy to advance,
"where food for the sword and torch
awaits our armies in the densely popula-
ted dcities," in thefollowing manner, to
wit 81 have no recollection Of ever
making speech at Stevenson. Twas
going from my home in Mississippi
"to Montgomery, Ala. At many rail-
"road stations on the route the people
assembled to manifest their good will,
and often went on the platform of the
scar to make due acknowledgements.
Stevenson was one Of those stations,
"and ] may there, as at other places,
have returned thanks; but neither there
or elsewhere, neither then or at any
"other time could have used the Ian.
"guage attributed to me, or any Ian
"guage that could be fairly construed
"to have such q meaning. Though I
may not claim to remember what 1
"said 1T those times, do know what
"were my thoughts and wishes, and
"therefore can be positive as to not
"haying said what I never thought or
Contemplated"
Shortly after Mr.. Davis letter ap-
peared in your paper, wrote to Gene
raj Creswel (upon whose authority l
used that quotation) and requested him
to give me his authority for embody.
ing it in his oration. Immediately upon
receiving my letter he addressed me a
brief note, informing me that he would
reply fully rs soon as business would
allow him to do so.
General Creswell has complied with
his promise, and therefore desire that
you publish his letter in the columns of
the BEACON, i'll order that the public
may have fair opportunity of Judging
between the positive testimony of living
witnesses and the feeble recollection OF
MIR. Jefferson Davis.
Yours very truly,
JOHN N. GRAVES.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22
JOHN N. GRAVES.

WAsnINoroN, D. c., July lst, 1875.
JOHN N. GRAVES, ESQ, OAKvILLE,
ST. MARY's COUNTY, MARYLAND, DEAR
SIR Having at last a respite from
my professional duties, l turn to your
long neglected letter of February 27th,
wherein you inform me that q contro-
versy has arisen between you and Mr..
Perry in relation to quotation in my
Grafton on the life of the late Hon. Hen
~ Winter Davis, from speech of Mr..
jefferson Davis, at Stevenson, Alabama,
in February, 1861, rs follows:
eve will carry the war where it is
"easy to advance-whe-e food for the
"sword and torch awaits our armies in
"the densely populated cities"
You state that Mr.. Perry wrote to
Mr.. jefferson Davis concerning the mat
ter, and enclose ME copy of his reply
contained in the St. Mary's BEACON of
February 25, 1873; and then request
me to give my authority for the above
quotation.
The fact that Mr.. Davis made many
speeches on his way from Jackson to
Montgomery is proved by despatch
dated Montgomery, Feb'y l6, 1861, and
published in the New York Herald and
New York Tribans of the next day IN
tho following language:
''The trip Of Mr.. Davis from Missis.
"sippi 70 Montgomery was one eontin.
"uons ovation. He made twenty FIVE
"spceches on the route, returning thank:
"and complimentary greetings to crowds
'.of ladies' and gentlemen aud military
"at the various jepots."
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

WHAf 10 DO vYrR TnocDLR.-Dou't
try 10 quench your sorrow in rum or
narcotics. II you begin this, you must
keep right On with It until il leads you
10 ruin; or you must add physical pain
and the consciousness, of degradation TO
the sorrow you seek to escape. OF al
wretched men his condition il most pit
iful, who, having sought TO drown his
grief in drink awakens from his debauch
With shattered nerves, aching head and
depressed mind, to face the same trou-
BILE again. That which et first was
painful 10 contemplate win, after drink,
seem unbearable. Ten to one the ia
tai drink will be again and again sought
until its victim sinks . hopeless, pitiful
and total wreck.
Work is the true remedy. III mis-
fortune hits you hard you should hit
something else hard-pitch into some
thing with . will. There's nothing like
good, solid, absorbing work to cure
trouble. If you have met with losses,
you don't want to lie awake thinking
of them. You want sweet, calm, sound
sleep, and to eat your dinner with ap-
petite. But you can't unless you work.
If you say you don't feel like work, and
so loafing all day to tell Tom, Dick
and Harry the story Of your woes,
you'll lie awake and keep your wife
awake by tossing, spoil her temper and
your own breakfast the next morning,
and begin to morrow feeling ten times
worse than you do to-day.
There are some troubles that time
only heals, and perhaps some that car
never be healed at all, but all can b.
helped by the panacea, work. Try it,
you who are so afflicted.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

SH I was possessed of the most
valuable things in the world, and was
about to viii them away. the following
would be my distribution:
Iwould give to the world truth and
friendship, which are scarce indeed.
Iwould give an additional portion
Of honesty to lawyers, merchants and
traders.
Iwould give physicians skill and
learning.
l would give printers their pay.
To eossiping women short tongues.
To young women good sense, mod
esty, large waists and natural teeth.
To young sprouts and handles, COM
mon sense, little cash and hard labor.
To old maids, smooth faces, good tenn
per and good husbands.
To old bachelors love for virtue.
children and wives.
To boys, becoming modcs.y, and a
disposition to profit by experience of
older persons.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22
Then out Of night and darkest dreams
saw thee

The EYE.-The eye shows character.
The eyes of great warriors have almost
always been gray, their brows lowering
like thunder clouds. Inventors have
large eyes, very full. Philosophers the
most illustrious have had large and
deep-set eyes. The poets allhave large,
full eyes, and musicians eyes are large
and lustrous.
Button considers that the most beau
tiful eyes are the black and the blue.
1 think have seen black and blue eyes
that were far from beautiful. Byron
says the gazelle will weep at the sound
of music. The gazelle's eyes have been
called the most beautiful in the world,
and the greatest compliment an Arab
can pay his mistress is to compare her
eyes to gazelle's. The power of the
eye was well illustrated by Robert Burns.
He was taken to Edinburgh very much
as Samson was taken to the temple-to
amusc the Philistines. He was brought
to the palace where the great men Of
Scotland were to be entertained, and was
put in q back room until the time should
come when they were ready for him
When they were, he was brought in,
and, having measured the company
with his wonderful eyes, he rccited his
immortal poem, as there Erpo fos
Honest Poverty?" Carlyle says that
when he finished the mobiles and gentle
men covered and shrunk before his
eyes. think his words had as much
to do with it as his eyes.
Henry Clay's eyes were big gray ones,
that looked blacked when he was excl
ted. Webster's eyes were lustrous
black, and were like Gagged lions. Car
lyle compared them to . great cathe-
dral all lighted up. Cleopatra had black
eyes. Mary Queen of Scots had liquid
gray eyes. Dark eyes show power, light
eyes gentleness, and gray eyes sweet
ness. There is great magnetic power
in the eyes Of several Of the lower AMI.
mails.
The lions, the tigers, and tho SER
pcnt's eyes are all magnetic. 1t is we'll
known that the serpent will charm birds
that are flying above it, until in great
circles they will sweep down to the de-
struction which awaits them. A friend
of mine, doctor, was one day walking
in the field, when he saw an adder ly-
ing on q rock. He drew near to exam
inc it, and presently looked at its eyes.
He was attracted by their great beauty y
and involuntarily stepped forward two
or three STEPS. Beautiful light flowed
from them, and seemed to bathe the
very coils of the serpent. Gradually
he drew closer, until, just as he was al
most within the reptiles reach, he fell,
feeling. as he said afterward, as though
as had been struck by . stone. When
he became conscious his head was in a
friends lap. His first words were
"Who struck meP" mo one struck
you, doctor. saw you were charmed
by the snake, and I struck it with a
stone" He.had struck the snake, and
the doctor felt the blow.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

g Nothing, perhaps, more deserves
our sympathetic commiscration that the
position of timid young man who does
not know what to say to his partner at
a ball; indeed, We have "biddcn depths"
of indulgence for the unfortunate fell
low, who, with heightened color, veb-
lures to remark, ut is very warm" or
"What beautiful dresses" But of all the
observations which would suggest them
selves to youthful dancer, the follow
ing, recently heard in crowded ball
room is certainly the most original -
81 say" stammered the unhappy youth.
Il say T. "Yes." ''Did it hurt You
much having your ears pierced 2"
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The TArrLER.-A restless busy DO.

The TArrLER.-A restless busy body,
with an unnatural and prurient lust of
gossip, perpetually itching to connect
himself with prominent or notorious
people, babbling to one of the stories
of the other, and rushing about with a
sort of feeling that the responsibility
for the conduct of large part of the
universe was resting on his shoulders,
a figure as can well be imagined. He
is so loose a talker with % little con-
ception of the value Of words, such ev.
ident lack Of common sense, and such
overwhelming idea Of his own impor-
tance in the transactions he narrates,
that even if his honest purpose be ad-
mittsd, very little weight can be given
to what he tells.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

g. Jones gave bill to be collected
to the amount Of $50. Calling for it,
after while, he inquired if it had been
collected. "Oh. yes" said the lawyer,
II have it all for YOU" What charge
for collecting;" "Oh," said the law
yer, laughing "I'm not going to charge
you-why have known you ever since
you were baby, and your father be-
fore YOU; $50 will be about right" !"
handing over $40. "Well," said Jones,
as he meditated upon the transaction,
"It's lucky he didn't know my grand
father, or l shouldn't have got any.
thing!"
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E'I would not accept nomina-
ticn If it were rendered, unless it should
come under such circumstances as to
make it an imperative duty" says Pres
ident Grant in his amusing ''third-
term" utterancc. Il swear" said old
Parkinson, in q parcxysm of the de.
moralixing misery which follows a dc.
bauch, II swear / never'n tech anothe,
drop Of hquor-unless I'm sick or want
some"
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Doc TnApE.-"Well, Jane, Two sold

Doc TRApE.-"Well, Jane, I've sold
Carlo"
"Now, Charles, that is kind fyou, for
do hate dogs-and Carlo was such
nuisapce. You ought to have done il
long ago."
"Yes, my love, l got fifty dollars"
Fifty dellars that's good. Now
1 can certainly have that elegant"
"Yes, fifty dollars, wife-good trade
all in rups-fve at ten dollarsapiece."
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22
HARD Observation-Disclosures

HARD QUEsrIoSs-DITFIcuLr An.
swERs.-"What's de casion Of dat big
smoke ober dar 7" asked one darkey Of
another as he saw q dense volume aris.
ing from the woods on the South Car
olina side Of the river, a few days since
Fire, sab !" was the answer
'.An what's de casion Of the ere 2"
"Combustshun."
"An what's combustshun 2"
my fren," replied the other, cross.
ing his legs, "dar's heaps of tings in
dis world dat no niSger eber knowed
or cher will know. an well change dt
subiec to watermillions."
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s Two brothers down East were
noted for the earnestness with which
they took part in public worship. One
day the elder brother, in descanting ou
the characteristics of each said: Broth
er George can eAhort and sing. but he
can't pray. can pray his shirt Of
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1olo04 = - - - ~ endsrsenn1 6
~ NJ aua aieAt vhn ansaase asnna
UeEcass the - % snlla lieAe
Dsihseoed, IT, ~ ef all thas cAesae
With tpinkling h8ps tAat light Ne nigAt
A. uhsa as aaul Ne troubled tnrn
Array Zen dreaue With hearts that burn.
Al - upon ~ 0rent ny
H. star Aas le61s ths cheeFsal day.
IA like lfsn nieit when darkest dreama
nake the hnuteeus Sylvia drear,
Silent the soogs s1idst The wood
Nouoss = 1andy plsmage there;
AZ when at 800 we early wake
And catch the soands that gently break
From some nonR wood refreshed by dew
And gsl1D&t The morning hue.
- - -sssssss E
'1s - from night when darkest ersama
Gazing blight upon the land,
Say that flowers are ever dead
No more Be press'd by mortal hand;
As when from couch of fearful dream.
To floral fields that richly teem
With buds that bloom and paint the day
To drive all care and sorrow way.
Then out Of night and darkes, dreams
As thy beauty Of Venus mien,
Becomes the lovers shield and sheen,
'Tis then that form Of beauty dies
To dark the lovers paradise.
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GA little boy accostcd gentle
man on the street in Portland the other
day with. Mister, can you 6x things?"
well, I don't know; | can fx some
things. What is itI" "Can you fix
my oollars There's a pin sticking into
me, and our folks are so busy about the
centennial they can't do it. !"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

TABULAR STATEMENT By AN EDITOR.
The editor of the Fairfield Press, pub
fishes the following tabular statement
of his every day life:
Been asked to drink, 1882
Drank, 1882
Requested to retract, 4l6
Didn't retract, 4l6
Invited to parties, receptions, pre-.
sentations, ETC., by parties fish,
ing for puffs, $500
Took the hint, 33
Didn't take the hint, $500
Threatened to he whipped, ia
Been whipped, O
Didn't come to time, 170
Whipped the other fellow, 4
Been promised bottles of cham
pagne, whisky, gin bitters, Gig
ars, etc, If we would go aftef
them, $3.50
Been after them, 5000
Been asked whats the news 2" 800, coo
Told, 13
Didn't know, 100000
Lied about it, 99,9S7
Been to church, 2
Changed politics, g.
Expected to change still, so
Gave to charity. IS 90
Gave for q terrier dog, 25 90
Cash ON hand, loo
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

Abraham was the first sick man
lie had Hagar IN Che wilderness.
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Sne began IN shriti quaNers, but II
Was pitched too high Ten thousand
Ten thousand" she screecbed, and
stopped. '"Start her At 500O" cried a
converted stock-broker present.
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60 At camP-meeting this sum-
mer, a venerable sister began the by mn


Ny soul he On thy guard,
Ten thoSsani lves arise. y
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TAnuLAn STATEMENT BY AN EDITOR.
The editor Of the Fairfield Press, pub
fishes the following tabular statement