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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

SELr.GovERNMENT Govern the
temper. Angry words win nothing but
contempt. Have you ever chalced to
catch glance at yourself in mirror,
when in a violent rage! Did you moi
mike ridiculous picture The des-
tortion anger occasions to the features
Of the face, renIers it a striking expo
nent OF mental character. The lines
become fixed, in time, and, alas SC
does the habit, until We hear people
complain that they cannot restrain their
temper. They did not begin soon
enough. Even as matter OF policy, a
man should gain control over his tenn.
per: for what abiding influence can he
exercise over others, il he be not mas.
ter over himself!
II a man intends to 60 headlong to hi.
ruin, not only without sympathy, but
amid the sporting and merriment o
others, he could not pursue a course
more certain for the accomplishment oI
his purpose than by allowing his emo.
tons to be worked into q state Of exas.
peration. A person who has acquired
no matter by what means, this unhappy
temperament, is always at the mercy o
others. He is incapable Of being mas.
ter, in the useful and honorable sense
Of the word; and, a. a servant, he is no,
trustworthy, even faithfulness in the ex.
ecution Of that which is committed tc
his care. In short, If person wishe.
to be useless, and cut rs miserable Q
figure in the world as he possibly can
he should by all means acquire the ex.
acerbesceure Of temper, but otherwise
he should by every means avoid them
Govern the sppetites. The neares,
approach to brute that can be made
is to become a mere creature Of appe.
tite-a feeder, a topper. So long as he
is we'll fed or we'll crammed, a sluttor
is a stupid harmless lump: but deny
him his provender, and he becomes Z
roaring lion. Govern the appetites, OF
they will become tyrants, under whose
cruel bondage ell that is noble in human
character will be crushed out Of exis.
tence. Besides, indulgence of the ap.
petites, in time, destroys health; re.
member that nothing conduces so much
to its preservation as self-government
Govern the Passions. Hatred, envy
malice, covetness, are yenomous ser.
pcnts, which bite like the adder. The
man who harbors them in his bosom, in
time becomes q miserable wretch; 10,
these serpents swell and expand unit
there is no resting place for love, JOY
and peace.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

Efes or course these few instances
are but heggarly ciphers In comparison
with the millions cf the earth: but no
body knows who is to figure smuox the
ciphers; and # il should happen to be
our own chance, how very agreeable it
would be II 1t any station, the fovtieth,
the 6ftieth. even the seventieth, whea
the world acquitted NJ Of care, We had
discovered any peculiar TALENT with oil
our powers fresh and vigorous 70 pursue
it, and had not neglected to cultivate II
because il was "all nonsense ut our age"
to begin, and We dida't want people
lsughing ct ual
Aad evsuif $500 60 a Ia
to these antediIuvian 6ou605, L u o
well TO put ourselves in condition f6f
enjoyment for the ten or twenty years
that we probably shall live after passing
the Rubicon where we think II 10 too
late to learn. Ten years, in COMPARE
son with these vaster numbers, seem
but breadth; but in reality there are
very many long weary days and weeks
and months in them, - looking back on
any last ten years, and al they have
held, will show Us; and whatever will
legitimately tighten and brighten those
ten years of life, If ten they are, it Is
safe to say should never be neglected.
Moreover, we cannot brighten time for
ourselves without Frightening it for
others. for every body around US. bright
ening it not only by interesting them in
our pursuits, BY giving them something
more TO take pleasure in than they 9TH
erwise might have, but BY giving them
also the sight of a cheerful face and a
contented spirit from day to day. than
which there are few things to make a
house pleasanter, and whose opposite
can imbitter life spent in a palace.
Let US feel, then, that it is never too
late to begin anything that is in the least
within our powers or desires; and as the
days pass on, let those of us who have
not found it be looking about Us for the
secret seed that time has not yet de.
veioped within us, but which impartial
nature must have given US. which we
shall bring to light as our hidden re-
source of pleasure in those days when
the grasshopper may be a burden.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

THt SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WoRLp.
The seven wonders Of the ancient
world were-C y the Pyramids oi Egypt:
~ the Walls Of Babylon: (3) the Hang
ing Gardens Of Babylon; ~ the Tenn
pie Of Diana At Ephesu-: f5) the Statue
OF Zeus at Olympia; (6) the Msusoleum
at Hal,karnassus; (7l the Colossus at
Rhodes: all monuments Of art or extra.
ordinary beauty and ssurendous proper
tions.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

g. The turks have resolved 20 ad-
NIT foreigners 70 their service, and the
way for Mr.. Disnton Dune an Is oren.
One country calls him, and the other Is
willing he should 50.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

A hsrras.ed husband thinks IL the
drcssmaker would trim hi. wife dress Q
less and the butcher would trim his meat
mere he could dmec.his obligations better.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

o. A schoolmistness asked child
what s-e-e spelt. The child hesitated.
What do do when ] hook At YOU ?"
said the mistress. "Yoa thquint!" was
ths ar,le>s reply.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-06-07

In following the coussG
sian army in Asia ard 60
what its aim really is. We &
times to forget the historien
which cluster around the q
Eastern land. We pietuF
- homes ofsqualor snd -
mosques cleaning 10 ths -
light, end that sultft -
which ssps the spfinss ofE
the spirits Of mee Sask il ID
ing over sll., And lf we -
the crest e IT, hill -
- - & :!
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
The jolly CObblers.

In Flanders the company of cobblers
not only take precedence of the company
of shoemakers, but bear for their arms a
boot with an imperial crown upon it.
They ascribe this honor to the Emperor
Charles ", who was fond Of wandering
incognito, and on a certain night strolled
into cobbler's stall to get his boot
mended. He found the cobbler making
merry with his friends; and when he
preferred his request, was told that they
were keeping the festival of Crispin, and
that no work could be done on that day
for any man, even though he were Charles
himself; but that he was welcome to
come in and join them in drinking to St.
Crispin, for they were as merry as the
emperor himself could be. AS this invi-
tation jumped with the emperors humor,
he accepted it, and joined them in their
drinking.
Here's Charles VS. health," said the
cobbler.
"Do you love him2" asked the emperor.
"Love him2" said the cobbler, AYE, I
love his long -noseship we'll enough, but
l should love him more if he would tax
US less"
They finished St. Crispin's day very
pleasantly, and on the morrow the en-
peror sent for the cobbler to the palace,
and nightly surprised him by thanking
him for his hospitality on the previous
evening, asking him to name what reward
he would like best. The amazed cobbler
took the night to think of it, and on the
next day appeared before the emperor,
and requested that the cobblers of Elan
ders might bear for their coat of-arms a
boot with crown upon it. 1t was such
a moderate request that the emperor told
him he would not only grant that but
another, also; whereupon the son of Girls
pin asked that the cobblers might also
take precedence of the shoemakers, re-
quest which was also granted to him.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
The Origin of the Telescope.

With reference to Gaileos claim to be
the inventor of the telescope, M. Wolf
quotes (Annalen der Physik and Chemie)
from manuscript of Scheiner 16l6) IN
library in Zurich, curious passage, of
which the following is part: at must be
allowed first, considering what the tele
scope does, that Baptista Porta has better
right to be thought the inventor, because
he describes, after his own way, in OBJ
scure words and puzzling expressions, an
instrument like the telescope. But sec
ondly, if We speak of the telescope, as it
is now used after general perfection, we
must say that neither Porta nor Calico
is the first discoverer of it, but the tele-
scope in this sense was discovered in
Germany, among the Belgians, and that,
accidentally, by one Kramer, who sold
spectacles, aud either for amusement or
experimentation combined concave and
convex glasses, so that with glasses he
could see quite small and distant object
large and near; at which success being
rejoiced, he united several similar pairs
OF glasses in tube, aud offered the COM
bination at IA high price To wealthy peo-
pie. Thereafter they (the telescopes)
became gradually more common among
the people, and spread to other countries.
In this way two of them were brought
for the first time by Belgian merchant
to Italy; of these, one remained long in
the college at Rome; the other went first
to Venice, later to Naples; and here the
Italians, and especially Calico, at that
time Professor OF Mathematics in Padua,
took the opportunity of improving it, in
order to apply it to astronomical pur-
poses, and extend its use further. Thus
the telescope, as we have it to day, was
discovered by Germany and perfected by
Italy; the whole world now rejoices in
it."-Ndture.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
The Chinese Jack the Giant-Killer.

In Pekin there was soothsayer of ex-
traordinary wit and power, who could
tell from mans face the date of his
death, and could lengthen the days of
those who needed good advice, while
every skeptic was sure to die at the time
appointed.
One day an unbeliever passed by, with
out waiting to hear the soothsayer's words,
and the latter cried out that he had some
thing to say to him. 1t was this: the
color of his face was very bad, and if he
were to disregard the soothsayer's advice,
he would be corpse the third day at
midnight. The man left and went away,
feeling rather uncomfortable. eff
must die, l must" said he, affecting a
stoicism he could not feel. He could
eat no food on account of the struggle
between belief and unbelief, and his ex-
element became so great on the evening
of the third day, that he could not sleep.
He therefore set to reading. AS it was
nearing midnight, he heard rumbling
sound on the roof, and instantly his outer
door opened of its own accord, and
in stalked man of terrific appearance.
The scholar was much frightened, but,
having an ebony pipe in his hand, he
struck at the monster, who fell down and
10! it was paper sprite. He read on,
his excitement not much allayed by this
accident. By-and-by he heard another
heavy tread on the roof, and creature
more frightful than the last was with
him. Notwithstanding the aspect of the
newcomer, as the solitary watcher could
command no other weapon, the pipe was
again used, and down fell the monster
peice of earth. Soon a rafting tramp
shook the roof, and creature more hid
eOus than the other two entered the room.
The frightened man clutched his trusty
weapon again, and one blow brought
down the giant-a piece of wood. In a
short time a grooming voice was heard
outside the door, pleading piteously for
admission. Treasured by his adventures
the hero asked in bold tone what the
visitor wanted. He prayed for deliver
ance, for with cock crow, if he were not
saved by the giant-killer, he would be
dead man. 1t was the conjuror who bad
accosted him three days before, and had
welded all his power to carry out his own
prophecy and was now foiled for the first
time in his life He told how many PEG.
Pile he had murdered by his black art.
and the next morning the conquerer
handed him over for punishment TO the
district magistrate.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

RECENT statistics, compiled by order
of the French Government, give the total
average annual cereal product of Europe
at 1895 100000 bushels. OF this Russia
is credited with 1,606,000.000 bushels;
Germany, 742, 100000 bushels; Austria,
450,O00,O00 bushels. The Bureau of Sta
tstics at Washington estimates the prod
uct of cereals in the United States for the
present year at about 900, 000,0 900 bush
els, nearly equal to the annual average in
Russia, and far ahead of the latter's Weld
this year, showing the United States to
be the greatest grain producing country
in the world, supremacy which she will
doubtless ever hereafter maintain. Dur
ing the last four years we have expoi ted
wheat, corn and flour to the average Of
more than $lOO, 200, 900 per annum. The
exports of wheat from ali the ports of the
United States To all foreign coun-
tries increased from 1857 $50 bushels in
1868, to $780,, 39a bushels in 1876. and
the exports of this cereal year will reach.
if not exceed, 81, OOO, 900 bushels. A sbig
bonanza" indeed.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

A PRACTICAL Use OF DoGs.-It is a
fact perhaps not generally known that
there is firm doing business in San
Francisco who purchase the thousands of
dogs slaughtered by the pound of
that city, or that may have been other
wise killed, for which they pay forty
cents each. The carcasses are conveyed
to their mandatory at South San Fran
cisco, where the skins are removed and
sold to the taDneries, the hair taken off
and resold to plasterers, the hides tanned,
made into gloves and sold in the market.
The denuded carcass is then thrown into
huge cauldron and boiled until the
bones are easily separated from the flesh,
when they are removed and sold to the
sugar refneries, where they are ground
to powder and used to clarity sugar.
The oil that Uses to the surface of the
boiling mass is skinned off and manu-
featured into cod liver oil, and the re-
mainder is used for the purpose of fatten-
ing hogs.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20
Les Pieds MignonS.

Oh fairy feet! Sweet fairy feet!
At moonlight hour or dewy dawn,
Your glittering steps fondly meet,
Whenever you trip along the lawn,
And all the fswers with kisses greet
Sweet Jenny's twinkling fairy feet
Oh fairy feet Sweet fairy feet!
When through the dance in Macy fight,
Or DER the croquet lawn so feet,
You flash like little twin stars bright,
My pulses bound and wildly beat
To Jenny's twinklng fairy feet.
Oh fairy feet! Sweet fairy feet!
Let others sing of eyes so bright,
OF Beauty's lips and form complete
I'll worship still the witching light
That darts and shines withal so sweet
From Jenny's twinkling fairy feet
Oh fairy feet! Sweet fairy feet!
Let Beauty's charms fade one by one
With Fate's stern power I'll not compete
If Fate will spare the pieds miynons,
Dainty and never indscreet-
Sweet Jenny's twinkling fairy feet.
John Sheehan,
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

estimated. A young person, or indeed
an old, may 60 through northern Italy,
for example, seeing portion of what his
"guide-bo prescribes; stopping at no.
tells where things are adapted to him
where the host has learned an English
phrase book for his sake; not always
feeling amiable toward the only natives
with whom he comes into natural contact,
namely, the Vetturino and the porter, and
happy in his pigeon French and the 1tal-
ian's pigeon, English he has made out
that he is to have him for dejeuner at
Faido or Airolo. What has he learned as
to the thoughts, feelings, actual life of
the people9
Besides, no little decentralization of the
good American is sometimes effected in
such travel. He does things abroad
he would not do at home; sometimes
loses that simplicity of character which
made him at once interesting and amia-
BILE; and acquires that air Of information
which accompanies real knowledge, and
is sad hindrance to its attainment. How
much did Miss Jones learn by reading
the Legends of the Rhine" on an ex-
press boat on that much-lauded stream,
that she might not have learnt in her ma
tive Ohio! And of Germany, which she
now "knows very WE'LL" she has just that
kind of knowledge which her little broth
er has acquired in natural history by
throwing cake to the bears at Berne.
We do not feel any great regret, there
fore, at finding comparatively few Amer
leans ION the Continent" though sorry
for the poor people at Lucerne and else
where, who put their money into great
Joint stock hotels for them and are losing
it. Nor do we feel flattered by the views
of retired courier, who has reached the
summit of his ambition, the ownership of
an inn, and who does not recognize us as
Amereecanes have now bad times
and too leetle money; but they do like
to make show, and to see areestocracy,
and be with the great people; aud again
they will come, surely" That is the av
erage Continental notion. The morning
paper gives to-day as the only American
news, "Agio d'oro a New York 5 per
cent" Till we can impress the natives
through other means than American gold,
what harm is it if We do not over run the
Continent?-Rer. John Hall, in N. Y.
Ledger.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

A You've WoMAN's TRIUMPH.-Our
readers will remember Miss Elizabeth
Johnston Ellis AS the young woman who,
after having been elected class-poet at
the Wesleyan University, was obliged by
a minority of the young men to resign.
She has just demonstrated anew her
ability as a student. Walter S. Carter,
Esq, of New York, formerly Of HART
ford, established an annual prize Of the
value of 500 for excellence in the criti-
cal study of English literature. The essays
are submitted anonymously. There was
q vigorous competition this year, but
Miss Ellis essay was sdjudged the best.
She has accepted position at WELLESLEY,
with q salary Of $500.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

THE Boy Is FATHER TO THE MAN
Do better when he is oder9 No; if you
leave him to himself he is sure to do
worse. When you expect nature to con-
vert bad boy into good man you ex-
pect miracle of her; and nature neper
performs miracles. You might as well
leave that young sapiing to the wind
which beats it awry, and hope that it
will be straight, well-formed tree when
it is an old one. No, you know better
than that.
You are aware that it is the tender
young tree which yields to training and
culture, and that every year it Is more
difficult to straighten it. Make the boy
a good boy, if you desire him to be a
good man; honest, if you hope to have
him stand upright before his fellow men.
If he steals small change now. and has
no scruple about being unfair and un-
truthful with his parents, he will do the
same thing on larger scale twenty years
from now.
If you cannot cure him of lying now
he will never be a man whose word is as
good as his bond. If he is a rude, coarse,
ungentlemanly boy, years will not alter
him. Vices or faults will grow all the
stronger with ripening years. A bad lit
tie boy will be much worse man.
But there is comfort in this thought:
You need not fear for the manhood Of a
good boy. If the little fellow looks into
your eyes and speaks the honest truth, if
he is respectful to those who deserve re-
spect, brave when he should be brave, and
yet with no shame of being gentle, thank
Heaven, and do all you can to keep him
so; but have no fear. AS vices strength
en-, so do virtues. The good boy is more
than likely to be better MANI. X. d.,
IN N. Y. Ledger.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

WHEN Prince Bismarck was at Berlin,
the other day, a distinguished diploma
tist was conversing with him on the fu-
ture existence of Turkey. Money" said
the prince, decisively, will do more to
conquer the pride and obstinacy Of the
Turks and obtain their birihright than all
the armies If Christendom ~
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

AMONG the noteworthy shipments from
New York to foreign parts, in the week
ended Sept. 49, were the following: A pal
ace car to Hamburg; SAVE, wire and pens
to Liverpool; Yin to Australia; Cal. wheels
(Ss) to Hull, England; horses, shoes and
stoves to British Possessions in Africa;
and SS5 coils Of wire to United States Of
Columbia.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

A MAJOR in the United States army was
crossing from England in one of the
Cunard steamers, when one afternoon a
band on deck played yankee Doodle. ="
A gruf Englshman, who stood by, in
quired whether that was the tune the old
COW died of. mot at ALL" retorted the
major, "that is the tune the old bull died
of
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

BUSINESS Is BUsINEss.-A reporter on
the local edition of the Danbury Nens
went to see the young lady he is keep
ing company with, Sunday evening. She
met him at the door with colorless face.
'Oh, Toni" she cried, in an agitated
voice, 1--WE have had such scare! Ma
was coming down stairs and she caught
her foot in the carpet and went the whole
length"
"Hod on" shouted the excited youth,
diving nervously in his hip pocket for his
note book, while he whipped out pen
Gil from another recess. "Now go on
go on, Matilda go on, but be calm! For
heavens sake, be calm! Kill herr"
"Gracious, nor'
Break her back9 Crush her skull2 Be
calm, he calm! For the sake of science,
be calm!"
"Why, Tom," gasped the girl, fright
ened by his impetuosity, sit wasn't Sc
rious. 1t was"
wasn't serious?" he gasped, in turn.
'Do you mean to say she didn't break
nyihing after all that fussl"
"Why, certainly not. She never hurt
herself bit"
"Well," calculated the.young man, with
an expression of disgust on his face, as he
sadly restored the book and pencil to
their places, "that's all a woman knows
about business"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

A VERY picturesque story Is told by a
White ulphur Springs correspondent of
the Courter-JOurnal, regarding the widow
Of Governor Pickens, of South Carolina.
"5he was very much grieved," says this
correspondent, calmly, lat a newspaper
article concerning herself, which spoke
of her accepting Governor Pickens on
condition that he obtained fOrei IN mis-
sion. She said that it seemed SO merce-
nary and calculating in girl of eighteen.
The truth was that she was an only child,
and the mission to Russia was the
mothers objection to the marriage. CIV
ernor Pickens was rejected, and had taken
hi, passage for Europe. He wrote fare
well letter to his lady-love, but before
concluding said it was not too late for
her to change her mind, for if she would
telegraph him after receiving the letter,
and accept his proposals, he would meet
her in New Orleans aud let the steamer
sail without him. She did accept, and u
few weeks afterward they sailed together
as man and wife. The marriage proved
happy, nothing but the war interrupting
the course of true love. Governor and
Mrs. Pickens returned to South Carolina
about the time that State seeded. Dur
ing their residence in Europe they had
made many purchases of pictures, statu-
airy, furniture, rare laces and jewels.
These arrived at the port of New York in
IA sailing vessel a month after their arrival.
Everything was confscated. Among the
articles were butts of the governor and
his wife by Powers. A New York gen
tleman purchased these at the sale, and
after the war Vas over sent them to the
owners in South Carolina"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

"I'M practically uneasy on this point, y
as the fly said when the tailor stuck bin
on the end Of needle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-12-20

ADVICE that is given arrogantly or
sharply can scarcely be expected to be
received with humility and gratitude.