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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06

GERMAN FARM LIFE.-Farming in
Germany may be profitable, but it is not
pretty. The cows, from fifty to sixty
in number, all live in one large stable
to the right of the great gateway. Each
cow has her own stall and manyer, and
receives bountiful portion of food and
water; but there she remains all her
life, never knowing the sweets of fresh
ly-cropped grass, nor the freedom of the
sunny meadow. The very pigs live in
close confinement, and seldom get the
chance of exercise; while the sheep,
which are taken out every morning be-
tween eight and nine, are marched back
at nightfall and locked up in their sta
bic. Now and then, when harvest is
over, they are allowed to spend few
nights in the fields, where curious
wooden erection, looking like a gray
coffin on wheels, serves as bed for the
shepherd, who never leaves them to
themselves. In winter their daily ex-
ercIse is curtailed,. and, when the cold
is intense, ceases altogether. The farm
servants live in the stables-thati is, one
man sleeps in each stable With The horses,
cows and sheep. Wages are moderate
very moderate compared to those in
England-and the men all receive their
board at the farm. Those who have
families in the village are allowed TO
carry their portion away with them if
they like.
The Hessians are not an interesting
people; rough, hard-featured, with a
keen eye to their own interests, very
hazy idea about their neighbors' rights
Of property, fatal penchant for spirit
uous liquors, and strong desire to fight
with everybody when they are not So
Der. Pitched battles between husbands
and wives, mothers and sons, are not
unirequent. Among Germans they
have the reputation Of being stupid and
obstinate. English annals have had
many opportunities of testifying 10 their
bravery; and they were loyal to their
prince, as long as they had one, and
still speak kindly Of the last one, who,
Il he did little for them, let them alone,
and neither worried them by interfer-
ence in their domestic concerns nor ex-
acted many taxes. Now King Stork has
succeeded King Log; taxes are trebled,
quadrupled; old laws, civil and religious,
swept away; vexatious new ones intro
duced. and grumbIiugs are proportion
ateIy bitter. Emigration has gone on
for generations; there are few families
which have not some near relatives IN
America, usually IN far superior posi-
ton to those at home. ] am inclined
to think that the energetic and adyen-
turous spirits have left their fatherland,
and that only the dull and suPine have
femained in ii. This is almost the only
way TO account Tor the difference be-
tween the German as he Is supposed 70
be abroad, and the German as he really
Is at home.
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b. sloping mountains topped with goldand aEuEt,
By greenest meadows Where the violets he,
ky sslhs with many turrst and embrazure
BUSHES he roaring river 70 the 50.
Yonder giided pinnaee. and bezideit
a ruder hrag. whose look does not agree
With is cnmpanion's Epieador-goCd beside II
Rough though il seems It Jet shall reach the sea-
And some ON rafts, and s0ne rough logs clinging
And some en- cnrks, or bladders. floating free;
Some calmly sail, ard some, the water hiuging,
Spatser their fellow-traveiers to the sea-
Nv barque = On the river swifsJy sailing,
Caught by the current il goes rapidly;
At either side the oars in water trailing,
Stop not my certain voyage to the sea.
Around me yoyagers who strive 70 sink me;
Some heed me not aud Others friendly be;
heed not either, care not what they think me;
Twill matter not, when once reach the sea.
Run, rushing river bear me on your waters,
Past vale and mountain, cliff and mead and trees
The FIRST and last of Adam's sons and daughters,
Must sail this river and must reach that sen.
WesaiI by day-thes sun with grey dawn blending,
Rises when we embark, and scars as we
Sail on and sinks as we approach our ending;
Then sets forever when we reach the sea.
Whittier beyond7 shall we forever wander
Upon that ocean shall we shipwrecked BET
or reach some port beyond in'vain 10 ponder;
None have returned who entered on that sea.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06

WHERE THE Sun JUMPS Day
Chatham Island lying OF the coast OF
New Zealand, in the South Pacific
Ocean, is peculiarly situated, as it il
one Of the habited points Of the globe
where the day OF the week changes
Il Is Just in the line Of demarkatIon be-
tween dates. There high IL on Sun
day or noon ceases, and instantly Mon
day meridian begins. Sunday comes
into a mans house on the east side and
becomes Monday by the time IL passes
out the western door. A man sits down
TO his MONDAY dinner on Sunday, and
il is Monday before he finishes it.
That Saturday il Sunday and Sunday
is Monday, aud Monday suddenly be-
comes transferred into Tuesday. II Is
good place for people who have lost
much time, for by taking an early start
they can always get a day ahead on
Chatham Island. II took philosophers
and geographers along time to settle the
puzzle where Sunday noon ceased and
where Monday began, with a man trav-
elling west fifteen degrees an hour, OF
with the sun. II IS hoped that the nexi
Englrsh Arctic expedition will settle the
other mooied question: Where will one
stop who travels northwest continually
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He was my ffiend.
Fair was theufnd AND gsasHled the bop brightly,
Glowing sbe dag and danced he boat Iirlsfly;
Forth my friend sailed with bis misircs beside
She who had ever her favor denied him
How his heart cried fog hef 4
Languished and sfghcd fsr her !
al 70 no endf
What 70 no end
Though sheloyed not, yetalili she wac uear him;
STILL In not scorning, seemed 80 prefer HIM
Yes be vas hlest AS orer the water
0IIdsd tEe boat and uith glances be taught her
HoH bis 7aeaFt esisd Tor leT,.
EAnemsAt1 III and ii ssel Dc hes,
World without cad
Soon came the end.
Came The curst gale that nose ere they knew Il
And grapped tbs boaf, tOst, heayed, overthrow il,
She 20 the waves 50 greedy 20 have her,
He 70 the surges TO rescne and save her
Lifelong bis sigh for her,
Night he then die for her2
Welcome that end
lie was my friend
Through the mad waves bis stout shoulders bore
her,
From the fierce surgss with strong arms he tore
her,
Swan thrcagh the waters after him hurting
Wave upon wave In breakers white curling
How bis breast caught them,
His brave arms still fought them,-
Waves without end
lie moaned, in the end,
''I.ocse me, sink ~ Then she turned with a
SILVER,
She cIasped him, she cried, al love you iorever,''
So, that was the end. Next day, when wefound
them,
Lip to lip, heart to heart, the sea-ooze wrapI
round them,
We know that my friend,
Who had hungered and cried for her,
Languished and sighed for her,
Now that he'd died for her,
Was loved in the end :
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06

Pause YovR WIgE.-Praise yOuf
wife, men For PHYS sake give her o
little encouragement; It won't hurt beri
She made your home comfortable, your
heart bright and shining, food agreeable.
For pity's sake tell her you thank herr
il nothing more. She don't expect it:
IL will make her eyes open wider that
they have these ten years. but il will do
her good, and you too.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06

hz-A schooImaster thus describes a
money ienders "He serves you in The
present tense; he lends inthe conditions
al mood keeps you in the subjective
and ruins you in the future" III
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06
slaai The double act

- RAW GO c1NFInE. OF this time, forty
.raousandths OF a second were required
for simple recognition, thus leaving thir-
ty-fiye thousandlhs for volition. With
the "noematachomeier" he found thai
the time, forty lhousandths Tor one
twenty-fifth) Of second was required
to Judge the priority or signals acting
on different senses, as a sound and a
light. II also TOOK longer to recognize
a letter by seeing its form than by hear
ing It's sound.
This in man Of middle age Young
people thought quicker, but the differ
ence was not great. In all the exPeri-,
ments the time required for a simple
thought was never less than ioriieth OF
second. In other words the mind can
perform not more than twenty-four hum
dred simple acts a minute, fifteen hun
bred minute being the rate for persons
Of middle age. .
From these figures il will seem how
absurd are many popular notions IN re-
gard TO the heeiness Of thought, how
exaggerated are the teTrors Of Temorse-
fuI memory that moralists have invented
for the method Of dying. And we mas
reasonably discount" also the stories
told by men saved from drowning, cut
down before death by hanging, or res
cued from sudden and deadly peril from
other causes. No doubt a man may
think Of a great multitude Inexperienced
good or bad, in few minutes; but that
the thoughts and emotions Of long life
may surge through the mind during tho
seconds of asphyxiation are msnfesily
impossible.
Admit that the speed ofmenial ac-
ton is abuormalIy rapid at sUsh times,
say twenty-five hundred simple cogni-
tons minute, or $50, 900 an hour
IF a man were an hour in drowning, in
stead Of few minutes, and all the time
be given TO the mental review Of life,
he would, IL forty years old, have time
to give ten thoughts Of the simplest
character to each day that he lived. In
other words memory would have time
to review the experiences Of at most
the hundred part Of one SECOND out OF
each days waking thousands'-Seie
fife .7merieaH.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06

egp"Tf man has tiger BY the tai.
which would Be The besi for BIS person
al SaGeiy--to bold ofr.cr 70 let 60 - Il
suggested a. cOnunarum for debstihg
society.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-06-06

- Com MISSION HJsNSJy@S
deliberately made. Two Young S5tns i "a - !,
whose dresses were exceedingly be-
coming and very graceful, were accom-
panied by a young man who had very
light moustache. Everybody was either
very" or exceedingly, or extreme
w." or ''most highly" something. The
air bristled with suverlatives.
1t combines instruction with amuse-
ment to count the ''veries" in column
ofnewspaper advertisements. A "gen-
eral Homework" applicant is not con-
tent with respectable woman and a
good cook. She is a very respectable
woman and a very good cook. il is
enough in all conscience, 10 be said OF a
woman that she is a superior waitress.
Superior itself means better than good,
but this common waitress tacks on the
word every" too, and thus becomes
very better than good. Next, Every
honest and extraordinarily clean" cham
bermaid, "who is very careful about her
work" wants a place. What treasure
to have IN the house in these degenera-
ttQ tlmEas bbig hOiANSA anu w "a
traordinarily clean person. who is very
careful about her work." would be.
Then a "very capable young Scotch
woman, who has the very bess cityr
erences," wants a place. OF course,
she is far superior to the girl who is only
capable young woman, with the best
city references.
The climax of Veriness is reached
however by girl. She Is ga very COM
petent cook, understands waiting at Ia
bic in a very efficient manner, and Is in
all respects, very fryt-clsss." ''fn all
respects, very first-class qualifications
is good. II is only equalled by the
young man who was a very periec.
horseman and rode a very black horse.
A fine example, too, Of the redundant
very is the reply Of the old tar who
was blown overheard at Trafalgar and
rescued with much difficulty, and who,
long afterwards, being asked by sym
pathetic lady how he felt on that occasion,
answered: "Wet, ma'am. very wet.
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"Quick as thought and s'uuick as
lliahlninx'' are commonly used is sy4
lnonyrnoas expressions. But theiF DIFF
ference il really great. An electric inn
pulse sraserses wire Is a wave Of mo-
lion nervous impulse proceeds BY
development Of chemical change in the
nerve. II runs along the nerve some-
what as combustion follows 9 train Of
gunpowder. and not much II any more
rapidly. Indeed Helmhollz has clearly
determined the rate OF nervous propa-
CATION 10 be less than hundred feet
second, or about mile . minute. To
use rude illustration, Tia railway could
feel, The sense report Of train starting
in New York would reach Albany but
a little in advance OF the fastest trains
that have been run upon the Hudson
River road. Even along courses IN
short as the nerves Of the human body
an appreciable time Is required Tor the
passage Of nervous impulses.
With a SIMPLE apparatus. Hirsch
found that a touch upon the face could
be recognized and responded to BY d
predetermined signal operated by the
hand, in one seventh Of a second
With sound test. acting, Of course.
upon the ear, the answering signal was
made in one-sixih of a second; when
the eye was addressed, the response
came in one-filih of a second. Since
the distance travelled by the nervous
impulses were nearly the same in all
these experiments. il is evident that the
greater part OF the difference OF time
noted must be charged to the greater or
smaller rapidity Of the act Of recognI-
ton: the entire process IN each case be-
ing the transmission OF sensation
touch, hearing, or sight TO the brain,
It's recognition, the willing Of the signal
agreed upon, the transmission OF the
order to the muscles Of the hand, and
the movement Of those muscles. Thus
it would appear that less time Is re-
quired for recognizing q touch than d
sound, less time to hear than to see
But what part Of the 9Th, sixth or sew
enth Of the second, as the case might
be, was consumed IN the act Of recog-
nitions
Donders was successful in answering
tins question by the use Of several forms
Of apparatus, involving entirely differ
/, I '..-.shads,. vet Welding the same re-
June zI' ioii nuisance. with the
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."YERY..

This yefy small word Is very oilen
used in the English language when 4
sentence would be very much stronger
and The meaning very much more forci-
bic without IL. II Dr.. Dio Lewis, now
that he has fnished counting up the cost
of = years sneezing, would set himself
TO computing how much time, tongue
and combustion ofnerve-ceil are wasted
out of mans lifetime by needlessly
speaking The word every" the apostle
ofoat meal would be again the bencfac-
tor OF his race.
If a man has not much hair on the top
of bis head, il is not enough for people
to say simply that he is bald, but he is
very bald. "A man Is not stingy, bat he
is very stingy, when the one good strong
we7d ''stingy" would pat The whole
point forcibly. A doctor of divinity il
not learned, but very learned; doctor
Of medicine is not crotchety, he is very
crotchety, while a lawyer is not cum
ming, but very cunning. In the same
way, young lady is not handsome, but
very handsome. The qualifier has be-
come so common that IL is weakening
to the word il is joined 10. In nine
cases out Of ten where very is used 20
intensity a human speech, a single bold
word without the every" would hit the
meaning like n hammer, and drive it
home with a directness unknown to
clogged and hampered expression. Bru-
tus does not say, cas- Caesar was very
valiant / honor him; but as he was very
ambitious, slew him."
every" seems to be word designed
BY Providence for young ladiesto express
their feelings with. This portion Of the
community probably could not get on
without their adverb, but the English OF
the rest of the race would be strength
ened il the little qualIfier were relega-
ted almost wholly 10 the fair class to
whom il belongs. 1t crops into our lIt-
erature as insidiously as the measles
into family Of fifteen, and once there,
It stays like an office-seeker. II brcaks
out everywhere, even in the most high
toned and cultivated writing. A
newspaper, which is authority on the
art Of literary composition, prints, for
instance, a thrilling description OF a bril-
liant party. Every lady present was
very much this or that. Mrs. Blank,
who was a very intimate friend Of NJ
General Dash. Woo ~ 49, - ~ = VIM =
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A Tremendous Revival

The religious revival that is now in
full blast in all of the colored church.
es here beats anything of the kind
ever known. The revival started
with a series Of sermons on hell de-
IiVered by leading colored preach
er, and the vividness with which he
pictured the flames of the eternal re-
gions was enough to excite the aver
age mind, let alone ignorant and su-
perstitious negroes. The churches
have been besieged by thousands,
who could not get in. There were
six hundred penitents at Mt. Zion
Church, five hundred at Brooks, four
hundred and fifty at Ebenezer, two
hundred and sixty at Memorial, one
hundred and fifty at Beugas and
large numbers at other churches.
A group of sable ma;dens, lust
from church, rushed to Franklin
street, the swell avenue of Richmond
and, stationing themselves on a cor
ner, stopped all the fashionable
promenadcrs and urged tnom to seek
religion. The scene was remarkable
and picturesque. At all the tobacco
factories the negroo operatives be-
came 50 wrought up on the subject
OF their salvation that they could do
nothing but shout and pray. Hun
dreds had to be discharged. In one
OF the churches &c little girl named
Martha Hodge jumped mp in the
mlddleot the sermon and yelled tha
she saw vision. The moon> she
said, was bathed in blood, which was
a sign that the world was coming e.
an end. At one of the hotels a col
ored waiter named Henry Barksdale
was converted while carrying a plate
OF soup to one of the guests. He
dashed The soup down on the floor
and gave vent TO his feelings by
shouts peculiar to the Ethiopian race.
Ihe police have arrested sundry
shoutcrs on the street who appeared
to be deranged.r Richmond Dispatch
to Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A Feline Nurse.

Calling at farm house the other
day; says a writer in an English pa
per, was told | was just day too
late to see a very wonderful sight
nursing some little chickens. It
appears the cat had family of dead
kittens q few days before, and the
same morning some five or six chicks
were hatched. As there were others
TO come out, the lady of the houee
took the just hatched chicks into the
house till all wore hatched, and
placed them before the fire in the
sitting room, or, as we say. here, the
keeping room. Pussy, greatly to the
horror OF the good lady of The house,
took a great fancy to them, and could
not be kept away from them. Wish
ing to see what would take place, the
owner allowed her to come near,
whenshe began to stroke them down
with her paw in the most affection
ate manner, and after awhile, lying
down, gathered them well under her.
There she lay al the day; in the
evening they were taken from her,
but the next day she did the same:
but the third day, fearful of accidents,
they were taken from her and put
under their proper mother; who had
now hatched ont her whole brood.
wonder what pussy would have done
with them2
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NO 33
The D-6est Liars. =

There was great many Christian
people who acted as though they be-
lieved that the Saviour, when he
said, Suffer little children to come
unto me-" had a raw-hide concealed
about his person, and only wanted to
coax them within reach of it. Even
when they do not beat their offspring,
they lie to and deceive them, snd
then expect them to tell the truth.
The lecturer told story about 8 lit
tie boy in Grand Rapids, Mich. The
child's father and mother had prom.
lsed to take 1t riding with them the
next time they went out. Weeks
passed and still the promise was un-r
fulfilled. At length, one bright
morning, the father and mother went
quietly out OF the rear Of the house,
got into their carriage and drove
away. AS they were going out they
passed the front piazza, m which the
child was standing with his nurse.
The little fellow looked up into the
nurses face, pointing to his departed
parents and said: where 60 the two
d--dest liars in Grand Rapidsp-
lngersoll's Lecture.
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Maxims by Benjamin Franklin.

Many foxes grow gray, but few
grow good.
Presumption first blinds man,
then sets him to running.
Drink does not drown care, but
waters it and makes it grow faster.
Having been poor, is no shame, but
being ashamed of it, is.
The wise man draws moro advan-
!age from his enemies than tho fool
from his friends.
Keep conscience cloar, then mover .
fear.
Strive to be the greatest man in
your country, and you may be disap-
appointed; strive to be tho best, and
you may succeed.
Honest Tom! You may trust him
with house full of untold mill
stones.
There is no man 80 bad, but ho se~A
erotly respects the good.
Courage would fight, but discretion
wont let MIN.
We are not so sensible of the great
est health as the least sickness.
A good example is the best SER
mon.
A quiet conscience sleeps in thun-
der, but rest and guilt live far asun-
der.
He that won't bo counseled can't
be helped.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in
marble.
What is serving God? Tis doing
good to man.
Timoenough always proves little
enough.
He that cannot boar with other,
peoples passions, cannot govern his
own.
He that by the plow, would thrive,
himself must either hold or drive.
He that keeps his shop, his shop
will keep him.
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l once defended man charged
with the awful crime Of murder. At
the conclusion OF the trial / aaked
MIN what could have induced him to
stain his hands with the blood of a
felIow-5eing. forming his blood.shot
eyes full rpon me, he replied: "Mr.
Webster, in my youth I spent the
holy Sabbath in evil amusements
instead of frequenting the house of
prayer aud praise"
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A Coop EDUoAT1oN.-The late Ed.
ward Everett condensed into single
brief paragraph his estimation of
what constitutes good education.
Here it is: "To read the English
language well, to write with dispatch
neat, ligible hand, and be master
of the fret four rules of arithmetic,
80 as to dispose at once, with accu~
racy, of every question Of figures
which comes mp in practice. l call
this a good education. And if you
add the ability to write pure, gram
maticalV English, 1 regard it as an
excellent education. These are the
tools. You can do much with them.
They are the foundation; and unless
you begin with these, not with Aashy
attainmente, a little geology, and all
other ologies and osopbies, are osten. ..
tatious rnbbish."
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a Remedy Needed.

On Saturday nigh, last posse of
South Carolina revenue officials, un-
der the leadership of one William
Springs and Joab Dill, crossed the
South Carolina line on the Saluda
Mountain, and proceeding to the
house of Wade Levi, a citizen of this
State, arrested him on a charge of
Illicit distiIling. The posse then
raided the house of VIM. Howard,
who, on hearing them approach, With
his sons fed from the premises. As
Springs was in the act of firing at
one OF the fugitives, Howard's wife
caught his arm and prevented him
from discbarging his weapon.
Springs, enraged at the act, cursed
and abused hey, and struck the poor
creature repeated blows over her
hands and arms. They then band
cutfed Levi and carried him to
Greenville, where he was committed
to Jail. B'th Of these high-handed
and outrageous acts were committed
upon North Carolina citizens, and in
this conntv--enmmitted by revenue
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A BAD MEMoRY-"Mary, my love,
do you remember the text this morn
ing9' No, pa, l never can remem~
ber the text; | have such a bad me-
mory." "By the way, did you no
tice Susan Jones7' joined in Mary's
mother. son, yes; what fright!
She had Oh her last years bonnet
done up, a pea-green silk, black
mantilla, brown boots, an imitation
OF Honiton collar, a lava bracelet,
her old EARRINGS, and such fan!"
swell my dear, your memory is Ger
tally bad"