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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-08-12


Krsass Essrizk, calryf O., Ma,
yune ~, 1850
Wm. 4. GrfMsh. -, Dsar Sir-Ycurs nf
June Tie slh asking h0w 1 liked your Fertilizer
aiKmrd Timesss II ag had. In amswcr would
say, fhnt ! nsed haw nf gnano with = bag Ci
FerGilineF, &C., and wms much plemsrd with the
result. ] Used the mfxtmre On Cora Land M heA1
and the crop wns tie hesE ever grew afler corr
wonld have tried Il On T0haccD this Spring,
bot having failed - plants. prevented me. III
I've 70 the FaiI, thiak win Try isagnin.
Yours truly, las. A. BoMD.
I. n. PARR son. Commissiun Merchants,
Baliimore. Aur. ~. 1919.
~ VA. q. Gri@Ek. Dear Ssr--Reftrring %
cur eouveraaiion Of this A. ~, bsg 70 say,
viii take twe CO loads ab0sl = tons Of The
g Pare Rev Crvana Bsas,1 like sample exhibit
I'D aad 81 the PEice aEreed up \.
Piesse hare Il ahipned pFomptly. Having
bought ihis Bans fEom you lask yeaE and used y
upnn nhou4 80 Acxes Of Wheat, tie result was
satisfactory % eAaa Ee ~ ss y nNnAns
BaAA AEpEa g slssiEAx zEenEsss believe my crop
pf Wheat wss the very hcsi in tbe aecti0n where
nsed and that my land i materially improved
Very respectfully, 4. ~. PAER-
Gr A fun stock ofFsrilizer Ingredients ana
Chemicals, &C., on hand
WI. 4. eRlEFITH.
once l3 South ST.
(s7 Smiths wharf
Locust POint.
Inav 1oan- an
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-08-12
PURE ANIMAL
BONE FERTILIZERS.

as Arsnf or Western FACTORIES. ] can Mll
- Rennine Pure BoEe and Pure Bnne PERTH
mrs "a les price tk4n any ether PARTY Ia this
market. The 69ilowiax from the Hen. Jas. a.
Bond, q Calvert, ard + n PaFr, q BaltimoFe,
4 sufficient endcrement
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-08-12
ROdvl CLOSED.


R8RANTED Immediately an EXPERIENCED
w HOUSE KEEPER And elderly laiy pre-
fsrred. Must come well-Fee0mmended- Apply
JOHN F. FEEWICK,
Leonardtown, I'D.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-08-12
Real Estate Agency

THE undersigned hare made arrangemenfs
Il mith hreiRn agents for extensive ndrer-
tisement Of Real Estate ~ their own exFRnse
All persons desirous Of selling o. baving real
estate will furnish description Of land wiehea 10
be bought or sold. No charge Uade without
sale is elected.
H.F. MOORE.
10. r. MORGAN,
ApriI Is. 1880. LeonArdfowne I'd
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
q Two Large Southern Planters.

The New Orleans Pcdyune says The
agricultural operations OF Colonel Ed
ward Richardson are on "A scale unequal
ed anywhere in the United States, and
probably in the whole world. Scores
of vast cotton plantations, the manage
ment of any one OF which requires su-
perior skill and experience. scattered
through Louisiana and Mississippi, are
successfully handled by this able man.
His landed possessions rival those of the
proudest estates OF the English nobility
both in area and value, and many of the
German princes have fewer subjects than
he has employees on his pay-rolls. The
sugar interest furnishes an equally con-
spicuous example of executive ability
in agricultural affairs. One man in
louisiana during the period in which
ordinary managers were struggling for
existence, and earning scarcely sufficient
to make the improvements on their
places demanded by the new conditions
OF the sugar trade, went on en- larging
his possessions and consolidating an
area of sugar lands under one head that
must be regarded.as entirely phenomenal.
Mr.. John Burnside now owns and
operates eight plantations, located in the
parishes of Ascension and St. James.
On these fine estates, over an area of six
square niles, the sugar-cane now waves
in the breeze. In their fittings these
places represent equally the old and the
new methods of manufacture On four
of them the steam-train and vacuum
pan turn out the white and the yellow
clarified sugars that are equal in quality
to the product of the largest re6neries,
and are so highly priced throughout the
West and South for their agreeable
flavor and high saccharine strength.
tions owned By Mr.. Burnside, with their
production for the crop year 1880. as
given in the Rice Currents annual re-
port of the sugar and rice crops OF
Louisiana, recently published:
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Barbers and Shaving.

The idea that shaving is a duty, says
the London NeWs-ceremonial, as
among the Egyptian priests, or social,
merely as among ourselves-is olGer
than the invention of steel or even OF
bronze razors. Nothing is more re-
markable in saw lge lite than the resou-
tion of the braves who shave with a
shell or with n broken piece OF glass
left by European mariners. A warrior
will throw himself on the ground. and
while one friend holds his arms and pre-
vents him from struggling, another will
scrape his chin with the shell or the
broken bottle glass till he rises. bleeding
but beardless. Macaulay, 1t seems
must have shaved almost as badly with
the razor of modern life. When he
went to barber, and, after an easy
shave. asked what he owed, the fellow
replied: just what you generally give
the man who shaves you, SIR" " gen.
orally give him two cuts on each cheek, "
said the historian OF England. Shaw
ing requires n combination of qualities
which rarely meet III an amateur.
Englishmen, as q rule, shave them
selves when they do not wear boards.
Razors are like Scotch sheep dogs; no
one would keep bad one or sell or give
away good one. No razor should be
condemned till IL has been stropped y
well and carefully. Some say that
soldiers old buff belts make the besl
strops. The Scotch peasantry use q
peculiar hard fungus which grows In de.
eaying elm trees.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Words OF wisdom.

Be vigilant but never suspicious.
AiIectation is at best a deformity
Confne your tongue lest it contine you.
Deeds are fruits; words are put leaves
Draw not Thy bow before thy arrow is
fixed.
A wounded reputation is seldom
cured.
Ask thy purse what thou shouldst
buy.
Be slow to promise and quick to per-
form.
Better to be alone than in bad conf
pany.
Avoid that which you blame in
others.
Confide not in him who has once de-
ceived you.
Beauty without honesty is like poison
kept in box of gold.
Be mindful of things past. and provi-
dent ofthings 10 come.
To conceal a fault by lie has been
said TO be substituting a hole for a
stain.
Do you wish to learn how to give
anythingP then fancy yourself in the
pace Of the receiver.
Settle promptly with US and we will
settle with some body else, ,"is the le-end
on the billhead OF prominent business
firm.
How Can he look with confidence 10 q
heaven above who does so little TO help
10 make heaven here below.
Never be discouraged by tribes. Ifa
spider breaks his thread twenty times
he will mend It as many. Perseverance
and patience will accomplish wonders.
The mind has n certain vegetative
nower, which cannot be wholly idle.
IL it is not laid out and cultivated
into n beautiful garden IL will of itself
shoot up weeds or flowers.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Mortality Among Rich and Poor.

The EgdLle, the official organ for
the tocialistic party in France, reports
about a pamphlet with the above title,
winch has been read lately 10 the Medi-
cal association in London by q member,
DIR. M. X. Drysdale.
Among the statistical results e m
pared in said pamphlet are the follow
ing:
In France is the mortality of persons
in the age Of 40-45 years, 6.3 OF 1000
wealthy persons, 1873 OF I,OO0
poor persons, I. e., two and one half
times ms many poor people die in given
time out of the same number of persons
than wealthy people.
The death-list OF Paris showed in the
course of twenty years, from 1917 TO
1885, in the Twelfth arordissement,
mostly inhabited by the poor, one death
among fifteen inhabitants, and in the
Second reimbursement, mostly inhabited
by the rich, one death among sixty-five
inhabitants.
According 10 Joseph GARNER, in 1857,
in Manchester, the average length Of life
in the poorer districts of the city was
seventeen years, and in the wealthydis-
tricts forty-two years.
Villerone proves that the average
length Of life with children of working
men is one and one-half years, and with
the children of employers sixteen years
Edwin Chadwick, the head official of
the London health Office, found the
mortality to be. with the wealthy classes
Il.3 on every 1000; with the poorer
classes $50, and with the entirely in
digent, fifty on every 1000.
Charles Anscll, clerk of the National
Life Insurance association of England,
Iau Iar lrg. Ia l. -.
gather information about A., ,044 chill
dren Of the better situated classes, es-
pecially in the families OF attorneys,
physicians, clergymen and nobIemen.
This book, Family Statistics" proves
the mortality TO be in the first year of
life, s0.45 on every thousand of the
children OF above-named well-to- do
classes, $50 on LOCO among the poorer.
and $50 on ], 900 among the totally in
digent classes.
In the time OF life from one TO five
years, Ansell proves the mortality TO
be 1854 on 600 children Of the wealthy
classes, and lib go of 1000 children of
the poor.
In the time OF life from twenty to
forty years, the relations seem to bal
ance. There are 1852 deaths averag-
ing in all classes.
In the time oil Hie from forty TO sixty
years Tin WI ich time the number OF
poor persons yet xisting is proportion
ally smaller by far than the number of
the rich) the deaths of the wealthy
| classes number 10 1874 on 1000, and
| of the poor classes To I65.76 on | 900.
1t is shown that in the year 1873 in
| England and Wales, 36S, ,l79 persons
/ died under the age of sixty years. Mr..
/ Ansell proves that if the total mortality
would not have been greater than that
ofthe wealthy classes only 226, ,040 would
have died. Therefore, in this one year.
and in one single country with a popu-
| lation of % 000, ,0oa souls, B2, l30 human
beings have been murdered by poverty,
that is more destruction OF lives than
| in many a bloody war.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
The Value Of Lemons.

Somebody who appears to know all
about 1t writes positively that IL will
draw the sting of the hot weather, not
only for this time, but for months to
come. to understand the right use of
lemons. Most people know the benefit
of lemonade before breakfast, but few
know how it is more than doubled by
taking another at night also. The way
to get the better of all bilious systems
without blue pill or quinine, Is TO take
juice of one, two or three lemons, as the
appetite Graves, in rs much ice water
as makes 1t pleasant 10 drink, without
sugar, Just before going to bed. In the
morning on rising, or at least half an
hour before breakfast, take the Juice of
one lemon In goblet of water. This
will clear the system of humors and
bile with mild efficacy, without any OF
the weakening effects of calomel OF
Congress water. People should not
irritate their stomachs by eating lemons
clear; the powerful acid of the Juice
which Is almost corrosive, infsllibly
produces inflammation after awhile, bui
properly diluted, so it does not burn OF
draw the throat. IL does It's full medicIna
work without harm, and taken wher
the stomach Is clear of food has oppor,
tunity to work on the system thor
oughly.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Almost Eaten by q Bear.

On Saturday, the 9Th inst, Hannibal
Roe, the best known hunter in Montana,
met with an adventure which manned
him for life. He had gone up the Little
Prickly Pear to Wolf Greek station. and ,
with his gun In good condition, he
passed into the mountains. While he
was walking in a small gulch, and Just
as he had turned point OF rocks which
protruded abruptly from the mountain
side, he received upon the left side of
his head and face a stunning blow from
the paws of an immense she bear,
which it appears was lying in wait for
him on the other side OF the rocks
The blow knocked Roe down and
caused him TO lose possession of his
gun, which was the only weapon he had
with him, and at the same instant the
infuriated beast throwinR herself upon
the PROSTATE form of her astonished,
disarmed and wounded victim. the
man and bear were precipitated to-
gether about fifteen feet down the steep
bank TO the bed of the gulch. Having
nothing to defend himself with, Roe
quickly determ ined TO play the dead
man, and turning upon his face feigned
unconsciousness through one of the
most trying ordeals ever experienced by
concluded If her prey was dead he had
been killed by her own strong paws
and began her feast. Beginning upon
his head she literally tore the mans
scalp 20 shreds, leaving il in condition
horrible to look at. He says he could
both hear and feel her teeth grating
upon his skull. She then began upon
his left shoulder, inficting there "A
ghastly and dangerous wound md hit
him in several places upon his left arm,
side and back as far down as the hip.
Just as she had driven her teeth into the
hip, and was doubtless upon the point OF
inilicting such wounds as would have
caused instant death, one of her cubs
raised "A cry of distress. 1t was mt this
point that Mr.. Roe's play of dead
man." which had hitherto seemed so
unavaillng, was oJ great service to him.
The bear evidently thought her victim
dead, and, leaving him, hastened to the
relief of her young. intending, il is sup
posed, TO finish her meal ut pleasure.
Though bruised, mangfed and fatigued
his scalp bleeding mass of torn flesh,
and matted hair hanging about his
brow, his left cheek and ear torn off
until they hung at his side by but n ten
der strip, his cheek-bone broken, his
skull fractured above the eye, his
shoulder, arm and side badly injured
he nevertheless summoned sufficient
strength to rise and get away before his
antagonist arrived. He was brought by
some fellow-hunters 10 st. Johns hos
pital in this city, and by skillful nursing
will very likely recover. HeLe'lI( Mon }
Independent
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Travelling Sand.

II is n curious fact not generally
known that at n certain point on the
Upper Columbia, close 10 the waters
edge, the fine sand Is continually travel
battalions that pace the marge Of the
mighty riverP In comparison with
these tiny travellers what are the leaves
of the forest when summer is greene
This sand is being continually washed
ashore, and as the water fails away with
the dearth of the season il dries, is taken
up by the winds, carried back up stream,
is blown into the water and makes
another voyage; and so the work Of
transportation back end forth, by land
and by sea. goes on forever and ever.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

Leaders of fashion, with their craving
for variety, are already protesting
against the use of figured fabrics to such
an extent that Paris dTessmakers send
to the modistes here dresses of plain
surface and solid color. This is espe-
cially noted in the use OF sewing-silk
grenadines in preference to brocaded
ones. and of plain Surah silk instead of
figured silk, also in the attempt to re-
vive taffela, which is always plain and
lustrous. The most elegant black
dresses this season are of the plain sew
ing-silk grenadines, trimmed elaborately
with black lace in which gilt threads
are thickly interviewer, or else with
open trimmings entirely OF Jet, or per-
haps with fine embroidery do ne on
grenadine for founces- and panels.
Spanish laces over colors, especially red
or yellow, are also used for trimming
black grenadines. The square-meshed
canvas grenadines is liked for parts of
dresses that are completed by Surah, or,
If figures are not objected TO, by very
rich brocaded grenadines that have
smooth ground of satin luster, with
large, open-worked figures. The plain
canvas grenadine in such com hinations
is used for three or four narrow plated
AIlIE5 ~ Lht AOOtf anu blt btWtu
directly on the black silk skirt used for
the foundation. There are then pyra-
mids OF such plaitings up each side. or
only up the front. Folded plaitings.oi
the pain grenadine are then laid like a
diagonal scarf across the front and sides
above this is the apron of brocade, and
the hooped drapery of the back is also
brocade. Rows of jetted fringe laid
nm knife N laiLinRs that paqg ND the sides
or front add to the rich effect. Another
caprice Is that OF lining the waist oi
black grenadine dresses with red Oh
yellow silk, and omitting it in the skirt
This gives a touch of color, and makes
the difference between waists and
skirts that are now 30 popular. A very
narrow plating of red Surah should bt
set under the lowest row of black plait
ing around the skirt of such dresses, the
sash belt may also be lined with red
and there may be one or two large ro
settes of black with gay lining set on
the sides.-Hn HnTpeT's Bdsar.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

A prominent English magazine (Tsas-
iey's) believes that America Is the lit
erary land of the future. /. asserts that
America started with the civilization
of highly civilized age. She did not
rear her own civilization on her own
soil. She started with prosperity. and
the first use she makes os her pros
perity IL not TO cultivate the fine arts
in her own people, but TO laugh 1t them
In Others. Up TO now only one class OF
Transatlantic writers have challenged
tie attention OF Europe, and that was
humorous and profane. Emerson, Bry-
ant, Cooper. Poe, Lowell, Holmes and
Irving are merely Europeans born In
America. Bret Harte, Twain and
Breitmann are original and American.
America. Is undoubtedly the literary
promise land of the future. II has done
nothing up to this. Its condition has
forbidden IL 10 achieve ANYTHING. but
great, triumphs may be anticipated
from IL.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Trying TO be a Bird.

a friend of the San Francisco Call
sends the following literal translation
from n recent number of the Vi0ie dc
CheTbotrg (France) which vouches for
the truth of the story: CherboLrg pos.
sesses now marvellous phenomenon,
unique without doubt, since the world
exists. A child six months old, Angus.
tine Laver, who bears upon her head
feather, which drops oil and Is replaced
every six days. The Phoenix fabulous
rising from its ashes ana becoming n
reality. We have st en- the twenty-third
feather which has bloomed in success
sion upon the head OF this infant We
assisted last Saturday mt its father
house Ga clever joiner), No. IOl Sante
Honore street, Mt the falling out of the
last. We will probably assist to-day
toward four o'clock at the birth of the
twenty-fourth. Behold how this strange
phenomenon occurs; nothing is more
curious. A bud forms upon the nape
of the infant. At the moment when the
bud ought to open Augustine expert
ences n slight trembling, accompanied
with some pain. The bud opens and
the leather shows itself pushing out,
but bent, in order to obtain its full
length, some ten TO twelve centimeters.
1t Is golden upon its borders, and pre-
sents the most variegated and charming
shades. When IL falls out some drops
of white liquid ooze out of the hole,
which closes Immediately without leav-
ing sign of its existence until tho ap-
pearance OF a new bud. The infant bears
this feather on its head, sometimes six
and sometimes four days, and what ID
still more mysterious, the new feather
takes as much time to bloom as the old
does to die or fall of.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

Certain Russian ladies occupy uno = j.
cial diplomatic positions. some Of them
receiving from the government as much
rs S65,O00 annually for entertaining,
bribery, and other secret service tx.
pensee.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

Were absolute perfection enthroned,
courtiers would certainly discover some
way to fatter Il.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

At the rates current during the pres
ent season. Mr. Burnside must have real
lied from his crops the enormous
of S5 5000.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

The compositor who set up "$l ,OO0''
instead of SI0, 900 might have prevented
his mistake by little fourth ought.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01

Man talks 10 convincc-woman 10
persuade and please.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01
Analysis or Root Crops.

From paper on the nutritive value of
Stockbridge, we take the following:
The most reliable chemical analysis of
the important root crops gives the fol-
lowing results:
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-07-01


RAGoUT OF BEEF.-One and half
pounds of beef, either round or neck
cut the meat in pieces two inches
square, brown II in butter or drippings
enough to keep it from. burning; add a
tablespoonful of flour, and when the
flour Is brown the meat must be COW
cred with boiling water; then season
with pepper and salt. Let it cook
slowly until tender. The water is to be
repienished rs it boils away.
New ENGLAND ELECTION CAKE.-A
very old receipts: Three pounds of
flour, one and three-fourths pound of
butter, one-half pound of lard, and n
half pound of raisins. four nutmegs, n
teaspoonful of cinnamon, three eggs.
six teaspoonfuls of soda, two qusrts of
milk, one pound orcurrants; beat sugar,
Hour, and butter together and the fruit
with the milk and spices; beat the soda
and cream tartar together in the milk
until 1t foams.
WHoRTLEBERRY PUpDING.-Make n
stih batter of one pint of milk and a
pound and two ounces of flour, and add
two quarts of berries stirred in; boil
three hours in bag. If blueberries are
used, make sitter
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1880-11-03
Learning to Sew.

To be handy with the needle is one
of the sterling accomplishments of
every educated woman. To be able
to take tho "stitch in time," is worth
all the time and trouble that are re-
quired to learn the art. Like walk
ing, reading and the many other
things which we come to do without
special thought, the learning to sew is
a slow process, and should be begun
while the child is. quite young. The
girl should not only have the use of
the thread, needles and patchwork,
but be instructed how to take the
stitches, turn the corners and do the
various things connected with needle
work. We are not excluding the
boys in our remarks, because they
need to learn to thread needle and
do general sewing. Men are some
times so situated that they must de-
pend upon themselves for their neces-
sary sowing. Even if it is an age of
sewing machines, it Is best that all
children should learn to use the sim
pie, common, old-fashoned kind, which
can never be wholly superseded. The
amusement and occupation that sew
ing furnishes little folks afford suffi-
cient reason why mothers should see
that their girls, and boys too, learn to
sew; but the very practical use of the
needle i'll after life is the principal
thing after all.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1880-11-03
Why Judge O'Neall Hated Whis
KEY.

The Judges father. who lived to be
an aged man, was in the earlier part
of his life very prosperous. After
passing middle life he opened a coun-
try store for the sale Of goods, and
also began to deal in whiskey, and
from dealing in it he commenced
drinking it. He ultimately became
crazcd from its excessive use. In con-
sequence, besides impairing his mind,
he lost much of his property. There
was an erroneous notion prevailing ut
that time. which sas near nifty years
ago, that the minds of those thus i'm
paired could be rotored, or partially
so, by corporal punishment. This was
inflicted on the old man, who, think
ing it was done with his wife's consent,
forever alienatcd and separated her
from him. In consequence the family
was broken up. These were the rea-
sons assigned by the Judge for his
great aversion to irtempcrance.
The loss of property and of social
standing, and the breaking up of the
family ties, with great unhappincss by
his parents forever made the son one
of the strongest advocates of the tenn
perancc cause tho country has ever
produced.