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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21


OUR CLOTHING ROOM is well sup
piled and bargains guaranteed
HARD WARE full line.
TABLE and POCKET CUTLERY a specially
CROCKERY WARE-very large stock.
GLASS WARE very low.
LAMP. CHIMNEYS, Fancy Top, &c.
TIN WARE nearly at the old sc. prices.
Leather and Shoe findings.
Picture Frames.
OILS. Paints, varnishes, Brushes, &c.
Glass, all sizes. and cut TO 1T
Stoves Special Agent for manufacturers-sel
al Baltimore prices and save you the freight.
Furniture sold in the same way.
PIows sold low. Castings &c. ID.
Pumps ftted for any depth at Baltimore prices.
Cl0cks sold low and Warranted
Watch Crystals, Jewelry, DC.
Candies, Cakes, Crackers, Nuts, Canned Goods,
Grocers, Drugs, Jayne's and other medieiaes.
Hafs-Straw. Felt, Fur.
Fine Cigars, Tobacco, SNUFF. &c.
GROCERIES and PROVISIONS. A full stock
Ofbessqnality.
A great inducement is Newcomer Washington
Lego Fancy Family, SC rs per bbl---4c PER ID.
B Rene Extra. S SO & Der Is,
or Baltimore wholesale prices
We guarantee all goods to be a. represented.
We can sell low becanse we eel Iargelv--be-
sides, selling fast keeps fresh goods constantly
coming
Old stock sold for what it win bring.
A. A. LAWRENCE.
~. a. snwy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21

This Piow has gained such great
reputation in so short time that all
ask Is trial. The Plow is guaranteed
to do good work or money returned.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21
GENTS and LADIES'

FINE SHOES, CATERS, SLIPPERS, &c.
Chiidren's Misses and Boys
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21
p. MANN,
no. 2o7, 9TH Street. ~. :.
topposlte Centre Markei.)
WASHINGTON. D. c.

- r. GALATTI, formerly ofthis county,
l. now connecaed with the business q X Mama
and wfIl be pleased 70 receive calls rom nis osd
81 Mars ffiessss aud viii make prompt res
ponse Is anv orders they may send BIN IN his
line of bnsiness-
Feb. 19. 1880.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21

Prinee FrefeTSck CairtTf o., Id,
Jane IL, 1880.
M A. CraaA, Ese, Dsar slr--Yours of
jane the ON asking how liked year Fertilizer
ssFiard Times Is AZ hand. In answer, ! would
say. that used bag q Guano with bag o.
Fertilizer. &C.. and was much pleased with the
rezmlt 4 used the mixture ON Corn Land w beat
and the crop Vas the best ever grew after cora.
would have tried il on Tobacco this Spring,
hut having failed m plants, prevented me. Il 1
i've 10 the Fab. think win Try Il again.
Yours truly, Jas. A. BoKD.
1. Il. PARR 5 SON, Commission Merchants
Baltimore, Aug. ~, 1879.
mr.. WIN. X. GFSesth, Dear SlF-ReieEring %
onr conversation a this A. A., beg 70 sag.
viii take two ear loads ahozt IS tons Of The
q Pnrs Raw Groun3 Boae," like sample cxhibi-
tea and al the pFice agreed upon.
Please hare il shipped promptly. Having
bought this Bone from you last year and used Il
upon about $50 Acres of Wheat, she result vas
sufficiently satisfactory 60 cause 60 Il again.
with hopes Of SIMILAR results. believe my crop
Of Wheat was the very best in the section where
used and that my land Is material improved
Very respectfully, !. n. PARR.
90 A full stock Of Fertilizer Ingredients aud
Chemicals, B., on hand.
NM. GRIFFITH,
Once as South Sc.
feT Smiths Wharf
Locust POinr.
July 9, lsso-sm.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-21

lam now prepared 70 duplicate any
order purchased in Baltimore, Wash
inoton or elsewhere. Delivered on
board free. No charge for boxing or
Bailing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
Shut the Door.

The education of our youth is sadly
neglected in one direction, and that is in
closing and fastening doors after them.
Careful observation has satisfied us that
there is no use trying to teach some
people that accomplishment. 1t ap-
pears to be natural, and probably an
inherited inability, just as with some
people there is no such thing as know
ing one tune from another, as with
others it is impossible to acquire facility
and hardness in the use of tools. Mod
ern ingenuity has tasked itself to make
up to a suffering world for the incapaci-
ty or negligence of people who never
close a door, by the. application of
weights or springs that will automatic
ally do what every man, woman and
child ought to do instinctively. But
these appliances themselves shirk their
duties, and they are not susceptible of
universal application.
There ought to be thorough course
of instruction in our schools in the art of
shutting doors. The first lesson would
inculcate the elemental and simple duty
itself. Boys and girls should be kept
passing a doorway, each one opening
and closing the door for themselves, till
not mothers son or daughteriof them
could leave door ajar. Then the finer
features of the accomplishment might
be introduced. There are people who
always slam a door; there are others
who hold it open and close it so slowly
that whole procession of diseases, in
Guiding colds in the head, catarrh, sore
throat, diphtheria. inf animation Of the
lungs, and the epizootic can march
through, and the mercury of the Their
mometer has time to get down into his
boots.
But without becoming too fastidious, it
is important that every one should be
taught to close the door and fasten it in
some way. The amount of time pro-
fessional man spends and the distance
he travels in his Office in jumping up
and closing the door after people who
neglect that duty, would astonish ono
who had never given the matter thought.
Rochester Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31

Is to set up number of clock-dia In
various places in . town or building,
and to move the hands of each and all
at the same instant by an impulse sent
through air-tight pipes, laid from cen.
trail station to the dials.
To accomplish this, two simple air.
pumps are connected with q good town.
clock in some central position. These
pumps are extremely simple, and con-
sist Of glass jars of any convenient size
and open at the top. Through the bot
tom Of each jar rises small pipe, reach
ing nearly to the top of the jar and also
open at the top. Above the jars are
suspended smaller glass jars in an in
verted position over the upright pipe in
the larger jar. Each jar is filed about
half full of water (or giycerine), and by
raising the inverted jar clear above the
water and then letting it fall, air is
caught under the jar, compressed and
forced into the pipe. On raising
the suspended jar out of the liquid,
the incfosed air is released and
the air in the pipe is restored to its
natural pressure. By suspending the
inverted jars from the ends of q rocking
arm, the two jars become cheap and
simple air-pump, and it is easy to un-
stand that, if the ROCKINGHAM is proper
~ connected with the clock, the air.
pump may be made to move every min
ute, or every second minute, or, in fact,
at any moderate speed that may be re-
quired. The air-pumps thus sending
alternate pressure and exhaustion
through the pipes, it is easily seen that
the impulse of pressure or exhaust may
be by proper pipe connections distribut-
ed through very considerable length
of main pipe and branches. Clock-dials
of any size may be set up along the pipe
system, and by placing behind each q
small air-pump of precisely the same
pattern, and connectingit with the pipe,
each impulse sent through the pipe may
be made to move the pump, and by
suitable levers, to control the minute
hand of the dial, the hour-hand being
made to follow by simple wheel-work.
From the apparatus examined, a small
tower clock operates quite number of
dials of different sizes with apparent
uniformity and precision. The system
is one that may be confidently recon-
mended for hotels, public buildings
where there are many offices, railroad
and for tower clocks in small
towns and villages.-Scribner's Montbly. !
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
What Makes the Man.

MANY people forget that character
grows; that it is not something to put
on, ready made, with womanhood and
manhood. but day by day, here little
and there little, grows with the
growth and strengthens with the
strength, until, good or bad; it becomes
almost coat of mail. Prompt, relia-
bic. conscientious, yet clear-headed and
energetic. when do you suppose he de-
veloped all these admirable qualities?
When he was boy. Let us see the
way in which a boy of ten years gets up
in the morning, works, plays, studies,
and we will tell you just what kind of a
man he will make. The boy that is late
at breakfast, and late at school, stands
a poor chance to be a punctual man.
He who neglects his duties, be they
ever 80 small, and then excuses him
self by saying. 81 forgot? I did not
Think! will never be reliable man.
And the boy who finds pleasure in the
suffering of weaker things will never
be a noble, generous, kindly mana
gentleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
How the Maine "Jumpers Perform.

MANY strange things are done by these
Jumpers. One of those whom l exper-
imented with came very near cutting his
throat the day before l reached the lake.
He was shaving, and the door slammed
suddenly behind him; he jumped. and,
had the razor been held in a different
way, he might have inflicted severe
wound. One of these Jumpers being
surprised by an order to ''strike," while
standing before window, struck his fist
right through the glass, cutting it Sc
verely. These Jumpers have been known
to strike their fists against red-hot
stove; they have been known to jump
into the fire, as well as into water; in
deed, no painfulness or peril of position
has any effect on them; they are as
powerIess as apoplectics or Mysteries, if
not more so; the absolute victims of the
orders that are given them, or of the
surprises that are played upon them,
they must do as they are told, though
it kill them, or though it kill others. I
can find no evidence that the presence
of water or of fire will interfere, even in
the slightest degree, with the motions
which they are compelled to make. As
has been made apparent by the above
description, it is not necessary that
the surprises should come from any
human being; it is not necessary that
they should be ordered to strike
or jump; any sound, from any
source, that comes upon them with
sufficient severity and suddenness, for
which they are not forewarned and fore
armed, may cause them to jump and to
cry. One of those on whom I expert
mented told me that the falling of tree
in the woods, when unexpected, would
have the same effect upon him. He
said that one time he was so alarmed by
the sudden crash of q tree that he not
only jumped, but was perfectly en-
tranced, so that he could not move, al
though the tree did not fall upon him.
The explosion of gun or pistol is al
most sure to excite these Jumpers. The
screech of q steam-whistle is especially
obnoxious to them, few of them, so far
as l have been able to learn, having
been able to withstand it. On one of
the lake steamers in which 1 returned
from the hotel, there was q Jumper
who, when the screech was heard,
jumped right up, so that he nearly hit
his head on the upper deck. As the
steamer neared the landing and came to
a place where he knew the whistle
would sound again, he was warned to
prepare himself, and he did so with such
success that on the first screech he
jumped scarcely any; on the second,
however, despite his care, he raised his
shoulders perceptibly, but did not
jump.-Dr. George n. Beard, in Popular
Science MOsathlv.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
Pneumatic Clock System.

An elaborate system for distributing
power, by means of compressed air,
from central clock to q number of
Others located at q distance, in such q
manner that the central clock controls
and moves all the others, was intro
.dnced some years since in Vienna, and
was exhibited at the last Paris EXPOSE
ton, during which it was examined and
described in this magazine. While the
Vienna system is pracliced and has come
into commercial use to q certain extent,
1t is somewhat complicated and delicate,
and more recent American invention,
based upon the same principle, seems
TO be worthy of attention by reason of
Its cbcapness and simplicity. The aim
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
Adversely Teaches Wisdom.

THE impecunious snob, when obliged
to search for work, is in danger of stand
ing in his own light. clearinghouse
keepers, unfortunately, know him too
well. He is always waiting for that ire
mittance" which never comes. Instead
of taking the first thing that offers, he
expects to pick and choose, and is, con-
sequently, left far in the rear. Even in
the most desperate situations his snob-
bishness still clings to him. ssWhat do
you wish, sir?" said a merchant to one
of this kind, who had applied to fill a
situation in store. 81 thought might
get an appointment as secretary, or
clerk, in a bank" The merchant mildly
suggested that his packer might set him
to work. The snob, however, said she
hadn't come down to that" and in q
few minutes was ravenously. reducing
the contents of free lunch bar in q
saloon. People of this kind
seldom do well. Not having the sense
to know that discretion is the better
part of valor they spoil such chances as
they might have by q reckless use of
their tongues, and, unless their home
training has q powerful restraint upon
their inclinations, they drift lower and
lower in the social scale until they sink
into the very dregs of society. On the
other hand, to young man, even though
he should be apt to have something of
the snob in his nature provided it does
not counterbalance all his more manly
instincts, there is nothing like roughing
it. Stern adversely will teach even fools
wisdom; and it is the best teaching q
young man thrown upon his own re-
sources can have. He will rise or sink
according to his deserts.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
Our Young Folks.
THE OLD YEARS GOODBYE.

Tm Old Year stands In the chursh-yard
Blowing his frosty fingers;
ITS time were going long ago.,
He muttered, yet still he fingers.
| White Il his beard with the drift Of age,
And white with the Wtntry weather:
| He turns his back to the tempests rage.
Anxious he peers through the stormy night;
Listens with eager ear;
| II can hear no steps In the snoW-drifts Light,
But surely he must be near;"
With bounding step and cheek sslow
Little he cares for the driving snow.
Or the biting midnight air.
Good evening, Old Year, "Good evening,
lam glad you are comeat last;
Since darkness fell I've been waiting Tor
And my strength is failing fast.
could psSSi.s I'd
Pardon an old mans natural fear;
Bear with his parting word:
Is Take care Of the children! the wide world
I've looked in their faces to-day;
I've listened to catch each merry sound
As they shouted and romped at play.
KNEW twas the last should - the sight,
"A: And whispered to each, Good.bye;
Would not let them hear me sigh.
They are yours. New Year; give them to
Take them all in your strong, young hand;
And charge you to your trust be true,
Be the guardian of Babyland.
"Cover the hills with coasting-snow;
Pave the streams with smOOthest ice;
Heap high the fire in each home as you 60;
Spread thick each generous slice.
80 To the hooks where the earliest flowers are
Strew violets thick on each tiny grave
Where sleep the babies sweet
" Show the children the nests whence the bird
Let them roll in the scented hay;
Let their kites mount high in the summer
Give them many bright nutting day.
"Make Christmas time of .gladdest glee,
When winter comes again;
Load every Dough of the Christmas tree
With 5Olliest presents then.
"Go with the little folks to school;
Keep bright each little mind:
Help them obey the teachers rule,
And make the teachers kind.
"In Sunday-school fill their hearts with love.
As of Jesus love they're told;
Oh. train them all for the home above
Where the years grow never Old!'
The New Year bowed with earnest look; :,
Promised his tender care;
And the old mans trembling hand he took,
As they stood moment there.
Then tn e good Old Year was lost in the |
night,
But harkl children's voices clear,
In every home, with the dawning light,
To all happy NEW YEAR,
-f'er. EdlUdrd ID. Eaton, in Chicago Advance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
Mr. O'DwyER rents q aha,

Mr.. ODwYER rents a shantv on
Galveston Avenue from old man Chrys-
Ter, prominent citizen. Yesterday
Chrysler called in to collect the rent,
and ODwyer showed him over the
house, complaining of its inconve-
niences. Said O'Dwyer: "Mishter
Chrysler, your house is intoirly too low
on the ground to be healthy, the Gale
ings are too low, and the door aim
high enough" s.Mr. O'Dwyer," said
Chrysler, sis there anything about this
house that is high enough TO suit you?"
g Indade there is" ssWhat is it?''
The rint, be jabers. Galveston
NesCs. -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31
DOTS NEW.YEAR'S PARTY.

DOT LEONARD sat listening to her
| father as he read at morning prayers,
her little chair drawn up beside her
mothers, and her hand in hers. They
always sat so. Dot thought she could
listen best that way, and mamma liked
it, too.
This morning DR.. Leonard read the
fourteenth chapter of Luke, and Dot
listened attentively, though mamma
wondered what brought such a pre-
picked look on her little daughter s
face at the twelfth, thirteenth and
fourteenth verses.
She forgot to ask her, after prayers,
for word came that Mrs. Gray's baby
was dying, and she went right over to
help the poor mother bear her great
trouble, so she did not learn about it
till some hours after, when she and Dot
were sitting together in the sunny
nursery.
Then mamma said, 'sWhose birth
day is it next Saturday?''
''Mine, and New-Year' shay, too"
said Dot, looking up with aquick smile;
for birthdays and holidays meant much
happiness to this little girl, the only
child of loving parents, in a beautiful
home.
"What do you want to do. little
woman, because you are eight years
DID," asked mamma.
''May l say just what I want?'
answered Dot
Certainly, darling" said mamma,
wondering.
''Then mamma. if you are perfectly
willing" said Dot, hesitating. and
dropping a stitch in the dolly's afghan
she was crocheting, Il should like to
make feast"
Mrs. Leonard believed in letting little
girls talk frankly, especially to their
mothers, so without seeming to notice
Dots peculiar way of speaking, she
said, Eyes. dear, if that is what you
would like best; and whom will you in
vite to your feast?' and drawing away
the pretty worsted, she took Dot on her
lap.
"Grandma Baine first" said Dot,
smoothing her mothers brown hair with
quiet hands.
- Grandma Baine" exclaimed man.
ma, this time so much surprised she
could not help showing it, for Grandma
Baine was a poor, blind woman who
lived in the neighborhood. and knit
mittens and stockings. "What made
you think of her?''
"She knit my play-mittens for me-"
said Dot, "and gave me bright ball
made of ends of yarn, and I want her to
come"
"Who else?" asked mamma.
"Jane Hesler,' promptly answered
Dot, showing that her list had been
made up in her mind before. Jane
Hesler was alamo girl in the little brown
house on the corner; she could not
leave her chair, but made baskets for a
living. one of which had found its way
into Dots hand, full of flowers from her |
table in the south window.
"Who next?" again asked Mrs.
81 would like the washerwoman's |
little girls to come, mamma, for when |
she washed my doll clothes Monday she
said she wondered what Kitty and Mol !
" would say if they saw them; and l |
waE: them to have good play in my
"Well," said Mrs. Leonard. "any
Yes, mother dear, do you suppose
we could find that little boy who begged
here yesterday? He was so ragged
and dirty, and looked at Mary's cakes
- if he had never tasted anything like |
hem; SO gave him two, though Mary
said mustn't. I'd like to have him
come If we could find him, for he would /
ike the cake and nice things so.' |
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31

ADJUrANT-GENERAL DRUM was a
Lieutenant in the Mexican War, APP
pointed at the instance of Simon Cam
eron. Gen. Drum was before that time
q printer in Washington.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31

Col. FAIR, of Nevada, stands five feet
eight in his stockings, and weighs 227
pounds, which, taken in connection with
his financial standing, makes him in
every respect solid man.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31

"I HAVE been present at many re-
ligious awakenings," said the fly, as he
passed from one bald spot to another in
. neighboring pew.-Loxisrslle Courier
Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-31

QUEEN VICTORIA, at Balmoral, wor-
ships in . raised pew so near the pulpit
that she could almost shake hands with
the minister.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-04
nciol,hnrltnnd 3lc,us.
From BOOthby Hill.

\.
Politics and Potato-bugs are at present the alb
sorbing themes. Tho votaries to the former ex-
press various opinions and are standing upon
many different platforms, but the opponents to
the latter are unanimously of one opinion and oc-
ctipy one broad PLATFORM presenting combined
front that is hurting the missiles of destruction
into the camps of the enemy Some of these pois-
oned missiles bear the purple stain OF London
dye, while others retain the familiar hue of the
grows ercer and the destruction on both sides in
creases. The universal desire is that some plan
he devised that will exterminate these potato
e ess M in in 1875 if '''" p'''' '''
FARMING AND CANNING. ..
The farmers have finished planting, and are
now busy working their corn. Sweet corn for
canning purposes, however, will continue to be
planted, at intervals until the last. of June The
gaming IN In this han
million cans will be brought into our district
within the next two months. These are trans
number are brought in vessels. The schooner
Jennette, that runs regularly between Baltimore
and Swan creek does quite business in carrying
Messrs. Bay & Getty and the courtesy of Capt
Byrd commend this schooner to public favor
The hauling of cans will soon commence.
FISH.
The seines have all cut out, and the g-nets
are the only distractions the tinny tribes now
have to safe passage up the river. The OILERS
largest profit is in supplying the U. s. Fish Com
mission with shad for propagating purposes.
FESTIVALS.
liz SOult SHdptl leStifhi, iCiu ittob Wcoh' was u
success In every respect, especially in its tinan-
cial results. This week the Cranberry Church
will hold festival In the Cheese Factory, near
Perryman, and next week the Aberdeen NJ. E
Church will hold one in the saw mill. The Grove
Church Sabbath School will not have their festi-
val until after harvest, when 1t purposes TO have
fruit and ice-crtam festival.
CONCERT.
The concert by Profs Sanders and Robinson, at
Garrettson's Church, on Tuesday evening, May
18th, resulted in the full payment for the organ
recently purchased by the church. The exercises
were of most entertaining character.
ELIZA PINKSToN, b. L..
We are unable to see exactly what this estima-
BILE Q) lady has to do with the recent crow-shoot-
ing at this place. If "Ker o. Sene' will not give
more light, we will have to manufacture our own
gas.
BRIEFS; A-
Perrynan not PerTyndRsUiRe hereafter.
Our school examination last week proved most
creditable to both teacher and scholars.
On Wednesday, the Goth, Mr.. Goldshorongh
Thompson cut his leg with broad axe, while
pointing rails for Mr.. VIM b. Baker. The wound
though painful, is not thought to be serious:
HAL.