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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-13

uIcau bt2uiAShuCcs one otF1 ultIt - nc
is hanging on the cross; the good. the
gentle She has heard him charge the
beloved disciple to care for her never
thinking Of himself even in this dread
extremity. II is all hideous reality;
and non nothing is LEFT to The mother
heart but the crown Of thorns, which
she clasps 70 closely TO her ia Wild az.
ony and dcNpaiF. But The first great
gust ~ over, and that face IL -oFfOw ful,
divine and epcn resigned. II ia pIc-
iure thai spsaks volumes 10 me; would =
Turk regard IN"
you are an enthusiast, Miss Bresa;
Il siirs my sluggish blood to frsl my
self near such FIRE. II | c0uA live
my youtlsagain, | wesld baAsstl " .usa
and true. ! would try 10 live up 10
yeur ideal. because know it 10 be a
high one, worthy Of noble nature.
Our lost youth what would we not
give to reclaim and reconsecrate il r.
His face giowed and he spoke rapid
", but recolecling himself. he resumed
10 his usual cold, calm manner:
II Jaw that painting tool but at the
time | was sngrossed IN personal az
fairs and was not 10 mind to be i'm
pressed BY il. My recollection Of the
Mater Dolofosa IN faint"
at il well worth study" ! said.
"IlIs was master mind sud hand, and
truly painted deepest woe"
1--WE have come to the gate now; Q
gate is a most miserable construction.
Why, Miss Biela gates are the remains
of barbarism. The aucien.s walled up
their towns and built gales 10 them
witness Thebes Of The hundred gates;
Athens and Rome--they even had 20
barricade their gods and goddesses (pIiy
they did not Imprison some Of them all
the time) and we find them issuing
from their blissful abode through gates.
But We modcrns do away with them
entirely, except such eariesture Of q
gate as we see before Us. say. do
away with them altogether; they are
irighiIul sioPPsges TO some peoples hap
piness."
:" fear your reforms would be like
that OF The wise men OF Lagado. and
tina, also you would be The very last ic
adopt your proposed measure"
PLATO, thou rcasonest WELL" etc,
"and as you discourage progress. mus
cen follow the ancient custom Of seek.
ing nv home. Good.by TIL Tomorrow. -
"wiiI you no, wslk in, Mr. Paul =
"Noi to-day, thank you. Tell Mrs
Arnauld shall not fail lo-morrow."
Ne lined his hat with an amused
smile end walked leisnvely n,sL iag.aaghi,
I iremblcd a little a. heard ptIis',
soice raised TO an angry height.
" II she does NOT choose 10 come whea
tell her 10, she can STAY. II will be 4
bong lime before take her anywhere
again. People wh, want consideration
BON me must treat me decentiy," and
" the voice went on, forcing me Il
valk into the midst Of the flying mus
Get balls.
why did you not come home with
Lewis. Breia !" said Roe.
| "oh she - an independent youn:
lady; knows how to take care Of her
self, sneered Lewis.
| Because, cousin. when I turned q
1
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-13
DROPPING INTO POETRY.

III you please. sir, said the young
ladv. timidly. as the exchange editor
handed her chair, II have composed
few verses, or partially composed
them and ! thought you might help me
finish them and then print them. Ma
says they are real nice a. far as they
90, and pa takes the Eagle every day.
She was handsome creature, with
beautiful blue eyes, and browning
glory as yellow as golden rods. There
was an expec,ant look on her face, a
hopefulness that appealed 10 the hottest
emotions, and the exchange editor made
up his mind not to crush the longing OF
that pure heart IL he never struck an
other lick.
May show you the poetry CON
tinued the ripe, red mouth. "You will
see that couldn't get the last lines OF
The verses, and II you would please be
so kind ~ 10 help me"
Help her! Though he had never
evea read line Of poetry, the exchange
editor felt the spirit OF the divine art
food his soul as he yielded TO the be-
wildering music. Help her Well, he
should smile.
"The first verse runs like this" she
went on, taking courage from his eyes !:
"lIow softly sweet the autumn air
The dying woodland hls.
And nature turns from resiful care
ITO anti-biliour pills, added the ex-
change editor, with jerk. Just the
thing. II rhymes and It's Sc. You take
anybody now. Half the people you
meet are"
II suppose you know best" inter-
rupted the ,ounggirl. 81 hadn'tthought
of il in that way, but you have better
idea of such things. Now the second
verse is more like this:
The dove-eyed kline upon the moor
Look tender, meek aud sad;
While from the valley comes the roar
"'Oitle matchless liver-pad !" roared
The exchange editor. There you get
it. That finishes the second 30 as TO
match with the frst. II combines the
fashions with poetry and carries the
idea right home to the Preside. II |
only had your ability in starting verse,
with my genius in winding il up, I'd
quit the shears aud open in the poetry
business tomorrow.
"Think SOL? asked the fair young
lady. at don't strike me as keeping
up the theme"
"You don't want to. You want TO
break the theme here and there. The
reader likes it better. Oh, yes -
Where you keep up the theme il gets
monotonous."
Perhaps that's So" rejoined the
beauty, Frightening up. al didn't think
of that. Now I'll read the third verse :"
"Iiow sadly droops the dying day,
As night springs from the glen,
Aud moaning twilight seems to say
'"The old mans drunk again,
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a. Horace Greeley said that OF the
thousands he lent the most he ever re-
ceived was five dollar note inclosed
In letter, and upon tracing out the
writer Of the letter he found that il came
from lunatlc in the Utica Asylum who
never owed him cent.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-13

wouldn't do, would IL I" asked the ex-
change editor. Somebody else wrote
that, and We might be accused ofpIa-
giarism. We must have this thing
original. Suppose we say--now just
suppose We say: Why did spout my
Ben r."
us that new !" inquired the sweet,
rosy lips. ''At least | never heard il
before. don't know what II means"
"Nrwi Deed It's new. Ben is the
name for overcoat, spout means hook.
fWhy did | spout my Ben y means why
did I shove my topper That's just
what twilight would think OF first, you
know. Oh, don't be airaid--thats Just
immense I"
"Well, I'll leave Il 10 YOU" said the
glorious girl. with smile that pinned
the exchange editors's heart TO his
spine. This is the fourth verse:
" The merry milkmaid's sombre song
Re-echoes from the rocks,
As silently she trips along
"'With holes in both her socks, by
love I" cried the delighted exchange
edi'or. you SEE"
"Oh. no, no r. demonstrated the
blushing maiden. mot that"
Certainly" protested the exchange
editor, warming up. "Nine 70 four
she's got EN-: and you get fidelity TO
TACT with wealth Of poetical express
sion. The worst orpoetry generally Is,
you cant state things as they are. 1t
ain like prose. But here we've busted
| all the established notions, and put up
an actual existence with the veil Of
genuine poetry over it. think that's
the best idea we've struck yet"
II don't seem 10 look al il as you do,
but Of course you are the best Judge
Pa thought ] ought to say:
"'As silently she trips along
Ia autumn's yei'w tracks"
"Wor.dn't that do I"
| "Dol Just look at ii. Does tracks
rhyme to rocks' Not in the Brooklyn
Eagle il don't. Besides, then you say,
tracks and rocks, you give the ex-
preston Of some fellow heaving things
to another fellow who's scratching for
safety, Socks, on the other hand,
rhymes with rocks aud these beauiify
them, while il touches up the milk.
mad. and by describing her condition
shows her 10 be child OF the very la
ture you are showing up"
II think you'er right, said the sweet
angel. "I'll tell pa where be was
wrong. THIS is the way the fifth verse
runs;
sssaJ close behind, the farmers boy
| ris forth his simple tunes
| Al Fps beside the maiden coy
"'Aa~ splits his pantaloons' Done It
myself; know just exactly how il 10.
Why, bless your heart, you---"
Snip, snip, snip. Paste, paste, paste.
But il is with saddened heart that he
SHIPS and pasies among his exchanges
now. The beautiful vision that for q
moment dawned upon him has left but
the recollection in his heart OF one sun.
beam in his life, quenched by the show
er Of tears with which she denounced
him as "brute. and went out from him
fOrever.-Brooklsnd Eagle.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-13

"With holes in both her socks, by
love % cried the delighted exchange
| nd;.nr IVAN .ann
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Logan's Bill to Help Grant.

Judging from the urgency with which
John A. Logan pushes his so.callcd
Grant relief bin. one might suppose that
Grant was freezing and starvingin some
back alley.
The Logan bill should not become a
law, for the following reasons:
!. The army retired list is, by the
very terms OF its creation. a list for the
use of officers of the army only; aid
Grant is not an officer Of the army. !,
2. The number OF this list is limited
by law to four hundred. There are now
three hundred and ninety nine on it, and
unless the terms of the original bill are
modified it will bar out for the present
all others, however deserving by grab
bing the last place for Grant.
8. The retired list is limited to per-
sons who, byreason ofage or OF wounds
or disease, are deemed unit for active
service. Grant has not reached the
The People's vindicator., 1881-02-26
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Republican papers manifest
phenomenal respect for Senator Davis,
of Illinois. They forbear to keep up
thcplaylul paragrapbing about the man
on Il fence, etc.-CInciNnoI Enquirer.
The gainesville correspondent OF
tao Chicago Jour;1ul says that Conk-
line seems to be raw head and bloody
bones to the incoming Administration
the sort of third-termism that viii!
not down at anybody's bidding.
The Boston Transcript, modest
Republican paper, hopes General Car
field will not make so serious. II not
Altogether rrcparablc, mistake at the
verv out set of his Administration rs to
make Mr.. Blaine Secretary of State.
--''Honest Money" Nichol is now
spoken of by Republican newspapers as
Il "critter' and y ''loot-sorc political
tramp" And yet he swells with a
sense of his own Importance and trades
upon IN alleged intimacy with Gar
field.
The Washington correspondent
of the New York Commercial 1drer-
tisar, a strong Republican journal, says
that if Mr. Hayes had sent in the name
OF his son Webb for Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court it would not
have surprised those VINO have closely
watched the manner in which Mr.
HAYES has made use of the Govern
mcn:'s patronage to reward his per-
sonai friends.
General Weaver, late Grecnbach
candidate for President, took occasion
to say on the floor of the House of Rep
resentatives at Washington the Other
day that Southern bull-dozing is a:
nothing compared with the intimidation
of voters practiced by the Republican
mill-owners and manufacturers o
Massachusetts. According to this j
would seem that Weaver's engagement
to play second fiddle to the Republican
managers has been terminated Harris
burg Patriot.
The coming Cabinet of Presidcn
Garfield is Il good deal talked about
far more than the importance of the sub
ject requires. Ii Garfield can, by an.
possibility, draw around him set 0
honest men. who will not steal, his Ad
ministration will lie entitled to- NOR
consideration than attaches TO the Ad
ministration OF Grant; but the rumO
that Blaine is to be Secretary OF Stat
is not calculated to strengthen publi
confidence in Gartield's integrity.-l!
diu:.u State Sentinel.
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A Long.Lost Mother Found.

For Ave years "Grandma'' Hamilton had
lived ut the Home for the Friendless-blind
and feeble and wanting to die. She was too
good to go to the poor-house aud had no mon
ey to go to the Old Ladies' Home: 80 the man
agement gave her q room and the fairies or the
ether good angels brought the old lady com.
Portable rockingham aud, other articles, of
furniture, and there she sat rocking and knit
ting life to its close. - =. .'
One day lady, In sealskins and jewels, rang
the bell and asked: ''Is Mrs. Hamilton in?'' e
No, they said. There was no Mrs. Hamilton
there. The lady could not mean "Grand,na'
Hamilton? In all the five years gone nobody
had called forher! But, yes: the richIy-tlressed
lady would like to see Grandma" and, while
they went for her. sat and sobbed on the sofa.
y! When they led the old lady in, the lady in
sealskin and jewels burst int tears, and throw
ing her arms around her neck, sobbed out:
" Mother, mother, don't you know Louisa!"
on, no, said the old lady, peering with her
blind eyes and shaking her head, my daugh.
tiers Louisa and Lizzie are 10th dead, and you
cannot be Louisa ~
But, indeed, l an; and Lizzie is living, too,
and for d year I've been looking for you ev-
erywhere, and now I've found you''-and
while they wept on each others necks, Mrs.
Grant, the Superintendent, and Miss Bowman,
the matron, withdrew and left them to talk it
over. .m4b e.a, rp.-al.
This was only a short time aen, and next
day the lady came in csrriage again, and
'Grandma,"r ? having taken the night to get her
things together" bade go0d-by to the Home
and went away all wrapped in fur-lined robes,
to wait In ease aud happiness til Death comes
70 bid har cease her rocking aud her knitting.
And the explanation of it I'LL il that fifteen
years ago Louisa married aad. went to CALI
fornia; Lizzie stayed in Ohio, and Grandma"
with little compel ehcc, came to Chicago.
After 4 while, by one of those fnexplicable
combinations of mistakes that sometimes oh
tain in this mysterious world they all came to
believe each other dead, and "Grandms, -
having lived out her competence, drifted to
the HOME Tor the Friendless. Louisa's hus-
band grew rich in California. and last summer
there ome to herlti,e faintest whisper that
:. .Mother''was not dead. She started to search
for her, and, after going all through Michigan
and Ohio where they hadllived-and where, by
the way, she found Lizzie still living-she at
length found family in Englewood "a sub.
urb Of this city, who had seen Grandma"
Hamilton at the Home for the Friendless land
thus, she found her mother.-Chicaco Journal,
lE.I Fs1r74ny. ! =. 2 aL.za5,.
The telephone now boasts seven own
anyl 0nlv invAnt0rS tstsA ts& GfIsi 8
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iICoDNibENsED | 81 TEEEGRA4s.T n

The formal counting Of the, Electoral
votes for President and Viee- President took
place iii the hall of the Houseof Representa-.
tives, lin the presence of both Housesiof Con-
gress, ou the 9th. vice.President Wheeler !
'occupieda 1eat on'the right Of Speaker Ran. "
dali. Nessrs. Thurman and Hafhlin acted
as Telers on the part Of the Senate and
Messrs. HOUSE and Crowley on the part Of
the House. TIE, proceedings were
carried out in the manner pre-
scribed by the joint resolution
previously adopted, the Vice. President
neutrality-suspicious. purporting to contain
the certificates Of election, handing them to
the Telle1s.l by whom they were read, and
then duly recorded. The result, As an.
nouhced by Senator Thurman, was a total Of
$50 votes, Of which James A. Garfield and
Chester A. Arthur received 214 votes and
Winfield s. Hancock and William H.
English 155. The Vice-President then
declared, Garfield; and Arthur elected
respectively as President and Vice.
Presidentot the United States for four years
from the 4th Of March next. The vote Of
Georgia. not having been cast on the day
prescribed BY the Constitution, was counted
conditionally, as not affecting the result.
The galleries and all available space were
crowded,with spectators to witness the pro-
cesdings. 00t q IT | II
THf town of Pass Manchac, La, on
Lake Ponchartrain, was demolished by 5
tornado on the 9th. Every building in the
place was swept away, but no lives were
lost. g,a,.. 49,
IsoM CARTER and his daughter, Of the
Chpdaw;, Nation, were drowned while at.
tempting.to crossithe river 1t Fort Smith,
! Arkansas. :. q. ~ s~t- n4,aE
THEaice blockade Of the Mississippi
1t St, Louis was broken ON the 9th and navt.
gationIresumed, after close Of seventy -one
days. .Steamboatmen apprehended no little
damage from the great fields Of ice coming
down the Missouri, but fortunately their
fears proved groundless on this occasion. "a
.mTAE steamship Josephine, from Hava-
No u Nek Orleans, was wrecked on tho 9Th
near Ship Island. Tie passengers and crow
! took To- the boats ssq were picked up altar
seven hours. They lost all their baggage.
T4E Guam Blseks at Denison, Texas,
occupied by the DailyaHerad and the
Wholesale grocery house of Marx Kuehn &
o., Wa6btrned d the morning Of the 9th,
withfts entire contents. Losses nearly Gov.
md bytistrancs.S -
IN ;;Sehate, - the 9th, passed the
Psppssllon Appropriated bill, all amendments
having bees previously laid on the table for
future, consideration. The House passed
~ legislative, Judiciafand tExecutiye Ap.
preparation bill. ss ,assis asss.,ss, %.
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r.rr,ble Suffering In NInmesots.


Asst. PAUL Mimi special Of the 4th to the
Chicago J'ribuns says: - gentleman VINO
came from, Wusecl last night says that the
greatest destitmtion exists on the Winona
81. Peter Branch Of the Chicago Northwest
crn Railway, beyond Sleepy Eye Station
point about forty miles west "f It. Peter. on
Wednesday u Mr.. Bl,ke, roadn;lStcr on tho
section located ut Burns, the next staten be-
yond Sleepy Eye, discovered whole
family frozen to death. Mr.. Burke,
while ut work with his men
on the road under bis charge. noticed shauty
close by from which no smoke issued. Seeing
evidence that the place was inhabited, tue
party visited the premises and forced open the
door, when 4 horrible sight greeted their eyes.
Upon squalid couch and on the floor OF the
wretchcd howell lay father, mother and chill
drcn. evidently whole family, frozen still in
death Word was at once sent to the nearest
town, and arrangements made to care for the
| remains of the unfortunate family. Universal
destitutiun is reported among the farmers west
of sleepy Eye. 1t is stated that no trains car
rying fuel have passed Sleepy Eye since De-
cembcr24. The country is broad cxpahsc
of prairie, with hardly a stick OF timber with
in miles Of the railroad. Settlers have rushed
in, taken claims, and, dtlbled by the mild
winters of the past few years, have not made
sufficient provision against the severe cold
of the past three months. They have been
Obliged to burn fencing, furniture,
pieces of boards FROM their houses, and
even the woodwork on their farm machinery.
One 1ilan reported TO II. }. Wadsworth, the
station agent at Waseca that he could not os,-
tain fuel and had burned much OF his turni-
t,lre and that the cabinet organ would have
I TO 60 next. 1t is impossible TO reach many Of
the settlers, as the railroads are drIltcd and
the wagon roads impassAl'le, and it IS feared
that many will sturye or be frozen to death Dc
fore help can reach them.'
The People's vindicator., 1881-02-26

AL1rTLE girl who applied to Queen
Victoria for her autograph. received
the following: s' For OF such is the
kingdom of Heaven. Victoria Regina
The People's vindicator., 1881-02-26

600; at Dubuque, $1,000; Galena, $4,000;
Hannibal, $4,000; Quincy, $4,000; ROCK
Island Harhes and Rapids, $1,000 Ice mar
boz at st. Louis, $4,000; Memphis, Sle'.
ooe; Natchez and vidalia, $50, 600. Missouri
River-Aboye the mouth OF Yellowstone
SAC. 900; survey of river, $50, 600; at Atcnl'
SON, $40 900; Brownsville, $4,000; Cedar
River, $4,000; Council Bluffs and Omaha
$D,oOo;, Eastport and Nebraska Cl.S' aaS
Sl5, 900: Fort Leayenwortb, $500;
Glasgow, s2o, 900; Kansas City, s2o,oee: Lex-
ington, $4,000; st. Charles, Sl3,ooo; ST.
Joseph, $4,000; Vermiion, Sl3,oVo. ONO
River, total, $3.50. 900; Illinois River S2o,ooo'
Usage River, $4,000; Gasconade hlVer'
$1,000; Chicago Harbor, $4,000.
The New York, Chicago & st. Louis
Railroad Company has been organized un'
der the laws of Indiana with capital stock
Of sic, 100000, nearly all of which, it is sa'd'
has already been subscribed by New YORK
e capitalists. The incorporatcrs are Directors
in the Lake Erie & Western, Ohio Central,
and the Peoria, Decatur Evansville Kali
roads. The main section will be from Cleve-
land to Chicago, a distance Of $40 miles, III
teen miles shorter than by the Lake Shore
route. A length of ifty.six miles OF the
Wabash Canal has been purchased,
which gives the company $50 feet broad
right. .ot.wsy through the city OF Fort
Wayne. Twenty miles west Of Fort Wayne,
at Fort Wayne Junction, the main stem will
be tapped by the branch to St. Louis, with a
length Of 325 miles. Contracts have been let
for the construction Of the work above
enumerated. "A proposition from the Cen
trail Railroad Of New Jersey to connect a
branch from Cleveland to Milton, n. j., ana
thence to New York, Is under consideration.
A survey has been made for the proposed
route, across the Allegheny Mountains,
through Youngstown, and. midway between
OH City and Pittsburgh. Another PROPOSE
tion is 4 connection with the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad.
THE Ways and Means Committee
have voted to present a bill to repeal the
stamp tax on exports Of tobacco and the M
ternal revenue tax on matches, proprietary
medicines, periumery, bank checks and
bank deposits. A motion to add salt to the
free listwas lost-fiye TO- five.
THE St. Louis Times WAS sold on the
Sth, tjy order of Court, and was knocked
down for S224 800, the proprietors of the st
Louis Republican being the epurchasers.: i
! n understood that its publication viii b.
permanently discontinued, and. its Asso
I ciated Press franchise thereby permitted tt
lapse. ..,, '.f
The People's vindicator., 1881-02-26

FIvEbothers. Of the name of Buzzard,
Ile.d . Pennsylvania gang Of thieves
The People's vindicator., 1881-02-26
INTERESTING EVENTS.
Cholera Predicted.

A RECENT Cincinnati telegram says: An
interview is p,,b!ished with Dr. nnckburn, o,
Kentucky. who is one Of the most experienced
chulcr: physicians in the country. ii' says
the country j., pretty sure to suffer from ca"i'
err, the coming season. He says It is now in
Ch;cogo. under the name OF 'chol"r:nc.' His
theory is that it never failed that a cEoicra
endemic followed upon the he, Is OF IN inll;i-
enza epidemic. We hive just ha! that. Men
AM, horses have suffered from it. The inllu-
,tza cpidencs arc due to the too great pro-
portion of ozone in the atmosphere, and the
deficiency of it is the condition.ior cholera.
Nature is constantly running to extremes,
and the excess 1,t ozone is followed by 4 dcti-
cheney. y certainly have continued the
doctor-Guvcrnor, 'bccn expecting cholera to
make its appcnrancc in this section, and now
that it has appeared in Chicago, it is more
than likely that we shall have it. But said
he, there is an infallble preventive for ch"l-
era"