Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-05-19
JAnpoEsvrLLr, Mp. May 9th, lssl

JARBoEVILtE Mp. May 9th, 1881.
Beautiful month Of May The breeses laden
with the perfume Of flowers, and the woods re-
sounding with sylvan tenants How refreshing,
during these bappy sunny days TO wander amid
the silent, though busy aud active scenes Of
woodland life--the worlds great laboratory OF
animal existeuce-aud note the silent expansion
Of every bud, the quiet unfolding OF every leaf,
the measured, systematic prolongation Of every
shoo,let No contradictions, no uncertainties
are there They hold no councils, they never
question as to the best or proper place Of deyel<
opmcnt. Yet each germ, true TO nature, expands
into the perfect leaf or flower after Its kind
What a lesson for laundering man How much
may be learned BY studying closely the symmst-
rical economy of nature Each leaf and flower
contains a sermon. Their voiceess lips speak to
our souls with pathos, power unattained by
man, silent, tiny yet majestic products OF that
Invisible hand thai fashions each leaf and petal
Alright. The world is better holier BY your
presence. Our Utmost hearts drink in the deep
fragrance of your aes,hetical existence. We
thirst for your coming as the parched lips after
the cooling fouptain; and We part regretfnlly
with you, when Autumn's chilly winds wither
your short and fragile lives. Yet you have not
lived in vain. Brief and passing as is your ex-
islence, you but typify our own short lives
E-en US we admire the beauty Of your blossoms,
rcsplendant with The coIors Of the worlds great
luminary, lis petals, falling one by one, remind
US ofour own sad fate. On man what are you
that you strut for short season on the busy
stage of time and when LIES itfu fever is over,
like the silent leaf, sink into the ocean Of obli-
Won, and the places that once knew you SO we'll
will know you no more forever The loved
ones, upon whose lips your name hangs so tenn
derly and fondly, win breathe II but seldom
when you are gone and, little while, and its
utteranee will sound strange and discordant
around your hearth-stones OF to-day, Younger
ones viii take your place, and the world will
soon forget that you ever lived.
Such Is life Sad reflection, unweleome an
notation upon our certain end And as to-day,
your correspondent snatches few brief moments
TO moralizc and mediate alone upon nature and
natures surroundings, and notes the evidences
of life and decay on every hand the one illus
trated in the budding leaf the other in its fall,
he can but feel that sin the midst OF life we ara
In death fM8ma
The good weather We have had for some time
past has enabled our farmers TO hasten up their
Spring work at the double quick, and they
are now In the midst Of corn planting.
Tobacco plants, as far as your correspondent
can find out are doing finely, tho fly not hay-
ing molested them TO any great extent. Wheat
is doing vol, considering its backward state,
and the fact that great many plants were VIM
ter killed
While the Scarlet Fever, of which mention
l ! -. Z q n.
B. Quirk's and our colored friend, Roht. Chase's,
we have to chronicle three new cases In the fam
lily Of the latter. No dsath has occurred as yet,
| and we learn that DR.. Bohanan, the physician in
attendance, does not pprehend such result
Sickness from other causes is still in the ncish-