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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

A SCARED HusRAND-M Marital az
fiction is beautiful thing. and ev-
eiy fresh exhibition of It's tenderness
and LOYALTY affects Us TO tears. A
wile-I'ossibly an old wife-on GER
tain occasion fell overheard. The
husband rushed frnnticaIly about the
deck, literally tearing his hair out by
tl,o llas,sliaI and crying in-tha most
Leseeclling tones, For heaven sake.
save her. she III my wife. The no
bile sailors thought Of their own sweet
hearts and ran all risks, aud at last
brought the poor woman into the
calm Of the swooning husband. The
leOk OF gratitude he gave them fully
repaid them for all their Efforts
Then, recovering his equilibrium, he
thrust his hand into bis wife's wet
pocket. pulled out somewhat ple-
thoric purse, and. with Infinite relief.
said There. old woman. the next
tame Won unable overheard Just leave
that purse behind, will you? You
scared nIe most to death ?"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12
COMPREHENSIVE.

r Co-partnership IN thc practice Of med
- sine hes been gprufdhefween fif speer-
signed, nhirh dates frosn ihe - 81 y r.,
1854. Once In flsr room adioining he new
DrngSiorx Of llassy spaidAn !.
4. JACK SpA1 biNG,
CHARLES c0NH<,
1aB !. ise7
Jas 5. 1sez-lg.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

B@~ You advertise that there is
q tine stream Of water on the place,
bat don { see il, remarked the
. ranges who waatedto rent the place.
The landlord said Just work that
pump handle a little and you will
see fine stream of water. You don t
expect to have she Niagara Falls on
the place for fifteen dollars q month.
do sou r
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

M The following occurred in :
a San firaneisco court Have Won =
asked the Judge Of a recentlv com
yIcsed man, anything to otter the
court before the sentence S passed y.
No. your Honor repIied the nr;s-
oner, my sawyer took my last cent.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

IHk fntTAIc BRLT Co., Marshall. MIrh.
VII send IN. Dygs CELERaArED EERcrno.
v0lrAIc Bxlrs Axn EErcrnIc Apr,sa -. -
trial IaF lhiris DAYS 10 men fvounsr a. IA
who are afflicted with Nervous fleh;I;,w -,
Vitality and Manhood, nna kindred trsnblee
guaranteeing speedyand complete rszlor..lion
- healih aud Iaanly siaor. Address - .,iorr
~ b:--No risk i Inearred, as thirty DAYS,
trial isallowed
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

SRA pr aanen; resto: . ion Of ex-
haslsied anu worn-oa1 functions follow
the use Of Browns Iron Ritlsrs.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

pSr A true friend to the weak and
consaleseent is Brown Iron Bitters.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-12

Persons indebted 70 the late firm a Kline 4
YATES are nolilles. that the bills 81 their indshs
E.sness hsFe lress placed is hands q Jnse,,ll
ryan, Attorney, LeonaFdiown, for collier
uun. Pronpl settlements will fherrlors avoid
costs.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
INSECTS As rALKERs.

"Two ants" says Buchner, "when
they are talking together, stand with
their heads opposite to each other, work
ing their sensitive feelers in the liveliest
manner, and tapping each others head"
Numerous examples prove that they are
able in this way to make mutual commu-
nications and even on definite subjects.
az have often, says tho English nstur-
alist Jesse, "placed o small green cater
pillar IN the neighborhood of an ants
nest. II is immediately seized by an
ant, which calls in the assistance Of
friend after Intellectual efforts to drag
the caterpillar into the nest. II can be
easily seen that the little creatures hold
conversation by means OF their feelers,
and this being ended they repair together
to the caterpillar in order TO draw it into
the nest by their united strength.
Further, have observed the meeting Of
ants on their way 10 and from their
nests. They stop, touch each other with
their feelers, and appear to hold con-
versation, which, have good reason to
suppose, refers 10 the best ground for
food" Hague writes letter to Darwin
that he one day killed with his fingers
number Of ants that eame every dayfron'
hole in the wall to some plants stand
Ing on the chimney piece. He had tried
the effect of brushing them away, but IL
was Of no use, and the consequence Of
the slaughter was that the ants who
we're on their way Immediately turned
back and tried to persuade their COM
panions, who were not yet aware of the
danger, to turn back also. A short con-
versation ensued between tho ants,
which, however, did not result In an i'm
mediate return, for those who had just
left the nest convinced themselves of the
truth of the report.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
THE Ht,oDs CRAZE.
Curious Eject Y kessag BosA the Mind and
Bo<vsp the Forest


Curious Effect 4 xessag Both the MIND and
Bo<Bssp the Forest
The guides fhrongh the great wilder
ness Of the Southern Alleghenies have
much to say a what they call the
"wocd craze. !" Ihe most expert hunter,
they declare. isalisble to become sud-
denly bewilder6d in the interminable
forests, and once having lost his reckon
ing is seized Win = kind Of frenzy.
HENRI. roEue foSy f-s4-----.'s s--A ;ns
rus relation TO travellers through the
mountains Of West Virginia. .'The
moss experienced woodsmen, he writes,
"are subject to these injuries; the argu-
ments Of companions; the position of
the sun observations of known land
marks, fail to convince them Of their
whereabouts. They simply are lost in
mind as well as in body" Old woods
men usually recover in short time, but
men unused to the vast wilderness have
been known in their madness to fly atsight
Of parties sent torescue them, and to bury
themselves in the tbickets, where they
starve to death. Catlin was told by the
Indians that q man lost on the prairie
invariably travels in circle, moving to
the left An old hunter who lived
nearly a century ago in Western Vir.
ginia, aud left an autobiography behind
him, full of adventure and keen obser-
vations, tells us of q madness which
seizes the hunter after long pursuit of
his prey, and which he calls the "deer
fever" III have gone for two days and
nights through the deep snow, stripped
to my hunting shirt and absolutely with
out food" he says, "and neither felt
cold nor hunger. I was burning in
wardly, and, as everybody knows, man
never cares to eat when fever is upon
him, and is stronger then than at any
other time"
These random facts are worth noting,
as they really index important truths in
the science of the mind and its ailments.
The rancheros of New Mexico, and the
cowboys Of Arizona have come curious
traditions and customs, which are found
ed upon natdral laws that are but little
understood. One of these is their be-
lief that isolated cattle can and do find
their way to their birthplace across the
plains if released after journey OF hum
dreds Of miles upon railroad train.
This IL, sfter rxii, ,1c-rsore Singular than
the coming back Of ffsh to spawn in their
native waters, phenomenon which oc-
ours every year. They return even as
far as from the Gulf of Mexico, to some
obscure little stream in Kentucky. -
Youths COmpanion.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
a MEAN ADvAsrAes.

In the flush days of petroleum, when
thousands Of gallons Of the stuff went
bubbling down the creeks because there
was no storage for il, q stingy old Pi.hol-
er who had been drilling away for
months suddenly tapped reservoir and
out came the oil at the rate of 200 bar
rels an hour. He had provided six emp
ty barrels for such contingency, and
when these had been filled the dark
liquid cut its way down the hillside in o
rearing torrent. No one had tanks or
barrels to spare, and the old man could
only tear his hair as he stood by and
realized that fortune was oozing away
from him. In the midst OF his despair
he noticed stranger fillinga pint bottle
from the rushing stream. Hold on
hold on, there |" he yelled, as he ran
down the hill--"this oilbelongs to me |"
IS fes, know, !" replied the other, "but
where thousand barrels are going to
waste, you can spare me q pint, can't
your" III suppose lean T. groaned
the old man, "but want you to under
stand that it's taking mighty mean
advantage of my misfortunes Don't
fill the bottle and grease your boots,
t.,of"
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
APPLES As FOOD.

From the earliest ages apples have
been in use for the table as q dessert.
The historian Pliny tells us that the
Romans cultivated twenty-five varieties
of the apple. In these latter days we
probably possess over 1000. As an
article of food they rank with the potato.
and, on account of the variety of ways in
which they may be served, they are far
preferable to the taste of many persons /;
and, if families would only substitute
ripe, luscious apples for pies, cakes,
candies and preserved fruit, there would
be much less sickness among the child
ren, and the saving of this one item
alone would purchase many barrels Of
apples.
They have one excellent effect upon
the whole physical system, feeding the
brain as well as adding to the flesh, and
keeping the blood pure also preventing
constipation, and correcting tendency
to aeidity, which produces rheumatism
and neuralgia. They will cool off the
feverish condition of the system; in
fact, they are far better for these pur-
poses than the many nostrums which
are highly praised in the advertisements,
and are so constantly purchased by
sufferers. A ripe raw apple is digested
in an hour and half, while boiled
potato takes twice the time
While apples can be purchased at
cheap rates every family should keep q
dish of them in the dining room, where
the children can have access to them and
eat all they please. They will rarely re-
ceiye any injury from them if they are
thoroughly masticated. Baked apples
should be as constant dish upon the
table as potatoes. Every breakfast and
tea table should have plate Of them.
Baked sweet apples are a very pleasant
addition to saucer Of oatmeal pudding,
and, when served with sweet cream,
they are very appetizing.
They are not SO commonly used as
they should be, as they will supply as
much muscular and nervous support as
dishes of meat and vegetables. Thou.
sands of bushels'of sour apples are used
for pies and buildings in hundreds Of
| families where well-baked sweet apples
would prove more nourishing food and
much more economical. They are also
good food for old people, aud are usual
| ly greatly relished by them. In my own
family they are always, when il season,
part of the meals Of the day, and are
as commonly used rs slice Of bread
Country Gentleman.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30

Of Land once, G. @. Miller Attorney 0suegal
]. Nichols Superin endent of Public IDstzuc-
tion. +. L. Ford. The bolters also pointed 9
State Central Committee, with Ben Colvin, OF
Saginaw, as Chairman.
TEXAS REPUDLICANA
The Texas Republican state Convention met
at Austin, and effected . permanent orgsniss-
ton by the election Of J. G. Tracy, one OF the
3O6, Chairman, without dissenting vota a
platform was adopted pledging tho support OF
the party In Texas at the approaching election
to the candidates who come before tho peopsS
for suffrage purely 90 independents, free froEz
party nominations or other forms OF causus
diciatioi, and who agree 10 support broad.
liberal and generous policy, emeraoing frse
school education ten months In the year. freo
ballot and fair count revision OF the jury Lawn,
so that jurors shall be drawn imparttslly, the
sale OF school lands 10 actual settlers only ana
In parcels not exceeding $40 acres, and provis-
ions for working couvicts within tho walls.
Resolutions were adopted OF confidence IN ex-
Gov. J. +. Davis. indorsing the admins ration
OF President Arthur and the platform adopted
by the last Republican National Convention. "A
resolution was adopted that the convention
movement, giving its entire aid and vote to the
Hon. @. W.. Jones for Governor. The last
proposition drew forth rounds OF applause.
KANSAS oREEsBkcKKKA
The Greenback State Convention convene q
at Topeka and organized by the election Of p.
H. Elder President, and W. J. A. Montgomery
Secretary. A series OF resolutions rea6irming
the National platform ct Chicago OF 1850 WAS
adopted, adding thereto the platform IN the
same or similar shape as adopted By the Ma
tional Executive Committee at st. Louis last
Tfacas. ie ussids iss sSoss ci..ses.... ss- e:
lowing:
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
maybe We ought to have some weevil for

maybe we ought TO have some weevil for
that pig"
81 don't know where you're going to
plant ii" said Mrs. Spoopendyke, "un-
less it viii grow with buckwheat or
onions. You can't put it in with the
cabbage, because the pig and hen would
fight"
"Do you know what weevil is ?" de-
manded Mr.. Spoopendyke, glaring at
his wife. SCOT notion that it's some
kind Of weed for the pig to smoke.
haven't yen. & Imagine ~ siisa~ay~ I'D
/ P"fsf win q monogram, for him to
write ON, don't you? Well, it isn't
either one, nor it isn't swallow.tail
coat, or o plug hat for him to go to
church in either You don't plant
weevil, Mrs. Spoopendyke, any more
than you do soap, or clothes-pins, or
stair rods. You buy it in barrels and
I'll order some"
81 think we ought to have some lace
curtains for the front windows" sug-
gested Mrs. Sroopendyke, anxious to
change the conversation.
"Yes, and We want folding bedstead
for the COW, and we've got 10 have now
armchair for the pig, and I'm afraid
those cabbages won't do well without a
wet nurse squealed Mr.. Spoopendyke.
81 suppose I've got to hire a man to
see that the meadow hens don't 60 q
fishing on Sundays, and upset your re-
Hgious notions. o! you are farmers
wife, you are If I had time to write
an index to you, and get some dod.
gasted binder to fit you up with fly
leaf, you'd make a whole agricultural
report 4"
And Mr.. Spoopendyke shot into the
house and to bed, while his wife, having
put all the oil lamps into buckets Of
water, SO they couldn't explode during
the night. fell asleep dreaming that the
cabbage patch had eloped with the on
ions, while tho COW and pig had died Of
weevil, and the windmill had abandoned
agricultural pursuits and started off
through Ohio. -Bcooklyn Eagle.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
n FEW CALM Words.

Matrimonially inclined people should
listen to the sober words of Bill Nye
who breaches to them as follows: "a
London paper tells how, when q certain
dean of Chester was already to perform
a marriage between persons of high
standing, the bride was very late. When
she reached the altar, to the question,
wilt thou take this man?' she replied
in most distinct tones, Il will not On
retiring with the dean to the vestry, she
explained that her late arrival was not
her fault, and that the bridegroom had
accosted her on her arrival at the church
with - you, if this is the way
you begin, you'll find it's to your cost
when you're my wife,
"That was no way to open up hon.
eymoon. They are not doing that way
recently, and in the bon-ton and disha.
bile select and electra society of the
more metropolitan cities such remark
would at once be considered as outre
and Corpus Christi.
The groom should stop to consider
that sometimes the most ann ,ying acci-
dents occur to a.young lady while dress
ing. Suppose, for instance. that in
STOPPING over to button her shoe she
breaks spoke in her corset, and has to
send it to the blacksmith shop, do you
think the groom is justified in kicking
over the altar and dragging his affianced
up the aisle by the hair OF the head
We would rather suggest that he would
not. There are other distressing acci-
dents which may happen at such time
TO the prospective bride, but we forbear
to enter into the narrowing details. No
man with the finer feelings of q gentle
man will ever knock his new wife
down in the church and tramp on her
until he knows 10 reasonable degree of
certainty that he is right. 1t may be
annoying, OF course, TO the groom to
stand and look out Of the window for
half an hour while the bride is alIaying
the hemorrhage Of pimple on her nose
with powder puff, but then, great HEM
lock II man can't endure that and
smile, how will he behave when the
clothesline falls down and The baby gets
O kernel of corn in its nose?
These are questions which naturally
occur 10 the candid aud thinking mind
and command our attention. The groom
who would swear at his wife for being Q
few moments late at tho altar, would kill
her and throw her stiffened remains ovel
into the sheep corral il she allowed the
twins to eat crackers in his bed and
scatter the crumbs over his couch.
Let us look these matters calmly in
the face and not allow ourselves 10 drift
away into space.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
miles high. Or il would cover the whole
of the United States and Territories
Except Alaska), with solid block OF
salt one mile thick
PLAIN COOKING.
The Bottled Potato sn rs Relation 20 Modern
Civilization.

The Bottled Potato fa It's Relation 20 Modern
Civilization.
From the London Telegraph
Oflate years the company of Cooks
and Pastelers," like many other of the
city guilds, have done excellent service
-s0'sssv ruuasaonssy $50 s.1E0 t,y q s~satiDB,
from the nnpie iunds at their disposal,
liberal donations in aid of the cause Of
technical education. Ii particular, the
company Incorporated by Edward Nv.
have made the National Training School
of Cookery an object of their generosity,
and it is most gratifying to learn that
more than one hundred girls from the
ward schools of the city Of London have
received, at the cost and charges of the
Cooks Company, an elementary course
OF tuition in cooking at the institution at
South Kensington, and that the COM
pany are still actively engaged in pro-
noting this useful branch Of education.
In England it would seem as though we
had an idea that the French have ga
genius for cookery" II wouldbe nearer
the mark to say that they have genius
for teaching youths to cook, just as they
have genius for teaching them to draw
well. The National School of Cookery
has already done some service, and it is
to be hoped that the material support Of
the public will enable the South Ken.
sington undertaking to be yet more
helpful in the direction of culinary
teaching but it is idle to hope for any
appreciable amount of cookery reform
until we abandon the ridiculous and
mischievous folly of lauding the virtues
of "plAin cooking" and placing the
boiling of potato at the head Of desid-
erata in culinary education. "Plain
cooking" means, in the vast majority of
instances, plain barbarism and the
famous "boiled potato" has been at the
bottom Of halt the savagery of the Irish
and half the stupid stolidity of the En-.
glish peasantry. The poor mans wife
ought to be able to make stew, and
properly to prepare asucculent stew, the
ingredients of which need not cost sc
much as sixpence, demands as thorough.
ly practical training ~ il requisite fol
The makine Of the Scostliest ragout.
Until we leave off prating about "plain
cooking" and the intolerable "bciled
potato" we shall continue, nationally, to
labor under the reproach of possessing
the largest number of the very worst
cooks in the world.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
BREVITY IN [" ADS"

The New York Sun says The ad-
vertlsing columns of widely circulated
newspaper are printed in language
peculiar to themselves. 1t embraces the
technical phrases of every calling known
to man, and is more condensed even
than communications by telegraph for
while in telegram words are econo-
mized, in an advertisement even the
space the words occupy, after they have
been pruned to the finest point, is
closely limited. In the " Help Wanted"
columns, for instance, an advertiser
seeking skilled operators on Wheeler g.
Wilson's sewing machines advertised for
Experienced W. & w. operators" The
same sense Of saving prompted the man
who wrote Wanted-Boy to kick
Gordon and make himself useful"
Gordon means Gordon job printing
press, and kicking being the technical
term for working the treadle Of the press
with the feet of the operator. The no.
tice in the same column of "a Peerless
feeder wanted" indicates the sort Of
press that is to be fed with blank sheets
of paper, and not any desire on the
advertisers part to get person of un-
precedentea appetite. IN spite Of the
saving, the sense is quite clear, rs in the
demands for experienced female hands
on clocks, burial robe hands, "bead
hands on laces." "paper boxes--gue
hands," "scaif hands," and "shoe
salesman, apply" etc. Less apparent
is the meaning Of the call for "boy in
salt store to fill small pockets" or the
demand for "two BUFFERS" "hands on
picquets," "yardman at hotel" "a
rubber-in." "man to rough tune and
chip up" and ga castor place servitor,"
or ga young girl improver." The sd-
vertisement for a girl Ito sew and paste
white hairs in furs" is, on the other
hand, too plain, and seems to betray q
trade secret. Gallantry is . marked
characteristic in the columns Of Help
wanted-females," where the old
fashioned word woman is dropped and
la,iy substituted in offers for foreladies,
salesladies, lady canvassers and lady
cashiers. "a boy as dishwasher is
asked for in one advertisement, and in
another, calling for o horseshoer, the
caution is added: "No society man need
apply"
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30
ErsslSe soso ON rHr rrAsrArrov:.



De nighttime comm an de daylight scootin,:
De jew-drsps fslin am de big owl hootin,.
You kin soon rec de bright stars fallin an,
An hear de old huntin,horn BLOWN, an, s.toot,n,,
Oh i de seeen Stars giitin' up higher an higher,
De supper-time comm higher an higher:
Gwtne to cote Miss Dinsh by de hickry nre
An roas dem taters while I setin' down by her.
Dc eatb.rd happy when DE cherries gitt,r' re6der.
De sheep mighty ihely when he grain I'm de poedd.r
But de Niger an bis little gal setin down touedaer
Jes' happy as cricket in de sunshiny wedder!
RErRAIS.- III o, Miss nah,
Listen TO dc song
Hi o, Miss Dlnah,
I's comm straight erlonei
iii o, Miss Dinah,
6wine to see you little later -
10, Miss Dlnah,
Gwine to help you peel dat taterl
The Century
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30

HYMN For A LITTLE CHyLp.

God make my life Little light,
Within the word TO glow.
little flame that burneh brigh',
Wherever may go.
God make my life little flower,
Tha, giye'h joy to al,
Content to bloom in native bower
though it, place lie small.
God make my life l.,t c ,ong,
That comforteth thetad;
That helreth other, TO be strong,
And makes The singer & ad.
God nAss -: 49,: i.. .s- : :..:.s: ..., -, q.
Whercolths weak may rst
That so what he,lih and strength have
May serve my neighb rs best.
God nske my life little hymn,
OF tenderne,s aud p, aise:
OF faith that never wsxsth dim,
In all II wondraus WAYS
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30

A WELL KNOWN journalist recently
embodied in his editorial on one of the
issues of the day a quotation, introduc-
ing it in this manner: Gas certain
good writer once said, etc. When his
wife read the article she asked, "Who
is this good writer you refer tor" The
editor hesitated moment, then mod
estly replied, "Myself. ."-Ne,o York
Commercial Advertiser.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1882-08-30

MEN lose some Of their talents as they
grow older. You never saw boy in q
scrape but he could give plausible ex-
cuse for his course, but a man often
finds himself stumped for an explana-
tiou