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How TO TEsr SkED.-when you
want new seed peas. put one from the
stock into your mouth and bite it. II
it is very hard, it is more than one
year old. II the teeth enter it with
moderate ease, il is new seed. New
carrot seed always has green shade
on it. Old seed loses this, and is of
dead pale brown, aud less fragrant.
New parsnip has q shade of green.
which it loses If more than one year
old. Onion seed is more difficult TO
prove than most other seeds, but il
you take q single seed at time and
carefully bite il. you viii find that old
seed has tough, dry skin. with very
white and harsh kernel, while new
seeds has 4 more tender. moist skin,
and the kernel possesses a greater de-
gree Of moisture and somewhat oily.
Tie seed may be cut with a penknife
instead of bitten. Onion seed that
has no vitality at ell has no kernel,
or one perfectly dry. Test this by
pressing the seed on a piece Of white
writing paper. If it leaves no mois.
ture on the paper it is of no use, and
has been tampered with or-has lost its
vitality by age. New cabbage or broc
coli seed possesses q pale green shade
in the kernel when pressed out or cut.
and tinge in the brown skin also.
But old seed loses this in proportion
to its age. becoming Of dull dark
brown. Cabbage, broccoli. kales, etc,
will retain their vitality longer than
any other seeds, and will grow we'll
when three years old. or even six years,
if well kept. Beet seed has faint
tinge of pale green if new. but it is
dull brown if old, and it's vitality is
very doubtful if old.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

] bore dead Love unto his grave,
Beneath q willow, In winters EaiR,
Where he might feel the branches wave,
And hear me II he woke again.
One withered rose tree on his tomb
! planted, so that, by and by,
II he should wake, the rose might bloom,
And should know, and hear him cry.
j decked his breast with rosemary,
Laid on his lips one violet,
That once he kissed: think ifhe
Should wake he will not quite forget
/ set a crown about his brow,
The crown affection weAyes and wears:
At waking, he will hardly know,
fear, whose diadein he shares.
placei-a lily in his hand
Sceptre Of his dead sovereignty.
At waking, will he understand
WhO placed il there, to bloom or die {.
laid my heart, that for his sake
Remembers now nosOid sweet strain.
Close 10 his car; he, if he wake,
Perchance may tune its strings again
II he should wake Til death be dead.
I'LL life begin, and sleep be past,
Till ON his breast lie lay thy head,
And flowers begin TO bloom at last
o soul, remember, Lest by thee
That unknown sweetness be forgot
Which now thou lOOkest for, and ne
Bid thee depart: know thee not"
-!Std'fy IL. Thompson az Chambers JourRaL
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

EARLY CHIcKENs.-The greatest
profit in poultry keeping is from the
early chickens. BY good feeding and
management. some Of the hens may
be brooding in January, and all the
chicks may be saved by the use of
artificial brooders. Incubators are
used by experts with success, but farm
ers and ordinary poultry keepers are
rarely successful with these machines.
Breeders, however, may be used by
any person even boy or girl. who
will simply see that the heat IL not
excessive. and when the chicks open
their mouths. give them fresh air.
Eighty degrees 10 quite enough warmth
for newly Matched chicks which are
taken from the nest a. they came out,
and are placed in the broodsr until
all the brood 10 out, when they may
be removed to Q warm, glazed coop.
with the hen. We have had young
chicks thus nursed. until they were
strong. which rau about 10 the snow
in February with great pleasure and
comfort. and not oas was lost out Of
. lot Of ninety. which were all Matched
10 January. All that is required 10
to have q warm part Of the building
a. attic.room for the setting hers.
and glazed coops set in a sunny place
out Of doors for the chicks when they
came from the broodsr.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

DEATH VALLEY" The Death
Valley" in Inyo county, CAL, owes
its name partly to its frightfully des.
olate character. being for the most
part destitute of everything necessary
to support life. and partly in the num-
ber of persons and animals that per-
ished there. The valley is 100 miles
long BY twenty miles wide. though
only about forty miles in length and
eight or ten in width is embraced with
Inyo county. In 1852 large party
of emigrants perished from thirst
within its limits. Its level is from
100 to 400 feet below the sea, giving
it greater depression than the Cas-.
plan, and nearly as great as that OF
the Dead sea. It is probably the bed
of former lake, the waters of which
were strongly charged with salt and
soda. For forty-6ve miles in length
and fifteen in depth along its center,
it is a salt marsh, in which the Amar.
ga (or Bitter river sinks, and where
q thin layer of soil covers an unknown
depth of mud. For miles there is no
water fit to drink, and although springs
are numerous, they are intensely al.
kalins. An exploring party in 1866
found the temperaturs'in January
the coolest msnth Of the year-as
high as ninety degrees Fahrenheit.
When there is no breeze through the
long canon the air becomes so dense
that respiration is painful and diff
cult. During the spring terrible gales
of wind 6ll the air with salt, gravel
and sand, in clouds as black as coal
smoke.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

A WONDERFUL MATHEMATIcIAN.-
A Kentuckian prodigy, Reuben Field
BY name, has but one developed facul-
ty, this one seeming to take entire pos
session ofhim, driving allotherthoughts
from his mind. In early infancy he
was apparently much as other chill.
dren, but in extreme youth he devel.
opsd wonderful precocity, or rather
. supernatural endowment for math.
smatics, even then solving difficult
problems with apparent ease and with
but little study. This became a
mania with him. and grew as hs grew,
to the exclusion OF other branches oi
thought, until finally, witheut know.
ing a single figure or letter Of the
alphabet, he became the perfect mas.
ter of the science of mathematics
He has been tested by the most scien.
tifc men OF this profession, and the
answers Of the most difficult problsmi
that they have been able to PROFOUND
are at his fingers ends. the invariably
correct solution being given in ar
instant, quicker than thooght. As as
instance Of his remarkable powers b.
hAs been known to keep more than
dozen Of clerks busy in taking invoic,
OF q stock Of scods Indeed, hi
knowledge and application OF the sci
encs Of mathematics far exceed any
thing that the most scientific men ar,
able to comprehend. Another phs
nominal characteristics ef this man i
that he can tell you. without hesita
ton, precisely what time is il, to
second. eithsr day or aight. Awak.
sned from the scundsst slssp, he car
tell you precisely what time It L
What Blind Tom 10 % music Rsubs,
Field 10 to mathematics, and, liz,
that illustrious idiot, this one hrancl
absofhs his satlfs msstal sApssity.
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TROT'S MOTHER.

We'll, my boy. I'll try and tel
you all about it from the beginning
Help yourself to a cigar first, anc
pass the box to me. ! knew YOU woulC
want to hear the particulars and /
/ have been trying to put off the evi
moment. I'm getting an old mar
now, Harry, and all this shook me &
good deal at the time.
Come here, Trot, and sit on my
knee. There, that's better. Seems
odd, Harry. don't it, to see an old
bachelor like me nursing tiny bit Of
a girl like Trot? How the time flies
You see my dear lad, you ought tc
have told her before YOU went away
She never guessed you thought of hel
in that way. 1t might have saved
her-who knows?
ut must have been nine years since
your Uncle Will died and left Violet
in my care. She was only Is then.
Don't YOU think Trot is very like her
The same brown eyes and long lashes,
the same loving little ways.
She came to me one morning soon
after you started for China, with a
letter in her hand.
Look here, uncle, she said, kneel.
ing beside me, and holding the note
where could read; it's from the
Colds, and they invite me to go and
stay with them at Ventnor. MAY
accept"
do You want to go, Violet
asked.
"Of course l DO, she answered
laughing. We are so quiet here at
home, and this would be such a de.
lightful change. Please let me, uncle
I'll write you long letters, and tell
you about everything"
Il did not want to part with hel
even for little time, for the three
years she had been with me then had
made my life quite different matter
but it seemed selfish to keep the
bright, merry girl always shut up
with crusty, old man. l gave hel
leave to 60, and then, when after a
fortnight she wrote begging to be al
lowed to stay longer, as her friends
wished, had not the heart to refuse.
She was there FIVE weeks and then
she came home.
The very dav after her return be
came-that contemplate scoundrsl
whom in those few weeks she had
learned to regard a. . hero. How he
found out at first that she had little
fortune Of her own don't know. Hs
asked for me. and told me that bs
wanted my permission to address my
niece.
He was a good-lOOking young fel
low, and had frank. open manner
that was sure TO win a girls favor
but thought Of you, Harry, and de-
termined to prevent the matter goinf
further If I could. I took a stron.
and apparently unreasonable dislik,
to him and made many inquiries
hoping to and out something tha
would justify me in forbiading hin
the house, but entirely in vain. Bu
! studied; observed every little act o.
word. until at last ! was eonviaesG
that ! knew him through, and that b,
was no ct husband for my little Vic
let.
by this time it had become q kin,
OF taeit engagement, and knew
should sssm almost brutal for inter
fsring, but couldn't bear the idea Q
giving Violet into his care. I vows,
to myself that nothing on earth shoul,
induce me to do so, and told him t
discontinue his visits.
HTka ~as,,ik - Al .k s.a. a.. L.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

u. There are two forms Of chronic
rheumatism: one 10 which the joints
are swollen and red without fever, and
the appetite and digestion good, in
the other the joints are neither red
nor swollen, but only stiff and painful.
In either form Salvation Oil may Be
relied On to effect . cure. Il kills
pain. Price IS cents o bottle.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

have forgiven her 4 Harry hns
it was a cruel blou 1|ker Al my
love and care ! a ~ think che
could have left me nz 80
why, Trot. you qnits fright
ened I'm not cros1 PET "a
"Yes, yes. my 81 = sci6g on !;
but you are 20 imp Vel. soms-
time after-year = ID ysan, spss-
haps. can t remsn exactly-I was
coming home at dusk ~ The Strand,
think it was. I msfe woman in !
shabby black drsss. nilh child on
hsr an - ~ s>s .nd then
somehow or other We we're The centre
of crowd, and | was raising yiolet's
head from the hard pavement. She
had tainted on seeing me, aud had
just contrived to save her and the lit
tie one from a severe fall.
Il brought her home, in a cab, and
my housekeeper helped her into bed.
Harry, she was next door to starva-
tion- when that accidental meeting
gave her back to me-for only three
days. l was too late to save her.
"'You have forgiven me ? she asked
that evening, as sat by her bed.
al forgave you, my child, long
since, but not him who has brought
you to this. Where is hep
Dead, said the poor girl in a
faint whisper. Don't speak i'll of him
Il can't bear it.
II asked her why she had not let
me know she was in distress-why
she had not come home.
az was ashamed tocome, she said
1 knew you would not turn from me,
but l was too much ashamed
The next day but one the doctor
told me what to expect. I promised
the poor child that Trot should take
her place with me. l held the little
one for her to kiss, and had it taken
away; and then
"'Trot, my darling, run up stairs
to nurse for a while; I'll call you
down again by an by
And then, as I said, Violet bade
me good-by. Her lest .xords2 They
were: Give my love to oHarry.'
These incessant fogs have a very
hard effect on my throat. l can't
talk for any length of time without
getting like l did just now, so that
| can't croak ont a word.
There isn't much more to tell,
fortunately, for I'm getting as hoarse
as a raven.
Il was out with Trot by my side,
one day last autumn, when l came
upon some one who / thought had
gone to join the majority. He was
walking with pretty, stylish-looking
girl, chatting and laughing. but when
he saw me, his smile died on his lips
and the blood few to his face.
His gaze dwelt for an instant on
the child whose hand / held. He
knew those brown eyes and long
lashes, and he saw the black frock.
There, that is all, Harry. / read
your thohg hts You must not Leave
him to heaven. Promise me, boy
for her sake"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

nA.It takes over one hundred pairs
OF gloves to assuaiys the grief Of the
Brooklyn okcials over the death Of
"a alderman. whose life might have
bsen saysd by . sissls bottle Of De.
Bale csuah sysup.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-11

A.Nrs. Samrslson 10 the mother.
in.law Of Gilheoly. The last tins
they met she said. rsproaehfally:
You haven't been to zee me in Q long
time I have been intending to pay
you Q visit for some time, bat you
know the provssb, The road to per.
ditien is paved with good intentions.
replied the wretch.
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NEW GOODS!
NEW STORE +!

THE firm formerly known rs Mrs. Blain q
Jones has mutually dissolved partnership
and will now be recognized as
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q. The beat remedy for Irsonnia
10 20. asaisys Celery, 1ssf Aaa Ifsn.
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Mrs. 4. a. JONES &lC0.

Thanking our patrons for past favors, We
solicit continuance of the same. We as
sure the public that our best efforts shall be
made 70 keep handsome and fashionable
assortment of all
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BOOTS AND SHOES.
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Reid's Dining Rooms
Ns. Q MeClsllan's AIlsy,

Near Baltimore St.,
Serves Regular Dinners ss IS eeatA
Makes q spsciaity ofths finest steamed Oys-
TIRs n ths city. Gentlemen Stopping af
RETn's can find meals af al houys The
BAR ts stocked with the best winss and el.
Rars that the maket can afford.
July 70, es-eMt
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The Pictures of England.
Goldwin Smith in Macmillan's Masasin.

Goodwin Smith in Macmillan's Magazine.
do not know whether rural Eng
land grows more beautiful or whether
it Is that one is more struck with it's
beauty every time one returns to it
from newly settled land OF promise.
with its raw look of recent clearance,
with its denuded fields, its stumps, its
snake fences instead of hedge rows
with trees, its unpicturesque though
thrifty looking homesteads, its hori.
zon fringed with the gaunt trunks Oh
pines blackened by the forest fire, it's
landscape which by the absence of fin
ish shows that no labor has as yet
been spared for anything but the alb
solutely useful. Surely this English
union OF the highest cultivation and
the trimness produced by the outlay
OF vast wealth on O. small area, with
the sylvan character maintained by
theinterspersion OF parks and pleasure
grounds, the reservation of which the
same wealth has permitted, as we'll as
by the hedge row trees; this conjunc-
tion OF all the similar evidences of
present prosperity with the gray
church towers and immemorial oaks
OF the past; and the richness of this
landscape, presents charming view
from almost any rising ground, having
nothing equal to them in their kind.
There must be many lands more ro-
mantle, there can hardly be one SO
lovely. In America the dwellings of
the people looks like structures, and
are Indicative only of present prosper
ity; here they look like growths, and
| are suggestive OF a history. In Ameri-
ca you see from the windows of the
railway carriages at nearly equal dis
tances the nearly equal homesteads
OF the agricultural democracy; for,
there being no such thing as acountry
gentleman, and little use of hired la
Dor, there are no mansions and few
cottages. Here we have have the va
riety OF hall, farm and cottage, which
| is unquestionably more interesting,
though perhaps not economically SO
wholesome. Yet one can not help
thinking that alife outwardly SO beau
tiful must inwardly be pretty healthy,
if the different members of the rural
community do their duty. There are
flowers the symbols of cheerfulness, on
the walls and in the garden OF the cot
et1ScS tS NclL us Oh GIle Willis anu III Inc
garden OF the hall. Over this landscape
and life redical agrarian reformers pro-
pose to drive the plow. II they are to
nave their way, one is glad to have
had one more look Ii England in
general looks more lovely every time
one sees it, less lovely, it must be con-
fessed, every time one sees it, looks
manufacturing England, with its fir
mament OF smoke, it's soil devoid Of
verdure, its polluted streams, it's build-
ings and chimneys supreme in hideous-
ness, its dreary lines ofdingy cottages,
it's SCOT and CRIME, it's distracting dir,
its myriads spending their lives in the
monotonous toll in which they have
no more interest than the other part
OF the machinery, its employment of
women in factory labor, which must
be hurtftIl both to home and to the
| health of the race, make what factory
acts you will.
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edged some small debts, which the
other totally repudiated. The chill,
dren had no explanation to offer, as
the true father had never exhibited
any affection for them. The stranger
had been more kind, and no sus.
picion OF his identity had been
born. The wife was covered with
confusion, but she offered in explana.
ton the fact that Weston had been
absent five months. She had noticed
many changes, but all for the better.
The stranger was not talkative man,
while her husband was, but she GOT
over this by thinking he had met with
trouble while away. She used some,
times to be startled for moment as
she looked at him, or as he PROFOUND,
ed some question which would hav
been asked by stranger, but as iol
denying that he was her husband, she
had never thought of it One day ait.
er her fathers family had been to the
house, her mother said
"Lucy, there is something queer
about Hi. He's either got some
trouble on his mind or else he's going
insane. Didn't you hear him ask
"hSii WI oepiA IL pOlH VI
you were not sleeping in our house
that night and he did not discover the
blaze iirst?'
Who was the second Hiram Weston,
or the man who assumed the name?
The real one was a founding from New
York city. 1t was not improbable
that he had a twin brother and that
the stranger was the one. 1t was pos
sibe, too, that the stranger was not
related to him, though his double.
Why he went away as he did was a
further mystery, for he could not
have foreseen that anything was
to happen, But for the evidence in
black and white people would have
believed him a ghost. The writer has
no further theories to offer. He has
known Hiram Weston and family ever
since the strange happenings, and Wis
tied them at the depot in St. Thomas
less than q month ago. The particu-
lass herein given, strange as they may
read, We're gathered from their own
lips, and who can imagine they would
invent such a story2 | have simply
suppressed the right name, as Weston
is now a resident of another locality,
and in place to make gossip an un-
pleasant thing.
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Hygiene of Old Age.

The teeth in old age are, OF course,
lost, and they should, unless, under
exceptional circumstances, be replaced
by artificial teeth, for the thorough
chewing of food is even more necessary
in the old than in the young, because
in the old the digestive powers are apt
to fail. With the best Artificial teeth
mastication is apt to be imperfectly
performed; hence the food OF the aged
should be soft and readily comminut-
ed, and especially should it be of easy
digestion. Very few old people need
stimulating diet; very many are injnr-
ed by an excess OF nitrogenous food.
The kidneys, like all other organs, are
feeble, and if meats and other rich
foods are used in excess, they greatly
increase the strain upon these organs.
Milk and milk products or prepare
tions of breadstuffs cooked with milk
should form a very large proportion of
the food of the ordinary aged individ-
ual but individual peculiarities differ so
much that personal medical counsel
should in all cases be taken SO that
the diet may be regulated to the
needs of the individual case. Very
many old people are hurt by the use
OF food in excessive quantity; but lit
tie exercise can be taken, all growth
has ceased, and the bodily furnaces
which make heat are able to destroy
but very little of food fuel. Some lit
tie time since / had occasion to lecture
on this subject at the Philadelphia
Hospital, and an assertion that 7
then made that most old people are
more comfortable, enjoy better health
and probably live longer for the use OF
wine, has met with very severe disap-
probation at the hands of some ofthe
profession, whose strong sympathy
with the temperance movement domi.
mates their Judgment. No valid rea-
sons have, however, SO far as my judg-
ment goes, been brought forward
to lead me to change my
opinion. In the overfed Ameri-
can people the habitual use of wine
during youthful or middle aye and
vigorous health is, we think, an injury
rather than r good; but when the
powers Of life are failing when diges-
ton is weak, and the multitudinous
small ills OF feebleness perplex and an
noy, one or two glasses OF generous
wine at dinner aid digestion. quiet for
the time being much nervous irritation,
and in no way do harm. The sum
total OF ruin wrought by alcohol in
the world is appalling, but it is not
lessened by our shutting our eyes to
the good that wine properly used may
achieve. When in the aged there is
a distinct failure of vital power, and
especially of digestive power, the call
for the habitual use of alcoholic
liquors is, in my opinion, imperative.
The danger of the formation OF any
evil habits when man has crossed
the line OF seventy is SO slight that the
most conscientious physician need
not hesitate in recommending the
daily use OF alcoholic beverages to his
patient.-Dr. H. c. Wood, in Annals
of Hygiene.