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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-06-14
Real Estate.

PARTIES wishing N sell farms, by furnish
ing the undersigned \ description, ct, Will
have the same ADVERTISED fr,-e sc charge.
We have made arrangements with several
Real Estate Agents for the sale Of lands in
over Maryland
MOORE q MORGAN
Leonardtown.
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DEMOCRATIC IN POLITICS.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING

Sl.OO per inch for the first insertion. and ~
cents for cic-y subsequent insertion, OMIT
uaricS, church festivals, etc, over ten lines
IN length will hc charged nj the rate If u
cents per inch \ liberal deduction made
I" those VIII" advertise by the year
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MISS {. s. MILBURN,

7l9 NORTH EUTAW STREET,
[OLD No. 1871
BALTIMORE, MD.
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Chi!freH's BHhc cts aud Caps,
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READY-MADE CLOTHING.

For mems, youths and boys wear.
have the finest, cheapest and nobbicst line
ever shown in my store. l am emphati-
cally headquarters for this trade.
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+. Oscar Morgan

Extend special invitation To his many
friends and customers 10 visit his STORE
and examine his large stock of Questionable
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10y thr real name at the author or no
attention Will hc paid a. them.
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SHOES and HATS.

My , new Fall styles arc in, and price
young men, old men and boys. 80
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
Inventions and TunneI-Digging.

Work upon the Mont Gents Tunnel
was begun in 1857, about two years
before De Lesseps commenced opera
tons in Egypt. The working parties
in the opposite headings, French and
Italian, met on Christmas day, 1870,
about a year after the inauguration of
the Suez Canal The st. Gothard
Tunnel was begun after the compile
headings met February 20, 1880. The
length of the Mont Gents Tunnel is
over seven and a half miles; that of
the St Gothard about nine and quar-
ter miles. These are the longest tun-
nels ever constructed.
The invention, by means of which
the progress of the work was facili-
tated, consists in the use of atmos-
pheric air as a motor. By means of
water power, air is reduced to one
sixth its ordinary bulk, and the ex-
pansive force thus acquired performs
the drilling. Owing to the conditions
under which tunneling is done, this
method is of signal advantage. Each
of the Alpine tunnels was excavated
through solid rock, so that blasting
'
vitiated the air, while the length of the
passage and the impossibility of sink
ing shafts made the ventilation cues
ton a vital one. Had the drills been
run by steam, the presence of steam
engines constantly generating smoke
and gas would have heated and witt
ated the air still further. By the new
invention the difficulty was met. The
air was compressed outside the tun-
mel, and conveyed into it by pipes.
Here double purpose was served; by
its expansion and liberation the air
ran the drills, and ventilated the tun-
mel. The invention which makes this
practicable is called the Sommeiller
machine, from the name of the chief
inventor. Stuart T. Yield in Popular
Science Monthly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
Fate of a MeGdIer.

Women who NEEDLE with every.
body else's business are to be Stunned
and feared. One of them was on the
Troy local yesterday afternoon. a
sprucely-dressed young man held in
his hand ayellow paper-covered book,
in which he seemed to be deeply in
terested. The woman sat in front OF
him, and. happening to turn to take in
the passengers, observed the cheap
literature which was engrossing the at
tention of the young man behind her.
In a pleading, insinuating voice she
said to him: Young man, don't you
know that you are wasting your time
very foolishly in reading dime novels?
You might better take book on his
tory with you or something else that
would benefit your mind and give YOU
an opportunity to improve" Reach.
ing her hand over the back of the seat.
she said very deliberately: Let
me look at that book" The Young
man, without relaxing single feature,
handed the book over to his aggressive
fellow-passenger. She turned it over
to read the title. It was as follows:
Easy Lessons in French for Begin
ners." The old lady never said word
she dropped the book in the young
mans lap and shot into the next car.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
An Incident of Everyday Life.

They stopped in front of a we'll
known furrier's. The attraction was
a window full of beautiful costumes
and wraps. There were light wraps
and heavy wraps, wraps modest and
neat and wraps and gowns fit for
Princesses, if Princesses were as beau
tiful and dressed as we'll as they do in
fairy tales. A striking display of
woman's tinery. 1t was a discussion
of ways and means between husband
and wife, and l overheard il. "You
see," said she in the most seductively
tones, 81 must have it with
silver-gray fox trimming Your sister
wants silver-gray fox trimmings, and
her complexion is not good enough
for her to wear it, and what's the use
of my having a better one if [ don't
get some and wear it under her nose?"
she concluded with an air of appealing
to reason.
You might 90 without that new
dinner dress and get it,, he suggested
And disgrace you by going out in
that old yellow rag again? Never,
Henry; l understand my duties as
your wife better" And she turned up
a sweetly devoted glance. 1 moved
a little nearer, fixing my eye with
business expression on brown velvet
gown as if l were contemplating max
ing my wife a Christmas present of it,
for | wanted to hear the conclusion of
the matter.
IN tell you what it is, Henry" she
said, as she slipped her hand in his
arm, Il don't mind your old over
coat as much as l did; it is the most
becoming thing you ever had, anyway,
and I'll get some braid and bind it
freshly for you myself, and then you
can get me the cloak with the fur trim
ming you like SO much without incon-
acknowledgements at all"-Nea0 York
Graphic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
The Beginning Of Balloon Voyage.

The last bag is set upon the edge of
the car. Over it goes.
''Now! Let go!"
As Moore shouts this, the meR re-
lease the car. Like a huge bird, our
ship, at 4:28 p. M, rises from the
ground-so quickly, indeed, that amid
the tumult about us, [ do not clearly
recall the exact moment
As we clear the park fence our ship
dips before the strong wind.
There is, for the instant, extreme
peril.
Moore shouts, Throw out sand!
Quick"
Hazen and Doughty, each dumps
over what he may. Our ship at once
rights itself; the car springs under the
Gas bag, and the Ieafy tops of some
trees brush its sides as we glide over
them. We clear a brick. house by a
few feet only, then sail away toward
the blue vault overhead.
The park begins to sink away be-
meath us. We have no sense of going
Up-nO, not at all
All things else 90 down, down.
TIE crowds as they cheer, and swing
their hats, and wave their handker-
chiefs, and parasols-it is they who
fall away below US, and fast fade into
a mass of tiny specks of life and color,
until ere long the whole city is but a
spGt upon the wide view of the earth.
.-EdlUGrd Duff, IN st. Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
BY iSion.

Up shro' the mists of chi1dhood's tender mem
Floats a dear vision which often see;
Morn. noon and night, with gentle benedic-
On sea or shore, it kindly visits me.
AT morn, between the sleeping and the wax
1t comes, and haIows all the day for me.
Arms me with high resolves. my strength re-
Ny fathers face. then fondIy do I see.
4 noon, in all his rugged. manly vigor.
Wearing the marks of anxious toll for me,
Bearing the heat and burden" uncomplain-
ing
That loving face, again seem to see.
And in the twilight, when the day is fading,
The childrens hour then brings him sweet
IL near,
AS at our fireside toll and care forgotten,
seem again to hear his words of cheer.
His tender counsel, wise. and true and loving,
His joys in ours, his grief at our PAIN;
Yes, in the twilight, at the Children hour.
Meath fathers roof-tree, I'm 4 child again
And when the twilight deepens, ere the dark
Folds me and mine meath covering wings
of night.
1 see him bend before the old home altar,
And all my soul is quickened with the sight
OF his bowed head, his locks of snowy white
ness,
His folded palms, and revcrent, solemn air.
As from the Book he loves, he reads the mes
sage,
Or leads US near to heavens gate in prayer
And though the flowers have grown between
our faces
For long, long years, all flowers can never
be
AS fragrant as the memory of my father,
Whose sainted face in vision oft see!
Ellen knight Bradford, in Good Housekeep
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

She said she was a bad, wicked NO.
man; that she did not love her hus-
band, but loved another man; that she
never could love her husband or for
get the other man, and that her life
was miserable She confessed that for
some time before she had been engaged
to marry Houston she had maintained
illicit relations with the other man.
Houston never said word, but imme-
diately went to his office, wrote out
his resignation as Governor, saddled
horse, and rode into the wilderness.
This is the mystery of Houston's life as
revealed BY himself
Houston kept little store among
the Indians, and always had barrel
of whisky on tap. He drank all the
time. In this way he lived for couple
of years. He finally went to Texas.
where his brilliant career as a soldier
in the Texas war, as President of the
Texas Republic, and Senator from the
State OF Texas is well known.-St.
Louis Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

replied.
".You knew it was against my
wishes. said sternly.
"'Weu, Mr.. Cutter, | am not Your
wife, ana am not bound to obey Won,
she said in voice of mingled pride
and anger.
Lucy Alcott, do you mean this?
I asked appealingly.
. i do, was the reply
Very well. Miss Alcott. Hence
forth you are free from all engage
ments with me. l said calmly, and
rising. took up my hat and departed. Z"
'.Have you ever seen Lucy Alcott
since you parted with her that night?'
asked Winnie.
No Winnie, / have not; but / have
heard she still continues to reside in
this city but in seclusion
''Oh, Harry! | forgot to tell YOU
about Walters aunt-his mothers
sister. He has lived with her since
his mothers death, which occurred
about ten years ago. Perhaps she
will not like to be separated from
him"
'sShe shall not, Winnie. You can
tell one of the servants to prepare a
chamber for her. How old is she? Do
you knOW?"
-'Thirty-fve, I believe" replied
Winnie; and with happy face and o
light heart she left the room, while
Harry relapsed into a thoughtful
silence.
1t was q clear. cold afternoon.
Harry Cutter was seated, in his own
room, deeply engaged in the contents
of book
Everything had been arranged for the
marriage of his sister.
The opening of the door of his room
reused Harry, and Winnie came in ex.
claiming:
Come down to the library, and le'
me introduce you to Walters aunt.
She has been here nearly three hours:
but you have kept yourself aloof as il
you did not desire to see her.
''Well, do not, to tell the truth.
Winnie" replied Harry, reluctantly
rising, and closing his book.
Il think you will, when you know
who she is" said Winnie, while she
vainly tried to repress the merry light
that danced in her blue eyes.
''Winnier'
The voice was grave, and Harr'
looked enquiringly at his sister.
''Oh, Harry! 1t is Lucy Alcott!"
81 cannot see her, Winnie" was the
agitated reply.
you must, Harry! She loves you
Why do you wish to wreck two lives?'
For an hour Winnie reasoned with
her brother, and, at last she persuaded
him to seek a reconciliation with Lucy
Alcott.
Need we add more? Very soor
there was double marriage.
And Harry Cutter often says he il
glad his bachelor life is over; while hi:
sister tells him, if it had not been fol
her, he would have been bachelor te
this day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

are scarce. but because the trade linn
It's the supply. If all the skins that
could be taken were poured on the
market the fur would be so common
that it would cease to be desired by
the wealthy. So the seal-catchers
agree upon the total number that they
will put upon the market, and they
make their report to the furriers of
London and Paris, who meet each
spring and decide upon the prices.
The oft-asked question. "Where do
birds obtain fresh water to Stake
their thirst?" is probably correctly an
swered by an old skipper, who says
that he has frequently seen these birds
far from any land that could furnish
them water, lowering around and I'M
der a storm-cloud, Gathering like
ducks on hot day at a pond, and
drinking in the drops of rain as they
fell. They will smell rain squall a
hundred miles or even farther, and
scud tor it with almost inconceivable
swiftness. They can probably go a
long time without water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
The Bottom Of the Sea.

At meeting of the Society of Tele-
graph Engineers and Electricians re-
Gently, says The Pail Mall Gazette, Mr..
Edward Stallibrass read a paper on
deep-sea sounding in connection with
submarine telegraphy. Mr.. Stillibrass
said the work of surveying with view
to ascertaining the CONFORMATION of
the ocean bed previous to laying q
submarine cable was of vital import
ance. Between Cadiz and Teneriffe
alone, distance of seven hundred
miles, 673 soundings were taken on
one expedition, resulting in the dis
covery of two banks, two coral patches,
and four other shoal spots. Some of
the inclines near these banks were re-
markable for their steepness. On the
east side of one of these the bottom
fell precipitously for $50 feet, and on
a sounding being taken by the Dacia
during her survey of the Seine bank q
precipice of 1900 feet was found. A
map of the mouth of the Congo showed
a most remarkable submarine gully,
the contour lines of which were drawn
from POP soundings, many Of these
having been taken at intervals Of less
than one mile. In the mouth of this
remarkable river depth of no less
than 1, 452 feet was found; the Thames,
in a similar locality giving only about
40 feet. The gully was distinctly
traced one hundred miles out at sea.
1t seemed almost incredible that prob
ably one. half of the cables now lying
at the bottom of the ocean, amounting
to value represented by several mill
ions sterling, had been placed on their
ocean bed while those carrying out
the work were almost totally ignorant
of the bottom on which the cables
were destined to lie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19

-, the negative. linen
he called a messenger boy and sent
note, which it took him some time to
compose and then went to his room.
a very small, well dressed man
came up to the counter and in a voice
that left no doubt as to his being about
three-quarters ''shot," asked for the
key to No. =. which was handed to
MIN; he went up on the elevator. but
returned very soon saying that it was
the wrong key and that he had gotten
into some other mans room. He
asked for his washing, but it had not
come in from the laundry. and. storm
ing and swearing, he left the house.
Later a policeman walked him into
the Office and it took three porters to
put the guest to bed.
Although it was late at night the
Lincoln delegation of alderman and
lawyers were Just coming in in small
squads. though fifteen of them had
been to the opera together ID the early
evening. During most of this time d
man was sitting in the writing room,
sound asleep. He was not disturbed
until it was apparent that he meant to
stay there, when a porter woke him
up. After inquiring the price of lodg-
ing the sleeper walked out into the
street.
That's common type of beat"
said Mr.. Watson, ''there isn't a night
that we don't have to fire one or more
of them out. They are known in ho-
tells as 'sleepers.
eff you want to write about sights
in hotel at night you ought to come
here and sit out and watch with me
when there is crowd in town." con-
tinued Mr.. Watson; "this is light
night and not much going on"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
Sam Houston's Long-Kcpt Secret.

Tho blank in the history of the fam
Gus Sam Houston has at last been filled
up. It will be remembered that after
living for some time among the Cher
Okee Indians, and fighting in the war
of 1912, he settled in Tennessee, began
to practice law, was twice elected to
Congress, and in 1927 was elected
Governor of Tennessee. and in JAN
uary, 1929, he was married to the
belle of Tennessee, and in less than
two months after his marriage he sud-
denly resigned the Govern0rship, de-
serted Ills wife and home, and disap-
peared. This created an intense SEN
sation throughout the country, as
Houston was regarded as the most
promising man in the South. The
cause of Houston's resignation of the
Goyernorship, his desertlon of his
bride, and his abandonment of the
path of civilization has always been a
mystery. He never revealed it him
self to his civilized friends. A staff
correspondent of the st. Louis Repub-
hcG11, sent to Tahlequah, I. T., to write
up the Indian troubles, obtained from
undoubted authority facts that clear
up this mystery.
When Houston resigned the Gov
ernorshIp he made straight from Ten
nessee's Capital TO the Arkansas River.
He fell in with band of Usage In
dams near the present site of Fort
Gibson, told them he desired to live
with the tribe, and he was welcomed.
He donned breech-clout and blanket,
shaved his head to the crown, and
daubed his face with paint. He cut
himself off entirely from civilization
and lived with the Indians.
For time he was leader, and mar
ried an Indian girl, but afterward he
became drunkard. While under the
influence of whisky he told the story
of his flight from Tennessee to john
Jorley, an Indian companion. Jorley
told it to Wolf Star, and from the lat
ter the correspondent got it.
Houston's wife married him to please
her parents. She had been previously
engaged to a young man in Nashville.
but, under parental influence, broke
off the engagement and accepted Hous-
toms offer of marriage. and, in view
of his prospects, it was thought sne
had made a@brilliant match. He loved
the young woman and was made TO
believe that she returned his affection.
Houston had no knowledge of the pre-
vious engagement, and his wife man
aged to maintain outward cheerful |
ness for some time. He returned |
home one night about II o'clock, and |
his wife was in bed and she was weep
ing. The husband was solicitous and |
the wife fretful. He asked what caused |
her tears, and she gave no satisfactory |
answer. He importuned her, and at |
last she told him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
The Owl Hours in a Hotel.

Not all of the funny things that
happen around hotel are shown up
in a Bunch of Keys" said Mr. Wat
son, night clerk in an Omaha hotel,
to World reporter after the theater.
''Almost any time of night you could
see things going on around here that
would amuse you, but it doesn't al
ways pay us to say anything about
them
At this time there were not many
guests of the hotel in the office, and
those who still sat and chatted began
to look sleepy, and one by one drifted
away to bed till only the reporter re-
manned besides the clerks and porters.
Just then a bus pulled up at the door
and fiorid travelling man rushed up
TO the counter, grabbed a pen and
registered. Then he leaned toward
Mr.. Watson and confidentiallv asked
if there was any mail for him and
seemed surprised that there was not;
then he asked for kilograms and ex-
press packages, his surprise appar-
entity Increasing as he was assured
SUCCESSFULLY in ~ T'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
Difference Between Cocoa and Choc,
Olate.

IN Notwithstanding the enormous in
crease in the use of cocoa and chloe
olate," said a manufacturer, 81 am
asked every day what the difference is
between them. There really is not
much difference, for they are both
prepared from the seeds of tree
which grows in Central and South
America and in the West Indies.
Cocoa is the name given in commerce
to the bean, and it is also applied
to the powdered forms of the article in
the market. The cocoa tree was dis
covered by Humboldt in his travels.
1t is an evergreen and bears flowers
and fruit the year round. The fruit is
shaped like short cucumber and con-
tains twenty to thirty beans in rose
colored pulp. The pulp is sweet and
is something like the meat of the wa
termelon. The natives use it for food.
The fruit is gathered twice year, in
June and December, and the beans,
after being separated from the pulp,
are dried in the sun, when they are
ready for the market In preparing
them for use they are roasted much as
coffee is, and then they pass through
several processes of crushing, grind
ing, etc., which removes the acrid
oils, grit, and roughness. Tue final
process is to mix the ground mass with
sugar. in such proportions as may be
desired for any particular kind OF
sweet chocolate. The taste for choc-
olate is an. acquired one, but when
once formed it is not easily surfeited.
1t has grown much more rapidly in this
country than in Europe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
Anecdote ofPe6er Cartwright.

An old lady tells an interesting Incl
dent in the life of Peter Cartwright,
the eccentric evangelist, which she
herself witnessed down in Indiana a
half century ago. Among the people
to whom Rev. Peter loved to preach
was widow, the mother of two vain
girls who were wont to decorate their
heads and bodies in way to offend
the plain old parson. Their names
were Peggy and Patience. About the
most valuable possessions of their
widowed mother was feathered bed
and brass kettle, two articles priced
above rubies in those pioneer days.
During one of the intervals between
Cartwrights visits the widow died,
willing to one daughter her feather
bed, to the other her brass kettle.
The daughters were no sooner in pos
session of the coveted property than it
was sold to buy what in those days
was called fine clothes. All this was
poured into Cartwright's ears imme-
diately upon his next arrival in town.
That the bed and kettle should have
been pat to such ''groveling purposes"
made him very indignant, and to ex-
press his Indignation he resolved to.
avail himself of the first opportunity.
1t came when he was in the pulpit.
He was laundering away on death and
judgment when Peggy and Patience
entered the meeting house. Hepaused
moment and then exclaimed: And
here comes Peggy with her mothers
brass kettle on her head, and there is
Patience, her head decked out with
her mothers feather bed''
A New Jersey taxidermist breeds
owls to meet the demands of his bust
ness.