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, 1892-02-25
WIN It Make the Live" Wire Dead,

A new insulating material possessing
superior properties is composed Of q
mixture of sulphur, pipe clay, slate dust
and paraffine waI.-New York Journal.
Not 30 TrucuIent as of Yore.
1t is doubtful If a thousand persons in
the United States know that there is such
a place in South Africa as Matabeleland,
and yet Lobengula, the king of that coun-
try, has hitherto imagined that he is one
OF the greatest men IN the world. Up to
four years ago no one was allowed to enter
his domain without a permit, and mis-
sionaries especially were warned off. !"
But Lobengula has unbent to the extent
Of making a treaty with the British South
Africa company, which now, by this new
arrangement, controls altogether 100000
square miles of territory.
, 1892-02-25

Ask vour grocer for''Jack Frost" -four.
, 1892-02-25

Don't fail to try Jack Frost"
, 1892-02-25

ALI kinds of Job Printing neatly and
promptly executed at the Leader Office.
, 1892-02-25

ives & Histnnina1 D.. q,
, 1892-02-25

38-inch all wool Plaids, worth Csc, now
36-inch all wool Cashmeres, Spring Shades
Outing Flannels worth 15c, now
Turkey Red Table Linen, fast color,
Extra fine Red Table Linen, full width,
Ladies' Grey Merino Underwear, per suit,
"Our Own" an Al Corset for $1.OO, now
Corsets worth Toe now going at
, 1892-02-25
Don't Miss It!

ey arc selling at COST
will be with US again Monday, Feb. %. All
>, who failed to see him will have an opportunity.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07

APHoRIsMs.-Moral beauty COM
prehends two distinct clements
equally beautiful, justice and char
ity.-[Schiller.
Children think not of what is
past, nor what is to come, but en-
JOY the present time, which few Of
us do La Bruyere.
Circumstances alter cases. .--Thos.
G. Halliburton.
A decent provision for the poor
is the true test Of civilization.-
johnson.
They are never alone that are ac-
companied with noble thoughts
Sir Philip Sidney.
There is remedy for every wrong,
and satisfaction for every SOUL
Emerson.
Nature makes us vagabonds, the
world makes us respectable.-Al-
exander Smith.
The testimony of good con-
science is the glory of a good man.
attempts.
Contentment, as it is short load
and pleasant, has great delight and
little trouble.-Epictetus.
lie who fears to venture as far as
his heart urges and his reason per-
mits, is a coward, he who ventures
further than he intended to 90, is
a slave-Heine.
| hold that gentleman to be the
best dressed whose dress no one OBJ
serves.-TrollOpe.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07
THE FAMILY HONOR.
From Romance.


Much of the story of the Glen
dowie Monster now on the lips of
all in the north who are not afraid
to speak, has been born of ugly
f acies since the night ,Sf Septem-
= 4. eesss ~ = 1,@sEsaod
W. ch sent the cosntry to bed with
long candles for the rest of the
month. l was at Glendowie Castle
that night, end / heard the scream
that made nigh two hundred peo-
pie suddenly stand still in the dance;
but of what is now being said / take
no stock, thinking it damning to a
noble house f; and of what was said
before that night | will repeat only
the native gossip and the story of
the children, which l take to be
human rather than the worst hor-
ror of all, as some would have it.
There are those in Glendowie
who hold that this Thing has been
IN the castle and there held down
by chains, since the year 1900, when
the wild Lady Mildred gave it birth
and died at sight of it; and, in the
daylight (but never before wine),
they will speak the name of her
lover, and so account for 1900 A.
d. being known in the annals of
that house, not as o year of our
Lord but as a year of the Devil.
l am not sufficiently old fashioned
for such a story, and rather believe
that the Thing was never in the
castle until the coming home from
Africa of him who was known as
the Left-Handed Earl, which hap
pened a matter of seventy years
ago. The secret manner of his
coming and the oddness of his at
tendants, with . wild story of his
clearing the house Of all other SER
wants for fifteen days, during which
he was not idle, raised a crop of
scandal that has not yet been cut
level with the earth. To be plain,
it is said by those who believe witch
craft to be done with, that the Left
Handed Earl brought the Thing
from Africa, and IN fifteen DAYS
had a home made for it in the cas-
tle-a home that none could find
the way to save himself and black
servant, who frequently disappeared
for many days at time, yet was
known always to be within whistle
of his master. Men said furtively
that that this Thing was the heir,
and again there was the Devils
shadow IN the story, as if the Devil
could be a woman.
Half a century ago the Left
Handed Earl died, and they will
tell You of a three-days' search for
for minister brave enough to pray
by the open coffin, and that, in the
middle of the prayer, the mourn
ers rose to their feet and ran out of
the room, because Of something
squatting on the corpse's chest.
There are many such stories of the
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07
ExcJTED WITH NEArSEss AND prsrAvcH

SIR she answered quite composed
ly; and then he broke out passion
ately, fear for his child mastering
him. Something abont devils
work, he said.
"There is some one on the other
side of that door who would not
hesitate to kill you," she replied;
and we knew that she spoke of the
native servant.
"0rder him to open the door"
81 viii not
In another moment the door
would have been broken open haA
she not put her back against it.
Her eyes were now flashing. The
men looked at each other in doubt,
and each of them, know. were for
tearing her from the door. 1t was
then that We heard the report OF
gun.
1t is my belief that the countess
saved the life of her guest by pre-
venting his leaving the ballroom.
For close on another hour she stood
at the door, and the servants gath
cred round her like men ready to
support their mistress.
We were now in groups, whisper
ing and listening, and / shall tell
what | heard, believing it to be all
that was heard by any of us, though
some Of those present that night
now tell stranger tales. | heard n
child laughing, and | doubt not
that we were meant to hear it, to
appease the parents fear; heard
the tramp of men in the hall and
on the stairs, and afterward an un-
pleasant dirge from above. A car
riage drove up the walk and stopped
at the door. Then came heavy
noises on the stair. as of some
weight being slowly moved down
it. BY and by the carriags owe
off. The earl returned to the ball
room, but no one was allowed to
leave it until daybreak. lost sight
of the countess when the earl came
in, but many say that he whispered
something to her, to which she
replied, "Thank Cod" and then
tainted. No explanation of this
odd affair was given to the COM
pany; but it is believed that the
Thing, whatever it was, was shot
that night and taken away by the
heir and the servant to Africa,
there to be buried.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07

~ Ribbon Clerk-When you
are at liberty wish you would come
down to the Office and witness my
will.
Hamburg Clark-Do you expect
to die soon.
Ribbon Clark-Life is uncertain
at the best; besides, the floor walk
er's best girl was in few minutes
ago, and told her he had gone out
with a wheelbarrow to deliver some
goOds.-N. Y. Herald.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07

FROM Coon SToCK.-First Old
Friend-Your sons going to have
a high old time after his marriage
to my daughter. | tell you, old
man, she's precisely like me. la,
ha she'll run everything.
Second Old Friend-It'll be your
daughter who'll wouder why people
were born, and don't you forget it.
Ny son is precisely like his mother.
Life.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07
Real Estate Agency.

MESSRS. HERBERT F. MOORE. of
HI Leonaritown, and T. J. MOORE, OF
~ Washington, ID. e., have entered into
co-partnership for the sale of real estate.
If parties having lands for sale will send
full description and the lowest price they
will take, we viii literally advertise their
lands free Of charge and make every posi-
be effort to make speedy sales.
HERBERT =. MOORE.
T. JACKSON MOORE,
Lconardtown, Nd.
Nov 2l-tf.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07

The occasion was the coming of
age of the heir, and seldom, | sup
pose, has there been such company
in a house renowned for hospitality.
There were many persons from dis
tant parts, which means London,
and all the great folk of our coun-
try, with others not so great, in
that gathering, though capable Of
making show at most. After the
dancing begins, no man is ever a
prominent figure in a room to those
who are there merely to look on, as
| was I; and / now remember, as the
two which my eyes followed with
greatest pleasure, our hostess, a
woman of winning manners, yet
cold when need be, and the lady
who was shortly to become her
daughter, a ianguid girl, pretty to
look at when her lover, the heir,
was by her side. / know that near
ly all present that night speak of a
haggard look on the earrs face,
and of quick glances between him
and his wife | know they say that
the heir danced much to keep him.
self from thinking, and that his
arm chartered on the waists of his
partners +; / know the story that he
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07

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III. VIC" e.eIy one " my uesus
inIo1sn une eyes oI my soui now discover
AIa P, plucS e. ..ence .s al LII IIOaD,esome weeds.
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-01-07

Thing, against which all who might
have seen shut their eyes so quick
| ly that no two drew the same like
mess. But this is no great matter,
l for what they say they saw / will
not tell and | would none had ever
told me.
There have been four earls since
then /; but, il the tale of the Thing
be trne, not one OF them lawful
earls. Yet until the 4th of Sep
tembcr, 1890, since the time of the
81 Hazszsd /. Earl, i has always
been the same black servant who
waited on the Thing, so that many
maryelled and called these two one,
as they were not. OF the earls /
have nothing to tell that could not
be told by other men, save this,
that they paced their halls by night
and have ever had an ear Of listen
ing, not to what was being said to
them but as if for some sudden
cry from beyond.
1t is not a pretty story, except
what is told of the monsters love
of children and though, until the
4th of September, 1890, l never be-
lieved what was told of the Thing
and these children, / believe it now.
What they say is, that it was so
savage that not even the black SER
want could have gone within reach
of it and lived yet with children
scarce strong enough to walk, save
on all-fours, it would play for hours
even as they played, but with a
mothers care for them. There are
men of all ages in these parts who
hold that they were with it i'll their
childhood and loved it, though now
they shudder at picture they re-
call, | think, but vaguely. And
some of them, doubtless, are liars.
1t may be wondered why the lords
Of Glendowie dared let child into
the power of one that would have
broken themselves across its knee !;
and two reasons are given the first,
sha. it knew when they were child
rem in the castle, and would have
broken down walls to reach them
had they not been brought to it !;
the other, that compassion induced
the earls to give it the only pleas
lre it knew. OF these children
some were of the tenantry and 9TH
ers of guests in the castle, and l
have not heard of one who dreaded
the monster. If half of the stories
be true, they would let it toss them
sportively in the air, and they
would sit with their arms around
its neck while it made toys for them
of splinters of wood or music by
rattling its chains. | need not say
that care was taken to keep these
meetings from the parents of child
ren, in which conspiracy the child
rem unconsciously joined, for the
pleasant prattle of their new friends
allayed suspicion rather than reused
it, Nevertheless, queer rumors
arose in recent times which, / dare
say, few believed. who came from a
distance yet were they sufficiently
disquieting to make guests leave
their children at home, and, as |
understand, on the 4th of Septem-
Der, 1890, several years had passed
since a child had slept in the castle.
On the night there were many guests
and one child, who had been in bed
for some hours when the Thing
broke loose.
The occasion was the coming of
age of the heir, and seldom, | sup
pose, has there been such a company
in a houca ropownad for ho.r;+ol;t,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-08-11

full moisture takes the place of the alter
nate heat and chill, and little rest and re-
freshment will do the rest and complete
the cure.
You will doubtless ask me what the
mind had to do with the cold You say
it was exposure to the storm. or the chill
of draft of wind. Why did not every
person exposed to the storm take cold, or
why did not you, in far greater exposures
than this, take cold 1t was simply that
you were in negative condition, which
made the cold possible. Having taken
the cold that was no good reason why it
should PROSTATE you, and with proper
understanding of your own re-active pow
ers of mind upon the body, you need not
suffer thereby. Mental science instructs us
how to find out that we are not sick. If
we spent as much time to find out how
well and happy We are as we do to find
out how sick and miserable we are. the
world would be healthier
If we set out to hunt for symptoms of
disease we are quite sure to find them,
and we shall find plenty of help in the
| diretul search, from medical books, news
paper reports of disease, post mortem ex-
aminations and the like. and it is quite re-
narkabe with what morbid curiosity the
masses turn to the search. and also to
note from the little knowledge they GET
therefrom, how gravely they sit in judy
ment on the ills of their fellow beings as
well rs upon their own ills.
| While reports of General Grant s case
were filling the papers it was almost laugh
able to see how many people thought they
were afflicted with cancer of the tongue.
| This class of literature is responsible for
much.
As helps to our own health and the
health OF those about us we are in duty
bound to argue in the direction of our
hopes, instead of our fears This is dose
of mental medicine which anyone may adj
minister. If we could but realize the
power of thought, if we could only know
how sadly it affects the suffering. and
sinful to hold in mind these morbid
thoughts of sin, sickness and death, we
| should pray for further enlightenment in
the truth and the life.
If we would cease this perpetual review
of the dark side of things, and make up
our minds to see only the best in every
thing and everybody. what powerful allies
of public health and public morality we
might become. A thousand people pledg-
ed to the thought and expression of health,
cheerfulness and purity. would be the best
sanitary measure the city could boast of.
If they could realize that right thinking
means right living, and right living means
health and peace. we should speedily in
augurate Il period when doctors would
anguish for lack of patients, when lawyers
would perish for lack of litigants. when
poorhouSes, iails and prisons would fall
for lack of inmates, in glad mllennial
dawnin9.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-08-11

To THE EpIroH OF THE .iorKNAL:
One has Only to read the daily papers to
be made aware of the fearful increase OF
crime among the Young. We must come
to the conclusion that there is SOME a@en-
cy somewhere that is secretly bringing
about these results. May it not be at
tlibuted largely to the reading and rep
reservations of the present day? Few of
our young people and not many Of the Old
er ones are aware our State has Law relat-
ing to impure literature. viii YOU please
print the law that none may break it I'M
Willingly. b.
The followingi> the law relating to OBJ
scene books and pictures:
Chap. 124. Sec. Is. Whoever imports,
prints, publishes. sells, exhibits or dis
tributes any book, pamphlet, ballad or
printed paper. containing obscene iln-
gua@e. prints, pictures or descriptions,
manlfestly tending to corrupt the minds
OF youth: or procures, receives, or has any
of them in his possession with intent to
sell exhibit. on circulate them, shall be
punished by imprisonment for less than
one year, OF by tine not exceeding five
hundred dollars.
Sec. IA. A warrant t. search for such
articles may be issued by any trial justice
like other search warrants. and when any
of them are found by the officer serving
it. they shall be brought before the jus
tice, and kept by him OF the officers. to
be used as evidence in any case that may
arise concerning them "r any person con
nected herewith: and on conviction of
such offender. said articles shall he de
stroyed by order q the court trying the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-22
OLA PODRIDA.

"DoN QUIXoTE. I'm the 227 years
since the last part Of Don QuiXote was
published, 1924 editions of the work
have been published, 52S of which have
been Spanish, 304 English, 40 French,
90 Italian, 81 Portuguese, 45 German, Is
Swedish, Polish, Danish, 6 Russian,
Greek, Roumanian, A Catalanian,
Basque, and Latin.
THE FIRST OvERsHoEs. first
pair OF overshoes brought into the United
States were imported from Rio Janeiro
in 1880. They were rough pair of
India rubber ''gunboats," painted and
gilded like a Chinese pagoda, and were
sent as curiosities to New York gentle
man by representative of a wholesale
house doing business in what was then
the great American Empire. Friends of
the gentleman when inspecting his odd
rubber shoes, expressed desire to own
a pair of such oddities; and in 1882
twenty-seven pairs were imported by
New York and Boston people. The
next year the importations numbered SEQ
pairs and each following year the trade
increased. -[St Louis Republican.
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF PRINT
ING AND ENGRAVING. The United
States Bureau of Printing and Engraving
is great establishment According to
the annual report just issued, the follow
ing il summary of its great work: 49,
2S4, 494 sheets of United States bank
notes, treasury notes, gold certificates,
bonds, and national bank notes, of the
faces value of 300. 7G0. 800: &c 466. 1876
sheets of internal revenue stamps, worth
over 1854, 600, 900; 90, 625 sheets of Gus
toms stamps, containing 2,053, 250
stamps, and 2,0l5, 1913 sheets of drafts,
checks, certificates, etc., together with
miscellaneous work for the various de-
partments of the government, costing
$3, 759. The aggregate value of this
work was more than 1868, 600, 900, and
it was performed without the loss of a
single dollar to the Government.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-22
Lessons From Old and New Maps.

Old teachers are sometimes quite as
impressive and instructive rs the new
ones. Gray hairs covering sound
brain, that has not forgotten how to
work along healthy lines, should always
secure respectful and receptive atten-
ton from those willing to learn useful
lessons. Sometimes they do; quite as
often they do not
One would scarcely expect to get much
suggestive and valuable information
from an old School Atlas. Whatever it
might have been in its fresh, bright
youth, its days of usefulness are supposed
to have passed with its youth, after
which it was consigned to the CRATE or
the garnet. The latter is where recently
we found one of these teachers that had
been consigned to dust and cobwebs and
to a supposed oblivion nearly forty years
ago, under conviction that its days OF
usefulness were over. But they were not
over. They will never be over so long
as the Atlas-teacher has bodily form.
If any one doubts that this little
world of ours is swinging on continually
to brighter destiny, let him give special
study for an hour to our Western Hemis-
pherc, and especially to our part OF it,
and to the African continent, as the con-
ditions. civil and religious, of the two
at that time are illustrated by the Atlas
of forty years ago. Then we knew little
Of our own country-in fact we had not
any, except in name, beyond the western
boundary line of Missouri and Arkansas
projected north and south. Then we had
large number of save-holding States.
Then the country now occupied by the
States of Dakota North and South),
Nebraska and Kansas was designated as
"The Great American Desert" and was
considered worthless, and the "howling
wilderness extended to the Rocky
Mountains. What we have there now
we all know. The march of civil and
religious institutions from the Mississippi
to the Pacific has been sure; the changes
it has wrought are wonderful, although
we think little of them in our busy lives.
Forty years ago very little was known
of Africa inside its coast lines beyond
the fact that it furnished an inexhaus-
tible supply of negroes--men, women
and children-to be captured, trans
ported and sold as slaves. To furnish
these for Turks and Arabs, to say moth
ing of some Christian nations, was sup
posed to be its only mission. The igno-
rance about Africa generation ago is
illustrated Ivy the map-makers OF that
period in what were supposed to be the
real courses of the Congo and the Niger.
The advance Of the Dark Continent dur
| ing the last forty years is illustrated by
| the mans of TODAY. Yes: the world has
moved very rapidly during all these
years-and in healthy directions.-[N. Y.
| Evangelist.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-12-22
WHAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER
DID.

Cow, my little daugl ter standing
By my chair, is oft demanding.
'sTell me, mother, what your grandmother
used to do.
Did she have much time for reading,
Pauses needing,
And succeeding,
Well with musi., draw and paint on china.
too?"
NO, my daringl GrIndma never
Had the me for such endeavor,
For she worked from morn until the setting
She would ell the cows so early,
Daisy Curlryl
Dvn't be surly'
And the m king then would speedily be
She would strain milk and churhi it;
Make eheess and deity turn
Make soft soap and brew tn incest currant
wine,
Dip the candles, nightly glowing,
Little knowing,
And bestowing
scarce thought on what as futur light
would shine.
"Card and spin the wool nor leave it,
Till she into cloth would weave t,
And she raised her flax, and wove her linen
fine.
In a quilting she delighted,
All invited,
None we're sighted;
Or plring and huskiuy bee combine.
'She raised geese and plucked each feather,
cut cloth md sewed to2e' her
Every strip, to m Ike a homemade carpet
gay;
And she knitted every stocking,
Meanwhile rocking,
Oh, twas shocking,
All the work that woman went through in n
day.