Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-06-27


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ond for feast prizes rs the LATEST
man in the Home. Sweet William
says 80 and Sweet William il an an-
thority ca any subject; and then
the other authorities know that his
alleged causes OF inability to per-
form these light and healthful du-
tics are nothing but pretcnse to beat
the management out of the little
labor called on to do, and that he
is an ungrateful wretch to wish to
do that. lie is only 62 years old,
and the whole medical fraternity
know that man is Justin his
prime Mt that age, or, perhaps, . lit
tle older.
As he never did manual labor un-
til he came to the Home, hc could
have saved up quite lot Of phys
ical energy for future use had he
not been too lazy to store it up.
The heart disease he prates so much
about having inherited from his
mother-that's not dangerous
for one of the most soft hearted
men on the board told him il could
not be dangerous, as his mother
had it, and she was S5 years old and
not dead yet. Active exertion is
said to be particularly beneficial to
heart disease. Then, why should
he complain about raising few veg
etables for these gallant men from
other States who gave the weight Of
their lllustriens name, high ances-
trail lineage and unblemished re-
cord before, during and after the
war to give a tone of resrcctability
to the Home and its inmates !? They
were gallant men, who bravely
fought for their own homes, their
own and children's honor while this
old fellows State did not secede,
and &c had no property to defend,
and now wants to- find fault with
his own judgment.
Now, as the minds of some of
these gallant soldiers have failed 30
much that they cannot remember
what command, regiment or com
pany they belonged to, or any one
in it, or il they remember the regi-
ment or company, or think they do,
can find no one who Was in their
supposed company. who has any
recollection of them, and so makes
an entrance into a Soldier Home in
their own State too much of All i'm
probability for them to even make
the effort, so they come here, where
they can have q pleasant place to
spend their days in. And as Ma
ryland did not secede, when her se-
cession would have been of great
advantage to the Lost Cause, and
might have prevented it from be-
ing lost, they should do all they can
for these unfortunates, give them
the very best the circumstances
will permit, and let these men from
Maryland, who arc strong, hearty
and healthy, raise vegetables for
them to eat, flowers for them to ad-
mire, and keep the grounds beauti-
full them to while away the weary
hours in.
Such, doubtless, was the inten-
tion, and expectation of the mem
bers of our legislature when grant
ing the Home the liberal appropri-
alton they already have and will
probably continue in the future.
Knowing, as they doubtless do,
what humane, kind and charitable
men have been chosen to manage
its affairs, and what noble, kind
hearted, humane soldier has been
found to administer equity and
justice TO his soldier comrades /;
one of the board told me he was
the very best man they could find
for the purpose, and | don't sup
pose you could find dozen men to
doubt the assertion from their own
point of view. lie also told me
one of his great recommends was
that he did not drink. Well an
old Confed soldier, who does not
drink--that beats the record, and
it's tfse. But, / think / better
stop, the reader might think was
the Baron Munchausen instead of
only HORACE SKINPOLg,
Moral Agriculturist.
Pikesrille, Nd.