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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24
NEW GOODS.

Received By to-slay's steamer large
line of ClOthing. Dry Goods, Notions.
shoes, &C. from the largest and best
houses In Baltimpre. Have bought a.
reduced prices and are prepared TO give
bargains
A. A. LAWRENCE
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

In the matter OF Tax sale of a tract of tract
OF land In Sth election district, of 81. Mary's
county. assesses In the name of Charles A.
Cazenor. made and reported by William W.
Cecil, Collector of State and county taxes for
the years ls95 and lss6. LIST Commissioners Dis
trict, composed OF LIST, End, sth and 9Th election
districts.
In the Circuit Cssssrt for ST. Mnry's county
No. ls8 Petitions.
The Collector having made n report Of this
sale to this Court, together with all the pro-
cccdings had I'm relation thereto, and the same
having been examined and appearing 20 be
correct, all persons interested IN said sale are
hereby warned TO bc and appear before this
Court on or before the 2lst dag of June.
lsg7. To sho- cause. II any they have, why the
said sale should not bc ratified and Confirmed:
and it Is further adjudgcd and ordered this aDth
day of MAY, 1877, by the Circuit Court for
81. Mary's county, that said sale made and rss-
ported, he ratified and confirmed. unless cause
70 the contrary DC shown on or before the said
2lst day OF JUNE, 1877, provided a COPY Of
this order he publishssa once a week for four
successive weeks isrior To the said sist day OF
June, lSs1, in the St Marye BEACON, "A news
paper published in 81. Mary's county.
J. PARkAN CRANE, Associate Judge.
May g, lET-4w.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24
Reddy-.Made CZOtIsinS

For mems youths and boys wear.
have the finest. cheapest and ncbbiest
line ever shown IN my store. am en-
i.haticaily headquarters for this trade
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24
F. @. MORGAN.

Extends special invitation To his many
friends and customers to visit his
STORE and examine his large stock of
fashionable
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24
TUESDAY, July 20, 1897,

between the hours of ] aud O'Clock p. IN.
those tracts or parcels of land lying and being
in Milestown district. 81. Mary's county, Mary
land. and called and known as
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24

My new styles are in, and prices low
cF than ever. My stock will please
young men. old men and boys.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-24
Undertaking and Embalming.

Having provi-
ded myself with
a new Hearse.l
am now in addi-
tion TO my bust
ness nc the Ridge,
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

Now that the highest court in the land
has affirmed the constitutionality of irri-
CATION laws, walk right up and irrigate.-
Boston Herald.
A Philadelphia man was thrown in a
hypnotic trance by an amateur and nearly
lost his life. The law should prohibit such
trance actions. Chicago Tribune.
In arranging sale of Cuba Spain would
probably decline to consider a suggestion
that she put the property in good repair
for the purchaser. Washington Star.
The man who thought of putting steel
armor and guns on trolley car must be a
descendant of the chap who painted the lily
and giIded refined gold.-Detroit News.
The joke on the Niagara haokmen is
quite aged, but it does seem that the cleo
tricity generated by the falls might be
made to take the place of the hack horses
in that vicinity. Washington Post.
Queen Victoria is said to have SITS, OO0,.
600 to dispose of by will. OF course there
would be nothing royal in returning some
of 1t to the taxpayers. 1t might look as If
the royal grip were getting weak.-Chi
cago Post.
A Boston paper asks, ''What is the lead
ing American university WE'LL If those
redskins make as much football progress
next year as they have made this the In
dian school at Carlisle, Pa, soon will be
the leader.-Chicago Times Herald
Folks who are fond Of comparing con-
gress to a pugilistic prize ring should re-
member that there is at any rate one i'm.
portant difference. In congress mem
ber's ambition is to get the floor while in
the prize ring that is what he most partic-
ularly does not want to get.-Boston Adj
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
A GRAND RECORD.
The Democratic Administration OF
the State Government

Extract from Gov. Cars Message.
The administration of the State
government by the Democratic
party for the past twenty years is
now behind you. 1t is a grand
record of great achievements for the
upbuilding of this Commonwealth
and the promotion of the interests of
the entire people. With my admin
istration closes the series beginning
under the illustrious Vance and con-
tinuing through the wise and econo-
mic administra tions of Governors.
Jarvis, Scales, Fowle and Holt. The
party retires from the admiDistra-
ton of the affairs of the State
through the executives and other
officers, feeling that North Carolina
has had series of years of good
government, economically admins
tered, which challenges comparison.
Gentlemen of the General Assembly,
you have been sent here to legislate
for the good of the entire people of
this State, and while majority of
you differ from me in a political
sense, yet am sure you will join me
in expressing the hope that your
deliberations may be wise, your term
of service as g representative of the
people pleasant, and the results of
your legislation beneficial to the best
interests of the State.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
A chicago Experiment,

The new training school for domestic
service in Chicago will be watched with
interest because it claims to be founded
"upon wisdom gathered from past errors
and failures of like efforts. " The insti-
tuition is incorporated under state laws,
with house provided with ample
grounds for its extension il warranted
by the success of the venture. The first
class consists Of 90 young women, who
have the best of references for faithful
ness in performing their duties. The
instruction given will be not only in
cookery, but In all branches that have
to do with economy, comfort, health
and the proper maintenance Of a house.
The most improved methods will be
taught The pupils are received free Of
charge; also without compensation from
the school for the first six months. Aft
er this probation So a week will be given
to each pupil until she graduates, which
will be at the end of two years. At the
end of that time diploma and the sum
of 800 will be given. Special courses
Of instruction will also be given to those
who desire to ct themselves for one
branch of work only. but only after the
preliminary six months training requir-
ed as basis for any kind Of service.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
FEB WHITES DREAMS
TWENTY-EiGHT FAT POSSUkS PEN
NED IN A HOLLOW LOG.

The Famous Hunter of Tennessee Saw
Them All In Dreams Night After Night,
but His Wife and Tom Bailey Would
Not Hunt Them Up.
White, the possum hunter of Tennes-
see, told me this story:
"One day, when was comm down
the mountain arter bein up at Snake
Peak to look for bar, / fell and broke
my leg. That was in November, and ]
was around tina. fall Postum pelts
was with so cents apiece. and the crit
tiers was so fat that one of 'em would
make meat fur me and the old woman
fur three days. I was laid up power
full long time with tiia: leg. but didn't
suffer in body half Sc mach as in mind.
/ hadn't been in the honse more'n a
week when I woke the ole woman up
one night and seq to her, SCI I:
I want yo' to run over and git Tom
Bailey right away.
Fur why!' seq she.
"I;ve had powerful dream.
What's powerful dream got to
do with Tom Bailey?'
"A heap. Over by the spring on Chest
nut hill thar ar big boiler log. I've
jest dreamt that saw fo'teen possums
go into that log. Thar 8 only one hole
to go in, and if Tom would slip over
thar he could bag the hull lot.
1.-THE ole woman just laughed at me
and wouldn't go fur Tom, and so it
passed off Next night, bout the same
hour, I had that same dream ag'in, and
woke the ole woman up and SEE, sez I:
Fur the Lawd's sake go over and
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
A DISAPPOINTED EDITOR.

Can't See why Everybody Isn't Happy
With the Gold Standard
Atlanta Constitution.
The New York Post is not at all
satisfied with the turn affairs have
taken, and Editor Godkin wears a
wrinkled front NOWADAYS. He is
surprised that the country doesn't
know when it has good thing. 1t
is mystery to him why every body
can't be happy with the gold stand
ard, ard it inks him beyond measure
to discover that Mr.. Mckinley and
his bosom friends are engas ed in the
promotion of the culture of tariff
taxation as a short cut to national
wealth.
One would suppose from the
measure of Editor Godkin's scorn
and Indignation. that he had never
heard of Mr.. Mex 'nley before Hanna
took him up, and had never suspect
ed that Ii higher tariff was the one
and only remedy of the Republicans
for every national evil And yet
Editor Godkin was and is perfectly
familiar with these things, and he
supported Mckinley and the R"pub-
licans knowing perfectly we'll that
another dose of the great patent
remedy would be crammed down he
throats of the public if the Republi-
cans were successful.
We say, therefore, that Editor
Godkin would have presented more
beautiful and impressive spectacle if
he had brought his wrinkles into
play and executed a part of his
scornful pantomime previous to the
election.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
raxine Wool and woolens.
Philadelphia Record, Jan. 6.

Philadelphia Record, Jan. 6.
Today the Committee on Ways
and Means will listen to the impor
tunity of the sheep growers, who
desire the Government to make wool
dearer by shutting ont The foreign
supply by the imposition OF heavy
fines upon importers.
Tomorrow Thursday the com
Mite will hear the makers OF wool
ems, who will ask to he compensated
for the Injustice done to them in
preventing them from buying foreign
woods under penalty of II fine.
The committee will probably
aceede to the demand of the sheep
growers by taxiug wool, and to the
demand of the wooden makers ny
compensating them with an addi
tional TAX on woOlens.
But there will be no hearing for
the millions of consumers who will be
asked to pay both taxes, and who
will he Obliged to pay both in the
increased price OF the wool-n goods
which they wear and with which they
furnish tbs ir houses and make them
selvtS comfortablp.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14

BIT AND WHIP.
Robbie P. 2:1oA, will go to Europe.

Robbie P, 2:10A, will go to Europe.
Marguerite A, 3, 2:20H, brought So, 100
at auction recently.
Waldo E. Pierce is jogging Alcidalia,
e:11R, on the roads.
KNAPP Mccarthy expects to have William
Penn, 2:07, next year.
Guinette's (2:OS) new owner has placed
him with McClary for 1897.
Black and gold will be L. J. Tewks-
bury's racing colors in 1897.
Gunsaulus, by Sphinx, is in the stable
of T. L. Newman, Bremen, Ind.
Royal Victor, 2:08s4, will likely make q
short season in the stud this spring.
W. d. Althouse, owner of William Penn,
is said to value the horse at $4,000
Belle Mead stock farm has secured Al
Thomas as trainer for the coming year
Constantine, 2:12H, and Mahlon, 2:13A,
are being wintered at the Readville track.
Of the so mares bred to Ashland Wilkes
last year service fees were paid for but two.
1t is reported that the price on DIR. Cat
lett as fixed by Turney Bros, his owners,
is $50, 900.
Favora's work out in 2:15 over the Ber-
lin track is said to be the fastest mile ever
trotted in Europe.
PrayteL and Maceo, both by Axtell,
were driven half to pole recently over the
Terre Haute track in 100
T. E. Lane, Walpole, n. H, has pur-
chased the stallion Reno McGregor, 2:29I,
by Black Hawk McGregor.
The English horse, st. FFusquin, has
been retired to the stud and his book for
1897 is full at the season fee of 81 600.
Sally Brass, 1861, by George Wilkes,
and dam of Dick Hubbard, 2:124, brought
$72. so under the hammer recently. She is
90 years old.
Axtel, 2:12, has six 800 performers, all
trotters, at 10 years of age, greater num-
Der than any sire has had at the same pc
riod of his life.
Pat Dunno has sold to 81. Eugene Leigh,
at the Oakland (CaL) track, bay colt Pc
trarch, 8, by Lord Clifden, dam Annie
Stout, for $500
The trotting track near Vienna will
have the benefit of modern methods OF
leveling the surface of the course, a Griffin
track surfacer having recently been sent
there.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
HOW TO KEEP WARM.
Merits of Hot Air, Hot Water and Steam
For House Heating.

Merits or HOT AIT, HOT w alter ana steam
For House Heating.
Once upon time high temperature
was all that people required from the
systems used in heating their houses,
but good, wholesome air is now the main
feature, says a writer in the New York
Tribune, who furnishes the following:
The physicians have educated the people
to understand that hot rooms are not
conducive to good health, and they have
caused the mean temperature of the av
erage dwelling house to fall several de-
grees in the last few years Much was
expected in the way of electricity for
heating purposes, but as yet it has not
justified anticipations. Electricity may
become rival to steam. hot air and hot
water some day. said an expert in the
heating business, 'but the day is not
yet in sight. The real competition in
house heating lies between hot air,
steam and hot water.
The hot air furnace continues in high
favor, and dealers say that the sales
have been larger this year than ever be-
fore. The furnaces of the latest patterns
are superior in many respects to any
that have ever been placed on the mar
ket, and expert mechanics are continu-
ally devising new methods to lessen the
objections to the furnace heat. cit is
bound to remain the most popular,
dealer said, because it is the least ex-
pensive, and people will overlook lit
tie dust aid a little bad air once in
awhile if they know that they are saw
ing money"
1t Is estimated that steam plant costs
u. L. l. a;-
and that to heat house by hot water
plant must be put up which will cost
about 20 per cent more than the one for
steam. The same calculation makes the
fuel for the hot air plant the most ex-
pensive, that for steam % per cent less,
and for the hot water system 20 per
cent less than steam.
Large buildings will continue to use
steam until some system less expensive
can be devised, and, when it is taken
into consideration that most of the heat
in the large Office buildings and facto-
ries is furnished by exhaust steam, it lie
easy to understand that to furnish a
cheaper system is difficult task. Many
new houses are also being fitted with
steam heating plants, but where the
cost is not taken into consideration, and
where the matter of space does not play
an important part, hot water is being
used. The advocates of the system say
that it is less complicated, and that
when people know that the fear of ex-
plosions is absolutely groundless more
houses will be equipped with the hot
water heating system.
''In speaking of heating, gas should
not be overlooked said the expert cit
does not bid for first place, because it is
too dear and because it will not fill the
bill, but the gas log for use in mild
weather to take the chill off the room
and to give touch of make believe
comfort to cherries fiat has come to
stay
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
Sickness of Gems.

According to at least one authority.
gems have their seasons Of sickness, and
it was held in the olden times that their
luster and well being depended very
much upon that of their wearer. Be this
as it may, it is quite true that tur
quoises in particular have a disagree
able habit of sometimes turning from
blue to green. Pearls also change-peel-
ing, as it were-in other words, she'd
ding an outer coat. Gems thus attacked
should be sent at once to a jeweler for
treatment. 1t is told that indisposed
pearls go into a box hospital, inside
which they are carefully closed both
from light and air. and that after this
period of thorough rest has been enjoyed
they emerge bright and beautiful as
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
OUR GIRLS.

Hereafter the women of Idaho will have
an equal share of legislation. Let us see
what kind of divorce laws Idaho will get
up--Philadelphia Record.
The only regret some women will have
when they die is that they have Some old
remnants saved up somewhere that they
were never able to use.-New York Press.
ANY one who doubts that bustles are
coming in again needs only to watch the
crowds of protesting women who are buy
ing them every day in the big stores. -Bos-
ton Globe
A social critic complains that American
women do not walk gracefully. 1t will be
observed, however, that, no matter how
they walk, American women have faculty
of arriving just the same.-Chioago Rec
ord.
1t is gratifying to observe that the bal.
loon sleeve has fallen into somewhat re-
dHoed circum stances. 1t now contains but
little more than twice as much material
as the garment to which it is attached
New York Mail and Express.
When girl gets home from boarding
school, the first thing she does is to move
all the books in the house into one room,
litter the table with old magazines and try
to make the family call it 'the library. -
Troy Press.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14

git Tom Bailey as fast as ever yo' kin.
fur thar's 20 possums in that log to-
night.
'Shool Zeb White, yo' hev gone
crazyI Now, lay quiet and don't be
kickin up fuss.
"'But I tell yo' them rossums ar
thar, and Tim kin plug up the hole and
git every blamed one
light headed. Zeb, cuddle down and go
to sleep.
"Waal," said Zeb as he added more
tobacco to his pipe, sit was mighty
Gurus about that dream. Every single
night fur two weeks or mo- it cum to me
at about the same hour, but I couldn't
git the ole woman to believe in it. The
number of possums went up from TO-
teen to twenty-eight, and they was all
the biggest and fattest varmints 20. ever
sot eyes on. Tom Bailey cum over twice.
and told him about 'em, but he jest
smiled and patted me on the head and
said I'D git over bein Eighty arter
awhile cried and begged of him to go
over some night and stop up that hole
and captur' everything in the log, but he
and the ole woman Hinked at each other
and he went away l,ffin. ="
"You was probably a little light
headed said as he smoked in silence
and looked up at the grim Cumberland
range.
"Mebbe / was and mebbe wasn't
he quietly replied. ''The last dream I
had bout them possums was one stormy
night. I dreamt a rock rolled down hill
ag'in the end of that log and stopped it
up with the hull % fat varmints sound
asleep in thar. 1 woke up and seq to
the ole woman, sez 1:
IF yo' luv me, go fur Tom Bailey
the fust thing arter daylight in the
mornin.
emo possums?' seq she.
"'They ar all in the log, with the
hole stopped up, and Tom has only to
take along his ak to git % of EN-.
"'Right in the log, eh?'
"'Y aas. right in the log, but they
may gnaw out if he don't go over
Thar'l be fo'ten possums apiece fur us. ,
"'Zeb, seq the ole conan with grin
on her face, 'thars another dream I
wish yo'd dream fur change
"'What's that?'
"'Dream that yo' ar the father of
twins, and that the babies ar both boys
an ar as redheaded as Jake Holbrook.
"'Yo' won't go fur Tom Bailey?'
"'Of co'se not, Zeb. Yo' ar actin
like boy TO- years ole, and if you wake
me up ag in and keep ON with this fussin
I'll git mad about it. Hain't yo' Sham
ed to be sheddin tearsP'
90 I can't help it. I tell yo' thar ar
% possums in that yere log.
''And tell yo' I'm gwine to move
that log of yo'rs bit, and then yo' want
! to shet up and go to sleep. It's bad huff
to hev man dreamin bout possums
and boiler logs and maxim extra trub-
ble.''
"well. how did it come out?'' asked
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
KING oMALEA,s ADVENTURES,
A North CarOlinian Who Became
Monarch OF Four Islands.

Col. John F. Hobbs, or King Oma
lea, monarch of four islands in the
New Hebrides group. who was
married =. Gently to Miss Ella Collin
in New York, was born in North
Carolina thirty-six years ago.
He was sent by the London Labor
Society in 1889 to investigate the
slave traffic in kanakas, says the
New York Sun. While sailing among
the islands on his mission his vessel
WAS wrecked by a hurricane, and
after three days battling with the
storm he was rescued by natives and
taken ashore. Instead of being tor
tured and put to death, as is custo-
mary, his lite was spared, but he was
treated as a prisoner.
The l!likas were at that time at
war with u neighboring tribe, and
Colonel Hobbs began to instruct
them in the arts of modern warfa re,
teaching them how to lie in ambush
and to use the sword. They tri-
umphed over their enemies, and
Colonel Hobbs Was looked upon as "A
special messenger of their deity and
was fres d rom captivity.
In 1890 the King died after over
indulging in a feast of cocoanut wine
and roast pig stuffed with bananas.
AS he LIFT no heir to the throne,
Colonel Hobbs was chosen monarch.
He says the choice was made because
h s light compl; xion appealed to
their superstitions, and they thought
he was kinsman of the Great White
Spirit, the tribal deity.
There are four islands in the
Iflikan group. with a population OF
10000 or 40, 900 inhabitants.
"They were cannibals when they
rescued me in 1885," said Colonel
Hobbs, ''but after l was chosen King
the practice was stopped. When the
natives were celebrating one of their
| victories after their custom l told
them that cannibalism was nothing
more than selfishness, and when they
killed another they were robbing the
Great White Spirit. This appeal to
their religious superstition won them
| over, and since then there has been
| nothing of the kind"
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-01-14
zeb as he looked down at his feet and

zeb as he looked down at his feet and
smiled.
81 didn't git out O. the house til,
March," he replied after awhile. 81
had nuthin to say bout possums but
as soon as the snow went off and could
use par of clutches sot out one day
fur Chestnut springs It was long
pull, and I didn't git thar till noon.
Thar lay the big log, jest as knowed
it laid and jest as I'd dreamed about il
dozen times, and right at the end OF
it, stoppin up the hole, was a rock that
had rolled down HILL
"And so-so"-
"Jist hold on mint was 1ookiu
that log over when Tom Bailey cum
along with his ak, looking for a crotch.
I sot him to work to split the log open,
and what we found in the boiler was
the dead bodies of 90 possums Yes,
sab, 'zactly 80, and of co'se they was
fur gone with decay. looked at Tom
and seq to him, seq J:
"'Waal, didn't dream it?'
"'Durn my hide, but yo' did, sez he
They was right yere fur yo''
so they was, but thought yo' was
crazy
81 cut off the paws and carried 'em
home to the ole woman said Zeb,
land when 1 flung 'em down befo' her
and axed if 1 should dream bout red
headed twin boys she jest went red and
white and couldn't say word-not a
word. -
tWell, that was a queer thing
dream and the way it came out, b" 1 said
as we rose up.
"Yaas, sorter queer he replied,
''sorter queer. Jest shows what the
Lawd will do sometimes fur man in
trubble, and also what a critter loses
when he can't make his ole woman be-
lieve he knows what he's dreamin about
Twenty eight big. fat possums. and all
dead and wuthless Shoe! Shuor'
NJ. QUAD.