Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-10-02

IL - not pleasing 20 the advocates
OF Temperance 10 know that there
are q few persons down here who
carry dram drinking to an excess
who elect TO wander in the darkness
OF their alienation from sobriety.
Wholesome advice 10 them seeming.
~ is dead letter. exciting no con.
Germ and making no impression.
Our temperance friends alsernate
between hope and fear. They un.
frequently discern rift In the dark
clouds which eEvirons their mis-.
guided friends. We will say tothem
do not despair. The bursting Clio.
ries OF Spring come directly out Of
the bleak Winter. Is not their con.
Germ about their friends OF drinking
practices manifestion OF the prin.
ciple which embodies the very prin.
cipla spirit Of Christianity None
Of us liveth 10 himself"
Although IL is said by these who
know that oysters are scarce, we
hear no whimpering and whining
about the same.
Schools are fairly well attended.
We see in our minds eye future
Tildens, men Of wonderful powers
of perception and analysis. Stick q
pin here, boys II not all, some of
you will live 10 see our prediction
verified. Samuel J. Tilaen cult
waited his mind while young, and
he kept vividly before his mind, "As
the twig is bent SO the tree is in
clined. He knew that knowledge
is the lever that controls the world
the sword of success, the armor OF
defense, and the power that prevails.
III boys will avail themselves OF the
means OF instruction afforded by the
State they may developan strength
en- their faculties, and thus lay a
substantial foundation for the future
accumulation of the knowledge which
will make them Industrious, trust
worthy, active and systematic, far
sighted and economical. Aye, a
knowledge which will make them
substitute reflection for passion, and
inspire deeper and more sacred feel
ings.
Much moisture in the form OF dew
and rain preceded the Autumnal
equinox.
Mr.. James Ross and wife. OF Bal
timore, are visiting relatives of the
district, and Miss Maggie Mayhem,
of Washington, is the guest of Mrs.
Grissinger, Tall Pine.
There was Mass at st. Michael s
last Sunday. Ministers of the Cos
pei are untiring in their efforts to
get their several congregations to
be unlike the sun in one respect
which, when it stands in its own
light, produces night-emblematical
of sin and its concomitants. The
hours of gloom and shadow that come
over our lives, they say, are mot
caused by any circumstances, ETC.,
external to US, but by standing in
our own light, putting self between
ourselves and God, and thus hinder
our spiritual growth.
Many bushels of apples are put
through the press and the result is
barrels of sweet and wholesome CT
der and in due process Of time pure
vinegar.
There is very little game at this
time. Suqirrels, formerly were plen-
tiful, now they are almost as scarce
as chipmunks, which thirty years
ago gamboled upon the boughs ofan-
cient oaks that studded the woods
now utilized as sites, for dwellings,
churches, school houses, gardens,
colored settlements, etc.
Our newly married young friend
Lawrence Williams was serenaded
few nights ago by the Tall Pine
what-you-call-it band and more re-
Gently by the st. Inigo's brass band.
The members of the band were treat
ed with the utmost courtesy, pre-
dominant characteristic of Mr.. w.
Flora continues to please the eye
with her domestic and wild beauties.
Clusters of artichoke flowers are
conspicuous and pretty withal.
AZZANA.