Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-09-11
saint Inigo,s Items.

andria. We noticed that number
of foreigners were among them. In
deed, The golden gates Of our land
are open 70 all, the hinges thereof
are rusted, aud neither man nor
devil can close them.
Children, that is, number Of
them no doubt viii be glad whenes-
or the doors Of school-rooms are
opened TO admit them. We noticed
that during the last scholastic year
some pupils were impatient TO get
through their books so that they
could 60 into more advanced ones.
Cramming the mind as unwholsome.
Little by little Is the proper way
TO proceed and success usually will
De the result. While patience does
its perfect work and the brightest
pupils cannot learn everything in a
moment impotence in It's tide is
SO strong and heavy that many pu-
pills succumb TO it and are swept up
on the shores where genius lies IN
scraps and the heads OF Apollos
ending with the tails of monkeys
are plentiful.
Farmers are busily engaged cut
ting tops, pulling fodder and hous-
ing tobacco. Sweet potatoes, prin-
cipally the yam variety, are large
and the yield satisfactory. Toma-
toes are prolific and they are sym
metrical and large, and not fiaccid
and fieshless. Large quantities are
sold TO Garner and Brother, of Vir-
ginia, and also shipped to Baltimore.
White and colored raise them.
Grapes are plentiful and wine for
domestic purposes viii, perhaps, be
made. Figs are ripe. They are
small but finely favored. Cider
principally for vinegar, is being
made.
Gentle showers occasionally visit
this section. Canvassing agents
introduce various articles and they
are successful in convincing num-
bers of persons oftheir superiority
over dads way" and theirabsolute
necessity.
Farms frequently change hands,
and Mrs. Palmer has sold the re-
mainder of her farm contiguous to
Smith s Greek, to Thomas Pembroke
for 81, 100.
Migratory birds are quietly re-
turning to the Sunny South, where
the scenery is enhancing, where
flowers deck the ground, and the
perfume of sweet smelling shrubs
fill the air.
Major Wright and wife, of Wash
ington ID. c., paid the district a
brief visit recently. They are de-
lighted with this part of the county
and is it not charming section?
William Briscoe, colored, who was
recently pardoned by Governor
Smith, is with his relatives of Low
untown.
Chills and fever modest some of
our neighbors. and the common
remedy heavy doses of quinine are
administered to patients with more
or less beneficial results. The
dreaded disease diphtheria is, we
are pleased to state, checked and
parents are grateful. Maybe Sun
day Schools win begin soon. The
principal teachers of these schools
should be settled females; for they
are better qualified than the oppo-
site sex 10 teach little children sweet
songs of Heaven such that all the
noise of earth cannot hush them in
their souls.
There they go dashing along in
the maddening maelstrom of cares,
&c. The wheelsofb uggies, daytons,
bicycles, wagons and carts do not
revolve fast enough to satisfy own
ers and employees, and horses, mules
and oxen are seemingly strained to
their utmost capacity to catch up 10
the boat Notwithstanding the fact
that the steamer is on the opposite
side of the Potomac aud the sun run
ming high in the heavens.
How untiring are the ministers
who are sent to teach us the way to
Heaven Yes, men who are placed
upon the watch-tower to keep us
advised of threatening danger. How
they battle against cold, icy unbelief.
Their warning words that for every
soul and for every sin there is a
Judgment. and that THE heavens
and the earth which are now, are
kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day OF judgment and
perdition OF ungodly men. are no
doubt Needed by numbers Of their
hearers.
Some oystering is being done ard
old tongsmen tell US that they have
failed mp 10 date to find bottoms
thickly covered with either small or
large oysters Our friends contem-
plate the scarcity with sadness. and