Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-07-10

correspondence OF the Beacon.)
Our ieathered friends OF the woods
continue to salute us with their soft
est notes, and zephyrs watt on their
ambrosial wings the aromatic per-
fumes OF beautiful flowers replete
In their structural parts excreting
their proportion OF oxygen for the
nutriment of man and beast.
An occasional shower greets us
and frequently the lightningis vivid.
We never fail to think of Franklin
whenever the lightning's flash darts
athwart the heavens. Assuredly be
had become familiarity acquainted
with electricity and lightning by
long continued attention to the phe-
nomena of both. before the thought
Of their identity.
How cheerful are our neighbors
and work is pleasure to them.
Enthusiasm casts its glamouraround
them and they may properly be la
belled enthusiasts of the first type
as passionate zeal shines out bright
as beacons on encircling hills.
What beautiful corn presenting
to the eye the grateful color that red
cabbage solution is turned to by the
alkalies. Apples-red, green, vel
low, sweet and ac;d-are plentiful.
Some canning OF small berries is be-
ing done aud we are pleased to un-
derstand that mothers teach their
daughters how to do the kind of
work named. See that basket OF
peaches. Do you observe small
Fblack spots upon some of them? Yes.
Well, those spots indicate that the
fruit is decaying-that is, the oxy-
gen is breaking up their chemical
structure to form new and unpleas-
ant compounds Now, daughters e.
prevent this action, we place the
fruit in cans, heat them to expel the
oxygen and seal them tightly.
Judging from the healthy con
dition of the citizens of the district
the advice Of Boerhaave must be
considered valuable by them. Even
from the body's purity. the mind re-
ceives secret sympathetic aid.
"The day we celebrate" passed of
tolerably quiet. Not a drum was
heard and about $50 p. m, some
person or persons sent up several
sky-rockets. We were surprised
inasmuch as our (stump) orators did
not ring the changes on the Ameri-
can eagle, Washington and the brave
patriots of &c.
We notice that a few young men
do not use whisky but they are in
veterate smokers of cigarettes -es-
Gaping Scylla only to wreck on Cha
rybdis.
There was Mass at st. Michael s
and st. Ignatius' churches last Sun
day. Father Raley ofiiciated at the
former and Father lyman at the lat
ter. We knew the former when he
was o little boy years before his
half-fiedged powers physically and
mentally were developed as a lad.
Man is born for high and noble
destiny, and it pleases US TO know
that the little boy" of years ago
has chosen the better part and is
travelling towards the high and holy
place where St. Paul desired to be,
which he said is far better.
b. II. Hart, an ex-Confederate,
visited this section recently. Our
friend lost = leg at the battleof Fred
ericksburg. December 18th, 60. He
is now travelling for the firm of Ram
sey and Efinger, Baltimore, Md.
| Farmers are pleased with their
respective yields of wheat.
| The predicted hot wave is with
Us, and the mercury ascends during
the day to 90 degrees in the shade.
| Flies are annoying and mosquitoes
are not backward in using their pro
boscides. AzzANA.