Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-06-25

| Forward The possible can al
ways be realized. Farmers realize
possibilities. They raise sheep, des-
pite prowling dogs. They have
fine lambs to ship They look to-
wards the sunrise. II the great
Creator had wished man to travel
backward, He would have put an
eye in the back af his keail.s Fair
wages are paid employees. We be-
iieve that wages and right are sy-
nonymous- the same word in reality.
Everybody down here has plenty
TO eat. Look The dying bed of
Goals in stoves indicate that bread
the staff OF life-and coffee-an ex-
cellent tonic-have been cooked and
enjoyed, not by dyspectics. in truth.
Thanks, the incendiary and assas-
sin are not visible in this favored
section.
Some sickness. Little children,
principally are the sufferers.
There are q few pessimists down
here. They experience earthquakes
in their souls. They elude the light
and live in the shadow. How diff
ferent with optimists Behind their
clouds, which cast shadows over
them, they see stars giving them
rays of light.
Drummers occasionally pass this
way, but we fail to see the bill-post-
er carrying his pot of paste and
brush.
Marriagel Please define it | Well.
in law it is the conjugal union OF
man with woman. In the Roman
Catholic Church it is regarded as
sacrament. The early Greeks fol-
lowed the Code of Cecrops, and the
Romans were also governed in their
marital relations by stringent laws.
compatibility of temper we think
should be the chief qualification of
parties about to contract marriage.
The wind is blowing and it is
continual bass. Those who wear
the sombre mask of the wind and
the sea say that whenever the wind
is habitual from one point 1t indi-
Gates storm or q calm
Rev. Father. Brodrick recently
united Mr.. Bernard Clark, of st.
Jerome's Neck, and Miss Cora Dru-
ry, of Ridge postofiice. in the holy
bonds of wedlock.
How time passes The tic-ing of
the clock with the regularity of a
hammer on an anvil, Enthusiastically
indicates that our lives are ebbing.
All flesh is as grass.
The middle of June. The twi-
lights are long in this month. The
moon when she rises sheds her mild
rays upon a thick carpet of vegeta-
tion. Beautiful flowers form it's en-
broidery and decoration.
We read the papers, that is, when
ever some dear, kind soul loans US
back numbers.
Floods, fires. etc., characterize
this tremendous year. st. Mary's,
formerly Augusta Carolina, is an
earthly paradise. Storms, to say
the least, are not pitiless to her.
A beautiful style of carpentry is
seen in several new buildings.
Messrs. Wise, Cecil, Courtney and
Raleigh keep abreast with the latest
improvements in their trade. Man
is progressive being. The car
penter, on erecting a second house,
will recall how he proceeded with
the first and will improve by former
errors. The oriole proceeds in the
same manner building its nest that
it proceeded before, without devia-
ton, additional defect or improve
ment. It's nest is perfect of its
kind. Reason! Instinct Are they
not radically different from each
other?
Mrs. Alice Dunbar. of Baltimore,
is visiting her father, Mr.. ]. Frank
Dunbar. and Miss Annie Hoshal, of
Anne Arundel county, is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Pembroke.
Mr.. Matthew Yeatman, who was
badly wounded by piece of bomb
shell at the battle of the Wilderness,
is visiting his brother, Mr.. William
Yeatman, lighthouse keeper, Point
Lookout. He is a type of the
Old Dominion x-Confederates-
patriotic and, well, we may say, a
true disciple of that unique figure
in American history. John Cald well
Calhoun.
The notes of different birds are
heard, mingling in the air like an
embroidery of all sorts of charming
sounds.
Rain and sunshine alternating
make up the weather.
Benjamin Biscoe, colored, is a
good farmer and a most industrious
man, and although he doesn't raise
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