Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-12-03
ST. INIGO'S ITEMS.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
Thomas Stainhice, of Tall Pine,
did not allow distance to intervene
between himself and a large black
snake which he recently killed near
st. Jerome's Greek. The reptile
measured six feet, four inches. II
is not necessary TO descend the
sepulchral spirals of the deepest
thought to formulate a word to con-
vey our feeling towards serpents.
We will just look over the words in
our fifty-cent dictionary, commenc-
ing with H, leisurely casting our
eyes along the columns until we
come to the dissyllable hatred.
Haman could not have INDUCED a
greater hatred towards Mordecai
than we indulge towards the cold
blOoded animals named. Mother
Eve must have been a woman ofiron
nerves. He'll and the serpent are
tortuouS.
Sad to say, but truth compells us
to say it, there is some drunkenness
down here. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
liquid Men seek pleasure in drink
ing it TO intoxication, unmindful OF
the fact that at last it "biteth like
serpent and stingeth like an adder.
ambassadors for God utter their
voices OF warming unmitigated,
unmodifed, unrelieved warning,
like the voice of the trumpet at
Sinai, sounding loud and waxing
louder and louder against the evil
of drunkenness. Men who are ad-
dicted to the evil, fail to heed the
timely warning against the alluring,
seductive and deceitful vice until,
alas they are enveloped in its net
work to the satisfaction of the evil
spirits in earth and hell.
Politicians are quiet and we have
not heard of any one who desires en-
rollment in the prospective catalogue
of appointments to Office.
A few days ago Mr.. Biscoe Smith
went to the stable to milk o cow and
as he did not return as usual Mrs.
Smith went to the stable TO ascertain
the cause and she found him para
lyzed and speechless. DR.. Miles
was summoned, but could not relieve
his suffering and he died shortly
afterward. During President Mon
roe's second term MIR. Smith first
saw the light of day. He was there
fore an octogenariau, and we will
venture the assertion that few men
of fifty were more active in the sad
die than he was. The atmosphere
which is waited over the soil upon
which the first standard of civil and
religious liberty was raised was not
breathed by a better citizen. His
faith was firm in the great Master
who never forgets anything, whose
promises never fail, and whose word
endureth forever. May his precious
soul pass its eternity in the Celestial
Capital.
December is with US. This month,
If we mistake not, was called by the
SaXons Winter Mont Winter month
and after their conversion to
Christianity, Holig- Monat, the Holy
Month, on account of the obseryauce
of the 18th, as Christmas day, or the
Saviou's birthday.
AG t10utu tOt W6Eui ClObul0R ana
fires has come. Look Ice, thick
and crystalline, may be seen in
many places. Whewl How the
wind blows, principally from North
West.
After spending several days very
pleasantly in Leonardtown, Miss
Edith West returned home per
steamer Calvert.
Sportsmen continue TO shoot, well.
not beasts Burning for bloodi
bony. and gaunt, and griml' but
shadows.
The frst snow fell here 9 D. M,
18th, ultimo. Young folks may rea-
lie their dreaming visions before il
clears off-indulge sleighing TO their
entire satisfaction. Ourlocal weather
prophets, predictions have been cor
roborated. Ice and snow In with US