Saint Mary's beacon., 1904-07-14
ST. INIGO'S ITEMS.

forgotten.
Young folks meet and dance mid
dle-aged meet and enjoy a game OF
chess-a pleasant pastime in which
it is an honor to excel and old folks
have their congenialIgatheriugs, talk
about their youthful days and take
their wine without bitters.
Farmers are in excellent spirits,
They have realized fairly good yields
OF wheat, and corn and tobacco are
growing satisfactorily. To praise
the cereals named at this stage of
the worlds history would be as idle
as to gild gold, or tosprinkle violets
with sweet extracts.
Some clouds indicate rain while
others apparently appear in different
parts OF the heavens to look at. Look
in the direction of Leonardtown.
What towers, gorgeous palaces and
solemn looking temples reminding
US of ancient ones of a thousand years
OF constructive art.
Merchants, particularly grocers,
are kept in fine humor by seeing
their commodities going down by
the run, receiving cash or its equiva-
lent for the same.
Railroad-Alasl Echo answers,
alas OF course il would not be
pleasing to us TO send the iBeacon an
item headed Collision, but we
should like to have the pleasure in
the near future to give a brief de-
scription of a ride on the tender OF
an engine between Tall Pine and
Point Lookout, Notwithstanding it
would be pretty tough. The novelty
of the thing. Oh, my
No horse racing. What is the
matter with our sporting men ?
Horse racing is racy sport. Maybe
they have becomesanctimoniou and
entertain the opinion that a race
course is the vestibule of Tophet.
There are a few bachelors down
here. One was heard TO say not
many days ago: The synonym of
alone is dead. True, friend, single
blessedness is a fallacy, and the
best man is an imperfect being until
he is completed and embellished by
the addition of wife.
"If to her share some female errors fall,
Look in her face and you'll forget them all"
Some drunkenness. "A man may
be wrecked as is q ship.
Blacksmiths are kept tolerably
busy. Iron is the most precious of
natures productions. The conven-
tional value of gold and silver is
great. but iron in a utilitarian sense
is more valuable than either. De-
prive the civilized world of iron and
civilization would be thrown back
ward many hundreds ofyears. Isit
not the symbol OF civilization There
is no "California" of iron.
Fire flies are numerous at night,
but they are not brilliant enough to
furnish light for reading. They
are associated with our memory of
beautiful summer nights in the Pal
metto State.
Recently Geo. A. Dunbar killed
five henhawks. Years ago a pullet
was given for each hawk of this
species that was killed. Today, a
thank you" with little sunshine
in it is all that is given to the des-
troyer of these brids of prey.
Flower gardens look just now very
bright with variegated roses, min
pled with the soft blue of dainty
blossoms, frank. faced, which seems
to express such an honest confidence
in the goodness of God S sky.
Listenl The songs of orioles and
the voices of children like two
songs of angels mingled together.
Up there, far away, oh, what
sweet voicesl Cherubim, and sera-
ptrisu,, and an -innamerable company
of angels praising the King of Heav-
en-. How different from the an
thems of earthly creatures, although
their voices may be rich in the quail
ties most valuable to osingers-clear,
resonant, flexible and pure.
The different churches, white and
colored. were largely attended 10th
instant. Ministers of the Gospel la
Dor TO get their congregations to
let the ism be to them as though il
were not, and to sincerely believe
in the supremacy and affinity of the
Holy Father and in the divinity and
oneness of His only begotten Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. There may
be agnostics in the district. Let
every man be fully persuaded in his
mind what to believe and what to re-
iect. That there is a principle in
man which raises him far above the
brute creation. we honestly believe.
In this principle faculties are found
to which learned men have given
the name of reason, and it is.this by
which man is governed, and by it