Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-06-08

strictly up 70 Scriptural injunction.
Before the failure took place the
clerk ia the counting room Of w. 4
Co.. who acted so nobly and heroic
ally was given notice that his SER
vices were no longer needed. He
disappeared from the city and drift
ed down % New Orleans, perhaps
under some celestial inspiration,
where In years after he amassed
large fortune and gained the means
70 erect q grand and useful monu-
ment to himself near Baltimore,
which is known as the McDonogh
Institute. Even the heather phil
osIopher Pythagoras taught that vir-
tue was its own reward, and Chris
tianity inculcates the belief that
every good deed is rewarded in this
or the other worldand, mayhap, in
both, and hence it is reasonable to
hope that John NcDonogh was CON-
pensated for his self-sacrificing act
in this world by the acquisition Of
vast wealth and in the other, TO
which the grave is the portal, for
using that wealth In noble acts Of
charity.
Who can say that but for the generous
act Of John MeDonogn young Combs,
with a furnished name and q consequent
Indifferent feeling for high aims, might
have had the whole course Of a beautiful
and useful life turned into evil channels :?
And perhaps as a consequence Of having
saved the character of one boy the thought
may have been suggested to the man OF
wealth Of dev0ting a large share Of his
fortune in educating and training very
many others up to high ideals and lofty
aspirations. Be this as It may, it il very
certain that the boy whose reputation
McDonogh indicated grew up TO be a
man Of the first character, and was loved
and rsvered as far as he was known. He
was so proverbial for his honesty, kind
ness Of heart, good Judgment and bust
ness knowledge that he was consulted all
about him for many miles and was the
arbiter Ofmany local difficulties. He was
truly a peaeemaker, and every Christian
reader il aware OF the promise OF divine
authority for all such men. He was new
er married, but adopted two orphaned
nephews-Dr. p. +. and L. G.. Combs
| who married sisters Of the writer, with
the latter OF whom he made his home and
died in 1865, some months beyond 50
years of age.
At the many family gatherings in my
fathers house he was always present,
and no more welcome guest ever entered
the portals of Cherryhelds than he and
none contributed more jollity to those
meetings. He was man far above the
ordinary in physique, with a face which
was fairly radiant with good nature; his
head was large and covered with snow
white hair, eOmbed back and resting on
his shoulders. He was very fond OF
young society, and among the "a grand
children OF my father he was almost an
object OF worship. In faith he was a
strict Catholic, but even the religious an
tipathies that prevailed half a century
ago were soOthed into quiescence when
the good, benevolent Colonel Combs was
present or in question.
1t may not be out of place to mention
here that he hid brother Perry, who
was engaged in the battle of New Or
leans on January 8, 1915, and was one
oil Id men who were wounded behind the
cotton bales and died in the City Hospi-
tai on February o, a month and day
after the repulse and death of General
Packenham. But for the fact that New
Orleans was a great cotton mart that
city would have fallen, and Gen. Andrew
Jackson would never have been Presi.
dent OF the United States.-J. E. CoAD,
in Baltimore Sunday Sun.