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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07

wlndfaii.
A windfail r. an unexpected legac.
or money Dir pped rs Il - from the
sky the saying originated when the
English pobilIiy were forbidden by
the ienurh OF their esraies 10 fell the
timber. all The trees being reserved
for the use OF the royal navy. Sucn
trees ne were blown down. however.
we're excepted. hence o good wind
often proved q veritabIe GOdsend.
a Growing Incident
On Cornish tombstone q rather
prrIexIng version Of p verbs 1874.
concludes the announ6 7eni OF a
Iady's death: "a virtuous woman f.
IS 10 her husband" Space did not
permit Of "a crown" being cut out In
full. 8" an ingenious stOnecutier sub
Stitured this excellent abbreviatIon-
Glasgow Herald.
A Flying Furnace.
The average meteor when first seen
- a''"Hf ~ miles above the surface
nj lie earth. nd disappears from view
- N mites. Thus Il travels so miles
h"!nr" ne atmospheric friction burns
Il III This friction. IL IN reckoned,
raises II TO tent nature Of something
ike 100000 degrees.
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FOR SALE-..Great Snar

Six room. good dwelling (acetylene
lightedl with barn and stable and
about 3 acres OF ground. All fenced:
plenty fruit: on Three Notch road.
Laurel Grove, St. Mary's County,
Md. Price $1,000 90 for quick buyer.
HOWARD & FREEMAN,
6-30-4t. Leonardtewn, Nd.
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COUNTY NEWS
Ratification NlsI

In the Circuit Court for st. Mary.
County. No. 1879 N. Z.
Eastern Shore Trust Company, a
corporation.
vs..
Joseph +. Smell.
Ordered by the Circuit Court for St.
Marys county, in Equity, this 2lsi
dsy of June. 1921, that the sale OF the
property mentioned in the above en-
titled case. made and reported by John
y. GRAY, attorney. be ratified and con-
hrmed. unless cause to the contrary be
shown, on or before July 10, 1921; pro-
vided copy of this order be inserted
and published in some newspaper
printed and published in said ST.
Mary's county once in each of four
successive weeks before the said 18th
day of July, 1921.
ENOCH y. ABEL,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for ST.
Mary's County.
True Copy-TeSt
ENOCH b. ABEL, Clerk.
6-23- Is.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07

TRACTORS-aaf I MfdsS. PT T.iil-
tor ard Merry Garden. being sold at q
discount for cash. or on deferred
payment plan. FARM UTILITIES
CORPORATION, lll5I4th St. Wash
ington, ID. &. 4-2s-l2t.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES

N Cterch services for st. Mary's
County. Sunday next, July 10.
LeoL ardtowu, 10 q. m.
Old ST. Andrews. III n. m.
REV. Ii. c. GOODMAN.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07
YOUR EYES

l will be in Leonardtown again, al
Mr.. Charlie Foxwell's, on Tuesday,
July ~, for one day only, with a full
line of glasses. With twenty -four
years. experience in testing eyes and
fitting glasses, / can assure you entire
satisfaction. 1. F. BEAUCHAMP,
Registered Optometrist, 1918 n. Bond
ST., Baltimore, Nd.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07

The axNsfaee number of foil days
work pAr year per horse, for all farms
was 6sA 4. On 20 of the farms the
workstoek did less than 40 full days
work and on q they did 100 or more
days work per year.
The tractors did s. per cent of the
blowing on these farms, 70 per cent
of the disklng, AZ per cent of the har-
rowing. Wanting. rolling. and pack
ing, IL per cent of the grain cutting,
and about Is per cent of the loading
and henG4g Of hay.
OF 267sken who did spring blowing,
142 did ID all with tractors, 121 used
both traders and horses, and four
used hOrSAs only
OF 225 who 64i fall blowing, 100
did IL all with tractors. u used both
tractors Ind horses, and eight used
horses OHy.
In aIlsn power for 30 per cent of
the drawtar work on these farms. as
measuresNby days OF horse labor re-
Iuired fe5 II, was furnished by trac-
tors and he remainder by horses.
The average cost per head Of keep
ing workatock on these farms for the
year ending November !, 1920. was
$3.50, and the average cost per farm
was S1.76.
Costs as Cents Daily to Feed Horse.
Exclusi& of grass and stalk pasture,
the aversEe ration per horse consisted
of 1.3 toals of hay. IL tons of straw
% acre III slower. 37.S bushels Of corn
and 22.1 bushels of Chts. The total
cost of ICED per head Was S134. Based
on present prices March, 1920, the
cost Of feed per head would be about
$50.
The Average cost per day Of horse
labor for tthe year of the survey was
Sab. Baaed on present prices the cost
on these 8irms would be not far from
81 30 per lday.
The avse3ge first cost of the two
plow TRACKS was S972, OF the three
n;ow tracrs $1,354. and Of all trac
sars s1.14&sThe average amount spent
or cauipF fent, mostly plOws and disks
cor-rse wf}fff tractors was about 1910
The aver;Lse value Of the horse-drawT
rplemenk disposed Of after the pur
hnse of the tractors was s12.
me ayfrage life Of these tractor,
es:IU.dtPd h. their owners IL g.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07

Here is what one customer said
about the RED STAR oil cook
stove:
w. S. jerks x Sons,
WASHINGTON, u. 6.
Gentlemen
In line with my recent telephone
conversation with you. asking il
you still handled the RED STAR
line of oil cooks, | am pleased To
give you my experience with one
of these stoves purchased in De-
cember, 1914.
This stove | have used all these
years in constant service without
any expense as to upkeep or re-
pairs, simply the purchase of the
fuel for the stove\
| can fully recommend this stove
To any one contemplating purchas-
ing an oil cook stove. as | know
their experience will be similar TO
mine. Sincerely.
(Signed)
Mrs. ALBERT +. FELTER,
Riverdale, Md,
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LOST

Pocket book, automobile opera
tors license to r. T. Edmonston.
Tidewater Lines. 613 G Street
N. W., Washington, d. C. Suit
able reward. 2t.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07
Localwise & Otherwise

The motion picture shos, 1T Oakley
Hal viii b. discontinued until further
notice.
The Rev. DR.. Curran, OF Washing
ton, will officiate at st. Georges, Pop
lar Hill. next Sunday, July IL, at II
a. m.
Mr.. Horace Payne. of Washington,
Is spending his vacation with his
father. DIR. l.. +. Payne, in Leonard
town.
Mr.. Jack SDalding, of New York.
arrived in Ieonardtown on Sunday 20
spend few weeks with his mother,
Mrs. Lucy Spalding.
The farmers of the FIRST District are
urged 10 attend an important meeting
at 81. lnigoes Saturday, July 9Th, al
3 p. m, 20 discuss plans fer making
farming pay
Masters. Dyer and Loker Raley. Of
New York, are spending the summer
with Mr.. and Mrs T. r. Abel. Their
mother, Mrs. J. T.. NJ. Raley, will join
them in about 10 days.
Miss L.orctto Burch, Gaughter OF DR.
and Mr.. ".m. b. Burcb, OF Valley
i.ee. h2t.----.----,-, =. STATE Board for
IrTnc 0A0Z.as been given
tee posi- ~ superintendent of the
operating room at Woman's Hospital
baltimore. the institution from which
she recently graduated.
We are still receiving communica-
tlons, mostly requests for the inser-
tion of items ia the local column, to
which the name Of the sender is not
attached. We have many times given
notice 10 our readers that no attention
would be- paid 10 communications I'M
less We have some means of Identifyi ing
the writer. We want To publish the
local news and feel under obligations
10 all why send it to rs, provided We
know from whom 1t comes.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07
Wanted

Would like to board and care for
gentle horse in exchange for light SER
vice. MRS. F.. W. MEADE.
6-3 b. Park Hall. Nd.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07

prepared by the United States Depart-
nsent or Agriculture)
Dhring October and November. 1920.
representatives of the United S.ates
department OF Agriculture visited 2S6
traesor-owners I'm Ohio, Indiana, and
5 Illinois <eBsaosnplefe recora q all the
ss.prk - naring the year both with
- y Ihorses was obtained from
Information from which
using the tractor and the
-aintaining the workstOck
could be determined was also obtained.
The investigation was made through
the cooperative efforts Of the bureau
OF animal industry. office Of farm man.
ageinent and farm economics and the
bureau OF public roads, In accordance
with plans outlined at the farm power
confersaee az Chicago, ILL.,. in October.
f+l3. The Ihject was to obtain infor-
mationH II addition to that already
availafHe III the Department of Agri-
culturs which would aid In determin-
Ing advantageous forms of power for
differs farms and different condi-
AiohS.
FarWs Above Average In Size.
The exerage size Of the farms Wis
itedb%Hs 25S acres. This is consider
nh sbove the average size Of all
faf spin these states.
is III pillow tractors were owned on
N>eribtthe 2S6 farms. three-plow trac-
tors,bk 1O4, and four-plow tractors on
six Aees. One farmer owned a one
pic shine. and one farmer owned
a-E--Spfow machine. Two-plow ma
chimes were found on 70 per cent Of
the farms with less than 18J crop
acres, and on 50 per cent Of those with
IG0 or more crop acres.
One hundred and six of the tractors
had been In use one year, 100 had
been In use one and one-half or two
years. 40 had been In use two and one
half or three years. and 81 had been
in 49, more than three years.
On the average the tractors were
used for sos full days during the year
Covered by the investigation. Twenty
three and fiye-tenths days Of this was
drav-bar work on the home farm,
- lays was belt work. and 4y6 days
vas custom work. Seventy-three of
he 2S6 tractors did less than 20 days
work during the year and &c did so
or more days work.
The number of workstock still
owned tarIed from two head on IL of
he fs<11s ID more than Is on five of
nrge farms. On the average there
le d-s pad per-<aSl at the
the survey. and Z shSvalue
is . peg 80 In .ag.,.aefe WEE
MN saai,s s,,<x on the 2sc
= as AZ lJSsS ess than one year
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-07-07

Miss Lorctto Burch, Gaughter of DR.
and Mrs. VIM. b. Burcb. of Valley
Lee, ham=@--S.-.-- State Roard far.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

the Socialists "across the road" insist on
conventional marriage ceremony.
But we don't ask any questions of anv
couple in the Ferrer Colony said Mr.. Kelly.
SO long as they don't disturb anybody else"
Let 'em be natural" might be said to be
the slogan of the Ferrer colonists Bare
footed women paddle back and forth in the
dust along the colony road to the stores. In
the swimming pool many of the children of
both sexes take to the water without bathing
suits.
In 1919 the activities of the Ferrer colony
came in for investigation by the Lusk COM
mlttee, when the Rand School was under fire.
1t was charged that New York Reds domi-
mated the Ferrer School at Stelton. Much of
the testimony about living conditions in the
Stelton colony was unprintable.
Harry Kelly, who IS "Uncle Harry" to the
children of the colony, is fifty years old. He
has lean, ascetic face. He is fluent talker
and says it is his business to be "misson-
ary" for the anarchist cause. He is almost
always to be found at the colony. A sign in
the lane leading from the main road tells the
hungry visitor that meals are "served at
Harry Kelly's shack" The "shack" is neat
little frame bungalow which would we'll suit
the average mans needs.
The teaching at the Ferrer School isn't
called anarchism. 1t is called "liberalism."
AS explained by Mr.. Kelly, it is this way:
Discipline never is allowed to figure. Dis
cipline might work some great injury to the
child's mind. "Let 'em be natural" is the
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

any more, he is welcome to take I'D sornethine
else he can stray into the print shop where
the students print their own magazine if he
wants, or he can go swimming
The school is the heart and center of the
colony. 1t is all we exist for We can take
children when they are young enough and
give them instruction here according to our
methods of liberalism and do wonders with
them. The children that go from here to
high school at New Brunswick are far in
advance of the children of their age from the
public schools. In fact, they are so far ahead
that there is no comparison"
This statement Of Mr.. Keys was after
ward taken up with G. T. Stone, principal of
the high school in New Brunswick. Mr.. Stone
said:
1--WE have had number Of students from
the Ferrer Modern School attending our high
school. Among them are several unusually
brilliant students. | have seen nothing, how
ever, that indicates that the children from that
school are in advance of the children who come
to us from the regular public schools. I do
not think Mr.. Kelys statement about their
children is supported by facts"
Mr.. Kellys overly enthusiastic statement
about the attainments of Ferrer School pupils
might have been induced by the fact that the
school was about to celebrate an anniver-
sary. An entertainment was being advertised
throughout the neighborhood. The children
were to appear in one of Lord Dunsany's plays.
They had picked the play themselves, it was
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

unexpected delight. The poet walked on with
a bowed head, hardly looking where he was
going.
"Here am on the quais already" he said.
"How did I get here?"
There are bookshops and antique shops on
the quais.
"Wel, see here! How long have been look
ing for that book?"
The Seine danced between its banks, cav
with its shipping. There were three big,
white clouds behind the Louvre and riot of
color in the flower-b beds of the Tuileries fur
ther on
81 want to buy this book"
He had snatch of conversation with the
bookseller, an old acquaintance. Then, turn
ing to shop across the way:
What beautiful old chair!"
He fell into pleasant revery, recalling
eighteenth century things, while his eyes,
amused at everything they saw, followed the
panorama of the streets.
"How beautiful life Is to-day!" he said.
The joy of the morning possessed him. He
felt again in his place as a poet He was
happy.
He came home radiant, three hours late
with fine appetite, all the Seine breezes still
in his disheveled hair.
"Quick, Marie, let's have breakfast. I am
dying of hunger"
He preciptated himself into his wife's cham
ber, eager to show her his book. But she was
lying on her lounge sobbing, with the little
whining dog hugged tight against her and the
cook, shifting, standing in front of her
Then, stupefed, brutal, forgetting entirely
the morning scene, disturbed in his love of life
and the smiling dreams of his promenade. he
opened His mouth, under the delicate flowing
mustaches, and cried in a scandalized voice:
1T is too much But at least tell me, tell
me, what is there so sad to-day in this house7s
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

TN HE Poet awoke that morning in bad
humor. Such things happen to every-
H. body. They come, it is said, from
bad stomach But poet has no stom-
ach; what he has he calls a heart.
"My heart is sad,' he thought.
And because he was poet he quite natural
ly made drama out of this simple statement.
He began, then, after he was dressed, by en-
tering his wife's chamber with countenance
which completely upset her.
Married for year, they were ending their
honeymoon Or rather, the husband was
ending it. For the wife was of the sort who
remains till death in love with the man she
has chosen.
In addition to his talent, already cele-
hrated, this husband had a face which was
handsome and appealing, with an expression
compounded of lassitude and exultation.
The little wife trembled before the pale
mask which presented itself to her that morn
ing, with tragedy written on every feature.
She had suspected from the first days of her
marriage that her husband would make her
suffer, but she didn't know yet in exactly
what way.
Her mother, woman of experience, had said
to her:
Glow can you expect to be happy with a
man who has nostrils like his?"
Poor little woman! Pretty for moment
and doomed forever to trouble, she felt now
that her life of sorrow had begun.
What is the matter with you?" she asked
in anguish
He answered in hollow voice:
II don't know"
And that was still more frightful than any
thing she had feared
"See!" she thought. "He is bored with me
already. He regrets his loss of freedom. He
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

explained. Also it was said they got out the
school magazine-the only one in the world, so
it was stated on the cover that is edited, set
up and printed by children from nine to four
teen years old. Mr.. Kelly said the print shop
had been a great aid to the children and was
the means of advancing them rapidly in the
study Of spelling and grammar. incidentally,
the children are allowed to use their own ideas
about spelling in the magazine.
"When we founded this school it was right
after Ferrer's DEATH" said Mr.. Kelly. "We
did not have a clear idea of what we were
going to do 1t has all worked out gradually
This school building is worth $4,000. We
have an assembly hall with stage. We have
place for our printing plant, and we have
our library. The children are not altogether
those of the colonists. Some of them are sent
here to board Alexis and Elizabeth FERN
conduct the school, and also run the boarding
house, where the children from outside make
their home. We feel that we were very lucky
to get Mr.. and Mrs. Fern, who ran school
on somewhat similar lines in Brooklyn.
"The whole proposition is that the child
must be interested naturally in his studies
went on Mr. Kelly. "They are all out there
on the school porch now making baskets. The
teachers began the work and the children be-
came interested. 1t is so in the classroom
studies"
According to Mr.. Kelly, there is nothing
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

weeping and stopped, Mortified, on the door
sill
To be weeping, at their ages, after so short
married life!
She advanced softly into the room and
asked respectfully:
what shall serve for breakfast to-day,
madame?"
But her voice died away almost before she
finished the question. She began 60 weep
also, and, feeling ashamed of her breach of
decorum, hurriedly disappeared to cover her
chagrin.
The poet followed her with his eyes. He
was thrilled. Decidedly here was sadness in
all its somber beauty!
A few minutes later the maid, forewarned
that there was trouble in the house, would be
entering with startled face.
Marco, beg Of you tell me everythingw
There were three little raps on the door. It
was, in fact, the maid. She was followed by
the little dog, who was coming back from his
mornings outing The maid had frightened
look, as was natural, having heard the bad
news from the cook. And the little dog, seeing
his mistress crying, jumped on her knees and
licked her cheeks, according to the sentimental
custom of the canine world.
Mon Dleu, how melancholy! How melan-
choly everything isl" exclaimed the poet.
He got up slowly and left the room He
took his hat and cane. In a few minutes he
was IN the streets, warm with sunshine, fresh
ened by the morning breeze.
Glow beautiful it isl" he sighed
After week of rain the weather was an
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
he Grape Hanger
BY Luce Delarue
BY Lucie Delarue Mardrus
Translated by William L. Mcpherson
Copyright. 1921 New York Tribune Inc

Ieels That he needs new sources of inspiration
lie no longer loves me. He loves another!"
Marco" she entreated. her hands clasped.
tell me everything. I prefer to know every
thing"
surprised at her morning toilet, her hair
stlll unarranged, the rose tint of her youth
shlnlng under her blond tresses, she was so
charming and so distressed that he felt his
heart palpitate with emotion. He hadn't ex-
pected SO much from simple attack of i'll
hunlor on getting out of bed His sensibilities
wero quickened. His sadness, until then some
what neutral toned, turned to an nky black
ness.
"She will weep in a minute" he thought.
Something serious is going to happen"
The atmosphere was created He felt happy.
He was in his place as poet. He longed to
romanticize the situation. He wanted to
spread his melancholy over the entire house
hold.
Utterly detected, he dropped into q seat near
his wife and took his head in his hands. And
because his pose was one Of grief he suddenly
telt real grief take possession of him.
Il wish | were dead!" he murmured
Thereupon she burst into tears
After gazing at her for moment he, too
began to cry. He had counted on this, also.
The shadows deepened in his soul, most mar
velously.
1t was at this moment that the cook came
in to ask for orders. She had been turned
over to them as an extraordinary treasure.
for she had served in the brides family for
twenty years. She saw monsieur and madame
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
rw YHY be an anarchist in the hot, stuffy
M town, when you can so to Stelton,
w N. J., and be one amid all the ad-

NM town. WneD you can go TO SteltQn,
w N j., and be one amid all the ad-
vsnsages of country life?
Not only can you be a hucolic anarchist at
stelton, but, if you find that you are not vet
prepared to accept anarchy's principles~-or
aek of principles, if it will be had so---you
ran step across pleasant country road and
ion more moderate colony of Socialists.
Then, perhaps, after you have made the sufii-
rent mental progress, you can step back
across the line-past where the American
dag waves at the edge of the Socialist colony
-and become one with the radicals amid the
humming Of bees and throbbing of the motors
of the non-Socialist, non-Anarchist New Jer-
sev commuters who dash between the twos
colonies in the daily race to catch the always
impending train for New York City.
The Socialists, who are known as the Eel
lowship Farm colonists, picked on Stelton for
the location of their colony some nine years
ego. There are about hundred of them left,
holding land in severalty and pursuing their
business in severalty also, following the
acknowledged failure of communistic experi-
ments in dairying, chicken raising and store
keeping.
Two years after the founding of the Eel
lowshp colony, some of the members of the
Francisco Ferrer Association, which was
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

slogan that again crops up. The child must
stray into school quite naturally and not urged
by any fear of being late.
1.-The public school system in this country
is wrong said Mr.. Kelly, because it is found
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

ed on Prussianism- obedience-disciplin If
child in the Ferrer School wants to study
arithmetic he knows the arithmetic teacher is
there. II he studies arithmetic ten minutes
and then finds that it does not interest him
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1921-10-20

lejowego Wydzialu Piracy So
przckonani, IL stra jk zostanie od-
wleczony, .chociaz sytuacja zdaJe
SIG bye krytyczna, KonforcnCja,
kt6ra sic bedzie odbywac dzlS,
bedzic nieformalna j tajna, re
wzgledu ma to, by kazdemu z u
czestnikow dac moznoSc otwar--
togo wypowiedzenia swych my
Sli, bez obawy ma to, IL zdania
ich beda pubhkowanc.
Wczoraj w Chicago rozpoczaf
sic szereg konferencji nniezalez-
nych" uni kolejowych w celu O.
kreSlenia ostateczncgo swego sta
nowiska, jake maja zajac W sto-
sunku do rozporzadzenia straj-
t;u, wydanego przez piec wiel---
kich uni.
L glownej kwatery The Rail
road Yard master Association
ci America, ktora mieSci sic w
Columbus, Ohio, wyslano wczo-
raj swym czionkom zawiadomie-
Ma, azcby, chociaz strajk costa
nie wywo}any, wszyscy pozostall
przy piracy; do organizacji tel ma
ley 5000 czionkow.
Zarzady wykonawcze kompa--
Mi kolcjowych oznajmity wczo-
raj, IL So przekonane, ze ma wy
padek strajku znajda dose ludzi
Go piracy, azeby utrzymac w ru-
chu norinalnym kurs pociagow
pocztowych, pasazerskich dowo-
zacych mleko farm. Kotnpanje
licza ma to, re pomino strajku,
zostana przy piracy ,lojalni" ro-
botnicy, oraz re przyjdq i'm po-
moca pensjonowani j byli robot
nicy kolejowi.
ARESZTOWANIE PODEJ-
RZANYCH o ZATRUCIE
PIELEGNIAREK.
W1adze federalne aresztowaly