Saint Mary's beacon. [volume], March 04, 1909, Image 2

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(Saint Hanj’g Beacon.
LEONAki) TOWN, MD.
FRANCIS V. KINO, Ktfltor.
Thursday Morning, March 4. 1909.
Washington Day at tha Academy.
Washington’s birthday was duly
celebrated at St. Mary's Academy.
Leonardtowo, both in patriotic songs
and speeches, sad particularly in a
spirited conversation carried on by
a group of pupils who on the school
stage gave the history of the origin
of our flag and told of the labor of
Betsy Ross in making (be first of
our national ensigns. Old Glory
was in evidence every where in the
Academy Hall; and when the inspir
ing stanzas of The Star Spangled
Banner welled forth on the trained
voices of scores of St. Mary’s fairest
and most cultured daughters, the
entire audience, following the ex
ample of the visiting clergy from St.
Alojaiua’ Church arose and stood to
do honor to the flag in wbiebai! true
Americana glory and for which they
are taught to gladly lay down their
lives. The Sisters are to be con
gratulated on the spirit of un
affected patriotism they imparted to
the occasion. These highly educat
ed, refined and self-sacrificing ladies
who have made teaching the great
object of their lives and their only
ambition are benefactors not only
of our county but of the whole Re
public. The education they impart
is the bulwark of our constitution
andtbesource of genuinecivilization,
while it perpetuates our national life
and greatness The Sisters not only
develop the intelligence and enrich
the mental faculties of their pupils
with all the necessary knowledge
that the time* demand, but they go
* beyond this mere sharpening of the
children’s wits; they reach down to
the very souls, they train the con
science in each one of these souls to
descern and follow the rectitude of
the ten commandments and the law of
self denial, and they mould the
the children's manners. That is,
they improve not merely the brain,
but the heart also; they not only
build up the intellect but they do
vastly more, they culture the will.
To make the ignorant or the young
know something and to make them
know what is right is only half the
triumph of the educator and repres
ents only bis work on the intellect.
But to make those subject to instruc
tion love to do what is right, to give
them an inclination for virtue, and
a horror for vice, that is the full
triumph of the teacher and shows he
has cultivated the will of bts pupils
and has developed their spiritual
capabilities to the utmost. This is
the aim of St. Mary’s Academy, and
this more than mere learning makes
for the good of the individual, the
sanctity and prosperity of the family
the State, the nation. With these
ideals and helps before them little
wonder that among the Academy
girls love of God and love of country
are easily blended. Enduring patrio
tism is the outcome of these twin
loves, as patriotism is best founded
on religion, and not on mere science,
or martial impulse, or self interest
or animal bravery; but on that re
ligion which teaches man to render
to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and to God the things that are God's.
Such a religion along with letters
and science' flourishes in St. Mary’s
class rooms, and our girls are to be
congratulated for being under its
influence. May the friends of our
boys and young men speed the day
when a similar Academy or College
for them conducted according to the
principles of true education will
arise in our midst to make the sons
of our old county good men and citi
zens, practical and patriotic men;
men who will love farm life and
scientific farming; men who will
promote business and elevate busi
ness standards and methods by their
honesty, integrity, fair play and
square dealing; men who will shine
in the sanctuary and the pulpit, or
in the chairs of medicine or on the
rounds of mercy visiting patients, or
finally in the courts of law and on
the bench defending rights, meeting
out justice, or punishing proven
guilt.
But, to return from our digression,
we cannot close our account of Wash
legion Day at the Academy without
making some brief reference to the
speeches given on that day by the
Jesuit fathers from St. Aloysius'
church who were the guests of the
pupils on the auspicious occasion.
Of especial value were the remarks
of Rev. Father Fink, one of the most
enthusiastic patrons of tbeAcademy
and himself a veteran educator among
Americans.
After complimenting the yourg
ladles on the excellence of their pro
gramme be pointed out two great
lessons for them from the career of
Washington. These lessons were
founded upon the magnanimity and
self sacrifice of the Father of our
country and upon his veracity, his
love of the truth. Few of as nowa
days, said Father Fink, realize how
tremendous and almost crushing
was the task that rested upon Wash
ington at the close of the Revolution
of keeping the American army pa
tient under the delay of the Con
tinental Congress in paying tie war
worn heroes what was their due and
needful for their existence and that
of their families. Discontent was
every where rife and breaking out
among our troops and even the offi
cars muttered mutiny or civil war.
What would have happened, bad not
Washington kept the American
forces loyal to the high ideals for
jeers they fought, be who runs may
easily read. There never would
have been any Republic at all. Tak
ing ad vantage of internal dissensions
England would have rallied and
would soon have rendered void and
nugatory all that American valor
had up to the surrender at Yorktown
so gloriously achieved. Washington
’Minted to bis eyes grown dim and
to and to bis head grown white in
ithe service of the colonies, and bade
his assembled officers to urge their
men to wait and suffer awhile longer
till a grateful country reared by
them world remunerate their toil
god reward their heroism.* His ad-
vice prevailed, bin example steadied
the wavering hosts, and oat of the
desperation of a nascent nation still
bleeding from its wounds was born
its invincible life and subsequent
glories.
Father Stanton followed Father
Fink and bad a word to say on the
advantages the Academy girls bad to
learn in their early school days the
patrotism which should distinguish
all real Americans. I too. be said,
participated in my school boy days
ic the celebration of Washington's
birthday in the public schools of
Boston: but I never was so imbued
with the love of our flagand country
as you are here. The blood of many
of my kin was shed in defence of it,
but your conversation on the origin
of America's banner I*s in ten
minutes awakened within me more
appreciation of its worth than any
thing 1 ever heard in all my early
school career. Father Stanton next
remarked that if Washington were
standing on the Academy stage to
day he would applaud the method
or sys*ena of education employed by
the Sisters. George Washington
regarded as a monstrosity, or as
some thing pernicious any system
of education that left out a training
in morality and religion. He be
lieved religion was essential to edu
cation; be believed in equal civil
rights for all Americans; that Catho
lics should encounter no civil disa
bilities because of their faith, and
he rebuked his soldiers for saying
arid doing things offensive to Cath
olics. because such conduct was
against justice and the ' gratitude
that America owed to the Catholic
nation of France with out whose help
the colonies would never have
achieved independence or the pur
suance of that life, and liberty they
signed the Declaration of Independ
fence to enjoy. Washington the pa
triot. par excellence, nourished bis
love of country by pcayes when amid
horrors worse even than those of
Valley Forge he petitioned heaven
for sustaining courage and persever
ance in a desperate struggle. Turn
ing to a beautiful American flag that
bung in drapery over a picture of
Martha Washington Father Stanton
exclaimed, “American women are
safe under the folds of this Hag as
long as it continues to stand for re
ligion justice purity, home life un
nd filed and valor. Butalasl its folds
are being steadily soiled by the scan
dalous decisions of some American
divorce courts. A million divorces
in twenty years, and under our dag!
What does that!presage? Only the
ruin of the Republic following in the
wake of the ruin of American family
life and honor.
By voice and pen check this un
utterable evil; use ail your influence
to abolish it in the laud of Washing
ton. The Hag in his day knew it
not. Father Kelly brought the exer
cises to a close by again commenting
on the work of the church in help
ing on the construction of our Re
public and maintaining unimpared
the three elements which must pre
vail if our county is to endure.
These elements are respect for
authority, Education that insti’s
morality based upon religion, and
the defence of the indissolubility of
the marriage bond.
There is. and there has been a
conspiracy of silence in many quar
ters, in many school books and his
tories in regard to the part taken by
the church, and notably tbeCatbolic
church in the formation and growth
of our country and its national great
ness. On Washington’s birthday
then it behooves us Americans to
give that church its measure of our
gratitude as he did; to address to it
the words used by our Washington
when replying to a letter sent to him
after his election to the presidency
of the United States by such Catho
lics and lovers of American liberty
and independence, as John Carroll,
the first Archbishop of Baltimore,
and Charles Carroll of Carrollton,
Maryland's favorite son among the
signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence. Among other things the
first of our Presidents says; “I pre
sume that our fellow citizens will
not forget the patriotic part which
you took in the accomplishment of
their revolution and in the accom
plishment of their government or the
important assistance they received
from a nation in which the Roman
Catholic faith is professed."
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St. Mary's County Needs Rail-
Road Faeilitles.
Savs our esteemed contemporary,
the St. Mary's Beacon: “Between
the Patuxent, the Potomac, the Wi
comico and (he bay we have a terres
trial paradise, but in this swift age
men will not come to our Eden when
it takes them four days to get here
and back. We must have a railroad ’’
The Beacon also informs us that
there is an enterprise afoot to get a
railroad. At the present time the
only railroad in St. Mary’s,county
is the Washington, Potomac and
Chesapeake road, extending from
Brandywine, on the Pope’s Creek
branch of the Pennsylvania system
to Mccbanicsville, a village near
Charlotte Hall. This road penet rates
into the upper part of the county
only a few miles, leaving tbe"great
body of the county inaccessible ex
cept by water. The original design
when this road was constructed was
to make Point Lookout, at the mouth
of the Potomac, the Southern termi
nus. Now it seems to be consider
ed best to run it to the mouth of the
Patuxent, especially since the agita
tion for a naval drydock at that place.
In order to reach tbeSt. Mary'sside
of the Drum Point harbor it will be
necessary to build about 20 miles of
road where construction will not be
costly, where it it believed the right
of way will be given, and where
crossties and timber are cheap and
abundant. It is believed that many
of the farmers along the line will
subscribe to the stock which is be
ing oflered and will pay for it with
crossties or other material. If the
United States should determine to
pul a drydock at Drum Point, this
road, making one nection with Wash
ington, would bea valuable property.
And in any event it is believed by
the advocates of the road that good
transportation facilities would so
stimulate production on the farms
and oyster lots that a paying amount
of traffic would be offered.
St Mary's county has a soil splen
, didty adapted to fruit growing and
the production of vegatnblea. It
has inland waters whee oysters of
fine quality mod >n great quantities
can be thrown D'nnu Point harbor
is a place where ntnv v >sselsgather
in the win’.or season, and these would
doubtless supply a considerable
traffic to a railroad. There are few
oucties Id any State which have
more beautiful stretches of land and
water than St. Mary’s. Its climate
is mild and delightful, its soil easily
improved, and some of it very fertile.
Lands are cheap, and the county In
vites capital and intelligent develop
ment.— Sun, Feb. 25.
lev Adiertlsemts.
Store at California For Rent.
Good building! Good stand!
For terms apply to
Waltxb R. Jakbox.
California. Md.
TO THE PUBLIC.
I am coming, coming, coming, direct
to Leonardtowo. The well known
Watch Maker and Jewe’er daring March
term of Court to do old kind of work in
Wacthes. Clock* and Jewelry and will
have a full and complete line of the latest
Gold and Silver Watches. Chains and
hr ace let* Aim* a floe and selected stock
of spectacles to suit old agee— young and
old All my work fully guaranteed.
Work done while you wait.
The well known Watch Maker.
SAUL LEVINSON,
*24 E. Hal to. St.
Baltimore. Md.
Md. Del. & Ya. Ry. Go.
POTOMAC ST7EE LINE.
SCHEDULE
Id Effect Monday, March I, 1909.
THREE TRIPS WEEKLY.
BBT w bkn-HHBI
BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON.
I leave Haiti more, pier 3, Light street
wharf, weather permitting, at 5 p. m.,
e very Monday, Wednesday and Satur
day, for the following River Landings,
Alexandria and Washington.
Baltimore, 5 p > . Miller’s, Brome’s,
Porto Bello, Grason's, Coan, 5 a. m. t
Hundick’s, Lakes. Walnut Point. Cow
arts. Lewisetta, Kinsale, Lodge, Mnndy
Point, .Cintra, Piney Point, 10 a. m.,
lieonardtown, 12 noon, Abells, Cobrnms.
Stone’s. Bush wood. Lancaster’s, 4p. m.,
Riverside, Liverpool Point, Glymont,
Alexandria and Washington.
‘Stops only on Signal.
Leave Washington, Seventh Hi. Wharf,
(weather permitting,) 4 p. ra., every
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday (or
the following River Landings and Balti
more:
Washington, Alexandria, 4.45 p. m.,
Glymont, Liverpool Point, Riveseide,
Bushwood, Lancaster, Cobrnms, Stones,
Ijeonardtown, G a. m., Abell's, Piney
Point, ‘Cintra, Lodge, 10 a. m., Mnndy
Point, Klos&le. 12 noon, Coan, Bundlek'e,
Lakes. Walnut Point, Cowart’s, Lewis
etta Miller's, 4 p. ra , Grason’s. 5 p. m ,
Bronte's, Porto Bello, Gp. m.,Baltimore.
‘Stops only on Signal.
Arriving in Baltimore early Wednes
day, Friday and Monday Mornings.
Freight received daily in Baltimore
on sailing days until 4.00 p. M.
This time-Table shows at times which
steamers may be expected to arrive at
and depart from the several wharves,
but their arrivals or departure at the
times stated is not guaranteed, nor does
the Company hold itself responsible for
any delay or any consequences arising
therefrom.
WilLiAHu Thompson, General Manager.
Reardon A Gkimks, Agent.
Telephone 50, Alexandria, Va.
Stephenson A Bro., Agts.
Telephone 745, Washington, D. C.
T. Murdock. Gen. Frt. aadPaas. Agt.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
1 have the greatest horse in my
possession this county ever knew:
KING REDWOOD,
Those who desire bis services,
Apply to
R. W. BELL,
Feb. 25, 09— tf. Pearson, Md.
oysters!
I will serve Oysters during March
Court as heretofore.
A big Stew, with Coffee, Bread, Butter,
Crackers and Pickle. 25 cents. Also
Scalded and Raw. lam better prepared
to serve the public• than ever before.
Give me a call while in Town.
K A. VIETT.
, Leonardtowo, Md.
IMPROVE YOUR STOCK OF
HORSES.
Bv breeding to the Imported GERMAN
COACH STALLION. Fredo, No. 4657,
which the St. Mary's Stuck improvement
Association of the county, has recently
purchased direct from the importer, at a
cost of f 3000.
He will make the following stations
during the season:
First Week.
Mechanicsville, Cbaptico, Milestown.
Second Week.
Leonardtowo. Valley Lee. Great Mills.
California. Hollywood.
Fee |2O. Ins mane*. $95
Visits repeated at these stations every
other week during the season.
Artesian Wells.
Having purchased a new Gasoline En
gine and outfit for drilling ARTESIAN
WELLS, would like to notify tha peo
ple of St. Mary's County that we are
better fitted now to do such work.than
ever before. Baring drilled wells in all
sections of the County we feel confident
that we can give better satisfaction tor
the money than any drillers ia the State.
27 years experience. Wells cased to the
bottom with IK inch pipe. For further
particulars. Address,
L. RUDE,
Feb. 2fr-2m, TUghmao, Md. M
IT WILL PAY YOU
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L. W. B. GRAVES.
p _ _ . HOLLYWOOD. MD.
REPRESENTATIVE IN SOUTHERN MARYLAND.
LEADER DEPARTMENT STORE.
Leonardtown, Md.
e
Intending to discontinued the sale of
READY-MADE-CLOTHING.
Will sell our large and complete stock of Clothing
AT COST AND LESS THAN COST.
i
Our Clothing must be sold and now is your chance to
buy a good suit cheap.
LARGE STOCK OPSTYLISH SHOES. ARE SELLING THEM CHEAP.
Latest style sod most fashionable shape HATS.
Fine Stock of* Dry Goods.
We went you to overlook our stock of goods. It will give us
pleasure to show them to you.
Our prices are lower than ever before.
We are grateful for past favors and ask a continuance
of your custom.
Give us a call.
Vopnll 4k Johnson,
Leonardtown, Md.
GENMSON’S remov AISALE,
tMfifiMiattitiiMl'iaKiimsi
Before Moving to Larger Quarters.
Having rented a part of the larger Storeroom belonging to Mrs.
L. A. Jones, lam aellingoff my complete stock of UP TO-DATE
GOODS regardless of Cost before moving.
Such as MENS and BOYS SUITS, OVERCOATS. Ac., no re
aonable offer refused.
A lull line of SHOES. DRYGOODS, LACE TRIMMINGS, Ac.
A email amount of money will buy a big bill of goods.
I am glad that I am going into larger quarters and have made
tip my mind to give my customers the best bargains I have ever
offered before moving. It is too numerous to mention prices but
come and see for yourself aud you will be more tbau satisfud.
No goods reserved—everj thing will go.
Come one and all, 1 will be pleased to see you.
Thanking you (or past favors. X am, yours truly.
L. Gendason & Co.
LEONARDTOWN,„M D.
Give your patronage to the
first National BanH,of St. Mary’s, Leonardtown.
■s mm i iWumw Wifi i **r *— -—. 5-m ~~m arris n ‘
l^will^b^^preciated.
It deserves your patronage, (or baa it not done much in the past
si* years for our people and our county? Is it not your institu
tion? To day is our birthday, and a good way to show apprecia
tion of your Bank is to open an account at your earliest, byway
of a birthday present.
The security of a bank,lies in its CAPITAL. SURPLUS. UN
DIVIDED PROFlTS,'.Personal Liability of each Stockholder,
and jDlthe soundoesß.of.its loans and investments. Every loan
made by this bank on personal security is backed by the endorse
ment of one or more persons whose financial responsibility is
fully known to the officers of the bank.
For the pest six years we have adhered to certain rules and
banking principles, and experience has proven that we have done
wisely.
We Sincerely, hope and trust that our people will be with
us this year, aa in the past six.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ST. MARY'S,
L. J. STIRLING, Cashier.
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