Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1871-05-13
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ticularly the ball, the fish and the
star-all so significant, so full OF mean
ING to those who could rightly appre-
bend their symbolical purport: you
remember we'll how that fish beneath
the star and over the ball, the last
named, representative of the world,
veered round and ever round, as the
air currents changed, faithfully lndl-
cot;ng to the jewellers Of the valley,
and some far beyond too, the coming
changes of the weather. DID you pro,
pose to 90 a fshing-you first looked
70 that fish, as the index Of your pro-
boble "luck;" did you mediate to
SOW your fields did you contemplate
making a journey; OF did the tovor"-
HE circumstances of your locality per-
NIT before YOU arose from your couch
in the morning, in this, as IN all the
other cases YOU viewed that fish to
determine your line Of conduct on the
one hand, or, on the other, the man
HeT Of dress you would adopt '5lt e., ~
day.
WE'LL the other year, when repair
ing the steeple and in putting up
new " lightning rod, that old fish was
taken down, the ball and the star,
however. were not only continued III
their places, but an additional star
was placed above the old one; thus
not only was the whole symbollcal
meaning of the ancient combination OF
signs destroyed, but the new star has
seemed to indicate the rise OF a "tV
Hqht for the world, cit would be IL
reverent to suppose it stood for another
Lord), and hesio9s all this, from the
first time the wcather u3Sc looked up
towards the place whence their prog
nostications were made, there arose to
their disconnected view such a cloudI-
ness of scene, such an absolute obtus-
Icatign Of vision, that we have had no
weather at all here since then, until
lately.
This dclectable deliverance from
clouds and darkness has arisen IN this
wise Our Catholic brethren new
rooted their church ediiice the other
YEAR, and now they are erecting over
the tou of the pcIiment Of the "es-
tern side of the building a superstruc-
turc which promises when finished,
with its grand golden cross above all,
to have a good and excellent effect in
tha way Of relieving the remarkable
error in the building, that came Of
nlacipg the steepIe on the eastern side
Of the Church.
Now. underneath tho cross, not vet
in ro,ition, there is already fixed ar.
a,h,r,r,. to show which way the
|gnL. Ilow,N. ItworlsS vel! from Ill
orrounty. il has relieved Ike darkness
Of the r.,t. to which alju>ou WAS
made above. Dut here now comes ia
the trouble. as q friend often Sayeth,
to yet at the name Il that afurtu>;
to know what It rt,,c~enl-: founders
stand whas particular thi'.t Of tie
untold objects, animate or !uaAima,r,
organic or inorganic. Oh ,hr earth. in
me Wttt.FS or under the tUllQ. IL may
be lkencl unto.
Having vainlv enIeayorcd to clear
up this difficulty 10 my own sati~fae~
ton, viewing the object as it vcrrs
away up there in the free air. fairly
before the public, and as such. lust
object Of critical Investigation, ! de-
rer1nined to "look ~ the subject
further in {, free and imrartial man
ner. 50 after eyhauStinc all the Archi-
tectural. Herallmc, Botanic, Geologic
cal and other resources at nv cofa
,oand, | got wind" Of man who
owns Webs5er's Unabridged Diction-
arv, with 5 600 illustrations arrendcl,
and being kindly accommodate with
the use Of that Remarkable york bear
Nm mind now that of All books dislike
dictionaries (thcv were ever a severe
studv), having a sort Of conviction
that in the general when a man has
left school he should have his 5nowl-
edge Of words within himself then
ther. arc Too nonv Times 10 bn seem
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