Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-21
Moral Courage in Everyday Life.

Moral Courage" was printed in
large letters and put as the caption of
the following items, and placed in a
conspicuous place on the door of sys-
tematic merchant in New York for con-
slant reference, and furnished to us by
him for publication:]
Have the courage to discharge debt
while you have the money in your pocket.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.
Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary that you should do
SO, and hold your tongue when it is
prudent you should do SO.
Have the courage to speak to friend
in "seedy" coat, even though you are
in company with a rich one, and richly
attired.
Have the courage to own you are poor,
and thus disarm poverty of its sharpest
sting.
Have the courage to tell man why
you refuse to credit him.
Have the courage to tell man why
you will not lend him your money.
Have the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have when
YOU are convinced that he lacks prin-
ciple a friend should bear with a
friends infirmities, but not with his
vices.
Have the courage to show your re-
spect for honesty, in whatever guise it
appears, and your contempt for dishon-
esty and duplicity by whomsoever ex-
hibited.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to prefer comfort
and propriety to fashion, in all things.
Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than to seek for knowl-
edge under false pretenses.
Have the courage, in providing an
entertainment for your friends, not to
exceed your means.
Have the courage to insure the prop
erty in your possession, and thereby pay
your debts in full.
Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridiculed by man.
st. Augustine, Florida.
The aspect of st. Augustine is quaint
and strange, in harmony with its roman
tic history. It has no pretensions to
architectural richness or beauty; and
yet it is impressive from its unlikeness
| to ANYTHING else in America. It is as
if some little, old, dead-and-alive Span
ish town, with its fort and gateway and
Moorish bell-towers, had broken loose,
foated over here, and got stranded on a
mud bank. Here you see the shovel
hats and black gowns of priests the
convent, with gliding figures of nuns
and in the narrow, crooked streets meet
dark-browed people with great Spanish
eyes and coal black hair. The current
of life here has the indolent, dreamy
stiffness that Icharacterizes life in ole
Spain. In Spain, when you ask a maj
to do anything, instead of answering az
we do, 'FIn minute the invariable
reply is, SIN an hour ;" and the growth
and progress of ST. Augustine have beer
according. There it stands, alone, iso
lated, connected by no good roads o.
navigation with the busy, living world
Before 1885, st. Augustine was bowel
of orange trees. Almost every hous,
looked forth from these encirclins
shades. The frost came and witheret
all and in very few cases did it seem t.
come into the heads of the inhabitant
to try again. The orange groves ar
now the exception, not the rule anc
yet for thirty years it has been quit
possible to have them.-Mrs. StOaOe'
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