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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
Moral Courage in Daily Life.

"MorAl Courage" was printed in
large letters and put as the caption Of
the follexinR items, and placed in a
oonspicioas place on the door Of sys-
tematie merchant in New York, for
constant reference, and furnished by
him capitalization:
Have TIE courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in
your pocket.
Have he courage to do without
that whih you DO not need, however
|mash yas esss may c9yet It,
Have the courage to speak to a
friend in seedy coat, even though
you are in company with rich one,
and richly attired.
Have the courage to speak your
mind when it is necessary that you
should do SO, and hold your tongue
when it is prudent that you shold do
so,
Have the courage to own that you
are and thus disarm poverty Of its
sting,
Have the courage to tell man why
you refuse to credit Aim.
Have the courage to tell q man why
you will not lend him your money.
Have courage to cut the most agree
able acquaintance You have when you
are convinced that he lacks principle
"a friend should bear with Il friend S
infrmities, but not with his vices.
Have courage to show your respect
for honesty, in whatever guise it ap-
PEARS and your contempt for dishon-
rsty and duplicity, by wholnsoeyer ex-
h.bited.
Have the courage to wear your old
nlotles until you can pay for now ones.
Have the courage g prefer comfort
AMI propriety to fashion in all things.
Have the courage to acknowledge
your ignorance, rather than TO seek
for knowledge under false pretences.
Have the courage, in providing an
entertainment for your friends, not to
cAvrvts WV IncaIls.
Have tic courage to insure the
property in -FOUR possession, and there.
by pay your debts in full.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
4 Texas AStOr.

In Southwestern Texas there is a
cattle raiser who has lived there
twenty years. On going there he
picked up a dozen COWS and branded
them. lie had no land, but was the
possessor of wife, two or three guns,
II few dogs, and two or three horses
lie kept watch Of his COWS, and lived
in a hand to-mouth way fer several
years, subsistius his family by the
capture Of 6 me and the sale Of skins.
In May 1873, he owned thirty thou
sand head Of cattle, duly branded,
Ranging over the pains. He has a
family Of nine children, five of whom
are boys. His eldest child is girl,
nineteen years Of age. She can rope
Il steer, kill a wolf with 4 rifle, or
strangle dog at arms length.
In the mans house is a nail-kee
nearly filled with gold coin, while in
the pantry is a hour-barrel almost
filled with silver pieces. When be
sells cattle it is for coin, which is
dumped on the premises. He will
not take paper money at any rate
but is always ready to sell steers fol
gold or silver. His boys are all fa
niliar with guns, horses, dogs, and
cattle. In few years more they viii
have literally carloads of money, pro
vided robbers do not make raid upor
them, in which case man, wife, boys
girls, dogs, and shot-guns, the raider
would be apt to get more bullet hole
than bullion. The house occupied
by this prosperous family is low, bull
Of logs and contains three rooms. Th
father and mother sleep in the dining
room, the gi,ls sleep in the spare room
while the Toys sleep in the addition
The girls do not know much abou
Honiton lace or the opera, but the,
can skin veal as & lick as Ohio WON
en- can get np an open-alr prayer
4 meeting.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
pre.HisLorfc America.
The Alta Californian recently {

The Alta Californian recently de-.
scribed discoveries made by Mr.. ]. A.
Parker, superintendent of 4 canal
company, engaged in irrigating the
Pueblo Viejo Valley, Arizona. This
valley is described as being sixty miles
in length and about four miles wide.
Mr.. Parker fonnu the ruins Of ancient
cities, extending along the valley
about mile apart from each other,
and the remains of large canal,
with triangular shaped reservoirs
built eff stone, in each of the cities or
towns. Pottery, household imple-
ments (made Of stone) and human
bones have been found in the ruins.
The dwellings seem to have been de-
stroyed by fire, and are, in some cases,
covered up with from ten to forty feet
ofearth, growing luxurious vegetation.
The pottery is decorated in colors, the
walls of the dwellings are laid in ce-
ment, and the interior Of large
building, supposed to have been a
place of worship, had been smoothly
plastered. The remains indicate that
the inhabitants of these cities were
far more advanced in civilization than
the Indians or Mexicans of historic
times, and it las been supposed that
wanderers through Asia crossed Bch-
rings strait and made their way down
the Pacific coast to the rich valleys
0: Arizona and New Mexico at least
one Thousand or fifteen hundred wears
ago. The Indians have tradition
that the people who lived there went
to battle in the South, and we're
killed. A thorough Investigation OF
all the remains might lead TO impor-
tant Knowledge regarding the history
of these aud of the South American
fuccs>
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
Spending Money.

Money is hard to get and easy to
spend. There is peril in it, and there
is blessedness in it. 10 the wise and
GOOD it is the best OF servants, to the
weak and foolish it is the most terrible
Of tyrants.
There arr those who think 1t fine
thing fer young man to sltSnd hls
money with careless, 3ashin5 free
dela, aud the spendthrift is character
less despis.l than the miSer. But we
think the weak vanity which prompts
the young rnan to spend cArelesSdy
that with which he could do SO many
noble and satisfying things, is not
more wise than that OF the uiser who
devotes all his thoughts to getting,
without any definite plan OF present
or future use.
All things are given tl.at we laay
ase them for the general good as
we'll as personal needs. Hence AL
who do their duty must toll with
head or hand. We should take all
the rest OF recreation that the body
or mind requires, but while We can
benefit one rersou by rrecept or e1-
ample, We have nc right to DC care
less or wasteful OF tine and money.
Cuyelessness ia all its forms is wrong,
but careleS.ness ia the spending OF
money is the snrest to lead to misery
and shame. FrusaItty and libersllty
should be Joined the iirst is leaving
off useless expenses, the last is be-
slowing our savings for Improvement
Of others,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

BUSINESS MAXlAs.--Caution is the
father of security.
He who pays beforehand is served
behind hand.
IT YOU would know tle value of a
dollar try to borrow one.
BE silent when Il fool talks.
Never speak toAs,ingly Of your
business,
An hour of triumph comes at last
to those who watch and wait.
Word by word Webster's big die
t.onary was made.
Speak we'll ofyour iriends--of your
enemies say nothing.
Never take back u discharged SER
want. ...
If you post your servants upon your
affairs they will one day rend you.
Do not waste time in useless re-
grets over losses.
Systematize yoar business and keep
an eye on little expenses, Small
leaks sink great ships.
Never fail to take receipts for money
paid, and keep copies of your letters
Do your business promptly, and
bore not a business man with .ons
visits.
Law is q trade in which the lawyers
eat the oysters and leave the clients
the shells.
Rothschild, the founder Of the world
renowned house cf Ruthschild & Co.
ascribes his success ia the following
; Never have any thing to do with
an unlucky man.
Be cautious and bold.
Make a bargain at once.
acs pea1 evr,sthi1ct in this rapcr,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
Venus Of the Needle.

Mary Anne, you pretty girl
Intent Oh silky labor,
OF sempstresses the pink and pearl,
Excuse Il pecping neighbor!
Those eyes, forever dropping, give
The long brown lashcs rarely;
But violets i'll the shadows live
For once unvail them fairly.
Hast thou not lent that flounce enough
Oflooks 50 long and earnestp
Lo! here's more "penetracle stuff
TO which thou never turnest.
Ye graceful fingers, deftly sped!
How slender and how nimble!
OH might | wind their skeins of thread,
Or but pick Up their thinble.
How blestthc yeuth whom shall briua,
And happy stars embolden.
To change the doom into ring,
The silver into golden!
Who'll steal some morning to her side,
TO take her fingers measure,
While Mary Anne pretends to chidc,
And bushes deep with pleasure!
Who II watch her sew her wedding gown.
Well conscious that it is hers:
Who'll CLEAN tress without a frown,
With those so ready scissors!
Who'll taste these rlncninys of the South,
The fragrant and delicious
Don put the pins into your mouth,
Oh! Mary Anne, my precious.
almost wish it were my trust
70 teach how shocking tnat is;
wish had not, as / must,
To quit this tempting lattice.
Sure aim takes cupid, tluttcring foe,
Across q street SO narrow!
a thread of silk to string his bow,
\ needle for his arrow!
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

The wind was damp with coming
wet, when James and blue-eyed Liz
zie met: lie held ginsham Ger his
head, and to the maiden thus he said:
g, lovely girl, nv hearts 4 fire with
lnva, a,s,,nnnannL.L.l.Ad dAsira. SAY dear.
est cae wilt tt.ou be mine, and Join
me in the grocery line?' The maid.
in accents sweet replied, Jim. hold
the umbrella more on my side; my
braa new bonnets getting wet-lll
marry yer, yer needu fret.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

THE PHILADELPHIA KIDNAPPING.
coild in Philadelphia for the purpose
of extortiug money from his father
under a threat Of numbering the lit
tie creature is case that excites uni
versal interest aud horror,
But what is it after all except the
application in an extreme and most
atroc:ous and inhuman form OF the
great Philadelphia doctrine OF Addl-
tion, Division, and Silence'
IF it is right to steal from the pub
lie treasury; il it is justifiab!e to
plunder and defraud individuals OF
their property-ana those who preach
that piratical doctrine hold 'heil
heads high in Thiladelphia-why is
it not also iustitiable to kidnap chill
drcn as means of compelling tiel'
fathers and friends to divide theiI
money with the kidnarpers? 1t l.
only a part of the comprehensive
system of Addition, Division, ans
Silence.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

neaa. Hon. Marshall Jewell, the
newly appointed nostmaster-G General
is on his way home from St. 1eterS-
burg, and is at present making short
STAY at Berlin, in order to master the
details of the German postal system
He has already discovered severa!
features which he thinks susceptible
of advantageous Incorporation with
our own. He will leave the Prussian
capital, in a few days, for Paris, where
he will doubtless extend his observa-
t,ons to the French postal machinery
winding up, probably, with an in
spection of the practical working OF
the admirable delivery system OF
Great Britain. He will thus take
charge of the department over which
he has been set with better acqualnt'
ance with the needs and suppllanceS
of perfect postal system than any
Postmaster General this country has
ever hal.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
A Writer'S Treasures.

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes as follows on the home
of Major Ben Perley Poore at New
buryport Mass. This homestead OF
the Majors comprises about tour
hundred acres, portion of which Is
under fine cultivation. This aapd
was granted to one John Peore, No
selnber 20, 1890, by the select men OF
Newbpsy, because he was so remote
from meeting, and it has remained In
the family ever since-Ben Perley
Goor belonging to tn, seventh genera
sion which has inhabited the property,
Tile picturesque, original family man
sion, built in 1850, is curiosity III
itself, bat has been SO added to and
enlarged freme time to time that
almost every style Of architecture tor
awo centuries past as dlsoernable IN
dts surroundings. There are old
stone towers and turrets over
run with ivy. hooking like relics of
old feudal castles. A clock tower
and dial face the driveway, ana
colossal statae of an Indian--perhaps
Great Tom the aboriginal owner
stands IN q bower on the smoothly
shaven lawn, just opposite the doors
of the mansion. From the summit OF
the Aill, some three hundred feet
above the river, 9 magnificent view is
afforded of the ocean on the east, and
of all the pretty New England vii
lagos Of white houses nesting in the
green for thirty miles around. Ga this
hill is erected IA observatory, assist
ing one in discovering all the lowell,
uess spread out for miles around.
The original domicile has diamond
famed windows in old metallic case
auents; the walls are covered with an
costral portraits, ancient armor, and
weap ,ns of every kind known to the
civilized or barbarous worll. | sup
rose no older furniture exists in a
presentable shape anywhere in the
country than is found within these
walls. Four rooms have been de-
voted to articles (; century or more
old, and are called the Continental
Rooms They comprise q parlor
sitting-room, bedroom, and kitchen
furnished in the old colony times
style. The panelling came from the
old Province House in Boston; the
stairway from the old Tracey House
where Washington and Lafayette
slept; the andirons, pewter dishes, thu
china, the roasting jack, spinning
wheel, huge old-fashionsd freplaces
bedroom furniture, everything II
fact, in these four rooms is fully
hundred years old. On the stairwa..
hang loNder-horns and hrearm
which saw service during tue tryin]
times of the Revolution, and tk'
drum which led the brave troops t
Bunker Hill from Newbury Green
Then the Major has a prlnting-pres
upon which Benjamin Franklin trie
his prentice hand. 1t is kept in al
attic furnished as complete print
ing Office. His writing-desk ono
belonged to John Quincy Adams
when he was first elected to Congress
He has pictures or autographs c
every French ruler from 1898 to tn
present time, and portraits of all tn
Presidents aud Vice Presidents of tn
United States and Of nearly ever
member Of Congress since our rePubl'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
TEH Nineteenth Century.

In 1907, Fulton took out the first
rateut for the invention of the steam
boat.
The first steamboats, that made
regular trip acrors the Atlantic ocean
We're the Sirius and the Great Western
in 1898.
In 1918 the streets of London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
About the year 1882, the first
railroad in the United States was
completed.
In 1910 the first experiments in
photography were made by Daguerrc.
! The anthracite coal business may
be said to have begun in 1920.
In 1886 the first patent for the in
yention Of matches was granted:
The first successful trial of a reaper
took place in 1888.
In 1855 Elias Howe obtained a
patent for his first sewing machine.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

In country town in Illinois few
evenings since, at panorama OF the
Bible, a little eight.year-oldcr sat
wrapped in admiration of the s'ene
until the picture of Jacob and Eobec'
Ca at the we'll appeared, when he look
ed up and said: "Pa, do you see that
picture? I'll Just bet five. dollars
taey're Gvau.ers.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

HAIL COLUMBIA. - Blasted are
Baltimores anticipations that the
Fifth Regiments peaceful march to
the sea would be productive of no
damaging consequences to anything
except commissary stores and ladies
hearts. The Cape May Daily Wave
thus toam':
a Week Of Glory--To the energy
Of Colonel Charles Duffy are we in
lebted for another visit from the brave
BOYS of Baltimore. This will be %
glorious week for Cape May. Bring
out your banners ana run them to the
topmast. Fly the star.spangled
strealaers of welcome from every pole.
Grid the rotuntlas and balconies in
sea Of bunting. Ring out your cheers,
throw up your hats, shout E Plurlbus
l'num and the Baltimore boys forever.
Hail Columbia - YANKEE Doodle.
Music into tune Let the bands play,
and crack the welkin asunder with
wild huzzas Of welcome to the pride Of
Maryland. Great preparations for tho
reception are in progress. Everything
will be arranged in magnificent style
and commensurate with the glorious
occasion. On Thursday they come, to
the tap of the drum. Wake up tho
Guards CAPTAIN Smith.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08
Such is Human Nature.
Fiom tie Chicoyo Tribune.

From tie CAic0yo Trl5NaN.
1t will be strange indeed if this
Beecher scandal is ended without the
discovery of some astonishing lapses Of
memory by the principal actors. The
upshot of it all will probably be to
prove that somebody, like one Of By
ron's frail and famous heroines,
forgot,
Just at the moment she Tor hc] should not,
Great men and women have forgotten
before Reecher or Tilton, There the
Credit Mobiier Congressman. Re
feet what powerful faculty Of for
getfuluess one of them possessed.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

A Kansas girl who wouldn't be mar,
ried without a yellow ribbon around
her waist, had a boy ride eight miles
to get it while the guests waited.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

nsy. Mr.. Charles j. Jenkins, ex-
Governor of the State of Georgia, has
been selected as umpire by the arbi-
traitors appointed to settle the Mary
land and Virginia boundary line.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

A FISH SroRY.--We met boy on
the streets and without the ceremony
of asking our name he exclaimed;
"You'n just orter been down to the
river awhile ago.
"Why?' we replied.
because niger was in swimming
and big catfish came up behind him,
swallowed his feet, and went swim
ming along on the top of the water
with him; and there came up behind
another big fish and the nigger swal-
lowed his tail and the Niger and fish
went swimming about.
"Well, then, what?'
"Whv, after while the niger
swallowed his fish and the other
swallowed the nigger and that was
The last saw Of either Of them.
sonny" said we, with feeling of
alarm for the boy, You are IN tar
way to become the editor Of Radical
newspaper"
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

"Without much political sagaclty or
any extraordinary depth of observa-
ton, we need only mark how the prin-
cipal departments Of the State are be-
slowed, and look no further for the
true cause Of every mischief that be-
falls US.
This language was applied to a Brit
ish Ministry under GEORGE III. at
the outset of our revolutionary Strug-
gle. But every word Of it and more
could be addressed with equal fitness
to the Administration Of GRANT. We
are IN the midst Of q revolution, but it
is one which has gone backward.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

E@- One of the best things about
the Grange movement is the effort to
make the American farmer remember
that his house is not tent ia the
desert, bat home, and should have
all those surroundings which make
home agreeable. 1t is strange fact
that the nearer one comes to a city the
more delightful he finds the gardens
The fact is that the delfzen of the
city appreciate, the pleasure afforded
by ivy and shady tree and flower,
while the farmer does not. lie looks
upon his land as something to scrape a
living from, and chops down the grow
ing shade tree for cord wood. With
a very few days extra trouble each
year, our farmers could live in greens,
and surrounded with flower gardens,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

sessr Read every thing in tLlspaper.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1874-08-08

Have tic courage to insure the
property in FOUR possession, and there
by pay your debts in full.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-26
The Real E.1n,c Market.

The real estate market throughout the
country is in q depressed condition. A
San Francisco paper has an interesting
paragraph ns to how this species OF prop.
erty rises and falls. 1t says;
ut has been noticed that real estate In
all progressive American cities has, like
the tide, its seasons to ebb and flow.
About five years elspse while the change
is going on from the season Of excitement
to the ebb tide Of depression, and vice
versa, The advance OF real estate which
ended in the rush and furore oil 1859
began in 1868 4. and the decline which
began early in 1860 did not cease until
the summer or fall Of 1873. The decided
tendency upward began about September
OF last year; the high tide of excitement
may therefore be expected between Au.
gust, 1877, and the summer OF 1878, pro-
Viding the rule in these matters holds, as
we think 1t ia likely TO-. 1t Is notable
TACT, too, that real estate in San Francis
co, Chicago and New York all rushed up
at the same time, and that in them oil the
decline began at the same time"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-26
Prospects for Fail Business in New
York,


From the Times OF Monday.l
The week Just closed appears TO have
brought with it into monetary and com.
nercial circles the frat evidences Of the
revival Of trade for the autumn season Of
1874, and in this light, notwithstanding
the awakening is tardy and by no means
avIgorous one as yet, the business com.
munity welcomes its advent for what
benefit may result from 1t. The week
was an important one for the promises It
brings for the future more than for ita
own slight realizatioDs, and with the can.
ditions now existing in financial and pro.
ducing centres, there ia ample time tor a
favorable ending Of the concerns of the
calendar year. Money Is in excessive
abundance, and the crop prospects have
seldom been more encouraging, while
lair foreign market is open for the pur-
chase and consumption Of our products.
With excellent harvests, plenty OF money
10 move them with, and good average
demand from abroad ior our stsples, it
will indeed be strange Il q prosperous sea.
son does not result. In addition 10 these
prospects, there is everywhere apparent
a most earnest desire on the
part OF the commercial Gnd msnufsc-
turing classes to be again "up and
doing" after the long season Of stSgpa.
tiOn whichis is, TO all appearances, cluscd;
and, at the same time, the severe lessons
OF the past, proceeding from artificial
speculative enterprises, will 10 earnestly
needed IN tho reopening activity which
will ere long be upon us. The shipments
Of money 10 tho grain.growing States has
been already insuguraIed, and tho crop
movement will begin IN the course Of the
next two or three weeks, and probably
become general within that period. The
openings Of fall goods will DO very
!arge during tho present week, and We
learn that buyers from the interior have
already arrived in large numbers, and arc
beginning 10 make selections for fair
average stocks. The fact Is already eyi-
dent that thcro will be no overloadinR In
dulged in, and the rate for money being
so very low just ut present, a considerable
portion OF cash business for actual supply
and immediate demand, with quick re-
turns Of profits, will mark the business of
the Iall.