The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-07-11
Sns0W Savings.
BY HENRY WARD BEE0HER.

| required the employment OF sixteen buudset
horses, said that the saving in particular way
of shoeing the horses made the whole profits Of
the concern. young firm started in the gold
smiths business. The partners were skillful il
their business, economical in their conduct, and
| had good run OF custom, yet, at the end OF thu
year they had made nothing. 1t was puzzle
where the profits had gone A skilled workman
| employed by them had long hair. In chasse
and otherwise cutting gold, he wiped his tool up
on his well-oiled hair, and at night, when al
| home, he washed out the gold dust, and thus wa:
carrying off all the prof IS Of the concern.
In the Government Mint and in the assay Office
the floor is covered by open lattice frames, through
| the interstices of which the dust and gold waste
| falls, and the sweepinGs afterwards yield gold
like gold mine Ia California the Chinese used
to follow after the original miners, and worked
over their tailings or refuse soil aud sand and
grew rich out of their leavings
These small wastes or savings must always de-
termne the condition of the great mass OF men
b close economy, ty frugal living, by patient
and well ordered industry, and by the aptca
ton not only of intelligence (skiI,) but OF The
moral elements, (good work and honest dealing
men can rise slowly to competence and even To
influence. Haste TO be rich is an immortality OF
the most dangerous kind. Ii is an attempt 10
get property without having given lair equiva-
economic school.
The best uses OF wealth are in the earning OF
it, it one earns rightly. To earn is 10 plan, to
labor, combine, foresee, 10 he patient, to be self
denying, to make every element available. II a
man makes money rightly then he makes man
of himself in doing it.
One reason why the boys brought up on New
England farms apt to turn cut well is, they
are brought up to work-to hard work, under
ham, fot NJ
every particle of value They spend nothing,
waste nothing, turn to use things which careless
folks would throw away, aud so are from early
life disciplined TO rigorous economy, industry
and patience. Along this path men Can still sue
ceed
The importation from the unnatural conditions
of the corrupt capitals Of the Old World Of re-
formers who fill workmen with discomfort in
spire them to do, not as much, but as little as
they can, stuff them with crude theories, teach
them TO live in sense OF he wrongs which So
ciety does to them, is doing mischief TO work
ingmen hey ond calculation More work, better
work, more frugaily and economy, and patience
to build up slowly sure competence is the real
wisdom.
Meanwhile men waste lltle things enough to
make good profits. The tobacco smoked away
the beer and whiskey drank, The bad cooking by
which quantities OF food are wasted or made in
digesible the lettering and expensive side-plea-
sures of life, these consume the profits, and leave
tens of thousands OF men at he end of the year
just where they were at the beginning. More
work and fewer wastes. Better work and less
cheating Longer patience and less grum6lng !
A manly reliance On ones self, and less whining
about society And, above all, liberty for every
man TO do what he can do best, aud TO sell his
labor or product where he can sell to the best ad
vantage Avoid the three LIS, Liquor, License,
Laziness Cherish the three LIS, Labor, Liberty,
Love IN. Y. Ledger.
A GREAT CATCH OF PIGEONS A propeller
which arrived at Detroit on Saturday morning
had ON board 1000 live pigeons, recently caught
near Frankfort in BenZe county, Michigan -
This is the largest shipment of live pigeons ever
made at one time in the State, and IL 900 Of
them are to be used at the approaching New York
State Convention Of Sportsmen, which takes
place at Oswege July 25th. The Detroit Tribune
says:
"Tbe pigeons this year about Frankfort are
more numerous than have ever been kncwn be-
fore. Mr.. G D. Wildwood, of this city, who re-
turned from Frankfort few days ago, says that
over an area of some three or four miles square
the trees are literally covered With pigeons, and
about two hundred men have been engaged for
ten days or more in catching or killing them =
Every day from ten to forty barrels Of dressed
pigeons, packed in ice, have been shipped from
Frankfort besides hundreds Of live ones in coops
The roost is in the vicinity of Crystal Lake, few
miles from Frankfort in a forest of beech trees
the pigeons seeking this place because Of the
beechnuts which they feed upon. This flock
previous to roosting here, stayed in Oceana coun-
ty some ten days or more, and there afforded
work and amusement to several hundred men,
and thousands OF pigeons, dead and alive, were
sent to various sections of the country from that
point.
"There are men among the pigeon ca,chers
who have followed this Fl Jck from Arkansas and
Missouri, and who make pigeon catching a bust
ness, being supplied with nets and all parapher-
MALTA necessary 10 entrap and catch the birds. =
They get track of flock OF pigeons early in the
spring in the south, and being acquainted with
their habits, are able to follow them the whole
year. They generally find men at every place
ready to buy their pigeons and pay the cash for
them, the price being from 81 to ST. so per doz
en-. The pigeon catchers thought that this feck,
when they LEFT their roost at Frankfort, would
start for the Lake Superior country, thence into
Wisconsin and thence west. Some Of the party
were getting ready, when Mr.. Wildwood left
Frankfort, to start for Mackiuaw by boat to keep
on the track of the pigeons, as they gave iHdica-
tons of being about TO take their departure"