Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-09-12

Never forget that when God takes
away the sunlight. He always puts
stars in the sky.-Rose Porter.
There is nothing so great as to be
capable of happiness, to pluck it out
of every moment and whatever hap
pens.-Anna Gilchrist.
Who shall despair while the fields
of earth are sown with flowers and
the fields of heaven blossom with
stars?-Hamilton Wright Mabi.
Some people are always finding
fault with Nature for putting thorns
on roses; l always thank her for put
ting roses on thorns-Alphone Karr.
This world is only place of pill
grimagc, but, after all, there is
good deal of cheer in the journey, if
it is made with contented heart
Henry Van Dyke.
1t is selfish religion that grows
querulous at its own coldness, and
cannot stir the will till it attains a
rapture. Our sole business is to abide
and serve, to keep our assigned place
and grow.-James Martineau.
The world delights in sunny peo-
pie. The old are hungerlng for love
more than for bread. The air of joy
is very cheap; and. If you can help
the poor on with garment of praise,
it will be better for them than blank
ets.-Henry Drummond.
The civility of no race can be per-
feet whilst another race is degraded.
1t is a doctrine alike of the Oldest
and of the newest philosophy, that
man is one, and that you cannot in
jure any member without a sympa-
thetic injury to all the members.
America is not civil, whilst Africa is
barbarous. Waldo Emerson.
All the beauty Of the sky and the
earth Is like the smile of God, and a
smile shows us the disposition of the
person Just as certainly as any words
he can use. One cannot sit down in
the midst of this loveliness without
being conscious that it is a Divine
Presence that makes 1t lovely
Henry Ware, Jr.
I used to think 1t was great to dis
regard happiness, to press to high
goal, careless, disdainful of 1t. But
now / see that there is nothing so
great as to be capable Of happiness
to pluck it out of each moment, and
whatever happens, to find that one
can ride as gay and buoyant on the
angry, menacing, tumutuous waves
of life as on those that glide and gilt
ter under a clear sky; that 1t Is not
defeat and wretchedness which come
out of the storms of adversely, but
strength and calmness.-Anne Gil
christ.
DARING LEAP SAVES BOY.
Ernest Powers, a boy who was
driving a grocery wagon at Dover,
n. j., performed most remarkable
acrobatic stunt which saved him from
death in collision between his
wagon and a locomotive on the High
Bridge Branch of the Central Rail-
road Of New Jersey.
When his wagon was struck by
the engine the boy jumped from the
vehicle to the cowcatcher, to which
he clung until the train was stopped.
The horse was killed.
Powers was out on his route and
was driving along Union street. AS
he came to the railroad crossing an
other wagon was crossing the track.
This prevented him from seeing the
approaching train. Just as he got
On the track Powers saw the train
bearing down on him. Instead of
going ahead he tried to turn the
wagon around, but before he could
10 so the engine struck the vehicle.
The locomotive hit the rig near
the front wheels, and this gave Pow
ars a chance to leap from his seat in
4 desperate effort to escape death,
and he landed on the pilot of the en-
ginc. The horse was mangled and
the wagon completely demolished.
Powers was taken to his home suffer-
ing from shock, but appears to be
uninjured.
Gamecocks some times take to
catching mice, which they devour