Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1882-04-06

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i and board for his Normal Class, which
will be taught here by him during July
' and August, provided the question of tht
accommodations above referred to can 81
satisfactorily and promptly answered. The
board of School Commissioners for this
county has arranged with him for the use
of their rooms in their building here and
he has informed us that he will positively
locate his class at this point if it can he NC
commotated 1t will number somewhere
between fifty and and one hundred and rs
the presence of so many strangers in ou'
town would he Of vast benefit to 1T in
many ways, we sincerely hope that there
will be no difficulty in meeting all require
ments.
, Since writing the above We have learned
that places for forty six and probably If
ty two have heen secured positively. Judg-
ing from this success, it is to Ike considered
as certain that the class will locate here
this summer, ns there are number Of pla-
ces doubtless that can be secured aud the
number yet required is not great.
We should not be surprised at anything
that we see or hear nowadays, but we
must confess to touch of it. when we
read in the stad old paper of siaid old
Frederick, that Mr.. Beecher's lecture
blended "high morals and true religion
with four other elements of"real, rational
enjoyment" We feared that that lecture
would pail upon the tastes of slow going
old fashioned Frederick and nre really
stricken with wonder to know that there
Is II taste in our capital city for the mod
ern theology of senSntionnlism and modern
morality. ~ embraced in the code Of sens
ualism; vet we may have allowed our
wish to be father to the thought, for, ae
we did no, hear Mr.. Bcecher on that oc
cnSion, nor, a. for some reason none of our
thirty two column contemporaries have
had sufficient space to give even the brief
est cpitome IF the Lecture. he may have
been coached keep within the bounds
of Frelcrck's systems of morals and re.
igion and did not rXpound a system OF
religion that permits such u'trrances MS
fool Congress" to he male from pulpit
on Sabbath morning in thcol"pic" po-
4 Iii al discussion Of tie "Healhen Chintr'
question. That there are multitude OF
persons in Frederick who conld appreciate
the wit, e'"quence and polished e'e"ancr
of Mr. Berchers oratorv. we are not 1T "l
surprised to learn, hut that it has kept
race " tn his moral and theological code
quite confounds us.
Bro Mntter Of the Chrontcls NAV he nc
rcn,rd as the Mentor of the Tclrmaci %
f The Frederick county press. He is able
witty, discerning and can be- saiirical lr
commenting uron some one 81 our sr''clr'
| last week he found "dIsinctions without
differences, which in all probability tx
,.,ed; who knows? i no, he
, In the same issue Of the Chronicle, W,
/, fad the Baltimore Sun corrected in NJ
/ article it gave to tn" question of "s'tti {
> hen" or n Setting hem. whcfin the Chro,
icle says I'VE set the hen on her eggs; hu
she sits there unless she gets ID. till th
process of Matching is completely and 4
, clinch the argument he quotes scripture t
reconcile the doubtful, AS the partIidg,
stitch ON eggs" Ter. XNlI2.
:. What We would like To have made II,
u tie plninc. is, if"Scts' is an active trans
/ tive verb, how about the "translivr,
Il when the old hen gets of of the eggs an
J # her own free will goes back and sci
on them and sits again? That is ccrtainl
II allowed hv nature in the process OF incu
) baton and the distinction to be drawn /
" the matter Of the difference between wha
we do when we set The hen, and what ST.
does, WHEN, unknown to rs she lrvs tn
i egg and Dts herself aud then sits, is ir
deed fine Further, the verb "srt' Ia il
y iransitive in precisely the same sense tina
v it would in tie above connection and n
Webster is the Chroniele's authority, "
may quote it further 10 show that the 81
Is The Chronicle and Webster may all be some
:, what inconsistent Wehster's third den
# n.tion offset; verb intrnnsi,ive" isto plac
4 plants or shoots in the ground 10 plant
d and we affirm that the idea Of the ctual fac
i of growth or reproduction, of termination
V or incubation is borne alike in either cas-
f by the word "set" and that distinction
t without difference may sometimes b
n found in works Of higher authority tina
{ the CLARION.
SNAKE SENsE.-It is generally know
we believe. that upon the approach of dar
: ger, the snake mother receives the youn
u into sac or pouch, the entrance to whic
" is by way the mouth AT ledge know
us Wolf Rock, in our mountains about on
~ mile west Of town, there is a rat'lesnnk
q den and on the warm afternoon of Satur
day last, one of our citizens happening t
] come suddenly upon that point, wilnes-e
h a procce, ling that will convince manv ths
X the serpent has more intelligence than all
y. of its race has been accredited with, slDc
es the memorable dialogue and its disastrou
Is results, recorded now some six thousan
Is years. Mr.. Notaway Mathert having o