Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-03-12

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ofan immense Gulf of Mexico sponge, sent
US by Mr. H. U. johnson from Tarpon
Springs, Fla. Friend J. is enjoying himself {;
he writes that he fishes for 75-pound fish
from boat with six hundred feet of cord
like mason's line; that he guns for beauti
full birds and that he has killed two gators
with his Winchester rifle, the largest eight
feet six inches long. He says he would like
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if VIC do come, and we will if we can, we
slml ask that the most brilliantly plumagei
birds, the earnest fish and the most open
cMlntcnanced gator he looked up for our
dedication.
A SIMILE.-Having recently suffered the
penalty Of an act committed 10y us som'
| OF r.I hp. u.ac tl,ut
1T had not been visited upon us at an earlier
date, when we learned that the party had
Just heard of our otlcnsc.
Now, just ten years ago in the streets Of Il
large city an Irishman was seen to walk up
to Jew and deliberately knock him down
and kick him. When asked why he had
assaulted the lsraelite, the Son OF Erin
replied:
"The jew killed our Saviour
"Why, that Occlrrcd 1880 years ago" said
the bystandrr.
'That makes no difference" replied the
Irishman, II just heard OF 1t Yesterday"
MoRAI..-Get even, If you don't have u
chance for 1880 years
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THE ROAD QUESTION nothing further
comes Of the persistent discussion Of the
public road problem. than the evolvement
of hitherto silent and unknown newspaper
contributors, the vcxcd question will have
conferred an invaluable boon upon the news
paper readers Of this county. In the place
of stercotypcd phrases concerning party duty
and uninteresting data under the heads,
fircmanlc, aldcrmanlc, personal and general,
we read nlerminable sophomore theses on
the subject of country highways; arguments
based upon premises in good shape, but the
syllogism ruined by an undlstributed middle
and a necessarily absurd conclusion. The
main drift however points TO the propricty
of the farmer making the roads, when the
fact is that the farmer now pays tho bulk of
the taxes aud cares least whether or not the
roads have bottom more or less remote
from this outward curve of the carth's sur
face. Why must they have good roads in
the winter season? In the summer season
the roads are all good and then is when
they deliver their grain and hay and get in
their winters wood. The farmers team is
on the public road but little between the
dates of November LIST and April Both and
would be but little more if every mile was
paved with Belgian blocks.
Who must have travel. winter and summer !
The merchants IN the towns and cities
they do not CLEAN harvest in few weeks
as do the farmers nor do they realize en- bloc,
but must have daily custom; these are
those who arc most interested in good roads,
not the farmer and the arguments and
demands that the farmer should pay his taxes
and provide good public highways besides
; are selfish, YES conlcmptibly selfish and If the
farmer is gul ed by it he is more obuse than
we take him to be.
TO give an illustration OF the absurdlty OF
some arguments, We will refer to point
made by the Hon. Manassas Junction Grove.
He proves " that macadamzed roads may
be made at the cost of one dollar per acre OF
land lying one half mile on each side of such
road and then says he "would like to receive
an Introduction to the farmer, who would
have it removed for ten dollars per acre. "
Now, if this argument oe II valid one, let Mr..
G. sell his holdings, buy GAO acres along dirt
roads, spend 500 to make mile Of macada.
mixed road aud then sell it at a profit of
$500, or 50 per acre; that will be bigger
bonanza than lime kilns and very unpre-
tcntious syndicate would suffice to buy
sufficient land, on the plan outlined to
extend to some main thoroughfarc, already
!. macadamized We should like to buy the
land lying along the f. Il e. turnpike within
Six miles of this place, north and south, on II
margin of $40 per acre, conditioned upon
that turnpike being allowed to lapse into the
condition of our average country road. That
would be a bigger bonanza than publishing
a country newspaper, even though it falls
, heir to the answering of such fiimsy argu.
! ments as are being promulgated on the sub
ject of country roads. To drop into slang,
the Country Rold is the present fad" and
the natural sequence is that every one with
an inherent weakness for being in the