Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-04-13
Local Items.

Local items.
Withcrow will save you money this week
90 see HIM.
Slight showers have prevailed lately. but
greater fall of rain 8 needed
Fishermen go and come, but the fish re
main in their native element.
Al the Corporation Election on Monday
the old Board of Commissioners were re-
elected.
MIR. d. G. Hammett and family arrived on
Wednesday last. He will make this his home
permanently.
The mountain fires of last week were dam
aging, but by timely and stubborn fighting
were iu every instance whipped b. fore they
had spread widely. 1t is unfortunate that OF
all the incendiaries no one Ia, been caught.
THAT PREMIUM The Sewing Machine, n
new Singer from the Belvidere, LII factory,
will be awarded on Saturday, April 18TH 10
The successful contestant and the Essay will
appear ON the first page Of ,he issue of the
9Th. The name OF tile successful c ,ntestant
will appear next week.
Messrs. Bisga Il Anders will send out this
week handsome pamp l!et in which appear
most interesting facts concerning the horse
Nlnettp's family To the intcnlgeut reader
of this pamphlet. Ninetto will appear, as he
IL, one of toe bes, aud most fashlonly bred
horses that has ever been owned in this
county.
Our OLDEST CIrIzHS-Mrs. Sophia Ely
Ter, mother OF Theodore Eyer and Mrs. A..
Nj. + koons IS probably the oldest person
ia this section If tao county. She WAS 90
years old Oh last Ci!Ilstmas Day. She still
attends to some household duties and her
eyesight is exceptionally good, not requiring
the use Of glasses.
The Mechanlcstown Jr Comet Band, after
one months practice, ventu'cd out on Mon
day evening of last week They rendered
three pieces, receiving hearty applause from
the large crowd t. at gathered on the streets
10 bear them. They then departed in 60 d
form for the Town Hall, where they, until
later, met for practice; they now meet i'll Mr.
DOS. A. WrduIes shop. To Mr.. MaItln +
Foreman, who has taught them, is largely
que the credit for their splendid progr IS the
average age of the members beng not over
sixteen years, it is truly Junior Band They
will BIZ ready when the picnic season arrives
and will probably have surprise in store for
such as may employ them and the boys will
be pleased to secure engagements,
The week, beginning Al nday, April nth
will he an cvcr,tul one al Harris Academy Of
Music, in Baltimore, for Reginald Deovrn'
beautiful opera Robin 1ood' will come back
for return engagemy mt. n bin Hood Is
the rghtful Earl of Huntington, defraud"d
of his rights by the W cked devices of the
Sheriff of Nottingham, AMI Marian, his par
amour IN the ba'lnds. becomes Lady Mar an
Fitzwat,r, a ward Of the crown. She. too is
wrongcd by the Sheriff, who attempts to
,uarry her off to Guy of Osborne who is set
up in the Earl OF Hunting!nn's place by an
obviously ins !flcicn, plot. The sale of seats
opencd Monday, the 10th,
Gracian scholar otthc seventeenth century
might have studied human nature in a coun.
try newspaper office Among many Use
things that he wrote were the following;
The common talk does not reckon what
goes right, but what goes wrong
Mix little mystery with everything and
the very mystery arous"s ve"erntlon. A res
olut,nn declared is never highly thought Of ;
it only leaves room for criticism
"A wise man gets more u~e from his IN.
crnies than fool from his friends. TIER i'll
omen often levels mountains OF difficulties
that one would not otherwise face
1.-The reserve of caution should combat the
curiosity OF inquircrs."
"'Tis maxim. of the wise to leave things
before ,hlngs leaye them"
when one has finished ones work, cold
ness is the general rule. Some do honor to
their post, with others It's the 'ther way. 1t
is no great gain if poor successor makes the
predecessor seem good, for this does not
implv that the one is missed, but that he
other ls wished away"
you should keep your desires sealed up,
stil more your defects. Al go wrong som"
times, but the wise try to hide their errors,
but FOOLS boast of them
. Even IN friendship it is rare to expose
he's failures to ones friends Nay, one
Dshould conceal them from ones self if one
can. But mere one can help with that othc r
great rule of life Lean TO forget"
The above quotations sptly fit INTO the re-
qnirement. of such moral philosop " rs the
country editor takes up by absoTpison a. it
were. III his conact with his limited world
that only too readily applies to hun the above
argument u: the poor successor
1t is particularly pertinent point made
concerning !he finishing otone's work. The
secure them; it may suggest enterprises that
materiali1e; 1t may remove one after another
stumbling block in the way of in liviIual aud
public Interests; It may be the mouihpicce OF
lu,dahie undertaking ard the apologies, for
every accident or error it may have record
Of facts accomplished, yet, should it not bt
proof against a time when a year or even less
pnsscs without it heI' G able to point to grca
""rk done, it's work is a'judged "fipished'
ard GOODNESS is the result.
Were THE CLARION to adjudgc its wortl
hN MEaf il hna MI d0ne il is nnssihlc that il