Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-06-08

"A uuCk UclouSiuB w WI. OinI iVo II' iAh'u'
tenant on Mr.. John H. Williams farm a
Braddock, has laid Sc eggs in as many con
secutive days. Valley Register.
Mr.. John A. Cookery. of this place, is
engaged IN strengthening the stone walls o
the barn on the farm of Mr.. r. J. Shafer
near Boonsbore. VaUey Register.
Decoration day and Childrens Services will
be held at Mt. Prospect M. E. Church, Lew
town, on Sunday afternoon, June the 18th
A number Of the G. A. II. of Frederick vii
be present.
Whenever newspaper man get' so he car
please everybody. his usefulness on this earti
will be cut short off, for right there he viii
be waited on angels wing to the hagen o
rest bevond.
The enterprising firm Of Bale l. Stouffel
of New Windsor have built large addition
To their canning factory, and expect to make
q larger run than ever before. They vii
confine their pack" entirely to corn.
Miss Margaret Davis Richie, daughter o.
the late Judge John Richie, and Mr.. VIM
Floyd Sicard, of Philadelphia. were married
in All Saints Church, Frederick on thursday
iu the presence of large assemblagc. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Osborne
IngIe, pastor of the church.
SCHOOL ExAMINATION.-The examination
of teachers was concluded yesterday after
noon. With two exceptions all who started
In at the beginning of the race renamed to
the finish. There being somewhere near a
thousand papers TO examine, the result will
not be known for several weeks.-Nesos Ol
Friday.
A New CHAPEI..-The consistory of Zion
Reformed church, Hsgerstown, have accep-
ted the plans Of architect Charles E. Cassell
Of Baltimore, for new chapel, which will
Ike built OF stone against the north end OF
Zion Reformed church, Oh Potomac avenue
Hagerstown. The building will contain a
Sunday school room 20 by 80 feet and seats
OVV oCnOWlS. Nv miHuSo VIII uC ~
by "a feet and have a seating capacity Of 200
The consistorv's room will be ~ by IS feet
and the catechlsm room 10 by 10 feet. The
building will have height Of 30 feet.
Four or five days ago mad dog, or one
supposed to be mad, made its appearance on
Jacob Shlvelys farm, on the Marsh pike
three miles from Hagerstown. The dog
attack ed flock Of sheep and bit fine eve on
the hind leg Symptoms Of hydrophobia
set in and Sunday the animal became very
vicious. 1t would bite the lambs aud tear
big patches OF wool from its hide. When
separated and left alone she would bite her
self until the blood trick led from hcr wounds
Ifa stuck was held IN front Of her she would
seize II in her mouth and shake it like dog
-GloJe.
Don't SIGN ANY PAPER-Dont sign any
paper until you have carefully read it over
and perfectly understand the nature Of the
document to which you are alnut to attach
your signature. But such a caution a. this
seems hardly necessary to any person in full
possession OF his faculties. Yet it is aston.
ishing how many people there are, including
good business men, who attach their sigma
lures to papers or documents whose contents
might have a serious bearing upon themselves
or their affairs. with scarcely glance at
their contents. Carclcssncss to acquaint
themselves with the contents OF u paper
before signing 1t, has worked incalcnlable
harm to thousands of we'll intentioued peo-
PIE. Then reAd all papers carefully before
you sign them. particularly those that express
or imply anything in the nature OF contract
or legal obligation.
Tue CouNTRr EDrrof. country ed.
itor should be very important persOn, and
justly 80. For no country preacher or law
yer now talks to an audience of 500; but the
editor of quito an obscure county paper talks
to that many people every week. There are
q dozcn preachers throughout the world each
Of whom talks to 5000 at one time but there
are thousands Of country editors who talk to
that many every week. Furthermore. the
country EDITORS audience is q critical one
it is apt to compare what he says with what
the editorial writer's on the metropolitan
newspapers shy, and it demands that he shall
not talk n,uch less vigorously or much less
lcarncdly than they. So that the country
editor is gentleman who reads much,
and who thinks great deal
about what he reads. He must also be .
man Of affairs, for except in cnses of excep.
tionally fortunate partnerships between a
natural journalist and natural business
man, the country editor must be his own nd
ycr,is,ng solicitor, his own circulation agent,
and his own business manager. When man
of this kind talks he has something to say
John NJ. Deponai in the Examiner.
The aboye is a pen picture Of what the
country editors IF Maryland might be, but
also they arc not Mr. Harp in the Erami
ner.
AT no time have these good tillers Of the
soil been urged or even requested to take one
dollars worth Of stock in the road. The To-
cal directors have arranged with New York
capitalists 80 as not to ask the Valley people
to take any risk $50 900 worth of first mort
gage bonds, with guarantee Of six per cent.
interest have been offered the Valley people
Not stock but bonds are for sale. We trust
that an intelligent press and public will soon