Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-01-25

Last summers work on Carroll and East
Main Streets made admirable thoroughfares.
II like amount of work may b. done during
the summer. our streets from the railroad
station to the ccnle. frhe town will be as
good as can be made, until We put regular
street. making machine on it.
OFFICERS 1hsrALLED.-Ou Monday night
last the following officers Of Acacia Lodge
No 1855 A F. Il A. W., of this place, were
installed by Pm Frank Hesson: w. M.
l.. r. Wacsclle; S. NJ s. w., Birely; J. w
+. G. kcfauver; Secretary, WIN. 81 Martin;
Treas, Gee. W. Stocksdalc; S. d., T. G.
Stocksdale; J. ID ,Chas. E Cassell; Stewards
II F. Wi,herow aud David NJ. Biggs,
Coop ATTENTIONS An editor known ~
Texas, who has tired of unappreciated en-
d,avOr warns to his subject after the follow.
lng fashion:
Sheol Is full Of newspaper men WIN killed
themselves blowing for some little ,onc.horse
town and tina, too without enough support
10 fatten u grasshopper, Wave decided
that it IS sin to lie, anyway, and in the
future we'll he found telling the truth"
Now, Us We understand til. above this
highly wrought.up brother locates a large
percentage of tue dead ana departed brethren
IN IL region Of decided discomfort, owing 10
tact 'In., during life they ,rod n path paved
with good intentions.
While some of U.S. in exploiting tho varied
and magnificent Possibilities of our several
sections, may occasionally invade the domain
Of untruhtulness So to speak, and tor which
we should be held up as all example ofrepro
hacv of mind ordinarily, ye., we always feel
tina, in dealing with a subject more or less
Imaginative we may claim poetic license and
though We may really and actually lie, our
attentions are always good. Now, we do
not wish to be undcrs,oodae having confessed
that We do lie apout our town; we don't;
we never did and what's more, never shall.
We are able to recall more than one Instance
however where the truth looked like 1t had
been playing Centre Rush in game of foot
ball after we had put IL to the utmost and
while it was necessary, we almost recall that
our intentions were excellent.
We have in mlnd further. cases Of truth
yyiscctrd AZ 1t we're that is, IN order that
appearances should appear, we kind OF cut
down into the living truth and got out
oft Just such sections as best fitted into the
case but to our knowledge we never, ia such
extremity even murdered the truth and VIC
always was careful to feel that our intentions
were of the very test.
Then, too, circumstances have already 80
the rounding up OF n symmetrical statement
that bigangula-, i'll fitting truth has, per
force, been eliminated, rather ignored, rs il
was not used at all ; now, in doing TINT We
would feel sometimes that it would feel some
times that 1t would have been better to have
beatere truth somewhat into the necessary
shape and used 1t, but our good lnlentit us
have always seemed sufficient warrant fol-
all that we haye done. One Of the worst
forms of truth that has ever gotten in the
path of our arguments consists in giving
Satan his dues" When we arc writing up
the grand possibilities of this section AMI VT
are confronted with the stubborn and retac
tory truth that much of our endeavOr, Of
yielding results, much sure to the beneh,
of a certain percentage OF the population
that is methodically, perslstingly and abom
lnaby inimical to Cur own personal interests
then it Is that We work our good intentions
for all they are worth ard thus far haye been
able to hide the fact that earnest cndeayor
and good mt, ntions are selling on the loca
market jast few points below par and
epcculators arc not yet buying for a rise"
Our present intentions are Of the first
water and so long as we shall continue tC
press and direct the mighty lever of public
advancement, THE CATocTIN CLARION, We
shall endeavor to maintain them at or above
"pruof" Yet, having undergone certain
refining process Of adverse experience, VIZ
have risen superior to many of our weak
ncsscs and shall to a less degree justify ant
undue familiarity on our own part, will
the character, foIm and life of truth as ",
find it, on the sole warrant Of goud inter
tions.
To come at it directly and uncquivocally
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