Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-07-09

church will convene at 2 o'clock p. m, Sat-
urday This will be followed by preaching
Saturday night and the sacrament of the
lords Supper will be administered on Sum
day morning at 10 o'clock. A general exper.
fence meeting will be held previous to com
munion service. To these services all are
invited.
A CASE OF OPPORTUNITY 1T is ncces-
sary, in order that one may rely upon it that
he has certain knowledge ofthe moral make.
up of a man. that hebe judged under vary
ing conditions. We have in mind young
man who as subordinate maintained the
confidence and respect of his employer; he
was modest, courteous, efficient, straightior-
ward and manly, all these qualities markedly
as an cmploye with routine duties and neither
discretion nor responsibility beyond the pro-
per performance of an allotted task. From
this position he stepped into one ofan eXccu
tive character, true of but slight Importance,
question of managing and directing posi-
bly, $4,000 to $1,000 actual cash capital, but it
was sufficient to develop out oftbs modest,
courteous efficient and straightforward clerk,
bumptlous, insolcnt, impracticable and
tricky man III. authority; real miniature
magnate of a soulless corporation OF rcgula-
ton pattern.
1t serves perfectly to illustrate that psy-
Geological problem proposed ut the outset OF
this item; while change of circumstances
does not always prccede so decidedly unfor-
tunate and Objectionable amctamorphosis rs
the case in point, yet such result is no marvel
when we consider the number of opportuni-
tics afforded the modern young man Of doubt
full antccedents.
| Personal Miss Sadie Sayler returned
home on Tuesday Of last week after two
weeks yist among friends and relatives in
Carroll County.
Mr. and Mrs. c j. Carmack spent several
days of last week in town, stopping with
Mr.. john Jones. MIR. G. returned to his
home in Baltimore City on Sunday evening
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller Of Baltimore
visited his father in Thurmont on Sunday
last
Mr.. Mac 3 .ltzel and wife and Mr.. Chas.
Bal,zcll visited the Messrs rs parents in
this place last week.
Mr.. and Mrs J. Frank Getty and MIR and
Mrs. N. II. Bale of New Windsor visited
Mr.. Chas. f. Cassel's family on Saturday
and Sunday last Mr.. Walter Getty of New
Windsor and Miss Elsie Birely Of Frederick
City dove from the latter place on Sunday
afternoon, calling upon Mr.. G's cousins Cas-,
sell and meeting his relatives visiting there.
Mr.. VIM. r. Reyes spent few days ofthis
week in Thurmont.
Mr.. John S. Wcybright, wife and child
visited Mrs. VS. parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D.
II. Sayler on Sunday last.
Hiss May Dorsey, who has been visiting
her mother in Frederick, returned with her
sister Marie on Monday.
Miss Elsie Grimes is visiting relatives in
Virginia.
LOOKING THIS wAY.-A writer in the
Daily Ne,cs discusses the practicabillty of
the purchase OF the F. & +. turnpike to be
utilized rs roadbed for an electric railroad.
To the modern mind, the engineering feat
responsible for the F. & E. Turnpike double
discounts the Eeusinian Mysteries, done up
in the Gordian Knot, but by transposing some
OF the curves from the perpendicular to a
horizontal plane and by practical applica-
ton of the a,ons assinorum at certain angles
along that ,horoughfare, gravity might be
circumvented and length abbreviated to an
extent that would make the route practicable
for both freight and passenger; without the
increment of the former we decline to vouch
for the su1lcency of revenue to Warrant the
investment.
Toll and horse feed, the round trip, allow.
ing tor two passengers per horse now
amounts to 321 cents; add sufficient to cover
wear and tear of horse shoes and buggy tires
and you have so cents the round trip. Then
add, say rs cents for saving of time and for
comfort and you have Is cents. How's that
for round trip fare? We believe there will
be direct railroad connection between Fred.
erck City and this and other towns in the
northern section of the county, electric or
steam, in the near future-simply because
the p r. Il. is practically worthless to us;
II may be built on the ocd of the F. s. E.
turnpike, the suggestion is worthy of con.
sideration.
It should be understood at the out set how
ever, that it will be the product Of foreign
capital hence must give ample promise Of
being rcmunCrative investment.
LOYS LETTER.,