Catoctin clarion., 1897-03-18

on Saturday last from twelve days trip to
Baltimore and Washington.
Some are not content unless they get al
the cream of all the milk; some are content
just so when they do get il, its cream; some
are willing to take skim milk, if they can
have It all the time and yet others are will.
ing to take whatever they can get whenever
they can get it, As for us, the small favors
thankfully received" proposition from such
ss may have larger TO confer, doesn't CO.
We do not ask for all cream, nor does the
skim milk diet agree with US.
AUCTION RooM.-Messrs. C. j. Shuff &
Co, have opened an auction and commission
room in Mr.. VIM. J. Freeze very eligible
building on Water St., Thurmont. Begin
ming with Saturday, March eth, and every
second saturday thereafter, they will sell
such goods rs they may purchase or receive
for sale on commission. II will be new
business here and will probably be well pa.
tronized. They will buy anything that can
be stored in their room or will sell anything
| on commission The room was opened on
Monday last.
THE ELECTRIC RAILwAY-The failure Of
The Senate to pass the House bill providing
charter for the Washington and Gettys-
burg railway, via Frederick, Thurmont md
Emm itsburg, while disappointment to the
friends of the movement, has by no means
determined and settled the question. Wes
in receipt Of information direct from those
in charge Of the movement, to the effect that
SO much confidence is felt In the eventual sat
isfsctory outcome of the matter that actual
work is about to begin on the Takoma Park
Branch Of the road and that at the present
extra session probably, certainly at the next
sitting of Congress the charter rights will be
eecured and the road built This is most
gratifying information, for such road IL the
brightest promise to northern Frederick
County of anything that has been proposed
In many years.
We are decidedly of the opinion that de.
spite the Senate's failure to supplement the
action of the House, of the several proposed
Washington and Gettysburg electric railways
this particular one has more elements Of
promise of successful issue than the Others,
combined, possess; 1t is the logical route,
being the most direct. the cheapest to build,
passes through the best passenger and freight
section, will be n bar in gridiron Of similar
roads and has the strongest men back Of it
FACTS IN THE CAsE.-About ten days ago
Reuben Whitmore. recluse who has at.
tanned come notoriety in the neighborhood
of Rocky Ridge, on account of the filthy and
| ragged state in which he has lived for num-
ber of years, was arrested, taken to Frederick
and committed TO Montevue. As to his san.
ity, no one who has ever seen him, as we
have, a hideous picture Of squalor and filth.
could for moment believe that the working
of his mind was normal; that any one OF
sound mind could, with bodily strength to
provide against it. SO persistently and wan.
tonly defile his body by wallowing in filth
and refusing to indulge in the commonest
act of cleansing. We have within the past
several years talked to him on one occasion,
happening by his wigwam while hunting;
he recognized US and recalled time. prob
ably 1S years before, when he had sold US
cigars; his conversation was as straight as it
could have been conducted by any one,
showing neither iGiocy, mania nor vicious.
ness, his utterance and his appearance being
as much at variance as one could conceive.
When we referred to his manner Of living he
answered that he had no home, but that such
had been offered him by some that hoped
thus to secure what little money he had.
Even in that he did not give any evidence
Of monomania on the subject Of the loss Of
money; he rather spoke in a satirical vein OF
those who had offered him home. If he
has been given to vicious or unlawful prac'
tices of any character, such information haf
not come to US, but that his presence was a
reproach to the community in which he lived