Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-09-13


ans. 1t is. not very gaudy affair,
remarks the San Francisco Chronicle,
being merely a modest blue coat and
black trousers, with knee breeches
for the more daring The new rig
oughA to provide at least for q rose
colored satin vest, or the growing
yearning for color will remain unsat-
isfied in the masculine breast
There is something pathetic to the
Boston Transcript, in the laborious,
scrimping, narrowed, plodding exist
ence in ignoble worries over the
stock-ticker of the man who said:
when yod nave made y1,r fortune
it will be time enough to think about
come for him.
According to the San Francisco
Chronicle there is doubtless rather
raspy feeling between the people of
the United States and the Latin AM
orleans. The governments may-and
do--ignore it, but it is notorious that
it exists. And VIC do not hesitate to
say that the fault IS solely with our.
bumptiousness and affection Of SUI
periOrity.
The United States at the present
time Is the busiest region on the
globe, and is doing the biggest bust
ness of any nation on earth Its
mills and factories are working So
fast. boasts the Washington Post,
that producers of raw materials are
hard pushed It's farms are loaded
with crops. Its railroads are rushed
night and day. It's cities and towns
are pushing outward and upward. Its
immigrants are greedily snapped up
and put to work, and on every hand
the cry is, More mem"
American merchants and manutdC'
turers are complaining bitterly to the
state department Of the distractions
which Japan is offering to the estab-
lishmcnt of Chinese custom houses
in ports which control the Manchuri.
an trade. IT is charged, declares the
Atlanta Constitution, that under the
excuse of military eXigency, Japan
csc officials are preventing the en-
trance Of American goods into Man
churia, while the Japanese merchants
are allowed to get their goods in free
of duty.
There are pleasing suggestions OF
sand in certain recent public utter
ances of Milwaukee's young mayor,
Sherburn NJ. Becker. so long as
am mayor" he said last week. no
trap set for the unwary youth OF
either sex shall remain set il | ca"
discover it. and to those who maI
take offense at this determination |
have only a word to say: | do not
care what YOU think or what you may
do. do not want the support or in
dorsement of dive keepers
Andrew Carnegie, in The Nine.
teenth Century, writes of himself as
citizen of continent under one
flag" Go to, thou Laird OF Sklbo.
exclaims Town Topics. HE thee to
one of thy libraries and learn that
the continent, OF part of which thou
art citizen, is under fourteen flags
at least, and the flag which waves
over the northcrnmost part covers
over 100000 square miles more than
that on which the Stars and stripes
flies. Indeed, Canada comprises one
sixteenth of the land surface of the
globe.
In the Westminster Magazine, Prof..
Adam Shortt. prominent Canadian
writer, declares to his countrymen
that Canada has reached the point
in sclfgovernment where she is re-
uuired to take part in the shaping
of the great continental policy known
as the Monroe doctrine. lie holds
that the doctrine is of British origin,
and was promoted for the preserva-
ton of British interests in America;
that, with the growth OF the self-gov-
s--ns-.........s s.nsz.