Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-01-09
Jeffersonvi||e, O., Letter.
Interesting News From Our
Old Friend, Captain G. NJ. E.

Old Friend, Captain G. NJ. E.
The incoming of the New Year and the
coming of letter few days ago from
an old and most admired friend OF my
former home, Frederick County, Md,
closing with the inquiry "why don't you
write letter to the CLARION sometime, ,
rerni nds me I promised that same friend
when visiting in the old beloved State
last July, l would sometimes swap stor-
les, giving general conditions with US, as
compared with the CLARION's report of
conditions, and have no doubt when
this is written the old boys of the 9Th
Maryland will imagine we are on the
skirmish line-so much scattered firing.
Comparing weather conditions of the
passing old year with those Of one year
ago, we, the farmers of southern Ohio,
have scored a home run. One year ago
rainy season began with us about Sept.
LIST and abode with us until March. The
result was that half the wheat crop was
not sown until last of October and some
in November, 1911. Corn rottedor mold
ed in the shock-two-thirds of it unfit for
market or feed. The fodder was almost
worthless for feed. The ground was SO
thoroughly soaked by the excessive rains
that hauling the corn from the fields was
almost like blowing great burrows thro'
the field. Note the difference in the pass
ing of 1912. An ideal summer and au-
tumn, bumper corn crop of unexcelled
quality, all gathered and in cribs or mar
keted in first-class condition, and the
largest acreage of wheat sown in many
years is as green and sodded as usually
it appears in April. All this has been
due to weather conditions.
The winter thus far has been very mild.
Stock has been roaming and feeding over
our blue grass fields as is usually the
in October, and very little feeding was
required until our first snow of three
inches which fell night of January End,
since which time sleighs have been spin
iilI1R ONcI Jul oIAOOIu pIhCo.
Prices of stock have been most salts
factory. Several carloads of fat cattle
Q35O pounds) were shipped to Pittsburg
the past week at SO per hundred. Two
double-decker carloads of hogs went out
on the same train at $3.50 to $3.50 per
pundred pounds, all of which was fatter-
ed and fitted for market on 40 bushels of
corn, the average yield of which in JEFF
ferson township was 60 bushels per acre.
Certainly our farmers and stockmen have
a right to sing the "Doxology", and we
remember the going out of old 1912 as
the passing of loved friend.
Our progressive farmers have not al
lowed work and personal interests alone
to selfishly absorb alltheir time. A very
successful corn extension school and corn
show, and domestic science cooking
school, all under tutorship of teachers
from our Ohio State University. were
held in jefferson Hall, December % to q
inclusive, and both were successful be-
yond expectation.
Our 10th Annual Farmers Institute was
also held at the same place January LIST
and I'd, and the Annual Poultry Show
was held at the same time and place or
from December 80 to January 4th. 1t,
too, was blooming success in point of
quantity and quality of birds exhibited.
But say, boys, haint it time for the re-
call to the skirmishers to cease firing?
Just one more volley, and the recall is
sounded,
How about the Ottoman Empire and
the end of the world? In our Sunday
School lesson of Sunday last we studied
the Creation. In the CLARION of Janu-
airy I'd, wv. L. A." tells us about the
destruction. In the lesson God pro-
nounced his work good, very good. Why
then destroy it before it is finished? This
old scene of prophetic destruction of the
world has been our bugaboo alarm since
lS43, when one prophet of light and
knowledge, William Miller, declared in
that year was the fulfillment of all proph-
ecies on Revelations to be fulfilled, and
the worldthat God has pronounced good
was to go up in blue blazes. But she is
here yet, and William Miller and his de-
luded followers. suspect, are enjoying
the gratifying surprise in new heaven
that the old Earth he was 80 devil sure
was going up in the blazes is still doing
business at the same old stand. The pass
ing of the "Sick Man Empire" out of
Europe and perhaps from the map of the
world is but the repetition of all past
history-the survival of the fittest. The
doctrine of our Adventist brethren of the
speedy coming of Christ, the ultimate
humiliation of the wicked and the sleep
of the dead until the day of judgment. is
a doctrine that has been preached but
not generally accepted as well as not
proven for many decades. Christ says,
'of that day knoweth no man, no not the
angels in heaven"
Ceas firing. CINE.