Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-08-30

TIE ARABIAN SECRET is panacea tor
all aches and pains and is manufactured
solely by T. A. Wastler, of sabillasv'lle.-
There is no question as to the efficacy OF
this remedy and we are not afraid TO ad-
wise our readers to invest in it. MIR. w.
will push the sale of it from hencetorward
and we have confidence in his success.
! Our jon DEPARTMENT is rapidly be-
coming famous, rs the constant press OF
orders from home and abroad prove. we
were literally "snowed under" with work
last week ani have not yet cleared the
wreck The excellence of our work,
promptncss with which it is done and the
libcrality of our prices is making for the
CLARION JOB OFFICE the name it unqucs-
t;onably deserves, that of being second to
no office in the county in its facilities to do
plain and fancy job work.
AN OPENING will occur in our school
this fall, now that Mr.. f. l.. Bobitz has
exchanged school teaching for merchandise
inc and while we have no reasonable nope
that the place will be filled by one of equal
capacity, yet, as our children have had eX-
ceptional advantages during number of
wears, we do hope that really good teach
cr may he chosen in Mr.. BIS place, for it
is probable that, whoever it may be, will
suffer some by contrast anyhow, and it
would damage the school very materially,
fthc contrast were too great. Messrs.
Iandcrs, Boblitz and White are all first
class, first grade teachers and we doubt II
there is another school district in the coun-
tv of which the same may be said and 1t is
thus therefore that we have nothing to
gain and may have much to lose in the
choice Of the new teacher.
One of our citizens found a rattle snake
coilcd under bush in the mountain and
that he might hear it rattle, he cut a
pronycd stick and "giggcd' it. In doing
so, he caught two of the coils in the prong
which in,"rfcrcd with its movements, SO
he carefully twisted the stick until one OF
thc coils was released, when he was re-
wardrd TO his entire satisfaction as il
would have taken the doughnut in compe-
titon with Ilavcrly'a quarict'cS of bones
and tamhourncs and an indian war-dancc
amulet of teeth and toe nails.
/ After the entertainment he sat down by
the side OF it and held the stick with one
hand while he chopped the snake in two
with a stone in his other hand and brought
the rattlcs home as a trophy.
NoSsENsE.-All that is required to
make fact of fiction, or to have serious at.
tcntion given to nonsense, it would APP
pear, is. to give il place in some ncwspa-
per. There is hlood-curdling item going
the rounds of the press, wherein the prob
ability of certain death from the careless
handling of fertilizers is seriously set forth
Blood poisoning, pyHmia is the risk that
is to be run. owing to the diseased condl-
ton of many of the animals that furnish
the bone used in the manufacture of com
mcrcial fertilizers.
Now, in the first place the history OF
/ the business furnishes no warrant for the
publishing of such an alarming statement
for, although we are not prepared to say
that there has been no cases, We do know
81, lao, AT IL, r,rn1l tho mont Dt
the first enc and as Baltimore city leads
the world IN this particular business, IT Is
probable that were the danger as great AZ
represented in the article referred to, ii
would long since have become notorious
with us. which it is now in fair way to
be and yet, as We think, utterly without
cause.
A CoRRucTIoN.-W stated last week
that Mr.. Geo II. johnson had been en-
gagged in business here nearly fifty years,
which has probably been construed to
mean that for that length of time he had
been himself engaged in merchandising
whereas the facts are that thiriy-one years
ago he bought out Mr.. Charles Gilpin
who with Mr.. John Q. Huyctt conducted
the tanning business in the large building
vet standing on the southern borders OF
our town. 1t may surprise some of our
citizens who are under the impression
that it has only been during late years
7 that any considerable business has been
done here, to learn that during the first
twelve months that Mr.. johnson conduct
ed business. ,hirty-one years ago. his sales
amounted to $4,000 All this was done
in the building now owned and occupied
by Mr.. William Webb on Water-st and
of which Mr. johnson speaks rs having at
the time counting room about the size OF
a large No. dry goods box of the present
:, day.
Mr.. johnson bought Of Mr.. Gilpin the
stock ofupwards of $4,000 worth otgoods
at the urgent request of the members OF
the tanning firm, with about the onc-twen-
tieth of that amount of ready money in
hand; in payment of which, every note
that was given was paid when due, in spite
! of the fact that within that time his safe
: was broken open and robbed of about 3d.
900.
1t is worthy that this should be read by
our people, especially by our younger
men; it is an example by which we may