Catoctin clarion., 1890-02-27

has received boom never accorded to any
other village In the county. All land within
three miles has advanced very much ir price
and excitement runs high The company
expects to have its improvements completed
within two months, and Berlin expects to
have population of two thousand within
two years.-Banner.
Every Home should have 1t.
1t is not always convenient to call .
Physician for every little ailment. Having
Red Flag OIL in the house you have a Physi.
clan always at hand, 1t kills Rheumatism,
Neuralgia. Burns Bruises and all Aches and
Pains. Price rs cents.
There are few things in this life Of which
we may be certain. hut this Ia one of them,
Puritan Cough and Consumption Cure has
no equal for Coughs, Colds and Consump.
ton. Price 25 Gents.
At DR.. J. K. Waters Drug Store.
VERY FUNNY-Anent the choice of Tax.
Collector, q writer in the maryland Union
thus wittily portrays the effect of that act in
our County town.
!!!!!I!
Never, within the memory of its oldest in
habtant, we're the political centers Of Fred
erick so profoundly stirred--we may say COZ. .
vulsed-as they were this day one week ago.
at the hour of three o'clock, twenty minutes
p. M, by our ancient and venerable town
clock, precisely at which hour and minute it
was announced that Isaac NJ. Fisher, Esq,
Of Motteis Station, was appointed Collector
Of the peoples taxes by that august body, the
Board of County Commissioners.
History, ancient or modern, records MOTH
ing halt 80 stu pen.dous even the thrilling
narratives of Herr Englebrecht's diary grow
tame and sickly in comparison. 1t was a
catac1ysm!
For long weeks the political atmosphere Of
this venerable city had been, like some huge
monster, pulsating and throbblng with ex-
pcctant anxiety. Anxious women huggcd
their waillng offspring to their bosoms in
dreadful anticipation Of the impending un-
movable. Strong men met, gazed into each
others faces, smiled ghastly smile and pass
ed on. Eyen Tom Wolfe seemed in harrow
ing doubt as to what was to be.
As relentless time rolled on and brought
us nearer to the awful vortex of eventuation.
mysterious movements were observable a.
mong divers of our loyal Democratic citizens.
Men in little squads Of two and three, with
buttoned coats and collars turned up, could
be seen ever and anon fitting beneath the
electric lights, and gliding stcaltbily in and
out of the palatial residence of Alclbiades the
beautiful, and the repu,ed proprietor OF the
EARTH including the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal and the arthurgormanian ballot system.
Presently, IN the dim distance of Court street
could bc seen the manly form Of Fredcrick's
political megatherum loomingupon the sight
like Forepaugh's unrivalled aggregation of
forty elephants, and thirteen brass bands
drawn in golden chariot. admission fifty
cents to all parts of the show, children under
ten years Of age, half price. Then Brother
William heaved into view, his intellectual
countenance wreathed with that perennial
smile, so childhke and bland, and leaning his
delicate anatomy upon the graceful arm Of
the gentle Eugene. ANer few moments of
whispered greetings this loving trio are &C.
cidentally joined by Alcibiades, the beautiful
etc. who has just returned from an airing
behind his untamci and foaming steeds,
don tcher know. 1t is evident that some
thing momentous has been resolved upon by
this amiabc quartrsin, for after brief con.
ference each starts off with his superb nose
in the air like q pointer on II dead SCENT
Alb, how the Democratic heart swells with
emotion and the Democratic finger points
with pride to these devoted patriots when it
is afterwards whispered around ''y their ar
dent admirers that they were in quest Of the
two rural Commissioners TO prevent them
from committing political hari-har, and rum
ing the dear old party and what patriot
does not icel like pressing them to his throb.
bng bosom when he learns of their eloquent
appeals to these agricultural gentlemen "to
save the party'-"not to he in hurry about
the Collectorship, plenty of time for that at
the March meetiug'-"6Il your Board OF
Charities and Corrections-appoint your Su'
any one, it don't matter
whom-take man from the country-nev.
er mind the town, we don't want it--don't
pledre yourselves to any one for the Collec-
torship. let that 60 oyer till March" Sweet
oil and honey glycerinc and gum drops -
Cicero and Professor Poole! was there ever
such luscious sweetness, such pussy cat soft
ness, such touching eloquepce as this
To say, thst our rural financial county rep
rescntatives were left in dreamy doubt,
whether they were being Tapped In Elysium,
or were the victims of forty thousand mental
buzz saws would be only to state simple
unvarnished truth. II think Its all right"
auoth Alc,biades, the beautiful, etc, to Will
liam, the smiling, "let 'em make all the other
appointments from the country, and the town
comes in for the Coliectorship. and then is
your chance, my boy, dye see?"
Right you are" quoth William.
It's related in the Aeropolitan Herald one
of the leading dailies of ancient Greece, that
a certain philosopher Of Athens, returning
home rather late at night from one OF the ga
looms of the town, where he had been Oh
''merry 60 round" with the boys, and think
ing to circumyent his wife, gently removed
his brogans and took to the back stairs in his
socks. He has ever since been known as
Socrates which is the Greek for old socks