Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1891-10-22

Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands Of cases, has
felt it his duty to make it known to his sn'-
ferIng fellows Actuatcd by tins motive and
a desire to relieve human suffering, | will
send free Of charge, to all who desire it, this
recipe, in German, French or English, with
full directions for preparing and using.
Sent by mail by addressing with stamp,
w. A MOVES, $40 Po,cers' Black, Rochester
ny inch 5 ly
MOONLIGHT CoWN-CUrT1NG MATCM.-On
Thursday afternoon last, Mr.. Peter Moser,
residing near Crca.erstown offered to bet his
brother, Charles Mrscr, five dollars that
Big John Moscr and Little John Moscr
could cut off and shock more corn than the
said Charles and any man that lie might
choose.
Charles Moscr accepted the wager and
hunted up Tom IIotz, of Catoctin Furnaces
and at o'clock, by the light of the moon,
the four tackled n four.acre field of corn.
each pair OF men taking side. They came
out about even on the first row Of 40 shocks,
but at the end of tho second. Muser and
IIo!tz were way ahead As there was but
one more shock row left, they concluded to
try which really was the best pair and they
into that and victory came again to Charles
and Tom. They won the S., Tor winch Mr.
Peter Moser got four acres of corn cut off.
DirHTIIERGA.- Several cases of malignant
dlp,hcna are reported in this loca.liy and one
death, a child of Mr.. James Wollarl, about
one miic south Of town. This disease is cp.
demic, M we hear of it IN many sections
within twenty miles of us. There are MI.
merous cases Of sore throat reported, many
of them simple catarrhal, others diphthertic
and MS we have SAID some malignan diphthrr
ia Thus far 1t is not serious in extent or
malignancy and 1t Is a mistaken sense of du.
ty that would hide the danger by denying its
existence. The disease threatens us and
careful precautionary measures alone Can he
relied upon to defeat the spread of the dis
ease. Ovrrstrained ideas Of nrlghborly duty
take mothers of f,milics INTO infected rooms
and f.lsc notions of respect for the dead should
not prevail to jenpardizc the living. If this
disease secure foot hold here, right at the
opening Of winter, only the most stringent
measures in the matter of visiting the sick
and caring for the dead should be observed.
This article should alarm no one; it is
written at Il time when it may be of service ::
to write pointing out what should hsyc been
done, serves no good purpose. We are not
cnlcavoring to alarm, but to caution, while
the disease may be controlled and at a time
that lis presence only is recognized.
TIE LAW is COOP: THE TIcKET Is A
NUIs>NCE.-Wc b lievc that the law provd-
ing for secret b Hot is Il righteous one; we
believe further that the Inv rs we have it In
Maryland approaches perfection and that its
application will result IN lettering IN every
way our methods in election matters. A law
tina, preserves absolutely the secrecy of the
ballot should be welcomed by every right
minded man MS it must eliminate that most
pcrnicous weakness, the willingness to sell
for money, or other sufficient consideration,
the vote that counts equally with another
honestly and ineligenlly cast.
Our Australian law is all right, but the
ballot Is Il nuisance We believe that it
would be possible to have worse one but
the room for Improvement far exceeds that
between it and the worst possible.
The square" feature Of the ballot strikes
us as being wholly outside OF every require
mcnt and simply calculated to confuse the
voter.
The stamp idea is all right, but instead
of placing Il mark on blank space if the
stamp consisted cf,w or three heavy paral
lei lines, Ire width of which cqualed the
height of the letters of the names of the scy.
cral candidates and voters would place this
stamp on the names Of all that they desired to
cut" when he is voting split ticket, and
require that the stamp ss'oss the emblem"
cuts the two tickets entire, he does not wish
to vote, when he is voting straight" tick
ct, would simplify matters and make it easy
to render it ineligible to the voter. He
/ has hecn accustomed to scratching" the
names of those for whom he does not want
to vote this stamping of such names would
be following out that idea and there would
be no chance to become confused as to Just
where you want to place the stamp.
We commend the law, but con Tenn the
ballot and think that the law governing it
should be amended tins winter.
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