Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1892-09-08

IS as fellows: " haye sold Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for eight years, and it has
given universal satisfaction to my customers
l use no other in my family, and have never
calleda doctor for any throat or lung trouble
We feel that we could not keep house with
out it," so cent bottles. For sale al
Waters Pharmacy.
The date for opening the Potomac Valley
Railroad for passenger traffic has been de-
laycd one week from tho day originally fixed
to 18th inst. That day passenger trains will
will continue on from Hagerstown to Cherry
Run. The fine work of ballasting and put
ting on the finishing touches is being done
by the Western Maryland Company itself
The road bed is in admirable shape, and the
engineers have reported that trains can be
run at speed of fifty miles per hour with
safety.
The Old Man Would Have
His Joke.
Two boys, who owned a cattle farm out West
Christcned 1t Focus" ut their sire's request
The old man thought 1t quite good conceit
For there the suns rays meet--(the sons
raise meetD
The lads prospered, and they and their
families enjoyed the very best of health. Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets were always found
in their medicine chest-lhe only positive
cure for bilious and sick headache: dizziness
constipation, indigestion, and all disorders OF
the bowels and stomach. Strictly vegetable,
small, sugar coated only one required for a
dose, and their action is gentle and thorough
The best LIVER Pill on earth.
The following from the Carroll Neacs puts
the matter so well and forcibly that we copy
it bodily for the benefit of our own people ]
CLELN UP CLEAN UP Filth is breed.
or and propagation of disease, and at this
season of the year it is specially necessary
to keep houses, yards and streets clean. Dis,
eases originate aud thrive in filthy localities.
Towns and cities are in great danger of the
dread epidemics of typhoid, malarial and
scarlet fcyers, diphthera, &c, and now that
Asiatic cholera, the most fatal Of all epidem-
les, is raging III Europe and liable to be
brought to our country any day through the
constant tide of immigration, there is ur-
gent need of every precaution against dis
ease and the one thing that every one has
to do is to keep his premises clean of disease
breeding filth.
Clean upl keep the cellars dry and we'll
aired allow no moldy or decaying matter
in them. Clear the yard of all decaying
vegetables, slops and filth of every kind.
Burn the weeds, bury the filth. Look well
to the out-houses and cesspools, and use dis
infectants freely air Stacked lime and dry
earth, though not disinfectants, are useful
in water closets.
Our town authorities should make a careful
sanitary inspection of all streets and alleys,
out houses, hog pens and slaughter houses in
the town, and have all nusances and disease
breeding filth removed. Every citizen of
Union Bridge should feel interested in keep
ing the town clean throughout, and to take
every precaution against disease.
SCHOOL TRUSTEES MUST QUALIFY.-Ma-
jor VIM. E. Stewart, States Attorney, for
Talbot comfy, has raised an interesting school
question. He says: "Distrlct school trus-
tees haye meyer qualified by taking and sub
scribing the oath prescribed in article /, sec
ton 6. the constitution. The code article
n, title Public Education requires the
county school commissioners to keep u text
book and to administer the oath of Office to
the district school trustees. This has never
been done, and, although there are thousands
OF persons appointed district school trustees
none have ever in the last fifteen years taken
the oath of Office. Some persons appointed
district school trustees few days ago were
advised that they were officers whose duties
were most honorable and important and pre-
scribed by law, and that before they could
legally act they must take the oath Of Office.
They were informed by some that they were
not such officers as are required to qualify
by taking and subscribing the constitutional
oath and were not then sworn, the county
school commissioners desiring the opinion
OF the attorneyg general"
IF the district trustee does not subscribe
the oath, how is 1t possible to know that he
is trustee? II lie is an officer created by
the law, then, before lie can act he must take
the oath to faithfully perform his duties.
The legislature had the power to pass the
school law, and in the case Of Davis vs. State
the court decided that when the
legislature creates an Office it Can designate
by whom and in what manner the person
who is to fill it shall be appointed The
court of appeals in the case of Thomas VS.
Owens held that person was not in office
until he was qualified by taking the oath
such qualification, said the court, is an inds
pensible prerequisite to his investiture with
the authority and responsibilities of the of:
fee
IAN Office is defined to he Il right to exer.
cise public function or employment
Surely a district school trustee comes within
the scope OF this definition. Under the old
school law the district school trustees, in the
case of Burgess VS. Pue, were by the court
Of Appeals declared to he officers. But tc
remove all doubt, article n, section z, as
amended by chapter sis Of the acts of 1892
says that the district school trustee is an Of
Ger, and the Office being created by law, it il
necessary to qualify by taking the oath o.
office. If this is not done, as was said in the
case Harwood VS. Marshall, where is the evi