Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-01-09

German Medicine Co.'S Show.
Public Sale of CatOctin Furnace.
Spring on Freeze farm-Bus. Loo.
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Odds and GObbs OF Observation
It looks like q case of finished" town
hereabouts when we look about US for ag-
gressive, enterprising people, such as "tack-
led" water company, fire company, town
hall and hotel projects, just little over
decade ago, we end with an extremely short
list.
Are they growing up; are they unborn;
are they aimed this way from some other
quarter Of the globe, or has their advent
been writ down among IT, improbabilities
There are still some living who aim their
shafts of satire at Thurmont when they are
In want of something with which to feather
q dart; to those of us who spend more time
taking counsel concerning the future than in
whining oyer the past these sarcasms are as
water poured upon the back of duck, or as
peas from blow gun against casemate.
If they get any amusement out of it, being
inexpensive and harmless, they assqredly gel
it without begrudgement.
The prophet business is being overworked
and it is about time that some other scheme,
based upon the estimate of SO many fools to
the thousand OF population, be inaugurated.
We feared at one time that Juricks of Fred :
erlck was about TO publish an almanac.
Vennor. DeVoe, Hicks and Others have
made money out of the credulity of the
American people, with weather prophecies;
if some genius will get half-score of news
papers to publish his predictions concerning
the radical changes IN the laws ofgravitation
cohesion and inertia, when it will come to
pass that the heavier body is the less it
will weigh;lwhen steel may be cleft more
readily than chalk and when no force will
be required to give motion to body at rest,
he will have assured himself fortune; all
that is essential is that he shall deal unintel-
Lightly in scientific expressions and at ran
dom in technical terms, when the so-many-
fools-per thousand will accept him as a pro-
phet and buy his almanac.
Let us have new fad in the line OF in
spircd prophecies.
There may be easier things known to man
than running" a newspaper; we doubt it,
however, judging from the nonchslance with
which almost anybody does it. 1t is done
we'll, too when judged from the standpoint
of the severalty.
There is no better time than the present
to look about you for some promising oppor.
tunity to better the condition ofyourself and
the people about you. There are ways in
which small communities may, by combined
effort, add to the sum total Of the we'll being
of the community, while individual effort in
like directions would not succeed.
Do you not as people buy something
that you could produce at home at the same
price9 If there is one thing on that list ar
range to make it at home and thus provide
that much employment
Won't you snow; won't you please snow
We're boy like enough yet to feel good all
through when we are out in the falling flakes
of the chaste but slippery beautiful Send us
along about rod, perpendicular, in assorted
speeds and directions, with good sousng
rain at the finish, this to be followed, instant
er, by bit of zero, to the end that firm and
glidery crust shall form an me n Joe Flohr'll
20 u. cOastin.' Just snow.
/ By the way did any one happen to notice
some Holidays passing this way recently?
1t has been alleged by several reputable
persons, In our presence, that set of we'll
ordered Holidays duly located themselves
here or nereabout, and were positively iden-
tilted as such. 1t is claimed, however, that
the midnight bell chorus, fire cracker accom-
paniment was held up at Westminster to
raise the ghost OF the w. w. & G, r. r., and
it Is further affirmed that the egg nog label
had been lost of and the formal call dissolved
in the mists and deluge, 80 that it is not en-
tireIy without reason that we ask that the
report concerning the presence here of some
Holidays be further confirmed.
We are in receipt OF a number of fine cal
endars, among the largest and best of which
are those of the Royal Insurance Co., S. M
Birely, agent, the Chattanooga Medicine Co
and d. W. Zentz, our large miller and man
ufacturer.
The public school at Sans Greek having
been discontinued, the teacher, Miss Helen
Landers of this place. has been assigned &c
the school at Mt. Pleasant She entered
upon her duties there on Monday last
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