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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

BY A SUFFERER.
The melancholy days have come. the saddest Of
the year.
Of cleaning paint and scrubbing floors and scour
ing tar and near; ,
Ileaped in the corner of the room the ancept dirt
lay quiet:
Nor rose up at the fathers tread, nor to the
chilircn's riot;
But now the carpets all are up. and from the
staircase top
The mistress calls to man and maid to WELD the
broom and mop.
Where are those rooms those quiet rooms. the
house but now presented
Wherein we dweit, nor dreamed OF dirt, so cosy
Alas; they re turned all upside down. the quiet
suite Of rooms.
With slops. and suds, and soap. and sand, and
tubs. and rails, and brOoms,
Chairs tables. stands arc standing round at SKIES
and at sevens
While wife and huusCmaids fly about like mete-
ors through the heavens.
The parlor and the chamber floors were cleaned
The carpets shook, the windows washed. all
the neighbors know;
But still the sanctum hadescaped, the table piled
with books.
Pens. ink and paper all about peace in its very
looks:
Till fell the woman on them all. as falls the
And then they vanished all away. books paper
ink and pen.
And now, when comes the master home. as come
he must o. nights
To find all things are " set to wrongs" that they
have "set to rights
When the sound of driving tacks is heard. tho
the house is far from still.
And the carpet wonans on the stairs. that har-
binger of ill.
He looks for papers, books or bills, that all were
there before.
And sighs to find them on the desk in the
drawer no more
And then he grmly thinks of her who set this
fuss ahoat,
And wishes she were out at sea in very eaky
boat.
He meets her at the paror door. with hair and
cap pawry,
With sleeves tucked up and broom in hand, def
ance in her eye:
He feels quite small. and knows full well there's
nothing to be said,
So holds his tongue, and drinks his tea. and
sneake away to bed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
How the Earth is Formed.

If the reader, after perusing the fol-
lowing description of the probable mode
of the formation of the earth, given by
an English scientific writer in new
volume, does not understand the pro
cess, he had better leave this internal
sperical vacuity," and 60 where bigger
words are used: A formal idea of the
heaven and the earth may be obtained
by imagining the heaven as at first an
affluviant generation from monecen-
tral point, occupying, or creating and
occupying, space; the earth. as the ar
rest or end of such generative action,
with the gradual relaxation of central
tension and abnesation of such center,
the consequence being the formation of
Il huge internal spherical vacuity,
termed in the Genetic record "earth."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

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on.I men you are one, salo iieieil' .,
Diu you hot poas,, nay even, oe.' t,e :
o1iier ii'snt az 'lie Guy, Ina. you "oul'
| PROCESS anu oe 1Icep'ei py o., ,ie ho'oii'
Gus lilr'' neieh iiammohd
This unexpected attack for moment
| disconnected even the cool Nane, tut he
soon recovered himself ana answered
with smile OF concealed triumph.
I" | did make such bet, Miss Helen,
| but you are not perhaps aware of the
circumstance which led to it. | heard
you accused and condemned as heart
less hirt, whose only ambition was to be
admired, whose only pleasure was to
infiet pain. Alone | attempted to de.
fend you; opposed by dozen adver-
saries, found | could do nothing, so
that | would either be accepted or else
refused in so kind a manner as to prove
that you were not the heartless woman
the world believed you to be. lost my
bet. STILL" he continued, taking her
hand, which she made no effort to with
draw" still, | cannot yet believe that
contact with the gay and fashionable
world can have changed you so COM
pletely from the sweet girl that you
were few years since"
Helen was silent for some moments,
during which sweet memories Of the
past seemed to crowd themselves on
her mind.
"No, Charlie, | am not quite the
heartless woman the world thinks me.
There are still some true and noble
sentiments in my heart which your
presence and your words have awkened.
Notwithstanding my apparent heartless-
ness this evening, am not Indifferent
to the good friend who defended me at
the club"
Vane was totally unprepared for this
tender admission. For a moment he
was silent, and almost forgot his thought
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
Education in SaXOny.

novel and most interesting expert
ment in the field of elementary instruc,
ton has just heen resolved upon in
Saxony. Hitherto, as everywhere else,
so in that small, but highly developed
Kingdom, the youth of the lower orders,
upon being apprenticed to q trade, have
been left at liberty to forget the little
they learnt at school. Attendance at
Sunday schools and evening instruction
provided by the State and charitable
societies We're perfectly optional. BY Il
law just passed this liberty is abridged,
and compulsory attendance at evening
schools exacted for period of three
years. Nature says: This is, we believe,
the first time in the annals of the world
that an attempt has been made by a
State to extend the education Of the
humber classes beyond the merest rudi-
ments, and after they have entered upon
the business of life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
Delicious Sorrow.

There is mysterious feeling that
frequently passes like cloud over the
spirits. 1t comes upon the soul in the
busy hustle of life, in the social circle,
in the calm and silent retreats of soli-
tude. Its powers are alike supreme
over the weak and the iron-hearted.
At one time it is caused 10y the fitting
of single thought across the mind.
Again, sound will come booming
across the ocean of memory, gloomy
and solemn as the death-kneli, over.
shadowing all the bright hopes and
sunny feelings of the heart. Who can
describe, and yet who has not felt it,
bewildering influence? Still, it is de
licious sorrow; and like cloud dim
ming the sunshine of the liver, al
though causing II momentary shade o
gloom, it enhauces the beauty OF re
turning brightness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
The New Bridge at Niagara.

In the great gale, few days since,
people at Niagara looked to see the new
suspension bridge come down, but it
stood the test, although the central por-
ton, unprotected with guys, performed
graceful serpentine movement, both
horizontally and perpendicularly, that
was rendered additionally attractive by
the pas ing to and fro of passengers of
both sexes on foot and in carriages just
for the fun of the thing. An enterpris-
ing velocipedist also added to the
amusement of the occasion, but his
machine was not a success on shipboard
in storm. The performance closed
with the demolition of one-half of the
inclined railway descending to the
ferry.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
Beet Root Sugar.

1t having been demonstrated that
beets can be grown in many parts of the
Pacific slope, of such quality and in
such quantity as to insure profit to both
the grower and the sugar manufactures.
it is not surprising to learn that larger
tracts of land will be devoted to their
culture this year than ever before. At
Alvarado, Cal, a large sugar manufac-
tory, capable of handling sixty tons OF
beets every twenty-four hours, has been
built. Last year the company owning
it manufactured 100000 pounds of sugar
OF excellent quality, equal in every re-
spect to that made from cane. This
year product will be more than doubled,
and as several other large sugar works
have been established in different parts
of the State, an appreciable and favorable
effect will no doubt be produced on the
sugar market Of the country. The sup.
ply Of cane sugar manufactured at the
South during the past few years has been
far short of the demand, and high
prices have ruled in consequence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
Darwinism in Australia.

The way in which extremes meet is
illustrated by the fact that the native
Australians, who are, probably, as near
brutes as men can be, have for ages be-
lieved in the theory of development, of
which Darwin is the apostle. Accord,
ing to their faith, man has ascended
from the lowest iorms OF life, through
all the intermediate grades of animated
existence, to his present physical and
mental excellence. They cherish their
dogs with great care, inasmuch as they
believe them to be embryo men, liable
to develop at any moment into Hnf o1
themselves.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
Why Men Don't Marry.

The census statistics show very clear
ly that more than fuursevenths of the
marriages in Massachusetts, are among
the foreign born population. Why is
it? For the most simple reasons-the
toreien'born can afford to get married,
and the native cannot; and this must
be so, so long as our extravagant modes
of life continue. In social life, there
never was a people tending to deeper
and more destructive social corruption,
and tn it is SO is most evident from
the records in all the courts and the
columns of all newspapers-than Amer
| leans. Once was the time when wife
was a helpmeet,' now, in thousand
cases, you can change the meet" to
eat" and make it read more truth
| fully.
| We boast of our system of education
we have female high schools, female
colleges, female medical schools, and
! female heavens. Our girls are refined
learned and wise they can sing, dance,
play pianos, paint, and talk French and
Italian, and all the soft languages, write
poetry and love like Venuses. They
are ready to be courted at ten years,
and they can be taken from school and
married at fifteen, and divorced at
| twenty. They can make splendid shows
on bridal tours, can coquette and tlirt
at the watering places, and shine like
angels at the winter parties. But
Heaven be kind to the poor wretch
who marries in the fashionable circles
What are they at washing floors? Oh,
we forget nobody has bare floors now
how vulgar they would be! What are
they at making bread or boiling beef?
Why, how thoughtless we are; to be
sure they will board or have servants.
What are they at mending old clothes?
But there we are again: the fashions
change SO often that nobody has old
clothes but the rag man and the paper.
maker now. What are they at washing
babies faces and pinning up their trow
sers? And here is our intolerable stu
pidity once more-having children is
left to the Irish. What lady thinks Of
having children about her now? Or,
if she is SO unfortunate, don't she pu
them to wet-nurses to begin with, and
to boarding-schools afterward? We
repeat: we have come to the point
where young men hesitate and grow
old before they can marry, and after
ward keep clear from bankruptcy and
crime. What is the consequence
There are more persons living q single
llte-are there more living virtUous
life?
| 1t is time for mothers to know that
the extravaganza they encourage is de-
structive to their children; that all the
foolish expenditures making to rush
their daughters to matrmony are, in
stead of answering that end, tending to
destroy the institution of marriage al
together.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
The ESCAPED Nun.

Edith O'Gorman, the Escaped num-"
who is now travelling around the coun-
try giving an alleged erpose of her treat
ment in convent, advertises herself
as an unmarried woman. She is also
accompanied by a man calling himself
Prof. Autfray, who rooms with her at all
the hotels, and says that she is his wife.
The Minneapolis Ne'0s, of the 18th inst,
states that while in that city last week,
Miss OGorman was bruta'ly beaten in
her room by this man, and that screams
of terror and entreaties for mercy came
from the room every night. The same
paper gives further account Of the ter
rors of her marital life, to which, if the
statement is correct, the most vigorous
convent discipline must be infinitely
preierable.-Chicago Times
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
She understood the time right through,
An kep' il mith her head:

And sister Brown-I could but look
She sits right front of me:
She never was no singin' book.
An never went to be:
But then she al'ays tried to do
The best she could she said;
She understood the time right through.
An KEEP it, with her head
But when she tried this mOrnin'. oh.
I had to laugh. or cough!
1t KEEP her head bobbin' so.
1t cen Almost came off
An Deacon Tubbs-he all broke down,
As one might well suppose;
He took one look at Sister Brown,
And meekly scratched his nose.
He looked his hymn book through and through
And laid it on the seat,
And then n pensive sigh he drew.
And looked completely beat.
An when they took another bout,
He didn't even rise;
But drawed his red bandanner out
An wiped his weepin' eyes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

I've been sister. good an true.
For five and thirty year;
I've done what seemed my part to do.
An prayed my duty clear;
But death will stop my voice. l know,
For he is on my track;
And some day, l to church will go.
And never more come back,
And when the folks get up to sing
Whene'er that time shall be
l do not want no patent thing
A squealin' over me!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

DURING the recent boat race in Lon
don between the Oxford and Cambridge
crews, q novel experiment with thetele'
graph was tried with success. A steamer
accompanied the racing boats, having
on board an instrument, and cable
connected with wire on shore. This
was paid out as the steamer pro
ceeded, and at the same time dispatches
were telegraphed to the central office
reporting the progress of the race, the
arrival at well.known points along the
] route.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

SINCE the reign of the Emperor Max
imilian /. (l594), the Austrian armies
have fought no fewer than nearly seven
thousand battles, or one to every fifteen
days. Since the year 1900 Austria has
had one hundred and eleven years of
peace, and one hundred and sixty years
of war.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

To-day the preacher, good old dear,
Read-"I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies"
| al'ays liked that blessed hymn
| s'pose | al'ays will;
1t somehow gratiies mn whim
In good old Ortonville:
But when that choir got up to sing,
| couldn't catch a word;
They sung the most dog -gondest thing
A body every heard!
Some worldly chaps was standin' near,
An when | seed them grin,
| bid farewell to every fear,
And boldly waded in.
I thought I'd chase their tune along,
An tried with all my might;
But though my voice is good an strong.
| couldn't steer it right;
When they were high. then 1 was low.
An also contrawise;
And I too fast. or they too slow.
To mansions in the skies"
They played a little tune;
| didn't understand an so
| started in too soon.
| pitched it pretty middlin' high.
| fetched luSty tone,
But oh. alas! I found that I
Was singin' there alone
They laughed a little. | am told;
But | had done my best
And not a wave of trouble rolled
Across my peaceful breast.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
French Juries.

1t is suggested by the correspondent
of a New York paper that we should
borrow a feature of the French law in
the cons titution Of iuries. 1t often
happens during protracted trials that
one or more OF the iurymen are inca
pacitated by sickness or death. In
cases that are likely to be of long dur
alton, the French courts select one or
two extra jurors, who are required to be
present during the trial, and listen to
the evidence and arguments like the
rest. They do not 60 into the consul
tation room, however, unless vacancies
occur in the original twelve, in which
case they replace the absentecs. Thus
the trouble and expense of a second
| trirl are often avoided.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
A Winter MuskmelOn.

The Pacific R,rol Press speaks highly
of muskmelon, the seed OF which was
brought from Turkey, which keeps
readily to midwnter or later, The edi
tor ate of one plucked three months
previously, and which it seemed might
nave been kept months longer. lt-is
hardly as rich as some Of our muskmel;
ons, but if it can be kept the year round
will be of great value.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
The New Church Organ.

BY VIII N. CAKLETON.
They've got bran new organ. Sue,
For all their fuss and search;
They've done just as they said they'd do.
And fetched it into church.
They're bound the crtter shall be seen.
And on the preachers right
They've hoisted up their new machine
In everybodys sight.
They've got a chorister and choir
Ag'in my voice and vote;
For it was never mV desire
To praise the Lord by note!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

TWENTY THOUSAND women gain living
in Switzerland by working in the watch
factories.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
Sunday in New York.

The New York Academy of Design
will hereafter be open seven days in
the week. Last Sunday witnessed the
Inauguration Of the new programme.
The galleries were filled with a large
and orderly assemblage, and nothing
whatever occurred to mar the quiet Of
the Sabbath. This is the true way to
insure the observance Of the day o rest,
which experience has proved to be es-
sentlal to physical and mental we'll
being. AS it is now, churches and
liquor saloons vie with each other in
attractiveness, and the latter carry off
the palm. 1t is useless to ignore the
fact that a ma ajority of people do not
and will not, attend religious services.
AS workers in real not an ideal world =,
it is our business to recognize this, and
see to it that they shall have at least an
opportunity to spend Sunday some.
where else than in close, cheerless
rooms, or in gaily painted, cheerful sa-
looms. Our libraries should be thrown
open; our collections of paintings and
statuary should invite the passer-b by !;
our leading scientific men should, as in
london, deliver talks to workingmen'
in some central hall, where tne work
ingman and his family might come, and
be sure of glad welcome. If the Sab
bath was made for man. it should be
made pleasant for man, not Only lorthe
Christian and the drunkard, but for the
great majority of men, who are neither
the one nor the other.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11

I've been sister good an true
For five an thirty year;
I've done what seemed my part to do
An prayed my duty clear
I've sung the hymns both slow and quick.
just as the preacher read,
And twice. when Deacon Tubbs was sick,
l took the fork an led
And now. their bold. new-fangled ways
Is comm all about:
And |. right in my latter days
Am fairly crowded outi
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-05-11
NUMBER 33.
Foreign Gossip.

ALvA C. STONE. of Montague, Mass,
was run over by the cars on Tuesday
night. His head was completely served
from his body, and probably rolled into
Deerfeld river, as it has not been found
A CITIZEN of Paris has written u his.
tory of the Commune, and now wants
the hide of Communist to bind the
book.
| In Russia is not an uncommon thing
for the Gar to go behind the scenes at
the theater and compliment the leading
| performer.
EAR trumpets of wonderful con-
struction, by which sounds can be heard
at distance of mile, are to be shown
at the Vienna Exposition.
A WOMAN in Manchester, England, has
been arrested for chloroforming women,
and, while in an insensible condition,
cutting off and stealing their hair
REV. MYRAM d. WooD. who was con-
victed of seduction at Allan ia, Ga., was
sentenced on Wednesday to ten years
imprisonment in the pententiary.
A Two-sroRy hotel, with a French
roof, to accommodate two hundred
guests, is projected at the summit OF
Mount Washington.
SIR HARRY BURRAND, Baronet, with an
income of fl5,O00 per year from estates
in England and Ireland, recently mar
ried Miss Anderson, she belle of st.
John, n B.
ALL save one ofQueen Victoria's ladies
in waiting are widows, her choice since
Prince Albert died. They receive fSO0
per annum, and are the widows of de-
ceased Peers.
Two hunchbacks celebrated their
nuptlals in Paris the other day, in the
presence of thirty invited guests, also
hunchbacks. At the wedding ball all
the musicians were hunchbacks, as was
every dancer.
THE Parish municipal authorities have
at length accepted Sir Richard Wal
lace's offer to erect drinking fountains
in the streets Of that city at his own ex5
pense, and orders have been given for
their construction before the hot weather
sets in
The London boys amuse themselves
by placing percussion caps on the rails
of the street railroads, greatly frighten.
ing both horses and passengers. The
nuisance has become so general that de.
tectives have been detailed to watch
and bring to justice the sportive youths.
A HALIFAX pilot and three assistants,
who at great risk succeeded in getting
aboard a Quebec schooner which had
parted anchor and was going out to sea
with the drift ice, were arrested by the
agent, on bringing her in, for illegally
entering the vessel and breaking open
| the cabin
JANvIER LAMorTE, the ex-Prefect of
the French Department of Eure during
the Empire, was recently tried for
felony, and it was proved that, while
his salary was only thirty thou and
francs, he spent annually four hundred
thousand francs belonging to the public
funds. His case is said to have been by
no means isolated among the Projects
Of the Second Empire.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-01-25
A Beautiful Incident.

On q beautiful summers day, a cler-
gyman was called to preach 10 a young
Episcopal congregation in a town in Iu-
diana. At the close of his discourse, be
addressed his young hearers in such
words as these:
"Learn hat the present life is a pre-
paration for and has a tendency to eter-
nifty. Tho present is linked to the flu
ture throughout creation, in the vegeta-
bio, in the animal, and in the moral
world. AS is the seed, so is the fruit; as
is the egg, SO is the fowl; as is the boy,
30 is tho man; Oh is the rational being in
ills w.rld, 30 will he be in the next;
Lives ojtrangod from God here, is Lives
e.trauaed from God in the next; and
Enoch walking with God here, is Enoch
walking with God in a calm and better
world. I boseech you, then, live for
eternity. Go to the worm that you tread
upon, and learn alesson OF wisdom. The
very caterpillar seeks he food that fosters
it for another and brighter state; ard
moro wisely than man builds its own
Bopuichre, from whence in time, by o
Kind Of resurrection, it comes forth n
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ESiEl-HHeadS

Neatly printed at the office Of the Sweet
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