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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
THE WESTERN FARMERS.

The long-continued complaint of the
Western farmers that they receive al
most nothing for their produce, through
the difficulties and charges of transpor-
tation, while they have to pay the high
est of prices for clothing, hardware,
agricultural implements, carpets, cabi-
net-ware, books, and every manufac-
tured article they consume-their own
products being nearly valueless-and
both, from the same cause, are begin
ming to excite something like concerted
action among them. 1t is high time,
certainly, that they set themselves at
work to look into and to contravene the
causes of their troubles for, unless they
see fit to strike blow for themselves,
those who live upon their labor and who
rejoice in their supineness will always
have the weather -gauge-the advantage
of position over them. The old prov
erb, "God helps them who help them
Selves" comes in most aptly in their
case, for if they do not put their snoul-
der to the wheel they can never make
progress in the destination toward which
they are looking.
The value of concerted action has be-
gun to be understood in many parts of
the West, for the time has come when
the necessity of retrenching expenses is
imperative upon the farmer, as they arenot
"making both ends meet, as the saying
is, and they appear to be tending to i'm
poverishment. The subject of exces-
sive freight charges, the profits of grain
spectators and of retail tradesmen, and
such like home matters are brought up
at agricultural meetings and county con-
ventions-and discussion is the vital
pr opulsion which is wanted. Let the
facts be recited, and if there be any
advocates of monopolies, stagnation and
hand-to-mouth existence, let them be
heard and answered. Let truth Crap
pie with error let light be shed upon
darkness-and if truth and justice do
not prevail it will be the first time that
they have been discounted in fair field
and open fight, when combating with
the delusions or the wrongly acquired
privileges of the time. The people are
at work in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Illi-
nois, Indiana, and in various other of
the far Western States, and they will
ere long gather sufficient strength to
obtain and retain all the rights and
powers which so long have been steal
ing from the many for the benefit of the
few.-Boston Journal Of Commerce.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

"Do you think" asked Louis Napo-
leon-in an interview with James Cor
don Bennett not long before the revolu-
ton of 1875" that Louis Philippe can
sustain himself?" '"No," replied Mr..
Bennett. "Why?' asked the other.
Because" said Mr.. Bennett, "there
are in Paris such and such and such
newspapers (naming them, with such a
circulation, against him, and only so
many newspapers describing them),
with scarcely one-quarter the circula-
ton, in his favor" "Louis Napoleon, B"
continued Mr.. Bennett, "made no re-
ply, but he appeared thoroughly i'm
pressed with what said, and, as soon
as he got into power, he took care to
muzzle. the public journals effectu-
ally,"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
HEREST IN THE TEAPOT.

The following notes on the subject of
tea-making were sent us by lady who
has kept house for forty-fve years, and
has zealously studied and practiced the
art of making good tea and coffee. Her
opinions may be considered heretical,
but we consider it certain that she knows
how to make good tea:
81 oppose the so often vaunted rules,
which direct us to put our tea-leaves in
the pot, and after pouring boiling water
over them, to pour the tea Immediately
into the cups. This practice may still do
in China or Russia, where they use none
but the finest qualities of teas, and it
might possibly have answered i'll this
country before the art of adulteration
was understood so well. The idea which
is so often advanced, thatit spoils break
fast-tea to let it boil or steep any length
of time after the boiling water is poured
on it, is most erroneous one. don't
approve of stewing tea, but do not con-
slider breakfast-tea Cno matter how fine
its quality that has not had or min
utes' slow boiling, to be fit for use."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

A CALIFORNIA law court is asked to de-
eide question of inheritance in family
which got itself mixed up in the follow
ing manner, as related in local chroni-
Gle: The father separated from his wife
several years ago and went to Kansas.
The wife followed her husband and set
tied near him. The son of this couple
parted from his wife, who married again,
her husband being her step-mother's s
brother. Her husband died, however.
and she was subsequently married to her
first husbands father. As the matter
stands now, the old gentleman is STEP
father to his grandson the sons former
wife is his step-mother, and his own son
is his step-brother, and the fathers wife
is his daughter-in-law.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
TIMBER FOR THE PRAIRIES.

The President has signed the bill to
encourage the growth of timber on the
Western prairies. 1t provides that any
person who shall plant and protect, and
keep in healthy growing condition for
ten years, forty acres of timber trees
thereon, not being more than twelve feet
apart each way, on any quarter section
of any public lands of the United States,
shall be entitled to patent for the
whole of said quarter section at the end
of the ten years, on making proof of the
fact by not less than two creditable wit
nesses. The bill further provides that
each and every person who under the
pre-emption and homestead laws, hay
ing homestead, and who at the end of
the third year of his or her residence
thereon shall have had under cultivation
an acre of timber trees thereon, not
more than twelve feet apart each way
and in good and thrifty condition, for
each and every one hundred and sixty
acres of homestead, shall, on the proof
of two creditable witnesses, receive pat
ent for the said homestead, and that
none of the lands shall become liable for
the satisfaction of any debt or debts
contracted before
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

A MOST frightful desecration of the
New England Sabbath occurred at Chi
copee, Mass, recently. The State Con-
stables, not appearing to comprehend
the religious duty of eating baked beans
on the Sabbath, actually went about in
the morning and closed all the bakeries,
with the beans intended for many a
domestic dinner left in the ovens The
moral lesson of the morning sermon, if
it happened to be against profane swear
ing, must have been, we fancy, strange
ly disregarded by the head of many a
hungry family. There was an equal
scarcity of brown bread, and altogether
we suspect that the Sabbath in Chico
pee, on that occasion, was hardly a
sweet day of rest.-Ne,O York Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
THE trade reports from Germany are

THE trade reports from Germany are
interesting in more than one point. The
total value of goods exported to the United
States, according to the invoices pro-
duced at twenty different consulates,
foots up for the year 1872, $37, 1T, ,O49,
against 800, 100000 worth of merchan-
disc shipped from France during the
same period. The exports from Paris
alone, during the twelve months, ex-
ceeded 100000, or, say nearly one
and half millions in excess of the entire
shipments of German produce.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

Mrs. MYRA BRADwELL, of Chicago,
has suit before the United States Su-
preme Court, which it is expected will
be decided within few days, involving
the right of women to practice in Uncle
Sans courts. Mrs. Bradwell claims the
right under the Fourteenth Amendment,
and, with an energy and perseverance
characteristic of the strong minded
women who Eight nit Anthony" she
has determined to press the matter to a
test. The result is considered of great
moment by the friends of the woman'f
rights movement.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

The Memphis Ledger says Those
who participated in the Mardi Gras
celebration in this city did not fail to
notice among the masqueraders woman
dressed as bacchante, or French God
dess of Liberty of the Thermidor days,
who rode in an open hack, en- masque,
with one arm, shoulder and breast bare,
and both feet extended from the hack.
She was the observed of all observers
during the carnival. Next day she was
taken sick, and few days since she died
from the effects of the exposure, Of
pneumonia. The unfortunate woman,
in attempting to out-Herod Herod, by
taking advantage of the license per-
mitted in carnival times, sacrificed her
life on the altar of Momus."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
WHAT 1T COSTS TO USE TOBAC eco.

WHAT 1T COSTS TO USE TOBA eco.
The man who spends thirty cents per
day for cigars, will spend in forty years,
at that rate, $3.50. And that young
man who spends fifty cents per day for
unnecessary cigars, will spend in forty
years, at that rate, $1,000. Again, the
man who spends fifty cents week for
chewing tobacco, will spend in forty
years, at that rate, 81, l,040. Imagine a
family of six. The father, mother and
two of the boys use tobacco, each using
80 cents worth per week. They will
spend in forty years, at that rate, 80, 496.
That loaned at ten per cent. interest
would in forty years-adding the interest
to the principal-amount to 80, 1884, when
probably, at that time when they persist
in smoking, they will live in poverty and
privation of more necessary and enjoy
able things than tobacco.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
CURRENT ITEMS,

ing it.
The Michigan State Prison holds &C
murderers under life sentences.
VERMONT has upward of 16, 900 drunk.
ards, though, as in Massachusetts, nc
liquor is sold there.
SOUTHERN planters find the production
of peanuts more profitable than either
wheat, corn or tobacco.
Nova SCOTIA yielded in the ten years
ending Jan. l, 1871, about eight tons OF
gold, valued at 50, 3,64O,356.
The Pittsburgh man who invented
those self-breaking lamp chimneys has
made over $500, 900 out of them.
The Province of New Brunswick spent
800, ,594 in aid of immigration last year,
and obtained s02 foreign settlers.
The first female graduate of Michigan
University has been offered $1,000 a
year and her expenses to tell what she
knows in a Japan school-house.
AN incident for Sardou might be
found in the following, which we copy
from Southern exchange: "The
jurors at court in Clarion come in with
loaded guns and sit with them in their
hands during a trial. Death to the
first lawyer who tells lie! Result-no
court.
The most original spelling we have
ever seen is the following 1t beats
phonetics: 80 you be-a tub 80 oh
pea-a top. Be S0-bat. See S0-cat.
Pea S0-pat. Are SO-rat. See oh
double you-cow. See you be-cub.
See a bee-cab. Be you double tea
butt. See double ell-call
The last dog story: A New Hamp-
shire canine being repeatedly baffled in
the attempt to catch woodchuck in q
long drain, as it made it's exit at the
other end as the dog followed through,
brought neighboring dog and station
ed him at the other end of the drain. He
then drove the woodchuck through, and
he was caught.
The idea of protecting vineyards from
frost by the creation of artificial clouds
caused by fires lighted at night, which
has been in use for many years ir
France, has been tried in Maryland
with fruit trees with considerable sue
cess. For density of smoke the vine
yard proprietors near Suresnes, France
use casks of tar, drawing dense val
like curtain over the grapes.
The retail liquor sale in this country
is over 100000, 900, and according te
the best authority it burdens the repub
lie with 100000 paupers, at an annua
cost of $1OO,OO0,00O. The loss of pro
ductive industry to the country b,
dr,lnkards and tipplers is 1925, 900, 900
The cost of crime is $50,00O,000. Th'
support of insane and disabled is 800,
600, 900, wasting our country's resources
over 1900, 100000 yearly, and adding
to the Government revenue only $50,
O,OOO.
ADAM HARPER, of Georgetown, Ky.
who brought suit for $500, 900 damages
for slander against some of his rela
tives, for accusing him of being impli
Gated in the murder of old Jacob ane
Betsy Harper, has lost his case ant
not only that, but the Developments o
the trial threaten to subject him to tive
indictments, one for being engaged il
that murder, and one for being engaged
with others in attemrting to compel ,
number of negroes, by hanging, to con
fess that they were the parties who com
mitted the crime.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
NUMBER 20.
"OH, TO BE AN EDITOR !"

"OH, TO BE AN EDITOR I"
It's oh, to be an editor,
With passes in your fob,
To drink champagne with senator's,
With bankers to hob-nob;
Riding in Pullman coaches,
Smoking cheroots all day,
Living on milk and honey,
With "nary red" to pay!
Whirling over mountains,
The Geyfers bound to see;
By His Satanic Majesty
Received fraternally,
Sitting in his old armchair,
Filling from his "punch-bowl"-
Oh, it must be glorious
To a printers thirsty soul!
And yet my mind misgives me
That his favois here below
Are all charged up against YOU,
As settlement may show;
His politeness, in the next world
fear you'll much regret,
When "writ against the bod"
He shall issue for his debt.
But If an honest lawyer
Can save you from his clutches,
I'll enter an appearance
If l have to go on crutches.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
EXIR 4 ORDINARY DIEL.

By remarkable train of circum-
stances, Commodore G. X. Garrison, the
New York millionaire, at an early period
of the gold fever became not only citi-
zen of Panama but the leading banker of
that place in fact, the commanding
figure of the Isthmus. Among other
strange characters precipitated on this
neck of the continent by the startling
discoveries of gold in California and the
tidal wave of emigration that it started
from every conceivable quarter of the
globe, was Capt. vi Turner, from the
District of Columbia, slim, wiry man,
of delicate profile, with Byronic halt
in his walk, but enterprising, brave, and
impetuOus to fault-and withal gener-
Gus and magnanimous beyond express
sion.
On some business or social occasion,
no matter which, they came in collision.
High and angry words ensued ; and Tur-
ner in his vengeful mood sent peremp-
tory challenge to the Commodore to meet
him in mortal combat at the earliest pos
sible moment. Garrison was the tempered
steel to Turner's flint and without a
moments hesitation he named pistols, on
the beach of Panama, at o'clock on the
ensuing morning.
The mediation of mutual friends was
of no avail. They were both fearless and
exasperated, and under the circumstances
saw no other mode of redress. But
in palliation of all this we should bear in
mind the peculiar temperaments and
early training of the men, and remember
that this occurred in foreign land dur
ing strange upheaval and half demoral-
ization of society, and took place nearly
a quarter of century ago.
The expected meeting was soon noised
abroad, and the character and celebrity
of the men added intensity to the excite
ment prevailing throughout the city.
Turner, like the Commodore, grasped
the possibilities of passing events, and
resolving to garner from the harvest at
hand, became citizen of Panama, and
embarked in the business of transport
ing passengers from Chagres (the then
Atlantic port) to Panama, and vice versa,
as the case might be. This business,
together with his nationality, often
brought him in close communication with
Commodore Garrison, and they soon be-
came warm personal friends. For as !
have said, they were both men of pecu-
liar rganization-men of keen intellect
and sagacious brains, yet generous heart
ed and impulsive, though quiet tempered
and brave to fault. They were alike,
and yet not alike. Something like flint
and steel-adamantine in their qualities
harmless when passive, yet fiery and
deadly when brought in violent contact.
As both were in deadly interest they
applied themselves with all seriousness
to the practical preparations before them
not forgetting any of its fearful and
possible contingencies. Friends and
weapons were to be provided, business
settled up, papers destroyed, letters writ.
ten, and wills made Both intent on
these varied preparations, busted them.
selves during the tropical afternoon and
even after night, when the full-orbed
moon threw her silver effulgence owe,
land and sea, where hurrying here and
there in anxious preparation for the
morning drama.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
Now is the delightful season when

Now IS the delightful season when
newspaper laureates pay up what is
"Ode to Spring" Following the uni
versal custom, we quote
"The first bird of spring
Came forth for to sing,
But ere he had uttered note,
He fell from the limb,
A dead bird was him;
The music had friz in his throat"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

"A MAN in Portsmouth, N. H., having
been missing for some weeks, to the
great alarm of his friends, suddenly
came home, and being asked where he
had been, merely replied, "Darned if 1
know" He should do as did Salt Will
liams, of Detroit, who, having been on
three days bender in New York, stroll
ed into an intelligence Office and asked,
" Is this an intelligence Office p "Yes, "
said the keeper. What's your fee ?"
inquired Salt (; and upon being informed
he threw down dollar. "Well," asked
the proprietor. "what information do
you want?'' Il want you to tell me, "
suffered Salt, "where the ID I've
been for the last three days"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
VOLUME ii.
THE RAIL.


l met him in the cars
Where resignedly he sat;
His hair was all of dust,
And 80 was his crayat;
He was furthermore embellisheJ.
BY a ticket in his hat.
The conductor touched his arm,
And awoke him from nap;
When he gave the sleeping flies
An admonitory slap,
And his ticket to the man
In the yellow-lettered cap.
SO launching into talk,
We ratified on our way,
With illusions to the crops
That along the meadows lay
Whereupon his eyes were lit
With speculative ray.
The heads of many men
We're bobbing as in sleep,
And many babies lifted
Their voices up to weep;
While the coal dust darkly fell
On bonnets in heap.
All the while the swaying cars
Kept rumbling DER the rail,
And the frequent whistle sent
Shrieks of anguish to the gale,
And the cinders pattered down
On the grimy floor like hail.
When suddenly jar,
And thrice repeated bump,
Made the people in alarm
From their easy cushions jump;
For they deemed the sounds to be
The inevitable trump.
A splintering crash below,
A doom-foreboding twitch,
As the tender gave a lurch
Beyond the flying switch
And mangled mass of men
Lay writhing in the ditch.
With palpitating heart
My friend essayed to rise;
There were bruises on his limbs
And stars before his eyes,
And his face was of the hue
Of the dolphin when it dies.
/ was very well content
In escaping with my life;
But my mutilated friend
Commenced legal strife
Being thereunto melted
By his lawyer and his wife.
And he writes me the result,
In his quiet way as follows:
That his case came up before
A bench of legal scholars,
Who awarded him his claim
OF ST. 800!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

JOHN SMITH has been heard from
again. He appears this time in the
character of an Ohio legislator, and has
introduced bill, in which he proposes
that every citizen of his State shall
henceforth be prohibited from naming
his offspring "John Smith"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

HERE is something new. An inventor
has attached to pair of barber's shears
to an elastic hollow ball, which is COM
pressed by the operation of cutting; and
a current of air, forced out from the ball,
is directed along the edges of the blades
and blows away the fragments of hair
rs fast as they are cut.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

KATE FIELD is now one of the editors
of the New York Herald, moving the
Star to exclaim: "What would the
old man have said to such an innovation
as that? And how the fair Catherine
would have enjoyed the editorial council
of long agor Hair-pins and bodices,
what row there would have been y
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

DR. E. s. CARR, of Oakland, Cali
fornia, maintains that gold-mining in
California is not only profitable, but
carried on at an actual loss. He afiirms
that every dollar of gold that has been
dug there has cost from one to one and
half dollars. Fifty thousand people,
he estimates, were engaged in mining in
1872, and the product was twenty mil
lion dollars. Reckoning the labor at
two and half dollars per day, DIR. Carr
calculates that the miners wages would
amount to thirty-seven and a half mil
lion dollars, making an aggregate loss
to the community, in a single year, of
seventeen and half million dollars.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12
VARIETIES.

A LOOK of scrutiny-A riveted gaze.
A cowARDLY ASSAULT beat retreat.
The inventors of matches-Adam and
Eve.
A WELCOME ship at any time-Friend-
ship.
SOMETHING that don't mind pinching-
Snuff
A "TRY1Na" situation-A seat ON the
bench.
THE best comforter for bachelors-A
good wife.
No OTHER living thing can go so slow
as boy on an errand.
NORTHERN capitalists are building
street railways in Texas.
"GooD blood will show itself, said
the old lady with the red nose.
How TO turn peoples heads-Come
into concert late in thick boots.
EACH beau plucks leaf from CO.
quette so that thorns only remain for
the husband.
WHAT requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come Parting
with things as they 60.
A PRUDENT clergyman, unwilling to
accuse citizen of lying, said he used
the truth with penurious frugality.
A LADY who had repeatedly called her
little boy to come in and say his prayers,
was shocked by his asking her if "God
was in much of hurry"
A BOY of the period astonished his
mother by saying, {" I wish father would
get another wife" Why, my son?"
because, replied the youngster, "Im
tired of seeing you round"
A MAN, and his name was Jones, and
he lived in Cincinnati, drank gallon of
whisky on wager, and he won the bet.
His wife remarked at the funeral that it
was the first money he had earned by
hard work for ten years.
"Do YOU think I am fool ?" a vio-
lent man once asked of the late Rev. DIR.
Bethune. "Really," replied the doctor,
81 would not venture the assertion, but
now that you ask my opinion, I must
say that L am not prepared to deny it."
Who would own the charms and sip
the nectar from the lips of the fair one,
of whom the poet sang:
"Iown the charms of rounded arms,
OF eyes that loves soft luster shed,
OF raven hair, and tresses tair,
OF cheeks that coy with white and red.
"Of pouting lips, where Cupid dips
The arrow to hearts are sped;
Yet, none Of these my fancy please,
Like the bonny hands that make good bread"
WHERE is that elderly scamp who has
howled for sixty-three years for an old
fashioned winter? Where is the old
reptile, that we can get at him? How
we would like to run him through
planning mill run by ice water, and cut
him open with a snow-plow, and fill him
full of snow-balls, and sew him up with
an icicle, and strap him to the North
Pole until the spring rains released him.
The awful wretch !-Danb,try Netcs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

A ooLoRED orchestra from Kentucky
has started for Vienna.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-12

"SrAND1Na room only" is the report
from Vienna.