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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
VOLUME III.

TIE YEAR'S TWEL TE CHILDREN.
January, fat and rosy, strIdce,
His old heart warm, well clothed his sides
With kindly love for young and cid.
The cheericr for the bracing cold,
Laughing a welcome, open filings
His doors, and as he does, he sings.
February, blum and cold,
Ger burrows striding, scorns the cold,
And with his horscs, two abreast,
Makes the keen plow do his bchcst.
Rough March comes clustering down the road.
In his wrathy hand the oxen goad,
Or, with a rough and angry haste,
Scattcrs the seed DER the dark waste.
April, child, half tears, half smiles,
Trips, full of little playful wiles;
And laughing, meath her rainbow hood,
Seeks the Wild violet in the wood.
May, the bright maiden, singing goes
To where the sunny hawthorn blows,
Watching the lambs leap in the dels,
ist'niDG to the simple village bells.
June, with the mowers scarlet face,
Moves DER the cloycrfield space;
Aud fast his crescent scythc sweeps down
Der spots from whence the lark has flown.
July, the farmer, happy fellow,
Laughs to sec the corn grow yellow;
The heavy grain he tosses up
From his right hand, as from cup.
August the :eaper, cl"aves his way
Through golden waves to break of day;
Or, on his wagon, piled with corn,
At sunset, home is proudly borne.
September, with his braying hound,
Leaps fence and pale at every bound,
And casts into the wind in scorn
All cares and dangers from his horn.
October comes, woodman old,
Fenced with tough leather from the cold;
Round swings his sturdy AK, and 10,
fir-branch falls at every blow!
November covers before the flame,
B!ear crone, forgetting her own name!
Watching the blue smoke curling rise,
And brooding upon old memories.
December, worn and gray,
Like all old pilgrim by the way,
Watching the snow, and shiveriDg, signs,
As the wild curlew round him flies;
Or, hudded underneath thorn,
Sits praying for the lingering morn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
NUMBER Al.
DAR JYINISM IN THE KITCHEN.


was takin' oft my bonnet
One afternoon, at three,
When hinscck jump'd upon it,
As proved to be flea.
Then takes it to the CRATE,
Between the bars to stick it;
But hadn't long to wait
Ere il changed into cricket.
Says |, "Surclic my senses
Is a-gcttin' in Il fog!"
20 to drownd it commences,
When it haltcrs to u frog.
Here my heart began to thump,
And no wonder | felt funky;
For the frog, with one big jump,
Leap'd hisself into a monkey.
Then orcnd wide my eyes,
His features for TO sean,
And observed, with great surprise,
That that monkey was man.
But he vanish'd from mJ sight,
And | sank upon the floor,
jest as mssus, with light,
Came inside the kitching door.
Then beginning to abuse me.
She says, "Sarah, you've been drinkin'"
l says, "No, mum, you'll excuse me,
But I've merely been a-thinkin'.
"But, as sure as I'm a cinder,
That party, what you see
A-gettin' ont o windcr,
Have developed from flea y
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05


Grumbling about newspapers, says
the Boston TrarcUer, is as ancient as
newspapers themselves. And notwith-
standing the multiplicatioDs of these
modern convcnienccs, and the slceplcss
efforts of publishers to adapt their pa
pcrs to every variety of taste and every
grade of sentiment, atfordng, one
might think, ample opportunity to
readers to suit themselves perfectly
yet there is still, perhaps, as much
grumbling about newspapers rs there
ever was.
We suppose it does not often occur to
the grumblers that possibly they them
selves may be at fault, may be unrcason-
able, may expect impossibilities, may be
out of humor, may have fit of indigna-
ton or spleen, or may be stupid or unap-
preciativc. 1t may never occur to them
that the men who toll night and day to
furnish them with the latest news, and
the greatest variety of information and
entertainment, are mortal, and some
times tire themselves, and get sleepy
and cross and stupid and forgctful and
careless, and need, and deserve, too,
some consideration and even sympathy
from those for whom they increasingly
work.
Fault-fnding readers do not consider
that everything that is made by human
hands and brains must of necessity be
imperfect, however strong the desire
and earnest the effort may be to have it
faultless. And above all, they forget
that newspaper cannot be made for
general circulation, and yet in every
thing exactly suit any one person. A
thoroughly good, cnterprising ncwspa-
per is really like a well spread dinner
table; it contains variety as well as
quality-something for every taste, and
enough of each kind to satisfy any
reasonable appetite.
1t is not expected that any guest of
table should eat of every dish provided.
1t is not supposed for Il moment that
every dish will be palatablc to every
guest, or agree with every ones diges-
ton; but it is thought, and reasonably,
too, that from the abundant bill of
fare every guest can select enough
that will bc digcstiblc and agreeable
to make substantial and satisfactory
meal.
Just so it is with every well edited
paper. No man is expected to read
everything in the paper, or to like
everything il he reads it; but every man
is expected to find enough that is good
and useful and acceptable and agreeable
in the ample columns spread out before
him to be a full equivalent for what the
paper cost him, and if he happens to
find on the carte an article which Of
fcnds his TASTE, OF is i'll opposition to his
views, he has just to let that alone and
leave it for another, whom it will Just
suit, and for whose taste it WAS gotten
up. In choosing his restaurant, he
should select one whose general style
suits him, and when his taste changes,
or the character of the paper deterior-
ates, he should change and try another;
but never fret himself or vex his neigh
bors by grumhling and scolding about
his newspaper, which, after all, is about
as necessary to his comfort as his din
ner.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05
RIETIE,S.

A HOT llnch-ElrC crackers.
BALLooNIsrs are u tliShty class.
A wosIAN's ailmcnt-The stitch.
WHAT age do shippers like to reach ?
Anchorage.
WHEN is charity like bee? When it
begins to hum.
PLAYING for high stcaks-Marrying n
wealthy butchers daughter.
WHAT parts of an organ remind you of
a huckster? Stop and pedal
Ir you are out III Il driving storm,
don't attempt to hold the rains.
HoME--swcet, sweet home,' as the
bee said when he entered his hive.
RATHER than die without groan, let
me groan without dic.-A. Ward.
A poLEcAT dispersed a Texas picnic.
They all went home IL mile apart.
The courtier's instrument-par &C.
ccUence-is the violin-all bowling and
scraping.
WHEN man is tied, for life, to a
wife, what an ocean she must have of
mankind.
The man most likely to make his mark
in the world-Onc who cannot write his
own name.
THERE is more llattcry in an egg than
in anything else Nothing is SO given
to addleation.
A BOSTON firm of clothiers Have got
out patent trowsers for boys, with cop
per riyets end steel knce-platcs.
"CHILDREN are made deaf, says the
Popular Science MonthIy, "by boxing
their ears" "Our jim" wants to know
what object children can possibly have
in boxing their ears. All the people he
ever saw boxed were past making deaf,
or dumb, OF even blind.
"ARRAH, Pat, and why did 1 marry
ye? Jist tell me that; for it's meself
that $ had to maintain ye iver since the
blessed day that Father OFlanigan sint
me hum to yer house" "Swate Jewell"
replied Pat, not relishing the charge,
San it's mesclf that hopes [ may live to
see the day you're q widow waping over
the cowld sod that kivcrs me-thin, by
st. Patrick, I'll see how you get along
without me, honey"
The famous auctioneer, Mr.. Christie
once, while selling a collection of pic
lures, having arrived at a chef d'Guvre
of Wilson's was expatiating with his
usual elegance Oh its merits, quite un-
aware that Wilson himself had just be-
fore entered the room. "This, gentle
men, is one of Wilson's Italian pictures;
he cannot paint anything like it now."
"That's a lie p exclaimed the irritated
artist, to Mr. Christie's no small dis
comfiture and to the great amusement of
the company; che can paint infinitely
better"
A FRENcHMAN has discovered n
method of tanning and removing bees,
and securing honey by tapping on the
sides and top of the hives. We remem-
Der trying that method in youthful
wears, before we had heard OF the
Frcnchman. We tapped on hive be-
longing to an old farmer one night, and
the bees came out first-ratc. but we did
not care to stay to remove the honey
somehow. 1t seemed to us us though
almost any place in the world would be
desirable when compared to the vicinity
of that hive. In this experiment, as,in
the one conducted by the Frenchman,
the bees possessed all their dsual ac-
tivity and vigor. SO did we.-Utica
Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

THERE is now ON foot the gigantic
project of tunncling the Rocky Noun
tains. The investigation has been
thorough, and the conclusion is that the
project is feasible in every particular
The idea is to tunnel the mountains
from boint about one mile below
Black Hawk to the Middle Park, run
ming in northwesterly direction. The
tunnel to be run will, it is presumed,
cut many rich veins of gold and silver,
and thus a great mining interest be de-
veloped. Some idea, of the magnitude
of the task may be gathered from the
fact that the tunnel, if completed, will
be twelve miles in length. 1t is in
tended to make it large enough to be
used for railway purposes, and so, if a
road is ever to be constructed to
the Middle Park, it will find it's most
convenient route through this tunnel.
The company will be called the Sierra
Madre Tunnel Company, and the incor-
poration papers for its organization have
already been filed.
A BROTHER of~Gharles Dickens is n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-05

A BROTHER of~Gharles Dickens is a
juror in the Tichborne case.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
The Joyless American Face.

What is to be done to prevent
this acrid look of misery from be-
coming an organic Characteristic of
our people: "Make them play
more" says one philosopher. No
doubt they need to "play more;''
bnt when one looks at the average
expression of a 4th of July crowd,
one doubts if ever so much multi
plication Of that kind Of holiday
would mend the matter No doubt
we work too many days in the year,
and'play far too few: but after all,
it is the heart, and the spirit, and
the expression that we bring to our
work, and not those that we bring
to our play, by which our real Vi
tality must be tested, and by which
our faces will be stamped. If we
do not work healthfully, reasoning
ly, moderately, thankfully, joyously
we shall have neither moderation
nor gratitute, nor JOY in our play.
And here is the hopelessncss, here
is the root of the trouble, of the Joy
less American face. The worst of
all demons, the demon of unrest and
ovcrwork. broods in the very SKY of
this land. Blue and clear and crisp
and sparkling as our atmosphere is,
it can not or does not exercise the
spell. Any old man can count on
the fingers Of one hand the persons
he has known who led lives of Sc
rene, unhurriel content, made for
themselves occupations and not
tasks, and died at last what might
be called natural deaths. 50 long
as the American is resolved to do
in one day the work Of two, to make
in one year the fortune of his whole
life and his children's, to earn be-
fore he is forty the reputation which
belongs to seventy, so long he will
90 about the streets wearing his
present abiect, pitiable, ,overwrought
ijoyless look. But, even without a
change of heart or Il reform of hab.
its, he might better his countenauce
little, if he would. Even if he
does not feel like smiling he might
smile if he tried, and that would be
something. The muscles are all
there; they count the same in the
American as in the French or the
Irish face; they relax easily in
youth; the trick can be learned.
And even trick of it is better than
none of it. Laughing-masters
might bt as well paid as dancing
masters to help on society.-Bits Of
IulX, bY IL III.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
A Tale of Two A1ligators and the
Tail of One--Queer Mail Matter.


From the Louisville Ledger
Shortly after the mail train over
the Louisville and Nashville rail
road had left Gallatin yesterday,
coming north, the mail clerks in the
postal car, Messrs. Forsythe and
Glasscock, proceeded to distribute
the Florida mails, which they had
received at Nashville. After sew
eral bags of letters had been dispos-
ed Of, Mr.. Forsythc gathered on to
a large leatherbag filed with print
ed matter, as was supposed, and,
after unlocking, turned the sack up
side down to empty the matter upon
a large board arranged for the pur-
pose. when, to his surprise and hor-
ror, two live alligators were spilled
out, and in an instant they leaped
from the board to the car floor, and
ran beneath lot of loose paper and
empty bags. The now frightened
clerk shouted "alligators.r' to his
companion, Mr.. Glasscock, and in q
few seconds they had vacated the
mail room for the purpose Of pro.
curing help to kill the Monsters =
GlasscocI finally rc-cntered the
mail room, and slowly but cautious.
ly proceeded to remove the loose
paper, when he discovered slick
looking yellow-spotted tail, resem.
bling very much the tai! Of snake
At this sight he really declared the
thing to be 4 snake, and seizlng E
/ poker near by he dealt it blow and
cut the tail off. This caused the
alligator, as it proved to be, to leaye
his hiding place and run out, wher
Glasscock killed it. The other rep
tile was captured alive and brought
to the city. Examination revealed
the fact that somebody in Florida
had sent these curious pets through
the mail in paper box to somebody
i'll Michigan. Mr.. Forsvthe, who
had been sick for some time, was
completely unnerved at the sight
and for few moments was as white
as cotton
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
a Tale Of q Shirt.

In Mcrced there dwclls q married
man, whose wife is stylish and
thoughtful woman, ever on the aler,
to fix up her darling chubby" sc
that he will outshine everybody
clse's darling chubby" Some time
since she conceived the idea of con
structing for her liege lord an out.
fit of opened back shirts. How she
discovered that there were such ar
ticlcs-opcncd revcrsely-and how
she got a pattern are matters OF
speculation. Certain it is that she
constructed them upon the appov-
ed model, "didthem up" nicely, and
land them in Johns special bureau
drawer, and reveled in the thought
of dear Johns pleasant surprise
His surprise was complete, and
reached its maximum when he at
tempted to put the thing on. He
had aim notion that he must
stand on his head or stick his feet
through first, but his wife knew bet
ter. Her womaD's tact taught her
that this wasn't the way, so she
helped him put it on over his head.
Then he couldn't get his arms in
the sleeve. Next he pulled it off
and put his arms through first, then
he couldn't get it on over his head.
Finally brilliant idea seized them
both, after a half hours work on
the wrong tack. He bent himself
over in the form of an inverted let
ter U with his arms outstrctched,
and after short struggle, assisted
by Julia, the thing was done, all
but the buttoning, and of course he
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Canby's Character sites.
From HE New York Tribune.

From The New York Tribune
General Candy was a remarkable
instance Of an officer of high rank
and universal popularity, withou,
enemies in his profession. 1t was
very rare that you could hear a
criticism of him among his brother
officers. He had little ambition be-
yond his duty; was always satisfied,
or appeared to be, with any position
to which he was assigned; and new
er during his career engaged in any
of those squabbles or intrigues for
prcterment which detorm the record
of many able soldiers. He had a
singular power of, inspiring the
most perfect trust and confidence
among those who served under his
command. His subordinates con-
sidered him infallible, and this feel
ing had much to do with the perfect
discipline which he always, appar-
emily without effort, exercised
wherever he went He was the
ideal of the thoughtful and studious
soldier-a man rather of the type
of Moltkc than of Murat. lie was
tall, slender, severe, and SILENT
His love for order and regularity
was one of his distinguishing traits.
To bores or impertinents he was
terrible in his sternness and dignity.
To people who sought him on Off
cial business he was courteous, but
never cordial. TO his friends, to
those who had gained the right to
his intimacy, he was unaffectedly
genial and openhearted. His rcti-
cence and reserve prevented him
from gaining that sympathetic popu-
larlty which fell to many lesser men.
Yet he had friends enough to keep
his memory green; and they know
that the service owned no truer or
ADLER soldier, and that the country
contained no more sincerely patri-
otic citizen.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

Mountain roads for instance. The
Yo Semitic excursion is an extreme
ly costly one. No one should un-
dertake it without an allowance of
from ten to fifteen days Cat IeasU in
time, and from one hundred and
thirty to one hundred and fifty dol
lars in money. 1t will then be east
~ seen, that it is safe to estimate
the expense Of two months of travel
III California TO vary from seven to
eight hundred dollars, according as
the traveller is Or is not an econo
mist. 10 reckon i: as less would
be to mislead. And this, observe,
is IN gold, and does not include any
of the longer excursions-Southern
California, the Columbia River,
Puget Sound; all of which furnish
points Of great interest and beauty
well worth an additional journey to
see.-S"san Cooiidge, IN .Scribaer'>
Tor May.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
What II Costs.

The price of Il ticket to San Fran
cisco and back over the Union Pa
ciiic and Central Pacific roads is Il
little less than three hundred dol.
lars. TO this must be added the
expenses Of seven or eight days
mcals-averaging three dollars a
day, also the additional expense OF
"A compartment in the Pullman car.
Without this latter the journey
would be unendurably fatiguing;
with it, it is surprisingly comtorta-
Bile.
Upon the margin of the long rail
way map furnished to travellers we
read, that a sleeping berth from
New York to San Francisco can be
procured for eleven dollars, which
certainly sounds remarkably cheap.
But this does not mean Il section,
or even half a section: it refers to
the minimum Of space, that is, half
Of one of the berths, upper or under,
three other persons occupying the
remainder of the section. Now few
persons can be really comfortable
with less than whole section,-
certainly no lady travelling alone
could be,-and whole section
costs forty-tour dollars. 1t will be
seen therefore that compartment
in the =. Z. G. is a considerable
item in the expenses of the trip.
Hotel charges in California are
not so high as with us, being three
dollars,-sometimes two dollars and
a hall, "a day. Carriage fares are
exceedingly dear, stage fares less
than in the East,-on the White
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
A Novel Idea.

Hungry travellers in France are
refreshed in most comfortable
manner. One who experienced the
benefit of the system tells his story
thus:
The guard put his head in the
window of the train and politely
asked. "Shall l order you a dinner
at the next station? It will be serv-
ed in the train for three francs, and
the dishes removed at the next stop
ping place. "By all means order
it," The telegram carried the or
Ger ten miles ahead, and when the
train drew up at the station the
door was opened and a circular
basket, three feet high and one
foot in diameter, was put into our
compartment. Upon the top were
knife and fork, spoon and napkin, a
bottle Of water, and flask of wine
and glass, 4 little salt and pepper,
and large roll. Opening the door
in the side Of the basket we saw
four shelves, on each shelf a dish.
We ate our dinner quietly and COM
fortably, while the train rushed
along at thirty miles an hour, and
then restored the dishes to their
places. When the next stoppagc
was made. aporter removed the
basket and received the pay.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
An Irish Mystery.

Once upon time my father kill
cd a big tat pig-the biggest and
tattest in Munster. 1t was all cut
up into nice, beautiful strips, and
packed away into big barrel
And never was pork more Elegant
ly put down. We put in layer of
salt, and thin layer OF pork; and
thin another spread Of salt, and
mere pork, and when we'd done,
the barrel was full; thin we poured
IN 4 sweet brine that me mother
had scalded and skimmcd: and we
covered it up, and put big stone
upon the top Of it. That, ye see,
was to keep the pork under the
brine.
1t was just week after Christ
mas and that's New Years Day
when me mother said to the ould
man, says she, "Dennis, we must
begin on the new pork" And thin
my father said to me, says he, 81
want ye to come and hould the can
die while | open the new pork bar
rel"
SO we went down cellar-me faith
cr with the hatchet, and | with the
candle. Father took off the cover,
and there was the brine, as clear
and as sweet as ever. The ould
man ran his hand down, but not a
bit Of pork could he find. He strip
ped up his sleeve, and plunged it
into the brine to his shoulder
"Blood and zounds." said he, turn
ing as pale as ghost-"Mikc, me
boy, every blessed bit of that ILL
giant pork is gone entirely!"
And sure enough, so it was. And
thin we looked, and by an by we
found where the mischief was. We
lifted the barrel up and looked un-
der it; and there, right at the bot
tom, was a big hole, where the rats
bad luck to ,em-had crawled
through and carried off the pork.
"Took the pork away through a
hole in the bouom of the barrel?"
queried the listener incrcdulously.
'Nes," replied Mike, innocently
-"cvcry bit"
"And left the brine!'
"le es-cvery DROP
"Will you have the kindness to
tell me how that possibly could have
happened?"
"Ah," said Mike, with q nod and
Il wink, chats the mysteryw
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

Fer three hours did Mr.. Nathan
Hosier, of Daviess County, Ind,
stand out by the fence and rave, and
cuss, and tear his hair, and dare his
wife to come out doors-all this with
the chill winds of March whirling up
his trousers legs. Hosier was a
miIk-pcddlcr and had just sold his
farm and was going West into some
weli-watered region to grow up
with his cows. He had slowed
away his last years earnings,
amounting to 800, in parlor stove
that had not been used tor some
time. While "tearing up" the car
pet preparatory to moving, Mrs.
Hosier started fire in the parlor,
and before she thought the money
it was entirely destroyed. AT last
accounts the husband had elopcd
with the town pump, and the injured
wife says, lot the guilty couple 60.