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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
Good News to Every Family.

No more loss Of Life or destruction of
Property by the explosion of Kero-
sene.
1t is fearful to think that during the
short space ola year, there were over
$4S, S,00o,0o0 worth of property de-
stroyed in the United States, by the
explosion of kerosene or coal-oil lamps;
yet the destruction of property is moth
ing compared to the loss of life. No
less than 1900 men, women and child
rem, came to an untimely end during
thepast year by the explosion of lamps,
to say nothing of those persons who,
after terrible sufferings have at last re-
covered, but were disfgured for life.
No wonder then that We say
Good Newsto Every Family" when
Professor Thompson's Non Explosive
Lamp Powder is guaranteed to render
the worst kerosene as safe as a COM
mon candle and prevents the breaking
and smoking Of lamp chimneya.
In q few days the agent for this
county, ,"Conrad Differ, will visit the
families for the purpose of introducing
this very necessary household prepar-
alton, when for the trifing sum of 20
cents package can be procured which
may perhaps be the means of saving
life and property. ~
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
RECIPE FORA "GAY SLEIGH RIDE

RECIPE FOR A "GAY SLEIGH RIDE:
Ten young couples. One four
horse outfit with drives. One night
colder than blixen. One mile of mer-
riment. Ten miles of nearly frozen to
death. One chilly dancehall. One
drunken fiddler, Supper for twenty
five. First course--lukeWarm milk and
water that has been bathed in by an
oyster. Second course-same as first
Dessert-country air and ice. The
"pa1ty' is now half way through.
Next comes a little more squeaky fd-
die and balancing around. Then ali
aboard for home. Colder drive than
ever. All sitting in the sleighbox.
Driver loses his way. Young men
crawl out and ewear. Girls cry.
Home at last-four o'clock in the
morning. Moral: Ten dollars apiece
out of pocket. Nine frozen ears
Twenty played out people of both
sexes. Four used-up horses, and
a lot of young liars, who go around
next day and say they had "a nice
time"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
History Of a Picture.

Two of the most celebrated artists
the world has ever known dwelt in the
same city. One delighted in delin-
eating beauty in all it's grace or tint,
form, and motion. His portraits were
instinct with the charm of physical
vigor. The graceful, half-voluptuous
outline of form and feature harmonized
with delicately blended tints. On his
canvas, the homeliest faces had an al
most irresistible charm. The other
found pleasure only in depicting weird
and gloomy subjects. Above all did
he excel in painting the portraits of
the dying. The agonizing death
throe, the ghastly face and form, We're
all depicted with marvellous fidelity.
There existed between these art
lists the most intense dislike.
At length this dislike ,culmi-
mated. The beauty-loving artist
had been engaged in painting the por-
trait Of a beautiful woman. Connois-
eurs pronounced it the most wonder
full piece Of art that had ever been
produced. His brother artist was ieal-
Gus of his fame and sought revenge.
BY bribing the keeper of the studio he
gained access to the picture each night
At first he was content to only dead
en- the brilliancy of the complexion
and eyes, etface the bloom from cheek
and lip and paint shadow on Ell
ther cheek. Later, his strokes grew
bolder and freer, and one morning the
artist awoke to find the entire
outline of the portrait changed.
tie could scarcely recognize in
the emaciated form and haggard
countenance the glowing conception
he had embodied. The pallid face and
expressionless eyes he had attributed
to lack of genuineness in his materials;
but when the outlines were changed
he suspected the cause and indignant
ly dismissed the keeper. What the re-
vengeful artist marred by a few rapid
strokes of his skillful brush was only
restored by years of patient in
dustry. Reader, need we name
the artist,-Health who paints
the flowers and GRASSY carpet no
less than the human form divine
Disease, the dreaded artist who reveals
among the ruins both of nature and
humanity, and carelessness, the keep
er to whom Health often intrusts his
portraits. And is it not the beauty of
woman, the most admired Of all the
works which adorn the studio of
Health, that Disease oftenest seeks to
mar? The slightest stroke of his brush
upon the delicate organization leaves
an imprint that requires much skill
and patience to ef'ace Restoration
must be prompt. Carelessness must
be dismissed. Let suffering woman
heed the warning ere Disease has mar
red their chief Observation-Disclosures
yond reparation. DrPierce's Favor
ite Prescription has been used by
thousands of these sufferers, and they
areunanimous in their praise of its ex-
ceIlence. If you would be transform
ed from the pallid, nervous invalid in
to a happy vigorous woman, try it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24

IFOnOunCeu DN Vic lliost cuIileut CTltlCS
in Europe to be one of the finest produc-
tons OF the same length in our language |
From the quckened womb of the primal
gloom
The sun rolled bleak and bare,
Till wove him a vest for his Ethiop breast
OF the threads of my golden hair;
And when the broad tent of the armament
Arose on its airy bars
Ipenciled the hue of the matchless blue
And spangled it around the stars
painted the flowers of Eden's bowers,
And their leaves of living green,
And mine were the dyes in the sinless eyes
Of Eden's virgin queen;
And when the fiend's art on the trustful
heart
Had fastened its mortal SPELL
In the silvery sphere Of the tirst-born tear
To the trembling earth l fell.
When the waves that burst DER world
accurscd
Their work of wrath had sped,
And the ark's lone few, the tried and true,
Came forth amongst the dead,
With the wondrous CLEANS of my bridal
beams
| bade their terrors cease,
AS | wrote on the roll of the storms dark
scroll
Gods covenant of Peace.
Like pail at rest on senseless breast,
Nights funeral shadow slept
When Shepherd swains on Bethlehem's
plains,
Their owly vigils kept
Then flashed on their sight the heralds
bright
OF Heavens redeeming plan.
As they chanted the nom ofa Savior born
Joy, JOY to the outcast man,
Equal favor show to the lofty and low,
On the just and unjust descend;
Fen the blind whose vain spheres roll in
darkness and tears,
Feel my smile, the best smile of friend,
Nay, the flow er of the waste by my love is
embraced
AS the rose in the garden of kings,
At the crysalis bier of the worm appear,
And 10 the gay butterfly wings.
The desolate MORN like mourner forlorn,
Conccals ali the pride of his charms,
Till bid the bright hours chase the night
from her bowers
And lead her young day to her arms!
And when the gay rover seeks Eve for his
lover
And sinks to her balmy repose,
| wrap the soft rest by the zephyr-fanned
West,
In curtains of amber and rose
From my sentinel sleep by the night dread
ed deep
| gazc with unslumberng eyes,
When the cynosvre star of the mariner
Is blotted from out the sky,
And guided by me through the merciless
1llolSh spread ny thc hurricane wings
His composites, dark, lone weltering bark
To the haven home safely he brings.
| waken the flowers in their dew-spangled
bowers,
The birds in their chambers of green,
And the mountain and plain glow with
beauty agan,
AS they bask in the matinal sheen.
0, ifsuch the glad worth of my presence
on earth,
Though tre.ful and fleeting the while,
What glorics must rest on the home of the
blest,
Ever bright with the Dcity's smilc
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24

The Pittsburg Telegraph tells of
young girl who lived six months with
out any food. Pshaw we knew one
who lived a whole year that way, and
got fat on it--used to slide gently
down stairs at the dead hour of night
and lay the cupboard bare to the bone.
She was delicate in the daytime. =,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
THE AMERICAN CYCLoPED1A

Within the last ten years the progress
of discovery in every department of know-
edge has made new work of reference an
imperative want.
Tie movement of political affairs has
Kept pace with the discoveries Of science
ana, their fruitful application to the indus
tri,, y. ID useful arts and the convenience
and refine. 'en OF social life Great wars
and conseque. aha 1au'ss "Ne oIG','re 1
involving patton u chah2es oi pecnl'ai mo-
ment. The civil ", oi our own Iouh.ry'
which Was at its heig I 'e'l 'le i ''s' ;,, sn,,
ume of the old work app, 'ien en s ',.'I n'p',s
been ended, and Il new cou - ol l' oo''i,iis
cial and industrial activity III. '''" '''''-
menced Large accessions to our
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
ALEGANY COUNTY, MARYLAND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

for his widow and fatherless little
ones. but his only reply, murmured as
if in troublesome dream, was,
touch not mine anolnted, and do my
prophets no harm
Il stayed by him all night, and at
daydreak | closed his eyes.
II offered his widow a house to
live in the remainder of her days; but
like heroine, she said, I freely for
give you; but my children who enter
ed deeply into their father anguish,
shall never see me so regardless of his
memory as to take anything from
those who caused it, He has left us
all with his covenant God. He will
care for us.
"Welf, sir, those dying words
sounded in my ears from that coffin,
and from that grave. When l slept,
Christ stood before my dream, saying:
Touch not mine anointed; do my
prophets no harm. These words fol-
lowed me till fully realized the es-
TEEN in which Christ holds those men
who have given up all for his sake,
and | vowed to stand by them ever
more for his sake, even if they are
not perfect.
"And since that day, sir, l have
talked less than before, and have sup
ported my pastor, even if he is not a
very extraordinary man. Ny tongue
shall cleave to the roof of my mouth,
and my right hand forget its cunning,
before dare to put asunder what
God has joined together. When a
minister's work is done in a place, I
believe God will show it to him.
will not join you, sir, in the scheme
that brought you here; and, moreover,
If hear another word of this from
your lips, shall ask the brethren tc
deal with you as with one who causes
divisions.
II would give all I own to recall
what I did thirty years ago.
"Stop where you are, and pray
God, ifperchance the thought of your
heart may be forgiven you.
This decided reply put an end to the
new comer's efforts to get minister
who could make more of stir. There
is often a great power in the little
word no. but sometimes it requires
but a little courage to speak it so reso-
lutely as did the silent deacon
Christian Messenger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
THE ILLUSTRATIONS

which are Introduced for the first time in
the present edition have been added not
for the sake of pictorial effect hut To give
greater iacility and force to explanations
IN the text. They EN- race III branches OF
e,, ence and of Il natural history, and deE, ct
tin most famous and remarkable features of
sron,, v, architecture, and art, as well as
th. v,r, pus processes of mechanics and
m.mf,r,u res, Although intended for in
struction ra ther than embeIishment, no
Minis have he, II spared to insure their
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
THE great phosphate beds of South

THE great phosphate beds of South
Carolina, and possibly a hundred
other localities, are conjectured with
reason to have originated thus: All
fish that swim together in what are
called schools die together in vast
heaps, and in portions of the Atlantic
we'll known and ascertained. The
researches of African explorers have
discovered an elephants graveyard
where hundreds of tons of ivory strew
the ground but it is so far from the
sea coast as to be almost lost to COM
merce. The dogs in Constantinople
know when they are on the point of
death, and repair to the barge which
is maintained for the purpose of con-
veying detunct CANNES to the lonely
island in the Bosphorus, where the
dogs potters' field is situated. In
short, an eminent French savant ar
CUES that all animals, birds, fish and
insects possess, in common with man,
this graveyard system, and from this
position he argues that animals reason
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24

The work originally published und the
title of THE NV AMERICAN CYCLIC
PEDIA was completed in 1868 since which
time the wide circulation which it has at
tanned in all parts of the United States, and
the signaled developments which have ta-
ken place in every branch Of science, litcra-
ture and art nave induced the editors and
publishers to submit 1t to an exact and
thorough revision, and to issue 4 new edi
tiOn entitled
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,

forming in fact new Cyclopeedia, with
the same plan and compass as its prcdeces-
sor, but with far greater pecunIary eXpen-
diiurc, and with such improvements in its
composition as have been sug cstcd by
longer experience and enlarged knowledge.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24

THE objection to insuring his life
made by veteran gambler, 81 don't
like toplay game where I've got to
win" is thus delicately paraphrased
by fastidious writer; Men instinc-
lively dislike the contemplation of
contract in which death is a necessary
incident to give it value to their
estate"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.

have been made by the indetatigoble ex
plorers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last
decade, with the natural result of the lapse
of time have brought into public view :,
multitude of new men, who's names are in
every ones mouth, and whose lives every
one is curious to know the particulars.
Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant sicges have been maintained, of which
the details are as vet preserved only in the
newspapers or in the transient publications
OF the day, but which now ought to take
their place in
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
PERMANENT AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY.

In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been til" aim Of
the editors to bring down the informal on
to the latest possible dates, and to- furn ssh
an accurate account of the most recent dis
covercs in science, Of every fresh produc-
ton in literature, and of the newest inven-
tions in the practical arts as well as to give
a succjnct and original recorel.of the prog
ress of
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24

The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminar, labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
a successful termination.
None OF the original stereotype plates
have been used, but every page has been
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1877-02-24
Light.
BY WILLIAM PITT PALMER,

Pronounced by the most eminent critics
in Europe to be one of the finest produc-
tions OF the same length in our language. !
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
1T Is NOT UNJUST,

and no man need tell me it will do
injustice. On the contrary, / am in
favor of setting it back in order to do
justice. l say the man who con-
tracted debt say the nation that
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
The Great waII Of chIna.

EEDlll Ailt AbtihNh ANtMNs
The great wall Of China was meas
ured in many places by Mr.. Un-
thank, an American engineer, late
ly engaged on a survey for a Chi
nese railway. His measurements
give the height of Is feet, and u
width on top of 10 feet. Every few
hundred yards there Is tower ~
feet square, and from 20 10 4j feet
high. The foundation Of the wall is
solid granite. Mr.. Unthank brought
with him a brick from the wall,
which is supposed TO have been
made 200 years before the time of
Christ. In building this immense
stone fence to keep out the Tartars,
the builders never attempted 10
avoid mountains or chasms 10 save
expense. For 1900 miles the wall
goes over plain and mountain, and
every foot Of the foundation Is In
solid granite, and the rest Of the
structure solid masonry. In some
places the wall is built smooth up
against the bank, or canOns, or pre-
cipices, where is a sheer descent Of
1000 feet. Small streams are arched
over, but i'm the larger streams the
wall runs to the waters edge, and
tower Is built on each side. On the
top Of the wall there are breast
works, or, defenses, facing I'm and
out, SO the defending force can pass
from one tower to another without
being exposed TO an enemy from
either side. To calculate the time
OF building or cost of this wall Is
beyond human skill. SO far as the
magnitude OF the work Is concern
ed, It tsurpasses everything in ancient
or modern time of which there is
any trace. The pyramids of Egypt
are nothing compared to IL.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06

Thomas Jefferson entertained u
most sovereign contempt for those
exhibitions which delight small
men. The idea of a President of the
United States swinging around the
circle" and popping up on every
incident occasion like politician in
a ward meeting, did not cOmport
with his views as TO the dignity
which should be observed by the
President of the United States. Pres
ident Jefferson wrote 10 his political
friends, who desired him 10 make a
tour of the north: 81 confess that /
am not reconciled to the idea of a
chief-magistrate parading himself
through the several States as an OBJ
ject of public gaze and In quest OF an
applause which, to be valuable,
should be purely voluntary. i had
rather acquire silent good will by a
faithful discharge of my duty than
owe expressions of it to my putting
myself in the way OF receiving
them.n But the manners and GUS
toms have changed since the days of
Jefferson. The President Of the
United States and his cabinet stroll
over the country, and on every occa-
sion the President appears before
the crowd as conspicuously and as
often as the old field schOOlmaster at
the examination of his pupils. But
every insane folly has its day. Mil
lerism and spiritualism had their
brief day, and the day will come
when the people win be ashamed Of
their gushing over a fraudulent
President, who has contemptuopsly
repudiated the example Of Jefferson,
who thought il disgraceful in the
chief-magistrate to parade himself
before the public.--Mernphis Appeal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
AniscordnntFnmiIr.

The New York Times, the leading
Republican journal i'm New York,
has the following savory illusions 10
Senator Conkling:
"The Oswego Palladium is au-
thority for the statement that Sena-
tor Conlxling is "of the opinion that
the Republican State ticket cannot
be elected in this State this fall; that
the Legislature, and above all the
Senate, should be held by the Re-
publicans-and by this he means, Of
course, the COnkling Republicans"
We should say that "by this he
means"-if, indeed, he has been in-
dulging i'm any such foolish talk
that his friends intend to trade the
State ticket for the Senate In dis
tricts where the latter Is doubtful.
This is not honest politics. lt is, I'm
fact, one of the meanest acts Of par
ty disloyalty, but Il Is not absolutely
unknown i'm New York, and there
are "friends" of Senator COnkling
who are quite capable Of IT,"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
WHOLE NO. 2,3O6.
The Late Senator Rswv's Prophetio
Lettoi'.

LoNAofs
AS an illustration of Senator
Bogy's fixedness Of views upon any
subject, his course in running for the
Senate is remarkable. When he
left home 70 study law I'm the year
1882, he placed i'm the hands OF HIS
mother the following singular docu-
ment:
STE. GENEvIEVR, Jan. 16, 1872
On this day / left home, under
charge of Mr.. VIM. Shannon, AN old
friend of my father, to go to Kaskas-
kia, to read law in the Office Of Judge
Pape. My education II very limit
ed, but, with hard study, i may
overcome 1t. / am determined to
try it, and my intention N to return
to my native State to practice law,
if l can qualify myself, and, while
doing so, to work to become United
States Senator for my native State,
and to work for this until am sixty
years old. / will pray God to give
me the resolution to persevere I'm
this intention. i have cOmmunica-
ted this to my mother and given her
this paper to keep. So help me
God. LEWIS V. BoGY.
Oddly enough, it was in his six
tieth year that he was elected 10 the
United States Senate. Previous to
that he had held various positions
from the Democratic party, but
could scarcely be deemed to rank
the great men Of the State.
Still, in the race against Frank Blair,
immeasurably his superior In ability
and prominence, he was from the
first confident OF success, and took
his election to the Senate by the re-
Missouri Legislature Of
1878 as a matter of course. His be-
lief in the destiny of the thing was
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
Read for Yourselves

the shoes being from the best
Baltimore These goods selling
rapidly. early bargains We in daily
receipt of elegant stock of
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
The nnnrcr fneruala1Ion.

There Is growing evidence that
the South Is awakening 10 the dan
ger of population, which is a Lead
ing question just now In Virginia,
Tennessee, Arkansas, North CARROLL
ma. Georgia and Alabama. Every
dollar saved by this shOrt-sighted
dishonesty will cost a State two or
three dollars i'm the long run by the
discredit repudiation necessarily en-
tails. IL must bar capital from the
State, and it is infinitely better to
shoulder the burdens, however
grievous the wrong by which they
were incurred, thOn to irretrievably
injure the good name Of the State by
repudiatiOn.- Louis Republican.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
THETuscumbia North Alabamian
tbp folIokyinoe In rpnard 10

THETuscumbia North Alabamian
publishes the following In regard to
Hayes and the Democracy
"No Democrat abates one JOt or
title OF his faith, or compromises I'm
the slightest degree his professions
or his principles. Neither - there
any probability that there will be
any noteworthy desertions fr0m the
party. If Mr.. Hayes wishes toJoin
the Democracy, after appropriating
our platform, we have no objections
but II Is absurd TO think that any
Democrat with a thimble full OF
brains is going to abandon the or
ganizatiOn now, when Il Is the only
one i'm the country, and when the
principles for which il has always
contended, and the platform on
which II has always stood, are being
approved and adopted BY the whole
country"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06

FROM an experiment made in the
Yazoo valley, 10 determine the ex-
act time consumed in maturing a
boil Of cotton from a bloom, salts
factory i'm every instance provedthat
the boil opened ON the forty-ninth
day, or seven weeks from the APP
pearance of the bloom. Other cir
cumstances, as sandy soil, later sea-
sons, etc, may make few days
difference.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
CONCLUSION.

NV friends, ! thank you very
kindly for having listened to me so
patiently, for have spoken nearly
twice as long as j would have done
had my friend Converse not been
prevented from being present.
What / have said ! hope you may
think worthy of consideration, and
if it shall be of the least benefit to
any one of you If it shall cause any
one to ponder over the condition Of
the country and see what is neces-
sary to be done; and, above all, If it
shall make you to cherish still more
highly our great country, which,
with all its faults and all its misfOr-
tunes, is still the most blessed home
for poor laboring men in the world,
l shall be happy. Long continued
applause.l