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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-02-23
Pest Onice Register.

For Delivery Of Mails-6s0 m 10 N
Sale Of Money Orlers and Registering Let.
ters-7 m 10 p IA IL Osiice Chased %
Sundays.
Mail betw'n Frostburg Closes Due
Cumberland and al
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Mail bciw' a frOsthurg,
Piedmont aud all
points east and west SGpm TO AN
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and GIantsyite 7@Am 5eo u
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-02-23

LOVING FRIENDs.-Never cast aside
your friends if by any possibility you
can retain them. We are the weak est
Of spendthrifts if we let one drop off
through inattention, Or let one push
away another, or if we hold aloft from
one through petty jealousy or heed
less slight or roughness. Would you
throw away a diamond because it
pricked you One good friend is
not to be weighed against tie jewels
of the earth. If there is GOODNESS or
unkindness between us, let us come
face to face and have it out. Quick,
before the love grows cold. Life is
too short to quarrel in, or 10 carry
black thoughts of friends. 1t is easy
t. lose friend, but new one will
not come for calling, nor make up for
the old one.
FACTS are stubborn things, and fig
ures substantiate them. Statistics
are dry reading; nevertheless those
who run had better read them. Last
year upwards of $6s,OOO,0O0 were
swept away by CONGREGATIONS in the
United States. Not one cent of this
vast sum will ever return; in fact it
is annihilated. Now, if our popula-
ton numbers 100000, this taxes
each individual about $l.7O, whicl,
at six per cent, would represent
capital Of $29, or the enormous sum
of $4OO,O0O,000. tits fearful to con-
template, and wonderful, that the
people do not see the n,-
cessity of building with less destruc-
title materials, possessing them, as
We do, i'll plenty. Pine floors and
stairs should not be used in the con-
struction Of our houses, or if they are
used, they should be chemically IRE
pared, so that they would merely
char.
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GROS S & NICK Ell,
OF AND DEALERS IN


Furniture, Mattresses, Spring Reds etc.
Good and staunch Furniture of every kind,
Right down at the fine store we ever find,
OF excellent make and the latest style
So strong and SO durable, all the while.
Sec here for yourselves the truth which
we say
IL look how our goods rule with magic
sway.
Nor forget that We delighted, can rest
In which is told of the common and best
Certainly Frostburg has fully confessed
knowledge Of her manufactures possessed.
Everything in here the fancy to tickle
T4avishly abounds with Gross Il Nickel.
Fully stocked always and ever so cheap,
Usually small the profits they reap.
kemembcr strictly--large sales rule the
No chance for dollars-we must make on
ly dimes.
In solemn fact we must this truth declare
'a'hat here none with Gross IL Nickel COM
pare.
Useless it is to compete with work so grand
zsich, cheap, good-in sober truth-made
to stand
Zen md moving about fromland to land.
yaust not we seek at once this we'll known
store,
And find the good!y things we will adore?
Indeed, rivalry shrinks in very dread,
Now that Gross & Nickel stand far ahead
so come light along-no ''ifs' CT ''naybes"--
40 buy for yourselves, your girls, your
babies.
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Baskets, Collins, etc.

Gross & Nickel, Frostburg, are day or
night
Ready to provide for the last said rite
asf death which comes unfailingly to all
Strong or weak, rich or poor, and short or
tall
Superb Baskets and Collins claim their
care.
~ ever the best you'll always find there.
Now, this sad duty we all must confess
Is best done where it's special business.
Careful and complete are their facilities,
Mnown and acknowledged their abilities.
Each thing we need they're ready to supply
Living-our furnture-or, if we die,
Undertaking our burial, they'll promptly
pay
Ncedtul attention to all our friends say.
Depending on this they will be the choice
Executors to make the mourners rejoice.
Regarding both the dead and those who
1--we
i'hey cheerfuly accord all they can give,
and to their desires do ever attend
Knowing themselves as the mourners' true
friend.
Even amid sorrow great joys they impart-
Real and true-to the sad, desolate heart,
Saddcr as nearer the friend with whom
we part.
nj UGH as we love life, yet still we must die,
And the mystery of the next to try.
snthissad time our friends may do farworsc
y eglecting to employ the nice, fine Hearse
Especially devised to show lawful pride
20 nj! the friends of the one who has
died.
HEI
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-02-23

REMoDDELING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
SYsTEM.-Mr. Burton, of Baltimore
county, has prepared bill which will
be submitted to the committee on ed
ucation, to remodel the public school
system Of the State. 1t provides for
the appointment, by the Governor, of
State board of pubic education Of
seven persons, one from each congress
ional district and one from the State
at large. This board is empowered 10
appoint q State superintendent Of
public education for two years and
until his successor is selected; also to
appoint three persons in each county
to serve as county school commission
ers, one of the number to be the pres
ident of the board, one to be the sec
rotary and the third to be examiner
and treasurer. The county boards
are now appointed by the Judges of
the Circuit Courts, and they select a
treasurer outside the board. One of
the members OF the county boards is
to be appointed for six years, one for
four years and one for two years, so
that every two years hereafter one
member is to be supplied. The county
boards are empowered to appoint the
district trustees for terms of one year.
The members of the State board are
10 receive no pay.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-02-23
ORPHANS COURT.

The Orphans Court Of Allegany county
holds its sessions on Tuesday Of each week.
OFFICERS.
Chief Judge-John Coulehan.
Ass0ciates-C Slack, Robert Bruce.
Register Of IYHs-John Rhind.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-02-23

"ARTHUR" GILMAN writes to the
Literary World concerning spelling
refaurm" ut is eezi eenuff to as
surt that our spelling aut too bee maid
moer simpl and moer neerly foenetic,
but it il bic noe meenze eequali eezi
to sal hou it aut too changed. Four
mic part lie am surer that a refaurm
will be efektid but hou it will bee dun
lie am bic no meenz prepared to pro-
FEST. Aftur egzamining al number Of
of proepozed alfabetv lie hav thaut
best of the wun lie am nou yooz-
ing, az thee moest simpl and ezili COM
pretended"
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SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
John NJ Buchanan, President, Ellerslie.
DR.. G. b. Fundenbcrg,
Jesse Il Wilson, Cumberland
Geo G Mckay, Secretary
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MANNERS AT TABLE.-As do the
old so will the children do. If, when
a child asks tor a biscuit, it is picked
up by the parent and handed around
one at time, or thrown at the child,
there is no chance to reprove the
child when it does the same to the
parent. When a parent eats with a
knife, and forgets to use fork, the
child is warranted in doing the same.
A chatty, cheerful table is always
desired, free from formal stiffness;
but freedom is not rudeness, ease is
not boorishness; good breeding will
show its presence quicker at the
table than in the parlor or saloon. Let
parents be careful to set the example,
and the children will not be slow to
do likewise.
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Ice, MainSt. Hitchins Bros. Building
FrOstburg. Feb. 23, 1878.

The productions of gold in the
United states anterior to 1858 footed
up in round numbers $53O,O00,O00
of which period the greatest produc-
ton for one year was sos, 100000 in
1858. From 1858 to 1875 the aggre-
gate production was 1907, 100000,
making the total yield by the country
including 1875, Sl,332,0O0,OOO.
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IT, For further information sec adyer
tiscments elscw here. HAsA osRsag Upon 40
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Lesson on Mercy from Japan.

A man was brought before the Komon
Giko, the Lord Of the Castle Mito, fol
killing stork. Giko ordered the pris,
oner to be kept in Jail till next year, il
being then the end of a year. Early in
the following year, Giko, according to
the prevailing custom, gave feast in his
castle to all the priests under his domin.
ion. After the feast was over the con.
versation turned on the subjects of mercy
and charity, the leading virtues of the
true Buddhist. II have man." said
the Komon, "who broke the law by kill
ing a stork, and I.shall let you see how
deal with such an ofender;" and he
ordered the prisoner to be taken out and
bound securely to a large tree in the gar
den, which order being quickly complied
with, Giko approached him with drawn
sword, and threatened a blow, while the
priests, who had been preaching about
mercy and charity, remained silent and
without any inclination to interfere on
behalf of the poor fellow. "These dull.
monks do not understand anything ex-
claimed the lord, throwing away his
sword. "Do you think I would kill a
man for having killed bird? Only, con-
sidering that the public laws are inviola-
bic, l expected your pious interference for
his life, and then I would have released
him; but all of you look foolish and do not
think of mercy, though you speak enough
about it. Now, leave here this moment
and begone to some other part of the
empire; for I do not allow any merciless
priests to serve in temples under my own
dominion" So he drove away the monks
and released the man who had killed the
bird. Japan Gazette. "a
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Lincoln Didn't Know the Place.

The little brown cottage in Springfield,
Illinois, in which Mr.. Lincoln lived be-
fore he went to Washington, still remains
neatly as he left it, furniture and all
It is related that it had at first but one
story, and that Mrs. Lincoln for many
years unavailingly coaxed her husband
to raise the roof. At length she seized
an opportunity when he was attending
court in an adjoining town, to employ
workmen and have the half story added,
windows put IN, paint put on, all COM
pleted-save payment of bills-before
his return. Coming up the street he
comprehended the situation at a glance,
but feigning bewilderment, and pretend
ing not to recognize the old place, he
went past as if searching for home,
Ill his wife-who was watching behind
the shutters-ealled after him, Abrim,
AbsimW
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COnstantinOple.

1Hele are HO Shops III Cno SCreeIS OF
Stamboul proper, for nearly everything
except food is sold in the bazaar, which is
an enormous square building consisting
of labyrinth of long covered arcades in
which the dealers sit in their stalls with
their wares piled up round them. 1t is
all locked up at sunset. You may buy
most things in it, but the visitor is chiefly
attracted by the rugs and carpets from
Persia, Antolia and Kurdistan, the silks
Of Broussa, and the stores of old armor
(real and false) from everywhere. Pur-
chasing is no easy matter, for a stranger
is asked thrice the value of the goods, and
unless he is content to be cheated both
by the dealer and his own cicerone inter-
prefer (who, of course. receives a secret
commission from the vender), he must
spend hours and hours in bargaining.
Business is slack on Friday (the Mussul-
man Sabbath), and on Saturday (since
many of the dealers are Jews, as we'll as
on Sunday. 1t is conducted under
another difficulty, which drives the visi-
tor almost wild-that of multiplicity
of circulating mediums" There is a
Turkish metallic currency, greatly depre'
ciated, besides all sorts of coins Of other
nations constantly turning up, among
which the Indian rupee is one OF the com.
monest; and you have to make separate
bargain as to the value at which the coins
you happen to have in your pocket will
be taken. Hotel lodging, and, indeed,
almost everything, is very dear; for west
ern books you pay half as much again as
in London or Paris. There is little sign
of police in the streets, and nothing is
done either to pave or clean them. Few
are passable for carriages, and the Turks
leave everything to time and chance.
The only scavengers are the vultures,
which may sometimes be seen lowering
about in the clear sky, and the dogs, Of
which there is vast multitude in the
city. Thong h you must have often heard
of these dogs, the tradition which obliges
every one who talks about Constantine
pie to mention them is too wellIestablish-
ed to be disregarded. Nobody owns
or feeds them, though each dog mostly
inhabits the same quarter or street; and
in fact, is chased away or slain if he ven.
lures into the territory of his neighbors.
They are ill-favored brutes, mostly of a
brown or yellowish hue, and are very
much in the way as one walks about. At
night they are serious difficulty, for the
streets are not lighted, and you not only
stumble over them, but are sometimes,
when you fall into one of the holes in
the roadway, tumbled head foremost into
a nest of them, whereupon terrible
swapping and barking ensues. However
they don't modest you unless you first
attack them; and as canine madness is
unknown, or nearly SO, among them, no.
body need fear hydrophobia-Macm
lan's Magazine.
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General Harney's Foot.Race.

General William S. Harvey, of this
city, when young man, had the reputa
ton of being the swiftest runner in the
army, as we'll as the best Indian fighter
He was strict disciplinarian, but not
one of the stuck up" kind so common
nowadays. He would often mingle with
his men when not on duty, and laugh
and joke with them on terms of famil.
iarity, and went SO far at times as tc
compete with them in the exciting sport
of foot-racing. An impression prevaile
at one time that almost any Indian could
outrun white man; but General Har:
ney believed that he could beat any red
rascal that wore moccasins, whenever he
met warrior who boosted of his fleet.
ness of foot, he took great pleasure in
giving him trial, and always came out
ahead. Only once did he fail to reach
the winning-post before his adversary,
and that was by "fou]."
The affair occurred at Fort Winneba.
60, in winter of 1910, when Fox river
was frozen over and the weather was very
cold. An Indian had committed some
breach Of the rules of the garrison, for
which Harvey; then captain, concluded
to administer flogging. He always be-
lieved in giving every man fair chance,
white or red, and on this occasion he con.
Quoted the Indian some distance up the
river, and giving him a hundred yards
the start, told him if ne reached GER
tain point without being overtaken, he
would escape the fogging. The race
was on the ice, which at some places was
thinner than at others, on account of the
formation of "air-holes." Both men
wore moccasins, and both were stripped
and belted for the race, Harvey swinging
a cowhide in his hand, with which he
confidently expected to accelerate the
movements of the WiAnebago on over
taking him. At the word "go," both
started at full speed, the Indian doing
his best TO save his hide, and the white
man anxious to save his reputation as a
runner. Harvey gained rapidly on the
warrior, and was getting ready to swing
his rawhide, when the cunning savage
made an oblique movement toward a
spot where the ice was thin. Being of
much lighter weight than his pursuer,
he passed over the dangerous place in
safety, but as soon as Harvey stepped
upon the thin ice it was shivered like
glass, and down went the tall captain,
sinking into the cold water like sea lion.
Being good swimmer, a few strokes
brought him to the edge of the thick ice,
and clambering upon it made his way to
his quarters, spangled with icicles, and
as mad as buffalo bull. He lost his
cowhide in the water, but it was small
matter, as the Indian never returned to
the fort while the captain remained
there. Captain Harney's foot-race af-
forded cold Twigg" occasion for many
joke, and it was, a long time before he
heard the last of it.-&. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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understand till later-how he had writ
ten to her in the hour Of his sudden,
imperative departure abroad-how he
had sent her letter after letter, and how
he concluded she had done with him.
And they both knew then that
Blanche's equally sudden removal from
her old home, and her self-elected re-
tirement to the country, had been suf-
,ficient reason why she never had receiv-
ed what would have changed all her life
for her. e -
But the sunshine was come at last
the glad, bright sunshine, that was all
the better for the dark weather that had
so long hidden it. And Blanche's life
blossomed out anew, under the radiant
influences of love and hope.
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The Man Who Never Smiles.
From the Snrin1field Repnblican.

Governor Rice is asked to pardon one
O'Donnell, Of Milbury, from Charles
town, and gentleman who recently
visited the state prison thus tells his
story: Gentlemen" said the warden,
II want to bring before you one of the
most remarkable cases we have in the
prison. We call him the IMAM who
never smiles, and I wish before he comes
in to tell you his story. He seems to be
man Of more than ordinary ability, one
of the better class of substantial, frugal
Irish citizens, who owned a small place
in one of our manufacturing villages,
where he resided with his family OF
grown-up sons and daughters, all per
manently employed and in comfortable
circumstances. The old man had fine
garden on which he bestowed his leisure
hours, in a part of which was a fine lot
of cabbages. 1t seems that the boys in
the neighborhood had habit Of trespass.
ing on the old mans garden, until he
had determined of getting rid of them
by firing his gun to brighten them away.
One night, hearing some one in his gar
den, he took down his gun, and, getting
behind the hedge, fred into the garden,
as he claims, without aim, or seeing any
one to aim at, but the report of the gun
alarmed the neighbors, who, on rushing
into the garden, found the lifeless body
of young girl shot through the heart.
The old man, when told what he had
done was struck dumb. He was arrested
and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
BE has now been here for ten years, and
his face has become as marble; there is
no hope; nothing but the sad remem-
brance of that dreadful night. In Ire
land they have a superstition among the
young girls that whoever on Halloween
shall place cabbage over the door will
marry the first young man that enters the
door afterwards. And this, it was
proved, was the errand of the young girl
in the old mans garden. But instead of
a wedding she found a grave"
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CARTER BROTHERS, Publishers.
IF T WERE YOU, SIR.
BY NORA PERRY.

BY NORA PERRY.
If were you, Sir,
would not sue, Sir,
For any woman's love day after day;
I'd never stand, Sir,
At her command, Sir,
Year in and out in this fond foolish way.
Across my face, Sir,
I'd have the grace, Sir,
Or mother-wit, topull gayer mask,
And wait to find, Sir,
What was her mind, Sir,
Before I'd grovel at her feet to ask.
All very we'll, Sir,
For you to tell, Sir,
OF that grand poet in the olden time,
Whose fine advice, Sir,
Was so concise, Sir,
In that immortal strain Of gallant rhyme.
1t does not fit, Sir,
Your case Bit Sir;
He never meant man should pray and pray,
With such an air, Sir,
OF poor despair, Sir,
For any, woman's love day alter day.
If you will read, Sir,
The verse with heed, Sir,
You'll see it runs as clearly as 1t may,
That every man, Sir,
Should take his answer
With manly courage, be it yea or nay.
Then cease your signs, Sir,
No mans prize, Sir,
In any woman's sight, just let me say,
Who's not too high, Sir,
To sigh and die, Sir,
For any woman's love day after day.
-Harper's Magazine.
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his wife will sell her furs to reward the
hackman who will set her down at the
door Of the doctor who published the
above discovery. Orig, has also come to
the conclusion that he would sooner toss
about restlessly on feather bed till the
ROSTERS crow than to pass the night in
the wasll-house snoring like policeman.
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ONE reason why the Chinese are be-
coming so popular as kitchen servants is
that they keep their hair out of the but
ter. John never let's one Of them go
away. No hair means NO heaven with
him,
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HORRIBLY profane-indeed, never
really eloquent unless profane- Ben
Wade kept God only to swear by. He
had no religion, and remarked to some
friends once, "Sumner's science has
found all the heavenly bodies, save God
Almighty and then, after pause,
added: "I doubt whether he looked.
Sumner thinks he is God Almighty
Gin. E0uirer.
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MY LUCK.
BY HARVARD CRIMSON,

She had come to visit Mats sister,
And there met her one night;
A cousin, think, Of the family,
And girl rather handsome and bright.
remember we looked at an album;
And told her how much could guess
OF ones character just from picture;
CHOW Witness" said I, "my success:
/" Here's photograph Of young maiden,
She fairly colored with pleasure:
"Why, that's" she exclaimed, "sister suel
Shut here" continued, elated, ~
Is the worst looking fellow thus far;
A stupid, old, senseless curmudgenn.h
She simply saiu, "That's my p
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"To cure sleeplessness, eat an onion
or two previous to retiring" says medi.
cal wzissr. Origins has tsisd II, and
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LOUISIANA has paper called the
MiseAasstes
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but it seemed as if all the trouble she
had ever known came surging its wave
Of keen remembrance over her.
She realized as she had never done be-
fore how pitifully alone she was in the
world; and then into the midst of the
narrowing thoughts, the tears that had
left her heart but had not yet reached
her sweet, sad eyes, into the midst of the
desolation of her young life, came Mrs.
Pemberton's Voice, quick, glad, exultant,
as she called from the foot of the stairs:
blanche, Blanche, do come down
There's a mystery | can't quite under
stand. Come here!"
And Blanche, half smiling at the dear
old lady's pardonable excitement, went
down promptly, to be presented to her
son.
Mrs. Pemberton caught her by both
hands, to drag her perforce into the par
lor.
cit beats all ever did hear Of! I
never was So"
Just then a tall, handsome gentleman
came through the parlor door, with quick,
eager steps, and Blanche looked and saw
Elmer Westcourt.
blanche Carroll! my darling, whom
I thought I had lost until a few minutes
ago! Blanche, my love-"
And the girl stood looking at him,
clutching Mrs. Pemberton's hand in a
vice-like grasp that was chill as death,
her face pale as her dress, her eyes full
of mingled piteous bewilderment and
wondering doubt and mute ecstacy.
"To think I never once thought of
telling you Johns name was Westcourt.
You see. always call him John, al
though Elmer is prettier, and he has an
equal right to do it, it being his middle die
name. And to think well, I am. clean
| beat!" ...ssa= d
And Mrs. Pemperton dropped down
in the hall chair and wiped her eyes and
her glasses, while Mr.. Westcourt took
Blanche in his arms and kissed her, and
hastily explained what shs did not fully