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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27

To the uninitiated, nothing would
seem to be more simple or easy than for
man to express his wishes as to the
disposition of his property in such q
way that there could be no question as
TO his intentions; yet costly experience
has taught the world that few things
are more difficult, and that, IN general,
where there's Il will there's a-lawsuit.
Even a LAWYER OF such recognized pro-
fessional ability as the late Lord West
bury, left behind him will which gave
rise TO endless complications and dis
putes; and Lord ST. Leonards, who was
proverbially minuJe in the preeaut ions
he urged upon others, left will which
became the subject of long and cost y
litigation. In making Il will. much
mischief may ba prev uted hy Dreyity,
provided it be combined with lucidity;
it is mistake to suppose that many
words or many repetitions tend to per-
spicuity; on the contrary, with these
there is great danger of " calculating
into obscurity." All antiquities should
be avoided" black and white
horses" we have learned, do not bear
the same meaning as my black and
my white horses" Propositions must
be vigilantly watched; the smallest
monosyllable in the English language
used or misused in a will becomes q
gigantic power, and ''of" has before
now been the cause of protracted and
extensive lawsuits. Families have been
thrown into chancery for years, their
property shorn down to minute proper
tions, lawyers enriched, and succeeding
gen erations beggared by the addition or
omission of single word. "Child,"
for "children," has been known to
occasion the most harrassing litigation,
and to have kept families who were
brought up to large expectations, and
who were entitled to colossal fortunes,
starving for years under the laws
delay. Above all, let the layman avoid
legal terms, lest the law insist on giving
them legal Interpretation of which the
poor man never dreamed.-AppLeton's
,Io,lrnnZ
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Advice Ah0nt FuDsrnIe.

The Rev. j. G. White, of Cincinnati,
said in the course of a recent sermon:
In the preparation and arrangements for
the burial, let rs little time and money
as possible be expended for Sho sy sur
roundings. The less of these things lhe
better. Have only enough show for
proper respect. We are getting to min
gle adversity and prosperity together,
and are getting to be unable to distin-
guish the moral difference. We are now
hardly able to distinguish between a
funeral and wedding. At funerals the
tendency is toward eXtravagance and
pride, and, as a consequence, toward
vice and The msanest Jolly. Funerals
are degencratmg into the most selfish,
expensive. meaningless, services. AS
the vulgar expression is, they are simply
ceremonies to give the dead "a good
send-off." The coffin is covered with
tinsel and finery totally out of place,
considering the surroundings of the de-
ceased when alive. A man will spend
$50 for carriage hire at the funeral of
his wife, when he never spent dollar
on riding for her when alive. At a great
deal of sacrifice husband will buy a
prOfusion of costly flowers for the dec
Grafton of his wife's coffin and grave
VIII en- he never bought pot plant for
the frightening of her chamber during
years of sickness and suffering. If pos
sible, the funeral should be on a day
other than the Sabbath, so as not to in
terfere with the PASTORS regular duties
at stated service. A vigorous protest
against the too frequent and very often
disgusting habit of public leavetaking
of the body was made. The leavetak-
ing of our beloved dead should always
be in private, and not before crowd Of
idle, curious and unsympathizing spec
tators. All the funeral ceremonies
should be simple, but strikingly SYM
bo.ical. A simple piece of Grape on the
door or worn on the person is sufficient
to denote death in the family.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
where Did Potatoes Come Front

Nobody knows precisely where the
potato came from originally. 1t has
been found, apparently indigenous, in
many parts of the world. Mr.. Darwin,
for instance, found it wild in the Chonos
Archipelago. Sir W. j. Hooker says
that it is common at Valparaiso. where
it grows abundantly on the sandy hills
near the sea. In Peru and other parts
of South America it appears to be at
home; and it is n noteworthy fact that
MIR. Darwin should have noticed it both
in the humid forests Of the Chonos
Archipelago and among the central
Chilian mountains, where sometimes
rain does not fall for six months at a
stretch. 1t was to the colonists whom
Sir Walter Raleigh sent out in Eliza
beth's reign that we are indebted for
our potatoes.
Herriot, who went out with these
colonists, and who wrote an account OF
his travels, makes what may, perhaps,
be regarded Us the earliest mention OF
this vegetable. Under the heading OF
Roots" he mentions what he calls the
openawk." "These roots, he says "are
round, some large as walnut, Others
much larger. They grow on damp
soils, many hanging together as If fixed
on ropes. They are good food, either
boiled or roasted"
At the beginning of the seventeenth
century this root was planted, as a curi-
ous exotic, in the gardens of the nobil~
ity, but it was long ere it came into
general use. Many held them to be
poisonous, and it would seem not alto
gether unrcasonably so either. The
potato is closely related to the deadly
nigh.shade and the mandrake, and frora
its ste4as and leaves may be extracted =
very powerful narcotic. In England
prejudice against it was for long time
very strong, especially among the poor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
A Tnnrh ni Nature.

Ladies in the habit OF climbing on top
of tables or sidenoards when timid
mouse appears in IL room. might have
tn grace to bush Er their pusil-
wl ~ tic,i -al or
d rs & Gz rue "a "a, arm
il wiz rats dri,gn rom the sinking
snip and one Df yhe terrified crea urrs
seizrd the ear of the swimming sailor.
without breaking the skin. 81 didn't
have the heart to shake him of, sald
the soft-hpa,teh /, low, who could even
pity a rat Will" d nth WIS stating him
in The ace; 80 .et hru nold On, out
the next wnve washed him away"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
American l,aitIa.

The Mark Lane Express says that
Americans have done more to improve
the rank and file of their common native
breeds OF cattle, in the last FIVE years,
than English farmers have done in
twenty years. "lfany one doubts this"
says the cypress, g. let him 90 and look
1t a lot OF imported beasts. and then 60
20 the fairs and markets of any part of
The country-witl the exception of cer-
lain breeding districts-and draw his
uwn conclusions. OF course, the United
States cattle we now receive are the best
they have TO send, quite the pick of the
market; but five years ago they had
few, il any, as good to send. If things
80 on as they go now" the Express adds,
in ten years the cattle OF Colorado and
Texas will be long way ahead of Or
dinary British beasts"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
sCnln,eriny
91Niiarellanp.


Rev. Frederick Arnold thus happily
illustrates the diffeie ence between the
Providence that shapes our ends" and
what men call "luck "and "chance" ":
What we call the turning-point is
simply an occasion which sums up and
brings to result previous training. Ac-
cidental circumstances are nothing ex-
cept to men who bave been trained to
take advantage of them. Erskine made
himself famous when the chance came
to him of making great forsenic dis
play; but unless he had trained himself
for the chance, the chance would only
have made him ridirulous.
There is story told OF some gentle
man, who, on n battlefield, happening
to bow with much grace to some officer
who addressed him, a cannon ball just
went Though his hair, and took off the
head of one behind him. The officer,
when he saw the marvellous escape,
Justly observed that no man ever lost by
politeness.
There is o man in Berkshire, Eng
land, who has q park with walled
frontage of seven miles. and he tells of
q beautiful little operation which made a
nice little addition to his fortune. He was
in Australia when the first discoveries
of gold were made. The miners brought
in their nuggets and brought them to
the local banks. The bankers were q
little nervous about the business, uncer-
tain about the quality of the gold, and
waited to see its character established.
This man had taste Tor natural sciences
and knew something aDout metallurgy.
He tried each test. solid and fluids
satisfied himself OF the quality of the
gold and then, with all Tie money be
had OF could borrow he bought rs much
gold ~ might he, and sho wed, as profit,
hundred thousand pounds il the
course of day or two, His luck was
observation and knowledge, and "A
happy tsct in apply ing them.
The late Joseph Hume went out 70
India. and while he vas still n young
mnn he accumulated a considerable for
tune He applied hiniseifto the work of
mat ing the net;ye languages, and
turned lhc fhowitdg, 10 raOst profitable
arcount. On one occasion, when al the
gunpowdpr had tailed The British army,
he succeeded in straping together n
large amount OF the necessary material,
and manufactured it for the troops.
When he returned to England he cam
vasspd with 81 much ability and earnest
ness for a seat in the East India direc-
torate that he misht carry out his
scheme Of reform. ihat, though ne failed
to get the vote Of certain large pro-
orietor ol stock, he won his daughters
heart, and made u prosperous marriage.
And marriage is, after al, the lu 'kiest
hit of luck, when it is all it should be.
There is, then, in truth, no luck.
There are turning points in life, mo-
ments, critical moments that are worth
more than years; nevertheless q great
occasion is only worth to man what
his anteceucnts have abled him to
make of it, and our business in life is to
prepare for these supreme moments,
th.s" hours when lie depends on the
d. cision of the instant Whatever of
truth is veiled uEdar the popular idea
OF luck ard chance is, rightly consid.
cred, nm incentive to the busiest indus.
try, not an excuse for folded hands and
idle dreams.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27

The E,ctOry and Farm states fact
which we have observed to exist in this
city for some time past, i e., an increase
in the number of large horses used on
trucks and heavy business wagons.
During the past fifteen years, the writer
remarks, there has been great change
in The demand for horses in this coun-
try. Formerly nearly every one bred in
relation to speed and endurance. Now
large proportion of farmers breed with
view to increasing size and sire. 9Th.
This change is not the result OF caprice.
There has been steady, increasing de-
mand for heavy horses, and a CORE
spending falling of in the demand for
light ones. Fashion has had little to do
in the matter. Heavy horses are wanted
because they 'rnpiy an existing want.
From presei paearances it will be
many years before the supply OF heavy
horses will equal the demand. The
country is now well supr lied with
horses. AT no time in its history, per-
haps, were there as many horses to q
given number of inhabitants as at pres
ent. Small work horses are low, but
hravy draft horses continue to be high.
The importation of Clydesdale and
Percheron-Norman horses increases
every year. The first that were brought
over were regarded as very uncertain
ventures. At present they are of no
doubtful value. The importers of horses
from France and Scotland have suffere
none of the reverses Of the importers of
short-horn cattle. With rare exceptions
they have become rich. From present
appearances we shall soon be sending
Clydesdales to Scotland and England and
Normans to France and Belgium. The
value of heavy draft horses was recog-
nized in the old world before it was in
the new. Now that their worth is ap-
preciated here all persons having team
ing to do seem anxious to procure them.
Large horses are less liable to Injuries
from the swinging OF the poles of wagons
than small ones. Their bones are tirmer,
and they are commonly more hardy.
Large horses are more economical as
respects harness, stall room, feed, and
work required TO take care of them. In
all the countries of Eastern Europe heavy
horses have taken the place of light ones
in general farming operations. That
American farmers will soon generally
employ heavy horses in field work seems
certain Scientific Americdn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
A Successful Little Farmer.

A very successful amateur farmer has
got in his crops at Westield, Mass. His
name is Thomas Webster Hays; his
age is five years. Early in the season
the ground was made ready, the cab
bages were set and the corn and pota-
toes planted by his grandfather. Every
morning since they were large enough,
this little fellow has given them thor
ough hoeing, and it is surprising what
constant stirring of the soil will do.
Some of his cabbages will weigh at least
TWEEN, " pounds; one of his potatoes
weighed nineteen ounces, and his corn
is very much larger and better than his
grandfather's which was planted at the
same time. He offers to plant for the
old gentleman next season.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
To.Doy aud To. Norrow,

To day we gather bright and beauti-
full flowers rs--to-norrow they are faded
and dead.
To dag wreath o. leaves shades US
tomorrow scar, and, fallen, they crum-
BILE beneath our tread.
To-day the earth is covered with
carpet of green-to"morrow it is brown
with the wihered grass.
To-day the vigorous stalk only bends
before the gale-to-morrow, leafless and
sapiess, a child may break the brittle
stem.
To-day the ripening fruit and waving
grain-to morrow "the land Is taking
its rest after toll"
To-day we hear sweet songsters of
meadows and forests, the buzz and hum
of myriad insects-to. morrow breathe
softly, all nature is hushed and silent.
To-day there are cattle upon thou
sand hills-to-morrow they fall by
slaughter
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
Mans Natural Age.

According to the theory of the late
Professor Faraday, the natural age OF
man should be 100 years. The duration
of life, both in man and animals, he be-
lieved to be measured by its time OF
growth, its natural termination being
five removes from that point. Man be-
ing twenty years in growing, lives five
times twenty-l00 years. He also
divides life into equal halves, growth
and decline; and these into infancy,
youth, virility and age; infancy ex-
tending to the twentieth year; youth TO
the fiftieth-because it is in this period
the tissues become firm; virilits from
fifty to seventy-five-during which the
organism remains complete; and
seventy-liveol old age commences.
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gl)0f-trD,
Tnere is a Nalurnl Body.


Tmuortbl is my uiend, know;
Not summers lrt nor winters STOW
Nor depth Of {. tn could turn to uaught
So much OF lie md love and thought.
And vet that form did lntrust
To k.ndi ed ear "a, tn duet to dust,
And thther still my thoughts will tend,
AS il to find NY vanished friend.
Sacred the robe, the faded glove
Once worn by one we used 10 love;
Dead warriors in their armor live,
And in their relics saints survive;
And there tendorly laid down
The hands that iondy clasped my own
The ey es that knew and answered mine
With many meaning, loving sign
The lips familiar with my name,
That freely called ne and came
The beast that harbored all goodwill,
The loving heart now cold and still.
Oh, sheltering earth, hencelorth defend
All thou hast garnered ol my friend
Against the wintry tempest's beat,
Against the summers scorching heat.
Within thine all-embracing breast
Is hid one more iorsaken nest,
While in the sky, with folded wings,
The bind that LETT il sits and sings.
-ScribgeT's .HdQazIns.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
Trades Unions In England.

Workingmen's societies in England
grow to enormous proportions, possibly
because, in addition to their trades
union features, they take the place of the
said mutual and beneficial associations
so common in this country. Four OF the
great English societies-the engineers,
iron founders, boiler makers. and steam
engine makers-have nearly eight thon.
sand members, with incomes amount
ing to over one million dollars year.
They paid out in 1878 more than twice
as much, chiefly ior the benefit of MEM
bers who were sick or out of work. A
million dollars were spent on the unem-
ployed, mostly in form of donations,
but q large amount for travelling ex-
penses A quarter of a million was
awarded to men on strike, but this was
only one-eighth of the whole amount
distributed, the societies not enc )urag-
ing struggles with employers, except in
rare cases. The administration OF the
affairs of these and co operative socie-
ties in England is remarkable for econ
omy and honesty. vast corporations
heing managed for workingmen for
years with quite as much success asat
tends the business ventures OF merchants
and bankers supposed 10 be specially
qualified for such undertakings.
The apple crop of the United States
this year is put at 20O.OOO,OOO barrels,
enough to give more than four barrels
TO every man, woman and child in the
country.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
WHOLE NUMBER, 479.


A scientist says: "The whole globe
contains 1900, 100000 Inhabitants. If
each man, woman and child could pull
with force of 100 pounds, to move a
bar of steel $3.50 feet wide and as many
thick. it would require the united efforts
10000 such worlds as this" When a
man is washing his face and can't find
s. towel TO wipe the soap out of his eyes,
he never thinks of this. And if any one
was to tell him at such critical mo-
ment, the probabilities are that he
would not return thanks for the infor-
nation
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
miscellaneous Advertisements.
ssOur Exhaler'9
NT1LLDIsINFECT OR 2FRFUME a
w sick room, or whole house, in iei

WILL DISINFECT OR 'FRFUMEA
w sick room, or whole house, IN len
INMATES.
Immediate relief and speedy cure OF AS
thma, Catarsh, Bronchiu-, Diphther',
Whoopirg Cough, Group and scar!e'
Fever.
Twenty -four TO forty eight houis OF eX'
halation cures the wcr case of Whoop-
ing Cough. Persons suffering with Asth-
MA, Cutarrh, Consumption, Nc, using
"OUR ExuALER" will experience su' h re-
liel that they can sleep quietly all night.
Diphtheria is infectious, and nay
be communicated directly Or indirectly.
The poison clngs with great tenacIty to
furniture, clothing, ronlns and houses, II
may be conveyed by infected articles used,
such as napkins, towels, &c, or directly
In the act OF couphing. srittmg, ssing or
sneezing. Our ExLaling Liquid constant
ly vaporized in the room "f 4 patient with
ID tely destroy the
ge m of cnntagion.
COUGHS AND COLDS.
"OUK EXHALING LIQUID" evaporizcd in
the sleeping room, relieves any cough or
Id in few nj his. In the worst cases
of Influenza the sufferer Will find almost
immediate Ielie!.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27

.nese vast sums, as far as can be as.
certain' 4, are the amounts actually and
personally absorbed by royalty in
Europe-with the Republican excep-
lions of France ID Switzerland. From
the impossibility Of asc, raining the ex-
act disbursements for such purposes,
only five out Of the twenty-five States
comprising the present German empire
are SET down in the above statement
PksLa,ie pkta Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27

NOTE - Time here given is PhiImic'-
hin time, vii ch i. tivemmutcs faster than
Baltmu' tine.
No c ange of cars between Cumberland
and Huntingdon ThIam il c; rs between
u.tinrdon and Phlladclphi New York
and Ptlshurg Passengers from inls
east of Hyn Imam, 10 Somerset, tux FIX
press tram west; change cars nt lllndman
and arrive at Somerset NJ 4 80 p. m
Tickets S Id aud baggage ,hccted 81
RErER NOON, Age t. oIner Rlllmole
and slberiy streets Cumberland anI n
the depot Bus wi ca nj stlrnr, for
IA seugers nd baggage, on loice lett
with agent.
Excursion Tickets to BE ford sold cvCry
Saturday during the summer season; good
to return until the + flowing Monday.
L. p FARM X
Grnernl Passenger rent
THOS " ROBERTS, Supe inlendcut
June 10
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27

Aud su I'm / nut II is al your taut
Ouly suppose you had been here when
Victor camel"
Vera stroked the lovely fair hair.
Il think il would have been just the
same, my lady"
.Au. u,ss WnaG Decauue ui tueI
sCmmerings.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27

Lung pads and liver rads were un-
know n :, century ago hut the fo"t-pad
,l.an ,g,d to keep things IN heslthy
s ate oil excitement. .ho.ie7n Argo.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
COUGHS AND COLDS.
REASONS WHY
GOUR EXHALING FLUID"
AIleViafes and Cures
Certain Diseases

W. -
TITS WELL KNOWN BY MICRO
i stopisls that in certain diseases that
the all passages OF palien saie infested by
thousands and l. illions of living organisms
calf d bacteria; these ale OF the lowest
iorms of lite, yet life they have; thus you
may call hem little hvLg destrOyels OF
life. Thsee are the meuium of injection.
The class of diseases in which these
little iy ny germs ar playing their dlnll-
lypart are: SCARLET FEVER, ASTll-
MA, CATARRH, " HOPPING COUGH,
DllHrIEKlA, GROUP, NAY FEVER
and all uLuur klndl ed diseases.
To res ore health and preserve life these
little rests must Le destrOye an this Is
what We clam for "OUR EXHALING
FLLID'' to do. Hence its grea. Curative
powers j. RUIL NJ. u.
FloslDurg, Md.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD,
(BEDFORD DIyIS.ON.)

nN and after Monday. June nh, 1880,
~ Passenger trains viii leave and ulrh e
at Gun. berland Philadelphia tlme) as
folioMs:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-11-27
The Cost of Royalty.

The following are the various amounts
absorbed by the European rulers of the
present day:
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For sale by Druggists ard Dealers.
Prlc. oil EXh.Ier complete with "0uI
Exhulmg Liquid $500. Nov 6
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-02-03
UNDER THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF COLORADO.
THE COLORADO COOPERATIVE PROSPECTING
AND MINING COMPANY OF COLORADO.

THE COLORADO COOPERATIVE PROSPECTING
AND MINING COMPANY OF COLORADO.
Principal office, Silver Cliff, Colorado
Branch Office, Leadville and Sllvertn,
Capitol stock, 100000; not assessable.
100000 shares, $1,000 each.
COMPANY PROPERTY
Custer County--Boston, Chicago, Chlor.
ides and Sun Lodcs
Fremont County-Frisco, Newsboy and
Lookout Lodes.
Lake County Washington, Emma and
Star Loies
San Juan County Uncompogery, Union
and Galcnitc Lodes.
The remainder of the preferred, fifty
thousand shares are offered in open market
for the next thirty days at one dollar per
share.
There is estimated to be 100000 worth
Of ore in sight that will run from 3S to 10
ounces of silver per ton, which requires ma
chinery and power drills to bring it to the
dump ready for shipment or delivery to the
smcter.
This company now have Under construc-
ton in Muscatine, Iowa, one twcnty-four
horse power engine and boiler; one
twclve-horse power engine and hosting
drum, with lifting capacity Of 200 pounds
$50 feet, round trip, per minute, and, if
necessary, will raise 5000 pounds; sixty
horse power air compressor capable of
COMPRISING Al cubic feet Of air per min:
ute, which will furnish the power to run
twelve drills at any distance within 5000
feet from the compressor. The drills will
be added as fast as room is obtained for
work, and the largest possible
quantity of ore will be removed and the
guarantees dividend of 2j per
cent on the par value Of the stock for Jan
uary LIST, 1881.
For further information, and the pur
chase of shares, address the company Treas
urcr, G. 0. PEARCE,
Muscatine, Iowa.