Frostburg mining journal., 1883-02-24

LetteT from DssirgiHshed Gentte'
mdn.-0ne Of our citizens seeing a
complimentary reference 10 the Wash
ingtOn ID. O. LdV Reporter to a
work entitled Rhetoric az an Art OF
Percussion" wrote 10 the author,
Hon. D. F, Miller, of KeOkuk, Iowa,
inquiring the price Of the book. Mr.
Miller replied as follows:
KgokuK, Iowa, Feb. 14tb, 1883.
-Esq.-Dedr SIR:
Your note Of two DAYS ago is this mo-
ment received. The copyright of "Rhet-
oric rs az Art oi Persuasion" is owned by
Mills & Co., book publishers, OF DesMoines
city, Iowa, and they have the work for sale
Its price is, I believe, $3.50 per copy. 1t
will cost only cents to send 1t by mail.
/ was born within some halfa-dozen
miles from Frostburg nearly seventy years
ago, and l feel quite pleased To receive
your note. coming from one who, perhaps,
was born near the place where first saw
light and earth.
formerly had quite number of rela-
tives in Allegany county, Md, who re.
sided near the Potomac, eight or twelve
miles from Cumberland, up stream. The
name is Myer Blu, have not heard of
them for about fifty years. l suppose by
this time they must have increased TO quite
colony in numbers. Perhaps they may
have moved to other parts.
Very respectfully yours,
d F. MILLER, SR.
The paragraph referring to Mr..
Miller's birth occasioned considerable
surprise and equal qualification. The
best data at land indicate that he
was born on the lands now owned by
the National coal company, the ("Mil-
ler' mines Of which are operated by
the Messrs. Hitchins Bro'e, of this
place.
In the notices of his work he is de-
nominated the "Nestor Of the Iowa
Bar" and "Iowa's First Representa-
tive in the Congress of the United
States" Hon. Samuel F. Miller,
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, says Of the book that
for practical use it is to he lawyer
in his everyday business the best
thing of the kind I have seen" and
Hon. G W. McCrary, late Secretary
of War, commends it as "a little book
of great value to all young men who
contemp ate devoting themselves to
any of the learned professions, and
in fact, of great value to everybody"
To these Judge Dillon, late of the
United States Circuit Court, and
Judge Love, of Iowa, have added
criticisms emphatically compliment
tary. From all of these recognitions
by eminent authorities it is evident,
as stated in the prospectus, "the au-
thor is master of his subject, and the
book is written in a style that almost
has the cLarm of a novel;"
Aside from the cor siderations of
pride we feel in Tie fact that our soil
is rative to son whose career has
shed lustre upon his name and fame,
it is pleasing to reflect that when Mr..
Miller left this valley it was then
considered a wilderness without re-
sources and impenetrsble to the great
civilizing agencies which have made
it garden'spot of industrial activity.
Should he remember anything of this
region beyond the mere fact that it is
his birthplace, it is probable that the
idea that an almost continuous town
would ever line the banks of Georges
Greek never occurred to him as in the |
slightest degree possible.
MIR. Miller refers to relatives in this
county named "Myer," from whom he
has not heard "fcr atout fifty years"
We shall be grati6ed if this publica-
tion reaches the eye of the family and
results in a re-opening Of ccmmuni-
cation.