Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-04-25
ANOTHER GENIUS GONE.

hNOl"L" 20 SO~'A'
The postmaster at Lickskiflet, Ark,
writes as follows. Don't send your
paper any more to Orcar Hallum fur
he's doad. He wuz a mighty good
reader, he wuz, and would sometimes
read one of your jokes in such a
way that folks would laugh. 'Twasn't
what was in the artikle, but it wuz the
way he read it. ..... .I.s ..., ........
"He oughter been the editer of a
paper like your'n. That Teller could
screw up his mouth an make q dog
laugh. He could boiler Jest like
painter, and many a man has tuck
to his heels when he heard Oscar
yellin' in the woods. His daddy allus
wanted him to l'arn the shoemakin'
trade, hut he had too much ability fur
any sich foolishness as that. Eff | had
er had his knack I woulder jined
show. He couldn't write like acounty
clerk, but what he wrote was thar.
He warn't hemmed in by Webster nor
none of your spellin' book makers.
When an idee popped into his head,
and they wuz everlastingly poppin',
he just slammed her down, an let old
Webster jog along the best way he
could.
l wish he had lived, fur it grieyed
the old man powerful when he died.
'Jist to think said he to me t'other
day at the buryin', that Oscar should
destroyed so many vittles an then
die 1t wuz mighty nigh more than l
l could bar. | heered teller say
some time ago that you wuz on tho
lookout fur a man O. sense, so /
thought I'd tell you about him, but he's
ead."-Arkansaw 1au0e7r.
A HUNDRED YEARs.-Very much
more than can be taken in superficial
glance is meant by rounded century
OF time. Volumes and pages could be
written upon the theme of all an
bracing events that cluster within the
last hundred years. Three genera
tons of mankind have been born, and
the vast majority of these generations
have departed to the land Of shadows.
Here and there, as in the case Of Sir
Moses Montefori, of England, and Of
DR.. c. C. Graham, Of Kentucky, q
remnant Of highly favored persons can
claim to haye spanned the years of the
Chronicle J: but these exceptions are few
and far between. Whom the Ch1Vnicle
first existed Napoleon was a schoolboy
at Brienne, storming snow forts; but
little dreaming that he was to make
the tour of Europe as q conqueror,' to
unite~his name indissolubly with the
pyramids, to become emperor Of
r France, and a captive upon a lone,
barren isle in the Atlantic When the
Chronicle was first issued, Lord Byron
had not been born. Three years were
to elapse before that event which be-
gan the career of q mighty but wretch
ed spirit that still haunts the Alps, the
Apprentices and morass Of Missolonghi.
The Chronicle in 1921, recorded the
death of the renowned Napoleon, and
in 1924 that Of the famous poet whose
shade glooms through "old Ravenna's
Lair. The vanquisher of nations and
''the pilgrim of eternity" have long
departed, but the Chronicle remains
more vigorous, prosperous and vital
than at any period Of its existence.
Consider this paper has annotated
by many years the application of steam
to commerce on the seas and railway
transportation upon land; that the
telegraph, telephone, gas illumination,
electric light and motorship are As
Of yesterday compared with the Ci.yon-
acle in chronologic order. The wonder
fuland world revolutionizing discover
les of Hargreaves and Arkwright were
in their infancy when the Chronicle has
recorded the formation Of the republic
Of the United States and its unrivalled
progress, in war and peace, to the
front rank Of nationalities. Kings and
presidents, emperors and sultans, the
masters of science and song and story
have come and gone, along with the
statesmen and warriors of renown {;
but the Chronicle remains and will con-
tinue to do SO for an indefinite period.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle
DIDN'T WANT HIM TO KNOW Any
THING.-A cheeky young reporter in
New York was once detailed to inter
view Commodore Vanderbilt on the
stock market. The commodore looked
at him, but said nothing. The repor-
ter mentioned the object OF his visit.
Stillsthesold man was dumb. Finally