Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-02-07


data given of the programme for the
Inauguration, which cannot but prove
decidedly interesting to those who in
tend being Of the great American pub
lie assisting upon that occasion.
Personalities W. j. C. Kenyon,
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad company, and E. f. Pat
ton, of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company, were in town Wednesday on
business connected with their lines.
Edward Mulvaney, Of Cumberland,
has been appointed superintendent of
the Cumberland division Of the canal,
extending from the city to Dam No. 4,
succeeding L. G. Stanhope, resigned.
| Meanwhile Mr.. Stanhope denies that
he has resigned.
Capt. j. ID. Starlight, retired naval
officer, died several days ago in Cum
berland. He spent several summers
in Frostburg during recent years.
Hon. William Brace has been con-
fined to the house this week by illness.
He is stopping at the residence of his
mother-in-law, Mrs James B. Thomas.
Daniel Mullen and wife, of Martins
burg, W. Va, are the guests of Charles
Heintz, of this place. Married last
Tuesday, they have taken Frostburg
in with their wedding Tour.
Charles Smith and wife, of Salisbury,
Pa, are visiting the family of Rev.
John F. Smith, Of this place.
"The Battle Of Shiloh is receiving
considerable attention by participants.
Among the interesting contributions to
the annals of th&t bloody conflict is a
paper in the Cumberland Times by T.
f. McCardeli, of this county.
Rev. P. Manning, of Homecoming,
received few days ago two large
turtles from Rev. P. O'Connor, now
visiting New Orleans. The two
weighed nearly two hundred pounds.
One of them will probably come to
Rev. V. F, Schmitt, of this place.
The Iico Pictures. Prof. Buckley
frequently outlines brief story to his
pupils at our public school. from which
the latter are directed to construct q
narrative in full. The exercise is apt
to develop the best effort Of the pupils,
and so far, we learn, the results have
been very satisfactory. A short time
ago he gave a class a sketch of the lit
tie story entitled The Two Pictures.7
The responses were quite numerous
and creditabe. The following. by
Miss Allie Parker, OF this place, is
regarded by Prof. Buckley, as the best
of the series, and we reproduce it here
as worthy of publication
Once upon time there lived a celebrated
artist who had a very beautiful daughter.
There was WITH him two young students
learning to paint, and they had both fallen in
love with her. They We're very worthy young
men, and she did not know which to choose !;
SO she went to her father and asked him to
help her decide He told her as she could
not make choice to tell them she would
marry the one who painted the most beauti-
full picture.
They set about their work eagerly 10 paint
the best picture to win the girl they loved.
One Of them painted bunch Of fruit and
flowers.
The artist and his daughter thought there
surely could be no lovelier picture than the
one he had painted. They put it out in the
field, and even the bees and birds were de
ceiyed in it.
But when the other artist brought his pic
| ture with veil over it they asked him why
he did not unveil it and let them see it. He
answered that he would let them do that, but
when the old artist came forward to throw il
aside he found that it was not a real veil but
was painted.
They then decided that he was the greatest
artist, for where the first picture had deceived
only the birds and bees, the other had de
CeiycI the eyes OF the great artist