Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-01-10

struct and amuss. Evcrybody's
speciality will be looked after, SO that
each and all will get ten times the
par value of the paper, which is $3.50
per anmum, payable in advance with
out discount fortunate concession
which we have made to that large
body of capitalists and tinanciers in
our midst who would rather die than
90 in debt.
JANUARY LIST has passed, day
ever celebrated as starting-point for
social, moral and business reform
and, we would like to include the
adjective, political-but this, like &C.
casion for charity, we have with us
always.
Which leads to the reflection that
it is not wise to abjure old practices
with an oath Oh any set day of the
year. Not that it is sinful to do SO,
but evil to wait for any period in the
which to call q halt upon vicious
habits and wrench the machinery by
turning the hands upon the dial
backward with jerk SO that an old
life may be made to bloom with the
roses of youthful goodness. If one
is convicted of sin, nor is the time
in fact, tho only accepted time-to
stop the old and begin the new.
Amy postponsment evinces weakness
and in nine of ten cases amounts to
nothing. So that if you have fixed a
day, soon or late, to reform, do not
wait for it, but reform now. Horace
Greeley's policy for the resumption
of specie payment is lesson in
point: "The only way to resume is
to resume" And when you have re-
formed, stay so-ths longer the bet
ter, for if death comes along and ar
rests you in this stage of grace some
insignia of royalty will glitter on
your brow in the life to come.
Nor along ago few youthful
disciples of Jesse James, masked and
armed, intimidated street car
audience in st. Louis. Money and
valuablss poured into tho hands of
the robbers AS from a full-grown
cornucopia. Only the conductor,
who had no pockets, and no key to
the till which he CARRIES, escaped
whole. The driver essayed an APP
peal for mercy. but Il ristol-shot
through his ear induced him to re-
lapse intro Lis usual retirence.
Not quite so serious an invasion "t
railway train near Rising Sun, this
State, about IL week ago. Two half
grown fellows, one unarmed, board
ed railway train for short ride.
The hero covered Il darkey passenger
with the only revolver in the crowd.
The latter. standing as it were, on
spraying ground and pleading terms"
contributed Waterbury watch and
several priceless nickels to the col
lector. A white passenger, seeing
the game, saved his fortune by SHOW
ing his tims-piece and purse inside
his bootleg. Having "run" the car,
the robber, followed by his unsrm-
ed confederate, leaped from the
train just as the conductor and
brakeman arose TO supreme con-
sciousness Of what was going on.
Now, the people of Rising Sun and
Elkton, majority of whom were not
on the train, are laughing prodigious-
ly over the susceptibility of the two
citizens who were passengers. But
this is an erroneous proceeding. No
body can tell what he will do under
sudden duress. On the other hand
again, it is quite certain the high
wsymen of this occasion were not
dignitar,ss of high rank in piratical
circles, and the hilsrity Of the I'M
molssted citizens, implies, after all,
that 1t takes a large number Of
very smart people to work their way
safely through from Rising Sun to
Elkton. In other words, small
bodies should move slowly, or saahsr,
not move at all.