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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

He saw figure pacing up and down
in the dark, and the yellow light for
ward showed couple of seamen who
had risen from q coil of rope. lie turned
toward them, and with hands stretched
entreatingly, he called out
''For Gods sake, mates, let me have a
drop, OF grog, or somethin'. Me gal,
me daughters dyin' over on the boat
there. and I've nothin' to bring her too.
A drop O. somethin' and bite to
strengthen her, eff you're men,"
The figure in the dark stopped, and a
voice asked: whats all this hubbub
abouti"
"Plcase, SIR" said one of the sailors,
"a mans come aboard to say woman's
sick in a boat lynn off there, and he
wants somethin' to help her out"
"Send him to the steward" said the
voice, and the form melted in the dark
ness aft.
Up and down, up and down it went
over the smooth deck--a manly figure,
but with STOPPING head and solemn,
thoughtful face. Once or twice the lat
ter turned to the big city, and the eyes
roamed over the black profile of the
buildings and the tall brick phantoms
far off in the air as though they would
pierce to the heart of that throbbing hive
and pluck from it some secret hidden
there. A glimpse of the moon showed
overhead for a moment, and the spars
and ropes stood out clearer, but soon 1t
was yelled, and the figure went on in the
dark up and down, up and down as be.
fore.
''God bless you, mates, for this nights
work. God bless you'll"
The words stole out into the air from
the open companionway, and Old Tom
Saunders. who had uttered them. came
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

The two pass over the wharf and 90
down into the cabin of the old boat,
from which the dim light is shining, and
there, awakened from her swoon, but
still dazed and frightened, is the girl of
the young mans love, the wife of his
thoughts, lying like blighted flower.
The father was the first to descend,
and he turned at the entrance TO restrain
his companion.
ga moment, Ned. Wait moment.
The surprise is too sudden"
The young man drew back into the
shadow while the other lifted up the
woman and seated her by the berth. al
am better, father" she said, and laid her
head YEARLY beside the sleeping child.
But old Toms actions soon attracted her.
He wss smiling, actually smiling, and
rubbing his hands with infinite compla-
cency. She said nothing but looked at
him inqurIringly.
Its a. good night is Christmas Eve"
he blurted out. 1--WE always herd so.
Amt you, Libbie? Sandy Claws brings
things t. cAirren, and friends come to-
gether and news comes O. people that
amt been round for ever so long. Don't
they, chi"
She looked at him more intently than
ever, and there was an eager, appealing
look in her eyss.
mo one knows when lock may change.
10 they9" the man continued.
''Father, you have heard something.
Tell me, is it about him.
"'Bout Ned2 Well, yes, have. Now,
don't take on, Libbie. You'll be quiet
and easy. like good gall"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
A VISION a. DEcEMsRe.

Along of that lime when the forests are
drear,
On the moor, within the sound Of the belfries,
appear
Twelve mystical spirits, the months of the
year.
Set the chimes a-ringin-!
With laughter and song they dance in their
zest;
And deep in the circle their footsteps have
pressed
Sits hoary December, his beard on his
breast.
Set the chimes a-ringing,
He thinks not of them, and his mind is
away;
For he is too old, too old to be gay
Like hearty October or lily-crowned May.
Set the chimes d-ringinJ!
And dreaming, still dreaming, he murmurs
and seeks
Fair memories forgotten, the tears on his
But when the bells burst, he remembers and
speaks:
Set the chimes a-rtnCingi
in the watch of this night, in the Orient
land,
Thro' the pass Of the hills which glory DER
spanned,
led in the Light of the World by the
hand!'
Set the chimes a-ringing,
They hear him, they heed him, that reverend
one,
And the words he hath spoken shine out like
the sun;
Now the wild chant is hushed and the frolic
is done.
Set the chimes bringing,
Then sudden for praise and for joy that they
owe,
They, kissing his feet, kneel them down in
the snow;
And all for the sake of the Child that we
know.
Sc the chimes a-ringinJ,
For the star of our hope In the gateways of
morn,
For the lover of love and the scorner of
scorn,
For the King that is come, for the Christ that
is born.
Sc, The chimes d-ringing!
Louise Imogen Guineu.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

up with a bottle and pan. Once he
stumbled in his haste, but quickly re-
covering himself, he came on to the
deck. The silent figure had paused and
turned toward the voice. 1t moves to-
ward it, and then with a wild cry
springs forward. The light from the
ships lantern falls on Old Toms face,
haggard and blanched and excited; on
the face of the other, too-young and
hearty, but sad and white with passion.
And in the yellow glow the two men
know each other.
With grand sweep of the hand the
stranger has dashed from the old mans
hand the bottle, and it lies smashed
upon the timbers, while the young,
manly face is thrust into the others and
voice cries in his ears: Course it. Let
it lie there. 1t was that robbed me O.
my wife. II was that drove me away
into the world wanderer in search of
her. Curse the stuff 1t was the cause
OF ALL" and the heavily shodden foot
comes down on the splintered glass till
1t crackles beneath it. Old Tom has
started back aghast at the young mans
vehemence, but in that moment rises to
his lips a cry that sweeps enmity and
passion away:
"My God, Ned, it was for her. She
is dying"
The strong hand of the young seaman
is on the others arm, and the face is
even whittier as he demands:
"What do you mean! She is dying.
Where2 Speak, man! Tell me at once !"
There, in that boat Yes, that old
hulk of canawler," he adds, in response
to the others inluiring glance. That's
what we've come to now"
The young man turns and is at the
vesse g side before Old Tom can call
out: ''Where are you going2 You will
kill her. Didn't tell you she is dying
dying of want"
From the others breast comes groan,
a deep. prolonged one, and he says in an
altered tone:
Lead me to her God will not rob
me of her now. Come along"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Happy New Year! Happy New Year,
st TO the words floating so c'elr-
forage and palace. in mansion 50 grand.
EENery sweet home throughout our fair land
NO hearthstone so humble but hath its own
share Nv
Happy good wishes, glad New Year
prayer.
Happy New Year! Happy New Year,
marx, us an omen of fu ure cheer,
BAD sorrow fair joy of last year have flown.
It may bring us happine IS. lasting and SIRE.
IL may bring us anguish, hard to endure.
happy New Year, Happy New Year!
Gladly, brightly, welcome Won here.
erect you with pleasure, right royalty too.
bringing our dear hopes and wishes to Won
we may not look forward to view our own
= way.
Gods Hand will direct us from day unto
day.
Mary Currier Parsons.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
CHRISTMAS BELLS.

| hoard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Cf peace on earth, good will to men,
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
VI peace on earth, goodwill to menl
Ill ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day-
A voce, chime,
A chant sublime,
or peace on earth, good will to men
But in despair bowed my head
There is no peace on earth" | said:
For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
of peace on earth, good will to mem"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deem
1od Is not dead, nor doth He SIC .pl
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail,
win eace on earth, good will to menu
Henry w. LongCellow
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

Offering through the Shiny piles I'M
derneath the pier, only the distant
swash of a paddle broke upon tho
monotonous creaking of chains and
cables, the same big, stiff ones that Old
Tom Saunders had seen make fast the
newly arrived bark at nightfall He had
been striding up and down the bare
deck of the dusky canal boat to keep
himself warm ever since the stranger
had doomed up on the other side of the
pier. lie had heard screaming in the
slip beyond the whistle of the tug boat
that had brough her in, and seen the
bustling little craft steam away with
the sparks and smoke from her tunnel
leav ng luminous trail in the dark.
From that the gloom had been thicker
about the pier and the damp mist roll
ing up from the bay had wrapped the
shipping in a shroud of moisture. There
had been a CHATTER of voices for while
on the big bark, and he had been half
conscious of itting lights and hoarse sea
orders; but all these had ceased long ago
and now the black hull of the new arrival
scse up in the gloom. solemn and silent,
with her masts slightly tilted of and u
lantern forward cleaning like dim
yellow star.
Cid Tom Saunders paced the deck of
the dlngy hulk he was on, with his pipe
gripped fast between his teeth and his
hands slowed away down In the pockets
of his threadha'e pea jacket. The bat
tered and decaying boat was no shabDier
and more woe-l egone than the man.
Old Tom he was by virtue of the years
that had turned his few Struggling
locks gray and drawn all sorts OF deep
burrows across his face. Familiarly Old
Tom among the wharf men. who knew
him as such ever sine, he had come along
on the old canal boat, a broken down
man with flavor of better times about
him. Facetiously Old Tom, in conse :
quence of the fondness for the tipple
Of that name which, it was limited. had
dragged him down to his present low
estate. Old Tom Saunders had once
been bu-lj, and he was still big man,
but he had .ost all his flesh. His face
looked like worn parchment, and had
that colorless, bleached. out appearance
which life OF constant excuses begets.
There was also that Lervous twitching
about the lips and that aimless wander
ing OF the fingers which betoken a con-
atitution unstrung and shattered.
In low spirits indeed he seemed this
night of hristmas Eve as he stopped at
the stern of the canal boat to look of
toward the big black warehouses that
sEut in the rlver side like wall Up in
the air a reddish haze hung over the city
where the lights of counter lamps on
the thorougfares beneath had set the
lamp atmosphere aglow, and from some
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

In these latter days, the Christian
world seems to be getting back to the
more tender solicitude of early times in
its care for the identifying of our
churches. There is now what might al
most be called science of decoration.
Volumes are published upon the subject,
profusely illustrated with every sort OF
device to please the eye and inspire the
devotional feeling-the cross tleurie, the
cross patonce, the 9uartre fol. the
cinque foil, the ves;ca, the four, five and
six pointed star, the i.legible Greek
characters, bands, shields, diapers and
meda!l.ons, things requiring great neat .
ness of design and carefulness of execu-
ton. There is all the difference in the
world between many of our churches at
Christmas and what they were gen
Grafton ago. The time has gone by
when a crowd of young and old used to
go out in the damp, cold woods, cut
down the snow-llden trees, or pull up
miles of ground-pine and then sit for a
week of nights in freezing church, to
make the trimmings for Christmas.
The work is done now in many instances
by professional decorate: s, and SO it is
no more labor of love on the part of
the congregation, as it certainly should
be.
1t will not do to leave our sub, ect
without mentioning the Christmas tree,
popularity so called, though only of late
years has it been naturalized in England
or our own country. 1t is gift from
Germany, yet one who is curious in such
matters might perhaps trace it back to
the toy pine tree, hung with oscilla,
which boys and girls in ancient Rome
looked for on the sixth and seventh days
of the saturnalia. and one of which
Tiberius gave to his nephew Claudius.
The Egyptians had their palm tree, and
the Buddhists their tree Of votive gifts,
and possibly the custom drifted west
ward, until Germany Christianized it in
honor of St. Maternus, who first pro-
claimed the good tidings Of Christmas
in that land. It has become popular
among Us. and long may ito verdant
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

81 don't suppose they make as much
of Christmas out West as we do here in
the East, do they" asked an Eastern
tourist of rrcSadwool girl.
'un! mercy, yes p was the czthasi-
astic reply. "Why, I've known my pa
and my brother Dock to win as many as
twenty nine pigeons and ten turkeys at
one shooting match, to say nothing of
going to two lynchings in the evening.
We Always lay ourselves out for jolly
good time Christmas"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
The Nistl(toe.

When winter nights grow long,
And winds without blow cold,
We sit in ring round the warm wood fire,
And listen to stories Old!
And we try 70 look grave las maids should
be-
When the men bring in bows of the laErel
tree,
Oh the lsurel, the evergreen tree
The poets have laurels and why not wee
BURY COrnUdM
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
Christmas Humsr,

The muss that children ars anxious to-
get into hristmus.
AS the Christmas tree is bent, so is the
youthful heart made glad.
Christmas is she anniversary of dys-
pepsia's fOwlest conspiracy against COM
fort.
Hose more despised by little children
than the man who takes no stockin'
Santa CLAUSE
The man who takes unto himself a
wife on Christmas eve will lie sure to
have well filed stockings.
1t is said that child born on Christ
mas will alwaEs hate turkey and goose,
and lean toward Goldfish and bacon.
The small boy now puts in eight hours
day tlattening his nose against the win.
dows of confectionery and toy stores.
rs Kriss Kingle alive, papar'
The small boy said.
"Ah! yes, and kicking"
Said the family head.
Christmas is rapidly coming this way,
and the young man with No. s foot
will, as usual, be presented with pair
of No. & slippers.
See the merry snowhakes mngle!
How 1t ma es tine life blood Jingle.
A royal welcome to old kriss Kringle!
If you really desire to perpetrate a
pra teal joke upon your printer this
year, send Lin the amount CT your sub.
scription on Christmas.
A young man who gave his girl &15
gold watch last hr stihas, married her
during the sun mer and now he thinks
the present was "time" Will spent.
What time she holidays roll rounl,
The bad boy, still in frocks
Led 10y the ear, to his ma draws near,
And getteth his Chril tmas box.
"Mamma, said the little one, edo
you know what you are going to give
me for Christmas: "Whv, yes" said
the mother, "of course | know" "We!l,
for mercy's sake don't tell me-" re-
sponded the puss with great vehemence.
AT THE EDITORS TABLE.
Ye Christmas tide now ebheth low
Yule log and caros, chimes,
Ye holly and ye mistletoe
And all We merrie times
Have gone. perchance to come 10 lore;
Yet at our Christmas feasts.
With turkey, goose and other leaIts.
We still bring aye bore.
The Benedict Before Christmas.
With bundle
See him trundle
Down the sire with body bent
Eyes from sockets
Start like rockets
In his pockets
He can't find a single cent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
HOLIDAY GREENS.
ORIGIN OF THE CUSTOM OF
DECORATING HOUSES.
The Practice n Relic Of the Roman
Saturnalia-The Habit of Adorn-
ing Churches With Flowers
Becoming Prevalent.

HERE has long
been n mooted
question, whence
arose the custom
of decorating
churches an d
houses ut Christ
mastide 2 Anti
quarians, as we
have intimated,
are divided in
their opinions as
to the origin of
the custom. Our
English ancestors
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
ON CHRISTMAS EVE,

NOW had been fall
ing early in the day,
but so lightly that
only a white fleck here
and there marked the
distant housetops and
a thin frosty layer
made the stringpiece
show in tie dark
like a glittering line.
Down by the waters
edge the night was
silent and gloomy.
My the hoarse CUR
Cling of the stream
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

One of the most prominent South Jer-
sey Industries" is the preparation of
evergreen decorations for Christmas and
New Years. The festoons are the handi-
work of women and girls. the raw mate
rial being furnished by the male portion
of the family, and the product is shipped
in barrels to New York and Philadel-
phia.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

An epidemic OF suic'd es has broken
out in Paris. At least ten attempts q
self-murder are reported eyerY dsY. =
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22

I will honor Oh istmas in my heart
and try to keep it all the year = 1seksas
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-12-22
The Benedict Before Christmas

The Benedict Before Christmas
With bundle
See him trundle
Down the sire with body bent.
Eyes from sockets
Start like rockets
In his pockets
He can't find a single cent.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-13
SENATOR MCDONALD
Gives His Views on National Politics, tn
Tariff, Etc.

Gives His Views on National Politics, the
Tariff, Etc.
Iu the course of q conversation upon
political topics in general, ex Senator Nc
Donald, of Indiana, was asked by an In
dianapOlis Sentinel reporter what he
thought of the present legislation affecting
the tariff, and the Mills bill was men,
toned.
mo one can be said to know at pres
emit, " he said, what will be the outcome
of tariff legislation in Congress this session,
nothing having been disclosed rs to the
temper of the Senate on the subject. The
Mills bill il growing in strength and its
friends entertain very strong hopes CT
passing il through the House without any
material change. The Randall bill, which
was introduced for the purpose OF antsg
Onizing il is not being regarded with spe-
cial favor, even by the Republicans, and
the minority OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee have failed To antagonize the ma
iority bill, called the Mills bill, by any
measure of their own looking to q reduc-
ton of revenues. The minority report il
simply fault-fnainE document, and not
a very able one at that. All this taken to-
gether increases the chances of the passage
of the sO-called Mills bill-at least through
the House OF Representatives"
"Do you think there il anything in the
report, Senator, about Mr.. Cleveland not
desiring reelection ,"
mo, | do not. Mr.. Cleveland is not
presenting himself to the country for re-
nomination, Int il is well understood that
be will expect the nomination, which,
from present appearances, will be given to
him without opposition, and there is not
the remOtest probability Of his declining
it, OF course yen will meet with prom
inent men Of the Democratic party, now
and then, who do not approve of Mr..
Cleveland's administration, hut there is
absolutely no organized opposition TO him,
~ everyone recognizes the fact that the
party could not 20 into the Presidential
contest with any hope Of success after hav-
ing discarded is own administration. With
Mr.. Cleveland IS our candidate no well III
formed Democrat expects defeat.
'As 10 the nominee Of the Republican
convention, the belief is growing, East, in
political circles, and especially among
leading Republicans, that notwithstanding
Mr.. Blaine's declination, he will, after all,
be the nominee, with q Western man,
either Harrison or Allison, an his associate,
the stronger probabilities pointing TO Gen.
Harrison"
WHO do you think will be appointed
Chief Just'ce?' was asked.
"My imprI ssion H." Mr.. Mcdonald an
sweFed, that the President will appoint
some man who is not over fifty-tiye years
Of age, with the chances at this time favor.
ing Judge Schofield, of Illinois, or Senator
Cray, Of Delaware. Judge Schotisldis IN
derstOOd TO be averse to having his name
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-13

10 substitute for articles which American
manufacturers had hitherto been able to
supply owing to the higher duties upon
the foreign? Every one knows that reduc-
ed duties mean greater impOrtations.
Having got himself befogged, and hav-
ing mixed up the total value OF goods with
the amount of duties collected thereon"
says an evidently thoroughly posted cores
prudent of tbs Pittsburg Post oyer.the nom
de plume Truth" criticisiDg CARNEeIE's
article, "Mr. CARNEGIE concludes that
we would have left 500. coo, 600 of manu-
featured articles upon which a general
tariff bill could act. A reduction which
averaged 10 per cent. would reduce thei
revenue ten millions
Then Truth" brushes Mr.. CARNEsIE's
statement with the following, based on the
government records:
''The value of dutiable goods imported
in 1886 was $4l3. 67s, O5i; the average duty
collected thereon was 459 per cent, and
the revenue therefrom was SlSS. S79, 397.
Now a reduction of 10 per cent. would
make the average 354 per cent. and
the reduction in revenue would be SILL
81, sos, not so, OOO 600, as Mr.. CARNEGIE
figures it.
According to his method, if every 10
per cent. reduction in rates Of duty re-
duced the revenue only SIC, 1000, 900, then
if you repealed all the duties (454 per
cent you would still have q revenue oil
$I42, s79, 3g7 from customs for 1886.
"Mr. CARNEGIE says: Every one
knows that reduced duties mean greater
importations.'
1t is TO be regretted that Mr.. CARNEGIE
did not examine the official tables OF the
customs department before he made this
wild statement, for, unfortunately, there
are TOO many Ignorant persons who will
bellows this, simply because ANDREW
CARNEGIE says so.
THE average amount of duties collected
under the low revenue tariff of 1916, from
1917 to 1S6l inclusive, 10 years, was Si7,-
2O2, $50 per year.
in 1861 the tariff was raised the Nor
RILL bill was passed., and the average
amount of duties collected under that tariff,
1862 to 1885 inclusive, four years, was &c.
$40, ll3 per year.
"In 1865 the tariff was again raised very
materially, and the average amount OF
duties collected from 1866 TO 1887 inclu-
siye, % years, was $751;, 900. 600 per year.
The lowest amount was for 1878, $3.50, no.
$50.
''Iu 1888 the tariff was reduced and the
revenue from customs fell off from 1920,
900, 600 in 1882 to S2l4,OOO, 900 in 1888,
Sl95, 600 600 in 1884, $751;, 900, 900 in 1885,
S1ss, 600 900 in 1885.
The imports of merchandise fell off
from S723, 900, 600 in 1888 to 1861, OO0 900
in 1884, $577, eco, 900 in 1885, $685., 900, :
900 in 1886.
''The facts are sill against Mr.. Carnegie.
Our experiences since 1861 has been that
raising the tariff increased the imports and
more than doubled the revenue from Gus
toms, and lowering the tariff reduced the
revenue and reduced the imports. Putting
raw material on the free list certainly stops
customs revenue from them and gives man
ufacturers cheaper materials to work on
enabling them to enlarge their sales, ex,
panding their markets and give employ
ment to more hands at higher wages.