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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

1t is a difficult matter to deal with
that class of men who will neither give
nor receive definite proposition look
ing toward compensation. If, on the
one hand, you meet a man who says,
THAT will be all right; l guess we won't
have any trouble about that part of it, "
set it down that there will be trouble on
lust that part of it. ;" If, on the other
hand, you find man who is always de-
claring, You'll not lose anything by
this; I'll see that it's all right, you may
be sure it will be all wrong in the end.
When two men of this sort get together,
and the services are of such nature that
to determine their exact value at the
time of their inception is impossible, the
end will be misunderstanding, mutual
dissatisfaction, possibly an estrange-
ment. Yet there is no case in which a
probable value can not be got at. Ii
you consider matters as complete al
fair, and estimate the value of results as
you plan them to happen, you can never
be far wrong. If one can not do that,
he has no business to undertake to make
contracts at ALL 1t may be that there
are times when man may go into a
business engagement without definite
idea of what his pay is to be, and there
NAV be men who will always settle sat
isfactorilv. But one is never safe to
make engagements in such lax way
False modesty always stands i'll the way
of sensible business arrangements. But
it has no place in business. AS an old
merchant said once to a writer: 1--WE are
friends, and l trust will always remain
so. Perhaps it is against my interest to
tell YOU So but when you are making an
agreement for the purchase and delivery
of goods, don't think of your feelings to-
ward each other at all. Buy of me as
YOU would of stranger, consider your
own needs and profits, and don't hesl-
tate to buy where you can do best. 1t
should be exactly this way in making
arrangements for employment. Treat
the matter simply as business, pure and
simple. You can't afford to do business
without making proper arrangements
for all points. These sensible sugges-
tions from the National Grocer have
more than money value. Business is
business" seems sometimes like a heart
less proverb, but it is fact that no bus
mess is likely to prove so satisfactory as
that which is done strictly on business
principles. Here is where the great
value of business education comes IN.
1t impresses upon the mind at every
stage of its course that business is bust
ness IT ,hurch News
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
The Golden Casket,s Contents.

The Germans have story which the
home LOVING people love to repeat. A
father, when his daughter became a
bride, gave her golden casket with the
injunction not to pass itinto other hands,
for it held charm which in her keeping
would be of inestimabe value to her as
the mistress of the house. Not only was
she to have the entire care of it, but she
was to take it every morning to the Gel
lar, the kitchen, the dining room, the
library, the bed room, and remain with
it in each place for five minutes, looking
carefully about. After the lapse of
three years the father was to send the
key, that the secret talisman might be
revealed. The key was sent. The cas-
ket was opened. 1t was found to con-
tain an old parchment, on which was
written these words: The eyes of the
mistress are worth 100 pairs of servants
hands" The wise father knew that the
practice of the inspection followed faith
'ully for three years would become a
habit and be self perpetuated-that the
golden casket and the hidden charm
would have accomplished their mission.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
A FLY Catching Mouse.

The firm of William H. Post & Co.,
of Hartford, Conn, have in their store
a helpful little mouse that is almost as
handy thing to have about as brownie.
No sooner is the big store closed at night
than the little chap comes out of his
hole hops into the big illuminated show
window, and sets himself to work at
catching flies. He is very skillful at the
sport, darting hither and thither among
the flies that buzz up and down the pane,
while scores of people gather in the street
and watch his performance. The little
mouse is far better than fly trap or
sticky paper, because he runs his own fly
trap without any help and does not have
to be set. What game he gets he slows
away forever in his own game bag, and
there are no dead or dying insects lying
about in his wake. After getting meal
of flies he darts behind pile of rugs
He is rapidly clearing the store of in
sactS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
DID YOU KNOW IT7
We, Too, Have an Empire on Which tho
sun Never Sets.


Webster's eloquent description of the
British Empire is very readable, but we
doubt whether it is generally realized
that we, too, have a dominion on which
the sun never sets. 1t will hardly be be-
leved, perhaps, without an examination
of the maps, that San Francisco, instead
of being t,e west line of this dominion,
is only about midway between our ca t.
ern and western limits; and yet it is a
fact that the furthest Aleutian isle &C
quired in our purcha e of Russian Amer
lea is as far to the west of that city as
PASSPORT, Me-, is to the east of it. Be-
tween the northwest limit of the State
of Washington and the southern limit of
Alaska there is break of few degrees,
but with the slightest reduction our ter
ritory extends through 1856 degrees of
longitude, or II de.sree5 more than half
way round the globe.
Hence, when the sun is giving its good
night kiss to our westward isle, on the
confines of the Behrng Sea, it is already
flooding the fields and forests of Maine
with its morning light, and i'll the east
ern part of the State is more than an
hour high. AT the very moment when
the Aleutian fisherman, warned by the
approaching shades of night, is pulling
his canoe toward the shore, the wood
chopper OF Maine is beginning to wake
the forest echoes with his stirring mu 'ic
of the axe
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

A recent issue of the Dinkeyville PPan
of Progress contains the following men,
ton of an enterprising man:
The Rev Simpson Prinny wishes us 10
inform our readers that he has Just
opened up butcher shop in the rear half
of his tonsoral parlor. This insures the
guests of Elders Hotel, up stairs, the best
and freshest of meat. Both shops will
close at 8 30 Sunday mornings, and at
7.30 PRAYER meeting nights. Mr.. Prinny
has added two new rigs to the compile
ment of his livery stable, next door, and
10 new mail boxes to the post office,
which will hereafter be found in front
of the barber chair. Cash paid for hides
and old ones. Hair cutting in the lat
est style. Ice cream after prayer meet
ing. Meals at all hours. Undertaking
and emhalming speciality. Hog cholera
cured in two days. Revolvers and am
muniti"n as cheap as the cheapest. Bar
gains in town lots. A magnificent
smoke colored Kentucky jack for sale.
Photographs taken in the highest style
Of art ON the roof. Auction cried at
reasonable terms Marriages solemnized
at low rates. Baled hay, grain, and
hides taken same as cash. Services at
the church every Sunday till harvest
time. Prayer meeting Wednesday nights.
The band will hereafter meet in the bar
Der shop every Thursday night. The
elder has our thanks for nice juicy
beef liver which he left on our desk this
morning. Call again, Mr.. Prinny.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
A Night. of Horror.

The Egypt coal mine, near Egypt
Station, N c., is Il. only coal mine in
North Carolina, and has usually 40 labor
ers employed in it. The pit is 45O feet
deep, and there is only one cage used to
draw out the men. During one after
noon this cage was caught by slight
cave in about midway etween the top
and bottom of the >haft, thus rendering
useless the only means by which the
laborers could get out.
At first nobody knew what to do.
Mothers, wives, and children of the i'm
prisoned men gathered about the mine
and their cries of agony ,uld be heard
mile away 1t was known that the
water rose very rapidly in the mine, and
with the machinery blocked there was
no possible way of pumping it out. The
miners would therefore drown if not
rescued soon No voice could penetrate
the depths, and no sound could be heard
from below.
Night came on, but there was no pros
pect of rescue. At last the president of
the coal mine company got some men to
work, and throughout the long hours
while they tried to loosen the machinery
mothers walked up and down weeping,
with babies in their arms
Midnight came but nobody thought of
sleeping. Just before daybreak some
men were lowered down to the fastened
cage and cut hole in it. The glad It'd
ings were sent up that the men were all
alive. Soon ropes were let down, and
INV
were alive, but had the rescue been de-
layed few hours more all would have
been drowned, as the water in the mine
had risen four feet and would soon have
covered the head of every man. They
were all wet, cold, and half starved. One
old man said:
1--WE did not expe, to be rescued at
all. We felt sure that the mine had
caved in at the top, and not man of us
ever exp. cted to lie taken out of that pit
alive. We huddled close together, and
spent the time in singing and praying.
We knew by the rate at which the water
was rising on us that it could only be a
matter of few hours before we should
all drown, and it required a lot of talk
and persuasion to keep some of the men
from lying down in the water and
drowning befo it was three feet deep.
We then made bargain to stand on our
feet Just as long as we could, and when
we could stand no longer we had agreed
to all lie down in the water at the same
time and die. 1t was an awful tim,
and think we all suffered the horrors
of hundred deaths.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
A CODE OF MORALS.

Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep
his house in order,
And hied away to the Hurrum hills above the
tfghan border.
To sit on a rock with heliograph; but ere he
left he taught
His wife the working of the Code that sets the
miles at naught.
And Love had made him very sage, as Nature
made her fair;
So Cupid and Apollo linked, per Photograph,
the pair.
At dawn across the Hurrum hills, he flashed
her counsel wise
AT cen, the dying sunset bore her husbands
homiles.
He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in
scarlet clad and g..
AS much as 'gainst the Establishments pater-
nal of tho old;
But kept his gravest warnings for thereby the
That snowy haired Lothario, Lieutenant-Gen-
eral Bangs
Twas General Bangs. with Aide and Staff.
that tt-tupped on the way,
When they beheld heliograph tempestuously
at play.
They thought of Border rsings, and Of sta
tions sacked and burnt
So stopped to take the message down and this
is what they learnt:
"Dash dot dot, dot dot dash, dot dash dot"
twice. The General swore.
"Was ever General Officer addressed as dear
before?
"'My love. i faith! My duck Gadzooksl
MY darling popsy-wop'"
Esprit Of great Lord Wolseley, who is on that
mountain-top?"
The artless Aide de camp was mute; the gilded
Staff were still.
As. dumb with pent-up mirth, they booked
that message from he hill;
For clear as summers H., aiming flare the hus-
bands warning ran:
Don't dance ride with General Bangs-a
most immoral man."
(At dawn, across the Hurrum hills, he flashed
But howsoever Love be blind, the world at
large hath eyes.)
With damnatory dot and dash he photographed
his wife
Some interesting details of the Generals pri-
vate life.
The artless Aide-de-camp was mute; heshin-
ing STAFF were still,
And red and ever redder grew the Generals
And this is what he said at last (his feelings
matter mott:
IL think we've tapped a private line Hi!
Threes about there! Trot!"
All honor unto Bangs, for ne'er did Jones there
after know
BY word or act official who read off that hello;
But the tale is on the Frontier and from Michni
to Mooltan
They know the worthy General as that most
immoral man."
-TRudyard kiplng.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Thanking I'm tho Maps.

II this thing keeps on, said map
printer the other day, well all have to
60 into bankruptcy. We hadn't got our
United States maps fixed up with North
and South Dakota before the Brazil rev.
olution knocked South America endwise,
and now Wyoming and Idaho are turned
into States. Africa has to be fixed over
every six months, and the latest and
most serious of all is in this German-En-
glish arrangement to knock out Heligo-
land from the British empire. That isn't
big change, but it is plenty big enough
to spoil all our maps of Europe. 1t would
almost pay the map makers to chip in
and buy the nasty little island in order
to make present of it to England, and
save the expense of getting up new maps
of Europe. IN. Y. Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

Colonel I1ager, vino is a boss side show
rlan and a collector of oddities, curios-
tits and freaks. says:
There is no live gorilla in the United
Safes. and there never was one. Any
Snowman who says to the contrary tells
what he knows To be false. In the first
Ilace it is almost impossible to capture a
live gorilla. The animal is devilish sly
AID can't be fooled. In the next place,
# one was captured | doubt if he could
live in this country. The gorilla has had
n good deal of fun poked at him, but he
has the most delicate constitution of
anythin that crawls, walks, flies, or
swimS.
Didn't Barnum once advertise that
lie had one?" was asked.
Yes, but he got fooled on it. He had
offered a large amount of money for a
live gorilla and his agents secured gorilla
land to get one. Somebody finally
caught what he thought was gorilla
and shipped it to Barnum in New York.
AS soon as the old man heard of it he
advertised the fact in big type in every
paper in New York. The day the ami
nal arrived and was on exhibition the
fact was placarded all over the city.
There was an old man in town who had
lived many years in the country where
the gorilla exists. He went in to see the
new arrival and, after looking at it, said
TO Mr. Barnum:
80 That's no gorilla. No gorilla has a
tail.
But said the quick witted show
man, this gorilla has a tail, and it is the
only one that ever was known to have
une.'
However, that didn't make the ami
NAL a gorilla, just the same, for there
never was live gorilla in this country. t"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
THE THREE BACHELORS.

Three bachelor, slept in ieir shuttere"
In their suffered room when the sun shone
high;
Not one Of them felt he must riS" till noon
Or take hi breakfast til BY ana by;
For single men may happily 81 cp-
\ pillow is good and brca@faS' will keep
TIL 10 O'Clock in the morning.
Three fair maids smiled on these bachelors
three
On these bachelors three when they came to
town;
They waltz Il, they san :, they made high tea
And hat their acco adjustments quickly
knpNn;
For it matte not if bachelors sleep,
The maids are awake quite soon in the week.
And ,omctimrs re in the morning.
Three married men jumped when the sun
arose.
And ! ii the = ri lows in swift liimay;
They fet for the boots, they grabbed their
clothes.
And thor IL -%'y realized il was day;
For won,,n g" i .,"vrr let men sleep
" hen I.l.." r.,i,kiast to get ana wash FOR
tnv Hst.,
Ihou.; i, ,uclpck in the m irn.ng.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
A Young Girl Traveller.

The youngest solitary traveller on rec
ord arrived at the Palmer House this
morning 1t was little girl years old,
who had come alone from Columbus,
Ohio, and when she got out of the bus at
the Monroe street door she found her way
to the desk with the nonchalance of a vet
eran commercial traveller. Standing on
tiptoe, she placed one hand on the slab
10 steady herself and with the other
showed Clerk Cunningham a tag sus-
,ended from her neck. On the tag had
been written: please deliver Della to
James r. White, Palmer House, Chi
cago." Mr.. White, who is also regis
tered from Columbus, was in the room,
and to him the precious little package,
which proved to be his daughter, was de-
livered safe and sound -[Chicago Even
ing Post
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

to day. A. this period florrished the
{" idisant Count Cl;liostro. with his
Saraphina. his Egyptian Lodge, his
. KRIS and red powders, his magical
car ffes, and his Phosphorus glories;
Either Ga,sncr, with his miraculous
cures; NJ smcr, attracting Paris and
Vienna to his darliened rooms and hidden
nsic: the Count St. German. declaring
himself 300 years old and protesting The
o ult science of diamond manufacture
ir,; Brahmins, and finally St Maurice,
pretending to open converse with sylphs
and salamanders for the benefit of Mines.
d. Maine and De Tencin. Theosophists,
Buddhists, clairvoyants, somnambulists,
ETC., seem, however, to be as much in
vogue to-day and as cordially petted as
ever they were in the darkest of dark
ages, and it is noteworthy i'll this year of
grace 1890 that as many as 20 books on
palmistry We're published last year.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
MODJESKA AND THE CAT.
An Experience Upon tho stage That Made
tho Actress Most wretched.

An Experience Upon tho stage That Made
tho Actress Most wretched.
Mod ieska blames cat for one of the
most wretched mo ents of her life. She
was playing Camille The climax is
reached when, seeing her wasted form in
the glass after her sickness, Camille eX-
presses herself in dismal shrek. This
evening, preceding this browning yell
perhaps minute, there strolled upon the
stage at the first entrance most leis-
urely cat--one of the sex which votes.
He proceeded along the footlights some
10 feet, and then, bending his yellow
gaze on the alien with the big fiddle,
stood in feline admiration of the virtuoso.
Modjeska, busy with her work, with
her back to the front, saw nothing, and,
at the proper placA, foated forth ashriek
the like of which had not Ieen voiced by
Polish throat since Kosciusko fell. The
effect on the cat was magic itself. Never
in the somber alley or the high &c stacy
of moon lighted roof, neither in loving
spooning nor mortal fight had he ever
produced or heard a noise its equal.
Turning wildly, his reason overthrown,
his horror stricken tail as large as a
baby's leg, he fled, while the people
roared and yelled.
Poor Modj ska almost tainted, and,
suspecting the ca '1 to be some de-
ficiency in g"rb, sJ"t. her ten fingers in
her costume and C tered after the cat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
THE DIRGE OF A SEASIDE BELLE.

There are no young men at the beaches this
summer. Current Fem.
The Atlantic Ocean : Il tolcrablc ocean,
Perhaps Il d"siIa i sea,
nd the waves ON tine Leach are good enough
wave.
But no -un enough waves for me.
And til a@ovc is pretty fair sly;
he = w.. Ircrc are n,.u! to lrud,
Lut IT, ,'- n . man il 81 ,ht from mOrning to
nig
ANA = n% the whole thing is Il fraud.
For I" waves as they curl,
" tn IT,. ir swish an their swirl.
Without Il young maIare a borr 10 4 girl
The Atlantic Ocean is - pc ular ocean
With t pile fond Of tn ga,
But the sea thou; men is d III Kind of thine,
and it's n Kind of orc,n for me.
They raveo @ the glow of The sunset set
And the .i.ruh with its Ian OF light,
But in the h Dad day or be lrHth tn mo MS
There n"v''r Il man n - :.
And tie and tn 81 IL
And I. O. ,.s on. I'm r
Nithoat IL young man UlC.i '..r' o a maid.
The Atlantic ccan is a ~ 4 rmous & ocean,
y prct -" Il advcrl;s set;
But with"lH the young man and al that sort
of tt ing
It no =. Il of ocean 70 NJ.
know I ~ lhr poets ha sung of the sea
" Of: i poets will ju-:
Lut l. r..-trrtch of b'a i N no man within
reach
Is very lugubrious Tia =
And tn GUNNER o."
AMI the sur! and the II
Mthou; young man ".c IA i,"r" to n he lie.
= j., FoSS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
A Weed TrOdden Down.

1t is a fortunate fact that gossip has
,ome to be considered SO ill bred habit
rs to be banished from polite usage in
he parlors of the modern reception. AS
long as it was merely wrong people were
wont to indulge themselves in that, as
IN other sins, with vague and dim ref
arence to some day of repentance and
reform. Not even the duello has been
able to keep the custom in check in
countries where that institution had
vogue, and where gossip had always
much to do with maintaining it. But
now that it seems to be established that
woman of high breeding will not in
vite into her house for second time a
person once guilty of the indulgence
there, check has been put upon the
habit that may do much toward its ex-
tinction.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Superstitions About Babies.

In Ireland belt made of woman's
hair is placed about child to keep harm
away.
In Spain the infants face. is swept with
pine tree bough to bring good luck.
Garlic, salt, bread, and steak are put
into the cradle of a new born babe in
Holland.
In Scotland it is said that to rock the
empty cradle will insure the coming of
other occupants for it.
The Grecian mother before putting her
child in its cradle turns three times
around before the fire while singing her
favorite song to ward off evil spirits.
The London mother places book I'M
der the head of the newborn infant that
it may be quick at reading, and puts
money into the first bath to guarantee
its wealth in the future.
Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons
around the ankles of their children to
preserve them from harm.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
MARTIN, THE LION tanner.
Recognized by the Beasts After Fiv'
Years Absence.

Recognized by the Beasts After n Five
Years Absence.
When the celebrated animal tanner,
who died lately, had retired to private
life. one day he took notion that he
would visit his former large menagerie,
which he had not seen for five years. 1t
was in Brussels, and ne started for that
city from his country seat near Rotter-
dam. At 4 o'clock, the time for feeding,
he entered the menagerie. Being winter
time, Martin was wrapped in cloak.
He mingled with the crowd and waited
until the animals would receive their
food, for which they were waiting with
wild Impotence. While they were ca
ing he began to cough. Suddenly tie
animals paused in their treat and lis
tened, then broke into wild howls of Joy
and tore at the iron bars so that many of
the timid visitors fled from the menag-
erie. The PARROTS, kangaroos, pellcans,
and monkeys began to screech and
scream, the hyena and the wolves
. howled-in short, it was a perfect bed
lam.
Then Martin stepped forward. With
n movement of his hand and with his
powerful voice he commanded silence,
and suddenly everything was quiet. He
swung himself over the bar which sep
arated the visitors from the animals, and
put his hand i'll cages to fondle the ami
mails A mighty tigress showed more
ioy than any of the Others When Mar
tins hand glided over her magnificent
fur her limbs trembled nervously she
uttered weak tender grunts, and through
the iron bars, with her rough tongue,
she licked the face of her former mas
ter. When he went away she lay down
without eating any more food.
There was lion named Nero who had
once bitten Martin in the hip and had
been severely punished by him for it.
The lion had an unreconcilable hatred
for the animal tanner. Nero made no
other motion at Martins approach than
lift his head and eye him intently. He
remained in his place, lying still in the
back of his cage, when Martin came
near. Martin spoke to him. He did not
answer, but viewed Martin with APP
parent indifference. But when Martin
was going away the lion, with mighty
spring, entirely unexpected, threw HIM
self against the grating, pushed his
paws through the iron bars, and with his
claws tore off part of Martins cloak.
By quick movement Martin escaped
another injury from this animal.