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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
HOLIDAY HINTS.

Don't expect to find a brown-stone
front in your stocking.-Phila. Call.
Never look gift-horse in the teeth
1t is also wrong to look a Christmas
gift in the price rk.-Somerville Jour.
The man who economises Christmas
for sake of New Years blowout takes
time by the forelock just a week too
soon.
Talk about oil trusts, rubber trusts,
coal trusts, etc, as much as you like,
but what we want about Christmas is a
turkey or goose trussed.-Boston Cour-
Ter.
If the man who devised the dumb
piano would only invent dumb horn
and drum many of us wouldn't be SO re-
signed to having Christmas como only
once a year.-Judge.
When some men give their wives a
little pin money to buy Christmas re-
membranes for the children, it seems
much larger than when they spend
twenty dollars rafting to win a two
dollar turlley.-Judge.
If any child gets up on Christmas
morning to find an empty stocking, he
will feel as bad for a time as the man
who carries an empty sleeve, and the
men and women nearest him will be SO
guilty that they ought never to be for
given.-Judge.
The Young Turkey-Well, we've es-
capped Thanksgiving! Gobble! gobble!
gobble!
Experienced Gobbler (sadly) - My
son, do not let your life insurance policy
lapse. Christmas is coming! -Munsey's
Weekly.
Starting on new year it is we'll to
accept this teaching from Emerson;
write on your heart that every day is
the best day in the year. No man has
learned any thing rightly until he
knows that every day is doomsday."
The close of year is poor time for
good resolutions, but it is an excellent
time for good actions 1t is late for
planning, but it is just right for per-
Torrance. Now is the time to be and to
do, even though the hours are too prec-
ious to waste in thinking about being
and doing.-S. S. Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13

covery was greeted by little jubilee
from the children and grateful glance
from their mother at Miss Priscilla,
who, somehow, seemed always to be
looking out of the window. But Mar
jory found something that puzzled her
"a long, black stocking hanging over
the back of chair.
'Why, it's big like yours, mamma
how funny And there isn't any thing
in itI'
''Yeth, there it'll" lisped Tot 'sTum-
pin round and hard. Ooh, look, MAN.
NAL" And the first ray of sunlight that
struggled into the room CLEANED on a
gold piece in Tots hand.
Miss Priscilla had disappeared into a
deep closet and was fumbling round for
something, which for some reason could
not be found perhaps because her
nightcap had bobbed down over her
eyes. But the next minute two arms
were wound around her and she heard a
fearful voice whisper: "You have been
so good, so good to me- dear friend! I
wish could thank you"
There, there, child. Don't say an
other word. I've been rich, selfish
old creature, but I'm going to reform.
And we've all made such good begin
ming this morning that I really think
this is going to be the first merry
Christmas over had! There, don't say
another word!'-H. A. Hall, in Interior.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13

and then each autumn the winds sweep
it all away. But the birds sit there and
sing, the cattle gather under it on sultry
days, and children collect about it to
picnic on their holidays. There is
nothing of all that there now, but what
help has the old tree been, and how
many pleasant things could be told
about it-how noble an object it is, also,
in the wintry landscape" The parable
was not without it's meaning. The good
mother returned the smile of the be-
nignant father, and together they sang
at their family worship of the loving
kindness of the Lord.-United Presby-
terian.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
NOT FRUlTLESS.

A man who has spent busy year sits
down for a little retrospect. He falls
into moody frame, and in a tone of
through, but there is hardly any thing to
show for it; my work has had no perma-
nence." But good spirit was beside
him and she said: My dear, do you re-
member those flowers that grew right
out there? Those roses, petunias, hello
tropes, geraniums, and most of all,
that beautiful lilium auratum? Well,
they are all gone. Not one of them had
any permanence. You can not find even
a stem to tell that they existed. And
yet, they were beautiful while they
lasted, filling the air with fragrance,
pleasing the eye of all who saw them,
and they are remembered still by many
persons to whom they were messengers
of gentleness." And the moody shadow
seemed to break away from his brow,
giving place to u smile and air of salts
faction. But later in the day, after all
the work was done, and she was weary
heaving sigh, she said, sadly: My
life is just round of the same duties,
and seems to be wholly Ruthless" 1t
was his timo now, and looking up cheer
lily, he said: Not so, my dear. Do
you sec that tree over there, that
noble oak? Well, it has stood there
these many years, more than you
and l can tell, and it's life
has been almosG wholly without variety.
Each summer it is crowned with foliage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
"There., tell me about it. 1 didn't
know Won had anv children"

know You had any children.
She heard simple story of the brave
little mothers struggle to make a nest
for her birds; and how, at last, finding a
position in the city, she had placed them
in boarding school where they would
be we'll cared for, and where she could
visit them every Sunday.
eve try to make that do for all the
week." the little woman added, with a
smile, land when q holiday comes we
spend the whole of it together. And /
thought, Miss Hopkins, perhaps you
would let Marjory sleep with you to-
night"
Five minutes later Miss Priscilla was
standing alone before the fire, wrinkling
her forehead anxiously; for, somewhat
to her own surprise, she had consented
to care for a six-year-old child all night.
She! who had never held one in her
arms, who looked upon children as be-
wildering mysteries!
"What shall do if it cries?" she MUIR
INJURED, "or has the Group, or falls out
of bed, or wants doll, or-you're fool,
Priscilla Hopkins..'
But when Mrs. Clark appeared at the
door that evening, with q little, curly
headed, white-robed figure half hidden
in a great shawl, and gazing with big,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13

The big New York boarding house
was almost deserted. All of the thirty
boarders had scattered for the holidays,
except the invalid on the parlor floor,
the crusty German professor, old Mr..
and Mrs. Brown, and the pretty, power
ty-pinched young widow on the fourth
floor. Even the little music-t teacher
was off for q holiday trip, and Miss Hop
kins could hear the chamber-maid call
ing blithely to the grocer boy, that
''she'd be ready-oh, by seven o'clock,
sure!"
Miss Hopkins pressed her wrinkled
cheek against the window pane, and
looked down into the dull, city street,
with it's patches of dirty snow. A hard,
bitter feeling crept into her heart.
There were so many good times and she
mot in 'em." The lodger on the fourth
floor back was leaning against the win
dow-pane, too, but her cheek was pink
and smooth, the room very tiny and
cold, and the view from the window
limited to row of back-yards. Per-
haps her heart was quite as heavy, for a
tear splashed suddenly on the window
sill.
81 don't see any other way" said Mrs.
Clark, looking at it, meditatively. 81
dread asking her-she is so stiff and ST.
lent, and we've hardly exchanged doz-
en- words. But my babies shan't be dis
appointed if can help it, so cheer up,
my dear-we' II have a merry Christmas
yet" and she nodded brightly at the
tear-stained face in the mirror. Then,
running down the long flights of stairs,
she knocked at Miss Hopkins door.
Come in,' called Miss Priscilla, turn
ing with a surprised air, as the door
opened.
81 camel thought-that is, want
to ask great favor, Miss Hopkins, -
stammered her visitor. 81 have prom
ised my little girls that they shall spend
Christmas with me, and that Santa
Claus will visit them here; but there is
only room for baby in my single bed; it
is too cold for Marjory to sleep on the
floor and So" Mrs. Clark faltered, but
the elder woman gave her no help and
she finished abruptly, with little trem-
BILE in her voice.
Miss Hopkins watched her in puz-
zled way, till her near-sighted eyes
caught the glimmer of teardrop; then
she pushed forward chair, saying, not
nnkindly:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
ant myth the friend of the children, the

antmyth, the friend of the children, the
old gentleman of snow-white beard, be-
novolent disposition and invisible move
ments. In some of these countries a
dread parsonage is supposed by the chill
dren to follow in his wake, person,
either male or female, who is prepared
to lecture bad little children on their
evil ways or seize them in his invisible
arms and spirit them away. The myth
regarding this dread being is probably
a survival of the old pagan idea of the
good spirits and the bad spirits, or per-
haps, of the legend about the annual
conflict between Thor, the god of the
thunderstorm, and Freija, the goddess
of spring.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
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" Oh! any thing old-fashioned had best pass
out and der
And then 1 leaned back smiling aud quite
selfsatisfed,
And closed my cyelids slowly, wien, 10! thew
opened wide
In sheer amaze and wonder, and would YOU
know the cause?
saw before nc standing, the form of Santa
Claus.
But, oh so strange and altered In clothes
OF latest style
And not at all the Santa I'd dreamed OF all
the while.
But still recognized him, and said: II didn't
You come out from the chimney-'twas very
dull of me-
" The chimney said he, grufly; Il beg of you
to know
Chamber down no chimneys; stopped that
long agor'
said: Your load was heavy, You're tired:
won't you rest?"
* Oh! no. he answered, grandly, my goods
were all expreAsodv'
ing, sir, mean.
The roofs are much more snowy than l have
ever seem"
" Indced!"-his air was lofty-"'tis not the
present mode
To drive sleigh. 1 travel by the elevated
road"
Twas all so strange it chilled me, but still
said: Nov, please,
You won't forget to send us one Of your
Christmas trees.
The children love you dearly and try to be so
good"
He said: mo trees hereafter, I'd have it I'M
derstood.
g In fact, the time is over for Christmas l
should say
Those very oldtime customs have really
passed away.
We want the very latest, dear madam, you
and I,
And peace, goodwill and Christmas are of
time gone by
And then he seemed preparing to take his
But do you think 1 let him? 1 called out
bravely: mol"
1 ran to him and begged him, between my
sobs and tears,
To leave us blessed Christmas, just as in
former years.
To change no little custom; to take no part
away;
To leave us dear, old+fashioned, beloved
Christmas day.
And then, for just an instant, my eyes were
very dim
With tears and when cleared them saw a
change in him:
His face, twas round and jolly, his clothes
were as of old,
He had pack upon his back as full as it could
hold.
And as he beamed upon me heard his rein
deer prance,
Then sly old Santa gave me smile and
roguish glance.
Il wish you Merry Christmas" thought 1
heard him say.
And when I tried to answer him he d vanished
quite away!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
A REAL CHRISTMAS.
How Miss Hopkins Enjoyed Her
First Merry Holiday.

5H! 1 wish it
was all over for
another year!"
whispered Miss
Priscilla Hop
kins to a spar
row on the tele-
p h one wire.
Just why she
should wish the
merry Christ
mas day passed,
Miss Hopkins
h erself could
h a + y have
told,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13

track of human life-a resting-place and
a new starting-place. Be sure you start
right, and in the right direction, if you
would have a Happy New Year. Cast
aside your old enmities as well as your
old faults; resolve to be as good as you
know how and resist temptation as long
as you can.
Then, if you do not have a Happy
New Year, it will be your own fault
Golden DAVIS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
CHRISTMAS IN EUROPE.
Little People Across the Ocean Who Hav
Santa Claus.

England is by no means the only
European country to enter into the celc-
bration of the Christmas festival with 4
zest. In Germany, in Sweden and Nor
way, in Russia, in France, and, in fact.
all over Europe, wherever the Christian
religion obtained q foothold, the ami
versarY of the Nativity is observed with
rejoicing and feasting. The ceremonies
are not greatly unlike those of the En-
glish-speaking people, though, of course,
modified by the traditions and usages of
each country. st. Nicholas under o
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13

sleepy, black eyes
at herself, Miss Pris-
ella h a l f forgave
her folly. And when
she had awkwardlY
t a k II the warm,
little body in her
arms, and Il rosy
cheek, soft as satin,
just brus h Q d her
own, why, Miss Pris-
ella thought S h e
was almost w i s @!
But when the little
girl was tucked in
bed, and Mrs. Clark
had left the room,
timidly, in h e r
uuavering old voice,
Miss Priscilla sang
a lullaby, till the
long lashes dropped
and the pink lips
parted - and then
the rich, lonely old
maid was certain
that she had never
done SO wise a thing
in her life!
"Sh!" she said
softly, as Marjory's
mother entered the
room, then flushed
over such weakness
and straigh tie n ed
into her usual rigid
attitude.
"May we borrow
your fireplace, too,
Miss Fl opk in So"
asked Mrs. Clark,
with growing .cour-
age. Tomorrow
would hardly b e
Christmas if Santa
Claus couldn't come
down the chimney,
you know, and there
is only a register in
my room. 1 will try
and keep the child
rem from being very
noisy in the morn
ing, if you'll let me
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
AND DOING IN HIS ARMCHAIR.

AND DOING IN HIS ARM-CHA1K.
"Ah," unused the good St. Nicholas,
81 think understand"
And he smiled merry little smile,
And coughed behind his hand.
"'Twas on that busy Christmas eve
When all was in q whirl,
This doll was given to boy,
This soldier to a girl"
And then aloud he gravely said:
81 grieve to see your pain,
But if you'll stay with me year
All shall be well again.
Next Christmas eve, my children,
When you are well and strong,
will put you in the stockings
Where you really do belong"
j. McDermott, in Youths Companion
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
Many Arc Made. But rev Are Kept-Ye
1t Is u Good Habit.

Many Arc Made, But rev Are Kept-Yet
1t Is a Good Habit
Looked at in a philosophical light,
there is no special reason why the first
day of January should DO different from
any other day. 1t is not the actual be-
ginning of the year; the twenty frstd day
of March, the first day of spring, more
fifty deserves the honor. But the wis
dom of our ancestors is in the selection
of the day, and it probably will never
be changed in Christendom.
Practically, the date makes no differ
ence. AS a matter of fact, we used to
celebrate New Years day, prior to 1852,
thirteen days later than we do now, on
account of the change in the calendar,
which took effect in that year. The
Russians still preserve the old-style
calendar, and the Hebrews keep a New
Years day based on the Mosaic chro-
nology. The date, therefore, makes lit
tie difference, but the day is of consider
able Importance. AS far back as history
runs, it has been tho custom to mark
the death of the old year and the birth
of the new by appropriate ceremonies.
In ancient times these ceremonies
were of rather q solemn character. but
among northern nations it has always
been the occasion for the highest dem
onstrations of merrimont and conviv-
iality.
Putting aside these features, we may
very appropriately regard New Years
as the Gay of good intentions. A great
deal of fun has been polled at the boy or
girl who starts diary on the first OF
January and abandons it on the first OF
February, but it is a question whether it
is not beneficial to keep diary even but
one month out of twelve.
What possible harm can there be
in proposing to be good? In consider
ing crimes we always take into ac-
count the intention of the deed. The
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
Hard Up,

LEND mo flyer, will you, Bill?"
II can't, old fellow. l haven't even
paid for my wife's present to mo yet.
n .nsey's Weekly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13
just Like Him.

" What q queer Christmas gift! Pa, see
The monkey Charley sent to me.
IT'S strange such an idea should strike him."
- Oh, no my dear. 1t is just like h.IL Judge.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-12-13

intention is the e8-
Sence of the crime,
and, therefore. it
must be the essence
of the good deed.
Only to propose to do
better is something;
if nothing else, it
is an acknowledge
ment of our need to
be so, which is tho
first step ward
amendment. But
in fact to propose
to do we'll is in some
sort to do well, for
che who is not
worse today than
he was yesterday,
is better"
So there IS no
harm-indeed there
is good-in propos-
ing to break off bad
habits and form
good ones. Allseed
can not fall on bar
rem soil, some will
bear fruit. There
fore, make all the
good resolutions
you can think of and
keep as many as you
can. You can't very
well fail to keep
some of them.
This is the value
of New Years day.
1t is an imaginary
milestone on the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-03
Grnin. Flour and Feed.

There was but one sale on call at the Grain
Exchange, a car of sack bran, SIS so, 5 days
P. r. R. Receipts as bulletined, 20 cars, of
which 10 cars were by the Pittsburg, Ft Wayne
and Chicago, as follows:6 cars of oats, l of
corn. 2 of bran, 7 of -four, of barley. of malt.
BY Pittsburg, Cincinnati and ST. Louis, i
car OF flour. 2 of corn, 8 Of oats. of wheat
By Baltimore and Ohio, car of corn. BY Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, l car Of rye, of malt
Shell corn and mill feed are very scarce and
drift of markets is upward. Wheat is firmer
and prices are advanced. Oats are fairly steady.
Choice hay is firm at quotations. Our local
brokers are. for the present, nonplused as to
how to meet the action of the Chicago Board of
Trade against transmission of grain reports
At the Offices OF ]. r. johnson, the Pittsburg
Commission Company and j. NJ. Oakley
quotations were posted to-day. These firms
have private wires to New York and Chicago
Other broker firms did light business in grain
to-day
Prices below are for Carload lots on track:
WHEAr-New No. 2 red, S5G86c; No. 8. S2@
S3c.
CoRN-No. 2 yellow, ear. new, 4O@4O]lc; No.
yellow. shelled. old, 361a@37c; new, 35@36c;
high mixed shelled corn, 35IN38c
OATs-No. white. 2S1%GZ9c; extra, NO. 8. n
@271Sc; mixed. 26@2614c.
RYE-No. Pennsylvania and Ohio, 53@54c;
No. Western, 5l@52c.
FLoUR-Jobblng prices-Fancy winter and
spring patents, "a 1895 Is; winter straight
xxx bakers, IS 7504 90. Rye -four. s. Esq
So
MILLFEED-Middlings dne white, SIS 50@
II 90 q ton; brown middlings. S14 5OG14 rs;
winter wheat bran, sh 500l5 90; chop feed,
SIS 500l6 90
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-03

strong, and generally at about the best prices
of the day. The list is almost invariably frac-
tionally higher tonight, while Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Cincinnati and st. Louis rose ~ and
Reading III.
The railroad bond market responded to the
improved feeling in the street to-day, ana
showed not only more active business, Dut
also more decidedly firm tone and while the
final changes are generally small fractions,
there were more important advances than Tor
two weeks past. The sales of all issues reached
Si,6i6, oOO and the Atchison incomes were spe-
cially prominent, furnishing $2S5, ,000
The Post says: There appears to be ground
for the belief that the so-called Mackey sys-
tenn of roads in Illinois has been taken into the
Lake Shore Vanderbilt system by the sale OF
controlling interest in the stocks of the roads
The effect was to make an advance OF llA
points in the price of Evansville and Terre
Haute, to 12U. to-day, against l0Ss4 on Friday.
The following table shows the prices of active
stocks on the New York Stock Exchange yester-
day. Corrected daily for THE DISPATCH by
WHITNEY & STEPHENSON, oldest Pittsburg MEM
bers of New Y ork Stock Exchange, 81 Fourth ave
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-03

Morning sales were so shares of Pleasant Val
ley at 271S, 10 at 2714 and 20 at q.
In the afternoon so shares of Philadelphia
Gas brought 32H.
Before call 100 shares of Peoples Pipeage
sold at II.
Sproul & Lawrence sold Is shares of Phila.
delphia Gas at 32l4, 25 CHARTERS at AZ, and 100
Pleasant Valley at q.
Henry N; Long sold 100 shares of Pleasant
Valley at 27H.
Robinson Bros. sold IS 900 St. Joseph (Mo)
guaranteed 6per cent water bonds at par and
accrued interest.
Kuhn Bros bought so shares Luster at I6
Z. P. Long has removed to No. 50 Fourth
avenue.
Rea Bros. & Co. bought 200 shares Pleasant
Valley at 271s, and sold 20 Philadelphia Gas at
32H
The total sales OF stocks at New York yester-
day were l43,722 shares, including Atchison.
9,03l; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
5000; Louisville and Nashville $3.50; Missouri
Pacific, 4.l70; Northern Pacific preferred
1906; Reading, $1,000; Richmond and West
Point 3,OlO; Union Pacific, 1920.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-03
OIL ON THE RUN.
Business on Change Overshndowed by News
From the Field.

Business on Change Overshndowed BY News
From the Field.
The market for petroleum opened in list
less sort of way yesterday, the feeling being
about half-and-half, neither strong nor weak.
The first sale was at 81 but it soon dropped
to S0h on reports of a gusher coming in at
Hayesville. Very little was done on the break.
The market was stronger in the afternoon on
local buying. advancing to 825l, reacting a
fraction, and closing steady at s25s The
lowest point recorded last year was 7915, that
of yesterday was only cent better. The range
was: Opening 6l1a, highest 82s4, lowest S0]5.
closing s2ss Tuesdays clearances were TAG, 66O
barrels.
The important field news of the day came
from Hayesville, down the Fort Wayne road.
The Osborne Oil Company made what is said
to be rich strike on the Rhodes farm Tues
day night. The well came in with rush Just
after tapping the third sand, scattering the oil
in every direction, and flowing at the rate of
from $40 to 1000 barrels q day. Tankage had
been prepared but as it was not connected, the
oil flowed over the ground and was lost. The
drillers were engaged in making connection
with the tanks yesterday and when that IS COM
pleted an estimate of the wells production can
be made.
Bellevue is still excited Rigs have been
erected on Heiney's and Keyser's farms. The
Mclaughlin well No. l commenced drilling
yesterday, and the machinery for the Straw
well is expected this week. The field will be
In the Mt. Morris field Olsten & Co.'s well on
the A. G. Garrison farm is in the first pay
streak and making 40 barrels day. The South
Penn Oil Company will put down we'll on the
Werner farm, two miles south of the Elizabeth
Tetty farm well at Peddler's run, and L. NJ
Hukill will start drilling on the Fox farm in
few days.
The Beebout No. 8, at Canousburg, Is drilling
at the top of the Big Injun sand and its out
come is awaited with interest. The South Penn
OH Company's venture on the Greer farm is
through the Gordon without a show of oil and
the well has been abandoned as dry. The Manu-
facturers' Gas Company's Hickman farm well
Information from the Butler field was not
very encouraging.