Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-09
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1890.

with look of sadness: "Sp ak not OF
them, reverend padre"
"But l want my cats!
"Your excellency-I fear you have
been befooled."
where are my cats p
"WeIl, then, will call them, vener-
able padre, but first let me speak. fear
tn creatu es are not mere common
cats, else why did they con ucr h M
selves 50 strangely in your abscuc -
"Nonsense! roared the padre. Call
my cats"
But wait, your reverence. AS your
reverence knows, it is my duty always,
on Thursday, to clean the candlesticks
and the sacred crucif on the altar
Your reverence well r.members that it
is my custom always to bring them out
side into the air that the dust may not
soil the altar cloth. What will your rev.
erence think when ] reveal the wicked
ness of your reveren,'n's cats? They are
all devils, surely, else why should they
run from the crucltix, as the evil one
would fiee?'
"Nonsense!' roared the padre. Call
my cats?'
SO the sacristan did as he was bid.
"Now," said Ire Mateo. trum-
phantly, when all the cats were seated
about the table, "we will test this thing!
Bring in the crucifix"'
Without word II W; 'ked sacristan
flew to the chapel, an. .tturned holding
the sacred emblem aloft before him. At
its appearance the unhappy cats gave a
discordant howl of despair and fled.
AS the last swollen tail disappeared
the padre gave gasp and caught the
sacristan's arm for support,
"DevilS!' he walled at last, wringing
his trembling hands. "1hings of evil!
Alas! alas. How We have deceived me!
My worthy Guadaloupe, thou hast
spoken truly-but-oh how l have
loved them!
Get thy gun, my Guadaloupe. They
are fiends! Get thy gun and rend their
wicked hearts!'- Amy Elizabeth Leigh.
Queer Things About wild Ducks.
Charles B. Westcott a well known
authority in such III tiers, says that
ducks are becoming fewer and fewer
every year, especially coast ducks and
he attributes it to the dcs ructon of the
eggs by professional egg hunters more
than to t''e shooting of the ducks.
There is Il peculiarity about the flight
of wild ducks which Mr.. Westcott, in
common with other observing duck
hunters has noticed. A flight of ducks
coming south on one day, if followed by
other flights in the same direction days
or weeks afterward, will not vary to eX-
ceed 25 feet from the path of the ducks
which have preceded them, and they
will alight in almo.t the exact spot
where preceding flights have settled.
This is a coincidence of such continuous
occurrence as to reasonably establish
the theory that the lines to be pursued
and the resting or feeding places have
been a matter of prearrangement, but
how the plans were intelligibly COM
municated and followed through the
painless air must remain profound
mystery until the hunters become as
familiar with the duck language as they
are with the habits # the fowls, for the
monotonous quack { the duck must be
as full of meaning to it as the Chinese
gibberish is to the coffee colored chill
dren of the Orient Savannah News.
An Iron King.
Andrew Carnegie, the great iron man
ufacturcr. is thus described |
spondent: Mr.. Carnegie is ra
physically, about the height OF r. ..Irr.
Harrison, with a close-croppcd beard,
almost white. His face is Shire vd for
the Scotch, but pleasant, and h, eyes
beam with good humor and kindIness.
You would not pick him out for ten