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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
A Finished PRAYER.


The sick room was very still the night
lamp burned low, and the watchers made
fantastic shadows on the wall hu. no
one moved or spoke The doctor said
this was the turning point of the disease,
and there was nothing to do but to wait
wait
The boy slept and his father kept his
eyes fixed upon the thin, wasted features,
and watched for what he hoped would
prove a new lease of life. The mother
had gone to lie down and rest. The
nurse sat near and dozed. At last the
sick child suddenly opened his large
bright eyes and said in clear voice
Papa"
What dear boy!" answered the father
softly.
rs it near morning?"
"Yes, dear boy !"
"And will be well in the morning?"
Il hope so, sobbed the poor father,
family.
There was long silence, then the sick
child moved restlessly on his pillows.
81 want to say my prayers, " he muir
INJURED.
The father beckoned to the nurse and
she brought the mother, who stole softly
in and knelt on the other side of the bed.
Lift me up, said the dying child in a
full clear voice; "hold me, papa, while
say my prayers"
He clasped his little hands together and
repeated like one who was dreaming:
-Father-which art in heaven
hallowed ! be-Thy - name-Thy king
dom-come-Thy kingdom-come-
Papa, l can't remember! can't re-
member!"
"No matter, dear boy, you can finish it
in the morning."
Again he lay among the pillows like a
pale lily, and his eyes We're open wide.
Il can't see you, papa, y he murmured.
'Will it soon be morning?"
"Yes, dear boy"
"And will | be we'll them"
The poor father could not answer. No
one spoke, and faint light soon stole
into the room that drowned the flicker
ing rays of the night lamp and shone
rosy on the wall Then suddenly little
voice lllleu tne room. III was SO SWEEP
and clear that it sounded like strain of
music from celestial spheres. 1t was the
dying boy finishing his prayer! When he
came to the last clause he seemed CROP
ing in doubt.
Forever and ever-forever and ever"
and with the words on his lips he drifted
off to sleep again.
The rising sun shone into the room and
lighted up its dim obscurity. 1t lay in
golden bars on the white pillows, and
touched the little face with mocking
glow of health and strength. Perhaps
it wakened him, but in the valley of the
shadow of death he could not discern,
and with wide open eyes that saw not he
mmmured plaintively:
rs it nearly morning, papa?"
"lt is morning now, dear boy"
A smile trembled on the closed lips
there was a tlutter of breath that came
and went as the child clasped his thin
hands together:
Forever and ever-Amen!"-D Detroit
Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
Pneumatic Mail Tubes,

For nearly four years a company of
capitalists and engineers has continued
experiments with a more and more i'm
proved combination of pneumatic tubes
and electric appliances intended to for
ward mail matter at a rate of speed far
exceeding that of the fastest express
trains. For short distances cylindrical
boxes, holding about 200 letters apiece,
can undoubtedly be shot along at the
rate of 1870 miles an hour, and by means
Of a system of quick transfer stations the
transit time from New Orleans to Phila-
delphia could thus be shortened to ten or
twelve hours. The establishment of an
experimental line between Philadelphia
and New York seems an assured fact,
and the State of California would find it
profitable investment to spend a dozen
millions in encouraging the invention.
The expenses of a trip to the West coast
pf our continent and the irksomeness of
a few days confinement in a railway car
are, after all, only minor considerations,
and the circumstance deterring most
East Americans from transferring their
homes to the Pacific Slope is the delay in
the mail communications with the At
lantic States. A line of pneumatic tubes
from Baltimore to San Francisco would
at once remove that objection.-Phila-
Lelphia Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
HeatheM Rites,

The corner of jackson and Dupont
streets witnessed as heathenish scene
yesterday morning as any four corners in
Chinatown ever presented.
1t was about 1890 o'clock and the mar
row thoroughfare was crowded, but the
crowd made no difference to the Mongols
who gathered there to perform their
heathenish rites. First a bonfire was
built in the middle of the street, then a
big golden idol fully three feet tall was
carried out and placed in the center of
the flames. Twenty -four bowls of rice
were laid out in circle about the fire;
six bowls of fat came next and then four
roasted chickens.
A crowd of Chinese gathered with un.
covered heads. First one saaamed to
the idol, then another, then another. A
tom tom was sounded until those in the
distance thought boiler factory had
started up near by.
The big idol grinned and grinned and
grinned, and did nothing but grin, albeit
the flames We're fast consuming his godly
person. And as the idol grinned the
heather worshippers grinned, until it be-
came grinning match all around.
Him bad luckee," said Tin Chum,
who was asked to explain the queer per-
formances. 1t seems that the family of
Bod Ding Lee were consuming an old
patron idol of the family because he
brought i'll fortune on the house. Last
week Bod Chee was locked up as a va.
grant and on Wednesday Bod Lung fell
i'll and died. So on Friday the patron
idol was burned alive.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
THE YhNE EE SEl,.yYER.
Our British Cousins Like II Hccan4e Il
Doesn't splinter Or.

Our British Cousins Like II HccanSe II
Doesn't .iplintrr Or.
Englishmen have some reason to feel
agGrleved at the fau: that so nrrcs a,'v IN
item of the domest ity as skewrrs should
be sent every year - immense quantitirs
from America; and the advocates of fair
trade may hold til; the circumstance Of
our being mainly lndebted for our sup
ply of skewers to foreign imports, admit
ted free, is an additional argument in
favor of some degree of protection. Put
ing. however, fiscal questions altogether
on one side, it would seem to be entirely
within the fitness of things that the Amer
leans should he exceptionally skillful
tabrcators of slewers. 1t is not only
that they have an abundant variety of
hard woods in their forests that one of
their recent Presidents dwelt originally in
log cabin, and that Abraham Lincoln,
the most il!ustrious of their Chief Magis-
trates since Washington. originally fol-
lowed tie useful but unpretending ocqu-
patton of d rad splitter.
They can DO something else besides
hewing, choppinS, and splitting timber,
or polishing blanks of butternut or birds
eye maple iuIo handsome panels for the
embellishment of sleeping cars. They can
"whlttle." They Lave taken the noun
substantive descriptive of the knife used
by Gurth, the son of Beowulf, and turned
it into a verb. When the "smart"
American needs little mental repose he
bestows himself in rocking chair. ee-
Yates his heels, if practicable, to an angle
of 40 degrees above his head, lights
cigar, orders mint julep or a brandy
smash, according to the season, produces
his clasp knife, and begins to "whittle
With exquisite neatness and dexterity he
will pare and round and sharpen any,
thing ligneous which is handy, from an
oaken cudgel to an office ruler, from
bcdpost to a bootjack, to the required
form.
There was champion wood attenu-
ator once at Oshkosh, Wis, who would
back himself heavily with given num-
Der of minutes to whittle walking stick
down to tooth pick. Such an achieve
ment, however, must be looked upon as
only fancy" one, and would involve
the less of much valuable timber The
majority of the wooden splints whitfield
by the Americans in their leisure mo-
ments intimately resemble those abom-
Unable little implements of boyish pas
time and mischief employed in the popu-
lar but perilous English street game
known as "tip cat" The transition from
the diminutive proiectiIe used as tip cat
to butchers or poulterer's skewer is
very easy, and may be extremely rapid,
and it is far from improbable that some
cutely speculative dealer in notions
struck with the large number of whitfield
spints which were produced and the few
uses to which they We're turned, deter
mined to send cargo of them as skewers
20 the British Isles-London Telegraph
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
HONEYMOON Photos.

"The mistakes made by most bridal
couples when sitting for photo, said a
talkative photographer, "is that they in
sist on wearing white gloves. White on
dark background always shows much
larger in proportion than it should, so the
young man who stands beside his bride is
astonished to find that his photograph
represents him with hands the size of .
five pound ham. The moral is: Don't
wear white, but black, gloves, while ths
camera is eyeing you. "-[St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
A Maine Diversion.

People down in Maine are pulling hairs
out of one anothers heads and also out
of horses tails. When a hair is secured
1t is used to suspend gold ring over half
glass of cold water. In minute or
two the ring begins to swing back and
forth and does not stop until it has hit
the side of the glass as many times as
the original owner of the hair is years
old. Several who have tried it declare
that it never fails.-lBoston Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05
ARTIST AND MAN.

Make thy life better than thy work. Too oft
Our artists spend their skill in rounding soft
Fair curves upon their statues, while the rough
And ragged edges of the unhewn stuff
In their own natures startle and offend
The eye of critic and the heart of friend.
If in thy too brief day thou must neglect
Thy labor or thy life, let men detect
Flaws in thy work while their most searching
gaze
Can fail on nothing which they may not praise
In thy well chiseled character. The Man
Should not be shadowed by the Artisan!
-[Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05

One of the largest nuggets Of virgin
gold ever found in Ameri a is in the pos
session of Alfred Berke, of st. Louis. 1t
came from an Arizona mine and weighs
Ii tri!le more than 81 ounces. There is
vry little alloy in the nugget, and it is
valued at 5000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05

1t is by presence of mind in untriec
emergencies that the native metal of d
man is tested. Lowell.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05

He removes the greatest ornament ol
friendship who takes away from it respect
Cicero.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-09-05

Arrive / EAsTBoUND Leave
80. No 10 Express.... 2:4o m
7:l9 a m mo. 8 Express -. 1:3S III
S:05 m No. IA Accom- odation $40 a m
9:2O IN mo. Express.... $40 IA m
12:30 pm -. No. . EXpress... 100 p I'll
No ~ Express. LOO p m
-. No. Is Passenger. $50 p m
6:35 M No. u Accom- odation
11:2O pm mo. Express. ll:3O p M
Arrive wEsTBouND. Leave
100 m -. No. EXpress.... l:05 a III
lis IN No. 8 Express.
4:OOam mo. 3 EXPRESS 405 a III
No. II Accom- odation 715 a m
Hos IN No. IL Accom- odation
l:55 pm .....No. II Mail.
3:45 pm ....No. 5 Express.... 800 p m
4:2O m mo. Is Passenger. 425 p m
7:3l pm mo. 1 Express. $50 pm
All trains daily except Nos II, Is, Il and y.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-23
SEEDS!
SEEDS!
SEEDS |!

We offer to the public for coming
planting season our stock of
Northern grown and imported Gar
den, Field, Tree and Flower Seeds,
of which we have the largest and best
assortment on the coast.
Dutch and Japanese Flowering Bulbs.
Utah Alfalfa, Grain and Grass Seeds
at lowest market price.
Complete Assortment of Implements
for the Garden.
Florist Supplies and Fancy Baskets
of our own importation from Switzer-
land and Germany.
Imported Memorial Designs in metal
and porcelain; Immortelle artificial
flowers. These are of late introduc-
ton and are proving very popular.
Our NURSERY carries a large stock of Orna-
mental Plants Shrubs and Trees Cut Flowers
and Floral Designs furnished on short notice
and at reasonable prices.
Catalogues mailed to any part OF the country
on application.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-23

Why Columbia anyway? At the
matinee performance of Martha on Sat-
urday, the singers used four languages,
and there is hardly one of the company
who can speak English correctly, and
probably not an American even in the
chorus. Columbia indeed. Babelia
would be better.
NV
On Thursday evening Mr.. Mckee
Rankin will commence thr ee nights
engagement at Mr.. Wyatt's Los Angeles
theater. Mr., Rankin has played very
successful engagement in SanlFrancisco.
He will appear here in The Canuck and
The Runaway Wife, supported by his
daughter, Miss Phyllis Rankin.
N s, x*x
The Columbia Opera company will
play this, tomorrow and Wednesday
evenings, giving Cavalleria Rusticana
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-23

Look at Mullen, Bluett & Co.'s show windows
for an endless variety Of sensible holiday goods
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-23
DISTRICT LODGE MEETING.
The Quarterly Gathering on Saturday
of Good Templars.

The District lodge of Los Angeles
county, I. O. G. r., held the regular
quarterly meeting in Odd Fellows hall
at Pasadena ON Saturday, District
Templar Albert P. Shuman presiding.
The attendance was large, the spacious
hall being crowded. This is the largest
lodge of the order in the state. The
officers for the present year are as fol-
lows: D. G. T., Albert P. Shuman. Los
Angeles; D. Coun., L. 7. House, Re-
dondo; D. V. T., Miss B. Bond, Pomona ;
D. Sec, G. Anderson, Los Angeles; ID.
Treas, w. H. Lloyd, Los Angeles; ID. 5.
]. T., II. Rowland Lee, Santa Monica ;
p T., Palmer Ashton, Pomona; ID.
NJ, J. B. Rush, Ell Monte; d. g., Mrs.
S. A. Gray, Los Angeles; D. A. s., Mrs.
Nellie H, Gleason, Los Angeles.
The forenoon was devoted to degree
work, passing on credentials, and initia-
ton. About twenty new members were
added to the District lodge.
Grand Vice-Templar Mrs. M. G..
Wright was present. and installed the
remaining officers for the District lodge,
Mrs. H. H. Matlock, chaplain, and Mrs.
N. H. Gleason, d. A. S.
The afternoon was given to miscel-
laneous business, hearing of reports, etc.
The evening to entertainment and socia-
bility, the programme being as follows
Music by the Tropico Band
| Recitation. ........ ......... Miss NJ BOND
Vocal solo .................... MISS Barber
Instrumental solo.
| Vocal solo .............M Mrs. Jennie Sapders0n
| Vocal solo lo...................M Mr.. Geo. wheeler
Vocal solo Mr.. Warren.
Music by the Tropico Band.
Reading .......... Lodge Deputy of Pasadena.
Vocal solo.
Recitation in German. Mr.. Hyman.
The District lodge OF Los Angeles
county is the largest lodge OF the order
in California. There are at present
twenty-one lodges in this Jurisdiction,
and all were represented at this meeting
except three.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-23
DR.. T. E. Thiele,

Physician and Surgeon,
Formerly CT Virginia City, Nevada, later of
San Francisco,)
Having returned from an extensive tour
through Europe and the eastern states has
located permanently in Los Angeles and
opened Offices at
1873 NORTH MAIN ST., NEAR COURT ST.
For my old friends and former patients from
Nevada and San Francisco, who reside in this
city and know my skill and reputation, 1t does
not need any remark; but to those who do not
know me yet, will say that am prepared to
treat successfully any case of sickness, disease
or injury, no matter what its name or OF how
long standing, by the most approved methods
and latest inventions il surgery and medical
science. Irelieve any case of
HEADACHE OR NEURALGIA
in few minutes. All those who suffer from
ailments of which they have sought relief in
vain SO far. are invited 70 call on me. There 1s
no charge for consultations.
Office hours-8 to 10 a m and 2 to snd
$50 to 7:30p. IN. 1l-22-lm
Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-23
Living on the Reputation of Others.

Take everything that l have but my good
name; leave me that and am content" SO said
genuine articles to that horde of mitators which
thIives upon the reputation of others. The good
name of ALLCoCK's POROUS PLAsTERs has IN
duced many adventurers to put in the market
limitations that are not only lacking in the best
elements of the genuine article, but are often
harmful in their effects.
The public should be on their guard against
these frauds and, when an external remedy is
needed, be sure to insist upon having ALLcocK's
Porous PLASTER.
LIKE the youngster in "Helen's Babies we
"like to see the wheels wound" Another car
load OF Columbus buggies received this week
at the old courthouse. Call and inspect them.
Mullen, Bluett q Co. have heal h underwear
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18

The buying of articles of dress or OF
household decoration at the most ap-
proved places does not insure harmonious
results if the purchaser lacks the skill and
art properly to combine what he has pur-
chased. This is especially true in matters
of personal adornment, as is neatly illus
trated by the reply of Frenchman to an
English lady.
He had complained that he found the
English women very badly dressed.
"They have no TASTE" he said, mo origi-
nality. They are a terror as compared to
my country women"
81 do not see how you can say that" the
lady responded. Il am sure we buy al
most all our clothes in Paris"
"That is very possible" the Frenchman
replied; "but if you will pardon my saying
it, it is you who select them."-Youth's
CompaniOn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
A Ennnous Expression.

A correspondent asks: "How did the ex.
preston Skeleton in the closet come to
be applied to concealed disagreement be.
tween relatives or to other family troubleP
The origin of this singular saying, which
is found in almost every language in Eu
rope, is found in one of those curious col
lectiOns of stories which the monks of the
Middle Ages were fond of making, both
for their own amusement and for the in
structiOn of youth. In one of these collec
tions, compiled by an unknown hand
about the middle of the Tenth century
there is a story of a wealthy lady, who
having secret grief, confided it to a
friend who was apparently a perfectly
happy woman. She was the wife of no.
bieman, who lived in his castle in the south
of France; she and her husband were out
wardly on the most loving terms, not a
care cloud seem I'd to cast a shadow on her
path.
After hearing the story of her afflicted
friend the noble lady took her by the hand
and led her to secret chamber adjoining
her bedroom, there opened the door of a
closet and exposed skeleton. "know,
my friend" she said, mo one is happy
Every day am forced by my husband to
kiss this grinning death head, which is
that of a gentleman who was my husbands
rival, and whom would have married had
not my parents willed otherwise. st
Louis Globe Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Firing Big Guns.

"Few people" said a naval officer, zap
preciate the tremendous power of the blast
caused by firing big gun on board of a
ship. An example of its effect was seen in
some trials in firing the 6;-tOn gun of the
new battlsship Trafalgar, considered one
of the three or four finest vessels in the
British navy. The gun was pointed di-
rectly ahead, and fret with charge of
63O pounds of slow burning powder and a
1,25O-pound proiectile. The blast produced
by the rush of the powder gas and the shot
was so tremendous that the plates of the
forecastle We're forced in and the deck
beams bent out of shape, while almost
every round carried away some fragment
of the projecting portions of the ship, even
when the training was to the right or the
left.
at is estimated that the vessel would be
reduced to something very like a wreck
were 25 rounds to be fired, either directly
ahead or directly astern. This interferes
with, or renders impossible, firing when
either in flight or chase, and has caused
our naval constructors TO modify the plans
for the projected battleships, as it is not
deemed desirable to have them sink from
the discharge of their own guns. New
York Tribune
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
strange Recovery of a Diamond.

Some time ago the household of a gentle
man we'll known in commercial circles OF
Gravenhurst, Ont, was very much upset
by the loss of valuable diamond ring be-
longing to a guest-a lady from New York.
Suspicion at once fell on a servant, who
was employed as housemaid, but upon her
continued and earnest denial of the theft
she was retained, as the gentleman, from a
sense of justice, did not wish to discharge
her on mere suspicion. A few days after
the ring disappeared it was found under
the lady's window, with the solitaire stone,
however, missing, having been pried out
of the setting. 1t was supposed that the
thief had removed the diamond to keep it
from being identified.
The mystery was solved, however, re-
Gently in a most unexpected manner, for
in cleaning chicken for dinner the cook
discovered a small round object in its
craw, which, on being cleaned, was found
to be the missing diamond. The suppose
ton now is the ring fell from the lady's
hand while she was in bed, and, the clothes
being shaken next morning, it fell from
them into the yard, where it was found by
the hen, which, pecking the stone from the
setting, swallowed it.-Philadelphi Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
What 1t Costs to Murder in Tibet.

l had arrived at Kane in an evil hour
in the midst of the festivities of the 18th of
the fourth moon, when the people from far
and near congregate there and the chiefs
review their men, and when drinking and
fighting are the order of the day. In Thibet
nearly every crime is punished by the inn
position of a fine, and murder is by no
means an expensive luxury. The fine
varies according to the social standing of
the victim-l20 bricks of tea worth a rupee
brick for one of the upper ten," eighty
bricks for a person of the middle classes,
forty bricks for woman, and so on down
to two or three for pauper or a wandering
foreigner, as Lieut.. Lu Ming-yang kindly
informed me. He said that there was
hardly a grown up man in the country
Who had not murder or two to his credit;
and later on Mgr Biet, the bishop of Thibet,
corroborated this statement.-Lieut.R Rock
hill in Century.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Good Words for Men.

Mrs. Custer says men have taught her to
think little of and worry less about tri1ing
physical discomforts and disabilities, and
she added with a most winsome smile that
would have made any one of the master
pieces of creation expand with pleasure:
"Ive learned great many helpful things
from man. OF course when with the gen.
eral, although l was among gallant fell
lows, had to adapt myself to the exigen-
cies of military life, especially of our
military life, and be ready for almost any
thing. Thoroughly manly men worry so
little about triiles and take such broad,
comprehensive view of life that one cannot
be among them without learning to look
at things somewhat from their point of
view"
When it is rather the fad of the hour to
say very pessimistic and cynical things OF
men and women, it is as refreshing as a
Whit of a wildrose or breath of new mown
hay, after shifting a faded dollhouse tube
rose, to hear wholesome, healthy, appreci-
alive remarks about one another from men
and women of eXperience.-NewY York Her
aid
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-18
Storing Ice in Antiquity.

In old times ice was brought from the
mountains and stored away in pits dug in
the earth and was covered with straw or
ors of heat and also protected it from the
air.
Mention of this fact is made in the Prov
cribs of Solomon, and it is frequently al
luded to in the writings of the ancient
Greeks and Romans. 1t is still in vogue
in Italy, where snow gathered in the Appe-
mines is brought by peasants to the princi-
pal cities and stored in cellars made espe-
cially for that purpose. - Detroit Free
Press