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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
LADIES AS JOURNALISTS.
One Whose Copy Was More interesting
Than Her Item.

One Whose Copy Was More interesting G
Than Her Item.
The writer is tempted to tell story at
the expense of a lovely and gifted lady
who began few years ago career as
a society reporter. Every week her
copy went to the editor beautifully
written and faultless, considered as copy
from the printers point of view. But
any little suggestion she wanted to
make, she ran it along with the article in
the following fashion: "Mr. and Mrs
Brown-Smyth gave on Monday an ele.
CANT blue dinner of IA covers For
goodness sake, spell her name Smy-
last week it went in Smi, and she was as
mad as hops about It'll. Mrs. Indigo
Blue blood has sent out cards for a ball,
at which she will introduce into society
her lovely daughter. This is all right.
This Mrs. Blueblood has some sense and
doesn't in the least mind seeing her
name in print It's the other Mrs Blue
blood we had the fuss withl Mrs Up
town gives pink tea as soon as Lent is
over. Don't stick her down at the tail
end of the column, whatever you do. I
want to please her anyhow, because last
week she just went in as one of the
many others'l"
If it had not been for the discriminate
ing editorial blue pencil that fashion
and society column would have been
very delicious reading on Sunday morn
ing-since printer follows copy, and a
parenthesis on the paragraphs brim a
plain parenthesis is to him, and it is
nothing more.-[Baltimor American.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
STANFORD ON CALIFORNIA.
The Farmer Senator Tells Some Big
Fruit Stories.

The Farmer Senator Tells Some Big
Fruit Stories.
"You say that California has had |,
profitable fruit crop this year?"
Il am almost afraid to quote what
have heard, because do not like to be
called relater of California locums.
When related to some Eastern strangers
had spent 81, 800 the previous year
in ammunition to kill the wild geese
which molested his crops, it suddenly
occurred to me that the amount seemed
large, and that might not be believed;
but, fortunately, at the table was gen.
tleman. an immediate neighbor Of the
person talked of, and asked him if
was exaggerating; he said mo- on the
contrary, it would cost him So, 600 for
ammunition to shoot the wild geese
From what 1 hear, the fruit in Santa
Claro county has yielded 81, SOC, 900, and
that of Fresno county 10000, 900" (or
vice versa( "In short, our fruit product
for the past year was $50, ,000, 900. l can
not tell you how many car loads we sent
over our railroad"
II am going to tell you something
which will seem like California story.
We are using machines in California to
cut our grain which reaps a swarth AZ
feet wide, threshes the wheat as it goes
along, puts it in bags, which men stitch
up and drop in the field, and the same
machine rakes the straw in and burns it
for fuel upon that reaper; now, if you
could only apply water to condition
of things like that you would have per.
petual motion.
"Who got up such machine as that?"
"The basis of it was, of course, the
Mccormick patents, but it was matured
according to our needs in California,
where we are getting along in the
mechanical arts very well. Our Mr..
Scott and others are building war ships,
and very good ones p"
Nevertheless, you have not much
commerce under the American flag on
the Pacific.
question fully when we desired to run
steamship lines to Asia and Australia,
and we found that for two-thirds of the
money required here we could buy ships
in Europe"
The Governor again remarked: "Hear
another California yarn!"
In 1880 we had $4,000 persons enum-
Grated in the agricultural class; that
would mean 600 adult males or labor
erers, as suppose. This year we have
raised $4,000, 900 tons of wheat in Cali.
fornia, of which it is computed that we
shall export 1900, 900 tons, or enough
to feed II, 1000. 900 of people, besides our
own 1900 600, which is the population
of California Can l, therefore, be
wrong in saying that knowledge and in
dustry will make tie earth yield enough
for every soul? When l went to Cali.
fornia we thought we could not raise
wheat at all, now 2S, 900 laborers feed
IL, 900, 900 of mankind. ~ Interview by
George Alfred Townsend.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
Profits of Slot Machines.

1t is in this absence of salaries which
makes the slot machines valuable. The
average cost of good machine is said
to be less than $25. If such a machine
is put in barroom with the agreement
that the proprietor of the barroom is to
receive half the money that comes in.
experience proves that such a machine
will be used upon an average $50 times
a week. I am speaking only of the one
cent machines This gives rs cents to
the barroom and rs cents to the owner
of the machine. Weighing machines
are more profitable than others because
they get out of order less easily. If
man can put out $50 such machines it is
evident that the average receipts will be
S1S7, after paying the percentages due
to the proprietors of barrooms and other
places. The capital involved will be
about Sc, 900 and one skilled mechanic
would he required to keep the machines
in order. Thus it may be seen that the
business is far from a bad one.-[Chi-
cago Journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
A GOOD ACTIVE ENEMY.
A Relentless Foe the Best Means of Max
ing a Man Brace Up.

ing Man Brace Up.
"What shall l do?" wrote somebody
to me not long ago. II have relent-
less and bitter enemy; what shall l do
about it?" Cultivate him, is my an
swer. There is nothing better for the
development of the Drawn of your soul
than good, active, open enemy. Do
you remember, if you ever lived on a
farm, how the hoe acted on the corn
hills and the pruning knife on the vines?
A sure way TO set the green tassels fly
ing and the clusters ripening on the
trellis is to call in the active and ag-
gressive action of the cultivator and the
pruner l wouldn't give the snap of
sore finger for person who never had
an enemy. You might as we'll be dead.
1t is sign that you are very actively
alive if somebody hates you.
Did you ever see truant schoolboys
clubbing scrub oaks for apples? No,
sir; it is the fruit trees and the nut bear
ing trees that get the stones and the
skakings every time, and the ripper and
sweeter the fruit and the more plentiful
the nuts the more boys congregate and
the more clubs are thrown. Never be
afraid, then, of an enemy, providing he
fights you according to the tactics Of a
white man, rather than an Indian. God
pity you if your foe is liar and shoots
from an ambush. All the bravery and
pluck in the world never availed man
when savage laid for him behind a
bush. : "Ambro, in Chicago Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
A Hint to Gentlemen,

If a coat is not drawn up close to the
neck 1t bags OF sets loosely in the back,
and if drawn up too high in the neck it
hapgs away at the waist. If not but
toned when made to be Worn so it
naturally presents an untidy appear
ance. and if in any way it is careles ,ly
or indiGerently put on it fails to look
like the same coat as if donned with
care and brought close to the body at
the neck. at the waist. at the syce. etc.
Before putting on an overcoat the under
coat should be first buttoned, then the
overcoat drawn up CLOSELY to the neck,
and the undercoat pulled well down.
Whom sitting down the pantaloons
should be drawn up to avoid hagging at
the knee -[Ciothier and Tailor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
WHOLE NUMBER, 1920.
GIOl rs UCGIi.

Dear boys, want to give you
A motto safe an .ood,
Twill make your Ii es successful,
II you heed 1t Il ou should.
Obey it In the spirit
Obey it In the letter
Don't say thing il good enough"
Till it can be no better.
And whether at your lessons,
Or at your daily work,
Don't be a half way dabbler-
Don't slip, and slide, and shirk,
And think it doesn't matter
That such talk is trash" and stuff
For until your task is perfect,
1t is never good enough"
If your work is in the school room,
Make every lesson tell;
No matter what you mean to be,
Build your foundation we'll.
Every knotty point and problem,
That you bravely master now
Will increase your skill to labor
With the pen or with the plow.
II you sweep store or stable,
Be sure you go behind
Every box and bale and counter:
1t will pay, you'll always find,
To be careful, patient thorough,
Though the work be hard and rough;
And when you've done your very best,
Twill then be good enough"
So you'd better take my motto,
If you ever mean to work
To any station higher
Than stable boy or clerk.
1t viii make you independent,
1t will make you no mans debtor;
Then never say g good enough"
Till il can be no better.
NJ. f. Sandfor,l, in Golden Days.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02

NINE. Belle Cole, the American con-
tralto, has the finest turnout in London.
An experienced and daring horsewoman,
she is to be seen every afternoon whirl-
ing in her stylish phaeton through Hyde
Park, the admiration of lords and ladies,
who cape in dumb astonishment at the
prowess with which the famous singer
puts her SPLENDID bay through his PAGES.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02

They are always in the right, aren't
they, these women who blind their
various wrongnesse into their own
sweet, feminine selves?
"Why do you try your eyes, said a
sensible" woman to futtering little
furry and feathery creature, with that
spotted veil 2"
"But you don't wear any veil at all,
do your"
"N-ot very often"
sand your boots have thick soles and
low heels?"
"Yes, but"
"You don't carry any muff, I sup
poser"
"No, I couldn't walk with my arms in
any such cramped position; but how
do"
"And in summer you don't use a
parasol?"
"Parasols are puisances; but who
told"
"And you have a pocket where you
can get at it, and you don't carry your
purse in your hand, and you wouldn't
use face power for anything, and you
don't wear a yellow garter nor shoulder
cape, and you aren't afraid of mouse,
and you can indorse check, and"
"But you never saw me until yester-
day"
sand when you were little girl you
never played with dolls!"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.
Eastward, Stations. Westward.

*On theatre nights leave Cumberland at close
of performance.
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berland.
Nos. |, =, 3 and daily except Sunday. Nos5
and Wednesdays and Saturdays only.
l.. NJ. HAMl LION,
Feb 2S Superintendent.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
ABBREVIATED TElEGRAMS.

The Fall City bank, of Louisville. Ky..
has failed.
Professor Forbes, state eutomalogist of
Illinois, has discovered a paraside that is
death on the Hessian fly.
Gertrude Walton, Bay City, Mich,
heiress, has eloped with and married
George ConsidiHe, Detroit crook.
The board of inspectors of the National
Soldiers homes were in Chicago Friday.
General w. B. Franklin is at its head.
Ex-Postmaster General Key has accept
ed the position of dean of the law school
of Grant university, CbatSanooSa;Tepn.
"Frenchy No. l, Charged with: the mur-
der of dissolute woman of New York,
he's been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The national council of the National
Education association met at Toronto
Friday, DR.. Peabody, of Champaign, Ills.
presiding
In Warwick county, Va, Thursday, cne
McRay shot and killed Leon McPhersee
and his 6-year-old girl during the prosecu-
ton of q ~fsud -. -s-ss,--. 81
The census OF England and Wales. just
taken, shows total population of %, ,o01,
OILS, an increase of 3,026,512, or 1165 per
cent. since the last census was taken.
National trade assembly No. 143, f. of
| of l., comprising the glass-bottie blowers
| Of the United States ard Canada, will
| meet on.the 18th inst. at St Louis.
\ ship loaded with supplies for the
Chilian rebels sailed from San Francisco
Thursday and three more will 90 during
the next fortnight. Altogether they will
take $1,000, 600 worth of food products.
DIR. Painter, of New York, who went to
| Germany TO be treated with Koch's ly,uph
| for tuberculosis of the vertebra, has ar
Al 1.
| failure and that he believes it has killed
him.
Chicago merchants have Cancelled all
| contracts with manufacturers of plug
| tobacco and other goods which require
them to sell at card" price. k1bis is owing
| to the antitrust law passed by the last
| legislature.
7. V. Powderly has postponed the pro-
posed industrial conference July q, at
| which it was proposed to consider the
question OF joining the Alliance move
| ment. There was too &tsle response to
the call for the conference.
4 10-year-old son saved his mothers life
at Plainfield. \. j., Thursday, by an exhi-
| bition of presence of mind. A coal oil
| stove exploded, and set her on fire, when
| the boy ran in wrappedSa rug~around his
mother. and extinguished the flames. She
| was only slightly burned.
| Thomas Roche, of Columbus, O., went
to Chicago TO marry Mary O'Rourk. The
wedding was to take place Friday Just
| before the ceremony he dropped dead, and
| on Lis person was found full set of bur-
| glars tools and other eveidence that he
| was Thoroughbred tough and scoun-
| drel.
| Mrs. w. B. Edgar was sitting in her
| residence, "a Helena, Mont, holding
| knife in one hand trimming some flowers,
| Thursday, when a flash of lightning par
| alyEed her arm and dashed the knife
| throug1 an open door and clear across
| another room Mrs Edgar has recovered
| from the sDock. The house was not dam
| aged.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
THE MARKETS.
Chicago.


CHICAGO, July TO-
Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, A1cper
lb; dairies. fancy, fresh. is1l4c; PaSSing
stocks, fresh. l0iJ10l<c: Sggs-foss off, 14,Sa
15c per doz. Live poultry sNa chickens, l051c
per Id; spring, 16c; roosters. 515c; turkeys
mixed, &c; ducks. sGslsc; spring, s1&9ac.
Pototoes- California, Sl-50Gl.75 per sack: ST
Louis early Chic. $3.50 per Dbl: Tennessee,
S2.7JS,-30O; Alton. S2.00G2.50. Apples-Illinois
Sl.50f2.59 per bbi; l5G2oc per l5-bu crate
StraWberries-A Michigan. 50GGOc per loot case:
Racine, 75G9oc- Raspberries-Red, sl.O0al2I
per @4-qt case; black. Sl.41]glJ0 per I6-Qt case.
New YORK.
New YORK, July To-
Wheat-No. red winter cash. Sl.0l; July,
Sl0Ss; August, 91Iac; September, 9s3ic:
October Gisc. Corn-No. > mixed cash
70c; do July. csc: do August, 6I5sc; do
September, 59}4c- Oats-Duil and irregular:
No = mixed cash. 44c; July 45l5 August.
Pork-Qu!et. mess. Sll.50GI2.0o for new.
Lard Quiet; Aueust. S4l6; September,
SGG0
Quotations on the board of trade today
ranged as follows: Wheat-No. July, opened
.Nt4c, closed 9ntSc; September. opened SIC,
closed s63sc; December, opened SeSzc closed
ssssc Corn-No. = July. opened 5714c.
closed 5534c; September, opened and closed
Slice; October opened 49c. closed 4alsc. Oats
No. judy, opened 371sc. closed 3essc
her, opened ZS2sc. closed 2314c. Pork-Tuly,
opened S10.f2}5, closed sl0.2sls: September.
opened Sl0-2.ls closed Slo.s71s; October, opened
Sl0.421@. closed Sl0.57ls. Lard-Juiy, opened
S6l5 closed S6.21h.
Live estock-FolloYing.Yere the prices mt the
active and firm; best qu.AsNes in good request;
prices about Je5l0c higher on the good
grades: sales ranged at $2.s0G4.50 pigs, s. gu
G500 light, SL5o6E75 rough packing. G5J
@5.0O mixed, and S+Soss.ts heavy packing
and shipping lots.
Cattle-Market rather active on local and
shipping account and prices well main
tanned: quotations ranged at. .S5.7Q{l& 20 Scboice
to fancy shipping steers, S5.001560 sSod to
choice do, S4.5eG4.go coflmon to fair do.
S3..6944o butchers s,esaS. S.6OG3.5O stock
ers, S27J9469 Texans. S5s014.3O feeders.
Sl.5Gdt4.0o COWS. S1.50ey3.50 bulls. and Sa.59e,
$50 veal calves.
Skeep-Market rather active, and ~prices
without material change; quotations ranged
at S350a4.eo westerns, S3.75@5.l0 natives, and
S5.50d6 6.S5 lambs.
Live Stock: Cattle-Trading was active for
all grades; poorest to best native steers &4-Ssl
6.25 per 100 lbs; bulls and dry cows, Sa3a042
Sheep and Lambs Sheep firm; lambs very
dull at a decline of &c per lb.: sheep, $3.50 per
10o lbs; lambs, ,S617 Hogs gs-Noninatly steady;
live hogs. $A-3o25.4 40 per 100 lbs Z.
Call on ]. E. Reidy Tor lots In Schnell's
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11
THE YOUNG LAOY CAME ROUND.
She Seemed to Think the Bold Deserved
the Fair.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, July 11.-Thurs-
day morning Frank Fisher. a young mer-
chant of Charlottesville, fell to joking
with his partner on the subject of matri-
mony. His partner offered to pay for
license if Fisher would take one out and
Fisher did so at once He called upon the
Miss Hattie Martin whose name appeared
upon the document with his, and explained
the situation to her. They were, not yet en-
gagged, and the young lady was very wroth
at first, but after "A little persuading came
around ali right, and the couple were
married in the evening.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11

Call on J. E Reidy for lots In Schnell's
addition, 1902 Second avenue,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-11

in and
20 where did get that suit OF THE LONDON oouseh on
FUuin
ou and don't want the earth with fen
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13

Consider the inducements we offer and then make your choice. That our prices are away below those charged by other Merchant Tailors isa well known fact. About the style, workmanship and fit of gar ments made by us, see what our patrons say:
 We the undersigned, heartily recommend to our friends the Cooperative Tailoring Co,
 Of I'll South Main street, as a firm that will give ample sat isfaction in every respect, as re- gards quality of goods and per feet fit. Yours &c, John Dawson, James Breen,
 Cornelius Horgan,
 Richard Burke, St Leger Beers, Frank Ney, and many others. SUITS tc order from $15 up PANTS |" $3.5O up
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
CHAPTER III.

A great and sincere pity stirred the neighborhood with this second sad wis., itation of misfortune, which, after the poor lady was buried very tenderly by her husbands side, eliminated in the problem of the child's uncertain fate. Very many were the hands reached out to give ungrudging suecor. but old Nora Erric, assuming the prerogative which her age and Honorable friend ship seemed to warrant, decided in favor of her own melting heart. and bore the lonely child, with a curious mixture of pride and pity, to her little house among the meadows. No fresher joy ever lit up the lima ments of young mother than that which beautified the scanned and faded face of Grandam Erric, as she purred and crooned above her hapless charge. It were as if the long years in one be- nignant moment had turned back. and laid her own dead first-born in her lap a dimpled child. All the maternal cur rents of her nature, long motionless from disuse, set suddenly forward and sang along their channels. With busy joy she made the little chamber ready for their rosy guest; adjusting some thing here, giving dab there, smooth
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
ToTTGE

h. I hereby notify all persons liable to pay taxes in the city of Waterbury that have received a rate bill and warrant to collect a tax of eighteen 1s) mills on dollar on list of 1890, and will be at common coun- cil room, City hall building, on and after May 1, 1891, when same is due, from 10to 12 a. m., 2 to and to 8 P. m. to receive said tax. rn*
 P. s. The law provides that percentage at rate of 3-4 of one per cent per month must be added after May 1, 1891, if not paid before June i, 1891.
 JAMES COUGHLAN, Collector.
 Waterbury, April 8, 1901.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
CHAPTER II,

Beside her dead in the eastern room rigid figure. holding the dead mans helpless hal.d An, love! how potent is thy power mak. ing even the cold and pallid face of death seem dear and beautiful! Ever and anon she stopped little and kissed the pale one gone so far from
 her into the dark sleep, moaning with ineffable love and sorrow. Then she sat long time while the dawn began
 its rosy work along the east. With . low twittcring that ran among the ap-
 ple-trecs the darkness began to lift,
 and the great glimmering back of the world heaved slowly into sight. A vast bank of ashes seemed stretched
 athwart the east and stirred softly as from an under wind. Not unlike a
 surf of foaming amber streaked with
 pink and silver, or like vast cloud
 heaving upward through measureless vineyard, it came, crushing the grapes against the sky, and drenching tho eastern heaven with indiscribable glory. And the long liquescent beams falling
 through the window lit up the white sleeper face with some new, ethereal life, and frightened among his yell LOW CUFFS l1hG t 1tluL tuTeOlc. SduLy the woman lifted up her head. and seeing Hettie standing by her with the child, and all the glinting fields below
 and the rich sky and the kindled vis-
 age of the softly sleeping dead, she caught the grooming baby to her and gave her first tears to the unspeakably ! bitter time.
 An examination had disclosed no ! evidence of violence save one great bruise over the dead mans heart, but the large sum of money which 1vyl Snaer averred that he had paid him was | gone. To substantiate his statement Ivyl Snaer produced the deed which John Earling had given him, also the foreman of Snaer's lands stated that
 he had seen Earling enter Ivyrs house
 and afterward ride away again. So when the dawn first sent its gray ar rows among the willows that feathered
 the edge of the wood, men were strain ! ing their eyes upon the spot where the strong man had fallen. There seemed some traces of struggle, or that the horse had fallen throw ! ing his rider, but neither could be clearly determined. Near
 the fatal place a little stream like mott
 en glass came leaping down into the
 valley through leafy notch in the hill
 side, and some small loose stones were
 scattered about, green with slight
 moss, and damp from the humid earth
 and summer-long shade, but these were
 undisturbed save where they had found him. Perhaps the mortal hurt had come of falling on one of these! Ii sos
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
NOTICE.

I hereby notify all persons liable to pay taxes in the town of Waterbury that Ihave received a rate bill and warrant to collect a town tax of four (4 mills on the dollar on list of 1890 and will be at common council room, City hall building, on and after May 1, 1891, when same is due, from 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to and from ' to 8 pm, to receive said tax.
 P. S. The law provides percentage at 8 rate of 3-4 of per cent per month must be added from May l, 1891, if not paid before June ] 1891.
 JAMES COUGHLAN, Collector. s Waterbury, April s, 1891.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
LOUNGES.

We are showing fine assortment of Lounges, in Cretonne, Carpet, Moquette, Plush and Rugs, which we bought during the dull season, when prices were low, and can now give you the benefit of those prices. No shoddy goods, all first-class. Come in and see them, the Old Reliable House of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
PENMANSHIP. {.
 Prof. HoIleV

Teaches every pupil to write fine rapid business hand in . course of Is private lessons .. q NO FAILURES.
 All kin : of pen work executed in the highest degree of the art 131 Bank St
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13

EoR SALE-old newspapers, 25c per F 100. Large quantities at reduced prices. Just the thing to put under car pets. At the DEMOCRAT ofice.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-04-13
Job Printing

Everything in the line of printing, from . visiting card to . three sheet poster, printed with neatness and dispatch.