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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-12-17

Let me mete it out to others that it may
endure. Nothing must be allowed to
stop with us. We must pass it on, for
we ourselves stagnate when our feel
ingS and experiences do. Let us not
confound peace and rest with stagna
ton. They are sweet and beautiful; 1t
is something to be avoided, even if not
foul
An old Italian proverb says: ''He is
richly endowed who is cheaply divert
ed" If we take a view of American life,
we shall recognize how much need there
is of this rich endowment. People can
not be ''cheaply diverted" The fault
lies largely in our education. We must
learn to divert ourselves more by min
istering unto others. Let us turn more
often and more lovingly to nature. She
is neverfailing source of delight and
instruction to those who are able to re-
ceive what she can give. Then let us re-
vive the sweet and real friendships that
used to be in the good old times when
the world moved slower and the people
had more time. Now the idea of friend
ship is degraded to mean an acquaint-
ance of variously modified degrees. We
all need friends that are true, deep
sources of joy and strength. But these,
too, must come through ministration.
If we would gain the greatest friend
ship we must be the greatest friend.
cannot turn my thoughts to other
things without taking you with me
where l have been since / made the re-
solve above. We have read the kind
wishes of many friends for a Happy
New Year." and thoughts grouped
themselves about us which, push them
back as we might, persisted in being
recognized. Yes, sorrowful thoughts I
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THE TRUE SPIRIT.
mot to Be Minfstered Unto, But to Min
ister."

"Not to BE Minfstered Unto, But to Min
ister."
The New Year has overtallen us and
carried us on with it. Those who stop
to question ask: ''Where?" and
'How?"
The first question no one can an
swer, but the other is for us to reply to
by our acceptance of what the year
brings us. Our feelings are particular
ly keen just now. Love seems to burn
up brighter on the hearth, no matter
how brightly it burned before. Selfish
ness has for time been conquered.
Our hearts are warm. What has
warmed them?
Tell us, grandma, was it the warm
shawl which you received at Christmas,
or the bright and unusually kind smiles,
that warmed your heart most? Could
it have been the card case from the
thoughtless granddaughter who knew
you never made calls, or was it the
sweet thought that she had not forgot
ten you, which made you happy?
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some time; also, as our grub was get
ting pretty low, we were going to push
through to Dolores, to provision up for
the rest of the winter in case we
couldn't get through again for some
time. 1 also wanted to get the Christ
mas presents for the kids; so 1 told the
little wife not to be anxious if l didn't
show up for several days.
"Well, we all started, only leaving
one of the boys behind, who had been
sick and wasn't quite well yet. We
had the deuce's own job fixing up the
cattle and getting through to Dolores.
1t took us over a week, and several of
the boys were badly frost-bitten. We
were ready in few days to push back
again, but another heavy snowfall
came, and another, and another, until
really it seemed to be showing all the
time. The days slipped by, one by
one, until Christmas came, and there l
was snow-bound in Dolores, getting
more and more anxious about the
folks at home. 1 knew their grub
must be getting low; and, besides, here
was Christmas day, and nothing for the
kids. was nearly wild, can tell you.
Well, two days before New Years
there was a let-up, and made up my
mind to push through at any cost. l
could only induce one of my men to
come with me; the others fatty refused.
They said it would be sure death; that
another storm was coming up-this
time a regular blizzard. At any rate,
we started on our ffty-mile ride. The
trails were simply one succession of inn
mense drifts, so we made mighty slow
progress, as we had to lead a pack
horse. After one days riding we had
only gone twenty-five miles, and new
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Grandma does not answer, but we
will see what mother will say. Was it
the pretty potted plants from that kind
friend, or the duchess lace handker-
chief sent by the boy who thinks moth
ing good enough for mother? Did these
presents lift all that pressure from your
heart? Mother shakes her head and
we know what she is thinking of. Now
let us ask one of the boys about it. l
heard one of them saying that the
bronze ever his aunt gave him was just
what he wanted and had been waiting
for, for eighteen years. Now we think
he looked over the little piece of bronze
beyond that and discovered some
thing else which made him happy.
The grand contagion of self-forget-
tulness which RACES at the Christmas
tide warns all hearts and lightens all
burdens. How long will it last? All,
that is what ace must decide, and l want
to ask all to join me and take this motto
for the New Year: mot to be minis
tered unto, but to minister" This will
insure us our Christmas feelings for all
the year round, and sweet peace will
settle down upon us besides. How
about ''joy" and happiness" you say?
Well, we cannot be sure about them,
but peace is better-best of all, really
quiet, restful happiness, joy under con-
troll, activity without friction-peace.
"To minister''-this resolve will unlock
any door which opens upon peace.
Have 1 felt sighted? Here is the anti
dote, am not to be ministered unto.
Have felt lonely? Let me go to work.
| am to minister unto others. l must
be idle to be lonely. Have1 felt I'M
worthy of the blessings life has brought
me? Let my worth or want be for
gotten-lost sight of in service. Have
my burdens become heavy and discour-
aging? Let me take hold with another
more heavily burdened than l am, and,
walking together, the inspiration of
companionship will lift many pounds of
pressure. Am 1 intoxicated with joy?
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Maxims for the New Year.

do not point out this fact to you
that you shall this year be mournful.
Make it the best year of all your life
the brightest, the happiest and the best.
Undue your heart with the freshness of
the morning, your soul with the sparkle
of the dawn. Resolve by good deeds
and thoughts to make this the most
triumphant year of your life. AS Sc
ries of short maxims to carry with you
through this year, let me give you
these:
Make every day begin and end with
God.
Be content with what you have.
Have hearty, joyful family altar in
your family circle.
Fill your home with as much good
reading and bright music as your means
will allow.
Think i'll of none, but well of all.
If fortune favors you, think of others.
Don't sham; be real.
Keep busy and you will keep healthy.
Respect all sacred things.
Love God.-Talmage,i in Ladies' Home
Journal.
THE stock-king is monarch of Christ
Il 70
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ANOTHER CHRISTMAS.
Some of the Many Things We May Conf
IDENTIFY Expect with the Day.

IDENTIFY Expect with the Day.
Another Christmas day is about to
dawn, and the customary thanks are
awaiting the customary presents, and
everybody is prepared to criticise the
Christmas sermons, and compare the
weather of this year with the weather
of last year, and we are all ready to
wish all our friends merry Christ
mas" and a good many more of them.
We speak softly of those who are
gone, and recall with tenderness the
gracious memory of their sweet pres
ence; we wonder where we shall be next
year at this time, and we all hope for
something better and more satisfactory
as time goes on.
The young people sigh because Christ
mas comes but once a year; the old peo-
pie are sad because it comes so often.
The man of large family and lean
pocketbooll wishes it did not come at
all, and the hungry boy, with his grow
ing appetite, welcomes it as an epoch of
plum pudding and turkey, with all the
''stuffing" he can eat, and pound cake
in unlimited quantities to top off with.
The churches hang their walls with
graceful ferns and evergreens; the
choir practices for week beforehand
on some noted anthem with zigzag
quavers and trills in it, and the good
and hard-worlled pastor changes pull
pits with a brother in some adjacent
town, and by this arrangement the two
manage to work off their last years
sermons on the new and unsuspecting
congregation. And who can blame
them? For if it does not require genius
to say something entirely new on the
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cency the numbers of merchants who
are ready to ruin themselves by selling
their merchandise ten per cent. below
cost! A strange philanthropy which
prevails about the time the demand for
Christmas and New Years goods is over.
The merry sleigh-we have always
heard it called the merry Sleigh" SO
we thus dominate it-skims along, if
there is snow enough, filed with people
who enjoy having their ears and toes
frozen and their eyes knocked out with
snowballs; and the horses like the fun
as they toss their heads and jingle
their bells and seize the first opportuni-
ty to upset the whole business into the
deepest drift on the road.-Kate Thorn,
in N. Y. Weekly.
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I'LL the huge open
fireplace in the iving-room, drinking
their coffee after late dinner. The
lights We're not lit and the party sat in
the Pickering light of big fire of
cracking pine logs, which threw out
quaint shadows in every direction. This
party was the usual one that yearly
gathered at Jack Ralston's to spend the
Christmas holidays with him and his
family. AS they sat in the cheerful
warmth and glow of the fire they lis
tened to the fearful storm that roared
outside. A blizzard had been raging for
the past three days; the wind howled
and shrieked through the mountain
peaks, driving the fast-falling snow be-
fore it and piling it up in immense
drifts against every obstruction. 1t
was a bitter, biting, cold wind, too, as it
tore through the valley like demon
seeking whom it might destroy, doing
its utmost to completely bury the house
from view in the snow; but, sheltered
as it was by two giant rocks, one on
each side, with the mountain-side at it's
back, the house was safe, in its snug lit
tie spot, even from the storms greatest
fury. The inclement weather had kept
the men indoors, and they We're grum-
bling over their enforced idleness, and
Dragged about the amount of game
they would have bagged had they only
been able to get out,
"Say, Jack, it's some time yet before
midnight. Can't you spin us yarn?"
finally said Bobby Caruthers, after
long pause in the conversation.
"Well, I was just thinking" said
Jack, ''of just such a night as this,
fifteen years ago. when, if it had not
been for the pluck of that little woman
yonder, would not be here tonight to
see the New Year come in," and he
gazed fondly at his wife, who still
looked like young woman as she sat
in the Pickering light, although on one
side sat her son, fair young giant, and
on the other her daughter, a beautiful
girl just blossoming into womanhood
"Lets have it," came in chorus from
the party.
We'll, fill your pipes, and I'll tell
you my story. You see, fifteen years
ago, wasn't as prosperous as 1 am
now. 1 was just starting out ranching,
had only been here some three years,
then, and where this house now stands
we only had small log cabin. Young
Jack over there was only six years old
at the time, and Miss Ruth was trotting
round. a young three-year-old. The
winter had opened badly; snow had
come very early, and with it bitter cold
weather. We had plenty of fuel, so we
managed to keep warm enough. The
cabin was in the same spot as this
house now is, SO the two big rocks
helped to keep off the fierceness of the
wind; but we were completely buried
under the snow, SO that we had to dig a
tunnel from the front door out into the
open air. Myself and all the boys were
kept mighty busy taking forage out to
spots where the cattle could get to it,
and SO not starve to death. Well, one
morning, about two weeks before
Christmas, after a heavy snowfall,
started out with all hands on one of
these trips, intending to gather all the
cattle together as much as possible, and
to build some large hay-stacks, SO that
they would have plenty of food for
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-12-17
A Suggestion.

Head of Firm-You had better give
the office boy a couple of dollars, Mr..
Penwiper, for Christmas.
Mr.. Penwiper (the bookkeeper)-I
think we had better make it New
Years gift, sir. I have just sent him
out with a telegram, and don't think
he will get back by Christmas.-Brook-
Ign Citizen.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-12-17
Like q Woman.

Wife, must have some more money,
my dear. 1 find that the Christmas
tree itself costs very little, but that it
takes a great deal to fix it up.
Husband-That's just the way I've
found you all these years.-Epoch.
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same theme for fifty
two days in the year
something tn a t
somebody else has
not said b e fore
something that will
not displease a good
paying member,
something that will
be thoroughly with
in the old orthodox
standard - if you
think it does not re-
quire genius, then
you had better try
to do it, and if you
succeed you can
name your own sal
airy.
About the time
when Oh ri S tmas
puts in an appear
ance you can safely
expect cold weather.
Your aunt from the
country will come
on a visit and stay
all winter, and every
day she will tell you
that there is not
money enough in
the world to tempt
her to live in the
city.
The shortest days
in the year will be
upon you, audit will
be dark at four p.
M, and the gas bills
will be frightful,
and the coal bin will
lower with the mer-
curry, and all the coal
dealers will be build
ing brow MS t o ne
fronts, and their
wives will wear dia-
monds in their ears
and on their fingers.
All creation will
have colds, and the
man who has pat
ented a cough sirup
and advertised it
well will be sure of
a bi gger income
than the president
of the nited States.
Bright colors will
flame on the streets
as the pretty girls
and the fashionable
women go by to look
into the shop win
dows and note the
cut prices and OBJ
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storm was coming
up; and it proved a
regular shorter, too.
We dug a hole in
the snow and lay
down for a few
hours sleep, for we
were dead beat; but
it was so cold that
we were only able
to get about forty
winks, and started
again, so as not to
freeze to death.
1.-The storm in
creased, ge t tin G
worse and worse as
we went on; the
snow, driven by the
fierce wind, cut our
faces like SO many
needles, while the
bitter cold seemed
to numb every fac
ulty and to be slow
ly freezing out our
very lives. My horse
t h e n gave out
couldn't move an
other step, so 1 let
him go and mounted
t h e pack horse.
Night then came on,
and our whisky, that
had given us some
S t r e n G t h a n d
warmth, gave out.
We didn't know
where we We're, but
thought we couldn't
be many miles from
home if only we
were on the right
trail. My mans
horse next gave out,
and, as 1 was strong
er than he, 1 made
him get on my
horse, and, holding
on to the saddle,
walked along by his
side; but only a mile
or so further and
our last h o r S e
dropped down ex-
hausted. What were
we to do? / don't
know where l got
the strength, but 1
shouldered the pack
myself and we both
plunged on. l would
not give in the
thought that they
might be starving at
home forced me on,
I don't know how
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No Faint Heart About Him.

Jennie (reprovingly)-But we're not
under the mistletoe now, Jack!
Jack (unabashed) - So much the
nicer!
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CHRISTMAS EVE.

Father-Why, Tom, what are you do
ing ON the roof, this time of night?
Tom-Well, I've got my doubts about
that Santa Claus story, and came here
to watch the chimneys, and find out if
there is such person.-Life.
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He ne'er brings me expensive toys
He never brings sleigh,
A rifle or velocipede
Or soldiers blue and gray.
He leaves no trains Of cars at ALL
And just think it's mean,
He fills my stocking to the brim
With apples red and green.
Now, there is Mr. McAdoo-
He's rich, all people know,
And Santa Claus brings lovely things
Each Christmas eve for Joe.
He brings him hobby horses, skates,
And boats that go by steam,
And hollow, spotted pasteboard cows
All full of chocolate cream.
And then upon his Christmas tree
He hangs red candy dogs,
Gold cornucopias, rubber cats,
And wind-up jumping frogs.
And know other rich mems sons
With whom it's just the same;
The high-priced presents left for them
Are more than can name.
Another poor mans son like me
Is little Jimmie Pott,
And fifty cents would pay for all
The Christmas that he got.
Now if our fathers were so rich
They didn't know what to do
Would Santa Claus bring to US boys
Such costly presents, too?
Puck.
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Frightened Youth producing ci-
garettes and dime noveD-Here they
are, mister; that's all I've got-honest!
Puck.
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THE stock-king is monarch of Christ
mas day.-Brooklyn Life.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-25

Notice Duff's Special Sale ad. Every
Monday and Saturday he says he will offer
some genuine attractions, and no joking.
New Spring Millinery at Mrs. George
Sprinkle!s Wesener Block up stairs.
Hard or soft maple shade trees. All those
wishing trees, send in orders early. Address
GEO. K. MARTIN, Box 395, Owosso.
Frank Westcott, of Vernon, has for sale
an excellent brood mare, well bred and in
dividually good.
Dress making and plain sewing at my
home cor. Dewey and Grover SITS, Owosso.
MRS. j. ARTHUR GRAY.
Ladies' l am located at 427 +. Exchange
st. and ready to do all kinds of dress making.
L cut all kinds of capes, skirts, and the new
seamless waist, also the French princess
dresses. A call solicited.
Mrs. DAVIS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-25

a cross. II a person puts no (X) at the head
OF his ticket, there is no necessity of striking
any names of from the ticket, as the vote
would only count for the names actually
indicated by the (X) opposite the name.
If, however, he puts (X) under the name
OF the party II Is absolutely necessary that
he erase from the ticket under the (X) the
names of all persons for whom he does not
desire TO vote, otherwise, inasmuch as the
(X) under the party name, indicates that he
votes for all the men on the ticket, II he puts
a (X) before any other names on any other
ticket the result will be voting for two men
vote will be counted.
A person who desires to vote for a person
on another ticket and who has put a (X)
under his party name on his ticket, can only
do so by erasing from his party ticket the
name of the candidate for whom he does not
desire to vote; otherwise the placing of a
(X) before the name of an opposite candl-
date will be treated as voting for two men
for the same Office and neither WILDE count
ed.
A person may by carelessness even do
worse than lose vote for one man on his
own ticket, he may lose vote for two or
three; for instance, If there are three men
running on a local ticket for trustee for full
term, and person put a (X) ut the head OF his
ticket, under the party name, and then de-
sire to vote for one of the men on another
ticket for trustee and places (X) opposite
the name of such trustee and omits to strike
Off from his ticket the name of the candidate
for whom he did not desire to vote, the vote
cannot be counted for any one of the four
persons for whom he has voted. BY voting
for man on the other ticket, and not in
dicating on his own which man he would
reject, it Is impossible for the inspectors to
tell which three out of the four trustees was
his choice. He was only entitled to vote
for three trustees, but he has voted for four
and all must be rejected.
The same result would be reached in
many counties i'm voting for circuit court
commissioners and cOrOners where two are
elected, and all townships at the coming
spring election where four cOnstabes will
be on each ticket. If a person checks the
head of his ticket, he votes for each constable
on his ticket, and if, without striking off one
of the names, he places check opposite
the name of another constable under another
party he would be voting for five constables,
and his vote would have to be thrown out
and treated as blank as to all five
cOnstables.
One of two rules must be observed where
a person does not desire to vote a straight
ticket:
l. Put a (X) under your party name and
strike off from your ticket the names of the
candidates for whom you do not wish to
vote, and place a (X) opposite the candi-
dates on the other ticket for whom you de-
sire to vote.
2. In place of the above named method
do not put any (X) at all under your party
name, but put (X) on the ticket before the
name of each candidate for whom you de-
sire to vote. A person who observes these
two propositions will have no trouble at all
in voting.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-25
EDMUND 0. DEWEY, lEn,rop.
JAMES N. MCBRIDE, EDITORS
E,rhtn DISTRICT oonvention.

The Republican convention for the Eighth
Congressional district OF Michigan TO elect two
delegates and two alternate delegates to the
Republican National convention 10 be held at
Minneapolis Tuesday, June 2, 1892, and TO tran
sact such other business as may properly come
before the convention, will be held at the Com
mon Council rooms in the city of Saginaw, east
side, on Thursday April z 1892 at $50 o'clock
p m. The several counties will be entitled to
the following number of delegates:
SaginawA29
Shiawassee, h.
Clinton, 12.
Tuscola, 12.
Dated, March 10, 1892.
George w. Hill, Saginaw county; Newton Nc
Balm, Shiawassee county; George A. Steele
Clinton county; Il. w. Atwood, Tuscola county ;
T.. r. Phinney, Saginaw, chairman; Fred A.
Ashley, Saginaw, secretary.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-25
j. j. DAVIS
SPECIALS for One Week, Commencing
Saturday, March g.

1000 yards check White Goods worth Toe for .....7ac
QUO 15c for. 10c
1000 Outing Flannel 40 Styles at. ..,..... 80. SC
500 doz. 10c mixed sox, per doz.. S5c
100 pieces of % yards each IS inch not 16 best plain
Linen Crash, per piece Observation-Disclosures. so 25
lot 75c and 81 Gents Colored Border japanese Silk
handkerchiefs at Soc
500 yards fruit of the loom Bleached Cotton limited at
SUI yards double fold Cashmeres at 123c
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-25
"what papers outside of state and county

'What papers outside of state and county
should man read" has been asked. The
answer would be that aside from magazines,
the Chicago Inter Ocean and New York
Press stand foremost. In the line of news
papers for culture, art and intellectual mat
ter as well as news. The Chicago Graphic
is preeminent, Perhaps no journal in the
country does so much to popuarize the
worlds fair as the Graphic. AS an illus
trated paper it is superb. With the New
cago Graphic, no family can be called un-
lettered, for they contain the best thought
and news of the day.