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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08
COUNTY NEWS.
Death.

Balfour, infant son of James Nc
MILAN, of Eckhart, died Monday
morning of diphtheria. He was 2
years of age and a promising little
fellow
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08

The Wonder of the Age.-Have you
Catarrh? No doubt you have. Most people
are afflicted. Get bottle of Mayors Mag
netic Catarrh Cure from your druggist. 1t is
the only medicine of its kind on the market
and absolutely guaranteed. For sale by A.
F. Parker and G. E. Pearce, druggists.
Price 81
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children she gave them Castoria.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08
A Piece of Exuberance Curtailed.

A Piece of Exuberance Curtailed.
The quotation below is taken from
the Ledger:
God grants liberty only to those who love
it and are always ready to defend it.-Daniel
Webster.
Daniel must have been mistaken.
Thousands of people are enjoying
liberty who never did anything to
achieve it, and who, if eternal vigil
lance" were to sound the long roll,
would fly to the mountains and appeal
to the rocks to hide them from the
sight and memory of men.
Among the foremost of these pros
pectors for caves and dens and crypts
would be the country's latest monde
script, the Bloody Shirt Democrat.
In time like that, with grim death
threatening to ride his way on the
iron hail of battle, this political freak
of nature and such as he would far
rather pre-empta man-hole than own
a gold mine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08

Have you called at the Frostburg Dental
ParlOrs to see Teeth extracted without pain
by Electricity? The current can be adjusted
by the operator to suit the most delicate
child
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08

Have your teeth extracted at Ritter's new
Dental Parlors.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08
NOt"AlOne in His Glory"

The last thing that Grenola (Kansas)
justice of the peace did before leaving Kansas
was to render decision to the effect that the
Constitution of the United States was I'M
constitutional.-Cumb Nems.
That class of jurists is more numer-
GUS than many people imagine.
And those of them who cannot
formulate Mckinley bills are always
ready to vote for them,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08

Frostburg Dental Parlors, Wehner
Block, Broadway, DR.. l. L. RITTER, Pro-
prietor.
Our parlors will be open day or night for
those requiring our services. Special atten-
ton will be paid to treating and filling the
Natural Teeth
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08
Business Locals.

An 1nterview.- Cttstomer-Mr. Parker,
what is "Kumysgen? '
A. +. Parker-"Kumysgen" is prepara-
ton of powdered milk the casein of which
has been so modified by the process of manu-
facture as to make it the most easily digested
food known.
Customer-Is it easy to take?
A. f. Iarker-It is very palatable; anyone
will relish it, and it is so light and nutritious
that it will be retained in the stomach when
all other kinds of nourishment are rejected.
1t is enjoying an immense run at my Fount-
ain, people finding that a luxury and an APP
petizer are very rarely combined in the SAME
cool, foamlng glass.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-07-08
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Read,
Reflect.
Resolve

To equip yourself with some of the following
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
Is the Oriental Dance 70 Gomez

The peritoneal paroxysms of the dan
GERS at the Chicago fair from Cairo and
Constantinople, from Teheran and Tan
gier, from Ispahan and Algeria, have
met with prompt public condemnation.
Energetic criticism has forced the police
to action and the dancers to compare
tive quiescence which saves the suscep-
Utilities Of the occidental audience and
the risk Of the oriental dancers from an
attack of peritonitis. Accustomed as
the dancers are to their peculiar move
ment, it has been stimulated by Chicago
applause to an insane exaggeration of
the flexible and sinuous swaying of the
eastern dance, dangerous to the dancers
and disgusting to the audiences.
Condemned as the dance has been,
however, it has proved so popular and
awakened such masculine applause as is
certain to cause its appearance on the
variety stage. At first it will doubtless
be suppressed, as it has been in past APP
pearances, but the American public has
a singular habit of accepting in the end
with applause what it earlier suppresses
with the police court.
The prospects are therefore excellent
that the danse du ventre, which has first
come before the country as part of the
chronological section at Chicago, over
which Professor f. w. Putnam of Har-
ward university presides, will yet be seen
on every stage This is, we believe, the
first instance in which a college profess
sor has superintendent so remarkable an
addition to our amusements, but we can
assure theater managers that this east
ern dance is mild and meaningless by
the side of some dances and displays
which study of the fascinating study
Of ethnology will reveal to them and
the pubhc--Philadelphia Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
Matches and Insurance.

'Man in 69 wants some parlor matches.
He says these eight day sticks are con-
founded nuisance" the bellboy said to
the clerk in one of the hotels yesterday.
''Tell him he'll have to get along with
the old style MATCH answered the
clerk. s'The insurance companies don't
allow parlor matches in the rooms.
Eyes, that's a fact" he continued in
answer to q surprised questioner. I'm
surance policies of nearly all companies
prohibit the keeping and use of parlor
matches in any part of hotel, but they
are generally kept in the offices because
they are in greater favor and more con
venient than the sulphur MATCH and the
requirements of the policy is to that ex-
tent overlooked by both its holders and
the issuing company. There isn't much
chance for an accidental ignition of a
parlor match to do much harm in a hotel
office, but they are dangerous things in
rooms where carpets or curtains or stray
paper are liable to catch fire from them.
'tThey are not only more easily lighted
by accident, such as stepping upon them,
but, as is not generally known. they often
break out in flame from spontaneous
combustion. You may judge how easily
this is liable to happen by holding a
bunch of them in the dark and watching
the flame that continually arises from
them. The sulphur match is notso dan.
gerous in any of these particulars"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03

A pneumatic tired safety bicycle that
rested against the curb in Eighth avenue
opposite the Grand Opera House on Fri
day night had a crowd about it for an
hour. It bore huge placard with the
inscription, ''For Sale, Price $12."
The placard had been placed there by
the owner, who had made wager that
he would display the bicycle for two
hours, and that no one would venture to
buy it.
There was a lot of lively talk among
the crowd that stared at the bicycle, but
nobody went into the cigar store where
the man who had bet that purchaser
would appear was anxiously waiting for
some one with $12 to materialize
A stout Englishman neatly dressed
came along ana studied the placard with
frown.
Il hate these practical jokes, he cried.
Il ride bicycle myself, and only wish
| had $12 in cash, and I'd get that wheel
That reminds me of the story of the man
who stood ON London bridge and offered
to sell genuine gold sovereigns for a pen
ny apiece and stood there an hour with
out selling any"
The bicycle owner won his bet finally,
to the chagrin of the man who felt sure
that a bargain would be snapped up
The fun of it was that the owner would
have been forced to part with it under
the terms of the wager.-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03

A novel suit Is to be entered in the
courts, at its next sitting. in which one
party claims NE right to have post
norton examination Of body made,
while the other opposes it and defies the
first to proceed with the affair. 1t
seems that few years ago Mr.. War
rington, well to do cattleman of that
county, married a second wife, to whom
he presented the jewels, consisting OF
valuable diamonds belonging to the
first Mrs. Warrington, and which she
had received as part Of her marriage
portion from her father, wealthy mer-
chant in jewelry in San Francisco.
Warrington dying shortly after his
second venture into matrimony, Mrs.
Warrington kept the diamonds in def
ance of the family of her predecessor,
who claimed them as the deceased wom-
ans heirs. Suit was brought against
her, but she declared that her husband
had sold them shortly after they were
married and that she had no property to
to make good the loss even If she were
liable for the act Of Mr.. Warrington.
This story was not believed by the
first Mrs. Warrington's family, who
maintained that the woman still had
them in her possession, and soon after
her death, which took place some weeks
ago the nurse who attended her in her
last illness testified that the day she had
died she had her bring her box filed
with unset gems, which she deliberately
swallowed one by one, passing away
few moments after she had got the
last one down. The family now wish to
disinter her body and to open it for the
recovery of the diamonds, but her own
people, not crediting thenurse's story, re-
fuse to allow what they consider a desc
Grafton of the dead. Lincoln (Neb.) Let
kar
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03

The government Of Trinidad has passed
an ordinance for the determination OF
parasol ants, so far as its power extends.
The pest has become unbearable. In
fact, from the nature of things wherever
this ant is found growing civilization
must wage war to the death with it, for
the creature strips trees of their leaves,
which itneatly trims to the size and shape
of a threepenny bit and carries to the
nest. An army of Hcodoma cephalotes
at work is one of the strangest sights in
tropical America. The column may be
followed for mile, or inches in
width, serried mass of ants, each carry
ing aloft upright as a flag its green disk.
They will strip large tree of which
they fancy the leaves in "a rs.-Kew
Bulletin.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
Ar unrea.onable Drermaid.

ssThis here show business" said the
dime museum man, faint what it's
cracked up to be by long shot. A
mans allus runnin agin things that do
him up"
Whats troubling your? inquired the
advance agent.
''Why, that durn mermaid of mine is
gettin me into debt over my head. Now,
you know I've got the only genuine mer-
maid on exhibition. She's maid of the
sea, she is, living example of the
storied nymphs Of the wave of old, as
my programmer says. I pay her big
salary, and she puts all my other attrac-
tons in the shade. 1t would put your
eye out to see the way the people look
at her. l tell you, she's the greatest
freak in the business, and the best of it
is she's genooine. But to come down to
cases, as wuz saying, she keeps me in
hot water all the time. There amt a
day that I don't have to do somethin
special for her. | don't dast refuse, for
l can't get along without her in these
dull times Sometimes, though, she
makes me crazy by her unres6onable
requests. What do you suppose she
wants nowT
Couldn't imagine" replied the ad-
vance agent, "unless tits fresh sea water
every day or something like that"
"Huhr' said the dime museum man
disgustedly, ''that would be easy. That
durn mermaid don't want thing but a
pair of button white kid shoes. Buffalo
Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
Longest Track Laying This Year.

The longest stretch of track laying
done thus far this year has just been
completed by the Minneapolis, St. Paul
and Sault Ste. Marie company in the
extension Gifts line from Cathay, N D., to
Sterling, on the international boundary,
distance of 1924 miles, all ironed since
last spring. At the boundary line con
nection is made with branch of the
Canadian Pacific, now building from a
point west of Regina, about 100 miles
long, which will be completed in Sep
TENDER, thus making the 500 line an i'm
portant part of new route from st.
Paul and Minneapolis to the Pacific
coast, and inaugurating competing
line which may greatly disturb existing
conditions. No work of railway build
ing in 1893 is likely to be more far
reaching in its effects than that which
virtually extends the Canadian Pacific
system to the Mississippi river.-Rail-
way Age.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03

OF scientific learning, in which shall be
taught all the classical and professional
studies and arts and sciences necessary
to give students a knowledge Of the
highest courses appertaining to such ed
ucation and learning.
Another section appropriates 500, O0O,-
900 for the cost of constructing the col
lege and providing it with the necessary
appliances. The eighth section appro-
PIRATES $500, zoo, 900 to be carried to the
credit of the fund, the interest thereof
to be applied monthly. The fourteenth
section provides for the purchase of
aluminium for coinage of the currency
to the amount of the appropriation.
The coins are to be 1, 3, 10, % and 80
cents, and 81, 50, $40, $50 (and multiples
of 500. This currency is to be the legal
tender for all debts, public and private.
Washington Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03

81 never heard distinguished people
talk among themselves but once" de-
clared young lady the other day, ''but
then / was quite satisfied. 1t was even
more interesting than l had expected"
"What did they talk aboutT' asked
her companion curiously, 'and who were
they?"
The young lady named them-two
noted authors, gentleman and lady.
"And they talked" she added, with a
smile, "about pokers."
'Pokers2" calculated. the friend incred-
ulously.
"Pokers!" repeated the first speaker
firmly. "The authoress had just built a
new house, and her furnace did not
work we'll She thought her companion
had one of the same kind in the house
and asked about it.
'sHe gave her information and advice,
and then they branched off to pokers
and the iniquity of manufacturers who
make them of soft iron so that they bend
out of shape the first time they are red
hot. You have always heard, haven't
you, that his style is exquisite and his
English singularly clear and vigorous?
Well, it is SO, l assure You, when he talks
of pokers, and she is charming when she
talks in a humorous vein about back
hampers and cold air boxes. was de-
lighted with the entire conversation,
though it certainly was not what l an
ticipated. ~ outh's Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03

l remember once to have seen the role
Of a hero played with all espontaneity
of real genius by poor stage supernu-
merary. 1t happened during battle
scene in Henry V at a Philadelphia
theater. In lull in the firing the au-
dience discovered that fly at the top of
the stage was ablaze. A stampede was
imminent. Half the people in the house
were already on their feet. Two men
could be seen aloft, making desperate eff
forts to tear away the burning scene.
This added to the CONSERVATION. An
other instant and panic would have
ensued, in which many lives would have
been lost
Such was the situation when out of the
troop of soldiers on the stage stepped a
super" and in roaring aside" adj
dressed to the trembling audience he
shouted;
"Kape yer safes. Don't yer see de fire
is in de playi'
The effect was magical. Few believed
the statement, but unconsciously every
body dropped back into his chair and
the play vent on. A roar of laughter
followed, and although it was FIVE min
utes before the fire extinguishers com
pleted their work not a trace of fear re-
appeared among the members of the au-
dience. never knew that mans name,
but 1 have always thanked God for his
presence of mind and his rich Irish
brogue. Julius Chambers.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
Electricity at the Fair.

In all quarters of the Electricity build
ing are new and astonishing uses to
which the subtle fluid is put, sometimes
when only the slightest force is desiredi
at others when a mighty and irresistible
power is applied. There are splendid
exhibits showing the application of cleo
tricity to mining.
Leaving this building, one watches the
electric trains glide along the intramu-
raj road, or the electric launches dart,
silent and smokeless, about the beauti-
full lagoons. Turning cityward, he sees
Chicago covered by the lowering, inn
penetrable pail of smoke belched from
myriad chimneys, and wonders when
the equivalent of light and heat will be
generated at the big coaltields and
waterfalls and sent broadcast through
out the land; when cleanliness and quiet
shall prevail. New York Evening Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
Two Remarkable Cures

An old Irish woman's COW was sick
unto death, SO she turned to the priest
to save it. 81 can't do anything to keep
your COW from dying" he said impa-
tiently.
Faith an begorra it's you that can if
any one cam" the answered in simple
faith.
Unwilling to have her reverence in
him shaken, the old man went to her
cabin. The sick COW was brought out
into the yard and propped up, then the
priest began a solemn march around it,
chanting monotonously, IF you die, you
die; if you live, you live" When at last
the tired priest sat down, the COW was
reviving, and it afterward lived to a
green old age. Some years later the
priest was at the point Of death with a
terrible quinsy, when the old Irish wom-
an presented herself at the house and
told the doctor she could cure him.
She was laughed to scorn, but at last
had her own way. She insisted upon
having the dying mans bed brought out
into the middle Of the floor. and around
it she slowly cantered, singing, IF you
live, you live, and if you die you die. "
The humor Of the situation tickled the
suffering priest so that q hearty laugh
broke the quinsy, and he also lived-to
a green old age.-Springfeld Homestead.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
ESTABLISHED 1879

three ships bound for San Francisco.
After we had discharged our cargoes
had some little leisure on my hands,
and concluded to come to this country
and take look at it. took passage on
the Sea Gull, one of the very first
steamers that ever came up the Column
bia river. The blowing of the whistle
caused considerable fright among the
Indians along the banks brought up
from San Francisco hogshead of sugar
on speculation When we landed in
Portland the hogshead fell overheard,
but was soon fished out. The sugar was
about $50 pounds heavier after the acct
dent but 1 sold it, water and all, for 80
cents pound. The sugar cost me 16
pound.
81 bought large lot of potatoes here
by the bushel at d very low price, and
sold them in San Francisco at 81 a pound.
also took back with me four turkeys
and told sailor if he would hitch them
up with strings and drive them through
the streets of San Francisco and sell
them he could have % per cent of the
proceedsI He sold the turkeys for $50
apiece to couple of restaurant keepers,
who wanted the birds as an advertise
ment. This was just before Christmas,
1849. Portland Oregonian.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
A Courageous Corporal.

When Lord Rawdon was in South
Carolina, he had to send an express OF
great Importance through part Of the
country filled with continental troops.
A corporal of the Seventeenth dra-
goons, known for his courage and intel
hgence, was selected to escort it.
They had not proceeded far when they
were fired upon, the express was killed
and the corporal wounded in the side.
Careless of his wound, he thought only
of his duty. He snatched the dispatch
from the dying man and rode on till.
from the loss of blood, he fell. Then
fearing the dispatch would be taken by
his enemy, he thrust it into his wound
until the wound closed upon it and con-
cealed it. He was found next day by a
British patrol, with smile of honorable
pride upon his countenance, and with
life just sufficient to point to the fatal
depository Of his secret.
In searching the body the cause of his
death was found, for the surgeon de-
clared that the wound in itself was not
mortal, but was rendered so by the irri-
tation of the paper.
Thus fell this patriot soldier-in rank
a corporal, he was in mind hero. His
name was O'Lavery, and he came from
the parish of MORA, in County Down,
Ireland.-Youth's Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-10-03
THE TYPEWRITER IN BUSINESS.
Modern Methods Differ From the Customs
of Merchants of Other Days.

Modern Methods Differ From the Customs
of Merchants of Other Days.
In the good old times of proveroial
honesty, which was as much account in
the transactions of business as was the
necessary cash for capital, the merchants
word was as good as his bond. In this
progressive age it is different. A type
written letter is of no more value in a
business transaction than would be the
testimony of an idiot in a court of law
OF the meandering utterances of trance
medium before the faculty of Harvard
college. Shielded behind the progressive
barrier of civilization, cheek takes the
place of capital, and the integrity of old
time merchant princes, as Lawrence,
Appleton, Sears and other honorednames
are not essential or apparent in modern
business methods.
Transactions of any magnitude, IN any
line, can be carried on by the aid OF a
typewriter, as in most cases the operator
can furnish brains enough for the prin-
cipal, with or without capital. If all
goes well and the prospects are serene,
typewriting counts; if otherwise, this
merchant can disclaim the entire trans
action and ignore any responsibility for
the machine.
The decadence of simple honesty is
greatly to be lamented. We have in
mind at the moment of writing case in
point of peculiar hardship. An honored
gentleman, helpless cripple, conceived
a business plan which promised success
full results. The plan was submitted to
firm rated high in the mercantile
agencies and still higher position in
public favor. 1t was eagerly accepted
and cordially Endorsed at every point,
and all assistance promised to make it q
permanent success to the mutual advan-
tage Of all parties concerned. All CORE
spondence was favorable, and the pro
iector launched his enterprise at heavy
outlay of time and capital, only to be
abandoned at this moment by this hon
orable firm and denounced by them as
assuming their sanction and support,
which they deny in toto. This support
and Endorsement being entirely by type
writer, the victim finds himself in
greater distress in mind, body and
estate" than before this venture, but
without any legal redress. - Melrose
(Mass.) Reporter.