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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15

Alice Morse Earle describes in the
Ne,o England Magazine the election Of
negro Governors in Rhode Island in old
colonial times. After the white people
had elected the Governor of the State
the slaves had curious custom Of
gathering together on the third Satur-
day in June and electing black Gov
ernor. To this election the negroes
went in fine style on Narragansett pa
GERS, with their wives on billions be-
hind them. All were dressed with their
finest clothes, with swords and with
powdered hair, and often long false
cue tied on behind. When all had
gathered together the vote was taken
by the opposing parties falling into
two long lines, with the respective can
didates at the head, the lines then were
counted and the longest line elected its
candidate. After the election sup.
per and dance were given, for which
the white owner of the newly elected
black Governor had to pay. The last
election of slave Governor was held
in 1900, but the custom Of ''nigger lee.
ton" day did not die out through New
England until many years later.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
GIRLS PLAY POKER.
Favorlte Pastims Of . Certain Set in q
NOted College.

Favorlte Pastime Of . Certain Set in
Noted College.
do girls ever play poker at college?
Well, I guess! You men needn't think
you monopolize all the fun in this
world
The speaker, says writer in the
Boston Globe, was q charming, saucy
little student dwell, Q college whose
name begins with one of the last letters
of the alphabet. She sat on a hotel
piazza last summer and held forth to d
group of the other sex, who all owned
to an everlasting curiosity as to the
ways and habits of the college girl
when on her own stamping grounds.
You, see, learned to play the game
very young, long before went to col
lege. My mother is awfully jolly, you
know, and she believes in our having
all our fun at home, where she can
keep an eye on US. We didn't play
poker in those days for money, because
we had none. We patronized mamma's
button. box instead. My, how the but
tons used to fly when things got lively
and disputing ran high!
My brother and used blueberries
for chips one evening, after gathering
them all day in the country, as the but
tons were not available. Ny brother
had all the luck, and ate the chips as
fast as he won. But fate evened up me
with him. He had the cholera morbus
in the night.
Finally we became 50 attached to
the game that we went to q Sunday
school picnic and withdrew to shady
retreat with our boon companions, and
played poker all day. In lieu of coin
of the realm or other convenient substi-
tute, we employed a bank account or
pencilled memorandum.
When the sun set that night I was
Vanderbilt, the proud possessor of
$40. 900. 600 on paper. But dear
mamma somehow didn't seem to fancy
this liberal union Of profane and sacred
matters, such as poker and Sunday
school picnics, so she sat down on the
former.
Il renewed my acquaintance with the
jack pot when went to college, though.
Did we ever play for money at col.
lege? Oh, yes; but we considered it q
point of honor to dump all our win
nings in one common heap when we
got through playing, and to spend the
whole on a famous oyster supper for
the entire crowd at the village restau.
rant. 1t was great sport, especially for
those who didn't win anything. A
good, juicy oyster proved wonderfully
consoling at such time.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
Badly Hurt.

Mrs. Wade was in one respect tor.
mentsome" woman to live with, as her
husband expressed it. She had mo
imagination, he said, land would ask
the queerest questions.
At the supper-table Mr.. Wade men.
toned tragic circumstance that he
had read that day in the newspaper.
A passenger on Trans Atlantic steamer
had fallen overheard in midocean, and
had never been seen again.
WAS he drowned ?" asked Mrs.
Wade.
"Oh, no, my dear of course not, I"
answered Mr.. Wade. But he sprained
his ankle, believe"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15

* Our Trunk and Satche Department is filled with
the largest and best lines of Trunks and SaceS shown
this city Sole agents for Dunlaps celebrated New York Hats
Buns Reeds and Cousins fine Shoes for ladies'
All mail orders enclosing remittance will have prompt
and careful attention.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
willing to Wait.

Uncle Ebony-Ts in trubble, suah,
sab. My wife she say she done get a
divorce an leab me TO- dude coon
dat's been maxim up to her, sab, eff ]
don get new suit OBJ clos.
Professionalism, uncle, I may
have an old suit around somewhere
How soon do you want it ?
Uncle Ebony--Wa-al. dat depen's,
sab. Any time after she Leah me, sab.
will be soon enough.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15

OFFICE FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
CUMBERLAND MD, Aug Is, 1888.
| hereby certify that during the time was
deputy collector internal revenue for District
of Maryland James Clark, in the napufac-
ture of his BraddOck Pure Rye Whiskey, ac-
cording to the record from government books,
used only rye and barley malt.
WEBSTER BRUCE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15

The virtue of man ought to be
measured not by extraordinary exer-
tions, but by his everyday conduct.
You may depend on a friends enthu-
siasm on the first day you engage in a
new undertaking, but you must depend
on Yourself after that.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
A Rare Chance !!
FURNITURE
.A-G Cost 9

nWlNG to the calamity which recently
~ befe my store building, destroying the
roof and third story, and not being able to
get Il place to remove my stock to keep it out
of the weather, am compelled to dispose of
same at almost any price III order to save it
from ruin by rain or snow, either of which
is likely to occur ut any time at this season
of the year.
he stock comprises Walnut, Oak and Pop
lar Bed Room Suits; at least 20 parlor Suits
of the latest STYLES and upholstered in all
kinds of Pushes, l;roratrl>. Tapestries. etc,
ranging in price from $50 to ssi35: also Il
very time lot OF I Ihol>i"rc,l and Rattan Easy
Chairs, especially selected for the holiday
trade, and fine la, of Lounges Bed Lounges,
Side Boards, Hall Racks. Wardrobcs EXten-
sion Tables, all kinds of Matte >c> Springs
aud, IN fact, everything pertaining IT, II first
class Furniture store. Some Of Tins Furn-
ture has been slightly damaged. but the bulk
is yet unnIurrd, and that which has been
damaged i'll any way will be sold exceeding
ly low. This is an opportunity Ia get
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01
MESA NOTES.

George Lewis was in town yesterday
on business. ...#
A baseball club has been organized
on the Mesa, with Osborne Rheims,
president.
Mr.. Hill came down from Goldfeld
last night for load Of provisions and
will start back this morning.
Orrin Merrils, Dan Jones, Harvey
Harper and few others have started
for Goldfield to open the rich Fsirstake
mining claim.
G. W. Woy, Matterson and others
came down from Goldfield last night.
They report work going on slowly but
surely at the Mammoth. Several other
claims are looking well.
The work on Mr.. Bailey's drug store
building is being rapidly carried on.
The counters and shelves are now being
placed in position and inside OF week
he will have his drugs ready for sale.
The many friends of Mr.. Soren Soren-
son will be glad to learn that he will
arrive here the 4th of September. He
has been away and performed faithful
mission to Denmark, and was relieved
but short time ago.
Mr.. Everman and family returned
last night from an outing in the noun
tains about Flagstaff. He reports times
tolerably fair there, plenty OF cool
breezes, shade and game, although
THERE'S not much work going on at
present.
The quarterly conference OF the
rbprch 81 llama Christ of Iatter DaV
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01
BOON TO THE WEARY.
Public Comfort Building Mt jackson Park
Opened at Last

Public Comfort Building ut jackson Park
Opened at Last
The Public Comfort building in jack
son park is now ready for use. 1t
stands just across the street north of
the Woman's building and little way
from the Fifty-ninth street entrance.
The structure has the appearance of a
large summer pavilion, being light,
airy and roomy. The main part is two
stories high, with a round top roof
over an immense central court. On
the east and west ends are circular pa
vilions one story high with fat roofs,
surmounted by pagodas. To the north
extends two-story stem. The build
ing throughout is furnished with all
the conveniences for the comfort and
accommodation of guests. 1t is in
tended as place where people can go
to rest, eat and be refreshed. The
court, surrounded at the second story
by a balcony, will be literally fur
nished with chairs, settees and tables.
In the circular pavilions there will be
cafes, with lunch counter attachments
and lemonade and soda water foun-
tains. There will also be a liberal
number of free closets and washing
rooms and few private apartments to
which persons in need of quiet may
retire. When ready for use this build
ing will doubtless become one of the
most popular on the grounds. 1t
fronts to the south and has three
large entrance doors. There are also
doors opening out on circular balconies
north of the two pavilions at the east
and west sides.
On the second floor are several small
er rooms where privacy may be OBJ
tanned. The walls and ceilings are
plastered and windows in abundance
on all sides will give entrance to any
breezes that may be stirring on hot
days.
PLANTATION, the well-known French
astronomer and the author of
"Uranie," says that he will write no
more novels.
THE late Lucy Larcom never began
her proposed sequel to her pleasant
New England Girlhood," and the
book is now to be written by near
relative.
THE new editions of Shakespeare
still pour forth from the hurrying
presses. The Warwick edition" is
the newest one in England. This is
what is called "a reasonably expur-
gated one" for use in higher schools
and colleges.
THE pope has awarded a gold medal
to Scotch Protestant author, Prof
Ramsay, of Aberdeen university, and
ordered his book, entitled THE Church
in the Roman Empire Before 40 A. d., "
to be placed in the reference library of
the Vatican.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01
TEMPE ECHOES.

Never in the history of Arizona has
the South Side been in better condition
thsn at present. 1t is true the supply
OF ready cash is not any more than it
should be, but the agricultural wealth
in the shape OF hay in stack and grain
in sack, is something marvellous. Go
south OF Tempe two miles, and as fine q
country as lies under the sun opens out
before you. Happy contented farmers
with their years work almost ended,
are now specializing on their profits.
This rich country is not confined to
few square miles, but reaches into the
Mesa country and embraces Kyrene,
together with the vast area under the
Consolidated canal. Thousands OF
acres were reclaimed during the past
year, but from present prospects, last
years growth is only marker to what
will be developed during the coming
wear. Wherever cattle are grazing in
the valley, they are in prime condition
and scarcely day passes that some
buyer Is not ranging the country in
search of fat beef for the southern and
western markets. G. III. Schumacher,
of Tucson, is now in Tempe and will
ship fine lot in q dav or two. Mr..
Pritt has just returned from the coast,
where he disposed of train load,
while Fritz 'Berkenkamp is constantly
buying both for shipment and for his
meat markets on this side of the river.
Every one is in good spirits, while
many have leisure to speculate in the
new gold camp.
The Tempe Arctic Ice company scored
two out OF three runaways yesterday
morning before breakfast. A China
man with his vegetable wagon got the
third. The loss to the ice company is
not less than $50 in damages to their
wagon, while the Chinaman lost moth
ing but his time.
DIR. Z. G. Hyde will shortly 90 to
Tucson to attend the meeting OF the
dental board of which he is a member.
Thsir work however at that time is
simply labor OF love there being no
emoluments attached to the Office.
Col. Schultz will soon place the Arm
strong and Schultz addition to Phoenix
on the market. 1t is a fine tract OF 100
acres formerly known as the Wilson
Place, and will make desirable resi-
dence lots.
Every day now brings some pupils in
for the Normal school that begins on
Monday next. From present indica-
kns the attendance bids fair to exceed
h year when there were seventy-three
enrolled.
Tempe cyclers make the trip from
Tempe to Phoenix IN an hour. G. w.
Miller is the best rider on the south
Side.
The social season in Tempe begins
early in September, or correlative!y
with the opening OF the Normal school,
Complaint has been made that the
road between Tempe and Mesa is con-
stantly flooded.
The Arlington restaurant will change
hands again on the first of the month
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01
,TAGE Line.

San Carlos, Fort
will please take
or Duncan on Mon
lys at o. clock q. m
1t Duncan with the
lfton and Morenci
rlisle, New Mexico,
Solomonville on ar
IN Du..u.- and stage from Car
Isle on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, ar
irving at solomonyille at 6 O'Clock p. m.
keep a good corral at each end OF the route.
This is short road free from dust and chuck
holes. Commercial men taken on any day OF
the week.
NOAH GREEN,
Proprietor.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01
Jewelry and Lace from Siam.

The Siam commissioners have ar
ranged two cases of antique jewelry
and costly laces in the rotunda of the
Woman's building. One beautiful
piece Of embroidery, the design being a
dragon worked in silver and gold on
blue velvet, is the work of their queen.
Two pairs of trousers worn by the
queen on state occasions are embroid-
cred in silver and gold and thickly
studded with precious stones. The an
tiqpe jewelry is valued at $4,000.
There are fifty rings set with diamonds
and precious stones valued at $4,000.
Some are shaped like snake, some
like toad and others like a dragon.
Jewel boxes set with diamonds and
garnets and heavy bracelets are made
of solid gold
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01
A Left-Hander.

Little Miss De Style-I think you is
real--real thoughtful and considerate.
Little Miss De Fashion-Does your
why?
I Little Miss De Style Cause you
didn't invite me to your party. Is'pose
you knew we was awful exclusive
Good News.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01

Dentist-Will you take gas, sir?
/, Patient think I'd better.
Dentist Ito clerk)-Henry, make out
a life and accident policy for this gen.
tleman-no extra charge, sir-you see,
competition is keen these days-what's
the name, please-and we have to offer
extra inducements to hold our trade;
all ready now, sir.-Puck.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01

The Mexican club of Tempe is making
extensive preparations to give grand
ball at Daggs' hall on the evening Of
Sept. 16, in honor Of the Eighty.first
Anniversary OF the Independence Of
Mexico.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-09-01

Go TO Burchard's and get cooled by
the electric fans while eating the best
meal in Tempe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

made the eXcuse-the leverage-to
totally extiuguish silver as money,
and so contract the currency as to
ft rec the issue of more national
bonds on a gold basis, and force the
payment of all debts on gold basis,
thus adding to the national indebt-
edness, and taxation, and increas-
ing the purchasing power Of every
dollar now owing, no matter by
whom.
AS was claimed last fall by the
Populists, the real issue was finance.
Congress will soon meet to deal
with the question. Sherman, of
Ohio, and Edmunds, of Vermont,
avow their infamy in declaring that
they voted for the present silver law
to kill silver Will Wall street fur
ther succeed in it's long career of
robbery We shall see but it is.
no time for idleness or Indifference.
Nine tenths of the people need
free silver, and it is now, or later
on-hut the sooner the better.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

The Topeka Capital says that
1--WE have no national debt to speak
Of" but, all the same, it will take
more bushels of wheat at present
prices to pay what is left than it
would have taken to pay the whole
debt shortly after the war at the
prices paid for wheat at that time /;
and it costs the farmer jpst as much
hard laboE to raise a fifty-cent bush
ell of wheat as a two-dollar bushel !;
so, with falling prices for labor's
products, de6t, though part paid,
may not be diminished. In other
words, pay half debt, and then re-
duce the price of labor one-half, and
the debt, if paid in labor, or
dollars gained by labor, requires as
much labor to pay half as to have
paid the whole amount had the price
of labor not fallen.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

The silver dollar would buy but
very little now if the government
did not endorse it. The big silver
miners have had their day and should
now retire to their mines and dig
their ore for merely commercial and
manufacturing purposes. Dayton
(Ohio) Journal.
Brother Bickham is begging the
question. He and all who are labor
ing with him know that if the ma
tions who demonetized silver should
demonetize gold, and place the two
metals on the same plane, gold
would rapidly depreciate. He
knows, or should know, that silver
has been largely outlawed that
when the outlaws conspired to prac
tically eliminate it from the metal
money of the world, the silver dol
tar commanded a premium of 3 per
cent. but that demonetization de-
stroyed that per cent. and appreci-
ated gold. He knows that if gold
was not given pre-eminence-if the
government did not do all possible
things to make it omnipotent as
money, it could not maintain the
place it now occupies in the public
mind until the first snow flies. lie
knows that the ratio is arbitrarily
fixed by law, when the metals are
declared money metals, and that the
ratio of IS, or 20, or %, or any
other ratio, would be basely dis
honest act on the part of our Ameri-
can congress to, after, first, by law,
depreciate silver, then demand that
that the dollar be increased in size
equal to the amount of depreciation
forced by law.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
KANSAS AGITATOR.
Devoted to the interests OF
THE M A IS s.
a Fearless, Aggressive, Progressive
Advocate of All Reforms.
THE SITUATION.

The homes and farms of the east
ern states are as heavily mortgaged
as in the western. A large number
of merchants are in debt for theil
stocks of goods. Manufactures
are mortgaged. Railroads are mort
gagged. Cities, townships and coun-
ties are mortgaged in their bonded
Indebtedness. A load of debt, in
some form or other, hangs with
crushing weight over large num-
Der of American citizens. s....r...
Labor must pay off the mortgages
or the mortgaged property will be
sold away from the mortgagor. The
payer must pay, i'll taxes, the
bonded Indebtedness of city, town.
ship or county.
Now, the burning question of the
hour is, Shall this vast accumulation
of debt be paid in dollars more val.
liable than when the debts were
contracted, or in dollar Of equal
value
If the volume of currency is con-
tracted- that is, falling below a
proportionate amount per capita
after the debt is made, the debt is
increased in proportion to contrac-
ton. On the other hand, if the
volume of currency is increased in
proportion to the increase in popula-
tion and business, the debt remains
stationary. To demand, on the part
of the debtor, an increase of cur
rency sufficient to keep the debt
stationary, is simple justice. To
demand, on the part of the creditor,
contraction of the volume of cur
rency, is simple robbery.
Now, the people of the United
States are rapidly enrolling under
one of the two banners-the banner
of Justice or the banner of Robbery
On the side of the creditor class
we find the president and his cabi-
net, and an unknown but large num-
ber of congressman, nearly all of
the leading newspapers of the old
parties, the bond-holders and cred
itor class generally, and as many of
the common people" as can be de-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

luded into enrolling under the ban
ner of the gold freebooter.
Under the banner of Justice, the
lines are not so clearly drawn Men
of all parties and all creeds, the di-
rectly interested and the disinterest,
ed, the enlightened, the lovers OF
home and country, are slowly and
surely answering to the call for a
government of the people and for
the people"
The gold-bugs demand the extinc-
tion of silver as money or a money
basis--not because it is silver, or
unsuitable for money, for that can
not be proven, but, if the truth was
known. because the use of silver as
money will increase the volume OF
currency, and thereby lessen the
purchasing power of gold Every
step of the gold conspirators, from
the exception clause" of 1862
down to the Sherman silver law of
1890, proves conclusively that the
aim, and only aim, of the money
power was to decrease the volume
of currency The exception clause
of 1862, by which gold was advanced
to $1.62; the creation of the ma
tional bank system the contraction
by the withdrawal of millions of
dollars of greenbacks the credit
strengthening act, and the demone-
tization of silver, had only one
purpose, and that was to rob the
poor to give to the rich. The green
back was easily gotten rid OF after
the advance in gold. People were
made to believe that it was worth
less, never dreaming that it was the
exception clause that killed the
greenback. People submitted to
the national bond system, little
dreaming that behind the issue of
national banks stood their own cred
it. good and true, and that they
were paying other men interest and
for work they, themselves,
performed. But, silver was in the
way. The boys remembered the
dollar of their daddies. 1t was not
easy to murder silver. Demonetized,
the people forced, in storm of in
dignation, its partial reconciliation.
Tricked into consent to halfway
the battle was renewed,
with the result that they are worse
tricked than before by the Sherman
silver law. Yea, worse than trick
it was crime-deep, dark and
lamnable And now the crime is
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

THE Lawrence World thinks that
the financial position of the Topeka
Capital will do more to defeat the
Republican party in Kansas than any
other inAuence-but the World is
off. The Capitals views, gold bug
or otherwise, are too silly to inhu-
ence any one but an ignoramus or a
fool.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that contain Mercury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely de-
range the whole system when enter
ing it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used
on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will
do is ten-told to the good you can
possibly derive from them. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, con-
tains 10 mercury, and is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous system. In buy
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you
get the genuine. 1t is taken intern
ally, and is made in Toledo, Ohio,
by f. j. Cheney & Co. Testimo-
malls free.
@Sold by druggists. Price, IS
cents per bottle.
O.Dro GGT'ha GOldan RottlpO thro'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

Don't fail to read the Great Quad
rangular Debate, then hand it to
your neighbor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

ORpER 1.-The Golden Bottle" thro'
the AGITAroR Price, so cts.