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Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Brevities.

Keep lookout for the particulars
of our great Thanksgiving present to
all our readers.
"A man who ran for Office somewhere
near Pocahontas said last week-"yes,
believe in God," but Titus A. Brick
said to some of his friends in con-
fidence-"well, he may, but he don't
act like it,"
A preacher over near Elkins, W.
Va, INVITES his hearers to come to
church, but leave their cats, dogs and
prejudices at home.
There is a six-months widower in
the the neighborhood of New Germany
who is exciting some unfavorable com
ment by beginning "to take notice" so
early.
One of the ''ideals" got to be Judge
anyhow.
Republicans are so glad they are
even rejoicing over the result in Vir-
ginia. For when it comes right down
to the last pinch of party desire, re-
publicans would rather see a populist
scotched than a democrat.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Trade on the Ditch Active.

The canal is still booming at George
town. Day by day the coal comes
down. says the Washington Star. and
day by day miscellaneous cargoes are
carried back. The docks along the
waterway are looking as they have
never looked before, the coal men are
whlstling away as if they had made a
million a piece and were satisfied, and
the hundreds Of mules employed in the
transportation are looking more sleek
and contented than it was thought
possible a year ago mules could look.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Pointer III Grammar.

Some time ago the JOURNAL was
successful in controversy over the
agreement of verbs in number with
their nominatives.
The JOURNAL held that sometimes
the circumstances altered the cases,
and that the intention of the writer
might properly warrant exceptions to
the rule.
An instance is furnished in the
following comments:
The learned Boston Globe headlines one of
its editorials in bold, black type, Are Politics
Behind It?'
Since when did politics come to be
plural? Politics is purely and simply the
science of government.-St. Louis (Mo.)
Republicam.
But the Charlestown Is. c. Ne,os
and Courier comes along and says:
1t depends. Sometimes politics is singular
and sometimes they are plural.
And so with twelve pounds of sugar.
In twelve parcels, weighing pound
each, twelve pounds of sugar are
plural. In one parcel twelve pounds
is singular.
When Il writer states, therefore, that
''twelve pounds of sugar is selling for
a dollar" he is inspired by the knowl
edge that so much sugar is put up in
one parcel, and that, taken in the
lump it is properly singular
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Don't Run"

1t should be remembered that it is not the
present Governor Of Massachusetts, William
E. RUSSELL who was defeated there, but a
relative. Young William E. evidently knew
enough to get in out of the fain.-Cumber.
land Times
The Times is mistaken. The Russells
are not related. If they had been, the
junior would have sung to the elder
something more than is in the antique
song, "Old Obadiah"
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11

The JOURNAL has received a card of
invitation to the wedding of Miss
Bessie Rummelsburg and Mr.. Henry
Jandorf Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10,
at 81 O'Clock, Washington hall, 76l
east l66th street, New York. Henry
Is a Frostburg boy whom the JOURNAL
would delight to honor, but the people
who built New York loacted it too far
from Frostburg.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11

A few weeks ago the JOURNAL
noticed the nomination of John Barton
Payne. a law partner of William
Brace. formerly of this county, for one
of the Chicago judgeships-eight in
number. 1t is its pleasure now to an
nounce that he was elected--the only
democrat chosen.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Sure to See 1t.

Nerchant-I wish this dry goods ad-
vertisement put in some part of the
paper where the women will be sure
to see it.
Eaitor-Why you astound me, man !!
When we wanttoprlnt anything where
the women will be sure to see it, we
put 1t alongside of IA dry goods adver-
tisement.-New York Weekly.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11

The Western Trad is published quarterly
by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
way.
1t tells how to get farm in the West, and
it will be sent to you gratis for one year.
Send name and address to 81 Editor Western
TRAIL Chicago and receive it one year free.
JOHN SEBASTIAN, q. p. A.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
What Was the Cause ?

The JOURNAL has read them all, but
it thinks most of them erroneous and
fears that some are secondary.
The first, prime cause was fore
shadowed by Henry Watterson before
the election.
1t was then thought to be silver
mining stock in United States Sem
atorial pockets.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
What We are Doing.

The Coal Trade Journal speaks Of
One Canadian concern which has tried
Nova Scotia coal at 81 per ton and Poca-
hontas coal at So claims that the advantage
was but trifling in favor of the Nova Scotia
COAL even at the difference in price.
But right here in the Georges Greek
coal region we are still publishing to
the world by big majorities that Nova
Scotia coal is just as good as "our
own unrivaled product.n
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
All o. X.

The pers0ael1e generally of the elect
is good.
OF those the JOURNAL knows Judge
Boyd, Senator Sloan, Register Dowden,
Sheriff King, Treasurer Doub, and
Commissioners Miller, burst, etc, are
firstclass men.
The county was never in safer hands.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Personal.

The Baltimore american printed a
portrait Tuesday of Hon. H. w. Hoff-
man, of Cumberland. more than usual
ly good. The JOURNAL hopes the dis
tlnguished subject will continue to
enjoy the health which a temperate
life has matured and the honors which
his great ability has earned.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Personal.

DR.. George Sloan, of Roslyn. Wash
ington, was in the county this week.
He still prospers in his far r-away home.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Dead.

Joseph Cochrane, many years ago a
mining boss for the Consolidation coal
coal company at Eckhart and Hoff-
man, died lately at Corning, Ohio, at
an advanced age.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
The True Causes TerseIy Stated.

Congressman Jerry Simpson, Of
Kansas, comes nearer the mark than
any public man who has spoken of the
causes OF the recent popular express
ion in few States:
1t was simply the result of a scare among
the masses. There are a lot of lunatlcs in the
country who know nothing themselves and
were made to believe by the republican press
that the threatened revision of the tariff por-
tended evil to the working classes Besides
this, they blame the democratic party for the
existing business depression, which as a mat
ter of fact, is a result of iniquitous republican
legislation In New York the attempt of the
machine politicians to force Maynard upon
the people is responsible for the result
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
The Newspapers True Office.

The Newspapers True Office.
Said the Cumberland independent last
week:
Editor Harman, of the Frostburg Ledger,
was married on Tuesday last and each ac-
count of the wedding we have so far noticed
in an Alegany county paper was copied from
the Baltimore SIM What is the matter with
the enterprising news gatherers, reporters and
correspondents?
Next paper taken up was the keyser
CIV. Va) Tribune, Il correspondent of
which had something to say about the
''enterprise of news-g gatherers, report
ers and correspondents as follows:
For long time have thought that cor
respondents of newspapers are not sufficient
ly careful about what they write, and that
papers do not scrutinize carefully enough
what is written before publishing. X
Papers ought to learn that the pub
lie does not want such stuff.
The JOURNAL did not copy from the
Baltimore SIN. Its account of the
wedding was, therefore, not only
original, but devoid of gossippy Incl
dentals and IN apropoS adjectives.
But the keyser man was not offended
at the Echo's description of a wedding.
He found fault with newspaper men
ton of social affairs whose prominence
does not warrant public mention, but
which numerous papers mistakenly
call news" Many personals" and
"brevities" appear in the hash which
comes from neighboring villages which
are unworthy Of public mention, so
that it is frequently the case that there
is more so-calIed news" from "Never
Seem than is gathered in the place
where the Scuffleburg Nems is publish
ed.
The office of a newspaper is dual
l, To give all available legitimate
news, and
., To draw therefrom for its reader S
morals in new ways and forcible terms.
In briefer mention-to inform and
instruct, to communicate and advise,
and to point out the way and lead.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
Died

Thomas H., infant son of Edward
Anderson, of Carlos, died Monday,
Nov. 6, 1898, aged months.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
COUNTY NEWS.
His Majority.

Hon. A. H. Boyd was elected 10y
majority of ISL. as follows:
For Boyd. Allegany county ...... .4O23
" Richmond " ......3SO5
Boyds majority ......... .............2 .2lS
For Boyd. Washington county. .4410
-" Richmond - 1880
Boyds majority y.....,.... ............. 80
total. .............2SS
For Richmond-Garrett county .1473
:" Boyd 1856
Richmond's majority. .............1l7
Boyds majority in the circuit .......1Sl
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
The DarkeN and the PARALLELS

Inc Darkey ana the PARALLELS.
Vice-President Stevenson told the
following story to a group of Senators
the other night:
There was an old darky in Southern
Illinois who wanted to join the minis
try. He had progressed through many
years OF trial and tribulation, from the
position of chief hOg-stealer and hen
roost robber of the community to the
mourner's bench, to membership, to a
deaconate, and finally to the dignified
office of sexton and chief bell-ringer of
the white folks church in the same
town. He couldn't read, but his grand
daughter, Lucindy, could. and he
made her read to him every evening
out of the Good Book. He was finally
brought before the board for eXamina-
tlon, which was conducted as follows ::
"Brer 'Lias, do you know,the Bible ?"
"1as, praise de Lawd ?"
"Do you believe the parallels p
Dat | do. Ever w'ud OBJ dem
par'bles is fac's sho huff. Gospel
troof.'
do you know any of them well
enough to repeat, Bre'r 'Lias ~
DAT | do. | knows dem all. but
dat one of Potiphar and Jezebel is de
trues' an mos powerful one ob all.
Hit goes dis way. You see Potiphar
was ridin' down in his charyit FUN
Jerusalem into Jericho. He druv
long iii bit wen long come Jezebel.
She say 'W'lte man, gimme ride :
an he done tux her up benin him in
his charyit. Dey went erlong a lii
furder an among t'ives. An dey
say: 'Frow down Jezebel y"
AN Potiphar, he say, Let him
amung you wldout sin cas- de fus'
stone.'n
"But dey say all de louder, 'Frow
down Jezebel 80
"An' finally he frew down Jezebel
But dey warn't satisfied, an yell,
'Frow down Jezebeln y
AN he frew her down ergin. An
den dey all yell out, 'Frow her down
some mo- An he frew her down
seb'n times. But dey was dat mean
dey warn't satisfy no how and del KEEP
a hollering, 'Frow down Jezebel = An
he frew her down seb'nty times seb'n.
An OBJ de remains dey geddered up
seb'n basketful. .'-Washington Post.
Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
GENERAL ITEMS,

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Frostburg mining journal., 1893-11-11
The Coal Trade.

Boyd's majority in the circuit.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08

nUTsT UnHUr1s une ETavVrTUe pqYT 1nx1WUU]
may presently drop TO nothing. Be-
sides these men the bookmalzer must
have cashier at fifteen dollars day,
who has charge Of the money box. Or
dinarily he challzs the price up himself,
but he may prefer to engage somebody
for that job. The cashiers and &C
countants are all sporting men them
selves, and they receive such good
wages for only three or four hours toll
four days in the week. 1t should fur
ther be mentioned that the boolmaker
needs two or three messengers, who
have varied duties, one Of which is to
maintain a running communication
with the paddock for the purpose of OBJ
tanning information, notice of tricks,
etc. He is obliged to spend a great
deal of money on supplies in the way Of
stationery, ETC., which are all manu-
featured and sold at high prices by one
man, who has obtained from the rae
ing clubs what is effectively a monop-
oily.
Notwithstanding these big expenses
it is observable generally that book
makers wear diamond shirt studs, oc-
cupy boxes when they go to the theaters,
and are accompanied on such occasions
by handsome and beautifully dressed
women. In short, they are 'high roll
ers," and well they can afford to be, in
asmuch as their expenses are paid and
the cost of their extravagant living is
lquidated mostly by poor clerks and
other people to whom even small losses
by gambling signify distress. It is the
latter who contribute mainly to the
maintenance Of the race tracks, into
which such tremendous stream of
money flows, derived from million pet
ty sources and carrying with it the pitt
full earnings of the shop boy, together
with the squanderings Of the spend
thrift on the high road to dishonor.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08
JAPANESE ATTRACT ATTENTION
Curious Crowds Watching the Workmen
from the Land of tho NEikado.

Curious Crowds Watching the Workmen
from the Land of tho NEikado.
The Japanese workmen who are
building the Japanese village on the
north end of the island within the
worlds fair grounds attract a great
deal of attention from the visitors.
There are eighteen mechanics from the
land Of the milzado and a civil engineer.
They have the framework for the viii
lage all in place.
Right in the center of the proposed
village is short pole with
bunch of rice paper strips float
ing from it. When the men began
to work they went through a cere-
mony to drive away the evil spirit from
their labors. The pole with the papers
is intended to divert his attention from
the mechanics in case he should wander
around there.
The Japs evidently saw an American
level for the first time at the fair
grounds. They have not yet tired of
admiring the way in which the nipple
ment indicates whether q surface is
level Or plumb. The head carpenter
got hold of it and placed it under box.
Then he ordered one of the men to put
chips underneath the ends of the box
until the level indicated that the box
presented level upper surface Then
he carefully scrutinized the result and
smiled all over to see how easily the
level did the work. For nearly an hour
he kept testing it on everything at hand.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08

little restaurant near by. was going
to get cup of tea there with my five
cents. sat down at the table and was
just going to order the tea when all at
once couldn't sit up any longer"
She revived, got on to the street again
and tainted. Two women came up and
said: "Oh, that's too bad," and were
very kind.
"Did they get you something to eat?"
i 'No."
''Did they offer you any money!"
'ENo; the policemen brought me to
this place then"
] ''Do you begin to feel better since
you came here?"
j ooh, yes, I feel better, but I'm very
weak. I can't eat anything. I don't
seem to want to eat. People have been
SO good. A young man I used to know.
at home read about me in the papers
and he came to see me this morning.
He said he thought there must be some
mistake when he read about it, but I
told him the only mistake was that I
thought I could earn my living all alone
in this big city. He's going to let some
of my Vallejo friends know where am,
and guess I'll be all right now"
Her girlish pride and spirit are
broken. She did not even know enough
of city ways to examine the ''want col
u1nns." It is such as she who suffer in
big cities.-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08
A Snake Charmed by Bells.

A Denison (Tex.) dispatch says.
Mrs. D. M. Madden is lady of nerve.
Yesterday afternoon, her little girl
Mary, aged two years, was seated on
the ground under a tree playing with a
tin hoop, to which were attached bells.
The noise of the bells attracted large
blaclsnalze, which crawled to the feet
of the child and stretched at full
length, with it's head resting on her
left foot. The jingle of the bells
seemed to charm it, for the snake closed
it's eyes and was motionless Mrs.
Madden saw the snake. She did not
scream for assistance, as most women
would have done under the circ1im-:
stances. She darted to the child,
grabbed the snake by the tail and
hurled it through the air. Thep peculiar
music of the bells had evidently placed
the snake under spell, as it did not
move until it felt the touch of Mrs.
Madden's hand
TENNESSEE inventor has patented
g guage for determining the age of
horses. The device consists of q steel
plate, having a tapered body portion.
one of it's longitudinal edges being
marked by lines and figures. By ap-
plying the scale to the teeth of the
horse it's approximate age is said to be
determined.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08
TOO HUNGRY TO EAT.
The Sensations of Starvation Described by
California Girl.
wadding.

The Sensations of Starvation Described by
California Girl.
That anyone should starve in the
midst of plenty is sad enough, but when
the sufferer is strong and willing girl,
in city where domestic help is hard to
get, the pity of it is lost in the wonder.
Yet such was the experience of a young
woman the other day in San Francisco.
She actually tainted on the street, and
was well-nigh unto death before reviv-
ing at the hospital, and one physician
says there is nothing whatever the
matter with her but starvation. She
is but twenty-five years old and Vallejo
was her home. Her father is poor and
she felt herself burden at home, so
she went to San Francisco, took little
room temporarily and tried to find
work. Day after day she hunted, re-
ducing her rations as her money grew
less, living for several days on tea and
an occasional scrap Of bread, till at last
strength gave out and those who picked
her up on the street thought she was a
woman Of forty, so rapidly had she
aged. She thus describes her expert
ence:
swell, the day saw my last fve-cent
piece stayed in all day. I tried to go
out and hunt for work, but I just could
not do it. My feet felt so heavy and l
was so dizzy was afraid to walk for
fear I'd fall down. I hadn't eaten any
thing since the night before, not even
my bread and tea. I had cried good
deal before that, but that day I felt too
sick to cry. Toward night I grew sick
at the stomach-oh, awfully sick-and
my hands and feet were like ice. was
afraid would be very sick if I didn't
net something to eat. so went ont to a
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08
The Reign OF Terror.

The history of man might be called
the decline and fall of terror Former
ly, says Walter Besant in the London
Queen, we were afraid Of everything.
Of the sea, because we knew not what
was beyond it, or what was in it, or
what it might do. It had been known
to arise in resistless might and to
whelm great cities; monsters had been
seen in it-calamaries, krakens, sharks
and whales; the sea was very terri.
BILE thing. Then there was the forest; ne
one could tell what might come out al
the forest; wolves there were for GER
tain, and serpents, and very likely
human enemies wanting to kill us
diseases, every one of which was fatal.
And there was the vast unknown
world beyond filed with enemies,
creatures like men, but speaking an
unknown tongue and breathing
hatred-devils they were, not men.
When this universal terror was still
unconquered, the historian began, and
SO we know what it was, and
how it held the people so that they
sought by charms and magic to escape
from it, and to get little confidence.
Then they began to find out things, and
gradually the terror was dispelled.
They crossed the sea and found out
what was on the other side; they pene-
trated the forest and killed the wild
beasts; they learned strange languages
and Travelled in strange lands; they
found out how to ward off disease.
Finally there remains of the old terror
only one or two things. Men fear, now,
nothing but what they cannot control
some forms of disease; earthquakes;
lightning, and death. These things can
be still further reduced; we shall over
come disease; we shall, perhaps, con-
troll the lightning; we shall learn the
cause of earthquakes; we shall put off
death.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08
Fashions in Suicide.

'"The mania for committing suicide is
spreading to an alarming EXTENT re-
marked Johns Hopkins professor a
few days since. ST recall reading a
prediction" he continued ''thnt hA-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08

IT is the opinion of those who have
witnessed the sight that, next to the
sunsets and the daily departure of the
white fleet of sound steamers, nothing
that is seen from the span of the
Brooklyn bridge is better worth seeing
than the firing of the evening gun at
Castle Williams on Governors island.
The flash is Of startling brilliancy, and
in calm weather it leaps nearly five
hundred feet from the mouth of the
cannon. Even at that distance, how
ever, it can be seen that it is not sheet
of fame, but rocket-like shower of
fire MISUNDERSTANDING powder and
wadding.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-08

tween the years 1889 ana 1870 sucn an
epidemic, if you can call it that, would
prevail owing to the planetary infu-
ences, and the facts seem to bear it out,
whether the prediction was based on
supposititious grounds or as result of
astronomical research. History tells us
that at an early Period in France so
prevalent was the idea of self-destruc-
ton that the government issued q de-
cree that after a certain time the body
Of any man or woman guilty of taking
his or her life should be hanged in q
public place and designated as that of a
cowardly criminal. Tire result of the
edict was that thereafter the suicidal
mania became questionable, and
deaths from this cause were few and
far between. It would appear to me,
reviewing the history of the past few
years, that some legislation of the same
sort must be enacted in America
AN Indiana merchant, while driving
from Rome City to his home at La
grange, lost wallet containing eight
thousand dollars. A lightning-rod agent
from Kalamazoo, Mich, CHANGED along
and found the money. The Michigan
der proceeded on his way, and it was
over three months before he heard of
the owner, although he made diligent
search for him. When the Lagrange
man got possession of his lost treasure
he said nothing, but went straightway
and began suit In the circuit court
against the lightning-rod agent for in
terest on the money at the rate of per
cent, setting up in his complaint that
the use of it was worth that amount.