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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-18
TRUSTEES SALES.

assumption by the pnrcha.oY al soid ,o,o - .,.-
reslaue OF said notes yet to- become due and M "
aoiet with interest and II there DO any rcsiduco 81
payaose in orc and two equal a, mai ,nstoi.
nehts AZ one And two years nom dat. OF sale.
WIN interest thereon until paid, and secured bv
property sold. "pon t sioo
EDWARD w. RoRERrsn, 4 rs
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
SNarp Practice.

Tne Lon lon Chronicle of January
lib. 1881. gives an account of law
yer who dined on several occasions
with Il client previous to il trial, and
charged him lis. Sd. for each attend
lncc at dinner, which was allowed on
;aXing. His client shabbily thought
that by inviting him to dinner he
would get all consultations free. The
lawyers host thrrcupon sued him. ana
recovered for the value of the food
ana wine The lawyer. however. in
formed against him for dealing in wine
without ii license, and the client was
obliged. to his intense disgust. TO pay
The penalty. much of which went TO
,he attorney as informcr. This whim-
seal instance of sharp practice has
been made the subject of song. which
ut one time was popular.
The following incident really occur
rcd. not so many years ago. not so far
rom coleraine. in the north of Ire
and: 4 wealthy and miScrly old man
thought he was near the point OF
Heath. and sent for a smart lawyer to
make his will. The lawyer came. and
he gave him elaborate directions for
he disposal of his property. AS the
.awylr was finishing his work. he
sad:
Now. | want to put in another
clause. You have always been good
md able man in your dealings with
me. | wish to leave you five hundred
pounds
The lawyer, after little pretence of
honest demurring. did this When the
will was signed and sealed the old
man said:
Business is business. wish to
have all my transactions settled up.
Make out your bill for drawing up
tn'S will. and will pay YOU at once"
The lawyer replied
My good sir. you have been so gen
,rOuS-morr than gcnerouS-that
never could think of charging"
VERY well.' said the old Skintiint:
You know your own bus moss best:
hut still like everything settled in
blSinrsS-likc fashion. Make out Il bill
is you would have charged any other
client. and formally receipt it,
This was done
A couple of months afterwards the
cd man died. The lawyer went to
his house to read the will. which the
executors handed him. TO his horror
.:irrc was no gift to himself in it at
all. 1t turned out that the old man
had copied the will carefully out when
he left him. emitting the five hundred
pounds clause. The whole affair was
Il dodge to get Il smart lawyer to make
his will without any charge.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
NEWSPAPER ENGLISH.
IT. - 'ian and Orators Use 1t to "A
va taye.

IT. = '.ian and Orators Use 1t to "A
taye.
NO statesman who Is worth his salt
will he hampered by tradition" said
Lord RoSebery in recent speech. And
he saying is Il good one in itself. Ira
'lit:onS Are useful only when they help.
The! are a good deal worse than
worthless when they hamper.
But Lord Rosebcry'S saying is chief
ly remarkable as an illustration of the
ilct that he is not hampered by the
traditions of stiltcd English oratory
Worth his salt" is breezy colloquial-
ism which expresses in three words
which could not have been 50 we'll eX-
pressed in three sentences of the finest
oratorcal English.
The fine oratorcal English in which
our grandfatherS delighted seems in
sufferably stited to us of this gpncr-
alton. We demand plain English. and
the man who wishes to reach the
largest number of people will use the
plainrSt of plain English.
The newspapers, which have IA hand
i'll nearly everything. have done this.
Ihey have shown the advantage of
speaking in Ineligible language. They
are condemned by college professors
for using colloquialisms. vulgarisms if
you please. such as this with which
Lord Rosebrry enforces his meaning.
But what the newspaper tries to do is
t" make itself ineligible to the largest
number of people in the shortest time
and smallest space. Very often fine
English is effective. but oftener still
colloluial'sm will ring the bell where
the English of Addison would not
strike the outer rim of the target
The orators are finding this out and
conforming to it. Something is lost.
perhaps. but more is gained. for it
means another step away from the eX-
cluS.vcnrSS of an intellectual ariStoc-
racy: another concession to the masses
the deSpiscd Toms. Dicks and Harrys,
over who's" heads tie orators of our
classical period fired the resonant sal
voS of their heavy artillery.-New York
World
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
A GIRLS SUBTERFUGE.
1t Failed to Work and She Was Very
fry Shc ricI


How pleasant it is to an honest Dor-
son. to see some of the little modern
>hams of society punctured. A young
woman. who flashes and shines in a
certain elite coterie of the West End
deserves sympathy, because she has
been caught in the fashionable act of
playing the hypocrite.
| heard this story from Il reliable
person. The young society bellies pic
lure recently appeared in the society
columns of Il local paper. Her numrr
GUS associates conIp!imentcd her in the
most approved style, but to their sur
prise she professed to be quite angry
over the horrid fact of seeing her pic
ture in the public print. She detcstcd
such vulgar display-so she said.
why. some mean photographer has
given my photo to that paper without
my prrlniSson! exclaimed the young
woman. ''Oh, my! oh. my! could
stand it myself. but what VIII mamma
say when she hears of th:s!'
And the young woman pretended to
so into paroXysms Of fashionable hys-
terics.
well, if l were you. should go
down to that photographers studio and
find out by whose authority your pic
,ure was given to the paper" sug-
gcstcd young woman, who was one
of the party of friends.
This sentiment was generally APP
Dlaudcd by half dozen lady friends.
and finally the young society belle was
almost c0crccd by the force Of her
friends opinions to visit the photogra-
piers studio. However. she profeS>cd
70 be quite anxious to make the visit
herself The upshot of it was that
!.,e young society belle and Il half
dozen of her lady friends came down
.uwn and called at the studio. The
photographer was out and a young
woman was in charge of the office.
rhc young society woman carried out
ilrr bluff, however. by unloading a
trade of abuse upon the head of the
office girl.
''Well. no photos are given to the
newspapers by us unless We have
authority to do So" coolly replied the
office girl.
You never received any authority
from me to give my photo to any news
paper" replied the society belle, her
eyes swapping fire.
The office girl, in the most cruel and
deliberate manner possible. pulled
note from IL pigeon-hole in her desk,
and handed it to the society girl for
pcruSal. 1T was a note from her
mother ordering the artist to furnish
the photo to be used by the news
paper.
The modification of the young so
"irly belle was pitiable to behold. when
one Of her companions said. in stage
whisper:
'Oh. my! What will mamma say
when she hears of this?"-St. Louis
Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
A NOVEL BY MRS. LEASE.
How She Puts an Old Head on Young
ShOulIers


How She Puts an Old Head on Young
Shoulders.
Topeka. Kan. correspondent of
The New York Recorder. writes as
follows: Mrs. Mary T.. Lease has
been at work for long time upon
novel. but she has stcadfastly refused
to make known either her subject or
the character of her work. except that
it was To be something out of the or
binary. as might be expected of any
thing that she undertakes. Now she
announces that her work is nearly
ready TO 80 to the publ shcrS. and she
IS not so aversc to talking of it. The
title of the book. she says. is ''The
Compound Man. The scene of the
story is laid in remote quarter of
the American continent. which is not
definitely fixed by the author. There
She locates upon Il ranch an old man,
Il youth and young grl.
The old man had been for many
years hermit student. when the
whole current of his life was
changed by the arrival at his
scheduled hut of two wanderers who
appealed to him for shelter. First
there arrived boy and shortly after
ward Il girl. waits who We're by ',me
strange chance of fortune thrown
across his pathway His heart open
cd to them. and he undertook to edu-
cate and rear them. He became Il
father to them. and during their early
life was all that a fond parent could
be to his own offspring. When the
=..rl grew to womanhood the old man
developed Il passion for her that was
foreign to the parental feeling he had
had for her He proposed to make
her his wife, but the boy had also
formed more than a brotherly attach
ment for his foster sister. She could
not decide between the two rivals for
her heart and hand. The old man
was her intellectual ideal. but physi-
cally he was not up to her standard.
In striking contrast to him the young
man WAS a perfect Apollo. grand
type of physical manhood. but he was
not an intellectual giant.
She frequently said IN talking with
her foster parent that she would be
Supremely happy if she could com
bine the qualities of the two. The old
man was very wise man. and one
day he expressed his determination of
giving her up to the youth.
But that was not all. He resolved
to sacrifice his life that his intellec-
tual qualities might be transmitted to
;he younger man. thereby making the
deal that the eXacting young woman
longcd for. He and the boy Disappear
ID one day without telling the maiden
of their destination. They Went to
famous surgeon. who performed
wonderful operation upon them. by
which the brain of the young man
was removed and that of the old one
substituted for it. As there was no
thing left for the old man to Eve for
he Died. while the young man became
possessed of the intellect of his bene-
factor. Entirely ignorant of the
change that had been made in him.
the young man appeared before the
maiden as the compound Man" They
were married and lived happy ever
after.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20

George william Childs believed that
the habit of generosity should be cul-
t'vatcd us other habits are. and said:
Il have often felt that il is great
mistake to put off being generous I'M
IL You are dead. In the first place,
you lose the pleasure of witnessing
the good that you may do: and. again.
no one can administer your gifts for
YOU as well as you can do it yourself.
1t is Il great pleasure to be brought
into personal relations of that kind,
and to make people feel that you are
not ph'lanthropist in the abstract,
but that you are interested in them
personally. and care for their welfare.
In that way You benefit them. not
merely in a natural way, but You make
them feel that men are really brothers,
and that they We're made to help one
another. Not only is that feeling
agreeable in itself, but 1t will be apt
to prompt them to carry out the prin-
cplc themselves. Put yourself into all
You do. and let others feel that You are
there. Do not only contribute to Il
charitable object, but go yourself and
help. 1t may seem an inconvenience
at first. but soon you will come to con-
slider it worth any Inconvenience"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
Height of Virginia Mountains.

Major led Hotchkiss. of Staunton,
by request Of the Richmond Dispatch.
writes as follows concerning the height
If Virginia mountains:
Your correspondent from Black
stone. Va. asks: What is the height
above sea level Of the Peaks of Otter
and if they are not the highest noun
tanS in Virginia, which are the high
est and their height" You ask me to
answer these questions,
"'rhr height of the Peaks of Otter,
rs determined by Prof. Guyot by care
ful barometric measurements some
years ago. Is 3.SSS feet for the south
vest or the northeast or 'Flat-Top
peak. The same authority made the
BalSam Mountain. in the Blue Ridge.
in Grayson county. 800 feet high.
md Whit" Top Mountain. in the Gray
Son-Wa>hington line. 300 feet high.
TIL" 1891 typographical maps of the
United States geographical survey
make White Top 5.67S feet high. and
Il point in the GraySon-Sm' tn line,
three miles eastward of White Top.
which these maps call Mt Rogers.
BIO feet high. making the latter the
highest point that has yet been in any
way determined in Virginia"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20

The practical chemist of Philadel-
phia looks to the speedy solution of a
problem upon which men of his pro-
!cSSion are engaged the world over
the reproduction of meats for the table
from their chemca constituents.
within this century" he says. 81 rx-
pcct to see synthetic steaks. roaStS
and ch"pS entered upon the bill of
fare at our leading hotels and reStaur-
ants. and they will be be prepared so
artiStically as to appeal to the
s'nSe of beauty as we'll as to the appe-
tie. At first. of course. in order to
nppraSc the natural preiudiceS against
anything so novel. choice will be
afforded between the real and the ar
tificial: but eventually the killing of
animals for food will be regarded in
Ill civilized countries as barbarous.
That this is not an absurd prediction
is well assured to those who have OBJ
served what synthetic chemistry have
already done in exactly reproducing
mustard. sugar. butter. ice, lemon
juice and flavoring essences: besides
madden. turprntinr and many other
compounds used extensively in COM
mcrcc." -Philadelph'a Record.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
Hill and Lodge,

Lodge. of Massachusetts, and Hell. OF
New York. are bosom friends. 1t
happened by chance. the usual way.
In the lottery which is officially known
as the pairing Of Senators. Mr.. Lodge
was assigned as the pair of Mr.. I'LL.
In other words. neither was to vote
unless the other was present, so that
the absence of one would be always
neutr:ilized by the silence of the other.
Thrown against each other by the
irony of fate, the two men were forced
to become acquainted. Presently.
however. they found that instead Of
merely formally announcing to each
other an intended departure, and then
separating. they began to chat and
gossip together. They found that they
had many likes and dislikes in COM
mon. Hill was attracted by Lodges
pol shed manner. and Lodge felt the
force of Hills dircctness and incisive
thought.
So it has come to pass that when
Mr.. Hill returns from one of his fire.
qucnt trips to Albany no one hastens
with more promptitude to cordially
greet him than the junior Senator
from Massachusetts. They do not of
ten talk politics, for on this subject the
two men are Numerically opposed
to each other. but on everything else
they are as Damon and Pythias.-
Washington Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
A Postponed Proposal.

81 always like to talk to you. So
phronia." said the youth with beet
ling brow and a touch of the dyS-
pepsia. II always like to talk to you,
because, unlike other women. YOU
have soul above the mere frivolity
of dress. You prefer to converse on
philanthropy and poetry rather than
dwell on ribbons and laces and dress
patterns"
Il am sure you fiatter me. Mr..
sh'ngton." said Sophronia. as
beautiful blush suffused her features
precisely at the right time. ''but the
compliment. coming from you. is high
ly appreciated" and she put such
sweet emphasis upon you that Mr..
Gushington's courage was almost
raised to the point of asking the qucs-
ton he had been trying to ask for
over year.
eyes" he continued in even IL ten
derer tone. you are one of the very
few women whose mind is fixed on
higher things than raiment. Indeed,
YOU and Miss Wordy. the great fc-
male lecturer on archaeology. are the
only women | know who are absorbed
in higher things than dress. BY the
way, went to see her the other even
ing. She is a magnificent woman.
and as she stood up IN all her intel
lectual dignity before her audience |
was profoundly impressed with her
Individuality"
"Do tell me about it," said Miss
Sophronia. 'How did she Wear her
hair and what did she have on?'
Mr.. Gush:ngbon Hlo, again post
poned his great question. staggered
out under the cold moonlight and me-
chemically wendell his way TO his
lonely home.-Ch;cago Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20

The custom of having women PHI
bearers at funerals Will probably soon
he permanently established here.
There have been several funerals Of
that kind in the past year. The pail
bearers who bore the remains of Miss
Huber to the grave We're eight young
girls. dressed from head to foot in
white. Miss Huber lived at Preston
and Broadway. and the funcdal took
place from her residence. The
young ladies wore white caps. gloves.
dresses and shoes, the emblems of
purity. Naturally. they attracted a
good deal of attention. it being so
unusual for females to act in the ca
pacity of pall-bearers, but many We're
heard to commend 1t as a beautiful
departure from the old custom, par
ticularly in the case of the death Of
young women.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
Health i'm ApDles,

DR. StulZcr--BuetZcr. i'm one of the
foreign medical reviews. writes as fol-
lows of the medical and hygicnic prop
critics Of the apple: Apples eaten inn
mcd'atcly before bed time promote
the health generally. Its diet;cal as
we'll as alimcntary substance is of the
highest order 1t contains more phoS-
phoric acid in an easily digestible
combination than any other vegetable
product. 1t is "a good brain food; (2)
eXcites the functions of the liver; (},
promotes sound and quiet sleep. A
disinfcctS the mouth; % agglutinatcs
the surplus acids of the stomach; 90
paralyzes hemorrhoidal disturbances;
"a helps the secretions of the kidneys
and prevents calculus concretion; 81
obv'ates Indigestion: and 90 is good
preventive against the diseases of the
throat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20

"Chatted food is half digested." Sur
ly diners make dyspeptics. The indi-
vidual who goes to table with bad news
or who introduces horrible. disgusting
or unpleasant topics of conversation
should be led out of the house and de-
MED admission until he repents. Wo-
men who talk about disease, death, do
mcst'cs and their Stun work are most
numerous in the list of offenders
against taste. Simple, wholesome,
nicely served food. eaten slowly, in the
round of merry talk, is the sort of food
that is readily assimilated and that
nourishes the body and brain.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
low Atmospheric Conditions An ct
Brain Workers.

The psychology Of the weather is
suggested by DIR. Il. ID. Crothcrs as il
promising subject for study. He says
n Science: Every few persons rccog-
a ~ the sources of error that come
lirectly from atmospheric conditions
IN cXpcrimenters and observers and
'thrrS. In my own case | have been
lmazrd at the faulty deductions and
misconceptions which were made N
damp. foggy weather. or on days in
which the air was charged with cleo
rely and thunderstormS were i'm
pending. What seemed clear to me
1t these times appeared later to be
iillcd with error. An actuary in Il
.arge Insurance company is obliged to
stop work ut such times. finding that
he makes so many mistakes which he
: only conscious of later that his work
useless. In large factory from
10 to ~ per cent. less work is brought
,ut on damp days and days of thrca-
tening storm. The superintendent. in
receiving orders to be delivered ut Il
certain time, takes this factor into
calculation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
The CamDhor Tree.

While camphor was formerly pro-
duced i'm Sumatra. Borneo. and other
parts of the East Indies. all now
known to the trade comes from Japan
and FormoSa. The camphor tree is Il
large evergreen of symmetrical pro-
portions. somewhat resembling Il In
den. 1t bears Il white flower which
ripens into a red berry. Some of the
trees are fifteen feet in diameter and
Eve to Il great age. A group of trees
in the province Of ToOsa. about Il CEN
fury old. are estimated to be equiv
alent to about 10000 pounds of crude
camphor. The camphor is extracted
from chips taken from the roots or
from the stem near the root the wood
yielding about ) per cent. of the
camphOr. and the root larger pro-
portion. The annual export of Japan
averages about 5.OOO.OO0 pounds. The
forests in Japan owned by the people
are now almost denudcd of timber,
hut the government still possesses
large woods of camphor trees which.
it IS estimated. will maintain full
average supply of the gum for the
next twenty-five years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
The Boil on the Devils Elbow.

One of Florida'S wonders is an i'm
mrnSc volume of water that boils up
i'll the middle of the st. Johns river
AT il place known as Devils Elbow.
on" mile east of palatka. Although
SoundingS have been made at this
place to the depth of 600 feet. no bot
tom has been found. 1t is believed
To be the outlet of Falling Creek. Il
considerable stream that sinks into
the earth eight miles north of Lake
City. in Columbia county. The car
cAS>rS of drowned animals have fire.
quently been known to come up in
this boil, showing that part of the
stream must be above ground. Several
of the oldest citizens in the county
concur in the story that some forty
years ago the carcass of COW was
brown up by this grySrr that bore
the mark and brand of Col. Good
bread. a well-known cattle owner of
Columbia county. at that time. whose
stock used to Craze on the banks Of
Falling Creek
The bed of this underground stream
PASSES directly under Palatka ut Il
depth of 2O1 feet. 1t is tapped along
its course within the city by numerous
artC~ian wells. which throw up Il clear.
331a feet above the level of the streets.
Fly placing the ear to the pipes of
these wells the unmiStakable thunders
of Subtrrranean catarartS are easily
Observation-Disclosures Advertiser.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20

When Lieut.. Schcutzc. of the navy.
went into the arcticS to look for the
survivors of the jeanette party IL
Philadelphia gentleman gave him Il
bottle of 1884 wh,Skey to carry -
Chief Engineer Melville. Thirty-hrer
thousand miles that bottle travelled in
Scheutze's provision bag-along the
entire coast of the Lena delta and
almost twice across the frozen shores
of Siberia. In the meantime Mel
v'llr'S party had come home after sur
fcring exposure that no other human
beings ever endured So Scheulzc
brough. the whiskey back with him
and delivered it to Melville in Wash
ingt0n. 1t remained unopened. an or
nament upon the mantel in his par
lor. and its history was often told.
Then. when Melville joined the Greeley
relief party. he took it along and pres
ented il to Gen. Sabine. But as there
We're plenty of supplies on board 1t
was decided not to open the bottle I'M
til they all got safely home. Then
r?ither them had the heart to attack
such veteran. and it has had an hon
ored place among the treasures of the
Greeley household since. A short time
ago Commodore Melville called upon
the general to congratulate him upon
the birth of daughter. and they de-
cided not to open the bottle until the
young lady's wedding day, when its
contents Will be used to drink her
health and happiness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20

Charlotte went ~ n'"'''r'r he" +"''',t
that evening. feeling tllt she h'l no
right to he forgiven | TIM W.; VA
mother all. and we coaXcd h.'r t. stay:
and so she did. until az; my we'd
dng.-K. NJ. In New York News.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-10-20
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
NOTICE.

A LII persons are hereby warned against
IA shooting, or trespassing for the purpose
of shooting. on the meadows, pastures or
cleared lands of the Consolidation Coal Com
pany, except the rifle range of the Frostburg
Rifle Association.
Persons disregarding this notice will be
prosecuted. B. s. RANDOLPH,
March 81 Mining Superintendent.