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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
THE MAKING OF THIEVES.
A Significant Increase In the Numbe. OF
Child Criminals.

There has surely been of late very
greatand significant increase in the num-
ber of child criminals that are brought
to our police courts. There are moro of
them, and they are much younger than
they used to be, and they are vastly
tougher. Their manner shows plain
ly that the street has been their teacher,
and that they have been apt pupils. It's
method is simple and varies in Hell's
Kitchen and in Jewtown only in the
opportunities offered. To begin with,
the boy idler in the street during school
hours is there in defiance of law, wheth-
er the fault is his own or not, and he
knows it. He is in the attitude of op-
position, the normal attitude of the
street. The policeman is his enemy, and
the policeman stands for the establish
ed order of things.
Thus the groundwork is laid for
whatever mischief comes along 1t is
not long i'll coming, rarely longer than
the dinner hour of the first day. The
boy is hungry. He wants something to
eat. A boys hunger is not like mans,
which can be appeased with promises
He wants something at once. If he is
playing hooky, he does not want to go
homo to get it. Anyway there is no
need to do so. The street can show him
an easier way. A grocer's stand is
handy, or a pie wagon; better still, a
soda water wagon. The bottle is worth
SO much cash at the junkshop. The
drivers back is turned. The boy
"swipes'' one
1t is not very great crime, but it is
the stepping stone to many greater. A
horse blanket OF a copper bottomed boil
er may be the next thing 1t is the
first step that costs an effort, and that
not very great one, with the clamor
of hungry stomach to drown the warn
ing voice within him that whispers of
the policeman and the lookup. The
friends he makes in the street soon help
him to contempt for the one and se-
cret pride in the other. Jacob A. Riis
in Century.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Nature Pursues a Liar.

''The forces of the universe are in
league against lie," says Emerson,
and what his terse, penetrating pen
would find to say where the lying in
wolves perhaps mortal danger to human
beings we will not presume to say, but
will illustrate our meaning as follows:
In December, 1887, child that had
died i'll Connecticut of diphtheria was
brought to Pittsfield, Mass, for burial
The parents came with the body to a
house i'll Pittstield, and apublic funeral
was held. Within a week and while
the parents of the child still remained
as visitors at the house child who
lived in the house was taken ill with
diphtheria and died. Then came a hu-
initiating confession from the Connect
icut parents. They said that the symp-
toms of the second child were just like
those of their own and finally acknowl
edged that arrangements had been made
with the physician in attendance upon
the case to write certificate of death
by bronchitis instead of diphtheria.
Other cases followed in the same house.
philadelphia Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Electric Current In the ooi1t,

A new invention, called by its invent
or the thermogen, consists of a quilt
containing coil of wire bent in the
fashion of gridiron, inclosed in insu.
lating and nonconducting material, and
imbedded in cotton, wool or other soft
substance with silk or woolen cover
ing.
The resistance offered by the coil to
the flow of an electric current through
the wire produces heat in the same way
that heat and eventually light are pro-
duced in the ilament of the glow lamp.
A uniform temperature of about 150
degrees F. Is thus maintained, but in
the event of the temperature rising be-
yond that point from increase of pres
sure in the electric mains fuse in
stantly melts and automatically shuts
off the current The quilt may be read
lily attached to ordinary incandescent
lamp terminals. London Lancet.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
SOME PEOPLES RELIGION.
Marion Crawford Writes q Pointed Little
Lecture on Intolerance.

, AAeCIuTe oh AuIOleTduCes
There are very good and devout men
and women who take the world-pres-
ent and to come-quite literally, as %
mere fulfillment of their own limita
tions; who look upon what they know
as being all that need be known, and
upon what they believe of God and heav-
Ell as the mechanical consequence of
what they know, rather than as the
cause and goal, respectively, Of exist
tence and action; to whom the letter of
the law is the arbitrary expression of a
despotic power, which somehow must
be looked upon as merciful; who answer
all questions concerning Gods logic
with the tremendous assertion of Gods
will; whose God is magnifed man,
and whose devil is malignant animal,
second only to God in understanding,
while extreme from God in disposition.
There are good men and women who
to use a natural but not flippant
simile-take it for granted that the soul
is cast into the troubled waters of life
without the power to swim or even the
possibility of learning to float, depend
ent upon the bare chance that some one
may throw it the life buoy of ritual re-
ligion as its only conceivable means of
salvation. And the opponents of each
particular form of faith invariably take
just such good men and women, with
all their limitations, as the only true
exponents of that especial creed, which
they then proceed to tear in pieces with
all the ease such an undue advantage
of false premise gives them. None of
them has thought of intellectual mer-
cy as being perhaps an integral part of
Christian charity. Faith they have in
abundance, and hope also not little;
but charity, though it be for mems
earthly ills, and theoretically, if not al
ways practically, for mems spiritual
shortcomings, is rigidly forbidden for
the errors of mems minds. Why? No
thinking man can help asking the little
question which grows great in the un-
answering silence that follows it.-Mar-
ion Crawford III Century
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
SHOSHONE FALLS.
Phenomena Which Give Rise to Stories
About This Wonderland

Phenomena Which Give Rise to Stories
About This Wonderland.
Strange stories are told of phenomena
that appear at the Shoshone falls. Some
times when the air is perfectly still the
spray arises several hundred feet above
the walls of the canyon and can be seen
on the plains at a considerable distance.
Then for days and weeks at u time there
is scarcely any spray at all. Often the
whole canyon around the falls will be
filled with spray, and every bark and
rock will drip with moisture Again it
will be as clear as a frosty night under
the same conditions from influences mat
no one has been able to discover or ex-
plain.
Often above the monotone of the fall
ing waters weird sounds may be heard
unlike any that were ever named and
can be compared to no other, and again
from time to time a sudden throbulng
is audible. measured by regular inter-
walls, like the beating of a human pulse.
These, too, proceed from no apparent
cause, and science has been unable to
solve their MYSTERY.
At the crest of the highest rock III the
center of the Shoshone falls is the nest of
an eagle, and for "a years the same bird
has come regularly on the 26th, 27th
or 2Sth of March to repair and reoccu-
py it and raise a brood of young. Char
ley Walgomet first noticed her when he
located here in 1860. The nest was
standing then, and as long as he lived
there, until five years ago, he kept IL
record of her temperance. She never
varied more than three days in her az
rival. Since his time the record has
been kept by others, who testify to the
same regularity.
The spray from the falls carries "a
sediment which clings like frost to the
windows of the little hotel and can be
scraped off with knife. Mr. Keller,
who keeps the place, says that they
clean the glass every spring by laying
the sashes flat and pouring upon them Il
solution of vinegar and salt. After they
have soaked for three or four days the
coating can be wiped off with cloth,
but i'll a few weeks the glass is covered
again, as if it was frosted. The scrapings
look like the dust of lime The same
sediment clings to the leaves of the
trees and vegetables that arc grown
around the place and can be scraped OF
the rocks and the face of the bare clay.
Chicago Record.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

Washington was neat and careful in
his dress, but not the least inclined to
foppishness. Whatever he made use of
or wore he wished to be in good taste
and the best of it's kind. He was fond
of children, considerate of the feelings
of others, kind and liberal to servants,
punctual to engagements, circumspect
in his intercourse with people in gener-
al. painstaking and explicit in his bust
ness transactions. A memorandum in
his journal of 174S gives minute direc-
tions to his tailor, which begins as fol-
lows: Have my coat made by the fol-
lowing directions, to be made Frocke
with Lapel Breast" etc. The memo.
randum is long and very specific in its
directions.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
FORDlNG A CHINESE RIVER.
Pits Dug In the Streams Bed by Guide
to Trap the Unwary.


Traversing the country from south.
west to northeast and in pouring rain,
we visited the villages of Si-kou- -ying,
Hao-kwei-ying and Sang yein Here tho
women, dressed in their best clothes,
stood watching us on the doorsteps,
which would have been quite pretty
sight, with their multicolor jupons and
trousers, had the effect not been partly
spoiled by the horrible deformity of
their feet squeezed into microscopic
shoes. possess pair of these shoes as
worn by mandarin's wife, and the
length of them is only inches. Toward
noon VIC reached Ya-lo-wan, on the
bar Il the Hungh no river, miserable
VII age on minuscule hill of yellow
earth. The river had to be waded.
A Chinaman-a beggar, I thought
volunteered to take animals and men
safely across for sum of money, for he
said there were large holes in the river
bed, in which our animals would have
lost their footing had we crossed by
ourselves. would not employ him, as
l hate to be imposed upon by humbugs,
and knowing the little way which these
gentlemen have Of digging large holes
on purpose in the river bed while dry in
summer, so as to extort money from
timid travellers, I proceeded to "sell'
him.
guided my mules not right across
the water, for the holes are generally
dug where most unaware people are
likely to cross, but few yards farther
up, therefore landing every one safe
Oh the other side, with the exception of
one donkey, who, in strict similarity
with all the evil spirits of China. insist
ed on going on his own account in
straight line in front of his nose, with
the result that when he reached the
middle of the stream he fell into one
of the holes, and with the weight of the
load he was carrying disappeared. Only
the point Of his ears could be seen wag-
ging out of the water. The holeman, if
may call him so, who had eagerly
been watching for this, ran in the wa
ter to his rescue and saved his life, for
which act duly rewarded him. Fort
nightly Review.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
-~--~-----
Che perilS of Politics.

"My friend,' said the candidate for
sheriff of Cheyenne, drawing a one eyed
stranger close to his means of liveli-
hood, edo you want to make So easy to-
night?'
yep"
"All right When 1 say in my speech,
is there a man among you who will de-
ny this statement?' you jump to your
feet i'll the rear of the hall and shout:
Yes, sir, l will. You are a liar and l
can provo it!' and read from this clip
ping. Then l will call you down and
make you ridiculous, but you will get
the V nevertheless. Is it go?'
"Nope."
"Why not:"
81 tried the same thing in Butte City
a year ago, and the candidate jumped
on me so hard that the audience kicked
me out of the hall and rode me out of
town on rail. didn't get the S. Ell
ther. Try it on some one else. I've
been there. boston Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Rocks That Float In Water.

A geologist who is well up in his
business can name dozen or twenty
different specimens of rocks and miner
ais that have less specific gravity than
water, and which will, if tossed into
that element, float on the surface HUI
belite is one of the best known repre-
sentatives of that class. The common
pumice stone is another example. The
rock with the very least specific gravity
known is ''damari," a substance found
in all extinct volcano in Damaraland.
Its atomic weight is .5, or exactly one
half that Of hydrogen. st. Louis Re-
public.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Digestible Food.

One of the biggest mistakes about
food which people make is to forget
that the true value of food to anybody
is the measure of its digestibility Half
pound of cheese is vastly more nour-
ishing, as regards its mere composition,
than half pound of beef, but while the
beef will be easily digested and thus be
of vast service to us the cheese is put
out of court altogether for ordinary
folks by reason of its indigestibility.
We should bear this rule in mind when
we hear people comparing one food with
another i'll respect to their chemical
value. e.-London Hospital.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

A gentleman once stopped his gig at
the door of shop. Entering the shop.
he left the dog on the seat Of the gig.
The horse took fright at something and
bolted off down the street, dragging the
reins on the ground. The dog at once
jumped down and seized the reins in
his teeth. Although he was pulled along
for some distance, he kept pulling
against the runaway horse till he man.
aged to bring it to standstlll. .-Fami-
ly Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
The POETS MUSE.

Ere you dawned upon my vision
With your "azure orbs divine"
In the meads and groves elysian,
! consorted with "the nine"
Underneath the supple hickory
In the woodland would WOO
Clio or the gay Terpsichore
Or the sweet Erato sue.
Then Calliope upon me
Cast the glimmer of her look,
Or was it Euterpe won me
With her accents like brookp
Grave or gay, my heart elastic
Seemed as each beguiled my view.
But it's Seased to be so plastic
Since put my eyes on you.
Be not marble to the tender
Protestations that you hear.
Let a "yes" in soft surrender
Fall upon the poets ear.
1t is modesty that smothers.
How mo" my breast would bruise!
I'll go back on all the others
If you'll only be my muse.
Harry Pelouze in Detroit Free Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
A CALLER FOR Mr.. DE MEDIcI.
An American Art Lover Who Proposes to
See Him In Person.


There is lady tuft hunter in an up
town boarding house who has the for.
eign title fever of the most pronounced
type She paralyzes the other roomers
by the easy, matter of fact way in
which she tells the names and titles of
her distinguished callers. One night it
was the Prince Bombastes Deadbeati
The night before it was the "Dook'
Indebto, and the next night it will be
the Count Freakivitch. She has been
across our great salt water privilege
several time and has contracted the
broad gauge style of numbering the
English language. There is reason to
believe that she bewails her fate at hav-
ing been born in plebeian America
The other evening while her parlor was
filled with princes, potentates, "dooks,"
counts and bald heads in the absence of
crowned heads she incidentally remark.
ed that on her next visit to civilization
she would get more works of art and
among them work of "Venus de Me-
dici."
"You must be varee particulare and
not let the Paris clever venders sell you
ze imitashion," said "dook" by way
of precaution.
"Oh, shall guard against that"
she replied gayly: 81 shall call upon
Mr.. de Medici himself, can get let
ters of introduction to the greatest art
lists in Europe
And then there was silence like
that before storm, and the titled ad-
mirers of the tuft hunter could scarcely
conceal their laughter. York
World.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Mars.

In a paper on Mars published in
Natura ed Arte Professor Schiaparelli
says that it has an atmosphere charged
with water vapor. In spite of this, how
ever. he thinks that it rarely rains, but
that water ciroulates through canals
back and forth from one pole to the
other, this circulation being accompa-
MED by extraordinary periodical floods
which at every revolution of Mars inun-
date the polar region at the period Of
the melting of the snow.''
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Milk.

1t is strange that with all the scien-
tific tests applied to milk inspection there
is no recognized standard of the purity
of milk. Science cannot as yet distin.
guish the difference between watery
milk from a poor COW and good milk
adulterated with water. The cheap
grades of condensed milk are generally
skimmilk, and even the best is not as
nutritious as fresh milk. Pomona
(Cal. Progress.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
TO FROWL, MY CAT.

You are lifc's true philosopher,
An epicure of air and sun,
An egoist in sable fur,
To whom all moralists arc one
You hold your race traditions fast.
While others toll you simply live,
And, based upon n stable past,
Remain sound conservative
You see the beauty of the world
Through eyes of unalloyed content
And, in my study chair upcurled,
Move me to pensive wonderment.
wish / knew your trick of thought,
The perfect balance of your ways.
They seem an inspiration caught
From other laws in older days.
Your padded footsteps prowl my room
Half i'll delight and half disdain.
You like this air of studious gloom
When streets without are cold with
rain.
Some day, alasl you'll come to die,
And shall lose u constant friend.
You'll take your last look at the sky
And be puzzle to the end.
&C. X. b. in London Spectator.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Clothes and Their Wearer.

1t is curious how clothes become
stamped with the wearer's personality.
Just as shoes and gloves adjust them.
selves to the wearer, hats take ON &
something that instinctively reminds
one of the wearer. 1t is curious, but it
is so
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

''Did the colonel ever pay you that
bill he owed you?"
Never"
whats he doing now?"
President Of a collection agency" -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Have You a House
THAT IS NOT INSURED?

THAT Is NOI 1NSUREDp
T F so, you want to place policy on it to-
l. day or tomorrow before you dine.
You want the risk taken, too by a standard
company, such as d. P. MILLER of Cumber-
land. represents. ANY policy is good until
fire occurs, but then it is you want pledge
of indemnity worth its face in gold.
Rates not quite as low as wildcat figures,
but the lowest consistent with certain and
perfect indemnity iu event of loss. Apply to
]. B. ODER,
Dec1 JOURNAL Office, Frostburg Nd.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

"a Teacher Ito Bainbridge STREET boy)-
Now, if you have a meal at 12 O'Clock
what do you call it,.
Luck" said the boy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.

In addition to above Train No. leaves
Piedmont ut S:t5 Il. IN. : arrives at Frostburg nj
lO:51 H. M, and Train No. 3. leaving FToStburg
at l:i5 p. m, reaches Piedmont at lbs p. m.
both trains stopping at all intermediate
stations.
NOn theatre NIGHTS. when admission ticket
~" sold by A:cntS to performance at theatre
!etNc' 'nn'icriund at CLOSE ri performance.
All trains stop N Hays street station. Cam
bcriand.
Nos. !, :. ., I. : and DAILY. except ~uuIi,
N">.a . aud Il 'IIc.days, Thursdays ami >Htu,
days oaiv.
3a%Ea2c will be huioI ON trains No.
'Hht T.. l.. ". HAND .Tb&.
Jan T. Sup"tinttlrt,u
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

46 and Al still cary passengers.
No. IL is local train from Cumberland to
Pittsburg and No IA from Pittsburg to Cum
berland Nos, and make 3stops each way
II. T. ALLEN,
Jan II Agent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

No lIt-Baltimore Express arrives. 2:l5 II
T. 6-Limited " 1870 D NJ
" 14-Nail " l2.5O n n,
" 6i-Cumberland Exp " dali
ly except Sunday. 7:40 pm
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16

fiF #t~lH''t
No. . TNr.,s> :,
13 - No ~. 1rZ
''.,a No Pas
"!S Nn t, pre.. . 81
l. ''P No. II Bate x Wa,. 2..r,i,
\'.. ~ u,rs> - at.
8 is pm ...No. HI EX,ne-s*... i 2S ,,u.
II Tsp III No, 1 Express IL 30 pa
l:2u pm \u - \,t'nm u,iatiOh
Arrive wEsTBoUNp I.e,,v.
l2:3 p IN -...No. I Express.... l2:45 p d"
LOS II III No. 9 Express =.
All a IN No. 3 Express -. 800 d
No II Accom- odation 7:15 IL II
9.2l Il m No Al Express $50 Il II,
II Is m No Ii Accom- o,latun
4.O5 pm mo II Passenger.
No l5 Pirdm't & Way 4:05 p m
$50 pm No. Express.
7:44 M mo l Express. -. S:O4 p m
*Daily except Monday
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-16
PittSbu1.g Division.

WESTBOUND.
No. 9-Pittsburg Express leaves .1:l5 1t
" 63-Cumberand '' g dali
lv except Sunday .6:3n II
l1-Mall leaves 2:30 pm
5-Chicago Limited. m 400 p m
New-York tribune., 1895-07-28
SOCIAL INCIDENTS AT LAKE HoPAIcoN"

Lake Hopatcong July - (SpeciaD.-The registry
list of guests at the Hotel Bresiin mas eA'e"oea
hevond the 2oo limit. which . remarkably large TOT
mis- uncertain season. The most important incident
~ the week was the dinner given at the bgesl"
on Tuesday evening by Maximiien de Meek sec'e-
tarv OF the Russian Legation at washington, !"
honor OF A. Alarovsky. Russian Consui a' ->e"
York who is staying al the Lake VIEW 'esV'"'
entertainments are scheduled for the next ie" uays'
,ro-morrow evening a sacred concert will be given
q, the Breslln on the evening ot August VIC
oo,orad walters at the Bresln will entertain the
c,,os,s with 4 minstrel show August mas oeeh
decided on as the time for Mr. Eppinger annus'
subscription ball This always draws ou' '
able assemblaee and promises TINS year 10 70
largely attended The Hopa;cong Field Cluos o"ee-
hall nine played It's first game this week VIII" s"'
Dover club and scored victory o. 10 . my
Dosl, Guests have subscribed 800 10 UNIFORM 'no
baseball nine OF the Tampa Bay Hoie' tha' sly
themselves Orange Blossoms secretary -
Neck of the Russian Legation mas ar arr
the Tr,indy cottage for the rest OF 'he se"''
and with his family dimes at the Bres.h' "''
Eddy Of Ncw-York. has taken the Monroe eot''Be'
Tho black bass experts are keeping a close iooA'
an, and the records OF The week include some '"o'
three and four Founders: Dr sea9aTy. on m',os INK
rockingham and their guides Fam n, ~a' mo has,,
The driving boating, bath.as ana s.ae -, & hv ma
devotees while all sorts OF crait that moE % s rs,,
or steam power are TO be FOUND On '"e '""e ."
numbers. , pros,i, include Mss 4.
,,oan na,e Eath DUNLAP Miss A. Mcintosh Mrs L.
i: LOngsreet p p Jenkno no, Me- FRANKIE pT T.
Mr. hsdbanrne. ana % Miss Chadbourne. H. L. Walker.
Mr. c Miller: Mr and Mrs x sSaSry erny "' q Pea.
body MISS Hn9sSs Mcoyern. Mrs John Aearew: Julius
Hrsch, H. NJ Steele. ~ Keymer' MT MTu,Itins Itn and
= HrsS r. SSeayns SnwYcrk 70 Mr. and Mrs p Bossrt Mr.
and Mrs james Jcurd2n. Mss J91raam, a,,rian M Mr.
and Mrs j. r Cicuscr J. Lucas jr L. Ne'ssy sni
James Rice jr. Mr.. and Mrs f. H. 1ou'"'' "''
The Russian ConsuGencral one 1, OK 'ne ceueer,
., o. IN th hon III, of the Woodhaven sufferers ~ WIZ
he nnder tho direction of Alexander lanoer< ~ ~
New-York. and will be given by puphS VI '"' '''"
| York College OF Music.