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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
Improving.

The coal trade fingered among the
dull and Improbable conditions long
err than any other line of business, but
at last appears to have taken on turn
for the better, and it is hoped that the
good conditions will continue.-Coal
TraIla TOUJ'Dnl
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
Excursion Rates to Atlanta.

On account of the Atlanta Exposition
the b. & 0. r. II. Co. will sell ex-
cursion tickets at greatly reduced
rates. Season tickets will be sold
every day until December 18th, good
returning until January It'll, 1896.
Twenty-day tickets will be sold every
day until December 18th, good return
ing for twenty days from date of sale.
We give below the rates for season
and twenty-day tickets from stations
in this vicinity:
Season. 20, day.
Cumberland. ............... $3.50 S234O
Piedmont. .................. ol.9O 234O
Correspondingly low rates from other
stations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
A Little Too RaDid,

Such position we know the Herald holds,
and holds firmly, and we are glad to believe
that the JOURNAL is reaching out to such a
place, too.-Piedmont CIV. Va.) Herald.
The Herald has been assuming, and
quite correctly, that "a well establish
ed paper must already have a good
circulation" etc.
But isn't it little cool for the
Herald to intimate that "the JOURNAL
is reaching out after place the
Herald occupies, when the JOURNAL
held that place years before the Herald
was born ?
The JOURNAL fears that the scholar
ly editor Of the Herald, in his zeal for
obtaining some sort of precedence for
his merltelious paper, has resolved
himself into an anachronist.
But in time, as in physics, the cart
must not go before the horse.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
An InexcusabIe Omission.

Gov. Browns action in removing
Cairnes and Holland, and leaving
Bians, the head devil. in office, Is an
immense blot upon an otherwise
creditable administration.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
A Walking WOrShipper.

Glove the workingman ?" gurgled
the walking delegate, as he ordered
another strike. why, fairly idleize
him !"-Indiarapolis Journal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
We Should be Proud.

Culpeper has just contracted with Luck &
Palmer, of Roanoke, Va, for water works at
$3l, 79l .32.-Baltimore Neps
People who imagine our water sys-
tenn cost unreasonably high have an
opportunity in the contract figures
above given to make comparison.
Culpeper has population equal to
about one-third of that of Frostburg.
Frostburg's per capita debt on ac-
count of water works is $3.50.
Culpeper's is $19.74.
Moreover, in very many instances
water rents here are very low, consid-
ering the expense the people have
incurred in obtaining the supply.
In Culpeper they will have to be
exorbitantly high to everybody.
Fellow-citizens. we are we'll off
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
Change,

James Little has resigned the super
intendency Of the Big Vein company,
whose mine is north west of Frostburg,
and A. C. Rawlings, of Elk Garden,
w. Va, succeeds him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
Business Wisdom.

Peter Cooper, business man and
millionaire philanthropist, said
In all towns where a newspaper is pub
lished every man should advertise in it, if
nothing more than his card, stating his name
and the business he is engaged in. 1t does
not only pay the advertiser, but lets people at
a distance know that the town in which you
reside is a prosperous community of business
men. As the seed is sown so the crop
recompenses Never pull down your sign
while you expect to do business,
He might have added-rever stop
having your sign carried right to the
centre-tables and fresides of the
people.
A signboard over the door is seen
only by those who pass, while one in
your local paper is seen by hundreds,
some Of whom may be thus induced to
hunt for the one over the door.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12

To nominees for the House of Dele
gates-are you in favor of a law com
polling coal corporations to pay wages
every two weeks ?
Don't say yes, for a similar law,
passed in 1891, has just been declared
unconstitutional in Pennsylvania.
Sleeping Companionship.
Our a. p. A. friends appear to
be engaged in curious business-for
A. p. AS.
Looks like they have Topped and
become A. P. G's.
Their organ in Washington is patting
German and Gormanites on the back
in way that arouses the suspicion
that impetuous Americanism is not
always what it seems.
How true it is that "politics make
strange bedfellows."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
Still Watching the Great PaDpr

The Frostburg (Md.) MINING JOURNAL has
just completed its 24th year. The editor of
the Sentinel was an interested party in the
first publication Of the JOURNAL, and conse-
quently has never lost sight of its useful career
as a local paper, standing, as it does, in the
front rank of the many good papers for
which Allegany county is noted-Harper
Ferry CIV. Na.) Sentinel
The foregoing paragraph is from the
pen Of J. r. Grove, the senior of the
ex firm of Grove & Oder.
From one whose friendship has
known "neither variableness nor
shadow of turning" it is appreciated
above rubes.
The Keyser CIV. Va.) Echo, itself a
most excellent paper, contributes the
following neat paragraph:
The Frostburg JOURNAL, which is really
one of our best exchanges, has just passed its
twenty-tifth birthday. We congratulate it
and wish it many happy returns.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
Let Us Hear.


Has anybody heard from any of
our legislative nominees concerning
their business at Annapolis next win
ter ?-what particular good law or
laws they are going to enact, or what
specially bad law, or laws, they are
going to repeal?
The nominees for governor have
told the people some things they are
going to do, but really the executive
can't do anything in the law line until
the legislature puts business into his
hands.
The JOURNAL understands that there
is hardly man on the legislative
ticket that is not so stuffed with re
form sentiment that it oozes through
pores that have been closed to perspira-
ton for years.
But when it comes to particulars
they are at sea.
This ought not to be the case.
Everyone of these fellows ought to be
able to tell all the people of one or two
purposes,
l, That he expects to be in at least
one designated respect of valuable SER
vice to the people; or
2, That he is merely after the small
pay and, under the circumstances, the
correspondingly small eclat.
Must be a Little Bad.
The undergoing paragraph is now
current:
There isn't a newspaper of any account in
the United States that doesn't offend some
body almost every week. An editor can
please all the people part of the time, but
when he tries to please all the people all the
time he makes a dismal failure of it. 1t is
something that no man has ever yet succeed
ed in doing, and we gave it up long ago.
For that reason, the man who swears about
reporters and editors is liable to attract about
as much attention as he would if he wasn't
OH earth at all
All quite true.
Either by omission or comission
somebody is more or less displeased
with the JOURNAL every week.
But really, people, there are phases
of offensiveness indispensable to
Righteousness, and the paper which
displeases nobody is invariably too
tame to be good.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-12
BreVitieS.

Titus A. Brick tells of man who
umpired a game of ball between
Ursina and lockwood and did his
level best to throw the game to Rock
wood. Now he is out of jail under
bond of $1,000 to keep the peace.
Which is regarded by the Ursina
people as infallible evidence that "God
reigns and that the government at
Washington still lives"
1t is said that w. l.. Douglas, whose
portrait adorns the JOURNAL and
many papers of less note, was elected
mayor of Brockton on the shortest and
strongest platform ever written-''it
pays to advertiser
Hon. w. l.. Wilson will endeavor
to redeem next year West Virginia's
monkey wrench district.
prince Damrong of SIAM" it is
said, has sent his son to Europe on a
prolonged visit" The Prince is, in
other words, the A. P. German of
Siam, but if he We're in Maryland
young Damrong could not go outside
to learn how to inherit the party. He
would have to stay inside if he wanted
to hold on to his name.
A majority desire to be present on
Maryland day has induced the man
agement to postpone the Maryland
editorial excursion to Atlanta from
Oct. IA to Nov. IS. Maryland day is
fixed for Noy. 20.
Titus A. Brick has figures to prove
that young woman who whirls
around a ballroom large as the audi
forum of Meats Opera House during
IS waltzes travels nearly IA miles.
Whether this be correct OF not, it
would be pretty tough job for a
young man to carry 1870 or l45 pounds
half the distance in any other shape.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06

A smooth looking stranger recently
placed number of penny -in-the-slot ma
chimes in a certain town. The machines
bore the following inscription:
1.-THE greatest known aid to digestion
Drop penny in the slot. Push, then
pull"
AT the top of the machine was handle
to be pushed, then pulled, and many
townspeople who could not resist tho
temptation of trying some new device, for
the same reason that Timothy took tho
wine-"for his stomach's sake"-dropped
in their pennies and took a push and pull
out of the machine. But that was all. No
result followed and there was some talk
of blowing open the boarded treasure.
AT the end of the week the agent reap
peared, unlocked the machines, garnered
the wealth and retired after explaining
that Exercise was the greatest thing for
digestion in the world" The crowd was
SO paralyzed that the agent escaped un-
harmed -London Tit-Bits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06
WAS A RACE FOR LIFE.
The Railroa0er Had Close Call with n
Band of Piegan Indians.

In August of 1866 I was running bull
train between Helena and Fort Benton
After going about two miles | shot an old
doe antelope accompanied by two fawns,
and l determined that l would have all
hrce of those animals and gave chase, fir
ing whenever l could get within range
until l had exhausted my ammunition.
This was before the days Of breechloading
guns. l finally got the two fawns and
tied them on behind my saddle and started
to catch up with the train" l was as
much as six miles behind without cap
or bullet, only two empty six shooters and
q rife. 1 noticed that my saddle pony
Kept turning to the left. Finally looked
over that way myself and could see the
head and shoulders of u person down in
the coulee. l spurrcd into q gallop and in
% moment could sec that there were eight
persons instead of one, and also that they
were Piegan Indians in full war paint and
feathers.
They Immediately gave chase, and for
the next six miles occurred one of the most
exciting races that l ever took part in,
Seeing that the weight of the fawns was
telling on the speed of my horse, I cut
them loose and at the same time threw
away my ovcrcOat, and taking the ram
rod out Of my rifle used it rs whip and
gained Il little on my pursuers.
The last two miles of the race were in
plain view of the train. The train halted
and | supposed that one of the drivers
would como 10 my assistance. But no re
lief came They dropped their whips and
their jaws at the Same time and waved
their hats and hands and halloood "Runr'
] was doing tie best | could. Tho Indians
chased me tc within about $50 yards Of
The train, whS'n Bob Chestnut, now of the
Chestnut valley, came in sight from the
direction of Sun river and opened fire on
the Indians. They stopped chasing me
and ran the ether way. 1t never occurred
10 the drivers that they had guns until
after Mr. Chestnut commenced firing
sun River Sun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06
A COMMON CAUSE OF SICKNESS.
IN WARM WEATHER NOTHING SO
DANGEROUS As DECAYED FOODS.

Every one knows or ought to know that
dscayed foods are poisonous. Boards of
Health seek to prevent their sale.
We now have in mind tho results which
follow the decay and decomposition Of
foods after they have been eaten, for un-
less digestion occurs within n reasonable
lime after our meals. decomposition sets in.
II dysptptics will stop and consider for
moment some of the symptoms Of their
trouble. such as disagreeahle breath, eructa-
lions OF gas or bad taste in the mouth,
they VIII understand that they all must
come from deoaying foods that ought prop
| eriy to have been absorbed into the system.
spots before the eyes, dizziness. Sleep
iessness. dyspeptic headaches arc but
lew OF the effects following the absorption
| INTO the blood of poisons developed from
accomplishing and undigested food that lies
| in the stomach
~ was q recognition If this important
| iact That caused the Mount Lebanon
| ohaNers 10 devote so much of their time
| 10 iho preparation OF remedy for dyspep-
sla, and nothing is moro efficient than
the Digestive Cordial which they have re-
Gently placed on tbe market.
Its action Is so prompt that relief fire.
qucntly follows the very first doe 1t re.
stores the appetite and increases the
weight PtUmpGess and strength take
the place Of weakness and thst carc-worn
expression which point, cut The dy speptics
in every community. Tho LEGAL druggists
are nov giving away interesting dcscrip-
tive pamphlets.
Try twenty five cent bottle Of hi
gcstivc Cordial and see what il viii do
for you.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06
The Nan WITH tho roo,haehe.

A man with the toothache doesn't care
about anything else. The glories of the
world pail on his taste, the wonders OF
creation seem as naught.
The tooth becomes a volcano of belching
fury and the rest of life hidden in a cloud
of its billowing smoke.
You can't borrow anything from man
with the toothachc. You can't Instruct
and improve him. You tell him that the
world travels at the rate of 1000 miles a
minute, and it doesn't startle him in the
least. He simply groans.
You say to him, Ny friend, there are
stars so far off that their light has not yet
reached this world, )" but he doesn't mind
it, He only howls.
You tell him that some of the sun spots
are 100, 600 miles in diameter, and that one
of them would take in Jupiter at one
mouthful, but it is nothing to him; the
toothache is neglectful of scientific truths
london Tit-Bits.
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The N'atchmaEer's Euitaph.

Tho following curious inscription to the
memory of George Routlcigh watch
maker by trale, occurs in the churchyard
Of l4ydford, Devon:
Here les in horizontal position
The outside case
George Routleigh,
whose abiding in that line
was an honor
To His Profession
Integrity was his handspring and prudence
the regulator of all the actions of his life
Humane, generous and liberal
His hand never stopped till he had relieved
distress.
Sincerely regular We're his motions.
He never went wrong
Except when set going
By People
who did not know his key;
Even then he was easily set right again.
He had the art of disposing Of his time
so well
That his hours glided in one continual round
of pleasure and delight
Till an unlucky minute put an end to his ex-
istence.
he departed this life
November, 1902.
Wound up
In hope of being taken in hand
By his Maker
And of being thoroughly cleaned repaired and
set a-going
In the world to come.
Notes and Queries.
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THE JAPANESE MEMORY.
We Have Ncthing Like 1t In These West
ern Regions.

The Japanese memory is one of the Won
ders of the country. For example, 1t Ii
the custom to number the houses on a
street in what you may call their chrome
logical order instead of their sequence
that is, in the order of their crection-so
that No II may adjoin 900 on one side
and 20 on the other. No. l may be three
miles from No. . and No. 10 midway be-
tween them. In the city of Tokyo there
are l, $50 streets and by the last census
3lS, 800 houses, which are divided into Is
ku, or wards.
When a street passes through moro than
one ward, the houses are nuIS bcred indie
pendently, so there may be''1iVe or SIX
numbered 90 and eight or ten numbered 2,
perhaps miles apart. Therefore when q
stranger sets out to find 217 Matomara
machl, which is the name of the street,
ana Azubu, the name of the ward, IN
which our friend, Tsuda Sen, who was a
commissioner to the Chicago exposition,
lives he might as we'll look for needle in
a laystack
After hunting for three or four hours
and finding seven or eight houses with tho
same number on the street six or eight
miles apart he will sit down in the nearest
teahouse and cry or curse, as the case may
be, until he gets cooled off. Then he will
hire jinrikisha man, write the address
on piece Of paper and go whirling up and
down the streets and alleys, around cor
ners and through short cuts until he is
landed at the proper place without the
slightest physical, mental or moral dam
age
The Jlnrlkisha men are coolies without
education or mental training Most of
them can read and write the names of
streets and men and merchants and fac
tories They know the location and the
number OF every one of the 31S. 500 houses
in Tokyo and the name of almost every
one of the l, 800, 900 inhabitants. They
are very seldom puzzled to find an address,
even though it may DO given incorrectly
and If you will tell them accurately where
you want to go they will take you without
the slightest delay or hesitation.
The same phenomenal memory appears
in other classes Of thepeoplc, and you have
to be careful about telling a japanese gen
tleman the same story twice This is the
result of centuries of training But the
reasoning powers have had no such cxer-
cise.-Chicago Record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06
THE SWORD SWALLOWER.
Ey Gradual Practice lie Forces the Blade
Beyond the Stomach.

Ey Gradual praCtlce he foItes LAC xSiAhe
Beyond the Stomach.
The main thing, Of course, is to know
how, and then TO get your internal arrange
ments into the right condition. An army
officers sharp fighting sword would cut
the ordinary csophagus and that's the sort
Of sword swallow. l know it is common
" believed that my swords have round,
dull edges, but that is not true. Ionce
lad a test at a military station in Texas
and United States officers furnished the
swords. ! swallow anything but razors
Il draw the line at razors.
But YOU want to know how to begin.
Well, you would better start by swallow
inr a silver wire about six inches long
That will keep you busy for some time,
learning not to gag. A silver wire is what
began on about years ago. You should
get DOCTOR too and pay him by the
week. He will cure your throat as fast as
YOU make it raw and irritated, and he
may give you preparation to harden it.
After you have perfected yourself in
running the wire down your throat you
can get u small sword with smooth edges,
but don't let it be made of soft iron. was
laid up for two months swallowing cheap
iron affair. 1t ought to be of steel or silver
plated, and about ten inches long That 5
enough to begin on, although [ swallow
20 inches. Where does it go? Well that Is
the question. There are some things l
don't understand about it myself. The
doctors at Rush Medical college were pUz-
zled when l exhibited before them awhile
ago They said the canal wasn't long
enough or big enough around to take in
the "A sword blades, but they had to ad-
NIT what they saw There is one thing
cortain-thc blade goes beyond the stom-
ach Some think it enters the pyloric
valve. but it is my opinion that it presses
the stomach down so that it lies against
the rear wall in the lower part Of the alb
dominal cavity.
OF course have to be careful, or
might hurt myself. Once | met with an
accident and was laid up for a long time,
1 was exhibiting before some doctors, and
swallowed one sword too many. The ply
sicians saw | was in trouble and one OF
them-contrary to my specific instructions
seized the whole bundle Of swords and
pulled thcm out at once. was badly LAGER
ated internally, but got over it.
One of the difficulties in swallowing
watches or swords is the breathing. The
windpipc is compressed and have to hold
my breath almost completely for minute
and half. Sometimes l can get little
air, but not much.-Chcago News.
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Pockets.

The rise and fall of the pocket Is very
interesting study. Eve had mono in her
apron-a good argument for those who
contend that we will eventually get back
to the original state of affairs Undoubt-
edlv the forcfather of the modern pocket
was the hunters bag, rudey fashioned
from skins. The Greeks and the Romans
knew only this detachable pocket, but
then. who ever thinks of Greek or Ro-
man carrying anything but dagger or
scroll of manuscript? 1t would seem rs abb
surd to think of Caesar jingling bunch
of office keys as it would to imagine Gre
clan maiden, in flowing robes, cooking n
substantial dinner OF potatoes and cab
bage.
The word pocket Is derived from the
French, and signifies pouch or bag. AT
first. women wore them tied around their
waists. under their gowns, an opening III
the skirt corresponding with ono 10 Tine
bag. Frequently there were two OF these,
hung. like John Gilpin's bottles, 'on each
side. to make the balance true. "
oh. little maid, who bushes TO think
that she once smoked cigarette, your
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES carried snuffbox in
that ungainly pocket Yes, and knitting
shield. and calamus root, and several 9th
err things which you have nevsr even head
of. -Washiugton Star.
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A Pretty Tritie.

A pretty article for hanging beside the
bureau to hold the buttonhook and other
small articles is made of one of the wood
en- eggs used in stocking darning AT
equal distances around the center screw in
four of the small brass hooks such as are
used on bangle boards; then paint the egg
white and decorate with tiny flowers and
attach q ribbon to two opposite hooks to
hang it by. The egg may be gilded instead
of painted If preferred.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06

City and County.
New Corporations.

The following new corporations fled
their certificates with the secretary Of
State, Thursday.
The American Waltham Manufacturing
Company, organized at Kittery, for the
purpose of manufacturing, letting and
selling bicycles. Capital stock, $500, COO,
of which 5000 is paid in. President, Her
bert l.. Thompson of Waltham, Mass.
treasurer, Elmer G. Howe of Waltham,
Mass.
The Sunrise Mining and Milling Com
pany, organized at Augusta, for the pur-
pose and of carrying on mining and
milling business. Capital stock, $50 600,
of which $500 is paid in. President,
Warren c. Philbrook Of Waterville; treas
urer Philip II. Borden of Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06

A method of preserving the colors Of
dried flowers, even the most delicate pep
pies, has been discovered by Herr Men
haus, q German chemist Ammonia in
the air is the main cause of flowers losing
their tints, SO Herr Nienhaus presses his
specimens between paper which has been
previously saturated with a solution of
per cent Of oxalic acid in water. This acid
can be obtained at Il tritling cost from
any chemist and druggist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-06
Ancient Collars.

The linen collars that appear so often
on monuments and are mentioned in the
literary works of two centuries ago We're
called bands. They were either made to
stand out straight with starch or setting
sticks or were allowed to fall over the
shoulders. The modern form of the band
may be seen in the peculiar collar worn
by many Episcopal and Catholic clergy
mon