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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
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A FINE SAMPLE OF NERVE.
The Means by Which Tutor Inspired His
Pupils With Courage.

An instance of remarkable nerve oc-
CURED Il few years ago when the school
for firemen i'll this city was established
and the men of the fire department were
being trained in the use of the scaling
ladders and the fire nets. The man who
trained the tiremen told the incident
without apparently thinking it an act
much out of the common.
'Wc began to use the fire nets,' he
said, from the first story windows
There is a lsnack i'll jumping into them
so as not to get hurt. | led off by stand
ing OH the window sill, telling the men
how to hold the net, and then jumping
into it. Each man i'll turn would como
up and follow me in the jump. 1t was
very simple at that height, and also
from the second and third story win
dows. We went up a flight each day.
When we had all got used to jumping
into the net from the fourth story, as j
found out afterWard. the men thought
that would do. We'll take the fifth to-
morrow, | had said to them when we
quit that night They thought l was
little off, and that was guying them
So the next day, when we got ready to
begin, and set eight Of them holding
the net, they got nervous. | saw that
when l said: Hold her strong, boys.
I'm going to come down from the fifth
began to get afraid Of them as | went
upstairs. Igot to the fifth floor and peep
ed out Of the window to see if every
thing was all right. The men were all
i'll their places. | didn't dare to get
upon the window sill, as l had done ON
the floors below. 1t might make them
nervous. So just took one more peep
to SEQ if everything was still all right,
put one hand ON the sill and vaulted
out. came down all right, and every
man made the jump after me-
"The nets amt much good to the gen
eral public" continued the trainer,
''but you have no idea of how much
value they arc to the discipline of the
force. Firemen, you know, are mostly
married men, with families, and it
takes nerve for man to plunge into a
house full of flame and smoke when he
has wife and children dependent upon
him, but the net gives him confidence
of safety. He knows now that if his re-
treat is cut off his comrades have the
net below, and that he knows how to
jump into it safely even from the top of
a house. It's a great thing. New
York Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
BREAKFAST IN BED.
This Is the Way In Which to Enjoy the
Height of Luxury.

There is nothing which gives one quite.
the same feeling of luxury and afflu-
ence as breakfasting in bed-that is,
unless one is forced to do it. Then it
seems merely an annoyance. But when
the woman whom unkind fate and do
mestic or business duties usually force
to be up with the lark can lie in bed
and have daintily appointed breakfast
tray brought up to her she feels that
the final joy of sybaritism is hers.
Sunday morning is the best time for
the daughter of toll to indulge in this
luxurious habit If she is churchgo-
ing woman, she may manage by having
breakfast at 9:45 If she desires to be
both pious and lazy, there are those
who compromise by reading morning
service in bed, and their method is per,
haps not to be despised.
The first step toward enjoying this
luxury is to have ones warm bath, hair
brushing and the like. Then slipping
on a bath robe or a dressing sack, the
seeker after luxury should slip back into
bed, adjust her pillows comfortably and
proceed to enjoy her breakfast. 1t
should be an unusually dainty one and
served with the most appetizing regard
for appearances. The tray should be
covered with delicately embroidered
cloth. The china pot in which the coffee
comes up should be as pretty as coffee
pots can be, the sugar basin and cream
jug the very perfection of daintiness.
There should be little glass bowl of
mignonette or violets, or a couple of car
nations, or even some fragrant green
geranium stalks. A bunch of grapes,
duskily purple or pink and opal. coffee
clear as amber and fragrant as only cof-
fee can be, toast, a slice of bacon and
an egg or eggs boiled form breakfast
fit to serve on the pretty tray.
If the woman who breakfasts in bed
will proceed to spend the rest of the
day there, sleeping when she can. read
ing little, entirely undisturbed by the
cares of her household, she will ward
off the approach Of hideous old age half
a cade.-Philadelphia Press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
EarIy Infantry Eouipment,

Among the arms now obsolete which
formed large part of the infantry
equipment in the days when the army
was started was the pike, which was i'll
the form of a spear, with flat and
pointed head, mounted on staff from
13 to Is feet long. The firearm in gen
eral use at the time was the matchbox.
What would sergeant major of the
present day, with his men armed with
the magazine rifle, think of such u
weapon as this: Attached to the lock
of this musket was pan; also cock,
the hammer of which was somewhat in
the form of a birds, serpent's or dogs
head. This head was split, and a screw
compressed or eased the Sits. The piece
being loaded first with powder and then
with ball, some powder was poured into
the pan. The pan was then shut to keep
this printing from dropping out and
to keep it dry. When the soldier wished
to fire, he fastened his burning match
into the slit of the cock, opened the pan,
looked to his printing presented and
pulle \ the trigger. The match, falling
into .he powder in the pan, fired it.
Between the pan and breech of the
barrel communication was established
by means of small hole. When tho
piece was being loaded, the grains of
powder We're naturally rammed and
shaken down close to this hole, and
when priming the soldier took care to
perfect the communication of the pow
der i'll the pan with that in the barrel.
Thus the explosion in the pan caused
the ignition of the charge AL the
Year Round.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Tho LishtwoOd of Florida,

'Lightwood" is one of the most use.
full southern products, especially in
Florida, where it is used by all sorts of
country folk, and particularly by the
hunters. A cordwood stick carried into
the wilderness will cut up into frag-
ments with which dozen meals may
be cooked. The rich, resinous pine
makes quick, hot fire, especially suit
ed to open air cooking. 1t is Florida
tradition that the chief who led the lit
tie band of Seminoles whom the United
States army long failed to run to earth
was Oh the point of agreeing to go with
his people to Indian Territory when
he suddenly asked whether there was
any lightwood i'll that new land, and,
when the answer was no, positively re-
fused to go further with the treaty. He
would not live in land without light
wood. d.-Philadelphia Press
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
COMPETITION IN BABIES.
Wherein n Word to o Wise Papa Ought to
Be Sufficient.

II am getting to be the most bare
the bachelor, land it's all on account
of two little innocent babies. Two of
my friends at the Office have recently
been invested with the honor of pater-
nity-both boys. Prouder papas you
never saw. One of them, Jones, is an
amateur photographer, and the other
day he took picture of his baby and
brought it to the Office.
"Of course you know how intelligent
child of one month looks" continued
the bachelor, stroking his bald head
with the air of connoisseur in infan-
cy, "but the boys in the office were
loyal They swore it was the brightest
looking kid they had ever seen and that
it was the image of Jones.
If it had been any one else's child,
Jones would have knocked somebody
down for the insult, but he took it as a
great compliment and stuck the pic,
ture up i'll frame on his desk
This was too much for Smith-the
other papa. He hasn't any camera of
his own, so he got a young man who
lives next door to come in and take his
baby's picture, and he brought it down
to the office as an opposition to Jones'.
Really I'm sorry for Smith if his baby
looks like that picture, but I rather
think the amateur artist libeled the
child and made it the monster it ap.
pears.
1.-The picture was not focused prop.
erly. 1t represents Smith in the back
ground holding on his knee mammoth
infant nearly as big as he is. The ba-
by's hands are outstretched toward the
camera and look as though they might
belong to Mr.. Fitzsimmons or Mr.. Cor
bett. Smith thought it was beautiful,
and when some one suggested that the
boy looked just exactly like him he or
dered drinks all around and put the pic
ture up on his desk as further opposi-
tion to Jones'.
every time 1 come into the Office ].
have to stop and admire those pictures,
and I'm acquiring great self control by
keeping straight face whenever Jones
or Smith says, And still you will re-
main a bachelor, will you?' New
York Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Eyading the Card Tax,

The treasury department recently
ruled that packs of cards known as "old
maid, authors" and similar games
which are played with cards other than
the regular pasteboards used in dupli-
cate whist, euchre and occasionally
seven up and poker are not subject to the
2 cent duty. Accordingly some wise
manufacturer has issued an "old maid"
pack. 1t consists of a euchre deck, with
the addition of card bearing the visage
of sour looking elderly female, sup
posed to be the old maid. 1t merely
takes the place of the joker and can be
used in the game or not, as the players
please Washington Star.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23

Bishop Wilmer of Louisiana once had
talk with a Baptist minister who in-
sisted that there were several places i'll
the Bible where immersion was unques-
tionably referred to. "Yes, "replied the
bishop. II recall two such instances,
where there can be no doubt as to the
mode One is where Pharaoh and his
host were immersed in the sea and TIE
other where the Gadarene pigs were
drowned in the deep. San Francisco
Argonaut.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
A NEVADA JOKE.
How WaG Played 1t on an Innocent Wis
iting Sportsman.


Nothing can be more interesting in
an ordinary way than the. fate Of practi-
cal jokers. Shooters and sportsmcn gen
orally will appreciate the latest from
Eureka, New. Bent on landing game, a
visitor held forth in his hotel Y ii re-
gard to his ability to bring quail to
earth. Among the audience was wag,
who, being asport himself, was deSirous
of testing the foreigners ability as a
shot
1--WE do not shoot quail" said he,
1--WE bag them, and if you want to go
out you may do so tonight and see bet
ter fun than any gun can furnish. "
Accordingly the sol disant gamester
journeycd out FROM il small hotel in
Nevada to see the extraordinary plan by
which quail could be "bagsed' at night
time. The party walked two miles into
the hills and arranged Il trap by laying
down 30 pieces of candle i'll V shape.
Into this" they explained, 1--WE drive
the quail, ard one of US holds IL sack at
the end of the V. into which the quail
run" By a previous arrangement all
"ttN lis W " NIlO
should have the honor of holding the
sack and securing the birds while the
remainder aid the hard work of beating
them toward the tap
When the point was apparently set
tied, one of the party said: "No, this is
not fair. Mr.. &c - is our guest, and
as such is entitled to hold the sack "
Generously enough, to the boasting
sportsman was given the honor of hold
ing bag bound at the mouth to a hoop
SO as to catch the birds All the others
left to beat up quail. For three hours
the visitor faithfully held that sack, and
when the last candle burned out he
found himself in the midst of lonely
valley, which was full of deserted shafts
and other dangerous holes, two miles
from any house and surrounded by a
darkness which resembles stack of
black cats. When he arrived at this
hotel and found that his cohunters had
been there enjoying the joke for hours,
he simply went to bed and wept. He
sold his gun next morning and left for
California - a state where, he says,
people would not do such thing. "
San Francisco Call
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Hardness of the Grape Myrtle.

Philadelphia is about as far north
as the Grape myrtle proves hardy.
Though killed to the ground, it will
push up and flower like herbaceous
plant Possibly it would give an attrac-
tion to gardens, in this herbaceous way,
much farther north than Philadelphia
Several correspondents write that it is
not always killed down even so far
north as Philadelphia. One at Chestnut
Hill, part d Philadelphia, instances
a specimen, to 6 feet high, which
must have passed several wintesr un-
harmed. -Meehan S Monthly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Talking Through a Human Body.

To talk through human body, or a
row of human bodies, for the matter of
that, is one of the weirdest of the cleo
trician's feats If telephone wire be
severed and the two ends be held by a
person, one i'll each hand, but far apart.
it is quite possible for two individuals
to carry on a conversation through the
body Of the medium as readily and as
distinctly as if the line had been proper
ly connected. ELECTRICITY.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Act In the Present.

Don't keep alabaster boxes of love and
sympathy to break over coffins. Living
is none too sweet at best, and flowers
on the coffin cast no backward fra
GRANGE.
What do the dead care for the tender token,
The love, the praise, the floral offering2
But living, palpitating hearts are broken
For the want Of Just these things.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Veronese's Big Painting.

Veronese loved to represent festive
gatherings ON colossal scale. His
Marriage of Cana" is 30 feet long and
20 feet high and contains 1870 figures.
The most remarkable feature of the
painting is the group of musicians in
front round table. Among this party
Veronese represents Titan, Tintoretto.
himself and other celebrated painters -
Exchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23

Wriggs-Old fellow, you're looking
very rocky. What's the matter?
Jagway-I've got chestnut sorrel
taste in the roof of my mouth and a
chrome yellow taste on my tongue, and
the two don't harmonize. Chicago
Tribune
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Romance at Advanced Prices,

"Marie and George have separated,
you know. Ho told her ono night that
when he was out Of town he always felt
as though he would give SO for just a
word with her -
"Well?"
"And so the next time he went to
New York she put him to the test by
calling him up Oh q long distance tele-
phone and making him pay the bill. -
Chicago Record.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
THE BRIER BUSH.

Like some bare life set thick with thorn,
Hedged hard oy duty, desolate,
1t grew apart, alone, forlorn,
Unsought by beauty, left by fate.
But something passed along that way.
A thought? A smile? A touchP A word
A bit of sunshine through the gray2
A throbbing, lifting, lighting bird2
God knows. But on the morrow morn
That brier was burst of bloom.
Somewhere, mayhap, a soul was born,
There was such incense of perfumel
Not one who passed with interests rife
Had dreamed its wonder unconfessed,
That such bare and lonely life
Held all of beauty unexpressed.
Virginia Woodward Cloud
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23

Alexander the Great, about B. c. 400,
made an attempt to introduce many
Asiatic plants into Europe. Rice was
among the number, but the Greeks did
not take kindly to its cultivation, pre-
ferring to import it from India and
Egypt.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
A SENSIBLE FIR TREE.
Said a saucy little Maple

Said a saucy little Maple
To her cousin, Willow Tree:
"Miss Fir has no new mantle
This spring, like you and me.
"She wears the same old garment
That she's worn since was born.
] should think she'd feel so shabby
With no new bonnet on
AS she tossed her head and nodded
At the Fir Trees old style clothes
Willow laughed-she couldn't help it
AT the turned up, pea green nose.
The Fir Tree, staid and modest,
Answered Maple not word,
Though I'm very sure-yes, certain
Everything was overheard.
She only softly murmured
As she rearranged her clothes,
"1'm glad my friends don't leave me
With every wind that blows"
"A. f. Caldwell in Christian Nation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
Sketch.
IN MISCHIEF.

His lily limbs al limp and lax,
His rosy face as white rs wax,
Love lay just by the rivers brim.
The minnows they were scare d at him,
Till shy sweet Daphne came that way,
Kissed him and cried, "Alack q day!"
Then lie sat up!ight on tie moss. "Uml
But it's fun-this playing possum."
Kate ieit's Washington.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23

The Medical News says that even
sewage water can be converted into
pure drinking water by sand liberation
in filter basins at the rate of 1000, 900
gallons per acre per day.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-03-23
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Editor of the Magazir

have given up literature for the
present and have secured $500 from the
Building and Loan association to make
the final payment due on my house. My
wife positively refuses to read any of
the new books which l bought and has
asked me not to say anything more
about the trip OH the lakes, but for some
reason or other she doesn't seem to re-
gret i'll the least the part of the money
which went for the travelling dress, the
wall papering and the brussels carpet.
j. Hanson Williams in New York
Post
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-14

contradlssinc,ion 10 that no may as.
sumC. ! turned over tho directory ill
! found llackwor,h rood, aud found
TINT No. l07 was inhabited by Mr..
Mcrston. From tho whole thing
Judged this. There WINS to have boon n
meeting at the III. X. shop but that
was found ut tho last moment to DO
watched by tho police for soms pur.
pose. So that another appointmon.
was mado for this house in tho suburbs.
You lst. Then .nieht'-the person
addressed was to como first, and tho
othors In tho evening. Thoy woro to
ask for tho housekecper's straight
moniker'-Mr. Morston. And thoy
wcro to como ono at time.
NOW, thcn, what was this2 VIVA.
theory would tit 1t? Suppose this wcro
n robbery, directed from MAR by tho nd.
vcstiscr. Suppose on tho day OF tho
robbery II was found tho, tho place
iixod 10. division Of spoils wcrc watch.
cd. Suppose that tho principal there.
unon advertised las has already been
agreed in case Of emergency iu these
terms? The principal in the actual
robbery, tho Iob' addressed, was to 90
first. with the booty. The others wero
to come after, ono at Il time. Anyway,
determined to try No. l07 llackworlh
road. ! hnvo told you what | found
there, and how 1t opened my eye,.
went. OF course, merely on chance, TO
SEQ what l might chance to see.
Buck luck favored, aud happened
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-14
THE SHAKERS IDEAS OF MEDICINE.

Now days when man goes to his doctor, no
Il usually told that hO hai some unhCnrd Of
disease With long name. and whom hp leaves
tho office 10 do,S no, know whether N ST
VIZ" dance or con'umptIOn that |, gradually
undermining his health.
II I, therefore ruIfCshln, 10 tall; with tho
Shakers. ios thclt very simplicity commando
confidence aud respect. aud We have tho further
hli'fnctIon OF knowing that they have devoted
themselves to tho study OF disease and It's cure
lot moro than Il bundled years
The ycnefablc old man whom tho wrItsr saw
whSonly too glad to discuss hlSpGt subject Ito
in!d that strange n'It might scCIn, very icwtloc'
tors rcalllod that ,hrcc'Qnnrtoa OF tho most
prevalent diseases were MI attributable to faulty
digestion.
Intelligence Knows That puirid TDnHt or dcCayihg
vegetables htr poisonous, mud must be avoided.
and yet these same foods, oven II taken into tho
stomach In the freshest possible condition soon
dccompqsc unostligcNol aud absorbed
III such ease, tho resulting polS0ns enter tho
system, when aches and pains weakness and de-
billy soon follow RS n natural consequence.
Twas recognition Oi this TINT led the Shakers
10 devote iheir energies 10 the perfection ~ a
product which would stimulate the digestive
OfIaus and nS+s. them to perform their proper
work 900.
Tho first symptom OF dlsordcre,l digestion, Is
lnsy Of appetite, mud the Shaker Dlgutvc Cor
dial Is wonderfully efficient In supplying any
deficiency IN this respect. at the same time II rc'
leycs all distress after eating. Furthermore a'
was carefully explained by our venerable friend,
II is absolutely harmless.
leIter evidence OF tho Shakers confidence IN
II could not he found, than In the inct TINT they
have placed 10 cent sample bottles In tho hands
Otdll drRggl.tS assured that n once tried II will
produce such Immediate aud marked benefit
that II will be continued. d,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-14

Mrs Phoebe Thomas, Of Junction City,
ILL.,, was told by her doctors sho hii
consumption and that thcro was no
hopo for her, but two bottles OF DR..
Kings New Discovery completely cured
her, and she says It saved her lie. Mr..
Thomas Eggcrs. l39 Florida st.. San
Francisco, suffered from dreadful cold,
approaching consumption. tried with.
ont result everything else, then bought
one bottle DR.. Kings New Discovery
and In two weeks was cured. lie is nat.
urally thankful. 1t is such results, Of
which these arc samples, that prove the
wonderful efficacy OF this medicine in
coughs and colds. Free trial bottles at
Logan Drug Co.'S drug store. Regular
size 50c aud Sl.O0. s