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MONEY.
MONEY TO LOAN.
GROCERIES. ETC.

SARATOGA Chips. Parker House rolls, Bos
- ton brown bread and baked beans. RalStOn
health bread. cottage cheese. pressed chicken
steamed and baked ham, veal loaf and pee
rolls country butter and fresh eggs. and a full
line of the finest groceries. ID. Harvey, corner
Eighth and Topeka ave.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
HE HAD A NEW THING.
And Gcnits, az Is Always the Case, &C
Its Reward,

And Gcni,:s, AZ Is always the Case, Got
Its Reward.
Two men wCre seated at a small table
near tho front door waiting for their
sandwiches and coiiIce when they were
approached by q shabby stranger, who
touched his E&t and said:
"Gcntlcmcn, may ask favor of one
of you:"
They were silent. 1t was no new cx-
periencc 70 them.
"WE@t | wished to ask was, gentle
men," continued the stranger, "how to
spell the word balloon"
They looked at one another in evident
surprise ard one asked, 1.-THE word bal
loon, you say:?'
Eyes, gentlol9Cn. got into discus
sion with a friend, who says there is
but ono 'l.' maintain there are two "
Your friends right" said one of
tho men at the table.
"No, he isn't" retortcd the other.
"You re right. Two 'l's.
''Let me see, now," said the first
"B-a-l- l-double ON balo I think
) va IL "1oiSo, LII, allNl eioo eulo lllau .
friend wins the bet"
''It's no bet" said the shabby stran-
ger. "We simply got into an argument.
You can see for yourself there is chance
for an argument. If had pocket die
tionary, | could tell i'll a minute. Gen
tlemen, would one of you loan me o
dino with which to purchase one?"
They looked at him coldly for mo-
ment and then each pulled out a dime
and gave it to him.
YOU'RE good thing" said the first
one.
eyes, you've got something new, "
added the other.
But the shabby stranger did not SMILE
He simply thankvl them, and said he
would buy one for his friend also. -
Chicago Record.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Few Stars.

The supposed unchanging face of the
sky has impressed the minds of both the
civilized and unciviliZed races of hu-
manity since time out of memory. To
the popular mind the thousands of shin
ing points of light which stud "heaven' s
azure canopy when the angels "cur-
tain this sleeping world" are the SYM
bols of immutability, of Immortality
and of eternity.
Wo speak of them Shining on for
ever" and Of their "unerring cycles"
but astronomers know that such planet
airy bodies are not "unerring," that
they have not always existed, and that
in all probability they will not last
forever. Observations that have been
made since astronomy became recog
nized as ono of the "exact sciences"
prove that stars are subject to crises-to
ups and downs-just the same as are
earthly things. They have been seen to
burn up and disappear like whiff of
vapor. Others have been known to fly
off at tangent and i'll an hour be mil
lions of miles from the place they had
occupied since the dawn of civilization.
There are whole sections of the sky
now "bare" that were once occupied
with stars of different magnitudes. On
the contrary, new stars have frequently
burst into view. The most prominent of
these are the one that appeared in 1870
B. c., the one which in 1879 sprung up
in Cassiopeia and which outshone Venus
for time; the one which appeared in
the northern crown in 1866, and the
temporary stars of 1876, 1855 and 1899.
st. Louis Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Boards and Morals.

A policeman OH duty in the jefferson
Market police court remarked that in
the course of IS years service he had
seen great many men brought up on
the charge of insulting women in the
street or elsewhere '"They do not re-
semble one another much" he said,
"eXcept that i'll every instance they
wear full boards. | don't remember of
ever seeing a clean shaven, thoroughly
smart looking man at the bar OH that
charge Their whiskers are never trim
med to u point either, but always grow
i'll a struggling Or careless way l have
never noted any exception to this, and,
so far as my opinion goes, l think that
any man who gets up i'll the morning,
takes q bath and shaves himself with a
bit of cold steel is apt to start out and
be decent, whereas the whiskered man
is not. read an article by Chauncey
DepeW once, i'll which he said that the
passing of the cold steel over his face i'll
the morning always drove the fanciful
ideas of the night out Of his head and
Strengthened him out for hard and
sensible days work. guess there is
good deal i'll it, though am not able to
reason these things out as Mr. .Depew
does. But you can go bail for one thing
and that is, whenever you read in the
papers that Il man has been arrested for
insulting women you can picture him
i'll your minds eye as having a shabby
set of whiskers. New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Eighteenth Century Children.

A book published i'll 1926 lays down
rules for children's behavior and gives
an idea of what was considered proper
department for boys and girls in the
early part of th9 last century. First, of
behavior at home. Children must al
ways bow on re Go ling home; they
must never be c)ysted iii the house;
they must not sit down without permis-
sion they must never address their
parents without a title of respect, as sir
or madam; they must not approach their
parents OF elders without Il bow. Next,
of behavior at table They must not sit
down till they are1E lden, nor till grace
is said, nor must they ask for anything,
OF help themselves, OF speak at table, or
look at others eating. Thirdly, of be-
havior i'll company They must enter
the room with bow; they must not
speak till they are spoken to; they arc
not to cross their legs or sit with their
knees wide; they are not to laugh loud,
but silently smile; they are not to point
or boast or to interrupt.
Imagine All American youth Of to-
day "silently smiling" if anything
struck him as being funny and think of
our infant terribles waiting until they
are spoken to before they address their
elders. 1t is just as well that the good
old author of this book is dead; he
would be made so dreadfully unhappy
by this century's children. Chicago
Post
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Orchids For Cut Flowers.

So many beautiful flowers drop their
petals soon after cutting that they are
out of favor with purchasers. The ef
forts of fo-ists arc generally in the di-
rection of introducing such flowers as
will hold their own for some time after
cutting 1t is possibly one of the lead
ing advantages Of the carnation that it
lasts so long Oh the parlor table, and
this is found to be true with many spe-
cies of orchids which are coming into
favor for cutting purposes, quito as
much on account Of this persistence as
on account of their rarity and sweetness
In this closely related family the cypri-
pedium is found particularly valuable
There are not only persistence, sweetness
and curious features in the forms and
colors of the flowers, but they also have
tho long stems which enable the Ameri-
can florists to use them without the
necessity of lavishly stemming Them
Meehan's Monthly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
When Mars Was Inhabited.

There are many reasons in favor of
the supposition that Mars is more likely
to have been inhabited i'll past ages than
at the present time in spite of its at
mosphere or water or clouds. MI Proc
tor, for instance, has pointed out that a
globe of the size of Mars would cool
rather more than two and a half times
as quickly us one of the size of the
earth. If the earth and Mars We're in
a similar condition 100000 600 years
ago, Mars would have attained, accord
ing to that rate of cooling, to the earth S
present condition 1000, 900 years..
g., 1000, 900 years ago-and the earth
would now require 2S,000.0 900 future
years in which to cool as much as Mars
has cooled during the last II, 900, 900
years. So far as regards that consdera-
tion. therefore, the probability of the
present habitability of Mars must be
compared with the probability of the
earth's being inhabited when 2S, 900, :
600 more years will be past and gone -
Nineteenth Century.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
The Tongue rlay of the Reptiles a Lure
For Their Prey.

Ior lnelr frey.
The phcasants which formed the sub
jects of the following observations were
hatched out i'll an incubator from eggs
kindly given me by Sir Cecil Miles,
The EGGS were taken from the hen and
Transferred to the incubator few days
before the young birds were due to
emerge.
Two pheGsants We're matched out at
about 3 p. II. That evening, at about
G:30, a finely chopped egg was placed be
fore them, but they showed no signs of
peciing at it, nor did they peck at
grain or sand next morning at 1 a. IN.
At 4 p. III. they began to peck, but seiz-
ed very little. One struck repeatedly at
a crumb Of egg on the others back, but
failed to seize it, though the other bird
was quito still.
The littlo birds showed no signs of
fear of me. They liked to nestle in my
warm hand. My fox terrier was keen to
get at them, much keener than with
chicks, probably through scent sugges-
ton. placed two Of the young pheas-
ants, about % day old, on the floor and
lSG iliu SiiICll lllGlll uIuCT SlTlCG OTueTS
not to touch them He was trembling
in every limb from excitement. But
they showed no signs of fear, though
his nose was within an inch of them.
When the hecsants were week old, l
procured a large blindworm and placed
it i'll front of the incubator drawer in
which the birds slept at night. On open
ing the drawer they jumped ont as usu-
al and ran over the blindworm without
taking any notice of it. Presently first
one, then another. pccked vigorously at
the forked tongue as it played in and
out of the blindworm S mouth. Subse-
quently they pecked at its eye and the
end of its tail.
This observation naturally leads one
to surmise that the constant tongue play
in snakes may act as q lure for young
and inexperienced birds, and that some
cases of 50 called fascination may be
simply the fluttering of birds round this
tempting object. distinctly remember,
when a boy, seeing a grass snake, with
head slightly elevated and quite motion
less, and round it three or four young
birds fiuttering nearer and nearer 1t
looked like fascination. 1t may have
been that each hoped to be the first to
catch that tempting but elusive worm!
Presently they would no doubt be invit-
ed to step inside. Mature.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
RECORD OF A TEXAS DESPERATE.
she Graves of His Victims Were Scattered
From Eodge City to Santa Fe.

shc Graves of His Victims Were Scattered
From Eodge City to Santa Fe.
The man who told the story between
tho ruffj of his cigar was from Texas.
"Clay Allison's life was q tragic ro-
NANCE" he began. "Clay Allison was
a desperate. He lived in the Red river
country i'll the Panhandle. His trigger
finger was busiest i'll the early eighties
His record was II. He boasted of it.
Twenty oue dead men, whose graves
were scattered from Dodge City to San
ia Fe! l myself saw him kill Bill
Chunk, bad man, who shot people Just
for tho fun of seeing them fall. The two
men had 10 cause for quarrel They
were the prize killers of the same sec
ton of the country. 1t was a spirit of
rivalry which made them swear to
shoot each other on sight. Their friends
bet Oh the result of their first chance
rencounter. They met one night at
crossroad inn i'll New Mexico and sat
down at tables opposite each other, with
their drawn six shooters resting on their
laps beneath their napkins. A plate of
oysters on the shell had just been set
before Chunk, when he dropped his
hand i'll careless fashion and sent ball
at Allision beneath the table. Quick as
a leap of lightning Allison's gun re-
piled. A tiny red spot between Chunks
eyes marked where the bullet entered.
The dead man rolled over on the table
and was still, with his face downward
in the dish of oysters.
"Allision was large cattle owner.
He went on a drive to Kansas City
once, and while there fell in love, mar
ried and took the woman to his home in
the west to live. A child was born to
them-a child whose face was as beau
tiful as the face of cherub, but whose
poor little body was horribly deformcd.
Allison loved the child with the great
love of his passionate nature. In the
babes twisted and misshapen form his
superstitious mind read a meaning as
significant as that of the message which
the divine hand wrote on the palace of
the king Of old in Babylon. God, he
thought, had visited d curse upon him
for his sins. He quit his wild ways
He drank no more. No man ever after
the birth of his child fell before his
deadly pisth:s. He was completely
changed.
''In the new life which followed he
devoted himtelf with absorbing energy
to his business interests. He became
rich i'll time. Ten thousand cattle on
the Texas ranges bore his brand. A few
years ago he was driving from his ranch
in q heavy road wopOn to town Tho
front wheels joltcd down into deep
rut. Allison was pitched headtore-
most to the ground. His neck was bro
ken. The team logged on into the dis
tance and left him lying there dead and
alone upon the prairie. kansas City
Times
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Who Invented the Gui1Iotine?

1t is now certain that neither DR.. J.
I. Guillotin, who is said to have died
upon the instrument which has name
SO strikingly like his own, nor DIR. j.
B. V. Guillotine, who has also been
given the credit of being its inventor,
was the designer of the French instru-
ment of capital punishment 1t is
known to have been in use in Italy at
least 500 years before the time Of either
of the gentlemen mentioned and was
tho recognized instrument used for in
flicting the death penalty in Scotland
during both the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. Conradin of Suabia was exc
cuted by such machine at Naples in
the year 1868, and that it was in use in
France moro than 100 years before tho
time of DR.. ]. l. Guillotin is proved by
the fact that the Duo de Montmorency
was decapitated ''by sliding ak in
1852. st. Louis Republic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Ono of tile Unknown Quantities.

There are many persons who talk very
learnedly about electricity and seem
to fancy that they have found out all
about it that is'worth knowing. In the
face of ideas of this sort comes ON an
accident without precedent indeed, one
that under ordinary circumstances
would be counted impossible. A work
man in oiling the machinery of small
electric fan-one used merely for the
purpose of cooling the air i'll business
house-accidentally touched the wire
and was instantly killed. The current
that runs the fan is said to have scarce
ly power enough to give a gentle shock
when touched. An electrician who has
recently been making some important
experiments has demonstrated that by
using electricity in a certain way so
times the current usually employed for
executing criminals may be passed
through the human body without inju-
ry. Is it not possible, then, that very
weak currents under certain conditions
may possess power hitherto unsuspected?
New York Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
NApoLEoN's MIRACJ - r-CAPEs.
lie Seemed to Live In II Charmed Circle and
Went About With 40 Fear.

lie Seemed Live In II Charmed Circle and
Went About With 30 Fear.
In reply to the question in what en-
gagemcnts he considered himself to
have been in the greatest danger of los
ing his life Napoleon once said, "In
the commencement Of my campaigns. ?"
Indeed if further proof were demanded
to show that lie did not spare himself
at Toulon it is only necessary to add
that, during the 10 weeks of its siege,
Napoleon, i'll addition to u bayonct
wound i'll his thigh, had three horses
shot under him, while at the siege of
Acre during the expedition to Egypt he
lost no fewer than four in the samo
manner.
During the last days of his life, when
captivity, disappointment and sickness
had well nigh completed their work, it
is said that the agony of his fatal dis
ease drew from him on many occasions
the pitiful Cry of, "Why did the cannon
balls spare me?'
During his long military career Ma
poleon fought 60 battles, while Caesar
fought but 80. In the early part of his
career he was utterly reckless of danger
while on the battlefield, aud this spirit
of fearlessness contributed largely to
the love and esteem in which he was
held by his armies. There was curious
belief among the English in Napolo rs
time that he had never been wounded,
and indeed the report was current that
he carefully, if not III a cowardly man
ner, refrained from exposing himself.
Nothing could be more contrary to the
truth, for he was i'll reality several
times severely wounded but as he wish
ed to impress upon his troops the belief
that good fortune never deserted him.
and that, like Achilles, he was we'll
nigh invulnerable he always made q
secret of his many dangers. He there
fore enjoined once for all upon the part
of his immediate staff the most absolute
silence regarding all circumstances of
this nature, for it is almost impossible
to calculate the confusion and disorder
which would have resulted from the
slightest report or the smallest doubt
relative to his existence. Upon the sin
gle thread of this mans life depended
not only the fate and government of a
great empire, but the whole policy and
destiny of Europe as well.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
BANK BOOKKEEPING.

A Perfect System Never Has and May
Never BE Developed.
The cashier Of prominent up town
bank says that such a thing as perfect
system of bookkeeping has never been
devised and probably never will be-
''When you think of it,, " he said, "book-
keeping is simply a question of mental
ingenuity. What one brain can devise
i'll tho way Of safeguards another brain
can usually undo, speaking in general
way. The daily papers i'll condemning
the banks because of the moderate sal
aries paid to bookkeepers overlook
very important fact. The banks pay the
market rates to expert bookkeepers,
which are anywhere from 81, 500 to $2,-
200 q year. An almost unlimited num-
Der Of men can be obtained at these
figures, and paying more money would
not make the banks bit safer, for the
simple reason that men of strong mental
powers, great business capacity and un-
swervinS integrity are not, as rule,
content to be mechanical boollkeepers
in large institutions | do not, of course,
mean to disparage bookkeepers in any
way.
1.-The point is that the men who make
good bookkeepers are unimaginative, re-
liable and steady going persons, who
are not influenced by great ambition,
and who do not aspire to lofty places. 1t
is not required of a bookkeeper that he
shall have very high mental qualifca-
tions as bookkeeping is now conducted
in our big institutions. Each man has
stipulated amount Of work of stereo-
typed nature to do. He has of course
enough ingenuity to swindle, if he
chooses to do so. Anybody who believes
that a perfect system of bookkeeping
can be devised musU also believe that it
would be impossible to counterfeit
money. The Bank of England has been
held up as marvel for many years, and
yet it is no secret that that institution
was swindled in the most complete
manner for many years before it was
found out. The most important and con-
servative commercial agencies and tinan-
cial institutions in this city and London
have lost money through their en-
ployees, and the Credit Lyonnaise, in
France, where bookkeeping is said to
have been carried to the very highest
point of safety, was completely upset by
a number of clerks two years ago, who
had no difficulty whatever in hoodwink-
ing the experts and pocketing the banks
money. New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
The Snnt a..

1t is the opinion of the true gourmet
that of all marine pantish there is none
to compare with the smelt (Osmerus
mordax). This primary rank is its own
by reason of its delicacy and delicious
flavor, and when fried light brown in
very fine bread crumbs and served with
melted butter there is none that dis
putes its prc-emiuence. Its delightful
flavor, however, as well as its peculiar
odor is evanescent. Like the mackeral,
it cannot be too fresh.
1t is from its odor that the smelt de-
rives not only its familiar but Latin
name, an odor so aggressive of sliced
cucumbers that, if its presence be mani
fest only to the sense of smell, people
are often deluded into such supposition.
This odor is not marked except in the
freshly caught fish and disappears in
the cooking, giving place, however, to a
fitting resurrection of the smelt to an
olfactory sense still more savory and de-
lightful. Market Review
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Ideal and Real.

81 love all that is beautiful in art
and nature" she was saying to her as-
thetic admirer. Il revel in the green
fields, the babbling brooks and the little
wayside flowers. l feast on the beauties
of earth and sky and air. They are my
daily life and food and"-
''Maudie" cried out the mother from
the kitchen, not knowing that her daugh-
ter's beau was i'll the parlor. "Maudie,
whatever made you go and eat that big
dish of potatoes that was left over from
dinner? | told you we wanted them
warmed up for supper declare if your
appetite isn't enough to bankrupt your
pa. London Tit Bits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-03-28
Edison's Definition of EIectricity.

Congressman o, M. Hall of this state
tells this story Of Edison: The latter
appeared before the committee on pat
ents to make an argument on some pro-
posed bill. Mr.. Hall, prefacing his ques-
tion with an apology for the ignorance
OF the committee concerning electricity,
asked Edison if he could tell the COM
mittec what electricity was. "Oh, yes, ="
said the wizard. "It is q mysterious
fluid about which nothing is known. :"
The argument then proceeded