Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-03
SUFFERED FROM HIS THREAT.
When He Wanted Candy and Peanuts.
They Were Not to Be uad.

They Were Not to Be uad.
just as Mr. Stutrer was starting for
the railroad station with his wife and
children to take a very long journey,
Mrs. Suffer exclaimed:
'Soa here, JOHN We can never go
au :, " ,githout some fresh broken can
dies. No ono ever N--.>St on railroad
journey who didn't have los sftaag
And /, put in Miss Della Stuffer,
aged Z, "insist on scme peanuts and
cough drops.
That's all right, "raid StuHer. "NVo
can bug all those things Oh the train
There are about ten men who spend
their time marching through tho cars
selling fresh broken candies and cough
drops. Whatever else happens to the
traveller, he's never allowed to run short
of those commodities. -
But when they boarded tie train the
army of peanut venders, cough drop
dealers and fresh broken candy mer-
chants was nowhere to be seen. Ordi-
narily the traveller was pclted with
these goods until he had to buy and cat
some in self defense. On this occasion,
however, not single pcddler was in
sight.
Outrageous, said Stuffcr to the
conductor 'Do you mean to say that
the company has ceased to provide its
patrons with fresh broken candies and
recently roasted peanuts? What has be-
come Of the * llows who chucked apples
and oranges on your lap and funny
masazinps and things? Is this concern
run by railroad men or WHAT
MIR Suffer, "rci.liCd the conductor,
"the last time you travelled on this road
you kicked because the trainboy biffed
y Il in the eye with an apple which he
shed to dispose of ard made your nose
bleed with Il packet of cough drops
which lie shitd at you with a little too
much force You said you'd sue the
company for damages for assault and
battery. The company got scared at
your threats and had the boys taken
off. :"
The travcl ler burst out into a torrent
of invcctiye, "Blame the bloated cor
poratons!F he yelled. "That's the sort
of a ballad and waltz that we shall get
from them until the day comes when
the government will be in complete con-
troll of all the transportation interests.
Then he went back to Mrs. Stulfer
in tie roar of the Car and began some
heated remarks about millennium or
something which it was understood he
had sighted OIL the starboard offing.-
New York Herald.
why General Butler Was Relieved.
Colonel Woodwork told some good
stories ahout General Butler, He said
that Butler himself told him as late as
1884 that no never knew tho real reason
why he was deprived of his military
command by General Grant. 1t was
only a few years ago that Woodworth
got the facts from Grants brother-in-
law, Major Dent, who was the staff
officer sent with the order for Buffers
relief. He said that whilo no reason
was openly given at the time, Butler
was actually displaced because he was
not graduate of West Point. This
would n,: appear OH tho face of it to be
sufficient cause, but Grant explained
it to Dent ono day in the course of
confidential interview
eli, " said he, 81 were to send But
Ter specific order to do something with
his army he might obey and he might
not He was too able and original not
to reason himself into the belief that l
might have given different instructions
if | knew all that ho knew of the local
situation. He therefore almost always
had a plan Of his own that he thought
was better than mine Or anybody else's,
so that | could never tell just what he
would do or where ho would be at
given time. OF course that was fatal to
any systematic campaign, and had to
replace him with West Pointer, whose
first lesson in war is the necessity of
prompt obedience to the commanding
general. Butler was too brilliant to be
reliable. "-Eoston Advertiser.