Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-29
Out of IT'S Element

mdSouTy, Tue Stack is OU feet nigh and
6 feet in diameter
Out of it's Element.
The Homecoming Star found prepo-
sltion out of place in the JOURNAL last
week, and one wrongly used.
The JOURNAL is SO glad it did not
see two other errors far more glaring.
But the JOURNAL is astounded at the
Stars resurrection of this old play:
Here the JOURNAL speaks in plain terms of
Mr.. Williams grammatical arrangement :"
If the arrangement is grammatical, how can
it, at the same time, be ungrammatical?
That is aquibble, long since relegat-
ed to the nursery. For instance, the
term, religious error" once used,
brought from an otherwise ripe theo-
logian the inquiry-"can an error be
religious9"
But the Star found
an adverb limiting a preceding verb be-.
tween proposition and its object
That is not so bad as separation
OF an auxiliary and verb by phrase
of five words. See this:
how can y X X be ungram-
NAUTICAL?
The Star makes an immense mistake
In attempting "cassic" performances.
Obituary.
A contributor to the Mcyersdale
(Pa0 Commercial pays the following
beautiful and just tribute to the men,
DRY of Mrs. J. J. Hoblitzell, who died
in that place Wednesday, August 5,
1896, aged G3 years, 10 months and %
days:
She was born at Berlin September II, 1882,
a daughter of David Hartzell, and was married
to James j. Hoblitzell February o. 1851 at
Addison, her happy married life lasting over
40 years. Her husband survives her and of
the children born to them the following {:
VIM. T. of town; Mrs. Lizzie Ravenscraft of
Ridgeway George of Hyndman Mrs. Kate
Bowman Mrs. Grace Price, Russell H Frank
and Miss Allie. Her health had been failing
for several years and at times she seemed to
be one with DEATH only to be spared to the
agonized family. When death finally ended
her sufferings 1t was with his gentlest touch
as though he would spare her physical suf-
ferlng and the agony Of parting with her
loved ones The nature of her disease had
prepared her family for the worst yet her end
came unexpectedly, or, rather when least
looked for. She was sleeping calmly when
the father and sons left that morning for
their duties at Keystone Junction, Just as I'M
der like circumstances they had done for
many months before; she awoke apparently
refreshed by her nights rest, was partaking
OF light repast, when quick as the flash of
of an eye the end had come and her daugh-
tiers who were fondly serving her were alone
with their dead.
Early in her life she united with the Metbo-
dist Episcopal church, which she chung to
with increasing fidelity and devotion as
years, and experience in lfes harsh lessons.
unfolded the enduring nature of revealed
religion. All early writer once said: sNo
one who has not suffered can eyer become a
sincere Christian" This suffering Though
ever surrounded with gentlest care) came to
her as it does to all of humanity 1t came to
her in the death of her five children, in the
death OF her sonsin-law, in the natural
anxiety that will rise like horrd night
mare across each ones path, and these
troubles taught her to lean more contidingly
upon the promises ofthe Master she learned
in such dire experience the truth of the words
THY rod and Thy staff-they comfort me"
Thus while her implicit faith was strength
ened through her sorrow, the church held her
dear for her Devotion purified in the crucible
of human woes.
With her home and family were sacred
ties. She reigned here with iimitless power,
no one questioned her right OF her in.
tluence. She had high ideals of what home
should be, and such an one she founded and
built, graced and adorned. I'm it she was
supreme, and all her subjects were contented
and happy ones. No one save she who can
be loyal, loving, atfectionate, devoted, hos
pitable ard warm hearted as wife, mother,
friend and neighbor can be supreme III such
an home. This she was, and herein will
memory longest and most lovingly cling
She was her husbands most faithful adviser
aiding him when it was needed, her daugh-
ters' counsellor and friend, her gentle in
1uence ever strengthened, while it restrained
and guided her sons. Every relation of life
all and each of its harrassments and vexa-
tons, were met and dealt WITH with that
God-given conservatism that seems born in
a mothers heart. Hereis her crown and her
own life made it her brightest dadem The
true woman, the wise, true mother, never
dies We think of her as having gone away
and that at some time we will meet her and
again serve her loyalty with love and affec-
ton as before. 1t is thus in her immediate
household this thought will come, when the
keen edge of pain will be dulcd by time, to
comfort and to soothe them.
Friday of last week her friends of town
and vicinity met to offer their respect to her
memory, and coincidence to the bcreayed.
Her late pastor, Rev. Weaver, her present
pastor, Rev. Moore. conducted the final SER
vices in the homestead, when the remains
were taken on No. 6 to Cumberland, and
thence by special tram to Frostburg Nd. to
rest with her children gone before IN the
| family burial plot until all shall he called i'm