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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
LING OlN AS A lABORER.
Ee Did Farm Work In Indiana For rs
Cents q Day.

By this time Abraham had become an
important member of the family. He
was remarkably strong for his years,
and the work he could do in day was
a decided advantage to Thomas Lincoln.
The ak which had been put into his
hand to help in making the first clear
ing had never been allowed to drop;
indeed, as he says himself, "from that
till within his twenty-third year he
was almost constantly handling that
most useful instrument. Besides, he
drove the team, cut down the elm and
linden brush with which the stock was
often fed, learned to handle the old
shovel plow, to WELD the sickle, to
thrash the wheat with fail, to fan and
clean it with a sheet, to go to mill and
turn the hard earned grist into flour;
in short, he learned all the trades the
settlers boy must know, and we'll
enough so that when his father did not
need him he could hire him to the
neighbors. Thomas Lincoln also taught
him the rudiments Of carpentry and
cabinet making, and kept him busy
some of the time as his assistant in his
trade. There are houses still standing
in and near Gentryville on which it is
said he worked. The families of Lamar,
Jones, Crawford, Gentry, Turnham and
Richardson all claim the honor of hav-
ing employed him upon their cabins.
AS he grew older he became one of the
strongest and most popular "hands'' in
the vicinity, and much of his time was
spent as a "hired boy' on some neigh
boris farm. For 25 cents day-paid to
his father-he was hostler, plowman,
woodchopper and carpenter, besides
helping the women with the "chores. "
For them, so say the legends, he was
ready to carry water, make the fire,
even tend the baby. No wonder that
laborer who never refused to do any
thing asked of him, who could "strike
with mallet heavier blows" and "sink
an ak deeper into the wood" than any
body else in the community, and who
at the same time was general help for
the women, never lacked job in Gen
tryville. M. Tarbell in McClure's
Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
Working by the Eve,

The advance in the accuracy of work
manship in machinery is one of the re-
markable features of manufactures.
Formerly if shaft could be made right
within one thirty second of an inch all
was well. Indeed, under old processes
this was as fine degree of correctness
as the eye could perceive But this was
altogether too far from perfect to an
swer many purposes, and mechanics set
about devising some means to insure
more absolute accuracy. One of the first
suggestions that the eye was less relia-
BILE than the fingers came from the fit
ting of certain cylinders with plugs. It
was found that number of plugs could
be made all precisely alike SO far as the
eye could judge, but the veriest novice
detected difference in their size the
moment they were applied to the hole
for which they were intended 1t is said
that now the difference of one FIVE
thousandth of an inch can readily be
perceived by the most inexperienced per-
son. New York Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
Weighting Silk.

Some improvements in the treatment
of silk are noted. Ordinarily silk is
"weighted' by depositing tannate Of
tin on the fiber; the material receives a
bath of tannic acid and then another of
perchloride of tin, repetition of this
being made until an increase of the
weight amounts to from 15 to 20 per
cent, beyond which it is not considered
safe to 60 in the case of silk intended to
be dyed light shades or to be bleached.
Recently German inventor has brought
forward a process in which silica is the
weighting agent. In carrying out this
method three steps are described. First,
the silk, raw or in any stage Of manu-
facture and either before or after dye
ing, is worked for an hour in bath Of
perchloride Of tin; then, after squeezing
and washing, it is worked in warm
solution of water glass Or soluble sill
cate Of soda for about an hour, followed
by washing, having also been previously
passed through solution of phosphate
of soda. The operation may be repeated
again and again with no harmful effect
on the fiber or on the subsequent dye
ing, and i'll five operations the silk may
be increased in weight some 100 to 100
per cent. The silk is now soaped, and,
if already dyed, is cleared in an emul-
sion of olive oil and acid.-New York
Sun
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
WELSH SUPERSTlTlONS.

They Associate Spectral Hounds With
Mountain Storms.
One of the many curious superstitions
Of the Welsh peasantry is that of Cron
Annwn, or "the spirit hounds of the
air. " When storm RACES over the
mountains of Wales, the peasant will
tell you that his ear can discern the
howl of the Cron Annwn mingled with
that Of the wind, but sufficiently clear
and distinct to admit oe no mistake of
what it is.
These Esprit hounds" he tells you,
are the spectral dogs which hunt the
souls of the dead, or which foretell, by
their expectant cry, the approaching
death of some person of evil Deeds Few
of those who pretend that they can SO
readily distinguish the cry Of the soul
hunting pack are willing to admit that
they have ever actually seen a Cron
Annwn, "for," they say, "who would
linger until such specters dawned upon
the sight?" They are described by Fall
esin, and also in the "Mabinogion,
where it is said they are of clear, shin
ing white, with red ears. The above
seems to be the universal description,
and on that account the author Of
Mythology Of the Ancient Druids"
gives it as his opinion that they are
really mystical transformations Of
Druidish priests, with their white robesN
and red tiaras''
In the popular superstitions Of Ie-
land, where a similar belief in spectral
hounds exists, they are said to be "jet
black, with eyes and teeth of fire." Old
Con McMichael, who murdered 20 per-
sons in the early part of the fifteenth
century, and who got rid of his victims
by burning their bodies, is said to have
been eaten by spectral dogs "that could
be seen high in the air awfully rending
and tearing his flesh. " One of the pecul-
iarities of the Cron Annwn, according
to the Rev. Edmund James, is that the
farther away they are the louder their
cries appear, the sound decreasing as they
draw near. Dispatch.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
Napoleon's Admonition to Fesch.

"Fesch, said the emperor one bright
noon to the cardinal, interrupting a
homily on politics, "do you see that
starr" "No," was the reply. "Well,
then, as 1 alone can see it 1 will go my
own way and tolerate no remarks. !"
Such is the significant anecdote told by
Marmont, and if its truth be not con-
crete it is at least ideal. Professor W.
M. Sloane's Life of Napoleon" in
Century.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
Hatciling Eggs on a Fire Engine.

A good story is told concerning the
members of the fire brigade in certain
town not far from Hastings. On one oc-
casion it appears a fire broke out in the
town, and rush was naturally made
for the fire engine, which was always
kept ON the premises of one of the in
habitants. When the men attempted to
take the engine out, however, they were
met with the exclamation from the GUS
todian: "a.
Hi! ye can't take that out. I've got
a hen sitting on there, and you'll II break
her eggs"
Tradition AYERS that the men, seeing
the force of this argument, instantly
withdrew, and the fire was put out by
means of pals of water drawn from q
neighboring well. Pearson Weekly. :
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
WHOLE NUMBER, 1 ,299.
NY PHANTOM.

There's a wrinlxled old man called Care,
With thin and scragly hair,
Who stands by my side all day
And follows me everywhere.
In the night wake with start
find him there at my bed;
I'm chilled by his stony gaze,
And my prayers are left unsaid.
When I stretch my hands toward the light
And the promise bow seems near,
I shudder in sudden dread
AS l see this ghost appear.
His cheeks are sunken with age;
His eyes are hollow and DIM.
His breath breathe in the air,
And I'm growing to look like him.
90 where 1 will or may,
This old man holds me fast
And so it will ever be
AS long as my life shall last.
-Leontine Stanfield in Opera.
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Unapprecfated.

She was a nice old lady, with spec
tacles, and she got on at Adams Basin
and took the seat by my side
She had the programme of w. G. T.
U. convention in her hand, which she
consulted occasionally, with the evident
fear that she was going to be late at the
morning session. She looked so nice and
kindly, and as though she must be some
fellows dear old aunt or grandmother,
yet SO evidently i'll at ease, that l wanted
to talk to her, but hardly knew how to
begin.
Just then the trainman called out
"South Greece! South Greece!'' and I
remarked that thought the name of the
station seemed very funny, it opened up
such possibilities of "West Jerusalem"
"North Pisa" or East Capernaum."
thought that it was pretty bright
thing to say, but the dear old lady never
smiled. She just gazed at me over her
spectacles as one who was glad to give
from her store of knowledge what she
could, and she said solemnly and kind
ly: 1.-The name may seem peculiar, but
the reason they call this station South
Greece is because, about four miles
away on tho County Line road, there is
another village called Greece Centre,
and they have to call this station South
Greece to tell them apart" and the
sweet faced old lady, with the self sat-
isied look of one who has impaired use-
full information and done kindness by
the wayside, resumed the study Of her
programme, and haven't tried to say
funny thing since, except once, when
my wife asked me if her hat was on
straight, which the same also was a
failure. New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
Happiness.

If yen cannot be happy in one way,
be in another. This facility of disposi-
tion wants but little aid from philos-.
ophy, for health and good humor are
almost the whole affair. Many run about
after felicity, like an absent man hunt
ing for his hat while it is in hand or on
his head. Sharp
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
Old Marriage Ceremony,

Polynesia is probably the only place
in the world where the marriage feast
takes place without the presence of the
N- 4p-'..- Il fesi-
son tho ygvls aat sau- into The
bash when u-guia rs ara opened
with the family 81 has bride, and he re-
mains there during tde subsequent fes-
tivities. Ii Is only when the guests have
departed ala the SITI u left alone wlts
his parent shsSt g:stSsngegs q dispatchz
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ytn' \, a. m, ''iI Tran N0 X Ie3 - Frostbtrg at
hi, Ito p ns, reaches Piodmo, ting Frostburg
WI trsiins stopping at al at 2:3S -. m,
w, nons. y. ''' intermediate
On lheatro nights. who, .ar
soId by Agents 10 pcrf, "a. "a, issiou tickets
M tSumt iaud at close n,a.,sce at theatre,
Trains stop ut fIays 70 III finance.
anl. stiOn. Cum
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12

The president of an accident insurance
company, strictly in the line of advertis-
ing his business, has been telling a Won
derful story, which he locates in Brook
lyn, where numerous trolley accidents
occur. He says: "Some time ago a
large policy holder in my company was
run over by trolley car and his right
leo nainfnlly crushed. He remai""a
..l..- :" .,,., o.,
les -duripg which time he pu77a5 out
his watchl and called the attention of
the crowd to 1he faet that il was Just Is
minutes II ~ O'Clock. His policy expir-
ed at nofn, and his foresight was re-
warded bA the immediate payment Of
his weekly Indemnity without contro-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
When They Were Pleased.
Snaggs-Do you know, Bilkins,
think I'm gifted orator.
Bilkins-What wakes Won think sof

tss I,Nr ou uJfr occasions the audi
enc@@ We're much pleased and appladied
Loudly Adams Freeman.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1896
BREAKFAST AND HEALTH.
The Latter Is Promoted by Taking, the
Former Before Exercise.

FORMER Before Exercise.
Breakfast should be eaten in the
morning before leaving the house for
exercise or labor Of any description.
Those who do it will be able to perform
more work, and with greater comfort
and alacrity than those who work an
hour or two before breakfast. Besides
this the average duration of life of
those who take breakfast before exer-
else or work will be number Of years
greater than those who do otherwise.
Most persons begin to feel weak after
having been engaged five or six hours
in their ordinary avocations; good
meal reinvigorates, but from the last
meal of the day until next morning
there is an interval of some 10 or IL
hours. Hence the body, in sense, is
weak, and in proportion cannot resist
deleterious agencies, whether Of the
fierce cold Of midwinter or of the poi
sonous miasm which rests upon the sur
face of the earth whenever the sun
shines on a blade of vegetation or a
heap Of offal.
This miasm is more solid, more con-
centrated, and hence more malignant
about sunrise and sunset than at any
other hour of the "a, because the cold
of the night condenses it, and it is ON
the first few inches above the soil in it's
most solid form, but as the sun rises it
warns and expands and ascends to
point high enough to be breathed, and
being taken into the lungs with the air
and swallowed with the saliva into the
stomach, all weak and empty as it is,
it is greedily drank in, thrown immedi-
ately into the circulation of the blood
and carried directly to every part of the
body, depositing its poisonous influences
at the very fountain head of life.
If early breakfast were taken in re-
gions where chills and fever and ague
prevail, and if, in addition, a brisk
fire were kindled in the family room
for the hours including sunset and
sunrise, these troublesome maladies
would diminish in any one year, not ten
fold, but thousandfold, because the
heat Of the fire would rarely the mias-
matte air instantly and send it above
the breathing point. Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-09-12

Apropos OF the new woman, ~ some-
Dooy resurrectcd an old story the other
oay about Mrs. Julia Ward Howe that
may or may not be true. At all events.
II was worth resurrecting. The story
goes mat Mrs. Howe was one fine morn.
alr"I. s~hu ii 5,a
De- now D. Howe Nss. .Gc. uo,rs
s''aiea Airs. u .'e vaguely Then, as
y s'"dt niJ reeoilecting helself: fOh.
ne s tta well, I'm sure / remember
ssNilss M the morning paper that he
Y. s4iea SOME meeting or other last
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Diplomatic.

Miss Rsayne---is it true that you said
the mere sight of myfaoe would make
man climb q teifce.
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The word rival at first rleant brook,
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Arrive EAsTBoUND leave
''' No ~ Express. 2:l5 III
BIG m No. Express 80. S;22 m
,m '"NQ. 10 passenger. 9:35 m
20 ." ia mo: Express. 80. 1853 m
III ''No ~ 6aIto. D d Way. 2:50 p m
e,a '.';No. . Express. -. 12:47 m
900 r -, ~ EEApIesS".. n 6;53 m
o'aoa III ;,"No. Express. 2:3O "a m
! q 80 p m No. Y Accom- odation
arrive wEsTBoUND. Leave
A2'iS III ....No. Express. 1880 a NJ
l:l0 IN NO. 9 Express. 1:2O a m
HOO M -. NO. Express. SOP N
No. Il Accom- dation 7:15 IN
$40 m No Al Express :. ,s:55 M
ll:l5 m - com 'odation
o:'5 p" :. Passenger.
No Il im't & Way 2:35 m
! 10 m .Np Express.... 2:25 p m
900 plu Mo Express. S:12 m
D p N ....No, 81 Express. 400 pm
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b. IL is local trs pdfssslsers. fG
md Wns Rand from Pittsb, rg to Cum
konot Flats ca make 3stoI each way.
S'sS..,|'{ '''' and west for sale at
- M. G. CLARKE,
~ Tiri- at A oont
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Pittsburg Division.

Wasl oUND.
1,InSburg express leaves ..1:20 m
IVA " dali
-... 20 rEcept Sunday 7:50 m
| Chicago Ln,.oa leaves 80 80 p m
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-01-10
PlNGREE SHOWS HIS HAND.
New Plan to Make Street Railways Grant
Transfers.

New Plan to Make Street Railways Grant
Transfers.
DETROIT, Jan. 3-Mayor Pingree Thurs
day showed his hand in a new plan to TO.
quire the Citizens Street Railway COM
pany 10 grant universal transfers upon
eight for-a-quarter tickets. The mayor
had petitioned the circuit court aweek ago
to compel the company TO resume sale of
the-six for-a-quarter tickets, with transfer
privileges, which the company voluntarily
sold last summer but which were discon-
tinued because the city government had
refused to grant extensions of franchises
and other favors to the company.
Thursday this petition was amended so
as to require the Citizens company to
furnish transfers with the eight-for-a.
quarter tickets which latter arc being
sold by the company temporarily as test
of q now ordinance. The mayor hopes
through the courts to force the company
into granting what would be uncertain of
accomplishment by means of an ordinance
to the same effect.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-01-10
State Notes.

At Ypsilanti, Mich. Mrs. Mary j. Bal
ley, widow, joined hands with Charles
f. Dolbee, a widower, and Nellie Bailey,
became at once the stepdaughter and
daughter-in-law Of Charles Dolbee by
marrying William Dolbee, her newly
made brother.
A requisition has been issued by Gov
ernor Rich of Michigan upon the gov
ernor of Illinois for Orlando Easterly,
who is wanted in Barry county for rob-
berry and is under detention in Chicago.
M. v. Meredith Of Saginaw, Mich, has
been appointed general manager of the
South Haven and Eastern railway, vice 4.
II. England, resigned.
The statement is made that 1870 bush
els of potatoes marketed at Gaylord, Mich,
last week, brought s34320, or but cents
q bushel.
A Hancock, Mich, judge sentenced
Charles Conlette to twenty days imprls-
onment because, in poker game In which
another player held four kings Conlette
had four aces.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-01-10
Wednesday Jan. q.

Pearl Eytinge, the once famous actress,
is dying from alcoholism and morphine
poisoning in New York hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. Schoenwetter narrowly
escaped death by suffocation In fire
which did 100000 damage in the Dickson
block, Chicago. The blaze started shortly
before midnight in the basement at ga
Madison street.
Jennie Goldthwaite announces that she
will leave the stage to marry +. M. MUIR
ply, a Chicago broker.
New York city enjoyed n degrees below
zero temperature. At Franconia, N. H., 1t
was 80 below.
The Belmont anderbilt marriage will be
private and probably take place on Jan. 20.
Anderson Lewis, colored, died at tho
Providence hospital, Chicago, after hard
struggle to acquire an education by work
ing in billiard room and playing the
guitar and singing in saloons His earn
ings were not sufficient for his needs, and
the doctors think he died Of lack of proper
food.
Byron Baldwin, Yonkers, N. Y, mil
lionaire, disappeared In Paris between
Nov IL and H. and his friends fear he may
have been murdered for his money.
John Mangel, 80 Pine street, Chicago, Is
missing with $1,000 in cash and 81, 900
worth Of diamonds, and his wife fears foul
play.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-01-10
NEWS OF OUR STATE.
TELEeRAPHlc REPORTS OF MATTERS
OF INTEREST.

Compilation of tho Most Important Hap
penings of the Week Which WIN lie
Read with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. State Ncws
Given in Condensed Form.
MANIsTEE,, Mich, Jan. 6.-The action
of the supreme court in sustaining the
constitutionality Of the fraudulent debt
or act of Michigan has directed public at
tention to the case of Henry Q. and
Charles H. Dummer of this city, in whose
behalf tho case was brought. With the
legality of their Imprisonment fully af-
firmed the two imprisoned debtors have
apparently no alternative but to remain
in Jail as long as the creditor ut whose in
stance they have been incarcerated sees fit
to pay their board. The First National
bank of Manistee which brought the ac-
ton, has been paying the sheriff 81 day
for the board of the two men for the last
eight months, and apparently tntonds to
continue.
From 1888 to 1894 Charles H. and Henry
G. Drummer were proprietors of clothing
and furnishing goods store on River street
in Manistee. In August, 1894, the firm
failed. The bank lost $500. After investi-
eating 1t concluded that the failure was
simply premeditated scheme to defraud.
Having come to this conclusion the bank
caused the Dummers to be arrested in
November under the fraudulent debtor
act, and on Dec %, 1894, they were found
guilty by Circuit Court Commissioner
Erb, who ordered them committed TO Jail
until discharged, according to the provis
ions of the law.
The men are confined in what Is called
the woman's cell in the county jail. 1t is
8x12 feet and about s feet high. One base
ment window furnishes light and ventila-
tion and one bed has to do for both. The
elder man shows the effect of his long
confinement, being under the doctors care
most of the time. For time after being
taken to jail the men were allowed the
use of the corridors, but the bank officials
informed the sheriff that he must comply
with the law and keep them locked up.
The bank, it seems, Is determined to have
the law enforced to the letter, though the
sheriff is inclined TO do all he can to make
things pleasant for his prisoners.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-01-10
lEAS DID NOT BITE.

Chicago Man the Intended Victim Of q
Gigantic Swindie Unearthed I'm Spain.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 8-George Lens,
formerly proprietor of boiler works in
Kansas City, but now travelling for the
Crescent Steel works of Bradford, Pa,
with headquarters at Chicago, was one of
the intended victims of gigantic swindle
unearthed by the authorities of Valencia,
Spain, who are now taking steps to pun
ish the would-be swindlers, two of whom
are under arrest in Valencia.
Leas, last July, received a letter dated
at the Penon of Melilla, a prison Of VAL
encia, Spain, signed by one who called
himself Henry Leas and claimed blood re-
lationship with George Leas. 1t de-
scribed the writer as rich man who was
serving prison sentence for the wrongs
of another; told of a young and beautiful
daughter whom he wished the Kansas
Cityan to become guardian of, and prom
ised rich reward for the service. This
girl whose mother was dead, the writer
said, was soon to become heir to a large
fortune.
Laas, suspicious of the Spaniard's in
tentions wrote for further information.
1t has just been received in a letter Is
sued by Judges Liano and Jacas of the
district of San Vincente, Valencia, and
addressed to the local authorities. 1t
asks for the dispositions Of George Leas,
and disclosed a gigantic scheme of half
hundred Spaniards to defraud several
prominent Americans in different cities
on the same proposition laid down to tho
Kansas City man.
DETROIT, Jan. 8.-Ex-United States
Senator Il. w. Palmer was it is stated,
the intended victim of a swindle similar
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