Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-11-20
CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from Jim.

| oenSe mi last lettur L nav bin mOVln
rown so mulch that | skerse had time
to rite yu them fu lines of potry last
weke. Then | had so mulch to sa
abowt Dady and the ways he's bin
karryin on a tryin to lede the repub-
lickan party IN Maryland.
| hav often hearn it sed that WI kin
tel a man bi his kumpany, but that
wont hole good with Dady. If yu'd
seen Dady gittin ava from Phrostburg
the mite Wellington wuz to speke tha1e
yu kood hav told Dady bi the KUN
pany he wuz gittin ava frum. Yu no
Dady speak with Wellington in Lony-
kony and Dady was so inhamashuned
at Wellington bekause he dident let
Dady lede him that Dady snook up to
Garet kounty when Wellington wuz to
spoke in Phrostburg. In Garet Dady
kood be Big Injin amung the fellers
that like to here funnie sownds.
Well, yu'd LATED to see Dadv here
IN cumberland a trien to git hisself
advurtized that he wuz abowt to speke
in the Academy a flu mites befoar
elecshin da. At the Nnse offs thay
hedint to puff HIM, and then he went
down to the Times offs and tryed to bi
the paper frum Kurnel Avirett so he
kood send owt flamin motifs to the
pOpulashun of cumberland that nu
and aspirin boss ov the republican,
party wuz abowt to dress them in risin
moonlite rettorick efulgense on how
he'd run the kounty, State and nashun.
Iu no it is reported that Dady went
to Washlnton after McKinly wuz in
augerated and offered his advise to the
administrator, but he wuzn't retained
long.
| was addvisin Dady sum time sense
that he wuz runnin his nusepaper
part of the game like matchmaker
trien to mend with a saw and hatchit.
He don't git emmy better in his erammer
and then what DUN noshuns he does
hav ov nusepaperdum He dresses
an ideur like an Injin agoin to war
puts on paint and dobs it all over.
What Heterogeneous kumpondin
Dady and Fare Plaer hav wurked
| themselvs intu abowt the yuse ov
kapitel letturs. Thay hav now bin
karklsen for moar than a munth
whether God is heven or heven is God ,
and thay can't tell yit. Jist think ov
| a eddytur not noin when to yuse a
kapiiel lettur!
If | wuz tn rite kumberland and sa
that ment Mayor Melingur or rite
| Mayor Mellingur and sa that ment
kumberlan all the skool boys in Kun
berland wood give me sownd kickin.
1u surelie dun EN- on the kapitel lettur
gain, an if Dady and Fare Plaier KEEP
a losin themselvs thay'll git so tanguled
up and lost and unfown that no wun
will be abel to no Fare Plaier frum
Dady or Dady frum Fare Plaier, that
is, when yu rite Fare Plaier with kap-
itel it will stand for Dady and Else u
rersy ad intineditorilum rellgusli spekln.
Last weke Dady went owt to dispens
sum savin erase to the thursty and
longin fellers at Karlos. Not havin
his kapitels along he didn't Civ EN-
emmy sunset. A Teller frum indian
tells me that Bill Grimes wuz singin
"wate pher the Vaughn" awl da bel
Dady arroav.
Dady ses in the rum that I'm the
lait Jim. This is the shurest thing
that wuz sed in the rum but Dady
will find that I'm alive if ] am lait
a gittin at him and he will here frum
me offener in the kummin time.
| met sum foxes along the krlck
last weke and thay sed Dady wuz down
along the run ashone ov how enlarged
his nollidge Ov the wurld is Thay
think 1T mOar than passin straing that
a pursOn that has sich CRATE kummand
ov the magick wand of noin evrything
wood be runnin weakly nusepaper in
Phrostbnrg.
Thay sa that a man that feals he
knose so mulch shood be on a dayly
papur where he kood be tapped evry
twenty ours. JIM.
p. S.-When l sea yu l hav sum
funnie things to tel yu abowt Dady.
p. s. number too.-The lettur of
"ole Subscriber" havin bin refurd to
me fur explanashuu l am moar than
pleesed to say that if he had lookt at
a ensklopedia he wud hav fownd out
awl abowt those ainshent wnrthies.
Diogenes wuz the sun of bloted
kapitalist who wuz konvickted of sum
sort OF a longtime kontract, and the
boy had to leeve hoam. | don't kno
what the kOntract swuz, but the boy
wuz so imprest with its enormity that
he evur AFTERWARDS punisht hisself by
karrying lanturn in the da time.
Frum life of wild otes he plunged
into wun of morty ficashun that did
not mortyfy. He wud role IN red hot
sand in JUL and hug sno-banks in
Januwary. He slep on the grownd
when it wuz dri and under the poarch
when it wuz wet. But his permanent
residens wuz a tub. In fackt, he wuz
so Enthusiastically Independent and
exclusively CRATE that people had to let
him hav his oan way and say. He
LATED at foxes who sympathized with
the sutferins of lecturers while neg
lectln their Oan angwishes. He wuz
awfully down on the musk of walkin
DELIGHTS who spent time in stringing
their liars when tina ort to hav bin
harmoniZin their prevarikashuns. His
bizness, he sed wuz-''to kummand
men,"
Abowt this time pheler cum to the
tub and introdoosed hisself as "Ellex-
ander the Crate"
"And am Diogenes the Cinik," sed
the ole man as he turned the lanturn -
the emblem of his daddy's SHAMEFUL
in the generals faice.
Then the general asked-"wot kin |
do fur yu ?"
"Yu kin sta ava frum my sunsets
that's wot."
1t wuz repoarted that alexander
wuz so hit by the Cinik's compozure
| that he Sed to bistandin nusenaiper