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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
How to Amuse the BABY.

One way is to tie a long string to the
ball or toy the baby plays with, and
while nurse or mother sits sewing or
working fasten the string end to the
arm of her chair. If when tumbling
about the floor the baby loses it's play
thing, a pull on the string brings it to
light or keeps the ball rolling and the
child stea lilly amused.
Another way is to smear both baby's
little hands or merely two of the fingers
of each hand with molasses or honey.
Then give him feather to play with.
Picking the feather off one hand and
then off the other will amuse, puzzle
and interest him longer than will a
walking doll or truly" train of cars.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
BEWITCHED.

Twas dismal day and doure looking lot
That crowded the car when dear little dot
OF a woman came in and laughed
And, presto, the dark with sunshine shot,
For she was witch, though she knew it not
Each face told tale of her craft
Her ripping laughter that ran in quest
OF victims found never a one to contest
Its contagion. The whole crowd fell
Fen the crossest and coldest and crabbedest,
BY responsive smiles to the witch, confessed
That they d yielded to her spell.
The cynic, who'd sworn his heart bankrupt
quite
Not sign of a sentiment left-on sight,
Fer he knew it, honored draft.
Like the rest, his face fairly beamed in spite
OF himself. They We're all bewitched by that
mite
OF body who came in and laughed.
Mary Norton Bradford in Boston Globe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
TO PACK A TRUNK.
How to Economic Space and Avoid Crush
ing the Clothes,

Lay aside your sandals, nightdress,
ing for your travelling bag. 1t is wise to
take an umbrella in the hand. Some
strap the sunshade to this, but in case
of shower you would not know what
to do with the sunshade, so it is best to
put the latter into the trunk. Those
with adjustable handles are best for
packing.
Pack in layers, having everything as
fiat as possible. This economies room.
All delicate apparel should be wrapped
separately in tissue paper or towels,
and sleeves of fine gowns should be
stuffed out with newspapers, also the
crowns of hats and bonnets, after which
they may be pinned Chat pins) to the
bottom or sides of hat box to keep them
from shaking about.
Aigrets and other steeple high
adornments may be detached, then fas-
tened on afterward. Fold the front
breadth of skirt in its crease, then it
will not look mussed. 1t is not of great
Importance if the other breadths are
creased. They soon shake out.
Never double over the bottom of
skirt if it is longer than the trunk.
Double from the top instead, where
there is no stiffening to hold creases.
Fold the waists inside out as smoothly
as possible and stuff out the loops Of
large bows with newspapers.
Hose, jersey undergarments, ETC.,
may be saved out to tuck into corners
and spaces to keep the layers from jar
ring. The main point is to keep a
smooth surface in packing, placing lay
er upon layer, and when bulky articles
are put in building around them until
you have smooth surface again. Never
crowd breakable articles in the corners
or sides, rather wrap them in news
papers and place among the clothing.
Some may advise you to carry bottles
in your trunk. Don't do it, unless, of
course, they are done up druggist fash
ion. 1 have carried shoe dressing and
preserves among my clothing several
times, but the last time it was not a
success, and so advise you to take
such articles by hand, or pack by them
selves and send by express.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04

no argument is needed to show posi-
BILE 90 per cent saving here, while in al
most every department of human occu-
patton we are gaining our economies
usually by single units of percentage.
Surely nothing can be of more impor-
tance, mechanically, than thorough lu-
brication The best of oil or the roller
bearing at the axle is none too good, as
all are agreed. But to run the wheel fine
ly fabricated at the axle along the aver
age rough country road, is to lose at the
periphery far more than we save at the
center. 1t is waste at the bung, while
we save at the spigot.
The success of the railroad was in
the rail more than in any other single
detail. New modes of locomotion are
now quite distinctly coming in sight,
and they wait for nothing more neces-
sary to their ultimate success than the
universal smooth road to run on. 1t is
undoubtedly this more than anything
else that is developing the motor car
more rapidly in France than with us.
A few fine asphalted avenues, which
every city can boast, are only an aggra-
vation. 1t is the worst piece of road
that the vehicle may have to traverse
and not the best, that will limit and de-
termine its satisfactory operation, and
it is the worst roads to which our ear
liest attention should be given. 1t must
be conceded that we have altogether too
many of them. Professor Sweets sug-
gestion as to the widths of our roads is
valuable one. OF the good roads that
we have we might have had double the
length with half the width for practi-
cally the same cost and grass and trees
for the rest of it to gladden. our eyes in
stead of dust and glare to blind us.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
SMOOTH THE ROADS.
1T REDUCES THE COST OF CONVEY
ANCE FIFTY PER CENT.

A Wagon Wheel Requires Much More
Power to Fropel 1t Over n Rough Road
Than a Level Highway-A Simple Propo-
sition In Mechanics.
Professor Sweet, i'll recent issue of
The American Machinist, has some
striking suggestions to offer upon the
subject of good roads, of our lack and
our need of them in the United States,
of some apparent reasons for our def
ciencies and of the direction in which
the remedy may lie. If any better me-
chanic can find more pertinent and
distinctly mechanical topic or one more
in need of sound advice and able and
earnest advocacy, we do not know
where to find the combination.
1t ought not to be as it is. We >hould
not need to say word to our readers in
advocacy of the steel ball or the steel
roller as an antifriction device, and it
would seem manifest absurdity for us
to call attention to the fact that the
success of the ball or roller does not re-
side in either alone, and that smooth
and easy running is not accomplished
by any number of either without suita-
BILE paths to travel in. The accuracy of
the surfaces with which they move in
contact is quite as essential a part of
the arrangement as are the balls or roll
ers themselves.
How is it different with the wheeled
vehicle, and why should it be any more
necessary to say that the wagon wheel
needs smooth surface to travel Oh than
to say that the ball bearing Or the roller
bearing surfaces should be true and
smooth? Our wheeled vehicles the coun-
try through have cost pile of money,
and the means of their propulsion are
costly. What if the general cost of con-
veyance were cut in two and one-half
thrown away or the speed of all traffic
were proportionately increased? This
good roads would surely and at once
and permanently do for u.s. Absolutely
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
HIS KLONDIkE LETTER..
Dear Billy, promised to write you
A line from this far northern cline,

Dear Billy, promised to write you
A line from this far northern cline,
And so sit down to indite you
A bit of cold, frost bitten rhyme.
I'm here in this new Ell Dorado,
Where clusters Of gold grow on trees,
Where the ground hog ne'er looks for hif
shadow,
For there amt any sun, if you pleaCe.
A big cake of ice is my table,
A blanket of snow is my seat,
And tell you it aint any fable
To say don't suffer from heat.
The breeZes blow ten miles minute.
They'd freeze the nose off of your phiz.
Old Northern Dakota amt in it
For billiards. that know how to bliz
Our grub? oh, we're living like princes
On tho best the old land can afford.
My stomach at times fairly winces
To think it must scrap with such board.
Fresh dog is the leading attraction,
Broiled, fricasseed. roasted and fried,
With soup of PALE siclkly complexion,
OF peas that our ancestors dried.
For dessert we've snowballs, with dressing
OF glittering frost, and our drink
Well, our stomachs aren't drenched with NO
blessing
OF coffee or tea, don't think.
Ice water for breakfast and dinner,
Ice water for supper, and when
We eat night lunch I'm sinner
If it isn't ice water again!
And yet upon frequent occasions
sit at sumptuous board
Around me the rarest "provisionS'
The markets can ever afford.
I feast upon meats sweet and tender,
On pastry of daintest bake,
Till my appetite makes u surrender
And begs ME desist; then wake.
Tom Smith, who came with us, is lying
At rest in grave in the snow.
He called me up to him when dying
And said: 81 am lucky to go.
soon will be sitting and blinking
At fire that's eternally bright"
Tom wasn't saint. and I'm thinking
He sized the thing up about right.
And old Uncle Jimmy McCarty,
The Cripple Creek miner, is gone.
He fell by the way while the party
Was hoof1ng it up the Yukon.
And Dick, with the starchy shirt sideboards
Around his long neck, and Big Ike
We stuck up in snowdrifts guideboards
To point out the trail to Klondike.
Dock Burlington weakened at Juneau,
Passed out in advance of the draw.
And, Lord how we cussed him, for you know
He always lacked sand in his craw.
But now, when inclined to be talky
And sit here discussing the past,
We freely admit that old Docky
Had damsite more sense than the rest.
Goodby. l am all in n shiver.
OF the gold have nothing to say
Save this: You can bet if l ever
Get back to old Denver I'll stay.
Where one makes strike there's a legion
Will wearily rawhide it back
And curse this ice sepulchered region
Like Hessans. Yours hungrily, Jack.
P. S.-You may read her this letter
(You know who l mean-Mary Ann)
And tell her l think she had better
Tie on to some other young man.
And tell the old girl not to below
Because l am hid in the fog
Well, goodby again. dear old fellow.
must go and help butcher dog.
Denver Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
How to Remove Various Kinds of Stains


Iron rust may be removed by judicious
treatment with hydrochloric acid. Tell
your druggist what you want it for and
ask for rather diluted solution. Place
the spotted part over a deep basin,
partly filed with boiling water, and
when it has become well moistened
with steam touch the rust once or Of
tener with small brush dipped in the
acid. The spot will quickly disappear,
and the lately disfgured portion of the
material should be Immediately dipped
in the water to remove the acid, after
which rinse in another water contain
ing ammonia or soda to prevent the
acid from eating away any part of the
fiber.
TO restore color that has been injured
by most acids, as hydrochloric acid or
lemon juice, etc., touch the spots with
spirits of ammonia. Nitric acid acts SO
rapidly that the spots from it cannot
always be successfully treated in this
way.
To remove grass stains, treat the
stains as soon as possible with alcohol.
This dissolves chlorophyl, the green
coloring matter of plants.
When iodine has been spilled on
white muslin, wash in ammonia water,
adding more ammonia as the case re-
quires. This changes the iodine into
ammonium iodide, which is soluble in
water Treat the stains as soon as pos
sible, and before the garment has been
laundered. Be careful i'll using am
monia Oh blue fabrics. 1t destroys prus-
sian blue. To clean fine white lace,
cover thickly with powdered calcined
magnesia and lay the lace away, under
pressure.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
How to Clean Mats.

An excellent method of cleaning dirty
mats or rugs is to generously sprinkle
yellow cornmeal that has been thor
oughly dampened in clean soapsuds, or
weak ammonia water, over them, then
brush or sweep off, and you will be sur
prised at the wonderfully bright and
clean appearance it will give to the
Soiled rugs or mats thus treated.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
Worth Remembering.

The community with the best roads
is very likely to be the best community.
A narrow tire will dig rut, but a
good broad tire VIII roll it shut
The depth of a road is more to be
dreaded than its length.
The state of the road tells the size of
the load.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
His '97 Model.

''Did you get new bicycle this
year?" inquired the newspaper man.
"Oh, dear, mol" replied the artist
II couldn't afford it. l am still riding
the one got last year.. -
"But I heard you speak of your '97
model"
eyes. She's novice who has just
begun to pose for me this summer. -
Chicago Post
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04

"You must admit" said the high
browed woman, "that many man has
gone to heaven solely through the efforts
of his wife,
Certainly, said the disagreeable
bachelor. Otherwise they would be
alive yet ''-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
A Sharp Boy.

Tommy-All the wind is out of my
tires
Mr.. Figg-All the air, you mean.
Wind is air in motion.
Tommy-Then it is air when the
wheel is still and wind when I am
riding, amt it, paw?-Indianapolis
journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04

1t is now claimed by some statisti-
clans that the world will be overpeopled
at the end of 176 years. This brings us
70 the year 2072, when tine population,
at the present rate of increase, will be
1894, 900, 900 people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
Unselfish Widows.

"Widowhood makes woman un-
selfish''
why sop
Because she ceases to look out for
No and begins to look out for No g."
Brooklyn Life
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04

els there anything nice in belts this
season." inquired the customer.
Yes, sir, replied the pretty sales
girl, incidentally blushing What
size, please?'-Chicago Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
Road Briefs.

A good road is ii public joy.
The better the road is drained, the
easier it is maintained.
Reform the roads and reform the
people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
Baseball Term.
Easily Corrected.

Angry Mother-How dare you tell
your father that he is stupid! Go at
once and say that you are sorry.
Little Willie-I'm awful sorry you re
stupid, papa.-New York Sunday Jour
nal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04

*Except Sunday. Nos As and A carry
passengers No. II is a local train from Cum
berland to Pittsburg and No. ii from Pitts
burg to Cumberland. Nos and make
stops each way between Cumberland and
Plttsburg. tH- Through tickets, east and
west, for sale at Cumberland.
NJ. G. CLARKE,
WM. NJ. GREENE, Ticket Agent
General Manager d. b. MNRTIN,
May % Manager Passenger Traffic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
"The Blow Almost Killed Father"

"The Blow Almost Killed Father"
Her papa's foot had pattered on
His person quite too often,
And many day he sought way
The old mans heart to soften.
Though packing boiler iron within
His pants was quite bother,
He tried the game. The wild kick came,
And the blow almost killed father,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-09-04
Railroad Schedules.
Cumberland and Pennsylvania
RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE.
East ward.

In addition No. leaves Piedmont S:i5 a. m :;
arrives Frostburg l0:40a. m, and No. g. leaving
Frostburg 200 p. m, reaches Piedmont 2:55 p.
m, stopping at all intermediate stations
*On theatre nights, when admission tickets
are sold by Agents to performance at theatre,
leave Cumberland at close Of performance.
All trains stop at Hays street station, Cum
berand.
Nos. l, 2, g. 4, and Sdaily except Sunday.
Nos. S and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sati."-
days only.
L. NJ. HAMILTON
June 5 Superintendent.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09
COLLARS AND CUFFS.
How to starch and Iron Them Equal TO
Laundry.

How to starch and Iron Them Equal TO n
Laundry.
Put some raw starch in pan with
little water, say . tablespoonfuls Of
starch to tablespoonfuls Of colo wa
ter. Cover with paper to keep the
dust out and leave it to blend. Next
morning take half a taaspoonful of lump
borax, bruise 1t, and set it to boil In
clean saucepan, with y tablespoon
fuls of cold water. Stir occasionally
and boil till every particle Of borax is
dissolved, then add half teaspoonful
Of pure glycerin, pour the mixture into
basin and let cool.
Then mix all together, and when the
starch Is smooth add few drops of
blue to give it nice, clear color. Now
take piece Of best white curd soap and
rub it between your hands among the
starch till the mixture is quite frothy,
like basin of soap bubbles. Starch the
articles in this and roll in q towel over
night.
You will require a small basin Of
cold water, thin, cid handkerchief
and small piece Of soft, white muslin.
And close to where the irons are heat
ing have small wooden box filled inch
deep with powdered bath brick, an inch
of wax candle tied in linen rag and a
small piece of white writing paper.
Take the hot iron, rub it well among
the siftings in the box, then blow off
the dust, rub it on buster. Hold it up
and rub all over the face with "waxy
cloth" Then instantly polish on brown
paper and turn the iron so that its edges
all come in for share Of the rubbing.
Test the heat by passing the iron heavi-
ly over the bit of writing paper.
Unroll the end of the towel and take
out one collar, lay it right side down on
the table, rub out the creases with the
piece Of muslin, then spread the hand
kerchief over the collar and pass the
iron over it rather lightly twice. Re-
move the handkerchief, turn the collar
right side up, rub over with iron twice,
turn collar again quickly, iron once.
Repeat the process, pressing more
heavily each time and making more
effort to smooth out the collar, till steam
ceases to rise from the linen. Rub ths
iron, at last turning rather heavily Oh
the right side. Now lay the collar fiat
ON the table, wrong side down, and
catch by buttonhole nearest you, pas,
the point Of the iron quickly along the
surface and roll tho collar back on it
self to curl it.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09

There is nothing that so re-
freshes on these hot sultry days
as good ice cold drink of Seattle
beer which can always be found
at the Favorite.
If you are interested in the sub
ject of enlarged portraits, it would
be worth your while to see the
samples at King Bros. at prices
ranging from $500 to $1,000
frames and all. They can't be beats
Before giving your order for q
portrait, see what King Bros.
have to show in crayon enlarge
ments and Judge for yourself
whether they can give you the
best value for your money or
not.
Kroeger Pianos, sweetest In tone,
Jas. w. Bergstrom, sole agent, cash
or installments. Warerooms at
G.. Vests, Masonic Temple. Of
fee at Thrum's Book Store. Tun-
ing and repairing. 1S- Tele-
phone BAT.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09
Just Like Gold Coin.

For more than fifty years
has PERRY DAVIS PAIN
KILLER stood the test
against all remedies prepared
to eradicate pain, and today
stands at the head of the list
among the medicines that are
SO essential to keep at hand in
the home.
tits not a new fangle remedy
nor do the proprietors lay
claim to any wonderful revela-
ton of the ingredients that en-
ter into the manufacture of
this ever popular remedy.
1t is perfectly harmless, you
need have no fear of becoming
habitually inclined to it's use.
For Collie, Cramps, Dyson
terry, Colds, and all painful
affections, a few doses will GER
tainly give relief. You cannot
afford to be without a bottle
in the house.
Your forefathers used it
and found it beneficial.
Why experiment with some
remedy that is new and it's effect
on the system unknown?
1t has many rivals but no
equal.
NJ The new CSC. size con-
tains over double the quantity
of the Csc. size.
HOLSTER = Drug
Company,
Sole Agents for the Islands.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09
For Sale.

The Property belonging to the Ha-
waiian Coffee and Tea Company, in-
ings, Tools, ETC., is offered for sale.
For particulars, apply at the office OF
Messrs. f. A. Scbaefer & Co., or the
Office Of the Manager at Kailua, Ha-
waii.
Per order
w. w. HALL,
69l-tf Secretary II. @. Il T. Co.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09
w. G. Irwin & Go.
Limited.
Offer for Sale

Parsffine Paint Cos P 4 B Pain to and
Papers; Lucol and Linseed oils, raw
and boiled.
Indurine, ia cold water paint) in white
and coiors.
Filter Press Cloths, Cement, Limo and
Bricks.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09

All Business entrusted to him
will receive Prompt and Careful
Attention. Office:
Hcnokaa. Hamakua. Hawaii.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-09
WILLIAM KAMALI,
Painter,

II Osssox, Smith street, with Samue
Kaholookaiani Pua. Residence; Palsma
55l.Bm
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-21
Mr.. -, Chief Engineer,
Steamer Mary ID. Hume.
Via Juneau, Herschel Island,
Alaska. Arctic Ocean.

Juneau, they said, was q government
mail station, and the letter would get there
this time. Fatal delusionl In just about
another month back came the official en-
velope again by way of the Third avenue
cable road mail service and again marked
'Misdirected.' 1t had struck fatal frost
again. Now, what want some wise man
to discover is how on earth persons who
are In the arctic regions correspond with
friends in less frigid regions. I'm knocked
out The strangest thing about it all is
that the day before Christmas got from
this estimahle gentleman that 1 can't cor
respond with big polar bearskin, all cured
and mounted as parlor rug, How In
thunder a big thing like that can get down
from Herschel island to New York all
right when little thing like letter can't
get there in the other direction, completely
stumps me. Talk about troublesl Are
there any in it with trying to crack that
puzzle9"
A Sun reporter who submitted the case
to men familiar with the arctic regions
was informed that the letter should have
been held at Sitka, Alaska, on its first
journey to the polar region and that some-
body blundered in sending it back. There
is Recognized ocean mail in the arctic sea,
which consists of cask that floats around
in radius of about 100 miles, these ex-
perts said, and whalers go up to itand pick
their letters out. 1t ism t in operation now
because 1t is frozen in and can't circulate.
A fleet of whalers is also frozen in around
Herschel island. Mail intended for them
! is held generally at Sitka or other polar
mail stations until the warm weather sets
/ in.
"If the bafied polar correspondent, said
one expert, "redirects that letter, puts
cent stamp on it and sends it by way Of
the Dominion of Canada, giving the loca-
tion of Herschel island as Mackenzie bay, ,
and adds Please forward, there is a chance
that some of the Indians along the Mac
kenzie river, who are sometimes in COM
munication with the whaler fleet in win
ter, may be moved to deliver ii before the
Fourth of July, 1898. l can't think of any
other way of expediting the troublesome
delivery. The delay, you know, is one of
the abiding joys of an arctic winter. Com
munication with civilization and its privi-
leges is an unknown luxury there. New
| York Sun.