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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Not Hurt.

Have they hurt the JOURNAL
Suppose they have-the JOURNALS
interest cuts no figure in the matter
whatever.
The JOURNAL has always done a
laundering sight more for the town
than the town ever reel procated.
1t has given more celebrity to the
town than any dozen Institutions IN it
and gained only the poor ewards which
come from work continuously hard.
Hence, any sleIghts such as a com
mittee, interested directly or indirectly
in pretended rival, can put upon it,,
are easy to bear, because the JOURNAL
can stand them far, far. far better
than the loss of selfrespect which
would come from bending the knee to
electric light Weylerism.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
TOWN AND VICINITY.
In Bad Taste.

AS stated last week, the serial is
broken.
The record with which Sandy Smith
smashed all 3year contract antago-
nism is again interrupted - the third
time in over ~ years.
The annual report went in the Forum
by the votes of one of its own incor.
porators. and a councilman who is a
corporate associate of the editor-in
law in several other of the latter's
numerous nrogeny of companies.
AS cOuncilmen in Cumberland or as
county commissioners these gentlemen
could not have done this-no more
than one of them would have been al.
lowed to make five-year contract
with himself.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
GROW TIL.

Yes, build your dam high as you can.
You think I'm small but I'll tell you all
I'll get over it-'O,rr Just So
And make your wheel buzz down below.
You can't stop me while water flows.
l may be river yct-who llnowsf
See how the brown mold over me sits.
Bury me deeper meath leaves i'll drifts.
Forget I'm here, deep out oG sight,
Where it is dan R-as dark rs night.
You cant hide me while acorns grcS'.
I'll be an oak tree the next you know.
Keep me in dresses and play I'm girl;
Keep my long hair nicely in curl.
But IN boy, doubt that who can,
And some bright day III be a man.
The world will know mc-that's what said.
For I've thinker i'll my head.
Sarah +. Winslow in ST. Nicholas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Insect Steeds Ridden by Insects.

At recent meeting of the Entomo-
logical society of Washington some
specimens of phrysopa, species of
golden eyed fly, which had been collect
ed in the White mountains, were exhib-
tied as curiosities. because each carried
on its back one or more minute cecido-
myiid flies. The opinion was expressed
that this was true case of smaller
species of insect using larger species
for the purposes of locomotion from
place to place. Youths Companion.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

You can tell the successful farmer
by looking at his wife, by the fruit
cans in his closet. You can tell the
dry goods box statesman by the
patches on his pants. You can tel
the poison serpent by the bluntness
of his tail. You can tell the slouchy
woman by her shoe buttons and hair.
But easiest of all you can pick out the
enterplising merchant Of town by
looking at his home newspaper. This
is not divine revelation, but it is
business rOSnel and trne
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
\ Test.

The patriots are after Mayor=elect
Kean. of Cum herland. The Ne,es
says:
OH the police force. He says his mail is very
heavy, that it is doubtful if that of any of
the patronage dispensers living in the First
Ward can equal it.
Mr.. Kean ought to keep a list of
those who thus express wish to serve
their country and turn it over to a
recruiting officer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
A"Conspicuous Precedent.

"Shiftless as ever, Thomas?" said the
wealthy uncle. "Still making failure
of life, as you always have done?'
81 don't know that I'm such terri.
BILE failure" " sulkily answered the poor
relation.
"Why, you have nobody but yourself
to support, and you can't make both
ends meet.
."Well, the rainbow has only itself to
support, and it doesn't make both ends
meet either ''-Chicago Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
COUNTY NEWS.
Upon Which Much Depends.

In the course of joint letter in the
Homecoming Star, Indirectly addressed
to the Homecoming Reoieeo, the firm of
Dick 4 Campbell, legislators, referring
to the unfortunate papers "letter-
tile,' locate that bundle as the aggre-
cation wherein
the real explosives lie.
The firm explicitly omits to state,
however, whether the verb, :lie," is
active or passive.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

SEMI-LOCAL NEWS,
BreYitiGs.

The editor of an exchange, who is
something of linguist himself, says
there are $50, 900 words in the English
language, and that most of them were
used Sunday night, April 10, by a
young lady who discovered. after com
ing out of church, that her Easter hat
was adorned by tag bearing the
legend, ''reduced to so cents.'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
GENERAL ITEMS.
1t Is the Sought.

Steele wrote:
lfan office finds out the true gentleman
he faithfully discharges it. | say finds him
out for 9 public office is a guest who receives
the best usage from those who never invited it
As true to-day as 200 years ago.
but no office is permitted to go look
ing for an incumbent now.
The latter and his competitors don't
give 1t the chance.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

The greater part of the cast off uni
forms of British soldiers find their way
into the shops of dealers in secondhand
clothing. The coats are then either cut
up, sold to theatrical managers or ex-
ported to Africa and elsewhere for trad
ing purposes with the kaffirs and other
unCivilized people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
How the Cat Comes Back

The argument in favor of our keep
ing the Philippines is that we want to
keep them IN order to find work for
our army and navy, and we want to
keep up al army and navy in order to
be able to keep Philippines and find
work for our taxpayers New York
WOyIH
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

A cork rope is made of small corks
placed end to end and the whole covered
with braiding of cotton twine. Over
this is coarser braiding in heavy
strands. The rope will stand strain of
1000 pounds.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

IommY-"Can't we play at keeping
store in here mamma o.
Mamma (who has a headache) --"Yes:
hut yon must be very, very quiet"
Iommy right we'll pretend
we don't advertise. - TrWA.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Ii Can't Be Done.

70 run a newspaper without occas-
ionally publishing an item that is un-
trhe or giving offence. is like running
a railroad without having any acct
dents on smash-ups. 1t can't be done.
No man on earth is so much imposed
upon AS the editor of newspaper.
Correspondents sometimes run in
innuendo whose object he does not even
suspect, and pushed with work con-
tinually, he must rely on second and
third parties for information as to the
events that transpire. Frequently
statements are received from sources
which are thought to be reliable, but
which are subsequently discovered to
be without foundation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Pittsburg Division.
WESTBOUND.

*Except Sunday. Nos As and Al carry
passengers No. II is a local train from Cum
berland to Pittsburg and No. IA from Pitts
burg to Cumberland. Nos and make 3
stops each way between Cumberland and
Pittsburg. Nos IA and Is are new trains !;
will not be put on until June 20.
H Through tickets, east and west, for
sale at Cumberland.
NJ. C. CLARKE,
WIN. NJ. GREENE, Ticket Agent.
General Manager. d. B. MARTIN,
May % Manager Passenger Traffic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
One Who Knows.

If there is man living who hn01s
the value of newspaper advertising that
man is John Wanamaker. Hear him
as quoted by the Wool and Cotton
Rep0rter.
never in my l:fe used such a thing as a
poster, or dodger or a handbil. My plan
for 20 years has been to buy SO much space
in newspaper and fill it up as | wanted. |
would not give an advertisement in news
paper of 500 circulation for 5000 dodgers or
posters If | wanted to sell cheap jewelry or
run gambling scheme | might use posters ;
but would not insult decent reading pub
lie with handbills. The class of people who
read them are too poor to look to to support
mercantile affairs. | deal directly with the
publisher. say to him:
How long will you let me run a column of
matter through your paper for 500 or $500?
as the case may be. | let him do the figuring
and if think he is not trying TO take more
than his share give him the copy. | lay
aside the profits OH particular line of goods
for advertising purposes.
AT first laid aside $1,000 Last year laid
aside and spent $4,000. | have done better
this year, and shall increase the sum as the
profits warrant it. | owe my success to news
papers, and to them | freely give certain
profit of my yearly business.
Chapter Two-Wherein "Circum-
stances Alter Cases."
The JOURNAL was asked the other
day" whether work that can be done
in town should not be kept here ?" The
JOURNAL answered. generally speak
ing. yes,' implying that ''circum-
stances might alter cases" For in
stance, a tradesman, enjoying a mo-
nopoly in his line, who is not content
for his neighbor IN another line to get
along without competition, establishes
a rival concern to divide that neigh
bor's business-that man has positively no
claim sohateyer to home trade Hence, if
the JOURNAL needed tombstone, it
would not feel that it owed the town
OF Frostburg the sort of loyalty which
requires it to buy from John B, Will
liains. Nor does it feel that it should
advise anybody else to patronize him.
These remarks are preliminary to
another call for attention to George
W. Crosses invitation to deal with him
at Hyndman, Pa. He proposes to
furnish "better work and lower prices"
two features in themselves sufficient
to induce christian people to investi-
gate whether they owe the town
enough to pay tax to maintain a
concern that olives" but does not "let
live
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

All the Goodness of the Golden Grain
is concentrated in RALsToN HEALTH FLOUR.
For all wholesome household uses-Bread,
Rolls, Mullins, Biscuit, Gridde Cakes.
Especially commended to Invalids and
Infants, and Dyspeptics demand it.
j. A. WAGNER Agent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Sunday Schedule.
Nos

In addition No. leaves Piedmont S;45 a. m. !;
arrives Frostburg lO;44 a, M, and No, H. leaving
Frostburg 200 p. M, reaches Piedmont 3:R p.
M, stopping at all intermediate stations
son 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, A. 5, s and 9daily except Sunday.
Nos. and run Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays only.
l.. M. HAMILTON,
March 20 Superintendent
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Then Only.
Joanna Baillie wrote

In those who dc. their native rights maintain
In those whose swords an iron barrier are
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
Railroad Schedules.
Baltimore and Ohio

%S-55| L ana depart from W M
suI BERLAND as follows:
MAIN LINE.
EASTBoUND
Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia
Express
No 10. arrives 2;05 a. IN. ; leaves 2:l5 a. m.
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York Express:
No. 4. arrives 2:26 Il. M: leaves 2:3O a. M.
No 8. S..arrives 7:40 a. m. leaves 1858 a. m.
No. 2..arrives $50 a m; leaves S:57 a. m.
No. 8. arrives l2:2S p. M; leaves 12:i7 p. m.
sway Stations:
No. II. .... leaves 6:35 a. m.
*Baltmore and Way:
No. H.. arrives $40 p NJ. leaves 3:l5 p. m
Grafton and Way:
No. 6 arrives l25 a. m.
Express:
No. l6. arrives 6:23 p m. leaves $40 p. m.
*Wheelng. Grafton and Way:
No. 73. arrives 7:l5 p. m.
wEsTBoUND.
Chicago Express:
No. 7..arrives 1912 a. m. leaves 1880 a. m.
Plttsburg Express:
No. 9..arrives 1:20 a. M.
Cincinnati and St Louis Express:
No 3..arrves 1928 a. m. leaves 4:335 a. m.
*Parkersburg Wheeling and Way:
No. 7l...... ........ ..... leaves 200 a. IN.
Grafton and Way:
NO. o............ leaves 4:io p. m.
sway:
No. 13. arrives HOS a. m.
*Grafton and Way:
No. 15.......... leaves l2:33 p. III.
*Passenger:
No. II. arrives 6:45 a. IN.
Chicago Limited Express
No. 5. arrives $50 p. m.
Cincinnati and st. Louis Limited Express
No. l..arrives S;l5 p. m. leaves $40 p. m.
Express
No. 55. arrives 1888 p. N. leaves 3:43 p. nj.
PittSburg Division.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
GRAND Tower, ILL.,, Feb. I, 1898.

GRAND Tower, ILL.,, Feb I, 1898.
take pleasure in recommending DR.. J. H.
McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm. have
been troubled with disease of the liver and
kidneys for years, and have been treated by
number of physicians but to no advantage.
By the use of six bottles of DR. j. H. McLean's
Liver and Kidney Balm am now we'll
j. j. VASTINE
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
A Present Duty.

Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04

in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores Ulcers,
Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblans Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions and positively cures Piles or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by The G. E. PEARcE
Drug Co.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
pills cure Indigestion, biliousness.

Siberia Is not an arctic waste, peo-
ped by a few Russian %convicts, but an
Immense country with vast resources
tmpatiently awaiting development.
This the new transcontinental railway
will at least begin, and at a date pos
,ibly not remote the markets Of the
world will have to count with the pro-
iucts of a region Of which a great part
Is as rich as any on earth. An English
military attache who recently Travelled
overland from st. Petersburg to Vladi.
vcstoek by the new route says that the
line. will open up both agricultural and
mineral which for practical
urposes are almost inexhaustibie. 81.
IBERIA, he declares, can produce about
every kind of cereal and all sorts OF
i've stock, and it possesses in abundant
quantities the more important miner.
Ills, precious and other. Owing to the
enormous distance and the cost OF
transport, the Russians have hitherto
had no opportunity to place their 81
berian produce on the great European
markets, but for years past the author
tiles have been gradually, and there
tore permanently, developing the coun'
try. The construction Of a railway
through Manchuria will open up a
country exceedingly rich in gold and
highly valuable from an agricultural
point of view.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
EeeOinc Mineral Fertilizers,

There ought to be no trouble in
keeping mineral fertilizers until spring
in good condition for drilling Or put
ting in the hill if you put it in a dry
place. SO far from losing It's effective
ness we think the phosphate will be
more effective than when it came from
the factory. We have often used new
phosphate and have generally found it
SO moist that it is hard to drill ,nbut
when kept six months the phosphate
will be dried out, and while less in
weight will for that reason have its
f%ertilizing properties in more concen-
trated form, We usually kept bags Or
barrels of phosphate in a o adjoln-
ing the horse stable. No doubt the
sulphuric acid in phosphate united
with the ammonia from the horse
manure But if we had this to do
over again we should mix the phos-
phate with either COW or horse manure,
trusting that its sulrnuric acid would
unite with the ammonia of the manure
pile anu with the lime of it's original
compound. It is possible every win
ter, we believe, to thus mix phosphate
and manure together and reduce them
both to a condition OF fine powder.
Such q fertilizer will, we believe, be
more effective on any crop than either
the manure o. the phosphate used
separately.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
Boy in the Bundle.

An Iowa boy recently passed through
an experience which he will not forget
if he lives to be 100 years old. He is
only five years old, and n day, when
his father went to the wheat field to
drive the harvester, he took him along
and perched him on the high seat at
his side.
For a time all this vas very inter
esting, but presently the little fellow
grew tired and began to squirm and
complain. Andthen, just as his father
was leaning over to look more closely
at some of the machinery, off tumbled
the little fellow to the conveyor. He
shrieked just once and his ia her tried
vainly to stop the horses. But before
he could even slacken the speed the
boy had been driven up through the
elevator canvas with half a bundle OF
wheat, the binding Irvine had twisted
swiftly around his neck and legs and
he was rolled out on the wide carrier
securely bound in a wheat bundle. He
was almost choked, and there was a
tiny bit of skin torn from his shout
der, but otherwise he was unhurt
when his father cut the string and
helped him up again. But a worse
frightened boy would have been hard
to fnd.-Chicago Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
New Trade For Women.

A large firm of furniture removers
in London have recently added to
their staff a lady whose special bust
ness it is to advise a newly removing
householder concerning the DISPOSE
ton Of his belongings.
She takes all the responsibility
about the placing of each chair, table
and knickknack. The householder
simply leaves his house one morning
as usual, and returns at night to his
new dwelling to find all the furniture
in it's place, and everything indie
scribably improved and homelike:
The "adviser" has a most refined
taste, and this, added to the knack OF
being able to picture the look of a
room with any possible arrangement OF
the contents, enables her to transform
the most unpromising material into
veritable 'bowers Of ease and de-
light"
Her fee (half-a-guinea per room) in
cludes three visits-to the house IN
order to view the furniture she IS
about to place-to the new residence
TO note the size and disposition of the
rooms, and a final one to see that her
instructions are being carried out by
the furniture removers.-New York
journal,
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
Novel Small Change.

A very interesting report on the trace
Of Ads Abbaba, Abyssinia, compiled
by Mr.. Kennel Rodd, has just been
issued by the foreign office.
The products exported from that part
Of the country ere gold, ivory, ciVet,
a and coffee. The market for the
two former Is largely controlled by
the Emperor Menelik, who receives
his tribute in this form. This partial
monopoly aud the competition of mer-
chants importing goods from the coast
to obtain gold to send back have driven
I'D the value, and gold has nearly dou'
bled In price since last year. The value
of ivory has also advanced.
Dealing with weights and currencies,
Mr.. Rodd adds that it is remarkable
hat the prestige of the Emperor Meme
lik has not succeeded in popularizing
the new dollar stamped with his head
The only small change for the dollar
consists either of rifle cartridges Or OF
pieces of rock salt some eight inches
long, tapering to either end, and about
two inches broad in the thickest part
Cartridges have come into use as small
change Of recent years, but they arc
easily tempered with, charcoal being
substituted for the powder, and are
therefore, an unsatisfactory medium OF
exchange.-London Mail.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

ring in meal. I fed several pigs
through the winter wholly on this,
with the exception of a daily throwing
in of uncooked Hubbard squash. The
animals did fairly we'll under this reg.
linen, but the gain from the invest
ment was not sufficient to warrant a
repetition. The beans, after soaking
proved in appearoaca ~6t with very
little hand picbuig they were usually
in good casphtion for family use, the
ffrcts bekig mostly but stains Ola the
surfact,' (which were removed by the
water. When, therefoY beans are
high-priced, the poor nan might save
q penny when he can buy this class by
the barrel at the usual price at which
they are sold, viz, about'5ne cent a
quart. The pea waste which is left
from those [ raise for seed purposes, a
mass of halves, small sized, skin
cracked or rotten peas, [ have been
able to utilize with results that were
much more satisfactory; for whereas
hogs, if not brought pretty near to the
borders Of starvation, will not eat
beans unless accompanied with other
food, they always welcome peas.
My way Of preparing them is first to
soak, or rather sink them in water,
when the rotten ones rise to the sur.
face and are easily skinned off. BY
pouring the peas into the water rather
than water on to the peas, and in
| either case giving them a little stirring,
[ find I am able to secure a large pro.
portion of the rotten ones. After soak
ing the peas twenty-four hours tue
water is drained off, and I boil them
to a soft, PUPPY condition. In the
nea-growing countries [ understand it
is the practice to feed after they are
soaked and swollen without cooking,
but as the waste I am handling is old,
and as I utilize heat that would other
wise be wasted, Iprefer to cook them.
My hogs, which average 200 pounds
live weight, eat heartily six quarts
each of this waste, measured when dry
daily, and grow like weeds, weighing
considerably more than one of the
same lot kept by my neighbor, who
feeds his on the mixture Of cornmeal
and shorts. AS the peas fed would
otherwise be thrown on the dung heap,
the cost of feeding them is merely the
labor attending i'll. J. II. Gregory,
Marblehead, in New York Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
Woollen Fabrics.

Among the woollen materials most
worm this season is woollen poplin,
plain or of various colors mixed, such
IS Seyres blue. indigo, navy blue,
coffee color. beaver, beige, fougere
green, etc.
Another novelty is that of tissus-
passementerie, which gives the effect OF
silk ribbons passed through a network
If mohair. Tartan materials are also
made in mohair in small checks on a
,ilk ground of the same colors.
Another kind Of meterial is a sort OF
diagonal, in which are mixed brilliant
threads, which give a lustre to the
stuff.
Another tissue lisa cloth with a black
warp and colored weft, blue, red or
brown, which produces a very pretty
changing effect.
Other materials worn are amazon
sloth, chine cloth, covert coat cloth
and whipcord.
In the way of ornaments, I have seen
applications of cloth Of different c%olors,
generally shaded, piped, braided and
embroidered with small steel beads.
Mohair .braids are also laid on in
,urls, grouped or isolated and sewn
along N edge or both edges.
Lastly some very pretty embroider-
les are made resembling lace cut up,
laid on over a ground of gauze, that
San be sewn on the material, which
produces the effect of being embroid-
cred direct on the dress.-New York
Herald.