Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-07-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
An Interesting Letter.


our pray er-meeting, delivered the fol-
lowing address last Sunday evening:
De congregation will please make itselfs as
comfortable as possible by de circumstances,
as de choir will now begun to sing. alretty.
There is considerable complaint here
to the effect that people who get up
earliest and work latest are the poor
est, and add nothing thereby to their
wisdom nor robustitude. The lazy
dogs, however, who lie abed IN the
morning and ride bicycles in the after
noon are mostly rich, clever and
athletic.
a fellow brought Forum up here
the other day--the first we have seen.
He read lmogen's poetry right out
loud in judge Durr's office, and the
prisoner awaiting trial for keeping
landlord Durr's boss six days too long.
fell off his perch and laughed his left
shoulder out of joint. Justice Durr
acquitted him, holding the opinion that
the poor fellow had suffered enough.
1t is thought that if Lucifer Smith
wins in his fight with Philander
Doestlcks Livengood, the Pocahontas
railway will increase the speed of its
passenger trains from mile to a mile
and-a-half, or two miles an hour.
Successful ambition swells Lucifer
with pride in his railway speed as well
as newspaper get-there.
Early in the spring landlord Durr
started an early Bird Rising Club"
One of the rules is-each member
must take 5-mile walk every morn
ing before breakfast The club start
ed with II members there are now 3,
the other fl having asked for with
drawal cards. The excuse is-the
hotel people generally manage to have
| breakfast over before the clubmen get
back. The practical destruction of the
club has been a great loss to the hotel.
Art is long in Grantsville but time
Is fleeing IN Salisbury, and couple
living IN those places, who have been
counting fourteen years, have decided
to get married and, as a compromise,
settle in Pocahontas.
The young man who does the leg
work for the undersigned says that
nine people out of ten who live in the
Wilhelm eighbolhood spit in the coal
! hod, and six OFT of seven hit the
handle.
Col. Whoop Koffkutter, of Bully
eany, was here the other day talking
politics. He said sit wuz de gang
whut beet de demmycrats last fall.
Now, dere's Vinegar Btters, of Iona
coming, he's big hoodoo, no good, no
sense-not a lick of sense. And Titus
A. Brick-why, he's an imbecile. a
nothing, a nit. Then there's the p"
but here the old mans upper teeth
fell in the beer glass, and landlord
DUR subsequently snook out and threw
the glass away.
A Maryland schoolteacher tried to
talk Spanish at IA party here night be-
fore last and there is talk of sending
him to the penitentiary, or the Iona
coming lookup.
Mayor Durr quarreled with one of
his counciImen at the annual banquet
last Tuesday evening. The Mayor is
a republican and while talking about
the proposal to place tariff on hoop
poles imported into Pocahontas, got
excited. Meanwhile, the councilman.
who IS free coinage democrat, while
illustrating the huntdirt instincts of
-polltlcO l06ori organs, inadvert-
entity permitted a fishworm to drop
from the palm of his horny hand into
the Mayors plate of soup. The
trouble was adjourned until the meet
ing on Monday evening, when an
ordnance prohibiting the carrying Of
concealed vermln Will be offered.
Party feeling meanwhile runs high
ana the council proceedings may be
punctuated with blows.
A Teller up here, married one year
ago week before last, has his first baby
and he acts like he thinks it is the only
case on record.
Mr. DUR, our leading citizen, figures
1t ont that
Dere vos menny dings to make times hard
Dere vos de war. de bicycle Craze, maybe
Sa ate ui ha in h Gere Vos wages
for coal md dere vos Money ' sne5ded az" fnr
beer vot ought to go fur bread.
The will of a wealthy lady who died
some time ano leaving d cents to her
husband would NOT have aroused 81
much comment had she NOT rotined bar
cruelty bv directino that if must not
be paid for ) wears .Jnstice Dnrr has
looked into the matter and saws he