Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-12-16
Some Political Biography.


To the MINING JOURNAL.
He riseth up in the morning, even
as doth the sun, and surveyeth the
town, as doth not the sun, and he saith
unto himself. which the same being
good hearkener-
Hant Hi great, hand wont Hi lie nlyselfto
Cumberland hand old converse witt a certain
artticer in drugs 'Ose name is 'Otzman?
And Hi will say huntO 'im-be' old hit as
come to pass that Hi ham sOrely needed Inn
the hotlice of State Committeeman You
need ha man OILS popular, % knows the ropes,
and o as no hequal has Ina politician Make
such has me State Committeeman an 10 Hi
ham liable to show hunto you what great
things Hi can do. For my heXCeeding great
knowledge Hi will hask nothing more than
Ina few shekels of silver for 'andblls which
shall be printed by ha paper that is ha paper.
Hi will let the dead take care of the deceased,
and 10 Hi will permit the newspaper to go
where the woodbine twiueth haround the
form hof CrOnin 'ose name hin Scotch his
David Hi will show hunto the hex sheriff,
the county commissioner, the money kings
hand all the people roundabout that Hi must
be consulted by Gentles and Jews. Yea. Hi
will make heven the colonel bow to my
Judgement, or my wrath shall be felt like
hunto the urt of ha buckshot hin the rump.
And it came to pass that This wise
man was made n member OF the State
Committee, and he grew nightly in
public favor-So much that there were
those among the Amalekites of No. | |
who observed that his chest expansion
had easy work to keep pace with the
Imperialism of the children Of .Iudea.
His pockets overlooked with exchanges
and yellow pencil marked The
Editor" Illuminated the shadows cast
by the lobe of his right ear. He met
his servants on the strect-fur that all
were his servants now. and he said to
the greatest of these go 'Ither," and
he got. and to the least 80, go to
preaching" and he praught.
About this time commotion arose
in the land concerning a certain scribe.
Ulysses, whose sir name was Hanna,
and 10 the new State Committeeman,
who should have favored no man for
any office, was Hanna'S warmest
henchman. Then he said 10, my
time as come, Hi will now show from
the housetops things which 'i,herto
ave been unknown in the land of
Hisrael." His eyes took in the place
where the sun ariseth even to the GO
ing -dOwu thereof, and his chest eX
banded until he could wear nothing
less than Billy Lewis overcoat. He
took his satchel, usually filled with
samples of grave-stones, filled it to the
brim with credentials, numbered il
Big 26,' aud passed down the great
thoroughfare, aud the people with
mighty acclaim said" surely We'll
get now all the offices We want, SO
much so we'll give of some that are
left to Homecoming and Vale Sum
what Aud the people cautioned
him, saying-"take not the court.
house from Cumberland, nor yet de-
prive the city of its water works. BE
generous as well AS great"
The train bore him to Cumberland
And it came to pass on the third day
| of the week the train returned and the
host was gathered to learn of the things
he had done.
But 10, he returned up the by-way
which is known in the Forum Office as
"Devil's Alley" aud communed with
the tombstones.
And, behold, the children of Israel
and the Hittites and other heather are
still waiting for his report of his
travail among the savage nations
which lie between Oldtown and the
house of Cresap.
And it came to pass that the club
would not go into its pockets for the
skeckels of silver he w,st fur--not a
shek Moreover, the people in his
midst rebelled against his rule and
| elected-not an Amalekite, nor Moab
lite, nor Levite, nor Midanite, nor
Abiramite nor yet Huphamite, but
a heather scribe whom Moses, II re
puted son of Ham, sir-named Tross,
called "a democrite," to keep the
scrolls wheron are written the tesla
ments which bare record of the for
tunes of the widows and orphans OF
| the land. And 10, this man, whose
name is likewise John B., did eat and
sleep in Little IL yet did he do bust
ness in sandals i'll Big rs and prosper
nightly, yet he was not counted
worthy OF so great honor as that which
came to him through the example and
advice of the State Committeeman.
And the historian of that period has
set it down on papyrus that under
the pressure of advice so fatal in Bic
26 and the regions roundabout was
Big 26 lost, but it was the selfsame ad,
vice which lost everything in the
State on both sides of Jordan except
Never Seen.
And it came to pass that great
quiet fell on the Commltteeman-that
one can hear a pin drop-when in hi,
presence. He congresses no more
air, the pencil is gone and all his eX
changes can as aforetime be carried in
his vest-pocket. The satchel restetl
in quietude, and the State Committee
man perpetuates his early education
IN the F1rHm and concentrated the
rest of his requirements upon memoir
alizing the dead who cannot resent
the civil, religious, polirlcal-not even
the photographed errors of the living
BEZALEEL