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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
Slavery Protected the Negro.

If the negro had been forced to COM
pete for existence in America, he would
have been crushed out by the civilized
power, as the Indian has been, says
Albert Phelps in The Atlantic, but the
peculiar institution of slavery protect
ed him not only from this competition,
but also, by artificial means, from those
great forces of nature which inevitably
weed out the weaker organisms and
which operate most unrestrainedly up
on the ignorant savage. For the first
time, perhaps, in the history of the
world human beings had been bred and
regulated like valuable stock, with as
much care as is put upon the best
horses and cattle. AS natural conse-
quence the sanitary condition of the
negro during slavery was remarkable,
especially by contrast with his present
condition, and his growth was the alb
normal growth of plant abnOrmally
raised in hothouse. When, therefore,
this mass of helpless beings was
thrown upon its own resources by the
act of emancipation and when the pro-
lection of slavery had been withdrawn,
the direSt wretchedness and suffering
followed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
PLUCK AND ENERGY.
Forces which Pushed n Southern
Town to the Front.


The value of harmony In matters re-
lating to towns welfare was illus
tratcd in n convincing manner a few
weeks ago by n speech delivered before
a meeting of townspeople In a small
southern city by one of their number.
The speaker said:
I'VE have been fortunate in securing
the largest number of important and
paying Industries within the past two
years of any place in the state, and the
spectacle of our municipal progress has
attracted attention from every quarter.
There Is n specific reason for this con-
dition of affairs. No town builds up
rapidly by mere chance. There is a
cause for our wonderful development,
and in the explanation for which our
people should and do take n laudable
pride. In the first place, our town has
many favorable conditions which have
appealed strongly to the capitalist and
the manufacturer. No point in the state
embraces a greater number of induce
ments for profitable and successful
manufacturing, and this has been a
pOWeT1ul leverage LOT our Guy. but ndt-
ural conditions and favorable surround
ings and great resources alone never
built any city. These are all right as
aids, but without public spirit, pluck
and energy nothing could or would ev-
er be done.
"Our city has happy faculty of get
ting her people together on all PROPOSE
tions affecting the city's progress.
spirit OF harmonious cooperation has
been our ruling guide, and all personal
or selfish interests have been swallow
ed up In the public good. United and
harmonious efforts have governed the
conduct of our citizens in all public
matters, and with cOmmendable city
pride and n wholesome determination
to do something for ourselves our city
has been enabled to cut loose from an
cient methods and crossroads ways Of
living and has won n conspicuous place
in the very front of the states progress
i've and growing cities Whenever an
industry knocks at our doors and our
people realize that another opportunity
is up to- us 10 add to our City's wealth
and progress, our enterpriSng and pub
lie spirited citizens Immediately get to-
gether and promptly meet the condi-
tions."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
A TRUE FISH STORY.
The Peculiar Adventure of a We'd
ding Ring.
July 3rn

ding Ring.
"AbOut the quecrcSt fish story l
know Of" said Il highly truthful look
ing man-indecd, he was a clergyman
"happened to me at little lake in Wis
conSin, where | used to summer with
my family. One day my wife was out
in our boat with party of friends.
She was letting her hand trail in the
water, without thinking about its
shrinking effect, and when she finally
took her hand in her wedding ring was
gone. The lake was deep at that point,
and although we made considerable
effort to recover the ring it was not
found.
Naturally it worried her good deal,
and the next year she would not so
back to the same place, nor did we
go the following year. but the third
year we went there again, and one day
| was in the woods about a mile from
the lake with my boy, trying to get
shot at some dCniZen of the forest or
other. AS we went peering around
among the trees to get squirrel we
had seen I noticed something shining
on twig of Il tree about 2J feet from
the ground. | sent my boy up after it,
and when he came back | was more
than astonished to find that the shining
thing was my wife'S wedding ring.
How it ever got there was mys-
terry Mt first. but was not a believer in
fairies and that sort OF thing. so l be-
gan to investigate for material causes.
The top of the tree had dcadencd. and
with suspicion in my mind | sent my
boy up to see what signs might be
above the green boughs. He called
down to me presently that there were
remains OF n fishhawks nest i'm the
forks of tile tree, and, putting this
and that together, came to the conclu
sion that the hawk had caught the fish
that had gobbled up my wife's ring in
the lake and had taken it to the nest
for the young hawks. They didn't
care for jewelry and had left that
part of the fish in the nest, from which,
as the nest was blown to pieces by the
wind and beaten by the storms, the
ring had dropped out and by chance
had caught on the twig where found
1t. In any event, if that was not the
way it got there. how did it? For n
surely was there, and my wife is wear
ing it today. y."-EXchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
Chapter f32.

AN ACT to amend Section four, of Article
;, of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l-Be IL enacted by the Geno,R As
Se"biy Of .Nnyyl,Rd. (thrce-lithS of all the
members ofthe two Houses concurring That
the following Section be and the same is here
10y proposed a> an amendment to the tonsti-
tuition of this State, and if adopted by the legal
and qualified voters thereof aS herein provid-
ed, said Section shall SuperScdc and stand in
the place and instead of Section four of Arti-
Gle ,, of said constitution:
SECTION AS soon as may be after the
taking and publishing of the National Census
of 1900, or after the enumeration of the popu-
latinn of this State under the authority there
of, there shall he an apportionmcnt of repre-
Scntation in the House of Delegates, to be
made on the following basis, to wit Each of
the several counties of the State, having IL
population of eighteen Thousand souls or less,
shall be entitled to two delegates and every
county having Il population of over eighteen
Thousand and less than twcnty-cight thouS-
and souls, shall be entitled to three delegates;
and every county having Il population of
twcnty-cight thousand and less than forty
Thousand souls, shall he entitled t" four del
cSatcS and every county having Il population
of forty thousand and less than tifty-tivc
thousand souls, shall be entitled to five dele
gates and every county having population
off thousand souls and upwards, shall
be entitled to- six delegates and no more and
each of the four legislative districts of the city
of Baltimore shall be entitled to the number
of delegates to which the largest county shall
or may be entitled under the aforcgong aI-
purtionment, and the General Assembly shall
have the power to provide by law from time
to time for altering and changing the bound
aries of the existing Legislative districts of the
city of Baltimore, SO as to make them near aS
may he Of equal populations but said districts
shall always consist of contiguous territory.
SECTION 2-Ind be 10 THrthcr enacted by tie
authority aforesaid That the said foregoing
Section hereby proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution, shall, at the next election
for members of the General Assembly of this
state To- be held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in the month of November,
nineteen hundred and one he submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection, in pursuance of the di-
r"ctiOnS contained in Article | |, of the Con
StitutiOn of this State; and at the said election
the vote on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon
each ballot there shall be written or printed
the words, 'For the Constitutional Amend
mcnt," or Against the Constitutional
Amendment as the voter shall elect, and
Immediately after the said election due re-
turns shall be made tO the Governor of the
vote for and against said proposed amend
mcnt, rs directed by the said Article | !, of
the Constitution.
Approved April :, 1870.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
A WOMAN'S LOVE.


sentinel angel, sitting high in glory,
Heard this shrii wall ring out from purgatory:
"Haye mercy, mighty angel; hear my storyl
''I loved, and, blind with passionate love, fell.
Love brought me down to death and death to
hell,
For God is just, and death for sin is we'll.
81 do not rage against this high decree
Nor for mvseR do ask that grace shall be,
But for my love on earth who mourns for me.
Great Spirit, let me my love again
And comfort him one hour, and were fain
To pay a thousand years OF fire and pain
Then said the pitying angel: NAY, repent
That wild vowl I<ook The dial fingers bent
Down to the last hour Of thy punishment"
But still she walled: IL pray thee let ME 60.
cannot rise to peace and love him 30.
Oh, let me soothe him in his bitter woel'
The brazen gates ground sulenly ajar,
And upward, joyous, like rising star,
She rose and vanished in the ether tWL
But soon adown the dying sunset sailing,
And like a wounded bird her pnions trailing,
She futtered back, with broken hearted wailing.
She sobbed: 81 found him by the summer
Reclined his head upon a msiden's knee.
She curled his hair and kissed him. Woe is me!''
She wept: Now let my punishment begin!
have been fond and foolish. Let me in
To expiate my sorrow and my siu."
The angel answered. NAY, sad soul, go higherl
To be deceived in your true hearts desire
Was bitterer than thousand years OF fret
John Hay.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
When to StOp,

The only time when l would cut off
my advertising would be when l had
more business than l could possibly at
tend to and when l made up my mind
that | would not increase my facilities.
If ! were making all the money that
wanted to make, If my business had
reached n proportion which completely
satisfied my ambition, l would stop ad-
vertising. Even then would not stop
for very long, because If l did the
business would start on the down
grade. You have to advertise to make
business and to hold 1t and to increase
it.-Shoe and Leather Facts.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
Special Notices.
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS VI the January Session in the
year nineteen hundred of the General Assem-
bly, Of Maryland, bills were passed proposing
amendments to the Constitution of the state: :
FjrSt-By amending section . of Article s.
of the Constitution of the State.
.Second-Bv amending Section of Article
>, of the Constitution of the State.
Thir-Bv amending Section > of Article 3
of the Constitution of the state, which said
bills and amendments are in words follow
ing, to wit:
Chapter 1875.
AN ACT t" amend Section Nine, of Article
>, of the Constitution of this State and to
provide for the submission of said amend
mcnt t" the qualified voters Of this State
for adoption ur rejection.
SNECTION he il enactcd by he Gcnerdl
- .Issm,biy ot Nnryidnd threc-tifthS of all
the members elected to- each of the two
Houses conCurringD That the following Sec
tion be and the same is hereby proposed aS an
amendment to Article ), of the Constitution
of this state and if adopted by the legal and
qualified voters thereof, herein and a. by law
provided, it shall sIpcrScdlc and stand in the
place and stead of Section Nine of said Article:
SECTION o-Thc States Attorney shall per
form such duties and receive such fees and
commissions or salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars, as are now or may hcrcaf-
ter be prescribed by law and if any States
Attorney shall receive any other fee or re-
ward than such aS is or may he allowed bv
law, he shall, on conviction thereof, he re-
moved from office &; provided that the States
Attorney for Baltimore city shall receive an
annual salary of frrty-iivc hundred dollars,
and shall have power to appoint one deputy,
ut an annual salary not exceeding three
thousand dollars and such other assistants
at such annual salaries not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars each, as the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore city may authorize and al-
prove; all of said salaries to be paid out of
the fees of the said States Attorneys office,
AS has heretofore been practiccd.
SECTION lind be il .turther e,,acted That
the foregoing Section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of this State,
shall be, at the next general election for
members of the General Assembly, to- be held
in this State, submitted to the legal and quail
flied voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection, in pursuance of the direction con
tanned III Article | I, of the Constitution and
at said election the vote on said proposed
amendment shall he by ballot, and upon each
ballot there shall he written or printed the
words, ,"For ortheConsttutional Amendment" :"
or" Against the Constitutional Amendment" Z"
a. the voter shall elect, and Immediately after
said election one return shall he made to the
Governor of the vote on SAID proposed amend
mcnt, aS directed by the said Fourteenth Ar
tiClc of the Constitution.
Approved April ), 1900
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
FLOWER AND TREE.

A single leaf of the orange tree, care
fully planted, will often take root and
grow.
Sevcn-ycar-old tea plants yield four
ounces of leaves apiece, or 700 pounds
of tea to the acre.
New Zealand has in It's edelweiss
plant differing but slightly from the
famous Swiss variety.
An oak tree at 100 years averages Al
inches In diameter, n larch 40 inches,
an elm so inches and yew 0 inches.
A white pine tree 20 years old ought
TO be about 25 feet high, and at 80 or
40 years of age it ought to measure
about 60 feet.
The pest Of British Columbia forests
is a plant called the devils club. 1t
has spikes which. when they enter the
flesh, break off and produce poisoned
wounds, which tester.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FAULTS
She Was Very Vain and Inordinately
Fond of Fine Dress.

She Was Very Vain and Unfortunately
Fond of Fine Dress.
Yet Elizabeth was never really sue
ceSsful with her wardrobe as Il more
feminine woman might have been. Her
dresses We're never beautiful, only lu-
dicrously and most inappropriately
magnificent-ladcn with jewels, weight
ed down with cloth of gold, stiff with
silver embroidery and so heavy that
even her big, powerful frame must,
without supporting vanity, have felt
the fatigue of carrying them about.
Elizabeth was certainly vain, but she
cannot claim femininity merely on that
account, for vanity is by no means an
exclusively feminine characteristic.
There are perhaps more vain women
than vain men because women have
more leisure and their costumes afford
greater opportunities for vanity than
the strangely hidcous clothing which
custom has arranged for men, but no
thoughtful feminine) observer can
doubt that n vain man is vaincr than Il
vain woman.
EliZabcth's hands were her especial
they were certainly beautiful. They
We're laden with Jewels, and it was her
habit in public to pull her rings off
with absent artlessneSs and push them
or again, moving those white hands
about in the most obvious way. Once,
during the grave consideration of a
state paper, wherein her cold sagacity
never took second place, she interrupt
ed the discussion to ask whether the
Due d Aniou, who was at one time one
of her suitors, had been told what Il
pretty foot she had and how white and
well rounded was her arm? This in
the woman who financed the armada
the supcrstitious terrors of her own
conscience in her high handed and i'm
pudent treatment of the bishop whose
interest in methods of torture for state
prisoners was most mechanical and in
telligent, entirely unhampered by any
squeamiSh feminine hesitation as to
blood or pain is most curious.
In connection with this last charac-
teristic of cruelty vanity is not at all
unprecedented. Indeed, if one observe
closely one will notice that excessively
vain persons have almost always
strange inclination toward cruelty.
The accounts of what Queen Elizabeth
permitted and indeed commanded in
this respect will hardly bear reading
by us sensitive folk today.-Margaret
Deland in Harper's Bazaar.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24

The late Rev. Il. $. Storrs was very
hard man to interview, for he resented
the inqusitiveness of the press and was
icy to its agents.
One evening a reporter attended Il
reception at his house and in the
course of the evening touched his arm
and whispered: Doctor, I'm from the
-. l want the names of guests and
all the particulars"
"Yes," DIR. Storrs whispered in return,
"this way, this way" And, taking the
young mans arm, he escorted him to
the front door and put him out
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
WHY NOtf

Why should not n doctor who has
moved into n new ncighborhood be per-
mitted TO briefly announce the fact in
the local newspapers and to add some
guarantee as to his experience. success
or ability? Nay. why should not he. in
justice to the profession generally and
In justice also to the public, by whom
he must otherwise be taken entirely on
trust. be required to do so?-Newspa-
per and Poster Advertising.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
Trees Older Than the Pyramids. .

a wonder of longevity is the 90 called
dragons blood tree of Tenerife. Rosin
obtained from this tree has been found
in scpulchcrs, where it had been used
for cmbalming the dead. Trees of this
species are now standing which are es-
timated as being older than the Egyp-
tian pyramids.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
II Takes Time.

"Your wife" we said to the husband
of the great authoress, lis the woman
of the hour"
Indeed she is,' he responded, with a
tingc of sadness in his voice. "She is
the woman of the hour and half when
she is dressing for the theatcr.'-Bal-
timOrc American.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
BEVERLY. Sept 10. l77l


First Physician-Did old Coupons
case yield to your treatment2
Second Pbysician-It did. | treated
It for six months, and it yielded some
thing like a hundred guineas.-Londou
Fun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24

DIR. Chargem (anxiOusly)-Wha on
earth has run you down so lately?
Busiman-That little ad of mine.
Dr. Chargem-And what will hinder
you from taking rest?
Busiman-That little ad of mine
Exchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
Knew HIS Pnpn,

Visitor-Charlie. your father is call
ing you.
Charlie-Yes; hear him, but he is
calling Charlie" l don't have to 60
till he yells "Charles."-Tit-B Bits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24

Never praise a woman's cake unless
you are prepared to eat every slice on
the platc.-AtchisOn Globe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24

The path of glory leads but to the
grave, but it is the most pleasant route.
Portland OregOnian.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
wESTBOUND.
Chicago Express:

Chicago Express:
No 7..arrives 1890 a. III. leaves II 10 a. m.
No. AZ. arrives 900 a. III.
Pittsburg Express:
No. 9..arrives 100 a. m.
Pittsburg Limited
No. II. arrives 450 a. III.
Cincinnati and ST. Louis Express:
No 3..arrives 525 a. M. leaves 5:32 Il. III.
*Parkersburg Wheeling and Way:
No. 1................ ....l leaves 40 a, M.
Express
No 55. arrives 2:35 p. m. leaves 302 p. III.
No. 5..arrives $50 p. III.
Cincinnati and st. Louis Limited Express:
*GraftOn and Way:
NO. O..............' ''ledNeS t'Ju ~ H.
No. l..arrives 8:0i p. M. leaves $40 p IN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
A SKETCH.

builders yard ship upon the ways,
The groan of straining planks, the snap Of stays,
The cheering of a crowd: ''She moves! She's
uh!'
And with a sudden rush and splash the great ship
Leaves the wharf.
storm swept, foam tossed sea- bowling gale,
ship half lost in foam, a rag OF sail,
The tOing Of a bell, now lost, clear
''Ibe shore! The shore" She strikes in crash.
ing
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
Waves to disappear.

summers eve, a calm and waing tide,
dismal stretch of sand that tries to hide
The bones OF some great vessel PROV on high,
Outlined against the sunsets last faint glow
Athwart the sky.
Julian IInckley in Outlook
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-08-24
RAILROAD.
May 10, 1901.

NN and AFTER above date until further
" notice TRAINS will arrive at and depart
from CUMBERLAND as follows:
Main Line.
EASTBOUND
Washington. Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York Express:
No 4..arrives 80 a. H.. leaves 2:38 a. M.
No lO......... leaves 2:4S a. M.
No. g. arrives 7:35 a. m. leaves 1855 a. m
No. 2. arrives 8:45 a. m leaves 1852 a. H.
No. 6 ... ................lea leaves l2:47 p. H.
No. II ......,..... ....... leaves 1854 p. m
*Baltimore and Way:
No. ID ..............,,,,.. leaves 3:l5 p. m.
Express:
No. 46. arrives 6:l7 p. m. leaves 6:35 p. III.
*Grafton and Way:
No. 72. arrives 7:25 p. m.
No. 6. arrives 1l59 a III.
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His Emn ncIpatiOn.

Away back In 1771 Josiah Woodbury.
D Beverly. Mass, thus published his
happy emancipation from matrimonial
woes:
BEVERLY. Sept 10. l77l.
Ran away from Josiah Woodbury.. cooper. his
house plague for seven long years. Masury Old
Moll. alias Trial Of Vengeance. He that lost will
never seek her; he that shall keep her will give
two Bushel OF Beans ] forewarn all Persons in
Town or County from trusting said Trial Of venge-
snce. ! have hove all the old (shoes) find
for Joy, and all my neighbors rejoice with me.
good Radiance Of bad Ware. Ameni
josiah WOODBURY..