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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
Combination Diving.

The Swedes delight in combination
diving" and two men will perform
many clever fcats together. One of the
most grOteSQue Of these is when one
man stands upright on the springboard
and tightly clasps another mans body
round the waist, holding him head
downward and putting his own head
through the mans legs. When the up
right man springs from the board, he
throws his legs into the air so that the
two men, claspng the other tightly
round the waist, turn SomcrSault, and
when they reach the water the man
who started upside down arrives feet
foremost.
The handspring dive is a very effect
I've speciality Of Swedish swimmers.
The performer takes off from the div
ing board with hands instead Of feet,
turning his body in order to descend
feet foremost or somersaulting to ar
rive head downward. Very graceful
also is the back dive, in which tho
spring Is made backward, the body
turning toward the SpringbOard. DOu-
Bile somcrsault dives are made from
platforms 80 or 30 feet high, the diver
making two turns in the air and enter
ing the water feet fOrCmoSt.-Pcter-
sons Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
A Youthful Promoter.

A horseman had an amusing expert
ence near the speedway a few days
ago. He called to an idle newsboy to
hold his horse while he made Il call on
a client. On leaving the house he was
surprised to see another boy in charge
of the horse. SO he asked:
Flows this? You are not the boy |
left my horse with"
"No, sir. jist spekilatcd and bought
him Of the other boy for 10 cents. He
said as how you were only worth a
nickel, and l says you were good for
quarter. See?'
The boy got the quarter and went
around the corner. where the first boy
was waiting under an open window in
the home of the horseman's friend.
"That's the way ter work the swells,"
said the young speculator to his com
panion. EFF you had statd, he wouldcr
coughcd up Il dime. The bluff made
him ershamed to hand over less than
the two bits. You gets II cents, and
keep the extry cent for pcrmotin dis
scheme. SeeT'-New York Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

AN ACT to amend Section four of Article
). of the Constitution of this State.
SECTION l--B il ,noctcd By tie Gtntrnl IS-
ScmWy of MnryIdUd thrrc-iitthS of all the
members ofthctwo Houses COnCurring, That
the following section be and the same is here
by proposed as an amendment to the tOn>ti
tuition of this State, and adopted by the legal
and qualified voters thereof aS herein prOvid-
ed, SAID section shall >upcrScdc and stand in
the lace and instead of Section four of Arti-
Gle ), of said Constitution
SECTION As soon as may be after the
taking and publishing oft the National Census
of 1890, or after the enumeration of the popu
ati0n of this State, under the authority there
of, there shall be an appnrtiunmcnt of repre-
Scntatiun in the House Of Delegates, to be
made on the following basis, tu 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 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 be entitled to- four del
=
"i h'r'N 'h"nS'liid ana less imam hlty-hNe
thousand souls, shall be entitled to five dele
gates and every county having population
oftitty-iivc thousand souls and upwards, shall
he entitled t" SIX delegates and no more; and
each of the four legislative districts of the city
,f HoIt;m,r. .b,IJ h., o,,t;,lod p, ,,,o u,tnr
w. '''>
'''''''
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

Running newspaper Is just like
running a hotel, only different, thinks
the Falls City (Neb.l Journal. When a
man goes into a hotel and finds some
thing on the table which does not suit
him, he does not get up and raise hades
with the landlord and tell him to stop
his darned old hotel. Well. hardly. He
sets that dish to one side and wades
into some of the many dishes that do
suit him. 1t is different with some
newspaper readers. They find an ar
ticle occasionally that does not suit
them exactly. and. without stopping TO
think 1t may please hundreds of other
readers. make grand stand play of
their supreme asininity md hasten
over TO stop their paper"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

Unto no department in life" says
Yuan Mel, Chinese authority on
cooking, SHOULD Indifference be allow
ed to creep; into none less than into the
domain of cookery. Cooks are but mean
fellows, and if day is passed without
either rcwarding or furnishing them
that day is surely marked by negli-
gence or carclessness on their part. If
badly cooked food is swallowed in ST.
lence, such neglect will speedily be-
come habit. Still, mere rewards and
punishmcnts are of no use. If dish is
good. attention should be called to the
why and the wherefore. If bad. an eff
fort should be made to discover the
cause OF the failure"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
WIDTH OF STREETS.
Needless Expense Caused by Unnec-
essarily Broad Roadways.


Wide streets are generally supposed
to be good things. whether in big towns
or little ones, but when It comes to lay
ing pavements highways unnecessarily
broad require an expenditure that may
delay or entirely prevent the making
OF the improvement.
The president of the Michigan EnGi-
nrering society in his recent annual
address had much to say on this sub
ject, and he cautioned the officials Of
small towns not to be too ambitious in
laying out their roads, since 1t was
better to have narrow ones well paved
than wide ones not paved at all or at
an expense the community cannot af-
ford.
He instanced the case Of WauSeon.
g., where the main street is 70 feet
between curbs and contains no car
tracks. 81 advocated a 90 foot pave
mcnt.7 said til: speaker. that being
NOR" than ample for the needs of n vii
lnge of $500 or 5000 inha bitantS. The
y foot pavement. however. was put in
A light fall Of snow shortly after the
pavement was finished showed the
width OF pavement they really reQuir-
ed. Three days after that snowfall |
took the council over that street. and
all OF the traffic that had passed over
II could have been handled on a 30 foot
street. At the sides the snow was I'M
broken excepting where pedestrian
or dog had walked across It.
"At Delta. n smaG village of perhaps
! 900 Inhabitants, IS miles west of To-
ledO, the main street Is 30 feet wide
They have something like mile Of
street paving under contract, and the
width settled upon Is IS feet for streets
which have little travel and no teams
pitched on them and "a feet "a 80 feet
on the business street. Thus ~ 1t has
been found that these widths are am
pie. and the paving has been put in at
very low cost to the property owners
THE mistake Is very often made by
property owners OF paving a street for
30, 40 or so feet width where "a foot
or 80 foot street would do just ns we'll"
All this, however, Is rather an argu
ment against unduly wide roadways
than against the wide streets, the latter
term meaning the space between the
private land on each side. Every vii
lage should prepare for future growth
and avoid the troubles imposed upon
New York by the narrOwness OF many
OF its down town canyons.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
CAPITAL TEN PERCENTERS.
Clerks Who Lend TO
Their Fellow Workers..

Government Clerks Who Lend TO
Their Fellow Workers.
81 reckon I'll sell my salary this
clerk.
"TO whom:" asked his friend.
''Why, to one of the ten percenters,
of course" was the reply.
Dialogues such as this are Of fire.
Quent occurrence between government
clerks in Washington toward the end
Of the month. When n clerk sells his
salary to a ten pcrcrntcr. he gives the
latter an O U for the entire salary
due him on the following pay day and
receives in exchange 30 per cent Of the
amount. The man who makes the loan
retains tia remaining 10 per cent,
whence his name of ten percenter.
The ten percenter is said to exist
under one name or another in nll of the
great federal department buildings in
Washington. He is invariably a shrewd
government clerk who has n bit Of
money Of his own or has saved his sal
nry until its accumulation represents
n tidy little sum. This capital he Is
ever ready to lend In sums OF from $40
to 500
In a majority Of the Washington Of
fees the laws against usurers are 80
vigorously enforced that the ten per-
center Is unable to transact business
in safety as an individual: he exists
nevertheless under the protecting title
Of beneficial society. These fake 30
cieties should not be confused with
the mutual beneficiary organizations
which have been established for a
number OF years in many Of the de-
partmcnts, notably the government
printing office. for the purpose Of aid
Ing sick or disabled members and their
families and Of burying the dead. The
more than five or six members. They
have their charter md carefully
drawn constitution and bylaws.
Each member contributes a certain
amount of money to the funds of the
concern. and the other employees Of
the Office are quietly Informed how
they can be accommodated with a loan
for a small bonus. On the first OF every
month the pool divides It's profits.
These orSaniza tons are usually short
lived, ms they become unpopular when
the business begins to grow large. The
death of one fake association Is rapidly
followed by the birth OF a successor.
differing from its predecessor in name
only. so that the ten percenters are en-
IL ~ IL L.. -
interruptiOn.-New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
N0f the Snme Wife.

The old gentleman had returned to
the home of his boyhood for the first
time in ten years or more and, as on
the last occasions, he had written "and
wife" after his name on the hotel reg
lister. OF course the keeper of the hotel
was glad to see him and grasped him
warmly by the hand.
".\in't grown day older than when
you was here last he said.
"No?" said the old gentleman half in
quiringly.
"Not day." returned the tavern
keeper emphatically. Your wife seems
to have changed more'n you"
"YesW
"Oh, yes. Leastways she does to me.
Looks thinner than when you was here
last"
'Indeed"'
"Yes. She amt near so feshy rs she
was, accordin to my recollection. Seems
like she's taller, too, an her haid don't
look Just the same to me, an-an"-
"And," put in the old gentleman soft
ly, "she's not the same wife. you know"
Tit Bits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
THE HANDBILL NUISANCE.
Carried to Extremes In the City of
Philadelphia.


The handbill and dodger method for
wasting advertising appropriations Is
perhaps more popular in Philadelphia
than anywhere else. and 1t is so be-
cause the newspapers of that city seem
to consider it little undignIfied to get
out and hustle to persuade people such
advertising does not pay. One phase
of the nuisance such advertisements
may become is adverted to by City and
State. weekly of that city, In these
words:
''In some parts OF town. and espe-
cially In the residential portions. what
has been commonly called the waste
paper nuisance has been worse during
the last few weeks than it was before
the ordinance which was intended to
abolish It was put into operation sew
cral months ago.
Formerly the streets were mostly lit
tered with small handbills. Now they
are made unsightly by large sheets.
''In order to evade the provisions Of
the ordinance storckecpers and others
who used to distribute the smaller
dodgers have resorted to the plan of
either getting up advertising sheets to
simulate newspapers or to use one or
Two periodicals which have the SEM
blance of newspapers"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
Special Notices.
PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS. At 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 ),
of the Constitution of the State.
Second-By amending Section 1 of Article
3 of the Constitution of the State.
7hjrd-By amending Section of Article 3,
of the Constitution of the State, which said
bills and amendments are in words follow
ing, to wit:
Chapter 1S5.
AN ACT to amend Section Nine of Article
), of the Constitution of this State, and to
provide for the submission Of said amend
mcnt to the qualified voters of this State
for adoption or rejection.
SNECTION BE il endcttd By tie Gencrdl
- 1SMwbiy Of .Ndryidnd (thrce-itths of all
the members elected to each of the two
Houses COnCurring) That the following Sec
ton he 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 as by law
provided, it shall SuperScdC and stand in the
place and stead of Section Nine of said Article:
SECTION !-The 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 hcreaf-
ter he prescribed by law; and if any States
Attorney shall receive any other fee or re-
ward than such aS is or may be allowed by
law, he shall on conviction thereof, he re-
moved from office; provided that the state
Attorney for Baltimore city shall receive an
annual salary of furty-livc hundred dollars,
and shall have power t" appoint one deputy,
at 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 ap-
prove; all Of said salaries to be paid out of
the fees of the said states Attorneys office,
aS has heretofore been praCticcd.
SECTION 2-ind be IL turthcr enacted, 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, tu he held
in this State, submitted to the legal and quail
flied voters thereof for their adoption or re-
lection, i'll pursuance of the direction con-
tanned III Article IT, of the Constitution and
at said election the vote on said proposed
amendment shall be by ballot and upon each
ballot there shall he written or printed the
words, Fort Unconstitutional Amendment"
orr Against the Constitutional Amendment
as the voter shall elect, and Immediately after
said election one return shall be made to the
Governor of the vote on SAID propuSed amend
mcnt aS directed by the said Fourteenth Ar
ticlc "t the Constitution.
Approved April > 1890.
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Chaptcr 100.

AN ACT to amend Section two of Article ,
of the Constitution of the State.
SECTION l-Be 10 enacted by the Generdl .iS-
~mJiy of Nary'and, three ilfths of all the
members of the two Houses cOncurring,D
That the following section be and the same
is hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State, and if adopted by
the legal and qualified voters thereof, as
herein provided, said section shall Supersede
and stand in the place and stead of Section
, of Article of said Constitution:
2-Thc city of Baltimore shall be divided
into four legislative districts as near as may
he of equal population and of contiguous ter
ritury, and each of said legislative districts of
Baltimore city, as they may from time to
time be laid out, in accordance with the pro
visions hereof and each county in the State,
shall be- entitled tonnc senator, who shall he
elected by the qualified voters Of the said leg
islatiyc districts of Baltimore city, and of the
counties of the State, respectively, and shall
serve for four years from the date of his clec-
tinn, subject to the classification of Senators
hereafter provided for.
SECTION 2-AmI be il further eisaeted by the
authority aforesaid, That the said foregoing
Section hereby proposed as an amendment to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
NO ROOM FOR kICkERS.
Even the Penrly Gates Barred to
These eObjectiOnabIes

st. Peter sits at the heavenly gates.
his hands on the strings of the Tyre,
and he sings a low song as he patiently
waits for the souls of those who expire
He hears in the distance a chorus Of
song that swells from the foot OF the
heavenly throne, and he smiles as the
music Is waited along. and he MARBLES
a lay of his own:
"There Is room In this region for
millions Of souls who by sorrow and
woe were bereft; tits for those who
have suffered the melody rolls. but the
kickers must turn to the left.
There Is room for the people who,
when they were young. persisted in
sowing wild oats, yet doomed up their
town with sinew and tongue. but the
kicker must go with the goats.
There's room for the people who
pointed with pride to the beauty and
growth of their town, who kept sing
Ing their praises aloud till they died,
but the kickers will please amble down.
They'd say that the music was all out
Of time and the angelic gown hand me
down. and they'd send to the moon for
n jeweler to sample the gold in their
crown. So, while there Is room for a
million Of souls who by sorrow and woe
were bereft, we want no complaint Of
the music that rolls, so the kickers
must turn to the left"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

A scientist who has made a study Of
the planet declares that there Is snow
on the moon.
There are 2S pounds OF blood in the
body Of nh average grown up person.
and Mt each pulsa tion the heart moves
10 pounds.
While cyclones and tornadoes are dif
ferent phenomena. the former appear
to give rise to the latter. Tornadoes
almost always break out, II Mt all, on
the sOutheasterly outskirts Of a cyclone
A period Of : seconds between n fash
of lightning ,and thunder means that
the flash is a mile distant from the OBJ
server. Thunder has never been heard
over Il miles from the flash, though
artillery has been heard 100 miles.
Sir Robert Ball asserted that every
100 years the sun loses 3 miles Of it's
diameter. To allny anxiety, however,
he mentioned that the diameter Of the
sun is 100000 miles and that 10000
years hence the diameter would still
be s5s, 1000 miles.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
FRosTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1901.

the Constitution shall at the next election for
members uf the General Assembly of this
State, to he held on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in the month ot November,
nineteen hundred and one. be submitted to
the legal and qualified voters thereof for their
adoption or rejection. in pursuance of the di
rectionS contained in Article II of the Con
Stitutiun of this State; and at the said election
the vote on said proposed amendment to the
Constitution shall he by ballot, and upon
each ballot there shall he written ur printed
the words. For the Constitutional Amend
ment,' or Against the Constitutional
Amendment" aS the voter shall elect, and
Immediately after said election due returns
shall be made to- the Governor of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment, as
directed by the said Fourteenth Artich of
the Constitution.
Approved April :, 1900
Now, therefore, |. JoHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor of the State of Maryland in pur-
suanCe of the provisions of Section one of
Article fourteen of the Constitution of the
State, do hereby order and direct that copy
of said bills proposing said Constitutional
Amendments be published in at least two
newspapers in each county where 81 many
may be published, and where not more than
one may he published then in that news
paper, and i'll three newspapers in the city of
Baltimore. one of which shall he in the
German language, once Il week for at least
three months preceding the next ensuing
general election (Which said general election
will be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of No
vember, nineteen hundred and "nc,) at which
the said proposed amendments shall he sub
mitte,l to the qualified voters of the State for
adoption or rejection, ST. that "a n amend
mcnt shall he voted on separately.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
:'.''''''.''''': of Maryland.
lhE Done at the city of An
M napolis on the 18th day If
MARyLAxp. June, in the year of our
:.............: urdninctccn hundred and
one JOHN WALTER SMITH.
Governor of Maryland.
l'y order of the Governor:
WiLFEEp BITEMNN.
July l3-:im Secretary of state.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
4 RetIRry.

A retiary was the name Of a Roman
gladiator armed in peculiar way. lie
was furnished with n trident and net,
with no more covering than short tu-
mic, and with these implements he en-
deavorcd to entangle and dispatch his
adversary, who was called a secutOr
(frOm seoul, to follow and was armed
with n helmet, shield and a sword.
The name of the first is pronounced as
II spelled re-shi-a-ry, the accent on the
first syllable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

"Thcy seem to be making lot of
fuss over this girl who Travelled $500
miles to marry" she remarked
Isn't that unusual?" he asked.
at may be unusual, but there Is
nothing extraordinary about it," she
answered. "Why, l know girls who
would travel twice as far for the same
purpose If assured of success ut the
end of the journey. Chicago Post.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

II wonder If the men in this car call
themselves grntlcmcn" exclaimed the
Indignant little girl standing up in the
aisle.
my dear child" spoke the gray hair
ed man in the seat nearest her, almost
any one of us would give his scat to an
aged woman or even younger one
with n baby in her arms. but
WELL can't you see I'm carrying
doll? z" she asked, with flashing eyes.
She got the seat.-Chicago Tribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
Home AdNnnfnReA.

II presume you appreciate the ad-
vantages you derive from being assimi-
lated by a civilized countryT said the
interviewer to the sultan of Bazzoo is
land.
Yes, indeed" assented his majesty.
"Why, got q thousand dollars dam
ages because Of injuries sustained by
swallowing the false teeth OF the last
missionary we put In the royal con-
somme. me."-Baltimor American.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
Agreed With Her.

Mrs. Tcrtlcdove-YcS, Paul, mother is
coming. Now, don't scowl. You ought
to think everything of mother. If 1t
had not been for her allowing us to be
together, you know, we might never
have been married.
Mr.. Tcrtlcdove-YcS, dear that Is
what I was thinking of when l scowl-
ed.-BoStOn Transcript
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

"Thc BlowahS tried hard to make 1T
appear that their reception was a big
success. Did you hear of one thing
they did,"
"NO; what was it?"
"Why, they took all the chairs out Of
the rooms so there would be standing
room Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12
IT'S Different In England.

II suppoS" it's all right for Ameri-
cans who visit Europe to talk with an
English accent when they come home"
reflected Uncle Allen Sparks. but you
never hear Of any Englishmen talking
through their noses and saying L
guess after they have spent season
In the United States and gone back
home."-Chicago Tribune
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

Mamma" said the little pig, 81 want
some moro corn"
"All right, take it," said the old one.
81 suppose you'n make Il hog of your
self, no matter what | say.'-Philadel-
9hia Record.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-10-12

"Tata! III meet you ut the ball,
said the pickercl as he turned to go.
"What BALI" And the Goldfish was
all a-Quivcr with interest.
"Thc Goldfish ball, of course"
1t is almost needless to say that at
this moment the picBcrcl was many
kilometcrs away.-New York Marine
Journal