Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-05-10
CORRESPONDENTS.
Timely Advice to Surplus Bachelors
in the Mountain Metropolis.

Timely Advice To Surplus Bachelors
in the Mountain Metropolis.
Tunnel, Nh, April II, 1902.
70 the MINING JOURNAL.
| have often been asked by good and
noble bachelor friends why | preferred
to live a life of seclusion among the
crags and under the peaks of these
beautiful mountains, making the hawks
by day and owls by night my COM
paniOns, and listening only to the NOAH
ing of the winds and murmuring of the
waters.
Taking up my bachelor friends ques-
tions specitically-I have to remark that
the last census shows that there are
in the whole country ) ,421, 161 bachelors,
against 1924 494 spinsters-an excess of
% per rent. Every State in the Union
has more bachelors than single women,
and even our own mountain metropolis,
on the slippery slopes of the Alleghanies,
where we breathe the purest air that,
coming from the azure meads of heaven,
upbearS the swift wings of time, | am
panied to say is exhibiting fractional
Overplus of unattached. though honor
able and gentlelnanly masculines III the
person, for instance, of the gentlemanly
J. b. Shannon.
Next on the list is the busiest man in
TOWN: who SAWS 81 will not love to-day
and will he less qualified to love well
o-morrow-Wiu. Shaffer.
Then comes little cleft ."who has for
u1any years run the gauntlet of female
joveiiness: who cannot be caught with a
lasso in the hands of an expert thrown
from tbe hazel, of the most snirited
charger
Then there is Porter Shatfer. whom
we will r.ther in only nm the instalmeut
nl.,n as he is billed to ,nxr ON thc hracb
at Atlantic CITY this summer for the
admiration of the giddy and the CAV.
n will uot do to forget that uriucc
,mono fellows who are ioyial Owen
pr;cn .allino proceries to lots nf nrrttv
rirls from Bowery and as far as Wrirht's
Grossinr Why does he lnger9
Last NOT lenst nf these nv ..s,lect
fe,y is onr own Jimmie KncbEof Inrye
and mnscnjar monld amodel of nbvsicnl
narfnrtion but a slow nunil in the school
IF love .lthouoh naturr has smiled most
s,yootly unop him
The oentlemen mentioned are ex-
cent;nnS tn tha rnle of bachelors and if
our noble oirls viii sin hold ont homes
a ii,tIe lnpGer thev may he vet made tbe
fond mariners OF these worthy gentle
mems earliest love.
Rut Ronucn Dillon and Charlie
wr;gbt Who are nv rncveloncd;ans of
nrivers,l knowIedpc ask-.whv don't
aii hachelors he Like and tr,ycI thr
,,t,, ~ cnnuul;,I rnrt;tndr >"
f"t" r.,,, .nu,,ar and 7 viii Tho man
who iopnres lovely women is not calcu.
I.tod r. dn noble tbin~s For him there
;S nntb;no hut matter and sn th;nl,;nn
ha mnst reward himself rs bnt ~
hnbhIa ON the straom of time g.
,a,nIiarco on tbe eternal aux which
;s fnrnver cbnnging its form Inf
roto;nino its essence which is matter
He NAV nnt ON the fashion of time, He
NAV sneak in accord with his surround
;,,',, IL, rai;rion nolitics business. in his
aaTa,,, doaIugs there NAV he nnthinp
70 ditfarent;ate him from others Ex,
to,,,aiIy ho NAV he , cultured ,,ontln-
man lGokinr On himself as q bundle of
t,.tes and faeiin~s suscentihle to the
'.ar,,.,t;nnS of ,lo.,Sur,, ,nd n.;, ,vhns,
mnt;nn nf Iifa i TN shr;nk from In, nn,
and rn,ke , narnatu,l ronnJ nf tbr other
That is his Inc alI and end ali He re-
minds me- of tbc last Dcmo,,rntic Irpis.
Iatmrn which rnt ,u tbn tax n,vnrs in
tha bola and then npshed tbe hole in
after tbam
iii not d;c+.to +o ,y h,cbolnr
friends for 7 know that wrong thinking
cannot he forcibIv nreventpd i'm these