Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-08-08
CORRESPONDENCE.
All Sorts of IL Letter.

IN me W b'bS, WI, august !, i''''''
To the MINING JOURNAL.
After another year of rest-'away
from the busy haunts of men, and the
boistcrous confusion of city life-living
quietly and peacefully among the crags
and under the peaks of this beautiful
Notwithstanding only to the music
of Natures wind-harps and the ceaslesS
murmur of ripping waters | have un
fortunately received IA political jolt
which occasions much uneaSiness and
may reduce me to umcOnsCiOusness.
Yes, alas | am again ferreted out of
my hiding by the logic-chopping office
seeker, who meets me with Il surface
smile and again extends the glad hand
to Il poor fellow whom "a bystander a
standing-by' might imagine needed
help
A citizen of my financial calibre owns
not it is true, some of the convenience
and enjoys not some of the pleasures of
wealthy political aspirants, but i'll re-
turn | am free from many emharrass
mrnts to which they are subjected.
1t is true, my poor meal of corn bread
and pennyroyal tea must satisfy my
stalwart appetite, while those whom we
are called upon to honor, acclaim. select
taxes sit down to luxurious banquets.
But how grateful seemingly now are
those noble souls whose hearts have come
out to see me again. for they could not
find rest until they had done something
to make me feel happier and better with
out making my load lighter.
The old, mOuldy- hearted politician is
is taking his back-number sleep, and the
wise. young" men are "tO the 'front.' so
sand, looking upon their fellow human
creatures who are poor, sick and SORROW
ing, preaching deliveranCC at last, and
thus pntting little more hop" and glad
ness into orr lives.
Well may sinners, hypoorites, hair
splitters and booze-dcstroycrs feel highly
grateful.
AS for me, will lei the curtain down
tenderly i'll trout Of their pretcnsions,
for they have blown III thick as South
Cumberland mosquitoes, the worst bugs
in the Kingdom of insects, and each gen
orally entitled to the honor of being
called "a beaut,
A select number of specimens will have
to be tolerated until after the third day
of November, especially Of those who
make up in swiftness what they lack i'll
mentality.
The others we will have to send back
to the tall timber to spend twenty-four
more long and weary months sanding
their intellects," so as to qualify them
to climb again without slipping up.
In the meantime | will continue to
commune with the hawks and owls who
inhabit and unlimited, share the COM
forts of my little cabin, which is stuck
against the mud on the slippery slopes Of
the picturesque Allcghanies.
But my neglected political brothers,
you who didn t get there" be it placed
upon the spotted tablet of your memory
that this old grizzly mountain-son of
Nature will in his solitude have COM
passion upon you and, with tears i'll his
eyes, pray for your better salvation.
Hoping you will he inspired
|, To never again trespasS upon SUI
fering humanity
., To look those against whom you
have sinned squarely in the eye;-
3, To admit that, if unmarried, no
sane country girl would take you as ii
donatiOn;-
1, To learn that unless the voter of to-
day and tomorrow has Il warped BRAIN
pan, he cannot be caught with the same
bait with which you angle for suckers; -
,. To find ont that there is no rule for
catching flies with palaver;-
q, To have no financial dealings with
the Midland Base Ball Club
7, To keep on going to church and
s, To lead IA better life
| believe the country Will be saved
anyway. THE MAN In THE WOODS.