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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
AS TO
APPEARANCES
"Old Gorson Graham" Advises His
Son About Clothes
From Letters From Self Md,Ie Mer-
chant 10 His Son." BY George
Horace LOr'tmsr

Dear Pierrepont-That order for a
carload of Spotless Snow Leaf from
old Shorter Is the kind Of back talk
like. We can stand n little more Of the
same sort of sassing. l have told the
cashier that you will draw thirty
week after this, and | want you to
have a nice suit of clothes made and
send the bill to the old man. Get some
thing that won't keep people guessing
whether you follow the horses or do
buck and wing dancing for a living.
Your taste in clothes seems to be last
Ing longer than the rest Of your col
lege education. You looked like a young
widow who had raised the second crop
Of daisies over the deceased when you
were In here last week.
or course clothes don't make the
man, but they make all of him except
his hands and face during business
hours, and that's pretty considerable
area OF the human animal. A dirty
shirt may hide pure heart, but 1t sell
dom covers n clean skin. If you look
as If you had slept in your clothes,
most people will jump to the conclusion
that you have, and you will never get
to know them well enough to explain
that your head Is so full Of noble
thoughts that you haven't time to both
cr with the dandruff on your shoulders.
And if you wear blue and white striped
pants and red necktie you will find
1t difficult to get close enough to dea-
con to be invited to say grace at his ta-
BILE, even If you never play for any
thing except coffee or beans.
Appearances are deceitful, l know,
but so long as they are there's nothing
like having them deceive for us in
stead of against us. I've seen a 10
cent shave and cent shine get
thousand dollar job and cigarette
and a pint of champagne knock the
bottom out of million dollar pork
corner. Four or five years ago little
Jim Jackson had the bears In the pro-
vision pit hibernating and living on
their own fat till one morning, the day
after he had run the price of mess
pork up to 500 and nailed 1t there,
some one saw him drinking small
bottle Just before he went on change
and told it around among the brokers
on the floor. The bears thought Jim
must have had bad news to be bracing
up at that time in the morning. So
they perked up and everlastingly sold
the mess pork market down through
the bottom Of the pit to solid earth.
There wasn't even grease spot left
" that corner when they got through.
As it happened, Jim hadn't had any
Dad news. He just took the drink be-
,ausc he felt pretty good and things
were coming his way.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
WHoLr NuMprR, 1865.
Lyric of Action.


'Tis the part OF a coward to brood
Ger the past that Is withered and dead.
What though the hearts roses are ashes
and dust?
What though the hearts music be fed?
Still shine the grand heavens o'erhead.
Whence the voice of an angel thrills clear
on the soul.
''Gird about thee thine armor. press on to
thy goal!'
II the faults or the crimes of thy youth
Are burden too heavy to bear.
What hope can rebloom on the desolate
waste
or a Jealous and craven despair
Down. down with the fetters Of fear:
In the strength Of thy valor and manhood
arise
With the faith that illumes and the will
that deties.
TOO lateI" Through Gods infinite world,
From his throne to life's nethermost
fires:
TOO later is a phantom that flies at tho
or the soul that repents and aspirea
IL pure thou hast made thy desires.
There's no height the strong wings of
mortals may gain
Which in striving to reach thou shalt
strive for in vain.
Then up to the contest with fate,
Unbound by the past. which il deadl
What though the hearts roses are ashes
and dustY
What though the hearts music be fied7
Still shine the fair heavens o'erhead.
And sublime as the angel who rules in the
sun
Beams the promise of peace when the
conflict Is wont
Paul Hamilton Hayne
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, JULY 1S, 1903.

INNS of the second. and it just nat
urally sold cords of papers. His ed
itor demanded thai die state depart
ment take it up, though the Spaniards
denied the execution or any previous
knowledge of any such person as this
Senor Simpkins. That made another
page In the paper. of course. and then
they got up memorial service. which
was good for three columns. One of
those fellows that you can find in cv-
cry office. who goes around and makes
the boys give up their lunch money to
buy flowers for the deceased aunt of
the cellar boss wife. managed to col
lcct $50 among our clerks, and tliey
sent q floral notebook with Gone to
Press" done in blue immortelles on the
cover as their tribute"
put on plug hat ard attended the
service out of respect for his father.
But had hardly got back to the office
before | received a wire from Jamaica
reading: Gable your correspondent
here let me have hundred. Notify fa-
ther all hunk. Keep it dark from 9th
crs. Simpkins.'
kept it dark, and Ezra came back
to life by easy stages and In such Il
way ms not to attract any special atten-
ton to himself. He managed to get the
impression around that he'd been
snatchcd from the jaws Of death by
rescue party at the last moment. The
last | heard Of him he was In New
York and drawing ten thousand year.
which was more than he could have
worked up to in the leather business in
n century.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
Probably Correct.

The Midland Press mOralizes as fol-
lows on painting:
When does it pay best to paint? a
builder tells the Press that the best time to
paint is right at first, when the woodwork
hasn't been dried and checked by the wind.
If you wait even a few weeks, he says, the
board is splintered into fine checks, too
small to be noticeable but large enough to
take q deal more paint to fill them, beside
injuring the wood and making beginning
of decay 1t is decidedly economical to
paint woodwork as soon rs built, using the
scafrold put up by the carpenters, and saw
ing in paint and time quite a bit of money
beside having a house much better looking.
That is evidently wise and influential
builder.
II the baseball advisers of the Press
were as observant, honest and forceful,
the Press would be an authority i'll that
line so reliable that even Keno would
never be compelled to set it right.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
Lounge Anatomy.

The modern interest in science
through observation" has become
more or less of mania. Even the chill
drcn are bitten by 1t. The Little Chron-
icle says that George, aged Ave, takes
a great interest in physiology and anat-
Omy.
One day some members Of the family
had been studying a dissected porcu-
pine and making drawings OF the
bones.
Not long after his sisters took an old
lounge apart, and George watched
them. Presently he came running to
another member of the family, his eyes
on fire, his cheeks flushed and his
locks flying behind him.
"Come! Conner he cried. 'If you
want to study physerology now's your
chance. The girls have got the lounge
all to piecesr'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
THE TYPHOON.
A Chinese Legend of the Origin of
This Fierce Storm.

TINS F1crc0 STORM.
This very odd bit Is by Chinaman:
"a little schoolboy while on his way
to school one day picked up what
seemed to him small white pebble.
He put 1t into his pocket. 1t proved to
be snake egg, and in time through
the heat of his pocket 1t hatched out
young reptile,
"The boy fell in love with it and car
ried it from day to day to school with
him and fed it with a part Of his own
lunch until it became too big to be car
ried, when he made a nest for 1t at
home.
"But one day 1t suddenly grew to
enormous size, and upon the boys ar
rival home he was frightened to death.
"When the monster saw what he had
done he was sorely afflicted and re-
fused to be fed, but Immediately put on
mourning by turning his color from
brown to pure black. He crawled be-
side the grave Of his departed friend
and lay there for seven days and
nights.
AT the completion of the seventh
night he came back to'hls late home.
but the boys old mother was so en-
ragged at him for killing her only son
that she picked up an ak and chopped
his tail off.
"With a fearful scream and lash of
his bleeding tail he felled the house
and made his way to the Moo Soon San
mountains, where he never shows him
self but once a year, just about the
time when he lost his tail, to come out
and make trouble for the people by Gre
ating storms called the typhoon. This
he does to square himself for losing his
valuable tail"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
SEMI-IOCAL.

The Elkins (W. Na.) .NF~S reckons
"the shirt-waist man, the toy pistol, the
Panama hat, the idiot who rocks the
boat and the mint julep' i'll the same
category 1t comes to pass, hence, that
when reform takes imperial substance
"the shirt waist man. will have to go
to limbo with 1.-The toy pistol "the
Panama hat with "thc idiot who rocks
the boat" and the mint julep," having
nobody to go with, will survive as an
cxhilarating reminder that "there is luck
in odd numbers"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
THE EXPERT CASTER.
flncina His Fly Is Not Mere Chance
but n Fine Art.

ttncinH HIS FLY Is Not Mere ChanCe,
hut n Fine Art.
The art of casting is in itself simple
and may be readily acquired by any
painstuking fisherman. The rod passes
only through a quadrant; it starts par
allel with the water and. coming to
the perpendicular. stops. The motion
Is quick. rigid jerk as fast az 1t can
be made, and the rod does the rest.
The motion forward is at the beginning
Il gradual feeling for the tension OF the
line-t that is, when it is about to
strai2hten. Once this is assured the
movement increases in rapidity from
butt to tip, the result being much the
same as driving at n peg with long
handled hammer-slow at the start
nn1 qil,rk at the finish, the bend Of the
rod being first ut the butt and gradual
ly ascending to the tip.
In casting nothing is left to chance
by the expert caster. He knows exact
ly where he wants to put his fly, with
in foot or two, and puts it there the
feathered barb travelling past him at
from six inches to four feet above the
Nutti, hS lit may SiStt, II may
20 above the shoulder if desired. In
some long casts one may see the fly
pass below the hip. Indeed the degree
of command one can gradually acquire
is really wonderful.
A single cast where fish are located
is, as rule, sufficient. They will rise
at once, and If the fisherman Is an ex-
pert at dropping his fly he can bring
fish to the spot from some distance.
One may frequently see fish attracted
from point so far from the fly that
they break water two or three times
before taking the hook. On the other
hand. n fly awkwardly dropped will be
taken with a lcisurely grab, the fish
simply sucking it in, and the exhilara-
tion of a spirited rise is lost. The more
expert fisherman is at fly casting the
more thoroughly he enjoys the sport
Golfers Weekly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18

An excellent ginger beer may be pre-
pared in the following manner: Take
two ounces of bruised ginger, two
ounces of cream of tartar, two pounds
Of lump sugar, two lemons cut in slices
with the rind left on; put all these into
n large pan or pitcher and pour two
gallons of boiling water on them. Let
this stand for several hours, strain it,
and when quite cold add tablespoon
full of brewers yeast and let It remain
in the ginger beer for twelve hours.
Then skim off the yeast and bottle the
beer. Press the corks very firmly down
and tie them. 1t will be ready for use
In week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
THE ANT QUEENS.
fhey Live Longer Than the workers
of Their Com M u tiles.

of Their Communities.
How long may an ant queen liver In
their natural habitat some queens
doubtless have short lives. but by rea-
son Of the protection afforded them
and the seclusion enforced by the
workers they probably live much lon
ger than other members of the com
munity. Within artificial surroundings
they attain comparatively long life.
The oldest emmet queen known to sci
ence was one preserved under the care
of Sir John Lubbock. later Lord Ave
bury. A number of years ago during
visit to this distinguished naturalist
Mt his country seat. High Elms, Kent,
the writer for the first time saw this
venerable sovereign living in the in
genious artificial formicnry which had
been prepared for her. She was then
In the prime Of life, as it afterwurd ap-
peared, being seven years old.
In the summer of 1887 Sir John was
again visited. this time at his town
house in London. After greetings he
Il have sad news to tell YOU" he an
swered.
what! Is the queen dead?"
''She died only yesterday. have not
had the heart to tell the news as yet
even to my wife,
Having offered my hearty condo
lence, asked to see the dead queen.
Sir John led the way to the room
where his artificial nests were kept.
The glass case which contained the
special formicary In which the old ant
had lived was opened up. Lying in one
of the larger open spaces or rooms was
the dead queen. She was surrounded
by A crowd of workers. who were ten
derly licking her, touching her with
their antennR and making other dem
onstrations as il soliciting her atten-
ton or desiring to wake her out of
sleep. Poor dumb, loving, faithful
creatures! There was no response
Their queen mother lay motionless be-
meath their demonstrations.
"They do not appear to have discov
cred that she is really dead" remarked
Sir John. Afterward he wrote me Of
another queen which died Mt the age Of
fourteen. The ants dragged her body
about with them when they moved un-
til 1t fell to pieces.-H. &. McCOok In
Harpers Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
The Lumber Jacks Song.

Ave bane common lumber yack;
Det bane all, yo say;
Bot Aye navver skol 20 back
To Old kontry; nay
Aye gat saXty cent day;
Work lax nigger, too
Bot, bay yeminy, Aye skol stay
Det's vat Aye skol do
Som mems lax to driving team
bet bane qvite quite yob;
Odder fallcrs oop scheme,
Den 90 ont an rob
Som poor Scandinavian slob-
bet bane nice work, too.
Aye skol keep dodgin' dies har mob
Det' vat Aye skol do!
Som mems com to mae an say
"Olaf, yo bane fool.
70 bane breakln' back all day,
Yus lax yackass mule;
Way yo don't 90 to skule"
Den Aye tai dem-"Yo
Mind yo bezness an keep kule;
Det's vat Aye Skol do ~
Aye bane common lumber yack,
Bot, bay Ieorge. Aye know
Aye bane followin' right track
Yes, Aye tai yo SO.
Aye skol Stell wade Ell deep snow
All long yenter through;
Den may panga Aye skol blow;
Det's vat Aye skol do.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18

Rain during burial is considered an
excellent sign" throughout the West
India islands. If one measures his own
height with rod which has been
used in measuring a corpse for the
coffin he himself will die within the
year. A stroke with the hand OF
corpse is believed by the West Indian
to be sure cure for all pains and
swellings.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
A SNAKE STORY.
Men who Coax the yenOmOus Rep
tiles to Bite Them.

tiles to Bite Them.
"Men can become accustomed to
snake bite just as they can become ac-
customed to anything else said a man
who had spent much time In studying
the habits of reptilan life, land in not
q few instances which have come un-
der my observation the snake bite has
really become not only pleaSurable,
but Il kind of physical necessity. You
see, the poison is stimulating. 1t works
like an opiate OF the kind admins
tered by persons who fall victims to
the pernicious habit Of using the nee
die. or of taking the stuff internally.
l have known n number Of men who
would make snakes bite them every
day. and they simply couldn't get along
without it. Their energies would begin
to lag. They would feel drOwsy and
lifeless. by allowing snake to bite
them they could relieve this condition.
The poison would stimulate and buoy
up, having the same effect as dose Of
morphine or cocaine or other kinds of
dope has on persons addicted to its
use. or course they are careful not to
get an overdose of poison, always ex-
tracing enough of it to keep down the
dangerous consequences of the bite.
Often men addicted to this ugly prac-
tice are forced to tantalize and gOad
the snake up to the point Of despera-
ton in order to make it bite. But
they will strike after awhile. 1t is an
awful thing to even think about, isn't
1t? But this world is filled with curl
Gus things and curious persons, and
among the wonders Of a coarser kind
Is the man who takes the snake fang
'hypo.'" - New Orleans Times Demo
crat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18

"Your little brother seems like play
full boy"
"Yes, he is. He's very playful. When
sister was married he stopped up the
chimney, threw pepper in the fire, put
brandy in the lemonade and turned the
garden hose on the minister. oh. he's
playful all right"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
IL Made q Difference.

Mother-Goodness me! Is that Irene
at the piano?
Little SOn--Yes, ma.
Mother-Well. so and ask her what
she is doing. II she is practiclng she
can keep on until the hour Is up, but II
she is playing tell her to stop.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
TOWN AND VICINITY.
4 Conclusive papcr.

An incident of the Citizens, Teachers
and Students meeting i'll Assembly Hall
of State Normal, No. 2, Thursday after
noon, 9th inst, will be treasured long by
those who have thought and wrought
for the School from the beginning.
Though coming into the programme
unannOunced, it furnished climax
which evoked enthusiastic comment and
eager endorsement.
Miss Robinson, on behalf of the
students. presented resolutions, which
appear below, and a proposed vote of
thanks and confidence in Principal and
Faculty was adopted:
At a meeting of the students of the Sum
mer Term, State Normal No. 2
On motion, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, We, teachers of the State of
Maryland, representing eleven counties, and
students of the Summer Term, 1903, of
Maryland State Normal No. =, feel that we
have been greatly benefited by the course of
instruction in said summer Term
R,m'"d. That we respectfully urge upon
| the State Board of Education that. because
it meets our need. coming a. it does at Il
time of the year when we are free from
other engagements. said Summer Term be
| made permanent feature OF our School
Course, and, further
RcsoIrd, That we urge upon the coming
Legislature that special and proper provision
| be made to this end in con junction with
generous appropriation for carrying out the
| work of the regular terms.
CATHERINE ROBINSON,
Chairman,
Wicomico
HoNoE> BIRMINGHAM,
Carroll
ETA PIrMMER,
Caroline
A. V. TOWNSEND,
Prince Georges,
Rr.rn WArrEN,
st Mary's,
ELIZABETH BHowN,
Allegany,
AppIE BRADSHAW,
Somerset,
AURA B. C>THCART
Garrett,
EMMA f. JACoBs.
Dorchester,
II. {. NORRIS,
Queen Anne's.
Committee.
AS intimated, the paper attests full
filment of all that the promoters prom
ised indeed, for the first year mare than
they could certainly expect.
And now, if the success of the first
year. greater than anticipated. be pro-
phetic of similar qualifications i'll sue
cceding years, the day may not be far
distant when State Normal School, No.
,, may be reckoned from within Frost
burg's greatest attraction and from
without the rodi"s rrctor of the States
educational system.
Further notice hereof is made on third
page under State Normal School, No p"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-07-18
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May II, 1908.


NNand AFTER above date until further
notice TRAINS will arrive and depart
from CUMBERLAND as follows:
Main Line.
EAsTBouND.
Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York Express:
No. 4. arrives 2:30 a. M. leaves lbs Il. m.
No 10. Observation-Disclosures. leaves - a. H.
No s. arrives 7:51 Il. M. ; leaves 81 a m
No >. arrives SIS 4. M; leaves NJ a. III.
No. Observation-Disclosures. icaNcs - r. ILL.,
No II. arrives 1920 y. m. leaves lO41 p. III.
#Baltimorc and Way:
No. leaves 3:15 p, III.
Express:
No. 46 arrives 6:l7 p. M; leaves 6:35 p. III.
*Grafton and Way:
No -. arrives 7:25 pm.
No 4. arrives 1859 p. III.
wEsTBoUNp.
Pi.tsburg Express:
No 0. arrives lbs a. M.
Pittsburg Limited:
No. H. arrives $50 a. III.
Cincinnati and st. Louis Express:
No 3. arrives 5:25a M; leaves 5:32 a. III.
*Parkersburg Wheeling and Way
No. 1....................l leaves 700 a. IN.
Express
No H. arrives 9:l0 am.
No. 55. arrives 2:35p. III. leaves 3.O3 =. m.
No. 5. arrives 2:55 pm.
No. 46. 6.....................l leaves 3:10p M.
*Grafton and Way:
No. s. leaves 1870 p. III.
Cincinnati and st. Louis Limited Express
No. l. arrives SD p. m. leaves S;2S p. m.
Chicago Express:
No. Z arrives O:40 p III. leaves 1850 p. m.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-27
The BOodIers.

Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet
scout" of New Mexico recently
passed thru St. Louis and while
there took occasion to express him
self very freely concerning boodlers
and boOdling. He said that the
boodler is a sneak, is worse than
a horse thief. When we hang a
horse thief out on the plains, the
people say, Well done, he de-
served it. There are no frills on
the public conscience out there.
THAT is what l can't understand
about the st. Louis and Missouri
public and the boodlers.
The public puts them in Office
and feeds them and gives them
shelter for their families, and they
turn around and show their graft
tude by taking the money the peO-
pie paid to care for, aud put it
in their pockets. Yet the people
don't seem to do very much to
them.
A bandit is not nearly so mean
as a boodler. I've known bandits
to steal from the rich and give
the money to poor people. A
boodler always steals from the poor
because the public consists largely
of the poor"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-27
EAvEsDRoPPERs.
Now to Be Witnesses In a
DAMAGE Suit.

Macon. Mo-. Aug. 21.-D. s..
Farmer, treasurer of the Lunday
& Zion Telephone company of
West Macon county, has sued B.
F. Jenkins, a stockholder, for
$500 damages for an alleged
slanderous message sent over the
wires. The plaintiff expects to
make his case upon the testimony
of caves droppers, who held their
receiver sdown to hear the message.
The custom is said to be common
on country lines. The language
on which recovery is sought, fol-
lows; You have squandered three
or four hundred dollars of the
compauy's money and l will make
you account for it at the next meet
ing or | will go after your bonds.
men," Without the eavesdrop,
pers, plaintiff would have no cause
of action, because language to be
slanderous must be in the hearing
of a third person.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-27
THE FARMERS LUCK.
And the Question Is What
VIII He Do About IL.

The following dispatch was sent
out from Kansas City few days
ago;
1t is claimed by cattlemen that
it is no longer possible to sell cat
tie here on their merits. The same
condition is alleged to exist in St.
Louis, Chicago and other cattle
mark cts, and the cattle producers
say that the reason is that the buy
ers who represent the big packing
houses are all in a combine.
Rich and prosperous as are
the Kansas farmers and ranch
men," said Major E. w. Filing
ton of Ellsworth, Kan, this morn
ing, "their prosperity won't be aug
mented this year by their cattle
sales. The reason seems to be too
that there is no competition in
buying cattle. If one buyer offers
price, the other buyer won't go
above it. If then, the COW man
thinks he can do better in st.
Louis or Chicago and ships his
cattle there, the results indicate
that a telegram has preceded him
there describing him and his cars
of cattle and stating the rate Of
fered at this market. y