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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-10-10
Married.

AT the residence of Bradford Blocher,
this place, Sunday, October 1, 1908, by
Rev. J. w. r. Sumwalt, Miss Mar
galet Blocher to Mr.. Archie Broad
water, both of Garrett county
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-10-10
announcements.

II. \. Martin has completed his big
job of painting and ornamentation at
the Frost Mansion" now owned by
w. A. and f. G.. Hitchins. A great
transformation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-10-10
TOWN AND VICINITY.

Business Weather Note.
All seasons are favorable to advertise
ments planted in the JOURNAL.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
KING EDWARD IN IRELAND.

King Edwards visit to Ireland is being marked by
many demonstrations of better feeling towards
the British monarch the part of the Irish people
to become especially significant and of import
bearing upon the future.
There at least two good reasons accounting for
this friendler attitude of Irishmen such moment.
The first and weightier of the two is that the land
bill, which has passed its third reading in Para-
ment has greatly diminished the bitterness felt by
the Irish people against the English indicating, it
does, willingness the part Of the latter to solve
the longvexed Irish land question" in adj
vantageous TO the Irish themselves. The second
son is contained in the fact of King Edwards per-
sonal popularity in Ireland. He is well liked by the
people Of that country and he leaves nothing undone
that promises to increase this liking.
But, as is being made plain by leaders of Irish
thought and action, the movement for Home Rule is
not in the least affected by these recent developments
King Edward may make himself personally welcome
in Ireland and the wrong of the Irish land situation
may be righted by English action. still the fight for
Home Rule remains to be prosecuted to definite
clusion just before. The change in the aspect
of things is due to the fact that British tact and dpo
macy may now have greater exercise in dealing with
the Irish problem than has been possible heretofore.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
THE LAW AND THE LADY.

That Connecticut man who tried to obtain from the
courts injunction forbiddng his tickle sweetheart
TO wed his hated rival manifested confident faith
In the allembracing jurisdiction of the law equaed
only by the righteousness of his original device for
smoothing loves rocky road
Nevertheless, although one sympathizes with even
a Connecticut man, perhaps the most practical and
unsentmental Of Gods creatures when he is the dole
full victim of capricous girls desire to be off with
the old love and with the new, it is not to be
GREETED that this melancholy swain failed to
the desired injunction When sweet romance be-
comes subject to legal writs the delight of the world
will be in peril of utter extinction.
Far more consistent the action of another
recently Tilted lover, in this instance citizen of the
State of New York, where human impulse po-
tently dictates action along natural lines He was
elderly Romeo, and when the object of his affec
tons threw him over for younger man he knet
down and wrested long and earnestly in prayer for
divine guidance. Then he and got big club
and went and beat his successful rival into sort
Of pulp of distgured sentiment, 1t WERE after
which he returned home In great content and tran
quillity Of soul.
From the purely moral viewpoint the Connecticut
man was right and the New Yorker wrong, since one
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
LITTLE JAPAN'S PERIL.

There is to believe that pugnacous little
Japan will make tragical blunder should she permit
an mpetuous national resentment to hurry her into
war with Russia the assumption that England and
France would also take up to prevent Russian
aggression in Korea and Manchura.
The Ango-Japanesc alliance is not by any means
sufficiently definite of itself commit the British Gov
eminent to the policy of supporting Japan in such
conflict, and 1t is extremely doubtful whether Eng
land is ready for war of such magnitude socitous
she may be to check the growth of Russian power
In the Far East and lessen the menace Of the Sav
in India 1t must be remembered that Japan found
friends to back her up when at the close Of her
victorious war with China Russia stepped in and yr-
tually robbed her OF the fruits of victory.
Even less to be counted upon is France the sound
est wisdom dictatng for that country policy which
shall insure peace for years come, with possibility
Of profting from wars between other Powers while
she is regaining her old strength and maintaining
friendly relations with all. The fact of the better
feeling now existing between the French and English
people does not necessarily French willing
ness to Join in with Russia with whom not so
long ago, she terms of the most enthusiastic
and vocferous amity. Nor does Japan make an es-
pecally magnetic appeal TO France ally, save In
extreme necessity.
iOf course, should war between Russia and Japan
be the outcome Of the present crisis all Of read
5ustments and alignments might result, but the
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The Fisherman-The approach of the dog
DAYS calls attention to the Fisherman.
which during the warm weather is subject
to a species Of rabies that is extremely con-
tagious. and against which people who are
out on n vacation should protect themselves
as much as possible.
This strange animal. which is n cross be-
tween Ananias ard hot-air furnace. is
chiefly remarkable for its curious habit of
spending the winter laying up the store of
dough which it blows in on n two weeks
angling trip in the summer.
During the most Of the year It Is plain.
unpretentious. inoffensive beast of burden,
that is economical. reliable and veracious.
but the minute it begins to throw fits a
complete metamorphosis takes place and 1t
becomes a wild and unmanageable creature
that burns up money for split bamboo rods
and silk dip-nets. and boasts loudly and
without truth or reason of what it is going
to do. thus rendering itself terror to all
beholders.
These annual attacks are naturally n
great drawback to the pleasure of having a
Fisherman domestic pet but as you
can always see the frenzy coming on. it
gives family an opportunity to hustle the
poor afflicted creature off to the country in
time to save their lives.
Fortunately, the spells are seldom of long
duration. and after two or three weeks the
Fisherman generally returns in an humble
and chastened state of mind, with empty
pockets and large. sore sun blisterS on the
back of its neck.
The Fisherman Is indigenous to the entire
world. England and Scotland produce a re-
markedly fine species, though the American
variety. while perhaps lacking a little in
the staying powers exhibited by those OF
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
BY DOROTHY DIX.

the mother country, far eNcels them IN Its
ability TO guess at the weight of things 1t
hooked but never landed.
The American Fisherman is also a much
more picturesque liar than that of any 9TH
er country. and as this is one of the cnief
points about the species. it will be seen that
we lead the world in the propagation of this
noble creature
ANTAGONISTS who have dissected this inter-
esting animal tell that it is composed
chiefly OF hope and imagination, and that
the truth is not in 1t.
This. coupled with Its habit of Dragging
about the fish it has caught, but meyer
brings home with 1t, and its tendency to
make love to any pretty summer girl who
may happen around, has led naturalists to
classify it among those animals that have
no grip on veracity genus prevaricatis).
In appearance the Fisherman IS dream
and may be readily distinguished at sight
by the number of things it has strapped up
on 1t. Indeed. the more it can burden Itself
down with creels and fly books and gaffs
and rods, etc. the better pleased it is. 1t
also carries a large bottle of bait.
Unhappily. We have little authentic data
concerning the habits of this interesting an
imal in action, although 1t is not in the
least shy and exhibits a perfect willingness
to have itself photographed with large
strings CT papier-mache fish,
From the best authorities attainable, how
ever, we learn that 1t rises long before day
and HES away to some secluded spot. where
it stands in the water for hours at a time.
vainly waiting for a salmon that never
comes: or else 1t sits bent doubled up on
log. or in a boat in the sun, while earwigs
crawl down its back and mosquitoes pepper
II. and it lays the foundation OF malaria
and doctors bills.
The same veracious authorities who have
made these interesting observations also
contend that the Fisherman goes through
these tortures under the impression that 1t
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
NO IIULAHULA MONKEY BUSINESS.

In reading the gladstone news that little Hawaii
has periodically appropriated the sum of $4,000 for
exhibit at the st. Louis Worlds Fair, is led to
rejoice additionally because of the fact that vigorous
objections have been made to the incorporation of the
hula-hula dance feature of that exhibit.
OF course, the vast majority Of us haven't the re-
hottest idea of what hula hula dance looks like in
full swing, but in the very there is palpitant
and yoluptuous suggestion which strikes alarm to the
timid SOUL 1t sounds like "hoocheekoochee" the per-
fectly dreadful "danse du ventre' which Chicagos
Midway precipitated upon the Mortified vision of
moral America, and surely the Pike once n modest
woodland way under the homely name of Skfnker s
road. cannot stand for this of business hula
a rustic shrine
Besides, consider the poets, who though they toll
not neither do they spin, settled themselves in
fine frenzy to the chaste singing of the charms Of
this same locality inspired by The Republics prize
poem competition What would they think of Il
warmly tropical hula-hula 'hoe-down' on the Pike.
bronZe-feShed Hawaiian madens revealing their
South Sea Island charms to musical accompaniment
calculated TO send cold shivers along the full length
of any respectable spine? Wouldn't there be STAN
pcde of Pegasuses in the direction of home and
mother? Wouldn't the Parnassan slopes be jammed
with sweet singers, breathless in their flight from
such an abonlination? No. folks it won't do for
minute Away with the hula-huIa.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26

Never mind. Oscar-you Wilt" was
Nhistler's grim and significant response.
Naturally enough Whistler's biting wit
counted against him in the end, placing him
in antagonism toward nearly ali his
sociates and contemporaries. Just Il year
before his death he wrote:
Il learn that I have. lurking in London,
still n friend. though for the life of me I
cannot remember his name.
Yet one must needs believe that he rel
ished his more or less Ishmaelitish position.
When Tom Taylor. art critic of the Lon
don Times. died, Whistler said, mournfuily,
Il have hardly a warm personal enemy
| left
Whistler was not on particularly cordial
terms with his brother-in-law. Sir Seymour
Heyden. On one occasion the latter came
into an art gallery in the forenoon and,
seeing Whistler. went out with n sour lock.
Just came in for his morning bittersr
was the amused Whistler comment.
1t hurt Whistler to the quick when he
was defeated for reelection to the presi-
dency of the Royal Society of British Art
lists. and he and his followers withdrew
from the society. AT its next annual ex-
hibition Whistler visited the galleries. \
gentleman at his shoulder admiring u
canvas OF Sir Frederick Leighton's
IT'S gem he cried; "a perfect GEM"
Yes" answered Whistler. like dia-
mond in the sty.''
A good deal of T. dandy in his own eccen-
trio way. carrying cane that has been
described long wand. and somewhat
affected in manner. Whistler the son OF a
gallant officer In the United States Army,
and at one time cadet at West Point hin-
self. WAS anything but effeminate.
a certain Mr.. Stott Of oldham encoun-
tered him in the Hogarth Club and de-
nounced him liar and q coward. Il
Immediately rose up and slapped MIR. Stott's
face" Whistler records. ~ am also grieved
to add that the incident was closed by q
kick administered upon part OF Mr.. Stott
of Oldham's body that finally turned to-
ward me-"
Nothing delighted Whistler more than to
confound the critics. with whom he was in
n perpetual state OF war. and especially to
catch them tripping in their exposition of
an art OF which. he always contended. they
knew nothing but the superficial JarSon.
The critic of the Times spoke of por-
trait of John Ruskin by Herkomer be
ing the first oil portrait We have ever seen
of our great art critic" Whereupon Whist
Ter rushed joyously into print in the letter
to the World follows: Ne pas con-
fondre Intelligence avec gendarmes-but
surely. dear Atlas, when the art critic Of
the Times. suffering possibly from chronic
catarrh. is waited in at the Grosvenor with
out guide or compass, and cannot by mere
sense Of smell distinguish between oil and
water color. he ought. like Mark Twain.
to inquire Had he asked the guardian or
the fireman in the gallery, either might
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
ADVENT OF THE MIDSUMMER FISHERMAN,
A STUDY IN NATURAL HISTORY.

| is enjoying itself. which seems to indicate
| that it is an animal singularly deficient In
| a sense of humor-
| The chief characteristic OF the Fisherman
| is its patience. Some writer's contend that
| this is owing to the use of bait. which ap-
pears to affect 1t very much as the loco
| weed does the cattle In the West.
Indeed some naturalists go SO far as to
! declare that after a Fisherman has nibbled
three four times at the bait II doesn't
care whether there Is anything doing or not
During the winter the Fisherman spends
its time. when not engaged in labor. in tell
Ing about the size Of the fish 1t caught last
summer. These grow In weight and num-
Der 50 that what were two small perch in
August become a string Of whales by the
middle of December.
1t is. however. extremely risky to doubt
a Fisherman's story. Hence the expression.
Let sleeping animals lie
From the fact that the Fisherman Is al
ways found along streams. ponds end lakes.
the impression prevails that it is extremely
fond of water
This is an error You can lead Fisher
man to the water. but you can't make It
drink. minute investigation showing that II
feeds principally on rye.
The female of this species Is extremely
rare. but is peculiarly dangerous. as it is
II man-6evouring variety that spends its
time angling for husbands
At present our American cities are full Of
Fishermen. who have Just returned from
the country, and who are roaming the
streets seeking victims whom they may
devour.
BY going downtown very early in tbs
morning and returning late at night 1t Is,
however. possible to escape them, though
nobody is safe. and the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Listeners should see
that they are muZzled.
Copyright 1905 by W. r. Hearst. Great Brit
ain rights reserved.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
RECENT COMMENT
Sch DOL Gardens,

American Medicine. -
We have previously spoken untitled opportuni-
y for promoting health and happiness by means of the
school garden. Miss Louise Miller director of tn.
Lowhrope School Of Horticulture and Iandscape Garden
ing for Women says that in Hungary alone there
are 1900 school gardens and there are said
TO be Oo and In all Europe 10000 In France the
teachers are required by law to instruct their
pupils in the elements Of agriculture horticulture and
normal schools have been established purpose of
giving teachers such training. plans school build
nss to which the State contributes approved unless
accompanied by plans for a school garden. In these
gardens the pupils are shown practically simpler de-
tails of horticulture and charge every stage
Of the cultivation from the preparation to the
gathering of the harvest In this system has
been successfully undertaken and 1t is likely to extend
FPoiy 1t can be combined with other instruction. is
well shown by the work at Hyannis, the school
gardens of the State Normal there the .prodc
OF the gardens are sod the money bank
ana deposited and the children learn do
posting money and drawing checks horti-
culture Is compulsory in Belgium. Germany Eng
land school gardens are regulated by
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
WashinEton's Statue In London.
Philadelphia Inquirer

mat Washington will have statue st. Paurs Is
matter of qualification because it will emblernaze the
tact that the two great Engshspeang have
Guided 10 bury the Ratchet of old hateds recognize
what Is good In each other This spirit has been growing
very strong of late. We have sending pretty
girls as wives for the British aristocracy been
spending our money in restoring decayed halls
we nave been shipping British We are
sending steamerloads Of sentiment every day the week
me time may never come when the nations lose
their Identity but we trust believe the relations
WI" ever become more friendly and mutually supporting
good Washington stands as the
of the most lofty patriotism the complete sesacri
flee and the most unfalterng ever
KNOWN. NOT without his faults he still remains the type
OF the best manhood this or any other country has
produced, and statue to his memory who
erect it and the place where it is set
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26

have told him not to say that one OF the
chief interests of Mr.. HerkOmer's large
water-coIor drawing Of Mr.. Ruskin at
taches 20 it as being the first oil portrait
we have ever seen of our great art critic.
Adieu."
So. also, when the art critic Of the Spec
tator mistook phctogravure reproduction
OF q pen-and-inlS drawing by Samuel
Palmer for a finished etching by the same
hand. Whistler reioiced nightly. denying
| that the error was astounding" as an
other insisted. Not at alt wrote Whist
Ter to the World BY this sort OF thing
was he know: among US. poor chap-and SO
was he our fresh Gladness and continued
surprise
Once. in a controversy with Philip Gill
/ bert Hamerton, precipitated by letter
from Whistler to the New York Tribune.
the former wrote a stately note TO Whistler.
cUuched in tie third person. rebuking him
and informing him that Mr.. Hamerton
has answered Mr.. Whistler's letter in the
same journal in which it appeared
To which Whistler made reply: 1T is
possibly too much to eXpect-upOn the prin-
ciple Of ';rumps not cunning w twice'-but
AIr. Whistler does hope that Mr.. Hamer-
tons letter 10 the New York Tribune will
he as funny as his note to Mr. Whistler.
which has Just been forwarded from Lon
dom
Returning for moment to oscar Wilde.
who said o: this literary celebrity of Lon
don drsl wing--ooms and leader of the
''greenery- yaIery'' cult: oscar has the
courage OF other peoples convictions
Again upon receiving note from Wilde
in which there was a cheap attempt at
wit. Whistler wrote in answer: =" a poor
thing Oscar-but. for once. 1 suppose,
your own"
However these Illustrations OF tie
Whistler temperament are SO plentiful that
one may not hope TO give even the most
salient of them within the space of an
article. Now comes the death Of this
gliding Thersites of a painter-and there is
a singular pathos in his passing
Recognized as a great artist. by many OF
his painters believed TO be the great
est in the world at the time of his death.
his end was touchingly lonely.
He is said TO have suffered from cancer
of the stomach. for which reason he for
babe that his few friends or the public be
informed of his illness. Secreting himself
i'll his residence in Chelsea. he braved the
fight through in utter solitude to the end.
dying without a word of farewell to the
world. AT which he had laughed all his
life.
1t was a pitiful death-yet. somehow or
others it seems in fateful keeping with a
man of Whistier's temperament. a curious
combination of Mercutio and the railing
and melancholy Jacques. with the painters
fire added to intensity the psychological
.,l,ZZle.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26
IS OR is NOT WEALTH AN
ADVANTAGE TO AMERICAN YOUTH?
BY MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN.

high character and morality of their pri-
mogenitors
In many respects they outstrip those OF
the Far West, who are supposed to In
herit the most dissipated and reckless dis
positions from their daring and desperate
antecedents, whose adventurous lives led
them into the mining districts OF the COL
condaS west of the Rocky Mountains, and
whose examples were characterized by
anything but sobriety and economy. but
who were men of strictest integrity and
stalwart PRINCIPLES.
Unfortunately for young America, too.
many of the wealthy class have spent too
much time abroad and have been Influenced
by the profligate men who are the degen-
crate sons of decayed nobility. who have
become proficient in all phazes of profit
gacy.
Spending their inheritance in immoral
and rotous living. they are on the aui vive
for unsophisticated, rich Americans whom
they are ready to initiate into all the
abandon Of European spendthrifts
1t does not take the trusting victims long
to acquire keen taste for the exquisite
and alluring temptations put before them.
and before they realize the fact they be-
come apt pupils and have lost all their pre-
conceived ideas of right living
They sometimes awaken to a realization
that they are paying heavy premiums on
their investments in debauchery. but more
frequently not until they have spent what
ever they could call their own and are
unfit for the useful lives they should lead.
Invention seems to have been busy de-
vising ways and means for the rich to
spend their multi-millions. Not the least of
these inventions is the automobile. There
is high pressure atmosphere about this
wonderful machine that has completely
captured Americans. young and old.
A majority are not satisfied with reason
able speed that covers space in marvellous
ly short time, but must have the speed
trebled and quadrupled until the HIGHWAYS
and streets are continually jeopardized.
Legislation became necessary to protect
life and property against wanton destruc-
ton by these reckless automobilists. but
even with its restraints one Is constant
ly shocked by accidents that occur through
excessive speed. some paying their fines
and Immediately repeating their offense Of
illegal speeding, caring little for the fine
If they can crafty their desires to excel
some one else in the swiftness with which
they fly about from place to place.
There have been instances where men
have expressed qualification over being ar
rested for violation of law because thew
attracted attention to the fact that they
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: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
. TO-DAY IN ST. LOUIS.

q From The Republic. July q. 1873.
g Dispositions in the suit of ]. II.
= Chambers against Logan d. Dam
q eron. growing out of Methodist I
T. Church controversy, were taken. Il. I
. NJ. Scruggs was an important wit I
g ness. Others engaged in the trial I
. were Judge Valiant. Doctors Lewis I
6 and Wilson. y. K. Moore. Thomas 4
D ]. Henley and Captain John y. Scud-
& der.
. An injunction against the ST. Louis
. and Illinois Railroad to stop construc-
& ton of the line through East st.
. Louis became effective. The builders
. were John B. Bowman. Joseph Al
= born, Eugene Holloran. William Null
4 liSan, John 3. Carroll. Frank Bow
. man. Henry Sexton and William
& Brucker.
q Professor JOHN H Tlce departed
= for Texas to witness the total eclipse
. of the sun.
. Commodore W. ]. Kountz of the
y kountz Line of steamers went to
& Pennsylvania
= w. h. Stevens, evangelist. conduct
y ed large open-air meeting at North
. Park place. I
= Pierce Whalin OF Gamble place 4
f. died.
y X. Fl. Rice presented fine silver
y gray fox to the geological garden at 4
e. the Fair Grounds.
y Mrs. Alice Brennan, mother-in-law 4
= Of Sheriff Emile Thomas, died in 4
. Carondelet
n q q q q - a a 4 u I