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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-12-19

in solitary grandeur. his Stitily starched
fuStanclc standing out like Il ballet
dancers skirt. The japanese consul
smiled and bowed right and left with
praiS"worihy iMpartiality. The Eng
liShmcn stood in group, while tie
Gra"k, French and Armenian got to-
GcthCr and were soon talking with ami
nation. while the word "paradcs'' fell
from their lips as if money was the
only thing worth mention. The Rus
sian Spanish, Italian and German gen
ti"m'n paid strict attention TO the Ia
dies. who sat in the two upper parlors.
while the men appropriated the main
rOOm.
Miss Laifan-lIanly, the very pretty
daughter of the host and hostess, play
ed Christmas carols on the piano. but
nobody listened, and it was Il relief
when dinner was announced. 1t was
understood that this dinner was to be
representative of the Christmas in Eng
land. and 50 there was a roast of beef
Of astonishing proportions following an
enormous boiled fish on Il wooden tray.
Two moHStrols turkeys and chicken
pie filled the table, with the vegetables
and small things, such as pickles,
olives, etc. Everything was put on to-
gCthcr save the dessert. Wines there
were and pure water for the Turks and
PersianS
AT last everybody was seated. The
service was well done by three men
from the big hotel. The Greeks and
Arp,nninnS hnI n, Iinnnr and
they did full justice to it. The rest OF
the guests were more circumSpcct or
had smaller appetitcs. The amount Of
bread they consumed was astounding.
The Persian ambassador was the
guest of honor with Hadii Rassim
Eifcndi opposite. The hadii was an
orthodox Turk of the old school. Fuad
PaSha was the same, but he was in
some ways not SO strict in his Observ-
anccs, so he took little wine. AS the
first hunger passed. the wine began to
loosen tongues. and one would have
imagined oneself in a new Babel Jcsts
and couplcts were made and toasts
passed back and forth in all the thir-
teen languages spoken.
The dinner lasted nearly three hours.
The dessert consisted If Il great plum
pudding covered with blazing rum and
several fine mincc pies The Turks
seemed TO hav" an instructive fear of
pudding biaZiGg with Satanic blue
lights and took mince pie or fruits.
As so much of Turkish cookery is
based ON minced meats the Turks
thought the minCe pies were safe. The
Greeks and ArmcnianS managed both
pie and fruits and ate with n good
coming appetite everything offered
thrm Then came coffee and cigars,
and the ladies went back upstairs.
Mr.. Laifan-Hanly had his cue TO
bring the gentlemen all up as soon as
he could. SO that they might have some
Christmas games. They had become a
little more sOciahle among themselves,
but as soon rs they We're back among
the women tie different elements sep
aratch again into their component
parts, and it was desperate work to get
them interested in snapdragOn. The
Turks seemed to fear the flames of al
cohol and would not even try to pull
out the plums.
Finally one of the Greeks sang one
of the native sccsaw catcrwaulins
songs. and after that the games were
given UP in favor of an impromptu
dance. The Persian and the Turks
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-12-19

IN Si!vcrWarc there are toilet articles
such as taicum jars cold cream jars.
silver mounted brushes. combs clothes
brushes. wh,sk broOms. hasks and shay
ing brushes.
Bath robes come in the most attrac
tive guise. and the man who has none
will surely bless the sister or mother
who gives him one.
Gorgeous heavy silk mutiiers. EN-
broidrred suspcnderS. neckties of white
silk. linen or silk handkerchiefS and
chest protectors are some of the things
men must expect. as they generally put
off buying them until after Christmas.
Other decorations for Il mans den are
the hidrous but picturesque Japanese
masks swords and bayonetS. Panel
decorations in oriental design will sure
ly pleas" if they are we'll selected A
waStcbasket would not be amSs. and
one of the new cork kssrews. with horn
top. silver trimmed. would be highly
acceptable
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-12-19

o,ty .,t.,.4 DIVISION.
EASTBOUND.
No. 10. Express arrives Z:l1 H. III
No HI EXPRESS arrives bOo p Ill
No. l6 .Cumberlani Li..arrives 6lo p. IN
No. II Limited Express arrives lo:4Z p Ill
No. II. Mail. ........... arrives l-:zI p III
No. 6 Limited Express arrives l2:i' p. NJ
For leaving time see same Express numbers
e,stbound on Main Line.
wEsTBoUND.
No o. Express ...leavcs 10 a. H.
No. IL .Pittsburg Limited leaves % a. m
No l3 .Connellsville Ii. leaves 40 a M
No n d. Chicago Express leaves go Il Ill
No >. Chicago Limited leaves 3n5 p Ill
No 10. Mail l.............. leaves 3:l5 = M.
For arriving time see same Express num-
bers westbound on Main Line.
*Except Sunday.
No. 40 is Il local train from Cumberland to
Pittsburg, and No. II from Pittsburg to Cum
berland.
Through tickets. east and west, for sale at
Cumberland. NJ. c. CLARKE,
C.S. SIMS, Ticket Agent.
General Manager ID. b. MARTIN,
Nov ~ Manager Passenger Traffic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-12-19

slOuch variety, and his overcoat was
gray and long and so fringed at the
hem as to assume the appearance Of
having been fringed Intentionally.
Ten fingers pointed at him.
That shouted ten vC ces, lis the
man"
The artist bent humble and apollo
getic head.
Yes" acknowledged he, 81 am the
nan"
But you are Il member of the club"
they stormed. You knew all about our
plan of relieving the poor. You had
part of the money yourself. Why did
you take ours"
The artist shrugged weary shoulders
He spread out two deprecatlng hands.
II am an artist" he explained SIM
ply. IL needed it,"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-12-19

looked on gravely while the rest danced.
They maintained their impossible gray
ity until liadji RasSim Eifendi signi-
fed that lie wanted to go home. He
was i'll. lie had, secure in his belief
of the innocence of lc pie, eaten three
big pieces. And the crust was short
cned with the fat of the "unutterable
flesh"
His departure broke up the party.
Not one of them had understood any
thing of the object lesson on an Eng
gliSh Christmas in spite of all the Ian
guaGcs spoken.
The poor hostess hair turned white
that night and next week her hus-
bands newspaper type was distributed
in the Bosporus. IIadii Rassim was
the press censor.
GLADYS GEORGE JAMES.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1903-12-19

At Gay YuIetfde.
All hail the genial time Of year
When every heart is kind.
When far and near there is good cheer
And care is left behind
Old fcuds forgot. old hates aside.
Now hearty clasps of hand.
While far and wide at Christmastide
Love reigns throughout the land.
Forgive forget a truce to pride:
Healed are all friendships riffs.
At gay fuletile on every side
We're worked" for Christmas gifts
New York Journal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
ANorHER sH11oH sPEEcH.

The Advertiser had something to say a day or two ago about the spesch of sena- tor Beveridge at Shiloh and the entral- iscrU ideas whieht, predomin ated, On the same occasion Colonel Josiah Patterson, of Tennessee, spoke and the dominsnt idea in his address was that 1t is not necessary to forget tn order to forgive.
 This is a correct conception of the feel ing which should animate all Southern men. If the people of the North wrOnged Us in any way we may forgive them, and we may try to forget those wrongs. but our people should never forget the causes which led up to the conflict. or the men who bore their part in 1t. nor should they ever forget the glorious deeds which made the name of Confederate soldier g password of honor for all time to come. It is all well enough to put behind us all the bitternesses, the aniTnosities and the grievances arising from the war, but certainly 1t is not required of us that we shall forget the noble heritage left us by the brave men and the equally brave women who made up the soldfery and the citizenship of the Confederacy. Let us forgive any who wronged us, but never forget those who made history as no other people ever did. Pattersons sentiment Is infinitely better than Bevsridges.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
A HERO IN CIVIL LIFE.

Ine city or NeWark haS a citizen who has in him the stun Of which heroes are made. according to an article in a recent issue of Tho New York Commercial. There Is large manufacturer of ma chinery in that city named Joseph g.. Mundy. Among his employees are some non-union men. The International Asso- ciation of Massachusetts demanded that he discharge all the non-union men. and this was the result of that demand:
 ''I will enter into no agreement with any organization promptly declared the proprietor, after calling all classes of his honest labor from securing employ ment or which taxes the bread and butter out of your mouths. If every man has not the right to work without being forced to obey the mandates Of an organization. then 1t is time for ns to get out of business. The very audac1ty or the prop osition astounded me. and. tn my esrima- ton 1t is anarchy. If any Of you strike because of my position on this point, l will never take one of you back"
 AS before remarked, this Is the stuff of which heroes are made. and 1t is earnestly to be hoped that he will stick to what he says. It is probable that the Association can ruin his business They can at least make it very unpleasant for him Sy boycotts and blackiists. and may be able to prevent him from getting em- ployes to carry on his work, but if any thing of the kind ts attempted all peo- pie in Newark who believe in right and justice ought to stand by him, and his customers outside ought to make 1t a point of honor to see that he loses noth- ing by the brave stand he makes for the right. If all employers of labor would positively refuses to be dictated to and would insist on the right of any man to work for a living without in- terference from others, 1t would go a long way towards correcting an evilwhich seriously threatens all industries in the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
EARLY DAYS IN GEORGIA.
First Colony from Connecticut to Make a Settlement There.

George c. Smith. in Atlanta Journal.
 When George II. in 1732 granted to the trustees of the only ~olony of which I nave any knoweldge. which was founded from motives of pure benevolence he save. them all the iand between the Sa- vannah River and the South Seas. The French were between them and the South Seas. and the Spanlards were beyond the French. but Georgia recognized her west ern limit as the Mississippi Rier. AL though she had title to this land, she had never been put in possession of 1t, and as for that, she never did occupy 1t, even though she very strenuously as- serted her ownership, and only gave a quitclaim when she was paid a round sum for it.
 She had, however, before the revolution, quite a number of citizens who lived on the east side of the Mississippi River Some of these came from North Caro- lima. Among them were three of that wild race. the Altons-Phdlip. James and Solomon. New Orleans was a f1ourishng little city, into which the produce of the up-country from as far up as Western Pennsylvania found a market. The cattle raised on these wide canehrakes and prai- rfes and wtregrass swards found ready market in the West Indies. Slaves came in great numbers to New Orleans. and they were low in price, and so on this frontier of Georgia, over hundred years ago, a prosperous colony sprang up.
 How 1t happened that an enterprising New Englander, who had been captain in the French war, was drawn to this remote section. I can not tell, but so it was. A Captain Lyman. who had been in the French war. after years of patient waiting, secured a large grant of land from the English Government on the Mis- sissippi River. near where Natchez is now, and located a colony. The ubiquit- ous New Englanders drove brisk trade with those traders who dealt with the Indians and frontiersmen by distilhng for them very cheap. fiery rum, which was called taffai, and had, of course, found a market in New Orleans.
 So Captain Lyman. or General Lyman as he was afterwards written. with his companions, in 1773. took shipping from Connecticut for New Orleans. Ther' were in the party General Lyman. Cap tain Bailey, Thomas Lyman, James Ly' man, Hugh White Major Easley, Thad deus Lyman, Phinsas Lyman, Moses Drake. Ruggles winchel. Benjamin Bar Der Alcott, Thomas Comstock, Danie Magnet, silas Crane. Robert Patrick | Ashbell Knapp. Matthew Phelps, Giiei Hull. Nathaniel Hull, Janss Stoddard Thomas Bradley. Epnan Case Hezekif Raw. John Fisk Ensh Ha1es ItmothI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
IT IS DIFFERENT HERE.

The German courts are nara on poor people who are trying to make a living. One Frau Rothe has been giving spirit ualistic seances at which she pretended to produce oranges. flowers and other things from the air. She also made tables float and brought ghosts into view, together with various other tricks familiar to all. Because she charged admission to these seances a Berlin court convicted her of swfndling and sentenced her to eightee-i months Imprisonment.
 We do things very differently on this side of the water. Such performances as this woman give are as common here pay our money to See fhem, knowing we are being swindlsd. but we regard 1t as part of the game and hand oyer our dollars cheerfully. The greater the humbug the better pleased are we. Dean Swift tells us that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived" and Butler, in Hudibras. says:
 Doubtless the pleasure Is as great
 In being cheated as to cheat }
 The famous Barnum, 1t will be remem- bered. declared that people like to be humbugged," and he gave them what they wanted. Joyce Heth, the mermaid. the woolly horse. the white negress and other humbugs exploited by him were all money makers. and those who paid their money to see them enjoyed the swtndies just as much as if they had seen the genuine articles. In this coun- try every city has some kind of fake show and all of them are well patronised,' The people know that they are being faked. but that doesn't jar them any. If the act of the Berlin court should be followed in this country the jaals would need to be enlarged to hold all the convicted per formers, and the courts would be over worked. We are different from the Ger mans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12

One of the most interesting and praise worthy features of the Twin Territories Magazine, the April issue of which is just out, is that it devotes most of It's space to illustrations and descriptive matter relating to the Indians, especially those belonging to the five civilized tribes of Indian Territory. Much ignorance pre- vaals throughout the country with regard to the manners and customs, as we'll as to the attainments of these people. and q Magazine which Is almost entirely de- voted to the diffusion of information about them fills a much needed want in our periodical literature. We get from Twin Territories great deal of useful information which Is not to be had from other sources. and which is helpful to a right knowledge of the civilized Indians.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
IS THERE A MoRAL.p'

Already the case of young Sims, the Atlanta bank clerk who stole $S3 900 in eight years, is being used as proper subject ito point a moral or adorn a tale" but where's the use? It is one of the cases that are unfortunately not un- common. Here was a young man work ing for a salary of q, 600 year and no- toriously living in way that would re- quire ten times that sum. Those who were familiar with him and his manner of living and spending money could hard ly avoid knowing that he was living far beyond his income, but they were the benehciaries of his liberality and had no kick coming"
 We are told that the bank officials had no suspicion. If that is true. they were D trusting and trustful people. It must have been evident to them that at the gate he was living, it would require at Beast ten dollars for each one he drew ns his salary, but there was no suspicion In the minds of any of them. What an nnsuspecting set!
 The young man, we are told, showed no emOtlOn or any Kind when ne found nlfn- self caught. Probably he was not at all Surprised He had been a thief all the years he had been with the bank and doubtless he always felt that he was at any time liable to be found out, so he was always prepared for it. He enjoyed the stolen money as he went along and his associates also enjoyed it. They had good reason to know that he was not honestly getting all the money he spent but that was no business of theirs. we suppose they argued.
 Perhaps it was not, and perhaps 1t may be fair and just to reason that it was nobodys business but all the same il does seem that the officials of a bank could have some means of detecting or preventing such thefts as this one, and it also seems strange that man who was spending ten thousand year on an in- come of one thousand. would have aI oused suspicion. But his is one of the many cases where young man keeps his position in society by practices which must eventually land him in the peni- tentiary. So wags the world away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1903.
nouaLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

rhe American Newspaper Directory uses cer- sasn slgns to denote the relative standing and merit Of the whois field of nswspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of tnsss signs Is the mystic symbol ) dsnotins .,goldsn..'' which stands for high quality. and as thus explained:
 s.Advsrtissrs value this papsr mora for fhs class and quality of its circulation than for ths snere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with e single gym Dol; but there is q higher grade. according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require ths DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL S~ to describe adequately their standing.
 Ths Advertissr has been accorded thts double golden symbol I00I and is the Oal, paper 50 distinguished in this section of tht South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
A Terrible Danger Averted.

Edinburgh Scotsman.
 Mr Joseph Jefferson once played "Rip Var Wrinkle" in c Western American town In { hotel where he stayed was an Irishman wht acted as porter and general assistant Judged by the interest he took in the house he nigh have ben clerk, lessee and proprietor rolled int one.
 At about o'clock In the morning Mir Jefferson was startled by violent thumpin, at his door. When he struggled into conscious neAs and realized that he had left no wort at the office to be called he was indignant His sleep was spoiled for that morning so h, arose ard soon appeared before the clerk.
 See here" he demanded, why was called at this unearthly hour?"
 T don't know, sir" answered the clerk 'Ill ask Mike"
 He summoned the Irishman. and said to him Mike, there was no call for MT Jefferson Why did you disturb himq''
 Taking the clerk to one side the Irishnaal said in a whisper:
 He was snorin' Ike a horse. sor, and or, heard the bys say he were oncet afthe shleepin' 20 years. So says to mesilf say oi. Mike. it's a-coomin' onto him again, an it's yer juty to git the man out O yer hous this instant"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
A COMMON NORTHERN ERROR
 Says The Portland Oresonian:

The New York Evening Post says that evidence abounds that the best South ern people do not share the intense hos Tillman and Money and some of the Southern newspapers. The most violent protest against equality before the law for the negro comes from the poor whites of the South. whose apostle is tive of that class, rose to power. The Hamptons, the Buffers, the Herberts the Lamars, the Gordons, the Haygoods and the Currys, the intellectual and moral aristocracy of the South, were always friends to the education and uplifting oi the negro in intelligence and self-respect
 It is a little singular that newspapers which are well informed on most sub jects should still find it necessary to speak, as if 1t were new discovery, about the absence of hostility to the negro on the part of the best element of the Southern people, and by best ele- ment' we mean the most intelligent and enlightened. No such hostility exists among those who may be ciassed as the highest element of Southern citizenship. On the contrary they have shown their regard for the true interests of the colored people so continuously. and in % many ways, that 1t is surprising to read that any one entertains doubts on the subject. If caring for and educating the negroes for more than one-third of a century is not good evidence Of entire absence of hostility we do not know wha, would be accepted as evidence.
 Nor Is there any more truth in the asseumption that opposition to social equality Is confined to the class usually referred to ss poor whites" They have no more objection to equality be- fore the law than any other class of Southern people have. and no class has any to speak of. That the negro is entitled to the enjoyment of all his legal rights is the uneversal sentiment, but the enjoyment of social and political equality is objected to by all classes among us. and certainly not more strenuously by the poor than the rich. It Is Southern, not class. sentiment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-12
Sweet Scotch Voices.

For real beauty of speech many experta think that we must so to the glens that surround the highland capital. Sir Nor rell Mackenzie used to say that the pret- tiest speakers were to be found in the wider knowledge would probably have in. duced him to modify his views and give the palm to the glen folk of the north and west of Inverness-shire.
 The voices of the highlanders are eet low, and yet the articulation is clear, dis. tinct and dramatic. One inclines to hkeu their speech to many beautiful things to the clear, mellow note of a bell or the murmur of running water. The infection of the voice is sin8ularly engaging. rising and falling with exquisite cadences like bewitching music, and this, be it remem- bered, Is the speech of the common peo' ple,