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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25
TRUTH

stool, aglow with embarrassment,
and, bowling low, waved his hand TO
request Strauss to take his place at
the instrument.
Slowly, and still in silence, Strauss
walked to the piano. Slowly he sat
down. Slowly his fingers wandered
over the keys as if about to impro-
wise, while the audience stood there,
waiting the coming flood of melody.
And then, quite suddenly, the COM
poser shut down the cover, turned
the key, put it in his pocket and
walked out of the room without a
word.
When, an hour later, Herr Strauss
had finished his nap, the local genius
found the key awaiting him at the
hotel office, with three tickets for
that nights concert.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25
THE MASTERS TOUCH.

When, last season, Richard Strauss,
the famous leader of the modern
school among composers, was in this
country he happened to stop at a
hotel in one city where the room on
the floor above his own was occupied
by an ardent admirer of his work,
who had large local reputation as
a pianist, and who, having a piano in
his apartments, was, on a certain
morning, interpreting some of Herr
Strauss music to a party of enthu-
siastic friends.
The American genius either did not
know, or did not remember, that the
sound of his playing could penetrate
to the room below, and was evidently
also ignorant of the fact that the
great composer had been up late the
night before and wanted to sleep.
There was, therefore. general excite
ment when the door of the upper
room opened quietly and the master
musician himself stood among the
company, and his dressing-gown
drawn about him like a Roman sem
ator's toga, for minute mutely lis
tened to the last notes Of the conf
position which the local celebrity
was performing.
As soon as the American saw who
had entered he rose from the piano
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25

and was succeeding. What was
more to the point than journalistic
achievement, he was not bounced up
on every place he went with some
thing like this:
ooh, yes, you are the original of
Little Lord Fauntleroy. How love-
", but you don't look like the dear
child" etc, etc.
The world was going smoothly for
the young reporter. But one day his
city editor came up to him holding
a piece of "Aimsy," which is the It's
suc-paper carbon of the press dis
patches. Burnett thought he was
about to be called down for having
missed an item.
Read this" said the city editor,
handing over sheet of the tissue.
Young Burnett read the following
dispatch, dated from New York:
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett,
the author, arrived here to-day from
England. Her son, the original OF
Little Lord Fauntleroy, is now d
newspaper man and is connected with
Denver newspaper.
His heritage had found him out,
even in Denver. He looked up guilt
lily.
do you know anything about
this?" asked the editor.
"Yes-something," replied Bur-
nett, like a man confessing to a
crime.
The city editor turned, walked
away, and never mentioned the mat
ter again.
Mrs. Burnett and her son have just
started children's magazine, of which
she will be the editor.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25
THE LIE AND THE LAW.

If all men are indeed liars, there is
at least danger in informing certain
individuals of the fact that they are,
in this respect, human, and even the
law has, during recent years, taken
heed to the objection which most OF
us feel to being accused of deception.
To call man liar in Mississippi,
Kentucky or Arkansas is to be guilty
of misdemeanor for which you are
liable to a fine of twenty dollars.
South Carolina and Georgia consider
it SANDER and punish it accordingly.
Missouri going further, has a statute
in which the law-contrary to its US
ual practices-becomes almost SEN
sible, and virtually declares that who
soever says that man is liar JUS
titles the insulted citizen in assault
and battery.
Nor does the matter end there.
Alabama juries are on record as con-
sidering the offensive epithet an
equivalent to the FIRST blow" and,
in cases of assault provoked by the
phrase, North Carolina holds the
user of it equally guilty with the man
who forcibly resented it. There is a
maximum fine of twenty-five dollars
for calling man liar in Virginia,
and the West Virginia statute says
that "all words which from their US
ual construction and common accep-
tation are construed as insults and
tend to violence and breach of the
peace shall be actionable. Saturday
Post.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25
A PRACTICAL TEST.

Not the least of the qualities which,
during his latest visit to America,
have endeared General Booth, the
founder of the Salvation Army, to
the people of this country, is his frank
and intimate attitude to all who ap-
proach him. Particularly is this no.
ticeable with newspaper reporters, to
whom he never denies himself. His
modesty is almost fault, and it
is extremely difficult to obtain from
him an interview of anything
like personal nature. But no one
who talks to him for five minutes can
doubt his earnestness and sincerity.
A little while ago, after he had COM
pleted giving out an interview to a
young reporter, the lad asked him:
General, don't you find that mod
ern theories of ethics are really sup
erseding Christianity and that they
tend to show that Christianity is
merely a good working plan devised
by man?"
The other newspapermen in the
room expected an explosion of right
eous wrath, but, instead, General
Booth only smiled gently and shook
his wonderful head.
"The man who thinks that Chris
tianity is human invention" he said,
"has only to try to live up to its prin-
ciples to prove that it is not. Take
any of them-forgiveness, for ex-
ample. See if it is natural in human
nature to forgive. And if you think
Christianity is superseded, try for
giveness again, and see if it has as
yet been worn out by too much use.
No, my friend, l think that, when you
come to try to forgive all your en-
emies and to return them good for
evil, you will come 10 the conclusion
that He who did all this for those
who crucifed Him was more than
man."
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25
A NEW POE STORY.

George Hazelton, the lawyer play.
wright, who wrote Mistress Nell,
had an experience not long ago that
showed how ignorant are some OF
the men who are not only the spon-
sors but the producers of the Ameri-
can drama He had written play
founded on the life Of Edgar Allan
Poe and was anxious to show it to
we'll known New York manager
whom he knew. The engagement
was made and Mr. Hazelton appeared
with the play. After the greetings
had been exchanged, the manager
said:
MIR. Hazelton, | am very busy to-
day Won't you be good enough to
come back next tuesday, AS the
playwright turned toward the door.
the manager looked up quickly and
added:
"And say, don't forget to bring Poe
With you"
A story is told of another manager,
who once produced play founded on
the life of Major Andre. The critics
roasted the play to q turn, many OF
them saying that no play with SUCH
character as its leading one could
succeed in this country. The man.
ager was furious: He sent for the
playwright When that unhappy pet
son appeared on the scene the man
agcr sad
why didn't you tell me that Andre
was spy? I'd never have produced
that play IL had known it."
Saturday Post.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25
THE HOMELESS HOME
MAKERS.

Curiously enough, Robert and
Elizabeth Shackleton, co-authors of
The Quest of the Colonial, have be-
come the unhappy victims of their
own unrestrained passion for COM
Portable and artistic home-making.
Their very success in this gentle art
has proved their undoing. The read
ers of their latest book probably inn
agine them installed in a stately Col
onial house, made homelike by a
great ingle-nook and lovely by pro-
fusion of treasured examples OF
Sheraton and Heppelwhite, thousand
legged tables, four-posted balanced
beds, ancient china and Georgian
thingumbobs; yet their friends in
form us that these Unsuitable Shackle.
tons are spendisg the winter in
Philadelphia apartment, waiting for
new worlds to be found for their con-
quering. 1t would almost seem as if
they regarded home-making as hob
by, and a home as thing to be
evolved by skilled and loving labor
rather than as "a place in which to
settle down and live. Witness the
ancient Elephant Inn at Somers,
New York, which they made verit-
able house of beauty and then aban-
doned. Witness the charming little
house in Brides Row." Philadelphia
with its celebrated wooden fireplace
and old-time atmosphere Witness
but the Shackleton record is too long
lane to follow, and as yet there is
no turning. Wherever they go they
leave behind them a trail of eigh-
teenth-century furniture and TWEEN
tieth-century comfort and good taste.
When they shall have set up their
Lares and Penates in the Revolu-
tionary farmhouse they are now seek
ing they will tell us all about its find
ing and is regeneration in another
delightful volume. Then they will
telephone for the moving van and hi;
the long trail once more, touching by
the wayside nothing that they dc
not adorn.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1908-01-25

George AIDE, the Indiana poet and
humorist, wants to be a delegate to
the Chicago convention in order to
cast vote for Fairbanks. This is
the best joke AIDE has sprung for a
long while.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
Who is Iie2

Last Saturday evening, within the
radiance of the lamp in front of the
First National Bank, one man read to
another something about what the Iona
coming Stnr is going to- do to Davv Lewis
in event of latter's nomination for Con-
grrss by the democrats.
But the reader was astonished by the
response
by jinks, that S jnst what we want
the Homecoming Shr agin him, specially
on his labor record!'
The man who overheard this isn't
much of a politician, but he says he
knows that the fellow who exclaimed
"by jinks" is a republican,
Hence, the reader shut right mp.
WHO'S the man who said by jinE> ="
asked the JOURNAL.
If you will tiud out, he responded
1.-THE man who says by jinks' i'll season
and out of season you Will know"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
TOWN MD VICINITY.
BrcVitieS,

Reports of how the labor vote is going
conflict. But devoted as labor is to
labor. the idea that party is paramount
to country still prevails, and in Novem-
Der it will be seen that the party news
papers and spell binders will have labor
divided as usual. That is. no matter
whether Taft or Bryan be elected, labor
will have been defeated by labor.
In justice to the dog He belonged to
Pittsburg landlord, whose hotel, shell
tering 80 guests, caught fire. The dog
sounded the alarm by barking but with
out effect. AS IA last resort he bit the
sleeping cook on the leg. That function
airy, thus aroused, eXtinguished the
blaze, and better still, is not afraid of
hydrophobia.
PhilEppi, W. Va, has voted a bond
issue of $4,000 proceeds to be used i'll
paving the streets of the village"
states newspaper. If the antediluvian
method of taxing individuals with two
thirds the cost the sum of SIS, 900 will
thus be available. That Will enable
those well off in real estate to unload
their tax upon their poor tenants. land
thus" it will be said, according to
modern Scripture, "real estate is special
ly benefited.
1t is good news that the Consolidation
Coal Company is working full time with
entire force.
1t Is reported that a couple of proper
ty-owners will contest the gradr pro-
vision of the Broadway paving Ordi-
nance. The special benefit" to them,
they claim, will be particular injury
In which event, it looks tough to tax
them just the same for an injury as for
benefit Worse still, one of them
hasn't tenant upon whom he can
unload.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
Place Ii Where IL Belongs

Somerset is getting much praise for paving
few OF its streets, and it deserves it. Now
that it has walked up, keep at it.-Meyers
dale (Pa.) TOmmercjal
That depends.
If the town is doing threethirds of
the work, all honor to the town!
But if it is doing the paving at only a
niggardly one-third of the cost, the
praise" should go to the oppressed
property-owners especially those who do
not unload the oppression upon their
tenants.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
COUNTY.
Registration.

The election officers recently gave the
annual notice of county registration APP
pointments to the people of Cumberland,
who are informed, in part, that John
Lyons and Henry Lammert are registrars
for District No. II, John j. Foster and
Owen Dando for No. u, James N.
Parker and John S. Metzger for No 20,
and Joseph NJ. Brady and William H.
Davis for No. 2S. Now, if the people of
Cumberland don't fancy any or all of
these appointees, it is the duty of the
Supervisors to examine any complaints
that may be alleged against them. 1t
would seem that the people of Frostburg
should have been advised, as they are
best acquainted with the gentlemen, but
the notice is literally applicable only
where it is published. Frostburg has
no say even when the county holds and
pays for municipal elections in Cum
berland.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
New Advertisements.
ORDINANCE NO. l43.

AN ORDINANCE by the Mayor and
CCuncilmen of Frostburg, providing
for the Grading. Paving with Vitri-
fled Paving Brick, CURLING, Re
CURLING, Laying and Repairing
Sidewalks, and otherwise imprOv-
in that part Of Broadway, public
street in tha town of Frostburg.
Maryland, from the intersection of
said street with Mechanic Street to
its intersection with the Southerly
side OF Loo Street, and to provide
for the assessment of the cost and
collection thereof.
WHEREAS. In the Judgment of the
Mayor and Councilman of Frostburg.
the public convenience requires that
broadway, a public street in the town
Of FrOstburg, Maryland, from the in
t"rsection of said street with Mechan-
ic street to its intersection with the
southerly side of Loo street, should
be Graded, Paved, Curbed. Re-Curbed,
the sidewalks lad or repaired and
Sa'd s'"e7t otherwise improved, and
Il al the property a3utting on said
p. IT Of broadway would be specially
ben fitted by such Improvement to the
extent Of the assessment authorized
by law to be made on said property
fer said improv, ment; and
WHEREAS. The said Mayor and
CJuncilmen, by Act of the General
Assembly Of Maryland of 1902, Chap
ter IS, are authorized and empowered
to Grade, Curb and Pave or Repair,
or cause to be Graded, Curbed and
Paved or Repaired, all Sidewalks
Cutters, bitches and Sewers which in
their Judgment the public convenience
may require, and from time to time. if
necessary. to change or alter the
grade of such Sidewalks, Cutters
bitches and Sewers, and to RePave
or Repair the same whenever they
may require it, and to collect the eA-
pense of Grading, Curling and Paw
ing or otherwise improving the same
as in said Act provided; and they are
also empowered by said Act to Grade
and Pave all the Streets, Lanes and
Alleys of said town, and to pay the
expense thereof out of the general
corporate funds; or they may Grade
and Pave any Street or any portion
thereof which in their Judgment the
public convenience may require to be
Graded and Paved, and apportion the
expense of such Improvement among
the owners of lots fronting on said
street or improved portion thereof
as provided by said Act. And
WHEREAS, The Town Clerk of
ostburg, at a meeting of said Mayor
and Councilmen, held August 18th,
1908, was directed to give notice by
publication to the owners of property
on said part of Broadway, a public
street as aforesaid, that the said May
or and Councilmen of Frostburg
would consider the passage of an Or
dinance providing for the Grading,
Paving, Curling and otherwise i'm
proving said part of Broadway, at a
meeting to be held in the Council
Chamber, August 18th, 1908, at which
said meeting all persons interested
would be given an opportunity to be
heard for and against said proposed
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
Married.

At the parsonage of the Welsh Bap-
list Church Tuesday evening, August
49, 1908, Miss Pearl Bennett to Mr. John
Martin Dudley, both of this place.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22
Licenses.

Licenses.
Marriage licenses have been granted
Albert Edward Ellis and Lydia May Bur
rail-, both of Mt. Savage.
John Joseph McGarcy and May V. Byrne
both of Midland.
Business Weather Note.
All seasons are favorable to advertise
ments planted in the JOURNAL.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-08-22

naner unfinished oud oirou1o+od :. i1
.o - ,,-.,.- ''''N
VI io' ''"' = /" 'i'e issue oi -Au-
gust 10Th, 1905. Now, therefore
SECTION I Pc - oroo+,d ,,a -,
of Frosthurg MARYLAND Tbot on tha+
part of Broadway, A nublfc street in
tha town Of TEroethrrn NI,,1.I,,,,
from the intersection of said street
WIN Mechanlc street to its intersec-
'loh Win the southerly side OF Loo
street De Graded and Paved with Wit
rllled FaFlh& Brlck and otherwise i'm
proved that the sidewalks be Paved,
fIe-faVed or Repaired and that the
same be Curbed with Concrete Curb
ing IN accordance with the Plans,
fFonIes ana specifications heretofore
submitted TO the Mayor and Council
hl'h by the Guy Engineer or SAID town
oH the llth DAY OF August, l9OS.
SECTION , And he il furthar on
acted and ordained Thar tha said
mart of Rroadwav shall no crodad CO
IS to ccnform tn the said plans pro
files and Specifications of tho said civ
Engineer: that the Paving between
the Curbs he done With Virrifiad paw
inc Brick. the Curb shall no of Con
crete six inches thick and two foot
in denth. tho Sidewalks shall no ca
laid as to he finish with tha ton of tho
Curh and ehaIl ha of Hard Rriok or
Concrete as tha nrcnartv nvnorc an
said imDrovemeut NAV rasnac+ive1v
desire
--
SECTION s. And be 1t further en-
acted and ordained, That the Town
Clerk snail cause to be inserted in
some newspaper published in said
newsnanar nnhIishad in tba Cit', 81
Cumberland MARYLAND Of 1oaot ono
.weak before the time farain made for
tho onauing Of bido an ofh,ortisomont
for hide fo,. ,natr;oIs and VOL, to no
dono ,rdor tbis Or1;,,a,co h,. oo,,
tract aroordfno- IN the said plans pro-
fros and CnooiGoo+ione hora+cf,,o
fIod Inv tho Ci;tv E,girao, &C ofaro
said said odr,rti,o,nont stotina whor
and whora h;ds viii no recairod and
ononod h,, tbo soia ,r,ror ond C,,,n,
ci1men said hfds to sn,cifv +3o siyo
naIta and 1,ind Of prirl ~ no ,,sad.
tho Nay1r oD1 C,u0cil,,ap
MOI. tho, nontroc+ u,ith ,,v of snid
hfddors for tbe w,rl, and motoriaIs
Contaminated NV this Ord'nance and
shall have the right to reject any and
all bids; or the said Mayor and Coun-
cilmen may buy all materials neces-
sary to said Enforcement and have all
work therefor done under the direc-
tion and superyision of the Street
Committee of said Mayor and Council-
men in accordance with the terms of
this Ordinance and the said Plans
Profiles and Specifications.
,.
SCI lON T. ana De 1t luFlher ell.
acted ana ORDAINED, mat the WORK OF
HraalhS' fa'lhS, Re.faVlhS ana ne
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
News OF OLD TOWN

Harry Kemp and Arthur Houchins
are down at the former sIranch on lie
Clerc creek. They are building cabin
and preparing the ranch for the coming
seasons crop. Harry expects to remain
down the river during the coming sum-
summer.
Franz DURAN, sawyer at the Jnrgens
mill, is laid up with severe cold. Bert
Hunter is handling the lever during the
absence of Dufrain
Charlie O'Harra has been tending bar
for Carl Brink recently.
The boxing contest scheduled for last
Friday evening did not materialize as
the crowd of sports was not large enough
to satisfy the boxers. 1t is probable
that this feature OF life in the old town
will be discontinued until the fall sea
son opens or times improve.
A son was born to Mrs. Jerry 0. New
some on Monday morning,
There are rumors of wedding in old
town in the near future.
Burglars entered the home of Frank
Quick about midnight on Monday night.
Mrs. Quick was awakened by the noise
made by the intruders and called her
husband. When he awoke the robbers
were making their getaway and as his
pistol was unlOaded he failed to secure a
shot at them. He went to Drinks sa-
loon where he found two fellows who
answered the description but failed to
have them arrested as he thought pos
sibly that the fellows were under the in
f1uence OF liquor and had made mis-
take and entered the wrong house.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04
Newport Band Re-Oreanized

Through the efforts of Carl Kirk.
patrick the Newport band has been
brought back to life and at a meet
ing held Wednesday evening an
organization Was perfected and
from now on the boys will induloe
in regular practice and will soon
be in shape to entertain our peo-
pie. Carl Kirkpatrick will be d.
rector and A. f. Reid is secretary
and treasurer. A subscription list
was circulated among our business
men this week for the purchase of
new instruments and met with q
liberal response.
Arrangements are being made
whereby the band will furnish mu-
sic for the excursions down river
on the Steamer lone which will no
doubt prove an enjoyable feature
Of these events.
The band will consist of about
twenty pieces, several new MEM
bers have been secured who will
materially strengthen it. A good
band is always a good ADVERTISE
ment for a town and the new Or
ganization should have the support
and encouragement of our citizens.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-06-04

in return for privileges granted That
such resolution should have been pre-
sented to the council, but as the secre-
tary of the club was opposed to the reso-
luton, he supposed that it had been
pigeonholed.
He then stated that in view of the
fact that Councilman McInnis was in
employ of the railroad, he did not think
that it was right for him to vote on the
subject. He had been in the same posi-
ton himself on several occasions and
had been expected tc deliver the goods
and had done so.
This attack on Mr. McInnis' integrity
aroused that gentleman. He asked the
mayor if he was barred from voting
because he was in the employ of the
Navigation Co., in which neither Mr..
Blackwell or the Idaho 4 Washington
Northern Railroad held any stock.
Mr.. Sammons then said that he had
every faith in Mr.. McInnis' honesty,
but still thought that his connection
with the Navigation Co. might influence
his vote. Mr.. Reynolds stated that Mr..
Blackwell did not own dollar Of stock
in the Navigation Co., neither was Mr..
McInnis in the employ of the railroad
company.
At this juncture Mr.. Summons said
that if he had been misinformed regard
ing the position of Mr.. McInnis and the
ownership of the Navigation Co. he
would withdraw his remarks and apollo
gize to Mr.. McInnis. The latter gentle
man had stated before the apology was
offered that the attorney might be the
kind OF man to deliver the goods, but
that he was not and he desired it so
understood
At this point the mayor interfered in
the conversation greatly to the dissa-
pointment of many of the auditors, but
the talk was becoming to acrimonious
to snit his honor.
A. W. McMorran then addressed the
council and said that the resolution
mentioned by Mr.. Sammons was not in
tended to be presented to the council so
that no blame attached to the secretary
of the club. He was in favor of giving
the railroad company what they asked
for in the petition as he believed that it
was for the benefit not only of the COM
pany but of the public generally. He
was affected by the closing of one of the
streets but did not think that it would
bother him much. He thought that the
majority of the citizens favored the
closing OF the streets as requested by
the company.
The matter was laid over until the
next meeting.
There were no objections to vaeat-
ing an alley in block 8 OF Scott's second
addition. An ordinance covering the