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Mining Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FORTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 49
HAS PiTIFULRECORD
Carolina Woman Inmate of Home
for 67 Years.
Lynn Anderson Has Been In the “Poor
House” of Union County, N. C.,
Ever Since It Was Built in
the Year 1845.
Raleigh, N. C. —There is in the
county home of Union county, this
state, a woman who has been its in
mate since the home was established,
some 67 years ago. Lynn Anderson
is her name, and she is now over sev
enty years old. Lynn’s mother was
the wife of Jack Anderson, who had
been in the days of his youth a sailor
and was known in the northern part of
Union county, •where he lived, as
“Sailor Jack Anderson.” After the
death of “Sailor Jack,” his wife, being
penniless, and unable to make a living
for herself and. two daughters, Mar
garet and Lynn, took them to the
county home, which had just been
built, on a farm three miles southeast
of Monroe, the county seat, and they
were the first inmates of the "county
poor house,” as it was then called.
When Lynn entered the county
home she was four years old. Her
mother and her sister died many years
ago. She knows no other home than
the one provided by the county, and
has not, in all the long years since she
entered it, spent a night from under
its roof; and she has never in all these
years been more than half a mile from
its walls, except when she made the
trip, more than 50 years ago, from the
old site in the county to Monroe, when
the county home was moved to that
town.
Lynn is a remarkably strong woman
and has done an immense amount of
hard work. She has drawn and car
ried enough water from the well out
in the yard at the county home, before
Lynn Anderson.
■waterworks were put in, to float a gun
boat; and if all the wood she has car
ried in her arms from woodpile to
house could be put in one stack, it
would be higher than the Union coun
ty court house. Lynn has had but one
attack of illness, and that was a slight
one. She is still able to work, and is
a willing worker. The new county
home of Union, two miles west of
Monroe, will be completed in a short
time and Lynn will go to it, making
the second journey she has made since
as a little four-year-old girl she
trudged by her mother’s side over the
long road from the humble cabin home
on Grassy creek, to the poor house.
FIND TOMB OF ANCIENT RACE
Skulls Found In Kansas Are De
clared to Be Unlike Those
of Indians.
Junction City, Kan.- —While tearing
down an old mound that lay in his
wheat field, John Noland, who lives
several miles northwest of town, found
several skeletons in a fair state of
preservation.
The mound, apparently, was of nat
ural origin, and the oldest settlers re
membered it. They say that it look
ed like the work of nature, and many
supposed that it was a grave, pile cov
ered with sod. No attention was ever
paid to the mound until several
months ago, when Mr. Noland decided
to level it and utilize the land for
wheat instead of plowing around it,
as farmers have done for the past 50
years.
The mound was about 30 feet in
diameter and about five feet high. It
•was covered with sod, with an occa
sional rock protruding. When Mr. No
land started to level it, he found that
about eight inches underneath the sod
was a rock wall. He kept digging the
dirt away, following the rocks, until
he had unearthed about half of the
wall. Then he started at the top,
which ■was slightly concave, and gave
evidences of once having been arched
over. Digging down in the center, he
came upon many well preserved skulls
and bones, in piles at different places
within the artificial cave.
People who have examined the skulls
say that they do not resemble Indian
skulls, and the absence of Indian
■weapons and utensils would seem to
indicate that bones were not those of
Indians.
Texas Rabbits Have Horns.
Cureo, Texas. —Several giant jack
rabbits that have evidently been
crossed w'ith wTiite-tail deer have been
killed in this section and brought here
during the last few weeks. The rab
bits have well-defined antlers several
inches long. Many jackrabbits with
v oins have also been killed recently.
Home loom!
IT Helps T j
MONEY IN ROADSIDE FRUIT
In Germany Trees Are Made to Help
Pay the Upkeep of the
H ighways.
The auction sales of native fruit
grown on the trees bordering the coun
try roads, in the township of Linden,
adjoining the city of Hanover, yield
ed this autumn 20,612 marks ($4,906).
Along certain stretches of these roads
the yield has amounted to 1,500 marks
(357) a kilometer, or at the rate of
$595 a mile.
The province of Hanover has some
7,000 miles of country highways bor
dered with fruit trees, the profit of
which is appropriated toward the up
keep of the roads. These roads, which
are common place to the native res
ident, are the delight of the American
■tourist, who often wonders why road
sides in the United States are not
thus planted to fruit.
This application of the beautiful,
practical and economic possibilities
.embraced in the control of such pub
lic property as roads is a fine illus
tration of the community thrift of the
German. During the three weeks pe
riod of ripening sharp eyed old -watch
men on bicycles patrol the roads, be
ing particularly active on Sundays,
when the people are out in large
numbers.
It is forbidden to pick up fruit from
the ground, and to knock it from the
trees is subject to a fine of 100 marks
($23.80) or more for each offense,
says Consular and Trade Reports.
Laws and regulations for the general
good, however, excite such respect on
the part of the German that cases of
theft of fruit from the highway fruit
trees rarely occur.
UNIQUE FENCE THAT BLOOMS
Corrals in Mexico, Texas and New
Mexico Inclosed by Cactus—
Like Plant.
Throughout the older parts of Mex
ico, Texas and New Mexico many
of the fences around the corrals, and
often the gardens, are made of “oca
tilla.” This is a cactus-like plant
growdng in a stalk form and often
reaching a height of twenty or twen
ty-five feet. It is completely covered
with long stout thorns.
The stalk is tough, hard to cut, al
most impossible to break, and growl
ing to the height it does it makes an
effective protection. It is planted
usually in three or four alternate
rows and is held together by buck
skin strings or with strong wire. It
needs but little water.
I believe this ocatilla fence would
be found very satisfactory to use on
county estates, and even the owner
of a modest plot of ground would
find it a good thing. It prevents stock
from breaking in, effectively keeps
at a distance all marauders, and
■when in bloom is a beautiful sight,
for at the tip of the stalk there
comes early in summer a cluster of
deep crimson, ball shaped blossoms.
I remember once the astonished, al
most horrified, expression of an East
ern woman to whom I mentioned the
beauty of the corral fence when in
bloom.-—Country Life in America.
The Ugliness of Cities.
The illustrated press has been giv
ing the country some very interesting
pictures of the recent academic festi
val in connection with the installation
of Chancellor Brown at the University
of New 7 York. In all Its scholarly pa
geantry the scene is dignified Etad in
spiring. In cap and gow r n and hood
and cape, Ambassador James Bryce,
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, senators,
Judges, college presidents are seen
sweeping up the broad stone w 7 alk past
the portico of a classic college build
ing. The effect is fine. But where
are they all headed? Directly and in
evitably toward a huge gas tank. This
monstrosity pokes itself into the pho
tographs at all angles. Apparently
there is not room for the camera to
get away from it. The leagues which
are working toward the common-sense
beautification of American cities
should send these New 7 York univers
ity pictures broadcast. They tell their
ow 7 n story and teach their ow 7 n lesson.
Wanted to Learn.
“So you asked my wife for our
daughter’s hand, did you?” says the
stern father.
“I did, and she began to give me a
piece of her mind about my presump
tion, and I —”
“And you beat a retreat and came
to see me. Well, sir—”
“Oh, no! I didn’t retreat. I argued
it out with her, and before I left she
had given me her consent. So I-—”
“You did! Bully for you! You can
live right here with us. I w 7 ant to
study your system of defying my wife
for a year or so, anyw 7 ay.”—WomanA
World.
The Last Straw.
“The president of our pressing club
was carried to a lunatic asylum yes
terday, a raving maniac.”
“What upset the poor man’s rea
son?”
“A woman called him up on the
telephone and asked him what he
would charge to press half a dozen of
her poodle’s automobile coats.”
FROSTBURG, MD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1912
SCRAPS
l||p
Defending a Fad.
“This fad is the limit.”
“What is it?”
“New York girls are having the pic
tures of their gentlemen friends pho
tographed on their finger nails.”
“Nothing remarkable about that.”
“No, why—”
"Certainly not. Any girl who thinks
much of a young man likes to have
him always on hand.”
The Secret Out.
“Have you seen Timson lately?”
“No.”
“I thought not. He was wonder
ing only last night if you had left
town.”
“Confound that fellow. I’ll never
borrow another dollar from him as
long as I live!”
A Sure Sign.
“I know as soon as met Mr. Jones
that he was a married man.”
“Did he talk to you about his wife?”
“Never mentioned her.”
“Then how did you know at once
he w 7 as a married man?”
“He w 7 as such a good listener.”
In Which Sense, Maudie?
Alice —-It’s mean of you to tell peo
ple that w'hen Jack kissed me I didn’t
resent it.
Maud —I didn’t dear. On the con
trary, I said that when he kissed you
on the cheek you held it up against
him for quite a while.
UNNATURAL FEELING.
Clubbman —Shay, M’ria. I feel as
though I was waltzing all ’round you!
Wonder what’s got into me?
Mrs. Clubbman —You ought to know,
You poured it in!
Speaking of Wood Pulp—
Some day there won’t be wood enough
To make a paper bag,
And all the paper mills—how tough!—
Will straightway chew the rag.
Puzzling.
“There is an important question be
fore the city youngster.”
“Will you be so kind as to tell me
what it is?”
“This: How can Santa Claus get
into the house through a steam pipe?”
Contrary Effects.
“Funny, isn’t it, about a prima don
na’s voice when it comes to con
tracts?”
“In what way?”
“Her liquid notes always turn into
solid cash.”
Nothing in a Name.
The Stranger—Queer place for a fac
tory —right in the heart of your busi
ness section.
The Native Yes, that’s where
they manufacture the pure country
sausage.
Exceptions.
“The pass system has been general
ly abolished, hasn’t it?”
“Not so generally. The corpora
tion I’ve invested in has not abolished
it about their dividends.”
Apparently.
“There is a great deal of polite fic
tion going around.”
“Yes, indeed. Most of our politeness
is fiction.
Natural Prophecy.
“What is the best way to make a
play a howling success?”
suppose, to try it on the dog.”
Prudent Man.
“You say he has money to burn.”
“Yes, but there is nothing else he
dreads so much as fire.”
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
USE OF THE REVOLVING FAN
Investigation Bhows These Appliances
Enormously Increase Bacterial
Content of Air.
That the use of revolving fans enor
mously increases the number of bac
teria in the air (though by what
means we are not told) is shown by
recent tests in France, according to
the Hospital (London). Says this pa
per:
"The use of ventilators with revolv
ing fans has become very common in
large public buildings, especially res
taurants and shops. In most cases
these ventilators communicate with
the outside, and they are installed, of
course, with the idea of ventilating
and purifying the air within by in
creasing the rate of exchange with the
external atmosphere. But revolving
fans are also frequently used, espe
cially in hot weather, simply to pro
duce a cooling effect by setting up a
current of air inside. Drs. A. Sartory
and A. Filassier have examined the
bacteriological effect of these fans and
ventilators upon the atmosphere with
in, and have communicated their re
sults to a recent meeting of the So
ciete de Biologie. They find that
these appliances enormously increase
the bacterial content of the air. Their
experiments were numerous and va
ried, but it will'suffice to refer to one
or two. Thus in a restaurant of 400
cubic meters analysis of the air before
the fan was working showed 12,500
bacteria per cubic meter; after work
ing the fan for one hour, 23,000 bac
teria, and after two hours, 46,000 bac
teria. In another cafe of 600 cubic
meters the number of bacteria rose
from 12,000 to 39,000 after the fan
was working for one hour. In every
instance in fact, the number of bac
teria per cubic meter was doubled, or
even quadrupled. As the authors
point out, with these facts such ap
pliances cannot but be regarded as
dangerous and detrimental to the pub
lic health.”
SEE INTERIOR OF HIS SHOE
Electric Light and Mirror Arranged
So That Man Can See Into In
terior Without Trouble.
The illustration shows an electric
light and mirror arrangement by
means of which the shoemaker can
Shoemaker’s Electric Light.
illuminate the interior of the shoe he
is working upon. It comprises a cas
ing containing an electric light bulb,
adapted to be inserted in the heel of
a boot or shoe, and a mirror carried
by the casing in front of the light.
The parts are so arranged that the
light rays pass below the mirror into
the toe, and the shoemaker can ex
amine this portion of the shoe by
looking into the mirror.
Viennese Electric Fountain.
The city of Vienna possesses what
is perhaps the most remarkable elec
tric, or electrically lighted, fountain
in existence. It is situated in the
Scbwartzenbergplatz. Underneath the
fountain, in a huge cemented chamber,
are placed twenty-seven reflecting
lamps, capable of producing seventy
different luminous and colored effects.
The light is transmitted through the
waters of the fountain. The light pow
er of the plant is estimated as equal
to 900.000.000 candles.
aKiRr
1 NOTEA ■
There are at present 18 recognized
systems of wireless telegraphy.
The telephone rate in Denmark out
side of the larger cities is about sll
a year.
A new electrical office device will
seal, stamp and keep a record of 160
letters a minute.
During the last year 1,200,000 miles
of telegraph wire were added to that
already standing.
As early as 400 B. C. the ancients
had observed that iron rods had the
power to avert lightning.
A machine has been invented wiih
which the magnetic effect of the iron
and steel parts of a ship upon a com
pass needle can be measured.
It requires 2,000.000 horse power to
operate the textile mills of the Unit
ed States, of which 500,000 horse
power is produced by electricity.
The Madrid telephone company,
though the principal one In Spain,
with stations in nineteen leading
cities, has only 3.795 subscribers
Engineers declare that the water
falls of the Alps are capable of gen
erating enough electrical power to
run all the railroads of Switzerland.
An electric motor with a number of
flexible rods mounted at right angles
to its shaft has been Invented In Ger
many for beating and renovating furs.
The polarity of electric batteries
may be tested by soaking blotting pa
per in potassium iodide and starch,
the paper showing a blue stain next
the positive pole when placed between
the poles.
Few steam locomotives can haul
trains over more than a two per cent
grade, while many electric railroads
negotiate grades of nearly seven par
cent with ease.
1882 1912*^
f THIRTY YEARS AGO. f
J The Items Below Were Current During T
Week Ending September 9, 1882.
A Dakota real-estate dealer adver
tised that he could “be found at the
Gold Mine playing ‘freeze out,’ at
Mitchell’s Exchange betting on horses,
or at my residence reading the Bible.”
“Hay fever” going out of fashion.
A number of prominent people neg
lected to have it this year.
It was announced that Rev. A.
Homrighaus would soon resign the
pastorate of the German Eutheran
congregation here to accept that of a
church in Washington, D. C.
Walter Edwards, Christian Eehr,
Isaac Anderton, Archie McMillan and
R. P. Jackson were elected in District
No. 11 to the republican county con
vention, and Joseph Womsley, Daniel
J. Williams, John T. Eewis, Charles
Conner, and William H. Evans in
No. 12.
Walter Beall and David W. Sloan,
of Cumberland; Adam Thompson, of
Eonaconing; J. T. McDonald, of Bar
ton, and Daniel J. Williams, of Frost
burg, were elected delegates by the
county convention to the district con
vention at Frederick.
Thomas E. Close, infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Close, of Eckhart,
died Saturday, September 2, 1882.
Rev. Charles Mattingly, pastor of
the Catholic Church, Nanticoke, Pa.,
died Monday, September 4, 1882, in
Philadelphia, aged 43 years. He was
a native, of Cumberland, and related
to many residents of this county.
Owen Hitchins, Nelson Beall and
Peter Payne, of this place, were ap
pointed “viewers” for a road leading
from Frostburg to Eonaconing, in re
sponse to petition by John Ryan, of
Lonaconing, and others.
The Eiberal (Mo.) Liberal reported
that “John Betz’s house is nearly
completed.” Whence the Journal
“that Eckhart will lose
an excellent citizen.”
THOSE FOREIGNERS.
Doctor (after careful examination)
Borne foreign substance Is lodged In
your eye.
Dennis —01 know ut! That’s what
Oi git f’r wurrukin’ wid them da
goes!
A Resolve.
“Not frequently or of necessity to
say to anyone or to write in a letter
that I have no leisure, nor continual
ly to excuse the neglect of duties re
quired by our relations to those with
whom we live, by alleging urgent oc
cupations.”—Marcus Aurelius.
Her Fault.
A certain Scotch professor was left
a widower In his old age. Not very
long after he suddenly announced his
Intention of marrying again, half apol
ogetically, adding, "I never would
have thought of It, If Lizzie hadn’t
died.” —Harper’s Magazine.
Nonsense That Deceives.
“Nonsense when earnest is impres
sive and sometimes takes you in. If
you are in a hurry, you occasionally
mistake it for sense.”—Disraeli.
Cleaning Glass Vases.
Flower vases which have become
cloudy and discolored should be
cleaned with a mixture of vinegar
and salt, poured in and well shaken
about. A long piece of stiff wire,
upon the end of which is a little pad
of soft rag, should be poked into all
the corners and crevices, and the vase
then rinsed in warm water and dried
with a good polishing cloth. Fly
marks upon the gilt frames of pic
tures should be rubbed with half a
lemon and then polished with a
chamois leather.
He Couldn’t Come.
Edwin Jandorf, traveling in Canada,
writes from Montreal, August 24th,
that “only a long intervening distance
keeps me away from my birth-place at
this time. My very best wishes for
the success of Home-Coming week.
Were my father living, he, too, would
be proud of this grand event.”
Gershou Anthony, Inspector of
Weights and Measures, made his first
report to the County Commissioners.
He had been out 54 days and visited
356 business places. Result generally
satisfactory.
The enrolment in Public School No.
1, Prof. J. E. J. Buckey, principal,
reached 372 pupils, inclusive of Fri
day, September 8.
A boy at Hampshire mine examined
the Westinghouse device attached to
mine cars Sunday, September 3d. He
didn’t know it was “loaded.” Sev
eral cars “went off”—over the incline,
and were smashed.
Andrew Carney raised an Irish
potato measuring 14 inches in circum
ference one way, 11 inches the other,
and weighed IX pounds. It was of
the “Victor” class, but Andy called
it a “Land Leaguer.”
Wesley Eoar had received letters
descriptive of lost buggy-team, but
none satisfactory so far.
It is not birth, nor
Rank, nor State; —
’Tis git-up and git that
Makes men great.
Bill Nye, appointed post-master at
Laramie, Wyoming, telegraphed to
the President his acceptance, saying,
among other things:
“I look upon my appointment as a
triumph of eternal truth over mo
mentary error.
“It is one of the epochs in the Na
tion’s onward march to purity and
perfection.
“And now that we are co-workers in
the same Department, do not hesitate
to approach and consult me concern
ing any problems that may threaten
the utility of the postal service.
“Be perfectly frank in stating your
troubles to me, and do not feel reluct
ant if I should at any time appear
cold and reserved.”
DESERVEDLY EJECTED.
First Parrot —Willie Owl was put
out of the theater last night.
Second Parrot —What for?
First Parrot —Why, he commenced
hooting at the villain.
Poetry In Skyscrapers.
R is a mistake to think we must go
back a thousand years or more for
genuine poetic inspiration or that the
poet of today must necessarily confine
himself to the veins that the Greeks
worked to create their lasting vogue.
There Is poetry in the big modern In
stitutions where twentieth century life
pulsates, if only there be the Imagina
tion that can treat it in a masterly
way.
Musician and Wit.
M. Camille Saint-Saens, the great
musician, and the life-long friend of
animals, took Into his home a little
dog. The enraged concierge waited
hlB chance and notified the owner of
the house. Soon a letter arrived for
the musician which said, “Monsieur,
my house Is not a zoological gardenl”
Saint-Saens sent back the answer,
“Monsieur, if you wish your house to
be a zoological garden you have only
to live In it”
Esteem That Is Lasting.
“There is no occasion to regard with
( continual dislike one who had former
l ly a mean opinion of your merits; for
you are nevsr so sure of permanent
esteem as from the man who once es
teemed you lightly, and has corrected
his mistake —if it be a mistake."—Sir
j Arthur Helps.
i
Scholastic.
Prof. Patrick O’Rourke completed
his summer-school course in Columbia
| University, New York, just in time to
enter the Home-Coming Course in this
metropolis.
Precisely the same report can be
made for Miss Ina Spitznas, also of
’ this place.
, Endorsement.
t The Cumberland American quotes
r the Journal as calling Frostburg the
. “Mountain Metropolis,” and ac
-1 quiesces in it as not only a truth but a
beautiful alliteration.
HENRY F. COOK, Manager
WHOLE NUMBER 2,134
Aloha !
Who bides in the Temple of Peace
to-day,
It’s glory green-arched above him,
Grateful and glad let him humbly
pray
To be worthy- of them who love him !
Prophetic vision, undaunted will,
The “long pull—all-together”—
So love wins out; so the gala town
Smiles in the golden weather.
Sweet fields still fair in the summer’s
wane ;
Breezes Arabic blowing
Over the meadows and mountain
pines ;
Charmed hours too swiftly going ;
Bright welcome written a hundred
ways
More than the tongue hath spoken ;
Friendship renewed, of the dear old
days,
By many a gracious token ;
All these—and wonders that hands
have wrought
Unwearied in civic labors —
O, it’s proud and happy we are to be
At home—with the Frostburg
neighbors !
Well may her long years be the theme
Of Orator and of Poet; —
’Tis the Home we loved—shall forever
love—
And ’tis here we are to show it!
Real Estate Transfers.
James H. Welsh and wife to Joseph
F. Thompson, lot in Barton, for $1,700.
The Union Mining Coming to Sarah
H. Campbell, lot in Mt. Savage, Si.
The Eckhart Flat Land Company to
Michael Long, lot 34, in Eckhart Flat
Addition to Frostburg, $5.
The Borden Mining Company to
Road Directors of Allegany county,
parcel of land between Borden Mines
and Allegany mines, to be used as a
public road, for SSOO.
Mary- Eoar and husband to Martha
Gelhauser, lot in Barrelville, $lO.
The Maryland Coal and Iron Com
pany to Frank Umstot, two lots in
Georges Creek.
Regular Hablta.
It Is a good plan to have a regular
time for reading. One accomplishes
so much more in this way, and be
sides establishes a kind of Intellec
tual habit that is a good thing In It
self. In an hour, or even half an
hour given regularly each day to read
ing, a great deal may be accomplish
ed. Do not confine yourself to serious
books. Alternate light with heavy
reading, and do not attempt heavy
reading when you are tired. Do not
read merely to be amused. Treat
your books as friend. Do not fr’low
blindly the teachings of any book.
MEAN OF HIM.
<53™L-'
Mrs. Diggs—She’s a horrid flirt
Mr. Diggs—Attractive girls usually
are.
Their Likeness.
While Pat worked, Mike and Mur
phy painted a picture of a donkey’s
head on the back of his coat, thinking
that they would have some fun out of
him when he put on his coat to go
home. Pat, as he reaohed for his
coat, saw the painting and asked:
“Which one of you fellows wiped your
face on the back of my coat?”
Made Neat Escape.
Not so long ago a knowledge of
Latin was essential to an orator, and
long quotations from the Roman poets
embellished every debate. James
Payn, the novelist, was once at a din
ner party where a learned clergyman
Insisted on quoting Greek. The lady
sitting next to Payn asked for a trans
lation. Payn’s Greek was rusty. Ac
cordingly he assumed a blush, and
hinted to the lady that it was scarcely
fit for her ear. “Good heavens I” she
exclaimed, “you don’t mean to say—”
"Please don’t ask any more,” mur
mured Payn, “I really could not tell
you.”
The Home Town.
The home town’s the best, whatever
town it is,
The fair town, the square town, for
any kind of biz—
To live in, to give in, to work in, to
play,
To dwell in, to sell in, to buy day by
day.
The home town’s the best town, wher
ever it may be—
To dream for, to scheme for, to bring
prosperity)
To shout for, to spout for, and not to
run it down —
For it’s your town and my town and
ev’rybody’s town!