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Mining fSBi? Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FORTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 51
APPLY TO THE CASHIER.
A timid knock, a gruff “Come in!”
and the tear stained, new office boy
stood before the manager.
“P —please, sir!” he blubbered.
The manager looked up sharply.
“P—please, sir! ” he blubbered again.
“Well, well,'' asked the manager,
“what is it?”
“P —please, sir, I upset a p—packet
of envelopes,” said the office boy, dab
bing his streaming eyes with his coat
sleeve, “and the c —cashier k —kicked
me!”
“Good gracious, my lad!” snapped
the manager irritably. “You don’t ex
pect me to attend personally to every
detail of business, do you?”—Answers
How Another Was Made 111.
Joe —How are you, old man?
Arthur —Got a beastly cold, y’ know.
Joe —Hard luck, bah Jove. Been
going out in the cold without your
monocle?
Arthur —No. Called on Henery at
his house and that wretched dog of
his persisted in wagging his tail and
creating a draft. —Tit-Bits.
WANTED TO KNOW.
Willie (aged seven)—Say, pop, did
a man ever shoot the Niagara Rapids?
Pop—Yes.
Willie —Well, if he had only gotten
half way through would they have
been half shot?
His Need.
The aviator made his prayer
For what he felt his dearth:
He cried aloud, “Oh, give me airl
I do not want the earth!”
Sufficient Reason for Refusal.
Clerk —I’m afraid I can’t let you
have that drug, sir.
Customer —Why not? Do I look like
a man who would kill himself?
Clerk —Well, I wouldn’t go so far
as to say that, sir; but if I looked lik6
you, I would be tempted.
Hard to See.
First Scot —What sort o’ meenister
hae yet gotten, Geordie.
Second Scot —We seldom get a
glint o’ him; six days o' th’ week he’s
envees’ble, and on the seventh heV
incomprehens’ble.—Tit-Bits.
Like Curing Like.
“In his last case, the mental healer
who boasis such cures proceeded on
the homeopathic principle.”
“How so?”
“He gave a dumb man silent treat
ment.”
Spoiled the Romance.
“He proposed to me by wireless.”
“How romantic.’
“I thought so, too, but father didn’t.”
“Why not?”
“He sent the message collect, and oi
cost father $4.20.”
POOR FIDO.
**
Little Elsie —Oh! take me up, moth
er; it’s too muddy.
Mother —Walk across, that’s a good
girl; mother has all she can do to
carry poor Fido.
Blase.
The aviator craze
Seems slightly on the wane;
For "Rube” no longer pays
To see an aeroplane.
Then Trouble Began.
“What became of the plum cake I
baked for you,” demanded the fiancee.
“I took it to a jeweler’s to have
my monogram engraved on it,” ex
plained the fiance.
Serious Part Begins.
Jack —Well, old man, she has ac- !
cepted me and named the day. That’s
a load off my heart.
Married Friend —Yes; now the load j
is on your shoulders.
Stone Bridge over Casselman River near Grantsville, Maryland.
Several weeks ago the Journal told
of the enterprise of the Daughters of
the Revolution of Somerfield, Pa.,
shown in erecting a tablet near that
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BRIDGE) AS IT APPEARED BEFORE LATEST REPAIRS
place memorializing “The Great
Crossings,” where Gen. Braddock’s
army crossed the river
June 24, 1755.
1882 1912 V
| THIRTY YEARS AGO. f
j The Items Below Were Current During
Week Ending September 23, 1882.
The nomination of Eouis E. Mc-
Comas by the republican party for
Congress was regarded as a verjf
strong one.
“Anon,” writing from Washington,
D. C., congratulated the Journal upon
its 11th birthday, and closed his letter
with the prayer that “it may extend
into the Millenium, and that I may,
in that happy era, be still recognized
as one of your correspondents.”
H. Crawford Black, Capt. John
Sheridan and John Wilson formed a
co-partnership under the firm name of
Black, Sheridan & Wilson. Two of
fices were established—one in Pied
mont, W. Va., other in Baltimore.
The company owned coal lands in
both Maryland and West Virginia.
Hon. James G. Blaine, after making
a tour of the State, declared that “no
equal area in this country is so rich
in natural resources as West Virginia.”
Hon. William E. Wilson, of Morgan
town, W. Va., was nominated for Con
gress by the democratic convention at
Piedmont.
“A sand wagon telescoped Eaj'man’s
Grantsville express and knocked a
spring from under the combination
mail and passenger car. N. h. a. N.
P. u.”
Col. William Borden, president of
the Borden Mining Company, died in
New York Thursday, September 21,
1882, aged 63 years, of malarial fever.
The Journal g'ave warning to other
papers of a report current in
Baltimore that “champagne will be 30
per cent, hig'her before snow flies.”
“Des bane a free country, bay
yeminy, an’ Aye veil do as Aye
please,” was reported as all of the
English language the Swede new
comers at Eckhart knew.
Here, Too.
The Secretary of the Automobile
Club of Maryland in giving notice of
the regular monthly meeting, due on
the 10th inst., added a word of caution
“to speeders.”
He didn’t want reckless running in
Howard county, as the sheriff, heed
ing popular complaint, had issued
warning that such abuse of privileges
must cease, or the iconoclasts of the
“speed limit” would be arrested, etc.
It would seem that what is held to
be wrong and dangerous in Howard
county ought to be officially regarded
as equally so in all counties.
The Club’s caution should be ex
tended to State-wide limit—all
directions.
FROSTBTTRG, MD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1912
The ladies obtained so much ap
plause for this patriotic act that they
immediately determined to mark in
the same manner what is known as
“Little Crossings,” near Grantsville,
where Gen. Braddock crossed the Cas
selman river about two days before.
Meanwhile, the National Pike sur-
i Capt. Nelson Beall and Robert C.
Paul, of this place, purchased a foun
dry in Staunton, Va.
Big squashes raised in George
Stark’s garden, this place, and big
beets in Peter Kelly 7 ’s garden, at Bor
den Shaft, reported.
The Journai, had information that
Miss Mollie Harper, of Martinsburg,
W. Va., had been married to Mr. John
Chambers, of this place, and that Mr.
C. had established a coal-yard in Han
cock, this State.
Two comets were discovered during
the night of September 14th, 1882, the
first by Prof. E. E. Barnard, at Nash
ville, Tenn.; the other by an astrono
mer in Rio Janeiro, South America.
It was regarded as a coincidence that
both comets appeared in the Constel
lation of the Twins.
Hon. William J. Read, of Cumber
land, accepted the republican nomi
nation for chief judge of this circuit.
It was found from experiment that
voices ever the telephone wire be
tween Baltimore and Cumberland, 178
miles, could be heard distinctly.
Thomas Caton and George Den
mark, drivers, and Thomas Eangford,
miner, were hurt in New Hope mine
Monday 7 , September 18th. Dr. J. J.
Jones was compelled to amputate one
of Langford’s big toes.
It was reported that “one of Frost
burg’s fair y r oung women will shortly
change residence to Lonaconing—at
the instance of a prominent y 7 oung
business man of that place.”
Joseph Knapp, 10 years old, fell
from a chestnut-tree Sunday, Septem
ber 17, 1882, and incurred injuries
from which he died the following
Wednesday 7 . He fell 25 feet upon a
rough surface.
Correction.
The Jouranl erred last week in
printing day and date of the “Madame
Sherry” presentation at the Frost
burg Opera House —“Monday 7 , Septem
ber 6th.” Should have been Monday,
September i6th. In making this cor
rection it is pleasing to know that it
concerns an “event” still “coming,”
not “the forecast of one that is past.”
So, get your tickets for Monday even
ing, next.
A New Social Profession.
The Elk Garden W. Va.) corres
pondent of the Piedmont Independent
writes that paper —
“Mr. Rastus Hoey, the town serial
artist of Frostburg, was calling on
friends here Wednesday.”
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
vey, following the Braddock road
very closely west of the Savages,
made a crossing here also, and the
Government, about the year 1818,
built a magnificent bridge over the
stream.
When, therefore, the ladies decorate
it with the proposed tablet, “Little
State Normal School.
The building and grounds have un
dergone a number of distinct im
provements during the summer recess
—changes which add to the comfort
as well as convenience and sanitary
condition of the institution.
So far has the work of renewal pro
ceeded that it may be stated no year
of study 7 in this instituion has opened
with more promise of excellent work
than that which will begin next Wed
nesday.
The work done is practically pre
paratory 7 to the $25,000 addition pro
vided for by 7 the last Legislature,
which will contain several lecture
halls, a chemical and physical labora
tory7, gymnasium and other accessories
to a first-class school.
The next, and probably most im
portant of all equipments desired is—
the building of a dormitory in two
divisions—one for the residence of
the principal and girl pupils, the other
for the assistant principal and boy
students, or vice versa. Only this pro
vision will bring pupils from outside
the county, as any 7 Slate institution
should.
The faculty for the incoming scho
lastic year comprises the following
capable tutors:
Principal—Prof. Edward F. Webb,
A. M.
Psychology, Pedagogy and Latin—
Prof. Samuel A. Baer, A. M., Ph. D.
English and History—Miss Annie
M. Hyde, A. B.
Mathematics and Music—Miss Ger
trude T. Morgan.
Science and Drawing—Miss Grace
Lee Reinhart, A. M.
Elocution and Physical Training—
Mrs. Clara Pyle Ewing.
In the training department the
tutors are listed in the following order:
Critic —Prof. Samuel A. Baer.
Grade-WOrk—Misses M. Eouise Pur
nell, Elva Thomas and Grace H.
Dando.
Altogether, .as indicated, the out
look for the school has never been
brighter.
I the Realm of Sisterhood.
Mrs. John W. Sterry 7 , of this place,
represented the Dames of Malta of
Frostburg in the Grand Lodge session
of that Order this week in Wilming
ton, Del.
Owls lnstal Officers.
On a recent evening, in Wehner’s
Hall, the Order of Owls held a large
and enthusiastic meeting, the hall be
ing crowded to overflowing.
A class of 38 new members were
initiated into the mysteries of the
Order, making the total membership
now over 200.
At the close of the installation of
officers and initiation refreshments
were served.
The Charter will remain open until
next meeting, at which time a large
class of new members will be con
firmed.
The local Nest pays sick and acci
dent benefits of $6 a week, funeral
benefit of SIOO, and furnishes a phy
sician for members and their families.
Crossings,” as a place of historic in
terest, will be doubly “on the map.”
This work furnishes good reason for
town care of “Braddock Milestone.”
The cut above, kindly loaned the
Journal by the Oakland Republican,
: is a picture of the bridge as it now
: | appeared before latest repairs.
Passenger Service.
Two passenger-trains—morning and
■ afternoon, beginning Sunday, 29th
; inst., is the present probability for
: the Western Maryland extension.
With close connections at Cumber
land, through travel between Pitts
burg and Baltimore will be available.
Two trains each way daily will be a
good beginning.
Honeymoon in Frostburg.
Mrs. Thomas Rowe, Fairview street,
had as guests this week Mr. and Mrs.
John Figard, of Six-Mile Run, Pa.,
| newly married.
A Happy Hit.
It is reported that Jim Ratigan,
about twenty years ago, had a dear
friend who had been in office some
time and was again a candidate.
Jim went to Cumberland to hear
him speak, came back to Eckhart
more than ever enthusiastic in his
friend’s behalf, and one evening he
recited an eloquent passage from
the latter’s address:
“You workingmen—you who go into
the bowels of the world especially,
should know that you are the great
body politic of this county.
“You are the roots and the trunk of
our great county tree, while we who
represent you in office are only the
branches of that magnificent type of
the orchard!”
“Bay yeminy, Yem, ded hae say
orchard?” asked the Philosopher.
“He did,” replied Jim. “But he
could have said forest.”
“Ten, good for hem, bay yeminy,
for eferybody knew det te plum don’t
grow on te root nor on te trunk of te
forest tree!” (Great laughter.)
A Great Panorama i Color,
Form and Motion.
All that glorious profusion of color
in nature which has hitherto eluded
photographers will be reproduced by
Lyman H. Howe at the Frostburg
Opera House on Monday, September
23d, during a delightful pictorial trip
on some of the most picturesque
rivers of France, through the historic
palace of Versailles, and also through
the city of Paris.
In every detail each scene is a per
fect and accurate transcription of na
ture in color as well as in form and
motion.
Whaling, the burial of the Maine,
: the bee industry, a thrilling race be
tween a hydroplane and an 800 horse
power motor-boat in the harbor of
Monaco, and an exciting adventure
: with a ferocious lion are only a few of
i the other features on a program that
is entirely new, excepting only that
: amazing botanical study entitled “The
; Birth of Flowers,” which Mr. Howe
will present again in response to pop
l ular demand.
: No other reproduction that he has
- ever presented has elicited such num
erous requests for another presenta
■ tion, and it is in deference to this
i wide demand that he offers his pa
- trons another opportunity to peer into
. one of nature’s greatest secrets.
To Joseph Michael.
Two Years Old To-Day—Sept. 8, 1912.
On this natal day, my baby son —-
My only heir, my hope and pride—
' Again I’ll sing of the joy begun
When came our darling to reside.
Two years have passed since that
event,
And with joy came also pain ;
Dire maladies—they came and went,
And now we have you strong again.
A mother’s care you’ll ne’er forget,
When to manhood you attain ;
Nor the lonely hours and days beset
By harrowing mental strain.
Her’s is the. praise—next to Him alone
Who “notes the sparrow’s fall;”
Oh, remember her when I am gone
Away for good and all!
Still, to gloomy thoughts I’m not
inclined ;
I, instead, prefer the tilting lay
That cheers the heart and lifts the
mind ;
And that shall be my aim to-day.
In impulse strong as was your sire—
(Some say he is to-day,)
Yet one gentle word will quench the
fire,
And drive that trait away.
No sound fell ever on my ear,
While pleasures many passing
through,
That was so sweet nor e’er so dear
As—“my Papa, I lub ’ou.”
To hear these words, that none may
doubt,
Thrills your father’s fond heart
through;
They put melancholy thoughts to rout,
And they help me dare and do.
For all the wealth of Lidia’s king
I’d give not a single straw
Could 1 not hear my baby sing—
“l lub my f’weet Papa !”
May God bless my lovely, rosj 7 boy !
Of affection full and free,
M3 7 heart’s delight, my hope and joy—
In you myself I see.
M. A. Chambers.
St. Andrews, Fla.
Hill-Street School.
The facultj 7 this year is—
Principal—Prof. P. O’Rourke.
Assistants —Misses Lulu Seifarth,
Lillie Wasmuth, Rhoda Neal, Lillie
Aspinall and Kate McCaughan.
The principal having attended the
Columbia University Summer School
this summer, both pupils and teachers
will profit from his course.
And 3 7 earning for a higher role in
the realm of teaching efficiency, Prof.
O’Rourke has announced his deter
mination to attend the same school
next summer.
On the River.
The Overland Outing Club is enjoy
ing its seventh annual outing on the
South Branch river, near Springfield,
W. Va.
A dozen gentlemen with probably
as many lady auxiliaries will be mem
bers of the party ere the three-weeks
limit expires, as some will “mean
while go and some return.”
It is difficult to report, therefore,
the names of those now catching the
fish, cooking them, and of those who
are just living on the fishing enter
prise of others.
Not a Dull Moment in This Show.
The greatest of all musical hits in
the last twenty years is the famous
French Vaudeville, “Madame
Sherry,” which will delight local
theatre-goers at the Frostburg Opera
House Monday, Sept. 16th.
It will be presented here by the
New York company, and the wonder
ful talking chorus.
In criticizing “Madame Sherry” an
other well-known paper said:
“Madame Sherry” is one of the
brightest, cleverest, wittiest, pret
tiest entertainments ever seen on any
stage. It sparkles, it has humor,
melody, color, spirit and a song-theme
which, for sheer lifting, seductive fas
cination, excels anything since the
days of the “Blue Danube.”
Compared with “Ev’ry Little Move
ment Has a Meaning All Its Own,”
the “Merry Widow” waltz is a poor
wisp of melody. Don’t forget the date
—September 16th.
Scholastic.
Prof. Edw. F. Webb and family ar
rived Thursday and occupied rooms
in Hotel Gladstone until a residence
can be secured. If the State Normal
School had the dormitory the presi
dent and vice-president of the faculty
would not have to scurry around town
in search of residences that are gen
erally difficult to secure.
Dr. S. A. Baer, of the State Normal
faculty, spent nearly all week in Oak
land as lecturer before the County
Teachers’ Institute, in session at that
place.
Prof, and Mrs. S. Gring Hefelbower,
guests several weeks of Mrs. Owen
Hitchins have returned to their home
in Cambridge, Mass
Cashier Olin Beall’s family is again
smaller by two, a daughter—Miss
Susan, returning to Hannah More
Academy, Reisterstown, and son—
Glenn, going back to Pennsplvania
, College, Gettysburg, Pa.
James Spitznas left Thursday to re
-1 sume his studies at Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa.
HENRY P. COOK, Manager
WHOLE NUMBER 2,136
Essay on Frostburg.
Frostburg is the occipital protuber
ance of Maryland, the head State in
the Union.
It is situated just beneath the skies
and is separated from the Savage
mountains—a beautiful range of the
Alleghauies by Sand Spring, the place
where the Wehnerwurst once flowed.
The inhabitants, however, are not
Savage.
They are regular people, “even as
you and I”—majffie evener.
As a boy it was my custom to climb
up and slide down this protuberance
with varying degrees of joyful ex
huberance and the opposite extreme
of heart and mental activity.
The inhabitants now, as in former
years, are known, respected and vene
rated as “Frostburgers.”
Frostburg is a compromise compos
ite name, agreed upon by two settlers
—Frost and Burgermeister, neither
of whom was willing to assume sole
responsibility for the place.
The descendants of both, however,
would now be glad if their respective
ancestor had stood alone.
Frostburg is built on the double
deck plan for the purpose of accom
modating the joint comfort of the
natives and the visitors.
The natives, or the greater part of
them, very considerately use the lower
deck to ply their trade by day and
sleep in the upper deck by night,
while the visitors sleep all day on the
upper deck and, having nothing else
to do, walk around all night—always
on the upper deck.
The natives are the more desirable
citizens.
They are very hospitable, but close
ly akin to Sherman’s definition of war
when aroused.
In shape and form Frostburg has
been aptly likened by Prof. Roese to
the back of a huge animal —the pre
historic dinosaurus, for instance.
Here, however, its resemblance to
an animal ceases, for Frostburg, as a
people, does not take kindly to the
saddle.
The upper deck is lighted by an un
blinking sun by day, and it is the
headquarters for a kindly moon and
beautiful stars by night, while both
day and night it is constantly swept
by pleasant breezes of the gentle
zephjnr variety.
Hence, it became expedient for the
natives to conduct their business on
the lower deck by day, so as to make
room for the more frivolous sojourners
whose omnipresence and omnipotent
airs interfere with regular business.
The lower deck, which is the handi
craft of man rather than a creation of
Him above, while amply ventilated
was by a strange oversight not pro
vided with windows, and, therefore,
does not permit of the penetration of
the sun’s rays.
This condition, however, was partly
overcome by one of the constructing
engineers—Fred Zais, who devised
a substitute for the sun in the shape of
a miniature tea-pot with a “hook” han
dle.
The tea-pot is filled with lard oil
and a cotton wick run through the
spout to the oil. The wick, being
ignited at the spout end, and the tea
pot, then hung on the native’s cap,
gave him an individual sun whose
rays, while not strong, were sufficient
for the purpose at hand, and as the
old tea-pot has never been improved
upon it is still pouring its rays into
the lower deck, which is the daily
scene of energy, efficiency, honesty
and brains.
The light from the tea-pot blends
beautifully with the light of righteous
ness, fearlessness and integrity which
radiates from the breasts of the na
tives, and they break impressively
into a beautiful and gorgeous sun
burst of love, happiness and good fel
lowship.
Some of the sojourners of Frostburg
have become regular “fellers,” have
started serious doings on the upper
deck, and it is to be hoped that the
natives, the brightest and most love
able people in the world, will fall in
line and expand the upper deck and
perpetuate it as the most beautiful
spot on earth, and give to posterity
the lower deck only, as a relic of
sacred memories. Inkwella!
C. B. Ryan.
Road-Work.
Farmers from up the Pike speak
well of both the progress making and
character of work on the road beyond
Johnsons. About 2 miles have been
completed this year by Messrs. Myers
& Crump, making 6 miles of good
road in all, or nearly half the distance
to Grantsville.
Meanwhile, Messrs. Hoblitzell &
Price, also expert road-builders, have
commenced at Grantsville, and work
ing eastward, are helping materially
to reduce the bad-road gap of 8 miles
remaining.
Knocked Off a Car.
While operating empty cars at the
Klondyke mine tipple last Saturday
William Martin, of Carlos Junction,
was thrown off one of the cars to the
ground and painfully shocked and
bruised. He had taken two “empties”
down to the dump, when the two re
maining, not properly braked, started
and Mr. Martin’s fall was one of the
results of the terrific impact which
followed. He is fortunate in that his
hurts are no worse.