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Mining SSBKk Journal.
J. BENSON ODER, Editor
FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 12
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FROSTBURG, MD., DECEMBER 14, 1912
Happy Childliood Days.
By J. N. B.
Memory wanders back to childhood
To the days now long ago ;
To the meadow-fields and wildwood,
Where the daisies used to grow ;
And before my mental vision
Passes scenes of childish joy.
Happy days—O, days Elysian !
Once again I am a boy !
Now I’m ready for a ramble
In the meadow or the bramble ;
Hatless, shoeless, see me go,
Running, jumping, all aglow ;
Chasing birds or picking flowers
In the sunshine or the showers ;
Rushing on through grass and clover
Till I trip and tumble over
On my little hands and knees —
In a nest of bumble-bees !
Quick as lightning through my
breeches,
Where the fall has burst the stitches,
Like a barb of red-hot steel,
Prods the bumble with his heel.
Birds and flowers all forsaken,
Now I run to save my bacon ;
Right and left I strike with vigor,
Yelling like “a Georgia nigger,”
Till I reach the flags and rushes,
Or a clump of hazel-bushes.
There I crouch all faint and fearful;
Both my eyes are red and tearful
While I listen for the bumble
That did make me roll and tumble,
Hoping he will never find me,
For another sting would blind me.
Thankful am I for the shelter,
Though I entered helter-skelter,
Which protects me from the foe
That did make me holler so.
Cautiously I creep from cover,
Feeling like a vanquished lover
Who has fought a bloodless duel
W'ith his rival while at school.
The day is done and I in bed
Full of sting-spots, big and red ;
Vow when morning light I see
That I’ll kill that bumble-bee !
Mother tries my pants to patch,
While I lie awake and scratch
Till my skin is all ablaze —
O, what happy childhood days !
Unusual Offer.
Here is a problem for pupils in
arithmetic that should be solved be
j fore the Christmas holiday:
A little farmer owned a big turkey
| and wanted to weigh it.
His weight was 100 pounds; his
wife weighed 135 pounds,
i They put a board across the fence
; so that when they sat on it—one on
each end, it balanced exactly.
They then changed places, the wife
taking the turkey in her lap, just bal
ancing the board again.
How much did the big turkey weigh?
Anyone solving this problem,
whether correctly or not, and return
ing result to this office, accompanied
by sl, will be entitled to the Journae
one year.
Everybody tr3 T it, and all come at
once!
Several Complaints.
The Lonaconing correspondent of
the Cumberland Times gives the Cum
berland and Westernport Electric
Railway a jolt which ought to be felt
from heel to occiput.
If his report be correct, an appeal to
the'Public Utilities Commission met
with cold comfort, that body alleging
that there is no ground for popular
complaint.
Which sonnds more like the re
sponse of a Private Utilities Commis
sion.
But people should remember that
one man in a directorate, for instance,
counts more before a Utilities Com
mission than a dozen unofficial
citizens.
That is one of the troubles with the
representative system. The few peo
ple who have the time and money to
stay on the job and become “hale
fellows well met” with the imperson
ators of the people have 100 per cent.
more influence in the shaping of things
i than the many who have to stay at
; home—work on the farm, in the mine,
i or in the shop or store.
One man’s word in Frostburg one
| time went further than the wish of all
the people who lived on four streets!
The Journai. is not prepared to say
what are all the improvements wanted
on the Electric Railway, but it feels
sure of one thing—that the Belt Line
should be built—this for unanswerable
reasons given last and this
week.
“Dixie” Taylor and His Dog.
Everybody remembers “Jap Jasper”
and “Dixie” Taylor, as near “chums”
as a dog and man can get.
In perhaps less than a year they left
here, nobody knows for what place,
but the latest report of them comes
from Cleveland, 0., where the dog has
made such a hit that the psj'chologists
on both newspaper staffs and college
faculties are puzzling themselves in
discussions over the differentiation be
tween “Jap’s intelligence and that of
the reporter who can work a type
writer and the graduate who can spell
“Dixie” with two x’s. .
In Taylor’s own words—
“ Jasper doesn’t talk, nor does he
write, but he surely does think, and
he understands the English language.”
Instances are given as follows:
“At a whispered word, he walked
into an office in a downtown building
and closed a desk drawer his master
had advised him he would find open.
In the same way he discriminated be
tween a waste paper basket and a
; cuspidor, dropping a wad of paper in
each at the request of Taylor. Then,
still following instructions, he kicked
the basket over.”
The Cleveland Press says “ ‘Jap’ re
ceived most of his education at Frost
burg, Md., while Mr. Taylor lived
there,” and that “he does anything
Taylor tells him, writes on a type
writer, closes a door and picks up a
match from the floor.”
The Journai. once saw him “pick
up a match,” but when ordered to
I “strike” it, he positively declined—for
some reason not given. Probably he
doesn’t like to handle fire, or fears the
suggestion that some day he might be
i suspected of carelessness in the use
! of combustibles.
“Jap” came to Frostburg with a
carnival that camped on the grounds
south of Park avenue several years
ago, and a showman who became in
. fatuated with “Dixie” manifested his
i love by endowing the latter with
! ownership of the pup.
{ “Jap” was then five weeks old, and
i it is said that he has a brother now in
i the dog population of Frostburg.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The Light Beyond the Shadows.
Sometimes, dear Lord, we almost give up hoping
To gain the things for which our hearts so long;
Despairingly and blindly we keep groping
Among the shadows which about us throng.
And though sometimes the shadows seem unending —
Our hearts grow sick and faint with hope deferred ;
Yet through it all we know that Thou art sending
Strength to endure, because our prayers are heard.
Dear Lord, we know as we make each petition
We grow in grace, and there will surely be
An answer to our prayers, if, in submission,
We tell our wants and leave results with Thee.
And in the solace, Lord, which comes in making
Our heartfelt wants known, ’twill seem less like night;
Through the dark gloom the shadows will be breaking
And 10, we look beyond and see the Light !
Sara Roberta Getty.
1882 1912 T
f THIRTY YEARS AGO. f
1 The Items Below Were Current During T
Ending December 23, 1882.
The Tariff Commission made report
to Congress recommending an abate
ment of the dutj" on bituminous coal
from 75 to 50 cents.
“Anon,” writing to the Journai,
from Washington, urged democrats to
nominate Hon. William Walsh, of
Cumberland, for Governor.
Cnristmas almost here. Merchants,
advertise in the Journai,. People,
spend your money in stores at home.
Prohibition promised to cut quite a
figure in the next fall campaign.
“Slew a shote” was the word in the
South; “killed a hog” in the North.
“Neither right,” said an airy West
erner; “ ‘slaughtered a porker,’ is the
right way to say it.”
“Get married. Strike any town you
will in the United States and you will
find a man who had only 50 cents after
the wedding. He is now taking and
paying for the Journai., his wife hav
ing helped him so much.”
The National Committee of Green
backers decided against fusion with
either of the old parties and against
reorganization of their own. They
stuck to their own color—green.
Somebody found, out that a crevice
under the door large enough to admit
a cent would let in enough cold to re
quire 400 pounds extra coal a month.
A volume of Mrs. Browning’s Poetry
was awarded to M'ss Anna Maj’.;:r,
Sixth Grade, Public School No. 1, for
best spelling record.
Am Old Piece of Money.
Charles Eckert, of Dayton, 0., an orchard promoter, here a few days ago,
showed the Journai, a small colonial bill nearly 139 years old, and, for that
age, in a good state of preservation.
Nearly as practicable the following is a copy:
No. 7990 Four Dollars
State
This indented BILL of Coat
of
(T) FOUR DOLLARS shall entitle the Arms
Bearer thereof to receive Bills of Exchange, Crescite
payable in London, or Gold and Silver, at the rate of et
Four Shillings and Six Pence Sterling per Doeear for the Multiplicamini
said Bill, according to the Directions of an Act of Assembey of Maryland.
Dated in ANNAPOLIS this 10th Day of April, Anno Domini 1774.
WM. EDDIS J. CLAPHAM.
Back of bill is inscribed :
FOUR DOLLARS. Equal to Eighteen Shillings Sterling.
ANNAPOLIS
Printed by A. C. and F. GREEN
’Tis Death to Counterfeit
What He Learned From the Law.
To the Frostburg Journal I’ll give a
tipper—
To get cream from a cow—why you
must “strip” her.
Don’t kick at the cow; let the cow do
the kicking;
Feed her and salt her, and let her do
the licking.
— Philip's Boy
Nobody could have gotten that off
who enjo3 7 ed no experience in “ex
perience meeting.”
Bad Result of High-Cost Living.
“Hink,” interurban reporter for the
Keyser (W. Va.) Tribune, says—
“ Rev. John Jerryboom Jones, who
has been preaching at this place for
going on 10 years, held the annual
Thanksgiving services in the church
as per usual.
“The parson was not quite so thank
ful as per usual, however, as his tur
key consisted of a newly-butchered
hog-jowl.
“When turkeys are twenty-three
cents per pound very few of them en
ter the ministry as a free-will offering
from the congregation.”
Right to the Point.
Det’s all drop politics fer another
fouryears, an’ git out our geographies,
an, try t’ find Fski Baba an’ £,ule Bur
gaso an’ other points along th’ Bul
garian border, wherever that is Abe
Martin.
The Synagogue.
The new edifice going up on corner
of Steyer and Taylor streets is SO by
30 feet in size, one story height, with
foundation arranged for basement ex
cavation later.
With concrete foundation, brick
walls and slate roof, it will be a sub
stantial modern edifice—the accom
plishment of liberal contributors,
among whom are Julius Rosenwald,
of Chicago, and Jacob H. Schiff, of
New York City. Very much of the
money, however, has been given by
Frostburg people of all religious pro
clivities.
The organization is known as the
Congregation of Sons of Israel,
organized as follows:
■ President—Jacob Tuvin.
Vice-President—Abraham Kaplon.
Secretary—Samuel Abramson.
Treasurer —Julius Abramson.
t Much trouble with water in Hoffman
- mine.
' Five properties belonging to estate
of the late Jacob Steyer were sold by
Messrs. James W. Thomas, Gilmore
j S. Hamill and Nathan S. Frost, trus
f tees, and brought good prices, aggre
gating $9,465.
, Many miners, working elsewhere,
, returned home for the holidays.
Benjamin Thomas, mine foreman
i of Cumberland and Elk Eick Com
pany, resigned, and was succeeded by
a James Phillips. Mr. Thomas leased
80 acres and began mining operations
' on his own account.
5 AC. and P. R. locomotive exploded
near Cumberland Saturday, December
j 16, 1882, scalding Frank Carabine and
1 Henry Miller, brakemen, and George
r Ryland, engineer. The two former
j died shortly after, but Ryland lingered
. four days.
Six inches of snow Wednesday,
- December 20, 1882.
i
(- Miss Mollie A. Bishop, youngest
7 daughter of Rev. Henry and Mrs. E.
A. Bishop, died Saturday, December
9, 1882.
t ‘ Ihe State Cofirt of Appeals decided
- an important case in favor of the
. County Commissioners against the
American Coal Company.
J
, 'the Journai, printed in full the ad
r dress of George L. Wellington at the
Byers’ banquet, Lonaconing.
Coal Miners Number Nearly Three-
Quarters of a Million.
The total number of men employed
in the coal mines of the United States
in 1911, according to the United States
Geological Survey, was 722,335, of
whom 172,585 were employed in the
anthracite mines of Pennsylvania and
549,750 in the bituminous and lignite
mines. The anthracite miners aver
aged more working time than the bi
tuminous miners, working 246 days,
against 211 days for the bituminous
miners.
The average production for each
man employed was 524 tons in the
anthracite mines—an exceptionally
,large tonnage—and 738 tons in the bi
tuminous mines. The average daily
production for each man employed
was 2.13 short tons in the anthracite
and 3.50 tons in the bituminous mines.
In most of the bituminous mines of
the United States the 8-hour working
day prevails. In 1911, out of a total
of 549,750 employees in the bituminous
coal mines, 330,045 worked in mines
that were operated 8 hours a day;
57,351 worked in mines that were op
erated 9 hours a day, and 137,576
worked in mines operated 10 hours a
day.
Brevities.
Among the things needed in the
Tri-Towns, according to the Piedmont
(W. Va.) Independent, is “a base-ball
league on Georges Creek.”
“The Bentztown Bard” gave a
Westminster audience a fine reading
Thursday evening of his own writings.
The High School under whose au
spices he appeared was the bene
ficiary.
The Mails.
The New York World is quite bitter
upon the imperialism which has de
veloped in the Post-Office Department
during this administration.
So far has its prjung into private af
fairs and publishing them gone that it
is only a step now for it to “consider
it it’s duty to bar ‘useless Christmas
gifts’ from the mails.
One thing is strange—the different
commandments given concerning box
delivery on Sundays.
Over in Front Ro3 T al, Va., the box
renters complain that boys, crowding
the office, obstruct access to the boxes.
Here in Prostburg not even the boys
can get in sight of the boxes, so rigid
is the command from Washington.
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