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Advertising copy must ibe received no later than 3 13. m., Tuesday, to insure publication same week. No advertisement accepted for less than 25 cents, and nothing of a money-making charac ter will be advertised in The Spirit’s columns free of charge. FROSTBURG, MD. - - NOt. 6, 1913 £ AS THE SPIRIT MOVETH ] Much good has been accomplished in the various states that have enact ed laws in the interest of pure food, but even a pure food law can go too far. In Pennsylvania, recently, a merchant was fined for selling vine-' gar that contained 20 per cent, water, the water having been put in by a New York manufacturer, who takes the position that pure apple cider to which 20 per cent, water has been added makes better vinegar than the apple juice without the water. He is right, and nearly every farmer knows that his statement is true. Take pure, fresh cider, add water to it in quan tity ranging from 20 to SO per cent., and it will become vinegar much quicker than it will without the water added, and it will be better and more wholesole vinegar at that. When they get to seeing lizards down in Cumberland that are four feet long, an account of which is pub lished elsewhere in this paper, isn’t it about time for the people down there to quit subsisting chiefly on booze? Several Democratic candidates who were in Frostburg on Monday, declare that the big lizard referred to had green goggles on it when discovered, but Socialist and Prohibition candi dates who claim to have seen the big lizard, deny this, but,, in other re spects verify the story. Republican candidates who were called to view the big reptile, declare that they could see no reptile at all. Whether one set of candidates got so full as to enable them to see strange reptiles, or whether the others got so full that they could see nothing, is a matter our readers must decide for them selves. In Amanda township, Ohio, 10,013 rats were recently killed, as a result of a rat-killing contest lasting six weeks. There were 600 men on each side in the contest, and the slaughter was celebrated by a banquet at which over .700 people were served. The chances are that there was as much good food wasted at the banquet as 10,013 rats could have destroyed' in six weeks. Be that as it may, how ever, it would be a capital idea to en courage rat-killing contests every where. It would be better for sani tary and economic reasons than swat ting flies, but not better than destroy ing the breeding places of flies. The swatting availeth but little in keeping down the fly 7 - population, but the de struction of the breeding places of the little disease-spreading pests is very effective. As for rats, they, too, are great spreaders of disease, as well as very destructive, and we believe a small bounty paid for rat scalps would accomplish much more benefi cial results than the paying of a bounty for fox, weasel, mink, hawk and owl scalps. Boys-of all ages, and girls, too, as well . as men and women, would be after the rat bounty, with good results to everybody. ELEPHANTS* AS WORKERS. Without Them Burma’s Teakwood Trade Would Languish. Since ISBG the export of teakwood from Burma has increased enormous ly; but, despite the phenomenally high price of the wood, it would not be profitable to work It, even in these days, without the elephant. In this trade tlie Burmese elephants, massive animals whose strength is almost un limited, are seen at their best as beasts of burden. From the time when the forest areas are purchased, before the trees are felled, to the hour of export on the • ocean going vessels at the port on the Indian ocean the elephant is the main worker. Far away in the malarial swamps and almost impenetrable jun gles this majestic beast first tramps down a passage through the under growth. Then, guided by his Indian keeper’s prong, the elephant com mences his arduous labor of dragging the felled trees to the river, whence they are conveyed by raft down coun try to the sawmills. These enormous trees, untrimmed and cumbrous, are sometimes dragged up and down the jungle and mountain forest pathways en route to the river with -rare precision. At the mills again the work of packing and stack ing is done exclusively by elephants. When thq trees are sawed into lengths the elephants do the piling, bringing the huge planks from the sheds and arranging them in an orderly manner in numbered piles.—Argonaut. BSWSEMNI) ART He Becomes Artistic For the Sake of Posterity. HE PURCHASES A CAMERA. Then Travels In Search of Landscapes, but Finds World Cold to His Plans For Its Uplift—Back Home a Wreck After Trying Experience. By M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1913, by Associated Literary Press.] “ W THINK I have called you a doz §l en times,” said Mrs. Bowser as Jg Mr. Bowser came down to his breakfast half an hour late. “As I am not going to the office to day I am in no hurry,” he replied. “But aren’t you feeling well ?” “1 feel bully.” “There will be no housecleaning?” “No.” “No tinkering with the doorbells?” “No.” “Perhaps you are just going to sit on the front steps?” “And perhaps I am going to walk around in the cause of art and pos terity.” “I don’t exactly understand.” “Mrs. Bowser, If there had been pho tographers 6,000 years ago What a won derful thing the sight of their pictures would he today!” “You—you”— she replied as she sat up. “Yes, I am an artist, and I have bought a camera, It’s over at the drug store. I am going to take some views for future generations to look at.” “AVliat nonsense! You got what they said was a kodak a few months ago, and don’t you remember what happen ed? All the pictures you took’ were cross eyed and wrong end up, and you finally got mad and smashed things. What on earth possessed you to get another?” “My dear woman, it was no wonder I couldn’t take pictures with that thing they called a kodak. It was a rank THE GOAT KEPT A WATCHFUL EYE ON HIM AS HE MOVED ABOUND. swindle and little better than a corn sheller. It was inevitable that I shquld make a failure. In this machine, how ever”— “You’ve got something different?” she finished. Takes Lifelike Pictures. "I have. I can take a photograph to knock the spots off the best of them. I was practicing all the afternoon, and I’m tickled to death. The pictures are so lifelike that you can see every hair on a dog’s tall. In a week’s time we will fill our parlors with works of art, and can point to them with pride and say that your husband did them all.” Mrs. Bowser sighed and turned away, and Mr. Bowser gathered up his outfit and left the house, saying that he would be back in the course of a couple of hours. He started off down the street with the ambition of an artist surging up in his soul, and the family cat sat on the steps and looked after him and won dered whether he’d come back on the gallop or in an ambulance. Mr. Bow ser* did not have to go far before find ing something that appealed to his ar tistic temperament. An old umbrella mender who had taken a seat under a shade tree had fallen asleep. His hat had fallen off, his legs were stretched out on the sidewalk and the pictur-' esque attitude would make a famous picture. Mr. Bowser stopped and set up his camera, and as he- did so vari ous appropriate titles for the picture fan through his head. It could he call ed “A Modern Brigand,” “Innocence In a Great City,” “Not Dead, But Sleeping” or “Wake Him Not.” He had just got the range when a man crossed the road from a saloon and asked: “What ye goin’ to do to old Petro?” “Take his picture.” “What fur?” “Oh, just to make one of my collec tion. I’m out taking snapshots, you know. I think the old man will work out beautifully.” Bowser Encounters Interference. “But I don’t think so. De old man is me friend, and nobody’s goin’ to play dirt on him If I can help it. Git along wid dat squirt gun.* “But don’t you understand that I simply want a picture of him as show ing my own work with the kodak?” protested Mr. Bowser. “I understand all about it. De old man may take away yer umbreller to His Head and'the Psalm. A now popular clergyman, telling of some of bis earlier experiences, said: “In my third living there was a very crowded congregation the first morning I officiated. The parishioners were evi dently curious as to the build, color of hair, etc., of their new vicar. As a matter of fact I was, though a young man, very bald. A little thought would have caused me to make my first appearance on any morning but the Bth, bjit It was the Bth, and in the Psalms, which were read and not sung, I had to say, ‘My sins are more in number than the hairs of my head.’ ” mend and furgit to bring It back, and ye run to de coppers wid his pictur’ and make trouble. Git along or dere’ll be a row!” The man squared off and looked so ugly and so much in earnest that Mr. Bowser felt it wise to move on. It didn’t take him long, however, to find another subject. On the steps of a tumble down old shanty there sat a baby, and in the doorway above him stood a goat. There were sentiment and picturesqueness combined, and al most at the first glance Mr. Bowser decided to label the , picture “The Baby’s Guardian.” The baby stared at him and the goat kept a watchful eye on him as he moved around and made ready. In another minute the button would have been pressed but for an Interruption. A woman suddenly ap peared in the doorway beside the goat and called outv “Now, then, what’s goin’ on out there?” “I’m about to take a picture with my camera,” replied Mr. Bowser. “Is it of the baby and goat?” “Yes.” “Then you drop it like a hot per taty or I’ll come down on ye as big as a house!” He Tries to Explain. “My dear woman, let me explain the situation. I am an amateur photogra pher. I am taking a few pictures for”— “I understand perfectly,” she inter rupted. “Me old man sat right here one day two months ago a-smokin’ of his pipe and feelin’ that it was good to live when along comes a bloke wid jest sieh a machine as that. He peeks and squints and takes a pictur’ and goes off, and two days later Dan’l is arrested by the police fur stealin’ four barrels of cement and six bunches of shingles. Be off, I say!” “My good woman, I solemnly assure you”— began Mr. Bowser, but she ad vanced and punched him in the back with a broom, and he had .to move on. He traveled six or eight blocks be fore he struck his next “landscape.” It was a rude shanty, with a sign of “Saloon” over the door, and there were a dozen picturesque figures loafing around and chewing tobacco. Mr. Bowser decided to take a picture and label it “The Home of Industry,” and none of the idlers objected as he made ready. Indeed, some of them assumed still more picturesque poses, as if to favor him. In a couple of minutes he was about to turn away when one of the gang approached him and queried: “Dat was a snapshot, wasn’t it?” “It was.” “And we all did our best for you?” “You did, and I’m much obliged. I think the negative will work out beau tifully.” Demand Keg of Beer. “And about de drinks, cully? De boys is expectin’ at least a keg of beer. We’s all hard workin’ men, wid wives and kids to support, and we can’t pose fur nothin’. Will ye come in and tell Jimmy to tap a fresh keg?” “A keg!” exclaimed Mr. Bowser. “No, of course not. I’m willing to buy you each a glass of beer, but you don’t want to pile it on too thick.” “Dey was beautiful poses,” suggested the man. “Yes, the poses were all right.” “Aud de boys won’t take less’n ’a keg.” “Then they won’t take anything! The crowd of you ought to feel highly honored at being photographed.” “Dat’s so, cully. But about dat keg?” “I shan’t pay for any keg.” The man turned to his gang and made a sign, and the next minute Mr. Bowser was surrounded and picked up and flung into a blanket held by six men. Before he could scarcely yell out he was being tossed in the air, and for the, next ten minutes performed more gyrations than he thought it pos sible for a human being to go through with. When the crowd was weary he was spilled out of the blanket, the fragments of the camera were handed to him and he was headed up the street. Bowser and Camera Wrecked. His back was covered with grass and dirt, his hat caved in, his whole ap pearance dilapidated, and there was a look of terror'in his eyes, and he could not keep his chin still.’ A number of hoys followed him as “a living curios ity,” and now and then a pedestrian asked him where he got his jag, but he made a bee line for aud final ly shut his front door behind him. All he brought back with him was one leg' of the kodak frame. As he stood be fore Mrs. Bowser with bulging eyes and wabbling chin she realized what had happened; but, like the good wife she was, she refrained from adding to his sorrows. “Yes, I know,” she quietly observed. “It’s all my fault, of course, and your lawyer will see my lawyer, and there’ll be a divorce and all that, but mean while you’d better change your clothes Ind lie down for an hour before din her. You have evidently run across some landscapes too big for your ar tistic temperament and had a bad time of it!” And Mr. Bowser went upstairs with out a word in reply. The Servant Question. “A public official is a servant of the people,” said the idealist. “Yes,” replied the plain person, “but when a new administration comes in he has difficulty in getting references from his last employer.”—Washington Star. ® In the Crowded Car. First Strap Hanger—Sir, you have your hand in my pocket. , Second Ditto (evidently married)— Oh, pardon me! I was wondering ho v I came to have all that loose change.— Boston Transcript. Motorist’s Luck. “Well, Blithers, what luck did you have with your new car?” asked Jar roway. “More than I ever expected,” said Blithers. “Just three minutes after the darned thing blew up another car came along with a busted tire, and the owner bought my old tires for 810 aniece.”—Harper’s Weekly. One After the Other. She —When we are married, dear, I must have three servants. He —Cer- tainly, darling. But try to keep each las long as possible.—St Louis Post-Dis- I patch. THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD Paint or Not. Is a horse worth more or less after feed ? Hay and oats are high today; shall I wait today and feed him tomorrow ? That’s how men do about painting their houses and barns and fences. Paint has been high for several years; and so they have waited. Paint is high yet; they are still waiting; thou sands of ’em are waiting for paint to fall. Their property drops a trifle a year and the next job of paint creeps-up creeps-up creeps-up; it’ll take more paint by a gallon a year; they don’t save a cent, and the property goes Lin suffering. DEVOE J. W. Shea, Agent. sells it. Advertisement Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were recently is sued at Cumberland to the following named couples: Joseph Hill, of Frostburg, Md., and Martha Preston, of Cumberland. Wesley Porterfield and Hazel Caro line Pierce, both of Connellsville, Pa. James Deppolito and Martha Coldy, both of Altoona, Pa. John Henry Whitefield and Ethel Gertrude Bowden, both of Lonacon ing, Md. William Luther Griffith, of Meyers dale, Pa., and Pearl Lape of Leslie, Pa. Henry Taylor, of National, Md., and Elizabeth Jenkins, of Frostburg, Md. Samuel E. McGee, of Hollidays burg, Pa., and Susan Mock, of Sax ton, Pa. Clarence Cloyd Rager and Eva May Rahn, both of Johnstown, Pa. Charles Austin Dollman and Nellie Mason, both of Verona, Pa. Nazareno Fomi and Rosina Bisig nana, both of Morantown, Md. James McKenzie Alter, of Johns town, Pa., and Maud Elizabet Haines, of Cumberland, Md. FOR THE BEST Fire Insurance IN THE WORLD 12-25-pd Apply to J. B. ODER. Poultry, Pigeons, Butter, Eggs, Produce, Poultry and Stock Supplies. Have a limited number of “The Poultrymen’s Complete Hand Book, What to Do and How to Do It,’’’’’to be given free with purchases of Pratt’s Products. ,‘No-Fly” is guaranteed to keep flies away. Phone 289 k. THOMAS L. POPP, 8 S. Water St., Opp. Postoffice, Frostburg, Md. the Picture. TN the above illustration, the artist meant to give you some notion of the neatness, dressiness and real distinc tion of Clothcraft Clothes. But he couldn’t tell you in the picture that Clothcraft sells for $lO to S2O, under a strict guar antee of all-wool, fast color and satisfactory wear. Otto Holiing & Sons, „ The Original One-Price Outfitters, FROSTBURG, MARYLAND Cone But Not Forgotten! HOW glibly the exrpression comes during the funeral services. How much does it really ni'eau a month afterward? What is the outward and visible sign of your remembrance? A suitable Monument according to your means? Or is it— A NEGLECTED GRAVE? J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Western Maryland’s Leading Marble and Granite Dealers, 60 East Main Street - - Frostburg, Md. 99 N. Centre Street, Cumberland, Md. O DSC C! XS • When in Meyersdale, stop at the New Slicer House GEORGE LOGUE, Proprietor. THOMAS GATEHOUSE, Justice of the Peace, 4 MECHANIC STREET, FROSTBURG, MD. All business entrusted to me is attended to promptly and satisfactorily. Dr. J. C. Pfeiffer, Vhe dentist, 7E. Union St. Frostburg-, Md. Allegany Cemetery. 2200 LOTS. Prices $9.00 to $22.50. perpetuae charter. J. B. Williams, secretary and treasurer. Office: C. & P. Phone: 60 E. Main Street*. No. 52. FROSTBURG, MD. You Must* Not> Forget / If it is anything in the Jewelers’ line JEFFRIES BROS. HAVE IT! There is nothing too good for us to sell or anything too bad for us to repair. A satisfactory guarantee with everything JEFFRIES BROS. Frostburg’s Leading Jewelers and Opticians, 10 E. Union St. We’give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps WM. ENGLE JAS. ENGLE Engle Meat Market DEALERS IN Live Stock and Dressed Meats Butter and Eggs Poultry in Season 66 EAST UNION STREET 17 WEST UNION STREET PUTNAM DYES ARE FADELESS Each package will color wool, silk, cotton and mix ed goods. Eor sale at our store at 10c per package. We are also sole agents for International Stock Food, put up in 25c and 50c packages and 25-pound pails GRIFFITH BROS., Opposite Postoffice. ORDERJNISI Susan M. Thomas, Assignee, vs. Harriet W.Hensel. No, 7189 Equity. In the Circuit Court for Allegany County. Ordered, this 20th day of October, in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, by the Circuit Court for Allegany County, sitting in equity, that the sale made and reported in the above cause by Susan M. Thomas, assignee of mortgage, be rati fied and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 20th day of November, 1913, providedsa copy of this order be published in some newspaper published in Alle gany County, once a week for three successive weeks before the 13th day of November, 1913. The report states the amount of sale to be '■sl,olo.oo. J. W. YOUNG, Clerk. True Cqpy — Test: J. W. YOUNG, Clerk. Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway. TIME TABLE. First car leaves Frostburg: for Cumberland at 6:00 a. m., Eckhart 6:12, Clarysville 6;19, Red Hill 6:24, Long’s 6:30, Narrows Park 6&0, arriv ing at Baltimore street, Cumberland, at 7:00 a. m. Car leaves Frostburg every hour after wards for Cumberland (on the hour) last car leaving Frostburg at 11:00 o’clock p. m. First car leaves Baltimore street, Cumber land, for Frostburg at 7:00 a. m , Narrows Park 7;20, Long’s 7:30, Bed Hill 7:36, Clarysville 7:41, Eckhart 7:48, arriving at Frostburg at 8:00 a. m. Car leaves Cumberland every hour afterwards for Frostburg (on the hour) last car leaving Cumberland at 12:00 o’clock midnight. First car leaves Frostburg for Westernport at 5:00 a. m., Borden Shaft 5;12, Blake’s 5:23, Midland 5>30, Lonacomng 5:47, Moscow 6:00, Barton 6:08, Reynolds 6:13, Franklin 6:29, West ernport 6:30. Car leaves Frostburg every hour (on the hour) last car leaving Frostburg for Westernport at 11:00 o’clock p. m. Last car leaves Frostburg for Lonaconing at 12;00 o’clock midnight, arriving at Lonaconing 12:47 a. m., returning leaves Lonaconing 12:50 a. m., arriving at Frostburg 1:30 a. m. First car leaves Westernport for Frostburg at 5:30 a. m., Franklin 5:40, Reynolds 5:47, Bar ton 5:52, Moscow 6:00, Lonaconing 6:12, Midland 6:30, Blake’s 6:37, Borden Shaft 6:48, Frostburg 7:00. Car lerves Westernport every hour after wards for Frostburg, last car leaving Western port at 11:30 p m. for Frostburg. All cars east and west connect at Frostburg. J. E. 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