Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1876-02-12

iSeSipt' hO ihtSIISCItC hiIupOliS
with regard to the Coal License Tax and
New County bills, if not cheering, is salts
factory. The wants Of vigorous reprcsen-
tation of the two interests there is apparent.
In this view, with reference to New Coun.
ty. our Cumberland correspondent coin
cides. His calls for ACTION" read like the
nervous appeals Of the age when "the voice
of patriotism was the thunder of Jupiter,
empire"
THE ANtgnnian takes up the cudgel
which its older city contemporaries have
dropped. 1t rcproachcs and criticises the
JOURNAL in way with which we are
quite familiar, but for one so young and
SO fair it takes to "chawcd hash with
vim worthy of its cause. We quote sam
pie:
The next thing in order for the Frost
burg JOURNAL will be to roundly abuse
everybody who does not call this continent
Columbus, instead of America.
Unfortunately for this part of the pro-
gramme marked out for us, it has already
been filled, and by as high literary author-
ty as Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson. His re-
mark is so pertinent an illustration Of the
fraud which the -Auegdnian has stepped m
to the ring to champion, We reproduce ii
specially for the cdiiication of our prctcn-
tious contemporary:
"Strange that broad America must wear
the name of thief Amerigo Vespucci, u
pickle dealer at Seville went out, in 1899,
n subaltcrn with Hojeda, and whose high
est rank was boat-swain's mate in an eX-
;,editi0n that never sailed, managed in this
lying world to supplant Columbus, and
baptize half the earth with his own dishon-
est name"
Yet the Aueganian would say of MI
Emerson's indignant observation, that it
Would nearly, though not quite, APP
it (the JoURNAL) habitually forces on its
readers. with regard to the appellation by
which the coal fields of Allcgany county
happen to be designated"
Perhaps so but it is little consoling to
learn that our nonsense" is sublime"
Butler says nonsense is that which is
neither true nor false" which is something
on our side; and if this thing of indefinite
quality as to truth and falsity is only sub
lime"-a term we usually apply to things
morally or physically imposing then,
we like to have our nonsense" called sub
lime," even if it docs reflect little reck-
lessness Of criticism. On the part of our
contemporary.
Further on the ARcganian says:
Every one knows how easily name,
whether 1t DC exact or rot, strikes and
holds on like burr; which fact has little
to do with the fragrance of the rose one
way or another, as has been before remark
ed by Mr. Shakespeare.
And "Mr. Shakespeare" was quite correct,
especially if his remark about the rose"
had any particular reference to the adhesive
properties of a burr"
But now we have the whole matter Of
false nomenclature settled. 1t came about
in this way:
When our coal fields were first given
name, it seemed the most natural thing in
the world to select a cognomen from the
most important place i'll the coal region.
Certainly. We could subscribe to the
supposition heartily but for the fact that
the most important place" referred to is
not ''in the coal region" This want of
light is deficiency that the AAeganian
ought to supply without loss of time. 1t
is bad thing to know 1t all" when YOU
don't, especially when your requirements
creep out through gross misconceptions of
elementary local geography. We hope
this sort of assurance does not afflict the
Aatgdaiam in more important respects
That name once given, the JOURNAL will
find as much difficulty in changing in even
the JOURNALS own immediate vicinity as
it does to resist its morbid inclination to
| ride cratic hobbies
So far as our vicinity" is concerned the
Al'eyania~ might find one man in thous-
and who would call it Cumberland
coar'-all the rest repudiate it more or less
Indignantly. The name challenges no af.
lection anywhere save in Cumberland, al
though it Is nowhere better known as a
lying designation.
What meat is this our Cesar feeds upon
that he has grown so great?
This intcrrogatory, we presume, is sun
posed to he an exotic in this section hence
its importation with other ostensible smart
nesses Witness the following:
Frostburg-it ia an entcrprising town.
and we are much pleased at it
[Of course; why not? Yet how entirely
gratifying this must Do to our people. We
relish it rs an apple of gold," and wher-
ever in Frostburg the gospel of progress is
proclaimed, or exemplifed, will this fact
that the A0cganian is "m,cA pleased at us
be held in memorial of it,
Was, at the time'of the baptism of our
Goa! fields, not so full of high. blown pride
as the JOURNAL would make her out to be
now; then she modestly poised herself on
splinter of the North Pole and didn't care
so much about names, so long as she re-
ceived goodly share of the ducats that
came from the coal fields.
To close this matter the attempt of the
-dAegan'nn is forced 1t had nothing TO say
and said it, L felt called upon to defend
Cumberland from the exposure of last week
wherein VIC showed how that city had
abandoned the use of our coal and ad pied
Keystone, (Pa) coal, and at the same time