Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-08-06

same rates to all for given service, but
maintains that the court has the right to
say what that rate shall be.
FRosTBURG's four great wants:
/. The branch road.
2. A bank.
8. A market-house.
4. Summer resort accommodations.
Each of these will sustain itself
proftably and benefit the community,
and, altogether, give the town the
standing its Importance, its needs and
its location demand. We ought to
have all. No better investment can
be made, and the way to show that We
know it is to "stand and deliver"
However, there are two minor
needs that must not be forgotten:
/. The town should own the water
works.
2. The gas works also.
There are these who will boot at
these propositions, but they are
chronic hooters. They have been OPP
posed to every municipal enterprise,
and tho town owes nothing to them
for its present growth. 1t has gone
up by "main strength and awkward
ness.
There are others, a few, to whom
these suggestions will be patent at
sight. On them the burden Of car
rying them out must fall. They can
not too soon engage in the work of
demonstrating the vast value that
must accrue to real estate from secur-
ing the ends named, and then
"Gentlemen, if you like the investment,
down with the dust
ApRoPos of the policy adopted by
our school commissioners Of reducing
all teachers salaries, we commend to
them a studious reading of the wisest
paragraph of the year that we have
seen:
The Value eta Good Btginning.-It may
seem a reductio d6 obSurdum to reach the
view that the men to teach our primary
10 10 tp1,i nj al
the best paid and of the highest rank. Yet
such is the opinion of not few OF the
best thinkers. 1t is urged that the first
stages of instruction and training are the
most important, since if the elements are
well and thoroughly learned the rest is
plain sailing The fact is often practically
illustrated that the labor of the last three
fourlhs of school life is wasted in unleam
ing with difficulty and pain the lessons
and habits acquired in the first fourth,
The desirable thing, then, is to eXpend
more care than is expended now on the
first teachers Intelligent and well train
ed teachers TO create correct habits and
implant correct germinal ideas in budding
minds--such is the plan of those who
think that if the pennies of education arc
we'll cared for the pounds will take care OF
themselves. Mistakes in life due to mis-
direction would, it is claimed, lie far less
likely to occur if the bert of each child's
mind were watched and noted by capable
men. Many wEo now so 10 college aim
lessly and uselessy might, under proper
guidance be turned to something less
wasteful of their time.--Baltimore San.
The existing style, however, is to
pay too little for learning and too
much for uplearning. And some
times we adopt the absurdlty Of tax
ing the elementary teachers most for
funds with which to build school
houses. Verify, our educational pyr.
amid is too often inverted.
In dcvising tableaux for the October
mystic festival, let us not forget TO save y
place for the typical Baltimorean Of the
expiring era, clutching with one hand his
little box of ground rents, with the other
clipping off the coupons from his bonds,
and from pile of cobblestoncs looking
down with disdain and suspicion upon
rash investors in factories, industrial ex
hibtions, railroads, steamships, merchants
clubs, fail festivals and the like. Let us
lcok upon him once more ere lie yanishes
forever l-Amtrican.
Tho era may be expiring, but that typi-