Frostburg mining journal., 1883-04-28
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has soft coal mine. The party sells t.
the local trade, and gets along without in
terfering with any one perceptibly for
little time, or until he gets into the bank
After his output is too much for the loca
trade, he comes to Philadelphia or New
York and gets some one to act as agent
and thus another competitor Is added t.
the list, and as much harm 10 done as !
the operation was on the most elaborst'
scale. There Is only too much truth II
this suggestion.
In q recent interview with Mr.
James J. Hoblitzsll. who has lately
made tour of the mineral sections
Of Virginia and. West Virginia, We
learned that the increasing facilities fol
transporting and handling Kanawh'
and New River Goals at Norfolk, and
the we'll known accessibility of that
port, is attracting many coastwiss
vessels that are accustomed to taking
freight at Alexandria and George
town. Tie scarcity Of vessels lately
complained of is in part thus a..
counted for.
The coal railroads centering at Nor
folk are building extensive docks with
view to an enormous enlargement
Of their trade, which means, of course,
q corresponding development of the
comparatively new fields Of coal
which they have opened. So that il
an individual with a single mine
can effect the damage which the
Goal Trade Journal indicates as feasi-
bic, what must be the effect Of pouring
upon the market the vast products Of
new fields of coal?
Add to these probabilities the stag
nation observable in the iron indus
tries of the country, and with which
every other manufacturing interest
appears to sympathize, and some eI-
PLANTATION at least may be had for the
otherwise strange depression which
afhicts the coal trade.
Our own field is not alone as a suf-
fsrsr. All the old regions are SINH
larly affected, in some cases more
than ours. The universally conceded
fact, however, among consumers that
the Georges Creek product is the best
steam-genersting fuel in tho world
is a prestige to which we may look
with confidence even in dark hours.
All composition as to quality are mis-
leading, and must react upon the
braggadociOs who play upon the fac
titious terms made necessary by their
immense want Of trade. So that in
whatever trade i, going we are bound
to enjoy agOodly share.
In nothing more than in the present
condition of the coal trade is it evil
dent that there is something radically
wrong at the bottom of things-some-
thing in the nature of Mr.. Henry
Georges discovery of the "mal-sd-
justmsnt of society" But this is a
subject great enough to be relegated
to the consideration of economists,
philosophers and statesmen.
TEE Homecoming Institute was nc
exception to tho modern rule. The
abolition of corporal punishment"
enjoyed its accustomed position in the
programme Of topical discussions
As usual, also, the problem remains
unsolved.
One teacher imagined feeling Of
self-degrsdation whenever he chas-
tised ruril with the rod another
was wholly opposed to the system
another esteemed it specific only foi
open defiance, and the examine sum
med up the difficulty in stating that
"all agreed upon the undesirability oi
using the rod" The great question
how are we to get along without
it? or what punishment may we adopt
as substitute 9-continues poser.
Judge Douglas touched the same
subject in his admirable address, hut
there is something unsatisfactory in
his angelic ideal of tutor. Beings
like ourselves, they are afflicted with
like passions, like resentments, and
sndow ed with like dignities. In the
nature of things schcol.room crimes
must be punished commensurately
aud offended authority similarly vim
dicsted. Without measures adequate
to the correction of the evils implied
the school becomes a mob and each
pupil an anarchist.
One Of the latest rules in physics
inculcates the idea of eradica:ing the