Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1884-08-23

We hope, therefore, the Commission
ers will accept the liabilities along
with the assets and order the Ma
tional Road supervisor to work to
the Western line.
FRosTBuRG.--W knew when we
called Frostpurg an "annex" to Cum
berland that We set our foot in little
ysilow-jacket nest in Frostburg; but
we had been to the plaintain patch and
were jacket proof. The JOURNAL
smiles all over to-day with its little
stings, which reminds us very much of
bees after bear taking their honey.
The bear doesn't care.-Cumberland
Times.
The JOURNAL regrets with much
sweetness that the Times, knowing it
had set its footln yellow jacket nest,
should have mistaken our "smlles"
for bee-stings. And when We think
of the brand of honey likely to be
gulped from yellow-jacket nest our
heart is wrung with merriment. A
bear that knew 80 little as that could
be neither Ursa Major in stellar So
clety, nor Ursa Minor in Wall street.
People, however, who have actually
seen Bruin in his own woods and
primitive state very rarely recognize
in him photograph of themselves
or their habits. But when a bear
becomes clawless, toothless, and
gets to manipulating pole and
standing Or dancing ON his hind legs
and somersaulting it is observed that
he then begins to approach and ap-
propriate tho moral nature of man.
kind. Some of us, therefore, are apt
to discover in his awkward evolutions
certain reproductions of our own
virtues and, most often, our own
fanciss. In some such way, it has
often occurred to us, and the Times
intimates that it is following an ex-
ample, our coal and region were mis-
called. This was Of course at time
when the influence of trained and
unframed bears was more powerful
than now. Confessedly We. cannot
trace the philology of "Cumberland
coal'' to it's root-no more than we
are able to account for tho connee-
ton Of the bear freed by Daniel
Cresap with Dams Mountain and
ultimately with Dams Rock. But a
Cumberland correspondent recently
exhibited historical proof that on a
certain occasion Daniel Cresap, Ne
macolin, and a bear were present, and
that, therefore, the name of Dams
Rock should bs immortal. For a
stronger reason he mi ht have argued
bllAG IL 6uOulu W dlSO lHiulelIlOl ldl.
A great mystery, We have intimated,
lies buried right here. If it could
be ascer tanned how the bear succeed
ed in imprsssing his own individual
ity upon his pursuers, we would be
able to follow the trail straight from
Dams Rock to Cumberland coal, and
beyond-especially beyond. 1t was
the figure Of a yellow jacket nest "a
plain. simple. transformations yellow
atreaked ornsment decoratinga bush
that was thought Of when the
Times evolved its annex theory.
From that we find that yellow jackets
make honey which the naughty bear
takes, and so on. But we have 10
time to trouble ourselves about the
controversy between the yellow. Jack
cts and tho bear who got stung by
bees for eating honey that the yellow
Jackets could not make. We only
wanted to show that the most curious
designations are due to the oldest and
least unsuspected circumstances. In
the case in hand we have two dis
tortions of nomenclature, both of
which in origin and psrpetnity are
traceabls to the personal magnetism
of q bear.