Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-12-18

For that reason we are in favor of
commencing his chalice for Industrial
wrongs to his own lips during the time
only that the boys are laying off.
1t is not we'll, moreover, that too
much talent and capital should be
combined in one individual as reward
of merit for investing the confessed
serfdom and ignorance of his subjects
with more poverty.
THE post Office muddle at Barton is
peculiar.
The incumbent, popular old gen
tleman, revels in the sympathy of a
community which preponderates his
way, politically.
The appointee, a npular young gen
tleman, swayed by kicking from With
ont and within, feels sirkiy to-tay,
doubtless, over an encounter with a
majority cry, backed by consideration
for age and helpleSsness.
Tomorrow, however, Judging the
future by reports of the past, he will
soiloquize
| want to be a p. NJ,
And with the 2. NJ stand
An ink-pad on the table,
stamper i'll my hand.
And there before the letters
III work with glowing face,
And thank the great unterritied
Fer giving me the place
OUR temperance friends announce
the beginning to-day of the campaign
for Constitutional Prohibition
To some this would appear like an
attempted grip on time by the foretop.
To others II deliberate case of self
exposure to the weather when all the
other politicians are doing, like the
groun,lhog. in winter quarters.
A boy, whose father was a republic
can and mother democrat, (''hy the
way" said Col. Baughman. God bless
the ladies ~ carried the family umbrel-
ia out one cool day when the sun was
veiled by clouds, though there was no
prospect of rain. Being questioned
concerning his unique policy, he ex-
planned:
When it rains dad wants it; when the sun
shines mann has to have it, and I've got to use
it on SIGH cold days as this or git no good of it.
fEOSTBU RG is headquarters for the finest
and most extensive Bark Extract Factory
perhaps in America. This mammoth insti-
tuition is located on the Big Savage river,
seven miles distant from town.-Frostburg
JOURNAL.
We thought of paraphrasing the above,
saving that Cumberland is headquarters for
one of the finest and most extensive coal
deposits in America. The deposit lies on
Georges Creek some Is miles west of Cum
berland. But we wont.-Cumberland Indc
pendent.
OF course the independent wont. 1t
can't. Cumberland is not 'head
quarters for one of the finest etc.
This settled, it only remains for us to
assure everybody's friends that the big
Mdependent, like little George Wash
ington. cannot le forced into ;a.se-
hood by a mere subterfuge of no
menc!ature. In bricfer terms, the
Mdspendem "cann"t tella lie."
ming has snetrrd at the name, Frost
burg" Ga the o.htr hand, the Jour
NAL. itself something of Stickler for
appropriate nomencla, ure, admires it.
There is the complexion of unlimited
freedom, suggestion of byreal PIE
eminence, an intimation of life giving
sweeps of wind and coldwave broad
ness in the sound that appeals success
fully to the convictions of the taste
most recherche. It's hoped, hence, that
the censor will turn the powerful focus
of the bad taste in his mouth from
Frostburg to Cumberland coal"
If V could read the secret history of our
enemies we shoud find in each ones life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility Cumberland Ntws.
But it is not the sorrow and suffer
ing with which we have to deal in our
relations with enemies it is their un-
speakable and inexorable cussedness.
THERE is little hubbub among
the lawyers about the jug-handled
system of discovering jurors in this
county.
And another about zone of the
brethren.'