Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-19

THE most unfortunate thing Il Mas
ter Workman or walking delegate can
do is to fall in love with himself. The
world is peoplcd with human beings
who might fairly sizz with the respect
and admiration of their fcllow-men if
they would cndeavor to believe that
they are only plug mortals. born of
dust and billed to return to mud. y
Noble Order devotee who spends his
days admiring his own good qualities,
or the meretritious gauds of any cheap
title he may be sporting. will find the
Job lonely and monotonous one after
awhile. and he will eventually realize
that he will take the rheumatism, or
catch the ricketS, and die Just the
same as the rest of us, and remain
dead just rs long.
WITH Cunningham representing the
miners and Scheermesser the Germans,
two classes of our population will
enjoy specific care next winter at An
napolis.
Everybody knows what 1.-THE miners
want, but what can the solid, endur
ing, inexcitable Germans be after?
What is it. in fact, that either class
ought to have in the way of Legislation
that other people are not entitled to I?
Still the echo is-what is it ?
In the absence of an answer it is
good advice to all voters to leave all
class lawmakers at home. If voters
can find nominees who are willing to
represent the pe0ple-to east the vote of
the people for the benefit of the people,
send them to Annapolis, and leave all
others severely at
Home home, sweet, sweet home
There is no place like home
The Cumberland Times speaks of
the centennial" as though it was Il
success. when nothing that ever hap
pened in the county. except the last
utIll0cIdtlC tolN Ntltlol' 'Nti i'll nat
ter on the public consciousness.
The truth is, the spirit of the oc
casion was destroyed by its untimely
character and the undoubted effort and
success of the county-seat to degrade
il into "a paying thing"
For anybody in Cumberland to
claim credit for engineering the affair
as patriotic demonstration cvinces Il
distended physiological capacity for
biliousness that is refreshing.
hear YOU judged the brass bands at the
county fair,
Yes. Iawarded the prize to the one that
tried to play "Parsifal.'
Why, they murdered it,
They did, indeed, but in trying to play it at
all they showed the quality of their brass
The FrOStburg JOURNALS Smirking CavilS
at the democratic ticket are among the srTest
indications of its success. The JOURNALS
opposition to measure or a man becomes at
once mascot and, like all mascotS s
worthy of chrome. The last illustration of
this principle is furnished by the Centennial
of the county.-Cumberlanl Times.
There is great comfort i'll those re-
marks for Mr.. Cunningham.
That is, there would have been but
for the last sentence.
1t has been only few weeks ago
since the Times bewailed the JOURNAL'S
force as eXerted against the untimely
blowout.
The Times concludes
The apologst for the republican party up
street bathes itself in the refreshing foam of
the JOURNAL, and takes the hattering JUNCTION
10 itg dear old soul that Brother OderS disap-
provai means determination. \ mule will
kick, you know, and its cousin OF Biblical
fame can't help braying in its delight at the
exhibit
Now, while Mr.. Cunningham may
be rejoicing in the Journal as his
mascot, what is the Times doing!
il finds in the JOURNAL a mule"
in the Ne,cs a donkey, and in itself a
"blother" Of the mule and cousin
german of the iackass.
THE Cumberland Times of Wednes-
day makes one of its usual awkward
efforts in charging Maj. Alex. Shaw
with having committed ''mistalle" in
becoming the fusion candidate for
Mayor of Baltimore.
Nooody can tell what the Times was
driving at unless to say something pO-
litically mean about the Major without
appearing to reg%rd him as less than
''highly esteemed" etc. This is diff
ficult role to play, and the Times il not