Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-10-12

various qualities and kinds of coal the POca-
hontas was found to answer the purpose best.
How the PENNSYLVANIA coal mine OWNS would
have ridiCuled the idea ten years ago of Nir-
ginia coal ever amounting to ANYTHING
Cumberland Times.
Our contemporary need not go 50
far from home nor 50 far back in the
calendar to find "ridiculc" of "Nir-
ginia COAL
Under the reign of the smart
Alecks" who had chal ge of the Knights
of Labor in this region in 1882. Poca-
h"ntas coal got its first and best boost.
II made its way in market with sur
prising rapidity, and the truth soon
came to be known that all fighting
chances for trade were based. not so
much on quality as before, but ON cost
Of production.
The fact is, with CIearficd on one
side, and Pocahontas on the other.
Georges Creek was between the upper
and neither millStOneS. Add to this
the Noble Order idiocy which, in spite
of the grinding to which our region
was subjected outside, still regarded it
as the only coal-producing district on
the globe, and the eighth wonder of
the world is that it is alive to-day.
But, discontented with our escape
from destruction and unsatistied with
our prosperity, the Noble Order is still
with us fretting about imaginary evils
and threatening to hamper our trade
by legislation.
The worst of the matter is--the
bosses, Sub-boSseS and Sub-subS of both
political parties have thought them of
enough consequence to menace both
our trade and our wages by yielding
them places on their Legislative tickets.
Every voter, therefore. who takes
no stock in Noble Order fummery.
and every christian should religiously
"cut' every Knight of Labor on the
Legislative portion of his ticket.
Pooh old No. II The district sent
delegation TO Cumberland with
candidate for the House Of Delegates.
candidate for sheriff and candidate
for county commissioner. aud the en-
tire assembly returned looking like
grandmother was dead :" When
they started out Tuesday morning
all except the genial gentleman who
loaned his popularity - flew high
feather, and the natives thought the
veterans would return trophy-laden
Not so. After all the labor. pains and
aches of the primary after the glori-
Gus victory of the allied popularities
over one poor worker, they came back
with not a sheaf to show for the har-
vest, nor even a talisman to Indicate
what the crop will be two years hence.
Poor old IL Here we are turned
out to grass for ~ months more, with
weedy hay at $l2 ton!
But promises are cheap, and candi-
dates will be as gullible then as now.
The regular" democracy lives on the
debts it owes its dupes. The latter
exist on the verbal evidences of debt
starving process, but greatly enjoy
ed by the extra-sanguine loyalsts who
change clothes sometimes. but never
change a political boss.
OUTSIDE of the valuable historical matter
furnished by the excellent addresses of
Hons II. w. Hoffman and e. l.. Wellington
the Cumberland Times Centennial" edition
contains but little of the occasion as county
affair.
The rest is Cumberland.
Printed on pink paper however, and of
convenient size, its twelve pages are creditable
to the enterprise and taste OF our contempo-
rary.- -Frostburg JOURNAL.
Why, bless your heart brother Oder, didn't
you recognize it As the old edition of the Bal
timOre Herald advertising Cumberland indus
tries, and was rc-sSued as a centennial soil
venir' for Allegany county Northumberland
NewS.
The JOURNAL does not remember
seeing the He,uM sheet hence, it did
not recognize those portions which the
Ne~s Identifies as literary property
borrowed or stolen therefrom bv the
Times.
We earnestly hope, however, that
the RecS is mistaken otherwise, we
shall deeply regret having endorsed
even unknowingly fraud of any
color, especially pink, that is blood
relation of the untimely centennial"
The Worlds Fair, or Quadri Cen
tennial Exposition, to be held in 1892.
in commemoration of the Landing of
Columbus, ought to be held in some
western city-St, Louis or Chicago.
In choosing either Congress cannot
go far out Of the way. Each has ad-
vantages of unmiStakable merit. st.
Louis is the centre of perhaps the
largest and most productive agricul-
tural area in the world, while Chicago,
a good second in this regard. offers
besides the most telling inducements
III the way OF the largest guarantee
fund and the most superior accommo-
dations. and facilities, For us here in
the east Chicago is of easier reach than
any other considerable western city.
and we doubt not that a vote of our