Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-02-16

proposal to observe the county's cen
tcnaIy next Christmas day
The paragraph below went it, way around
the daily journalistic circle
Troy, y. Y. will begin january "a an an
uiycrsary celebration of the naming of the
city. which took place January ), l7S9. The
celebration will last all the week,
And vet, to the JouRNNL's suggestion of
proper Observance next Christmas day of
Allcgany county, centennial there has not
come from paper or an individual II single
syllable Of endorsement or even of approval.
The question thence is-whcthcr the his
tory ofthe rise and growth of the county are
unworthy of such recognition, or is local
patriotism dead in our shells
Two weeks had then elapsed since
the JOURNAL published the first shad-
OWING Of Il prospectus for the occasion.
The Homecoming star made brief ref
ercncc to the matter and then ''silence
and darkness, solemn sisters, twins
from ancient Night" settled down on
the project for few days more, when
all at once. as though for the first
time, the Cumberland Times let 90 the
thrilling information that the county'S
centennial was at hand 1t appeared
to be peculiarly Times discovery,
and a mine that il was going to work
for all that was in it-fOr the Times.
The NerS, Iadependent, courier, star,
and Rerie,r. however. shaved the comb
off the little bantam so soon as they
were compelled to do justice or follow
a bastard lead. These papers ranged
themselves alongside the JOURNAL,
and Mondays meeting at Homecoming
will show whose "cdiiorial rooms" will
be consccrated by the initial proceed
ings looking to the observance of the
centenary.
But all this is PREDATORY to that
which follows
Last week the Times interviewed
Shcik Ilderim, native of Egypt, now Il
transient sage of the Orchard of
Palms. The sapient exile. as was
Ntl'H II at INV ltlI'. NIll'lt'l lll' 'oN N
NAL by implication for not permitting
the Times to carry out its own sweet
will in appropriating the discov-
cry of Allcgany'S centennial year
and the suggestion concerning its
observance. This week the Times
found AN inexperienced Young man
here in Frostburg who furnished an
echo to the old Sheik's plaint:
Let the newspapers of the county agtatc in
harmony the idea, neither taking any par
ticular credit to itself for this or that, but all
conformity for the good of the whole county.
How lovely and how good Sounds
like the pirjtHe}le personation of one
whose feet are abroad on ethereal
mountains. and whose figure is couch
ed in the attitude of benediction
How pcrmiSSively sweet the tender in
junction, and how velvety soft the
mclodiouS impeachment
But does it not strike some fair
minded reader that there never would
have been the slightest jar III this mat
ter if the Times had shown Just enough
manliness to second the suggestion as
! the JOURNALS, But having taken to
itself all the honors in the premises
| and imvctcrately aired its efforts
| having taken the whole affair under its
/ own negiS and patronage, does the same
Ircader think the Times is to be ca ajoled
for its counterfeit proposal and the
| JOURNAL rcbuked for holding to the
genuine ! If the same reader agrees
with us does he think the Journal is
made of that kind of stuff which sur
renders abjcctly its rights when they
are SO easily maintained :.
If so, he has read this paper i'll vain.
/ If so, he has failed to notice the incon-
tcStable fact that in no controversy,
whether ON the right or wrong side.
the JOURNAL has never been over
thrown.
/ Nor can it hc-ccrtainly when it is
in the right. The Times may summon
all its forces, at home or abroad. ON
/ land or sea. intellectual or financial
/ especially including its Frostburg
( Dictionaries. and the JOURNAL will
wave its banner of triumph at the
/ funeral of the Times and all its friends.
The JOURNAL has not been AN ad-
mirer Of the auspices under which the
paper quoted below is published. but it
/ deserves a colossal chunk of praise for
/ printing the following serio-comic
item:
There is one of the readers of the Workman,
much pleased in regard to the progress
/ of his son in school. On the arrival OF
the youth home one evening his papa
/ asked him what he had learned since he had
been going to school. The bright youth ut
once replied-''l learned to read and write,
His papa then asked him to say his b c's,
and he could not tell from Z, and the boy
was positively half way through his first
reader. Great Caesar, what Il joke on the
Centre street school marms.
And this perpendicularly under the
educational noses of the School Board
and Examiner