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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Away Above Arbitration.

The point at issue between H. Wal
ter Webb, third vice-president of the
New York Central railroad company,
and Terence V. Powderly, Grand Mas
ter Workman of the Knights of Labor,
simmered down, is this:
Mr.. Powderly proposes arbitration
of the differences between Mr.. Webb
and his employees.
Mr.. Webb declines on the ground
that his company must be permitted
to control its own business in its own
way.
Mr.. Webb is right-for a reason
that the JOURNAL has not yet seen
named.
There is nothing to ar6itrute.
The right of the company to employ,
not to employ, or discharge from en-
ployment, is inherent. Its life as a
corporation and its liberty to do bus
mess, like those of an individual, are
vital parts of itself. Impair one and
its whole being is weakened destroy
one and the whole fabric crumbles INTO
dust.
Mr.. Webb cannot, therefore, submit
to arbitration a condition which Ma
ture and Natures God have already
established-no more than any man can
lodge in even his best friend the power
to determine whether he has a right
to live.
Moreover, Mr.. Webb was right when
he determined that he was not bound
by any law, moral or divine, to give a
reason for the discharge of certain
men. Judges on the bench frequently
take the same position in judicial de-
cisions with nothing to sustain them
but the unwritten, universal, reserved
right of the individual to protect the
privacy of the motives which prompt
his judgments.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

The nomination of Hon. l.. +. Me-
Comas for reelection, effected at Oak
land last week, was Il conclusion fore
gone. He is republican of repub-
licans. AS such he personifies in a
complete sense all that the party in
this section of the district holds in SEN
timent and demand. Whatever he
may lose, therefore, here or elsewhere,
of the democratic contingent charged
with supporting him, it is quite GER
tain, in our Judgment, his own party
to a man will stand by him.
A letter of Mayor McKaig, of Cum
berland, declining the use of his name
for Congress. has appeared since last
we took this pen in hand. The letter
is better shaped than his verbal efforts,
but it arouses two questions-D why
a similar abdication was not in order
in the fall of 1889, when he would not
succeed himself in the State Senate I?
and GU whether the current declina-
ton is subject to recall, as was the
one of 1887 The letter is slightly re-
markable for what it does not state i'll
another connection. 1t makes no con
fession of his unfitness for the office.
Meanwhile, the names of Col.
Buchanan Schley, of Hagerstown !;
p. D. Laird, of Rockville, and others
are mentionedas available antagonists
of Mr. McComas.
1t is a pity Hon. William Walsh
could not see his way clear to run.
Once victor over the otherwise
triumphant McComas, Il race now
would have been interesting to both
nartinS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

Funny Proceeding in Philadelphia.
Some time ago an attempt was made
10 force the city tC buy the works of
the Schuylkill Navigation Company
for - 900, 900 for the ostensible pur.
pose of improving the water supply of
the city. AS a matter of fact such
purchase would leave the city with
precisely the same water it now uses,
but would give it a lot of useless
canals, dams and locks. The real
purpose of the sale Is to relieve the
Reading Railroad Company of a
| charge of $500, 900 per annum for a
piece of useless property. The Read.
ing is bound to the Navigation Com
pany by Il lease it cannot break, and
vet it makes no real use of the canal.
If it can get the city to buy the works
it will be freed from water competition
and at the same time get rid of the
annual payment it is now Obliged to
MA <e in order to keep the canal from
being used. To effect this desirable
purpose the Schuylkill Water Com
pany has been formed to buy the
canal and sell it TO the city. Their
scheme was spoiled by an exposure of
the fact that the city could get the
water without buying it, but the bat
tie is to be renewed in council next
month. 70 get ready for it the Nayi-
cation Company started to repair its
dam at F!atrock yesterday, and 400,
600, 900 gallons of water were allowed
to run to waste The purpose was to
deprive the upper section of the city
of water and thus show the need Of
the canal. Director Wagner got out
an injunction. however, and with the
aid of IA squad of policemen forced
the superintendent to close tn" sluces.
That the attempt was deliberately
made to cripple the city water works
Is pretty clear, for no notice whatever
was given Of the proposed running off
Of water. 1t was made at a time
of special Inconvenience to the city.
Ten days hence the trick would not
work. for the cltv is now laying II new
in-take pipe in Flatrock dam that will
not be uncovered at low stages of
water. There Is great indignation
over the water cOmpany'S action.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Look Out I.

While the JOURNAL has not taken
part in the criticism of our school
authorities for failure to provide
Frostburg with proper and safe school
accommodations, it is in full sympa-
thy with the claim that our time for
recognition in this regard has come.
Until this week we have not been
reliably advised of the uncomfortable,
not to say unsafe condition of our
school building.
But we are now armed with the
facts, and next week we shall set them
in array for the information of the
public and the serious inspection of
the School Board.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
w hat ?

The following funny sentences are
taken from the Cumberland Times:
When cross-questioned by the gentlemen
from the republican side of the chamber as
to his change of position on tariff questions
his replies silenced and put to shame his
would-be mentors
1t is the fool alone who cannot change his
opinion in the progress of the world.
The evolutions of political economy alter
the relative situation of the component parts
of the body polite.
In the first place Mr.. German, out
of cline with his party's POSITION
could not have stood cross-examina-
ton. As witness for CHS party in
that case he would have been an en-
inent boomerang.
In the second, that is exactly what
the JOURNAL affirms, as implied by its
oft-quoted injunction from Carlyle:
Speak your opinions of to-day in words
hard as rocks and your opinions Of to-mor-
row in words just as hard.
But in the matter of tariff reform
what revolutions of political econ
omy" have altered "the relative situa-
ton of the component parts of the
body polite ~
In fewer words, what conditions
exist now that did not exist in 1888
What is the difference between the
popular distress that made Mr.. Cor
man a protectionist in 1888 and the
public suffering that makes him a
tariff reformer in 1890?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

Last week we advise our people to
90 slow in taking stock in the Invest
ment Il Building Association plan of
the National Life Maturity Insurance
Company, of Washington, d. c..
whose agent then was here and push
ing the work. AS the Philadelphia
Times had Just succeeded IN running.
what we felt was a similar institution.
out of Philadelphia. we wrote to them
in regard to the matter and enclosed
one Of the yellow circulars of the com
pany, which We're so plentiful in
Meyersdale last week. In the reply of
tn" Times they say they know nothing
whatever Of the company's starting
and then these golden words of caution
which every one of our people who
was approached will know how to
appreciate:
In a number of cases Of companies of this
kind the officers are reputable, but the prn-
cipic upon which they operate is fallacious.
In nearly every instance far more is prom
iscd than is possible to perform.
This WAS our position. Hands off
Our building association should be II
home company.-Meyersdale Pa.)
COmmelTidl.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Concerning an AbSurdity.

The JOURNALS idea that German desires
the retention of McComas IN Congress is too
absurd for notice or comment.-Cumberlan
Times.
From standpoint distinctively me-
chanical certainly it "is too absurd
for notice or comment"
But not so with those who witness
ed his dissatisfaction with tariff reform
in the platform of 1888; his sulks in
the campaign of that year wherein he
deserted the man whom he saved in
1SS4-wherein he sunk political pres
tige which he is now moving earth and
heaven to regain.
By indirection, therefore, preferring
Harrison's election, and adding there
to host of local evidences of
his love of republican rule in this dis
trict, it is not "absurd' to state that
he prefers to have this people so rep
resented in Congress.
With a live, aggressive democrat in
the House for a term or two Germans
control of patronage here would go.
He owns it distinctively and absolute
ly under the protection ola republican
majority and the enginery of dem
ocratic minority rule, the former much
of his own making, the latter entire
ly so.
In proof to the contrary, let the
Times name German democrat that
has been elected to Congress from this
district since the war.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Great Bodies Move Slowly.

The Homecoming Star still burns
with lustre all its own. Hence, it
calls itself "a fixed Star"
The issue of Thursday leaves scarce
ly shred of the Frostburg Ledger.
And it is clear that our own hero
realizes that it has bitten off piece
to whose mastication and salvation
its dentigerous gums will prove I'M
availing.
Indeed, we believe it is at last on
the eve of absorbing the mighty truth
that the Ledger is not the earth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
MINING JOURNAL.
HOp-Hater.

A newspaper man-not an organ
grinder-has lived so long that 'once
in yery great while he runs across
a newspaper publisher who imagines
that no one has right to engage in a
similar business in the same terri
tory" etc.
This, of course, refers to the JOUR
NAL.
But let us see what the JOURNAL is
actually kicking against. Let us see
what this gay and guiltless pigeon has
said to provoke the apparent intoler-
ance of its existence here. Let us see,
in short, who threw out the first sheer.
l, The name Of the paper-Frost-
burg Ledger, was manifestlv but un-
fortunately designed as an offset to the
name of the JOURNAL.
2, Before the Ledger was started a
Frostburg gentleman showed the
JOURNAL a letterhead which bulletin
ed the chrysalis as "a newspaper-not
an organ.n
3, When the paper appeared it pro-
claimed itself-nOt as John the Bap-
tist-but itself the author of q new
dispensation in Frostburg.
4, 1t assessed its own value to own
subscribers at 33b per cent. below the
JOURNAL.
Now, here were four distinct i'm
peachments of the JOURNAL to start
with-four separate challenges born
with the sheet and part of its consti-
tuition and bylaws.
Under such circumstances it assumes
the JOURNAL was to sit still and take
it all, assent to it all, in fact, beg par
don for having been here before, and
ask leave to get out of the way of the
new hog that had come to inherit the
earth.
Nobody that knows the JOURNAL
conceived for a moment that it was
going to give up the ghost so readily,
or that it would stand and silently per
nit any popinjay of a paper to come
in here and dictate our status for us.
Hence, we have met the enemy on
the ground of its own choosing. 1t
elected its points of superiority to the
JOURNAL and we have travelled only
on that territory, We have disputed
everything that it has proposed to our
prejudice, and ace hare beaten It. Its
only resort is to charge us in so doing
with selfishness-in its own chaste YER
nacular, ''hoggishness.'
Well, perhaps in cts own bright
lexicon of youth" self-defense is de-
fined as ''hoggishness." In which
event the Ledger has got laundering
sight of its especial and particular
aversion yet to stand.
Rather, quoting its own language
to the Homecoming Star:
But the Star began the thing and needs a
dose of its own mixture. We shall keep it
on hand and administer it when we see see
fit.
Aha by this same token Gas We
mete it unto others so shall it be
measured unto YOU" and your readers
may call it ''chaff," or whatever they
please.
But "chaff'' is preferred, for it was
Voltaire's pet term for the Word of
God.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Do XOu Know IL .

Postage stamps that ale damaged
by sticking in warm or damp weather
may be returned to the department
and their value repaid to the purch-
aser, or exchanged for new stamps, or
if you spoil stamped envelope III
attempting to write the address ON it
you need now throw it away. for you
ran also return it to the postof1ice and
receive the stamp value. All the re-
deemed envelopes and stamps are keI t.
These regulations are not generally
known and they may be of some bene-
fit to a large number of people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
For Accommodation Only.

The JOURNAL is not aware that it
has whispered" anything that it is
afraid to print.
But if the Ledger will name some
thing that has been whispered" that
it wants printed, perhaps we can ac-
commodate it.
We can and will give also few
"whisperings" on its own side that it
does not want printed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Beautifully JnfruitfuI.

The JOURNALS article is replete with polish
ell periods and rhetorical finish, but as barren
as the Sahara of common sense or political
sagacity. Cumberland Times.
The JOURNAL knows it.
The common sense of politics of
these days is about like the Eugene
Higgins of religion, and "political
sagacity," outside Of the ring, is an
''iridescent dream" ''barren ideal
ity," or, worse than all nondescript
vacuities, a sample of Frostburg legrr-
domain.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

Anybody who notices the hotchpotch
makeup of the Lefger-any printer cs-
pecially who will take the paper as an
index to its job printing capabilities,
will for a long time deplore the fact
that it did not get lis education she
fore the war"
But it never aduatod-neither be
fore, especially not after the wah.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

The Homecoming Star very neatly
takes off an editorial review of book
which the RAMBLER" had never read.
But the effort at guaging the de
merits of ''Looking Backward" was
so amusing that we are half inclined
to ask for an unsparing criticism of
"The Bedraggled Skirt, or The Unsafe
Safety Pin"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
GENERAL NEWS.
The Weather.
Bright, clear and pleasant.
Home-seckcrs' Excursion at Half

Homc-Seckers' Excursion at Half
Rates, via the Wabash X. Il.
Will be run on Tuesdays, Septem-
Der 9th and 23rd, and October l4th to
points in southeast Missouri, Kansas.
Nebraska, Arkansas, Indian Terri
tory, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado.
New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho,
Montana, South and North Dakota,
Iowa and Minnesota.
Rate-one fare for round trip-tickcts
good thirty days. For time of trains,
rates etc.. apply to your ticket agent
or address f. II. Tristram. Central
passenger agent, Pittsburg, Pa.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Henry LOycrid &c .

With the untimely death of the gen
tleman whose name heads this article
prominent figure went out of the
arena of coal operations along the At
lantic seaboard.
He was a man far above the average
in intellectual force and forensic
power. Had he dedicated his endow-
ments to the making of fortune in
some of the more SNOWY walks of pro-
fessional life, he would have become
eminent in sense far wider than that
which now contracts his fame to the
comparatively small space of a single
interest in the busy area of trade.
In his chosen field of action, how
ever. he was industrious and agrees
i've, and those whose welfare he repre-
scented ever found IN him strong and
courageous advocate.
These will miss him most, while
friends and foes alike will reflect wit h
regret upon a brilliant career ended
before its prime.
Did he good service? God must judge, not we
Manly he was, and generous and sincere;
English in all, otgenius blithely free;
Who loves Man may see his image here.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Trunk Department.

The immense used for die display of trunks filled
with every grade and style of frank known to the trade Here
you will find from the cheapest dollar trunk to the best sole
leather All the visitor to this department need to do is walk
through the long of trunks and make his selection
the price of trunk is marked iii plain figures way down lower
than any of woudbe competitors dare offer them visit
to this department alone is worth journey of fifty miles,
cordial invitation is hereby extended everybody visit
great establishment, whether you o buy not
Gcntlemany statesmen will take pleasure in showing you
obligation to buy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

Power OF the Dollar never be known until YOU visit FRANK
G. BEAIIiS Hardware and Stove Store and invest few of
them.
You will there find that you have the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30
Information Wanted.

Information w ai;iV
1t is late but not too late to as k our
economical Cumberland contcmpor-
aries for an explanation of the levy for
"city election expenses
The amount thus levied upon tile
people qtthe county is $3.50,
The JOURNAL has been asked to ac-
count for this apparently eXtraordi-
nary new burden on the county for city
purposes, and we frankly admit that
we are ignorant of the why and where
fore of the ease.
The following questions are there
fore submitted to Cumberland papers
|, Under what law is the county
chargeable with the expenses Of any
'city elections ?"
., What interest has the county in
any ''city election -
3, If levy is made under law, state
when such law was passed, at whose
instance, for what purpose, and who
We're the county's representatives, in
the Legislature at the time.
t, If not made under law, state what
authority is responsible therefor.
What Might Have Been.
To the JOURNALS article. as to all others of
similar strain, Senator Germans recent
speech in the Senate gave full and complete
answer. Chosen by his colleagues as their
leader in the great fight for constitutional
integrity, State sovereignty and tariff re-
form, he has placed himseffully in line with
his party's position beyond peradventure.-
Cumberland Times.
Had Mr.. German never been out of
cline with his party's position the
''fate of the country would not now
be hanging by its eyelids to his coat
tails. Had he been sin line with his
party's position" in 1883 there would
be now no Mckinley bill nor Lodge
bill to veX the soul of the Times. In
fact, like heaven, ''there would be no
night" in democratic politics.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-08-30

Bargains that will give y"u thrill Of pleasure, and make you
feel good with merchants the world i'll general and
FRANK {. BEAII, in particular.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-21

island of Stroma, over which the sea swept
in the great storm of 1862. This passed,
you cross the wild waters of Pentland
Firth, and two hours sail brings you to
anchor in the harbor Of Kirkwall.
This quaint old city whose ancient name
was Kirkjuvagr or ''church-bay." is built
on either side of long, narrow, winding
street at the foot of an overshadowing hill.
Its one great object of interest is the Ca
thedral of st. Magnus, founded by Rogn-
valid, Jarl of Orkney, about $50 years ago.
Near it are ruins of former noted build
the latter can still be seen the fireplace
and outlines of the great banqueting hall
where, in the Pirate Scott places the
scene of the interview between Jack
Bunce" and Cleveland. But You could
hardly be induced to tarry long in the
antiquities. On no other equal area in
Northern Europe, possibly excepting Car
nae. in Brittany, can such numbers and
variety be found. Within an hours walk
of Kirkwall are excellent examples of
chambered mounds and eirde-houses or
earth excavations, stone-roofed From
nine to fifteen miles west Of Kirkwall in
the vicinity of Stenness and Stromness. q
vast number of extraordinary Pagan relics
are found. The OrkahauR, or mighty
howe" of the Orkneyinpa saga, stands near
the great stone ring of StenneHs. This
tumulus is in the center OF circular plat
form 500 feet in circumference. A trun-
Gated mound forty feet high covers q cham
bered barrow fifty-four feet long Leading to
a central vault fifteen feet square and twelve
feet high;no doubt a sepulchral vault for Pic
fish kings. The standing stones Of Stem
ness and Broger are but short distance
away. Within n date necessary for histor-
ical Authorization these weird nlonoliths
formed as marvellous and Rhostly q host
of past age memorials rs can now be seen
on the plain of Carnac, Brittany. The tre-
mendous stone. called the Watchstone,
was standing as late as 1874, and the
in the memory of man Just north Of the
Ring of Stenness. This was the famous
stone mentioned by Scott in 1.-The Pirate"
through huge hole in which Orcadian
lovers pliRhted their trOths. The little ISL
and of Egilsha, to tho north of Kirkwall,
has one of the eighth century round towers
such as are seen throughout Ireland. In
the island of Hoy is the noted "Dwarfe
Stone.' twenty-eight feet long,, elev-
en- to fourteen feet broad, and two
to six feet thick. in which
many centuries ago were hewn two Sleep
ing apartments. one with stone pillow,
attributed to the dwarf "Troled'' in the
northern Sagas. but undoubtedly giean-
tic heather altar. At Burray, little island
to the south, is massive ..broch," pre-
cisely similar to the famous Grianan of
Aileach, near Londonderry, Ireland. It's
walls are about twenty feet thick, cham
bered, sixteen feet high, and the structure
is forty feet in diameter. It was both a
incinerary urns containing ashes OF the
dead, from 1900 to 1900 years ago.
EDGAR i. WAKENAN.
COPYRIGHT
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-21
THE TALL, THIN GIRL.
Yvette, Wio Has Become the Sensation In


Yvette, NhO Has Become the Sensation In
Paris.
I entered the Concert Parisien and found
it full of smoke and elegance, says the Lon
don World. In the boxes were many benu-
tiful women, accompanied by men of nota-
BILE wit and apparent wealth. / awaited
the sensation Of art with confidence, for !
knew Yvette to be an artist. Had I not
seen her only a few months ago or the
heights Of Montmartre when she made her
first appearance at the Diyan. Japnnais and
at the Moulin Rouge, and captivated the
admiration Of group of poets and artists2
Had not felt that this woman was des-
tined to fame, and that Paris would soon
consecrnte her favorite, on idol, an artist
of exquisite nodernity, lyric Reinne
And, behold, there she was on the stage,
tall, slender. lilial, blonde, and imperturb-
able, clad in robe of pale green Of the
shade dear to Botticelli, long and graceful
like the figures OF Vatican. long like the
Japanese women in the paintings of Outa-
marc.
What does she sing7 Absurdities. enor-
mites. cruelty ironical narratives Of modern
human weakness. "L'Hotel dn Numero 81
dozen songs Of unforeseen dry humor that is
striking thanks to the artists very personal
rendering and delicately artistic diction.
Compared with that of Yvette Guilbert, the
diction of Jude and Of Celine Chaumont is
gross, as portrait by Rubens is gross in
comparison with portrait by PierO della
Francesca.
In line. attitude, and sobricty Of gesture,
Yvette Guilbert constantly suggested the
figures of the Italial Primitives, and therein