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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
City All Right Anyway.

In the county democratic conven-
ton of 1887, James w. Wilson, of
Rawlings, with a nomination for
county commissioner in his grasp,
discerned that of the four already
nominated not one was from Cumber-
land Such a thing never happened
aghast. Cumberland, that had al
ways been protected by not less than
two, now reduced to naught ! ''Delenda
est ~ etc. With magnanimity that
knows no parallel in democratic an
nails Mr.. Wilson, sitting the noble
passion for office in his tumultuous
own breast, took his only opportunity
and laid it in Cumberland's agitated
and f1uttering bosom. 1t was scene
worthy of a symposium of the gods.
Not Hercules ever did an act so stu
pendous, nor Jupiter one so beneticent.
And for time great was the name of
Wilson.
SO that for the two long weary years
last past Cumberland has been strug-
Cling with a solo when duet was her
speciality.
But, never mind 1t is a rare day
when Cumberland gets left. She had
the commissioner that Wilson so gen
erously awarded her, and the demo-
cratic regulars furnished enough from
the country to give the city a quorum.
Cumberland never Jared better.
One street got nearly as much as the
whole town of Frostburg, and one "or-
gam enough to buy it
And when it was thought that too
many goods were being bought out
side for the county institutions the
example was nipped in the bud by in
dieting the offending commissioners.
People, therefore, who complain of
heavy taxation and bad roads have no
business doing so. If they see moth
ing in return for their outlay they
should remember that oftentimes their
own Representatives discover more
needy objects in Cumberland.
The moral of which is, neither party
can do worse for the country districts
than by allowing Cumberland to have
all five of the commissioners. For a
majority, it seems, she will have, no
matter where they live.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
No Back Seat for Frost burg.

At Frostburg they appear to be doing every
thing to get a new railroad except to put up
the money. They should initiate the liberal
ity of Cumberland IN this pect.-Cumber-
land NemS
Some time ago the Homecoming
Reciew put it somewhat this way:
Homecoming voted for Incorporation.
Frostburg followed and put up $4,000 for
new water works. Now Cumberland comes
along after Frostburg and votes its endorse
ment of S15OOOO in bonds to secure great
railway additions.
so it would seem that as an eXem-
plar of "liberality' Cumberland chit
the fust lick last"
The true chronology Of the case is
this: The water bill was construct
ed and passed before the Homecoming
incorporation bill. In our bill, how
ever, it was provided that the election
should be held at the regular spring
date. which fell behind the special
date fixed for the Homecoming cleo
ion.
so that, to. all intents and purposes
Frostburg is entitled to the lead as
furnishing the example of "liberality''
implicitly reserved to Cumberland by
the Netcs.
Another thing. Under the well
known and wise rule of zone enter
prize at Il time,' Frostburg could not
jump headlong into water accession
and a railway extension in one Legis-
lature and one election. One issue
would have handicapped the other,
and both would have been imperiled.
Now, unless we can raise the needful
means by voluntary subscription, we
must wait two years for the next Leg
islature to afford an opportunity to
test the peoples disposition to do
themselves good.
SO, friendly Netns, give us a little
time. We have good people to deal
with, and we enjoy every reason to
hope for the best.
Now, people of Frostburg, shall we
sit here stoically as a bump on a log
and permit our neighbors to SAY
''here, gaze on us, and initiate our
liberality ?"
No, a thousand thunders, no
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
The Second National Ahead.

The JOURNAL ventured the predic
ton short while ago that the Coun-
ell would learn something about the
issue of bonds before it got through
with the business in hand.
The bid of the Second National
Bank of Cumberland, the only one
offered, furnished something like an
object lesson, such as was anticipated
by the JOURNAL.
1t brought the Council up standing.
The condition upon which the bank
would take the bonds, even at par,
was a sumner.
Had the rate of interest been fixed
higher, as it should have been, the
town would have been master of the
situation. But as it is, the bank takes
the bonds at the minimum figure and
forces the town to do its water finan-
cering away from home besides.
Nobody blames the bank for this,
or ought not. Nobody blames the
lion when the lamb lies down inside
of him.
But all is not lost.
If the Council and Water Board, CO.
operating, will use ordinary diplo-
macy they can provide for paying the
first years interest when due, or in all
succeeding years, without imposing
one cent of taxes for that purpose.
And they owe it to the people to. do
this.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
AbSurGlity'S Limit Reached.

The Frostburg Ledger comes out of
its scrap with the Cumberland Ners
badly rasped.
In the lattel's article it is surmised
that the county commissioners refused
this year to give any printing to the
Ledger
If this be correct, the commissioners
did the best thing that has been ac-
complished III their office for a good
while.
For it is high time that the $275
paid for advertising should be taken
down as premium for the establish
ment of new papers.
The entry of a new paper to the list
several years ago forced an issue upon
the commissioners which compelled
them to load the burden incurred, not
on the people, but on the other
weeklies of the county. SO that the
new weekly has since cost each other
weekly over $5S year.
We affirm this fact with no unkind-
ness to the latter, but with the sole pul-
pose of indicating that in the nature
of things a line has got to be drawn
somewhere.
If the present commissioners have
done it and stick to it, they will haye
deserved well of their friends, among
whom we may safely enrol all organs,
independent and real newspapers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05

The JOURNAL does not enjoy the
honor of knowing Eugene M. Camp,
though the Homecoming STIR lets us see
him ''as through a glass darkly." Mr..
Camp says:
No newspaper ever prints all the news, al
though many advertise to do so. Events
which are printed are those which the editor
believes to be of the greatest interest to the
areatest number accustomed to read his jour-
nal and the lengths and positions allotted to
the items, as they appear in the Journal illus
trate the editors notion of the publc's esti-
mate of their varying values as news.
Mr.. Camp is manifestly man who
has never had boil on his mind raised
by provoking comparisons which are
damaging to blood that is rich.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Next?

And SO Archer is to be tried-next
Tuesday.
Which will afford second oppor
tunity for the people Of Maryland to
become Disguised.
The first was when Judge Stewart
discovered that the treasurer could
not embezzle from the treasurer.
The second will be the imposition
of sentence to constructive confine-
ment in the penitentiary at inferentia
hard labor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Our Greatest Temporal Want i
Wealth,

The Frostburg JOURNAL is for the most
part interesting and able in its editorial
columns. OF late, however, it seems to be
laying more stress than usual upon the care
full collection of local news and to that extent
must make itself still more valuable to its
many readers.-Cumberland Ne,cs.
The JOURNAL was never more
sought and appreciated in all its exist
ence than now-not that it glories in
its "local" excellence and complete
ness, but because it is the product of
more genuine, thoughtful editorial
work than is expended on all the other
county weeklies combined.
At what expense of labor this is
done none know but the editor, who is
his own writer, advertising compost
tor, proof-reader, foreman, and press
man. Outside of these he is the job
printer of the office, business manager
and bookkeeper-all of which tend
in more or less degree to break the
continuity of editorial work. 1t is a
brief article, indeed, that is not sub
iected to a half dozen interruptions
from inside or outside the office, and
sometimes the thread, lost to-day, is
taken up tomorrow or next day.
Sometimes the remains are never
found sometimes the train of thought,
once derailed, never gets back on the
track.
How many timcs--when it was too
late-we have viewed with pain the
offsets, disconnections and wrecks of
rhetoric occasioned by invasions of
other matters, no man can number.
Suffice it to say, these have added no
little to the weight of our burden
of life, and retarded the great success
which might have followed less effort
more auspiciously environed.
These expressions are evoked by the
Neocs' qualifying term, ''for the most
part" and they are submitted as ex-
planatory of many instances of dis
junction which our discerning readers
must have noticed from time to time.
But all these troubles will be cured
when we get rich.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
4 Simmer DiSturbcI

Cumberland papers are still gushing about
the Wellington banquet. 1t may have been
great thing, but surely there is no necess-
ity for keeping up the noise all summer
Frostburg Ledyer
1t occurs to us that it is none OF your bust
ness how much ado the friends of Mr.. Well
ington choose to make of him, and your
above remark is in thoroughly bad taste
Cumberland NcmS.
Quite right, dear Ne~s.
If newspaper superfiuities can come
around nd Lbitum limiting the lon
gevity Of the honors we choose to pay
to self-made men, it is time for the
glory of American institutions to 60
into some other business at IL new
stand.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Eve Doctor Needed.

The Homecoming star writes to
"Subscriber -
AT your request we look up the levy list,
and find the amount paid for printing last
year was, 4,l39.4O. OF this amount the
Cumberland Times got s1,27l.9O, and the
Ne"S SS49, for these two offices a total of
Does anybody see in the $1,27l.90
any trace of the trail of the serpent
known as the ''the registration com
bine ~
If the searcher does not, he will do
well to hunt an optician at once.
There is an astigmatism at large in
his pupil.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Same Old lie.

The Cumberland Ne,cS and Iona
agreement to concur i'll the theory
that the Edwards court of county com
missioners was responsible for the
great increase in the rate of taxation.
The JOURNAL is not inclined to non
concur, for it is "a condition, not a
theory, which confronts u.s."
The facts stated were just as patent
last year as this, yet our critics raised
not word of warning-not a word
when a trumpet tone might have
slowed up the headlong gait at which
things We're going.
But this article is not for reproof of
belated recognition of error. 1t is to
say that Georges Creek, which believes
in the lowest possible taxation, is in
the main not responsible for the out
come. 1t is to say that Cumberland,
which believes and is interested in the
highest taxation this side of con-
fiscation-Cumberland is principally
chargeable with this largely increased
levy upon the peoples means.
The commissioners, or a majority of
them, forgot that the peoples money
was not their own to spend so lavish
ly. They forgot that the peoples
property last year was not their own
to impose mortgage upon, payable
this year.
SO far, therefore, as the politicians
are concerned, there is no real grief
over this matter. Whatever show of
distress is visible is simulated and for
political purposes.
If the facts were brought out it
would seem by those who must sweat
to pay the increased tribute to the
divvy fund that it is a sectional, not a
political responsibility; that it is only
the answer to one of Cumberland's old
tricks, wherein without regard to
party she played her usual hand with
the "county-seat" card as "ioker."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
"Bearin' of q Remark"

One "editor N. 0. Wallace, Fayette-
vile, Tenn is quoted as saying:
Under no circumstances should personal
warfare be waged in newspaper columns.
The above comment cannot refer to
the JOURNAL because it is regarded as
an organ-not a newspaper. Hence,
anything appearing in an organ does
not amount to much.
But, suppose for the time being the
JOURNAL is accepted as a newspaper,
what ''personal warfare is waged i'll its
columns ~
Mr.. Wallace should be explicit, for
he is in peril Of having his brilliant
utterances upon journalistic ethics
misused and misinterpreted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Iuookinp Downward,

The difference between a newspaper and an
organ is that the former publishes all the nemS,
such as dogfghts, etc, and an organ gives
only substantial news and timely topics
Homecoming star to an anxious Inquirer
AS the JOURNAL is an Independent
paper its plane of work is necessarily
far above the groveling pretences of "a
professed newspaper, or the slavish
servility of Il fee-simple organ.
The JOURNAL boasts of chumpage
on no speciality.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
PUBLICATIONS.

O"r LINE ones for this month came bright
and early. 1t contains a great many in
teresting little stories, which the children
Tramp" and "Mabel's Showerbath," are tales
that profit the little ones to read. All the chill
dren should have it; no house should be
without tit is only $3.50 per year. Publish
ed by the Russell Publishing Co., 36 Bromtield
St. Boston.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Probably a Safe Investment i'm Deaf

Probably a Safe Investment in Death.
The Homecoming Recie,o exhumes the
Cumberland Workman long enough to
call attention to about $l75 paid that
paper by the county which it never
earned. 1t says ''the Workman died
about six months ago. etc, and that
$l75 was too much for funeral expenses.
1t pains the JOURNAL, as an individ-
ual, to the bone, and as an independ-
ent paper. to the marrow, to know that
a grave in the vast cemetery Of jour
nal1sm has been disturbed. In this
case almost especially, the Workman
dead is better than the Workman living,
and it may be worth something year
to pay it to stay in a graveyard on
which the morning of the resurrection
may never dawn.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Last Resort.

Col. 7. B. Davis during a visit here last
week remarked that he believed that the w.
Va. c. and p. railroad Will succeed in getting
possession of the C. and o. canal for the con-
pondence of the Homecoming Reeier.
When all legal measures to prevent
such villainous contamination have
failed, an impartial and dead earnest
application Of the shotgun policy to
every West Virginia thief and Mary
land traitor will be strictly in order.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Should Retire.

Teacher" makes several good points
against the Keyser Tri6one, one Of
which is appended:
yet morally inferior teacher is to govern
a morally superior pupil by moral suasion
The editor whose premises can be
brought by logic down to such arrant
nonsense is entitled to vacation.
At the end whereof he should join
''The Intellectual Sons of Literary
Rest
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Come Up Higher.

Frostburg has risen to the dignity of
owing Il bonded debt.
And sunk to the indignity of owing
Il floating debt, the exact amount of
which the Council has not or cannot
find out.
But all will be forgiven when our
port of entry" is located uptown.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Stunned.

According to the revised labor schedules of
modern eight-hour legislation it would have
taken the Architect Of the Universe eighteen
DAYS to have created the world.-New York
World.
The remedy in such cases is to en-
ploy more architects, if it depopulates
every universe in the -
Say, Schonfarber, what word shall
we use now
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
GE\ERAII\EWS
30 Say Can You See ?" etc.

Triplets were born oyer the mcun-
tain somewhere between Pocahontas
and Sand Patch yesterday and
Titus A. Brick, being shown No. l.,
calculated Red ?" The mother, tax
ing the cue, called No. . White"
and No. ) "Blne.N
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
MINING JOURNAL
FROSTBURG, MD, JULY 5, 1890.
"Proposals Wantcd"-from the Com
panics.

panicS.
1t does not appear fair to expect or
ask the town to make proposals to the
railroad companies.
The town knows nothing about en-
gineering possibilities, the expense of
building railways, nor of the .tfnesse of
inaugurating private and municipal
partnership.
In brief, the town can ascertain only
whether it can meet the indispensable
conditions fixed by company-main-
ly whether it can raise the means
necessary to do whatever the cooper
ating company says it must do.
The town is broad, long, thick,
many-sided institution. 1t is diverse
in sentiment, sectional in feeling, and
generally stingy. Hence, it is exceed
ingly difficult for any part of it to get
the other portions to agree upon a
definite proposal founded upon in
definite data.
Not so with the companies. They
are comparatively harmonious and
few in number, experienced in their
line and expert at deals for mutual
good. They are compact, liberal, and
look at point in their own speciality
from but one outlook, viz Does 1t pay
to please and crafty the people? SO
that it will be no trouble to them to
figure out just the least Frostburg
must do to become participant i'll
the public good promoted by their
enterprise.
If we mistake not, the first that
Cumberland heard of its good for
tune as a prospective point of great
Importance on the B. & O.'s great
trunk line was from the b. q o. itself.
Then came a proposal, negotiations,
finally agreement. Had all been left
to the city to propose, nothing would
be yet known, certainly nothing set
tied. Why9 Because the company
knew just what it wanted to do, and
what it wanted the people to do.
So, gentlemen of the companies,
you who know how to count the cost,
tell the people in cold cash terms what
is your ultimatum.
Until then we cannot tell whether
we will ''like the investment" Until
then we cannot determine whether we
are able to "down with the dust
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Keep the Editors Down.


Bv a new law in New York State news
paper editors are exempted from jury duty
For a long time 1t has been apparent that
men of this profession were as properly en-
titled to exemption as doctors, lawyers and
ministers of the Gospel. The eXaction of
duty imposed on all newspaper men, and
the hours Unemployment to which the major
number are subjected make jury duty great
inconvenience and an almost practical i'm
ssibility.-Cumberand Nems
Two weeks ago, it was charged by
our newest paper that the editors of
this county enjoyed Legislative aspi-
rations.
Whether it was an "opinion' strict
ly inspired, or an item of news is
not known.
But the move in New York shows
an editorial disposition to shirk the
most important of all public duties
jury work.
Fortunately, here IN Maryland it is
different. The editor is the sort of
man the State does not want for that
duty, because, perhaps, he himself does
not seek the job. The State helps
those who help themselves-to get on
the jury.
The JOURNAL is in favor Of eXcusing
editors, whether of organs or news
papers, from all public duties, Of
fcially speaking. They have enough
to do to sit in judgment over every
body and everything, including the
executive, legislative and judicial de-
partments of the State and country.
Particularly we would make in
eligible to any judgeship the editors
of all neaospapers, strictly speaking,
who make speciality of extra judicial
" eXpounding parliamentary law.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-05
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
THE

Power of the Dollar never be known until you visit FRANK
c. BEAIS Hardware and Stove Store and invest few of
them
You will there find that you have the
New-York tribune., 1890-07-13
IS THIS Mr.. EOREIS0y'S HABIT

Louls Morrison, the actor, is finding recreation oh
the farm and chicken rancho Of Charles y. Wiley
near Pccksdll. ana j. mptly rcgaininS hi health
Mr.. Morrison in town The other day, and 10 "a
party Of friends whom ho Wol ne told a story Of a
peculiar Lcshorn hen on Tire taru. lie Is fond o'
fresh eggs. he said. and b.. Leghom reWcd - De
come aware OF Il, for every morning -. regular "a
clock Wora. She came 10 hi, room .oon e. b: 90:
out Of bed, ayd flying 10 -" bed. proceeded al once
TO deposit au ccg ON the ccuutcrranc. Aftcr Joy
ous cacklc she wOnli 80 hor way and the egg would
be cooked for NJ. Nor'ison9 breakfast.
one day Mr. Morrison lrpt himself aad he war
not vet I'D when me hen came into n, room. Too
lind 10 disturb mi, lumber. the hen went 10 "a corner
Ol the room, Nll.r' open Ndli-e, and laid thc
'gr in that. going away again "ltnOut Ci,Al.A-
untn slic r9chcd the yard here vas 4 uclE .l3.p,i
in ihe vaIisc which. Vbcu Mr. Morrison tired - iil,
NO the cgy. adhere 20 the ~h'L Ihc actor tore 'ho
ltpcr away ANA discovered That Nm" OF pr.Ij h,,d
lcu mark Ou The "rH II was upside down, o
course bat curOu~iy enough il read "I II seems Z,
be habit
New-York tribune., 1890-07-13

had been worn away. Now back S,n'S ;se6 was
this sixteenth century period the furll,urc II there
tiI more primitive the artistic Ines were d t ~ me
with hc Charm and richness OF good lAsIc,' md the
resources of the cabnet-maber were hIli'c1 W. bow
work was by necessity severely slniple' W ,, ',n
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bc ,ecn that while the style IS Tood' ~ - t'n vonr
cheap Take this. then. as thc -! Ic "a and Jn
dining-room and you can proceed on Sale an" "
expensive ground e.,i.s cost so much -
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,o,ser,,: lis simply because You doh Kho" mlIa1
to ask for Tell friend th1t I2n I nIG ic c,rt5n. 1
rarlor windows a pair of genuine antIqir la n,,,tI
and it'n sound very grand vet Eng" a, onrsn
who is right now selling beauties, SlhP'o' VI ''"''
FOR 30 a pair. -. .t,,re All of
Here Is a list Of cheap upholstery Stun1' dn ot %
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though possibly rot in every case n elaborate 10 INC
best cia-- of goods: id and cb,o,od
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srouud with beautifully embroidered dr'iH., Na.''>
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rlc, for curtains or coverings tnne@t 'oio'lnr' ''lu
effects. many Of .hon direct copies % hIii "U,t ~ -
pcY,iyc eocds): cotton pongceS for dr'pt'l,s Wv ,
i;aton of the Chinese and India 'lihS, ''". C'ls'
color and weight bat cottOul' chchl' .,'"I i ios
curtain, lplin or figured, by The yard or PUT ue.p
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tonnes petit points. rime~, spun-Sk, cantor nhlne
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he pNauircd by any ono who wishes lheH peHsl'c put
artistic fabrics.