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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
Town improvement.

lhc selected aftcle, printed else
where. entitled "Village Improve
ment," contains suggestions which are
worth the consideration of dwellers in
towns as well as villages.
In many respects the corporate
authorities of towns necessarily fall
very far short of achieving the improve
ments which town needs, and which
are peculiarly feasible to its location
and surroundings.
For it is the habit of people to con-
slider all taxable assessments and tax
rates high, and it is the practice of the
taxing powers, partly on this ac-
count, to provide first for all other ex-
penses. and let public Improvement
take the narrow margin that is left.
1t is the supposed high cost of the
indispensabes Of life that occasion
popular grief.
There are people i'll Frostburg to-
day kicking about the cost of the new
water works whose cigar smoke comes
to three times their share of the debt
This divergence from the line of
thought projected in the beginning of
this article serves to show that little
or nothing can be hoped from the
authorities in the way of public i'm
provement beyond the routine of
putting certain number Of perches
of stone on the street and keeping the
pavements in order.
More than this must be done by
individual proper, y-holders in and
around their own premises only-done
with as many distinct notions of EN-
bellishment as there are properties
done without the certain degree of
uniformity of work and arrangement
that are essential to the beauty of all
street vistas.
Still, the example of one tasteful
resident in neighborhood is very
great, sometimes invaluably SO. That
of an association of residents whose
pledged object it is to make the town
beautiful would be of incalculable
worth.
Iu and around Frostburg such a
league with such a purpose would en-
JOY magnificent opportunity to make
the most pictu esque town in Mary
land. The stranger, already strongly
impressed by the views which our APP
proaches afford, especially from the
northeast, should find within our gates
those natural features and growths
which, smoothed and embellished and
planted and trained By the human
hand, lend so much attractiveness to
street and promenade. He should
find a landscape garden i'll grove
where Dryads fain would toy with the
zephyrs and gambol in the shades.
To accomplish this not unreasonable
consummation there is much to do, of
course-many rough places to be made
smooth, many eyesores to be removed
and many trees to plant.
But in the end there would be rich
compensation, moral, aesthetic and
material, in the accomplished fact that
''the city set upon a hill'' was Mary
lands highest, healthiest and most
beautiful town.
Within the last year long stride
has been made in architectural i'm
proyement, and the promise is we
shall enjoy steady growth in the
variety and beauty of building de-
signs.
Why not go along with this growth
in an organized movement toward
street betterments and ornamentation
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
Smiles.

-.
The clock tells the time by its own dialect.
Detroit Free Press.
You can't estimate 4 mans liberality by
what he thinks You ought to give.-Emira
Gazette.
Man's wishes are not all wants. He does not
need half as much as he prays for.-Galves-
ton News.
Monuments are not always erected to the
men who are buried in thought.
Free Press.
A good liar is better company that a truth
full man with an impeachment in his speech
brakes Magazine.
~ wonder why the Mediterranean is so
blue?'
You'd be blue too if you had to wash the
Italian shore."-LUe.
Or, like Cumberland, you would
have no use for indigo if you had to
drink the essences of Georges Creek
dissolved in the cerulean waters of the
Cohongoruton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
No War i'm North Carolina.

penitentary have leased the Caledonia"
farm, in Scotland Neck, for ten years, at an
annual rent of 81 $50. The terms of the
lease are that if at any time during the ten
years the penitentiary authorities wish to
purchase the lands they can do it then or at
the expiration of the lease at an average of
1915 per acre The board proposes to put
100 convicts to work ON the land nex month
to rebuild the dykes along the Roanoke river,
clear up all the low lands put the whole in a
high state of cultivation and engage largely
in stock-raising.
All of which seems to be good
scheme.
But it is not all of the story. The
SIN concludes:
The lands thus acquired are fifteen miles
from the other convict farms. There are
5000 acres in the latter. and 200 convicts are
employed on them. A like number will be
employed on the newly rented farm. The
lands are fertile and we'll situated.
With 400 convicts engaged in farm
ing the agriculturists of North Caro-
lima have and have had formidable
competition.
Yet they have opened not their
mouths.
The burden bearers from time I'M
memorial of all the professions, trades
the hod-carriers of skilled and petted
labor, and the accomplishing victims
of all sorts of frauds within and with
out the forms of law. they have no
thing to say of convict rivalry ON their
own ground. in their own vicinage and
market.
Nothing to say while the Louisville
Courier-Journal is foaming at the mouth
over the industrial and social degrade
ton of the miners of Tennessee.
Nothing to say while the miners of
Tennessee are daring the State to do
its duty by the convicts, by the people,
by society.
But if the farmers of North Carolina
say any hing of the plans outlined by
the Durham Sun, we will affirm that
etey oHP'p't liltlii liiSdoutVo VI SSoiio-
my and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS them,
TOO, without accepting the theory that
farming by convicts necessarily de
grades the oldest and grandest of all
pursuits.
The temper shown by the pet labor
of Tennessee and elsewhere, and the
unpublished teachings of the Knights
of Labor, go to arouse the fear that
the country and society have far less
to hope from their fondlings than the
neglected farmers.
The Spitz dog frequently resents
favors by snaps charged with deadly
madness, while the punished mastiff
licks with unabated affection the hand
that smites him.
From the commanding general down
to the humblest private the farmers
won this goodly land, with all its
liberties, real and fancied, from the
rule of pampered British classes.
They are still the reserve force of
freedom and equal rights. Like the
"Old Guard they go into battle only
when the miners, manufacturers,
lawyers, labor editors and walking
delegates have abandoned the outposts
and the lines are breaking. They go
in only at the turning point-go in to
die, but never to surrender'-go in
to die, even for the lawmakers and
trades that forget him until Daniel
O'Connell's wild warshout of liberty
again rides on the gales of heaven"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
Some Expectations.

The JOURNAL expects to go right
along with the Ledger on the water
question.
If the town is made to commit hari
Kari, we expect to witness the tragedy
and let the people know who are the
tragedians.
And what the probable considera-
tons are.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
LOng-Ton1ued Terrors,

The tongue of the giraffe" says an
exchange, sis nearly foot and half
long"
From the late hours kept by some of
the recent political meetings in this
county the giraffe must have been on
the Stimn thic fa II
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
A Correct Conclusion.
Cumberland Times says !:

The Cumberland Times says:
Cumberland the first and Frostburg the
second city in the county.
Right you are, old man
Your wisdom in this matter over
reaches your age by several laps.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
SYNONYMS,

The New York Sun says "Gorman's
name means victory"
This is also the definition of Nc
aiu
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21

DIR. Hale's Household Ointment.-Is
the finest remedy in the world. ltabsolutely
cures Catarrh. 1t cures Neuralgia and
Rheumatism. Cures Piles like magic. Cures
Salt Rheum IN the most soothing manner.
Cures Infamed and GRADUATED Eyelids
Cures Coughs and Colds. Can be taken in
ternaly. Cuts, bruises, chilblains sores of
long standing, corns and bunions are cured
quickly; different from all else superior to
all else it has no equal; 25 and soc boxes;
large size cheapest. Sold at Robt. G.
Colborn's drug store.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-11-21
DR.. Hale's Household Ointment.-

Have your Watch repaired by Boettinger Il
Walter. 2o5 w. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01

"Are you the man who removes facial bem-
ishes?"
81 am, SIR"
swell, then, remove about a third OF this nose.'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
A Liberal Cleric.

An Austin colored pastor named Bledsc
has made himself very unpopular with
Jim Webster. He was passing the hous,
OF Jim Webster, ON Austin avenue, wher
the proprietor called him in.
Come, parson, and hab a piece OBJ cake
and glass OBJ wine. Dis heah am my buff
day.
The reverend gentleman accepted the
invitation. There was large uncut cake
on the table, and the clergyman was urged
to cut it.
"Whar shall cut its" he asked, taking
up the knife and looking at the cake in a
bewildered sort of a way.
You kin jess cut hit whareber you
pleases, parson."
Which? Say dat ober once NOAH"
jess cut hit whareber yer sees fit, par.
son."
A smile lit up the dusky features of the
humble toiler of the Lords vineyard, and
he remarked fervently:
Use much obleeged to yer, Jeems. I
b'leeve de bes' place to carve dis heah am
In de seclusion OBJ my own house, and
wrapping up the cake in a newsnapar. he
carried it off under his arm
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01

suffered from acute Inflammation in my
nose and head-for week at time could not
see. used Ely's Cream Balm and in few DAYS
l was cured. 1t is wonderful how quick it helped
me,-Mrs. George s. Judson, Hartford, Conn.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Economical.

Judge Banderstalk is prominent New
Yorker, who is immensely wealthy and
closer than the bark on a dog. He walks
the entire distance from city hall to his
residence on Ninety-ninth street, although
just now the heat is very great. There are
street cars running right to his door. A
friend said to him:
1T must make you sick to walk eight
miles home to dinner. Idon't see how YOU
can eat mouthful.n
That's just why walk" replied Van
derstalk, who is descended from one of the
very original Dutch settlers. "Yes, that's
why walk. 1t makes me so tired / can't
eat. Ii l were to ride home, I'd have a
starving appetite, but when I walk SO far
have no appetite at all when get home,
so you see save both car fare and dinner.
If were to ride home I'd eat myself into
the poorhouse in less than year, Pm such
a hog"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Domestic Markets.


NEW YORK. June 80, 1891.-The Flour market
receipts 9483 packages: exports 462 bbls and
5S29 sacks; heavy and less active; sales 1850
Flour Iquotations-low extras at 1904 so;
city mills extra at 00@5 20; city mills patents
CO. fair to fancy at s55 paeSs n AZ S
go 70, Minnesota clear 5O@5 10; straights do
at at $685. 80; do patents s6@5 e5 do rye mix
90; Southern flour dull and weak. Rye Flour
lower and quiet; sales $50 bbs; Superhne 81 GOA
Ss o Ye meal weaker ana ry ACTIVE sales 1900
SO rs. Wheat-receipts 202 800 bush; exports
x4l, l13 bush; sales la 900 bush; unsettled and
and elevator, 0fss@1 DAYS .afoat, / O35s9l O6
"a 10 b;lNo Northern to arrive 05as No
hard to arrive 81 Q9ss@1 09h No 2 Chicago at
1OlA al OLA. Rye quiet and steady. Corn
receipts 81 800 bush; exports DAT bush sales
$50, 600 bush; higher. quiet and scarce; No at
C. 0ats-receipts 27,70O bush; Exports 20
push sales LOB O0O bush; higher and fairly active
No at 37c; White do at 3Sa3814c; No q at SIG
Whne alta &c: mixed Western S4a4Oc; WhiteEd0
at 42965c; White State 42955c No 2 Chicago
&c ia SSgsSc s Coffee Rio steady and quiet
steady; refined firm and in good demand; No 8
at SHc; No 2 at 3N G; No 8 at 11-i6c; No
at 7-l6; of A l-16@41sc Mould at 41ac;
STANDARD A. at 5-16c; Confectioners at 4l4c;
cut LOAF and crushed 51sc: powdered at 4ssc;
um quiet and steady; united az 669sc. Pork
active and steady Beef firm and quiet; beef
hams quiet and firm tierced beef in GOOD demand
and nrm cut meats fairly active; niddles firm
ana Ia falr demand Lard Openedstrong and closed
weak; western steam at 50 40i city at So 80; re-
nned quiet; Continent So 35@6 rs; 8. A. at 81 rs,
Halter, fancy steady, others weak. Cheese in
State 1886
Freixhts 10 Liverpool quiet andunchanged.
CHICAGO. June 30, 1s91.-Flour market is
nomlnally unchanged. Wheat lower No spring
92asS999Shac; No 2 Red s21A9941sc; Cornactiye
S31sc; Whte-c. Rye-No at S5c. Barley
nominal. Pr0visi0ns-POrk higher at $40. Lard
1rm at So l21a. Dry salt meats shoulders So O5
as 10; short clear sides So 3O06 80.
Receipts-Fl0ur IL 600 bbs, wheat Sc 900 bush,
corn 1000 bush. oats 1873. 900 bush; rye LOCO
Shipments-Flour 5000 bbls, wheat 14,0CO
bush, corn $1,000 bush, oats SO 600 bush rye
5000 bush. barley o,ooo BUSH
ST LOUIS. June 80. 1891 The Flour market
Is firm and unchanged. Wheat lower; No 2 Red
at cog 921sc. Corn strong and higher; No Q at
neglected. Provisions strong and higher; pork
standard mess at $40 As. Lard az IS IS; dry
salt meats-shoulders at 81 671a; longs sc 10;
ribs at $6 %; short clear So 371a. BacOn-shoul-
ders at So 60; longs So 65@9 rs; ribs at 8 rs;
short clear at So Sl1a.
Hams S10@l2.
keceipts-FlOur, 1000 bbls; wheat | 900
bush; corn $4,000 bush; oats 10000 bush rye
Ol,O0O bush; barley, O0.00 bush.
Shipments-Flour. 10000 bbls. wheat, 1000
6Is; corn; 4l,o0O bush oats. 900 bush; rye
5000 bush; barley 5000 bush.
DETROIT. June 80, 1891.-wheat-No IWhite
Oats-No at S6Hsc; No White s7%c. -
Receipts-Flour = bbls, wheat 1900 bush;
corn 440O bush; oats 1900 bush,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01

There was moment's silence after the
Introduction. Womanlike each was men
tally sizing the other up" Then one OF
them spoke
my husband frequently speaks.of you"
she said.
"Indeedp' returned the other. my hus-
band thinks you are wonderfully clever"
Really Why, that's the way my hus-
band talks about you. He told me how
you reshaped and recovered that old para
sol and so saved eight dollars.
"Parasoll Why, never touched it un.
til my husband had harped all one day on
your cleverness in upholstering and relin
Ing baby carriage at saving of six dol
lars.n
Nonsense. The thing that made me do
that was the way my husband talked
about that parasol. Then he got me TO
fixing over a last years hat because you
were working over an old dress"
"But never started to do that until my
husband had told me five times about your
hat. / wasn't going to admit that you
could be any more economical than l."
"Why, really, my dear madam, / heard
OF that dress twenty-four hours before /
touched the hat"
Impossible. I'-
Then she stopped and her eyes began to
flash.
II believe our husbands she began
again.
II believe they have" chime1 in the
other, becoming excited also.
"It's q wicked shamen
IAN outraged They've just tricked us,
that's ALP
1T was regular ploti And to think
how he's made me work. Tll get a new
gown today"
"And hat"
Then two women went into dry goods
store and spent all the money they could
scrape together. And two men got mighty
little for supper that night, and when they
complained they were promptly convinced
that they ought to have said nothing
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
The Limit Reached.
lChicago Tribune.l


Willie-Mamma. don't they keep cream
at creamery
Mamma-Yes, Willie.
"And they sell hens at hennery, don't
they?"
"Yes. Run out and play, dearie."
And they make cans at a cannery, don't
theyf"
Yes. Don't bother mamma any more
just now, Willie. am busy"
you can buy pots at a pottery, can't
your"
willie, If you don't hush shall have to
punish you"
lSilence for about sixteen seconds.1
Mamma, if wanted to buy dog would
have to go to doggerys"
William. shall certainly
IF should go to a tannery and get some
tan would they throw in the teckles,
mammal"
lWhackl Whacki Whackp
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Unfortunate.
lHomiletic Reyiew.1

AZ the close of the forenoon session of a
nn,1nN conference held here, in an
noo oncing the opening subject for the after
,,o,, I session l stated that Elder H
WI moa.u present paper on ''The Devil.n
tnm ~ tLo intending any joke or think
aI s np ne iuuicrousness Of the thing, I
for Brother H has a caref,,,I'. 'ilSl.
paper and is full of his subject.1 Iropoi o
my chagrin when an uproar of ianaStas
reminded me Of the unhappy witticisn,
had Numbered into. never could make
Brother H believe it was unintantion-
al, but it was
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.
MONDAYS quotations.
Boston Produce Market,

BOSTON. June 30, 1S9l.-The following are TO
DAYS quotations OF Provisions, &C.:
Pork-Long cuts Is Scala 90; short cuts Ia 75
OLA 20; backs at IA 00@14 20; lean ends IL 30
OLA 90; pork tongues 16 6O0l7 90; mess norlS
IL 30; prime mess 16 5o@lTO0; extra prime at
Hams at 1Oc; small at 1Olsc;: pressed hams
Lar, Choice eN y ID in tlerces and tubs; 10
b pals In cs TAG.
,Hogs-ChOice city dressed e1sc p Ii country do
Butter-Western extra creamery lsal9c:
fancy higher; firsts and extra firsts I6Gal7e:
extra imitation cream 16aOUc; others - CO:
factory choice at LAG 16c; New York and Yer,
mont extra creamy 19h@2Oc; New York and
VT dairy good to choice i60 1Sc: Eastern
crm good to choice at 16@1Sc. The above
quotations are receivers prices for strictly whole
theesezNorthern choice s1s@sMc; Western
Eggs-Eastern extras at 171s6OO fancy near.hv
stock higher: frsts 161ac; extraV ermOnt and New
Hampshire at IL 1a@OOc ;Western extras at lin
lie higher. pA'So
POlltry-Choice Northern and Eastern trash
Killed spring chickens 2O@3Oc; fowls l50i &c |:
fair TO good az 11@13c; Western iced turkeys
10000; fowls 13gl31ac; chickens zoe.
Beans-Choice small New York hand-picked nj
hand-picked S5@2 40: choice screened nea
3 1902 20 choice Yellow Eyes at SO92 OS. Job
bling prices loo higher. " WV
Hay Choice prime hay at s16 OO@s17 90: fair
to good SIS 00@S15 90; Eastern rine slI6sI2.
poor to ordinary S9@$11: East swale sGSi1,.
Rye straw, choice, $17al7 90; Dat straw SS Boz
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01

FINEST AND sAFEsT TRAINS m THE WORLD
between
New York, Philadelphia,
baltimore and Washingfon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Memoranda.
Domestic Ports

Brig Mary E Pennell, before reported In COLI
sion with sch Sarah Eaton, of Moosabec, put into
JOnesport 18th in disabled condition.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Knew Her Paper.

new 1Ofk IrlDune.J
This morning little B, five years old,
heard for the first time the tragic poem
of Beth-Gelert, wherein the dog, left to
Eaerd his masters child, saves its life by
kllilng the wolf which attacks it. Poor
Gelert, covered with blood from his fierce
battle, is stabbed by his master on his re-
turn, for he fancies the blood is that of hin
child, and finds, when all too late, the
dead body of the wolf under the child's
bed. The little boy listened to the story
with absorbing interest, but his cheeks
flushed, his eyes filled and his lips quiv-
cred at the sad ending. To divert his at
tention / tried to show the master did not
mean to be cruel, and said, eff your papa
should come In and think his dog had
killed you, wouldn't he kill the dog?"
"Ohl no." came the quick reply, my
papa's afraid to touch gum
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
The Sacrifice no Longer Needed.
[ehicago Tribune.l

WAITER" he said in low tone, and
looking cautiously about him, 81 haven't
had time to read the papers this morning.
Is this muss with the Eyetalian govern
ment still going on?"
II think it's about settled" replied the
waiter.
mot going to be any ighti"
No; there isn't the slightest prospect of
any fighting"
Everything going to be settled peace
ablyf"
mo doubt of 1t at ALL"
Then" he said, raising his voice till
everybody in the restaurant looked at him
In amazement, II have stifed my appetite
as long as my patriotism as an American
demands the sacrifice. Bring me some
macaroni soupr'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Not a Millinery shop.
Detroit Free Press.l


can get something to eat here?" asked
an eastern man of the proprietor of Mon
tana "hotel." The landlord eyed him sus-
piciously.
"Tenderfoot, eh3"
Il suppose So"
Eat pie with yer knifef"
NO."
MAKE noise when you drink"
"Try not to-"
Pick yer teeth with the forkP"
Certainly not"
"Take off yer hat at the tablef"
"Yes."
Smack yer lips when you strike some
thin goodf"
mo"
"Then you can't eat here. 1 fed Teller
last spring that parted his hair in the mid
ule and had the same brand on his face
That you've got, and he hoodooed my place
for month. They's ha2fbreed runs
feed trough farther down the street. CHESS
he'll take you in-he don't know no better
but, by gumi as long as run this ranch
1t amt goin' to Ia no millinery shop. Dav.
stranger"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
A Fable.
~ EEFVN~
New York SUM-

A wolf, seeing lamb drinking at a
brook, stopped for few minutes CONVEX
sation. "What big eyes you have got"
bleated the innocent. "My DEAR" said the
wolf. in tone of reproof, "you ought
never to allow your remarks to assume a
character of personality" "But," per-
sisted the lamb, what great teeth you
have got" "How often" pursued the
wolf, not without a touch of reproach,
ibid your lamented mother enjoin upon
you to refrain from comment that might
cause paini" He afterward explained that
he then feared this lamb had bad heart,
but he found it really as tender as any he
had ever tasted.
Though the language of the predaceous
class lose its coarseness in the general re-
finement of manners, the fate Of its natural
preyis not noticeably changed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Spell II with a Big 3d.
New York World

1t wasn't a hundred miles from this city
that business man in a small town en-
tered the postoffice the other day, which
has lately changed hands, and asked for
his mail
Name, please" replied the newly APP
pointed.
BLACK, of course"
WHAT BlackS"
whats the matter with your" ex-
claimed the other. Haven't you known
me as George Black for the last ten yearsi"
"Blacki Black How do you spell its
Please write it down, will you, for this
Office has changed hands and will be run
on system after this and no mistakes al
lowed; Ahi Black, Black. All the
mai Tor Mr.. Black with big r will be
promptly delivered hereafter"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-01
Ais Well that Ends Well.
New York Tribune.1

The Intelligent compositor' does not
often perpetrate more beneficent blum
der than was committed In Brooklyn the
other day, the outcome of which was the
reconciliation of husband and wife who
had become seriously estranged. After a
domestic quarrel of strenuous nature the
man betook himself to a newspaper office,
where he wrote an advertisement stating
that he would not be responsible for his
wife's debts. Desiring two insertions of
1t, he wrote over it, ''For two days"
When the lad" appeared it announced
that for two days only he would not be re-
sponsible as aforesaid. The wife saw 1t of
course, and was so greatly struck by its
comical aspect that she forthwith sought
her irate husband, and in short time they
peacefully buried the Ratchet. All on &C.
count OF printers stupid mistake. Truly
ne pullded better than he knew. and was
instrumental in causing the wrath of man
TO eVentuate in domestic harmony