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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29
Takes Altar Him.

''Does young Carter take after hi
father. the colonel?'
''Yes. sab; he's a poker-chip of the
ole block. sah-"@Judge.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29
Too Fast.

He-Will you marry me, Eveline?
She-Sir!-
He-Rejected again!
She-'tainly. I only wanted to sec
whether you were in earnest or not
Jury.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29
Consistent.

stockings"
ssWhat do you mean?"
1.-THE clocks upon them are striking"
Lite.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29

Stayatt Holmes Ito returned tourist)
What is Pompeii like. anyhow?
Trotterly A good deal like New
York; all dug up, you know.-Puck.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29
UP LIN THE GALLERY.
Where Actors Expect to Find Adj
mirers and Just Critics.

The Upper Gallery In . Washington Thea
ter L. . Good Place to study Mankind
and Dramatic Setence-An Even
ing In .sNigger Heaven"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29

Hannah Maria StetSOn, who S Oead!'
Nov, Elviry Woodhouse, if you'll just
get up, an come an set in this little
rocker I've got out for you. I'll tell you
about the goln's-on sence you left, :"
was the firm reply. ''Somethin's hap
pened that's worth talkin' about
81 don't wish to seem onkind. Elvi-
ry," she continued after they were
seated; ''for my not aslsin you how
you left the folks don't mean that 1
haven't got any interest in 'em. If you
don't say nothin', I'll understand
they're all alive, an that Uncle Joe's
rheumatic is, as usual, 'middlin'.' But
I've been holdin' myself in so, now for
two days, waitin' for you, that must
talk about somethin' else. Dear! dear!
an to think that we was settin' here
only two weeks ago tonight, an
watchin' 'em on the ridge, and talkin'
about 'em just as though nothin' was
goin' to happen"
''Then it's about Clorindy?' suggested
Miss Elvira.
'sOf course it's about Clorindy an
Jabe, Elviry; didn't tell you before?
'Yes. it's made good deal O. talk, !"
continued Mrs Stetson. looking reflec-
lively at the ridge. ''Tm wonderin'
whether they'll go up there tonight
same's ever. But there! 1 want to tell
you all about it
ut was two mornin's ago that was
settin' out here shellln' peas for dinner
two quart pickin's from the back lot
jimmy. and my brother Eli rode by on
his mowin'-machine. an stopped to
have little chat about crops an
church matters s'pose we'd been
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
" on BY Americans.

In tl.e g"ee"'s last word contest, Dr.
Edmund T. Stevens, of Buffalo, n Y, VOL
the first prize ola free trip to Europe and
$500 in cash, and Annie b. Turner, of De
post, n. Y, secured the special prize Of &
handsome, Shetland pony.
The publishers of this well-known Mag
azine have decided to u.i6r one more com
petition, and the persons sending them the
largest lists of English words (of not less than
four letters constructed from letters con
tanned in the three words, 'domnion OF
Canada they offer many useful prizes, in
Guiding $3.50 in cash, Shetland ponies, china
dinner sets, gold watches, French music boxes
portlere curtains, silk dresses, mantle clocks
etc, all to be awarded strictly in order, OF
merit. An elegant silver tea service (valued
500 will be given each day to the persons
from whom the largest list is received that
day from the State in which they reside. The
object of this special daily prize for each
state is to increase the interest in the Queen,
competitions in every locality in the United
! States. Those desiring 10 contest for one OF
these valuable prizes may start on their list
at once, but send six L. S. &c. stamps, and
receive last number of the queen with full
particulars before forwarding your list. Ad
| dress the Canadian queen, Toronto Canada.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21

good libraries. They are great readers, es-
pecially Of newspapers. They are kind to
their wives and children, and provide them
with plenty of wholesome food and comfort
able clothing. Hospitality is another
characteristic of the Maryland miner. He
has always an extra plate for the friend or
stranger that may drop in at meal-time. and
to refuse to sit at his board would be a
personal insult.
When the miner comes home from his
work, the first thing he does is to strip off his
working clothes and get into the big tub Of
warm water the good wife has provided for
him. Clean clothes and a hearty supper
follow, after which smoke, for the miners
all smoke; chat with the children or Il
visit to a nelghor or the store at which he
deals; then home, and early to bed. Sunday
they attend with their families their re-
spective churches. They are also humorous
people, and love fun and excitement. 1t is
not safe to undertake to joke with a miner
He is good at repartee, and in discussing
current questions, O. Decially politics, is quite
an adept. Nearly all Of them belong to some
order, beneficial or otherwise. At one time
the Knights of Labor were very strong in
this county, but the organization has de
Perforated greatly within the last years.
Some of the best musical organization in
the county are composed of miners, notably
the Second Battalion Band of Frostburg, so
favorably spoken of by Baltimore papers
during the unnual parade of the State militia
i'll Baltimore on Thanksgiving Day.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
~ ilIisalAllONS,

We are pleased to note the sign of pros.
pcrity in our contemporary The Financial
and Mining Record of New York, which is
shown by an increase in size to thrty-two
pages, and its handsome and neat appearance
in new type. This is a weekly publication
which claims to give more complete and
tcrSely arranged reports of the production
consumption, and commercial movement o
the money metals than any other periodical
at home or abroad. 1t contains articles o.
exceptional value for reference and o
pertinent interest on all industrial matters
including mining pertaining to tie develop
ment and growth Of the country.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
Hint tOthc Wise.

The late feathers trouble in this
place furnishes lesson to both reno
vators and customers, viz II thorough
understanding by each of the character
of all feathers before they are taken
from the house. This mutual under
standing should be as definite as prac
ticablc.
For this reason the man who buys
feathers in Il tick not opened for
proper inspection, gets "a pig in a
poke" especially if he pays about 40
cents a pound. Hence, if the reno
waiting machine should eliminate all
the solids there would be no so-called
feathers left, and the renoyators get
the blame of the supposed miscarriage.
Any other method of doing business
is not business-like, especially for the
rrpOyatOrS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
COUNTY NEWS,
Maryland Miners.

a correspondent of the Baltimore
81" writes rs follows:
In all its history tins county has never been
more prosperous than it is at present FOR
nearly two years the mines have been in
active operation, and the output Of coal has
been largely in excess of former years.
Speaking of the miners suggests that in no
State in the Union or in any other country
in the world can there be found as intelligent
thrifty and independent class OF people as
the miners of Maryland All nationaIities
are represented, the German, Scotch, IRISH
and Welsh pFcdominaring. They have their
garden plants, and, as a rule, have front yards
neatly sodded and ornamented with flower.
beds, for the miner and his wife love flow
ers. In summer they have them of all
varieties in their flower beds and in winter
they fill every sunny window with them.
Many of the lnin5rs have a piano or an
organ in theif homes and some of them quite
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
lsreVitipS,

The Georges Creek and Cumberland
railroad company has "a new home in
Cumberland which the papers praise
very highly for its imposing architec-
tural features, bright finish and con
venlent arrangements.
The feather renovators and tailoys
Of The county will hold convention
i'll Il Cumberland printing office next
month to determine whether the plural
OF goose Is geese OF gOOSeS.
The on y curiosity that Cumberland
has to send to the Worlds Fair is Il
temperance topper who drinks pop III
the winter time.
In the light of he Rerjete and Stars
claims for Lonaconng's status as "tht.
second town III the county, it is no
wonder the ice crop down there is not
Il failure
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21

Among the transfers most recently
fled for record are the following:
A. J. Wilson to Joseph J. NJ. Richardson,
lot No. 10, Wilson's addition to Frostburg,
Sl35
j. Frank eiss to J. Henry Holzehu, part
of "Sampson's Riddle and Promised Land
and appurtenances, $1,000.
Dennis Cook to Ellcrsle Lodge No. SO,
Shield of Honor, lot No. II. Cooks addition
to Ellerslie, $50.
Owen Price to James Crowley, parcel OF
land, with improvements, adjoining the
McCulloh House property in Frostburg
$1,000.
Alexander Weir to James Warwick lot No
., with improvements, on North Railroad
street, Barton, 81 800.
Elizabeth Kennel ct. at, to Samuel H.
Kennel, 'Oll Stone Hill" and addition to
Oil Stone Hill" near Elersie 81 900.
James Marquis to Ann White, land in
Homecoming, conveyed to the grantor by the
Georges Creek coal company $500.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
The Tie that Binds,

The Homecoming Recjeer and star,
otherwise so inharmonious, agree per-
fectly upon the census as it affects
Homecoming.
For instance, having quoted the
latter elsewhere, the Re0ie,o says:
This makes MS the second in the county in
point of population, and the fifth in the
State, throwing Frostburg away down the
list
Were the JOURNAL a betting paper
with quarter to spare, it would
wager the amount that the STIR would
deny the quoted statement in toto, even
though it We're u reputed passage Of
Scripture touching any other subject
than the so called population of Iona
coming.
But being an out-and-out lie, there
is ground enough in it for each to
stand on and buss each other over a
chasm otherwise bloody.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
LOCAL NEWS.


Fairmont and MorSantown, W. Va.
Dl. c. c. Jacobs, of this place, hay
ing a cali toward Morgantown, w.
Va. this week induced the JOURNAL
to accompany him.
Sunday morning early we twain
landed at the hospitable residence of
DR.. d. p. Fitch, OF pleasant memory
to many in Frostburg. The doctor
resides in Farmont, where his ability
az Il physician and qualities as Il gen
tlcman haze won distinction hardly
circumscribed by locality. Aided by
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21

The Cumberland Ne~s told Tuesday
of partially human grounding in
Alabama.
On the same day the Baltimore SIM
read the Nersa short essay on a hybrid
known as the journalistic grounding.
The former has several curious
habits, AMONG them peculiar fashion
Of eating only ready -masticated food.
And the journalistic species, it is
stated, sometimes ''tumbIe into their
hole and pull it in in after Them
This is worse than the awful fate OF
the man who swallowed himself until
nothing was visible except the corners
of his shirt collar sticking out ct his
ewes
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
In iSD3-POSsib1y.

The county commissioners decided
yesterday to ask the next Legislature
for authority to issue bonds to build
schoolhouses.
The Legislature will grant it, and
the people will vote on it in November,
next year-lS92.
If the people ratify it, Frostburg,
Barton, Mt. Savage, Eckhart, etc,
will get new schoolhouses in 1898.
If they do not ratify it, we are out
that is all.
New schoolhouscs are possible with
out such formality only when Cumber-
land and Homecoming want them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
journalistic.

The Baltimore Sun and Cumberland
Ne,cs are about introducing a novelty
in journalism by establishing ground
hog columns dedicated to news and
comments upon the habits and eccen-
tricities of the American marmot.
There is also woodchuck expert
working pen in the Baltimore Morn
ing Her@d.
Under some circumstances it appears
that it is better to be an organ-not a
newspaper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
An Occult Quantity.

The United Mine Workers conven-
ton at Columbus, o., have fixed upon
$50 cents per net ton as the price of
digging Maryland coal.
This is equivalent to 90 cents per
long ton, or an advonce of g cents per
ton as the ton is now sized.
There is no quantity more thorough
" unknown among Georges Creek
miners than the invincibility of the
United Mine Workers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
MINING JOURNAL
FRosTBURG MD, FEBRUARY u, 1881.
In RchaIror Majority Rule.

\ man named Agate" complains
in the Homecoming STIR that
The republican voters Of the Creek are eX-
peced to furnish the majortics that elect the
party's candidates but when the nominations
are made they are invariably euchred out of
the best places on the ticket. Subsequently
too, when victory is achieved and a division
of subordinate places is made, the Creek is
as usual, again ignored and the best positions
parceled out to chronic Cumberland office
holders While everybody else has a chair
the Creek, which is the bone, sinew and
brains of the party, has to double up its legs
and take seat on the ground
"Agate's statement is true, as the
returns show year after year.
But the reason Of the biennial mis-
carriage of Office to Cumberland is
that his party machinery, like the
democratic, is dishonesty constructed.
1t is built in the interest of minorities,
not majorities," especially Greek
majorities.'
This reminds the JOURNAL that it
HIS lultllueu lof several NtthS W say
to all people in any degree excited or
interested in next falls elections, that
there is an issue in this county which
outweighs in importance all questions
of eligibility, claims, merit, capacity
or fitness of any man or men for office
That issue is between minority and
majority rule whether the former
should not abdicate its usurpation Of
power, and the latter come into
possession of its own?
If "Agate," or some other bold
spirit would take the lead toward re-
forming the existing system of getting
By districts and abolish it for plan
representing REPUBLICAN maiorities,"
then republican majorities' would
count in convention. Moreover, there
would be no rings, or very weak ones /;
no Courthouse circles" or very trans
lent ones, and bossism would be well
nigh infeasible. In short, the elect
would then be the servants, not the
masters of the people.
And the people who furnish the
majorities would obtain the majorlties'
rightful rewards.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
\ Settler.

The Court of Appeals yesterday de
cided the canal ease in favor of the
bondholdcrs of 1914.
Hardly any other conclusion was
possible.
West Virginia coal will have to look
for another outlet through Maryland.
There will be no so-called Washing
ton and Cumberland road this year.
And the towpath, as a railway site,
is not for sale.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21

Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts,
"thanks God for the defeat of the
Force Bill"
An oversight, no doubt. Down
here in Maryland, especially among
the democratic factionists, everybody
is returning his grateful acknowledge
ments to German.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
Shnuld Hide Themselves!

The penny-a-liners who, short
while ago. were impeaching Judge
Alvey, ought now to go into the
grounding hole described by the Bal
timore SIM and pull the excavation in
after them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
Supposed to Hold Second Place

In facilitating itself over the notion
that Homecoming is the second town
in the county," the Star says:
Deducting 400 from Pekin population, we
still have second place by 2S2.
AS used to be asked in school days
Of knotty problems in arithmetic, We
may as reasonably inquire now-"but
where do you get the 400 p Who
kno'os the population of Pekin 7?
If the enumerators set Pekin aside
with 400, why did they not do a
similar thing with Homecoming, and
thus leave nothing to guesswork?
But the St0r says:
The population of Districts 10 and 10, Lon
aconirg, is 5,Sl9 and that of Nos. II and II,
Frostburg, 5,l37, giving Homecoming the
second place by So.
1t ought to be remembered, how
ever, that nearly all Of districts No. | |
and II are in Frostburg, while in both
Homecoming districts the town assumes
credit for people living at varying and
indefinite distances. For instance.
Homecoming comes up and considers
people living nearly as far as
PEBBLES tannery as its population.
1t then reaches out and takes in nearly
all the territory between Dams and
Savage mountains, and so on.
(How the Star ever came to deduct
Pekin for any sum is still mystery
Both 10 and 10 are large blocks of
territory, whose population, as a
whole, no more belongs to Lonaconing
than all of one belongs to Pellin.
On the other hand. both the Frost
burg districts are small, with near y
all people Of each in the town.
The claim of Homecoming, therefore,
to second place is delusion and a
snare. 1t is founded on guessworb
that is cheeky. The JOURNAL would
not believe it worth credence though
forty censuses, such as Porter has
made, were to find the same result.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
SuperIative Distinctions.

Frostburg is third in population.-Lona-
coming Star.
And first in virtue and last i'll lying
about the number of its people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
There is No iigh! in the Valley for the
EOnacOnin. Mountaincer.

In complaining of the cost of il
Illuminating the town the Star states:
In Homecoming, where we have neither gas
nortelectrc light companies, it costs exactly
1902 40 per year to light fortynine coal oil
lamps.
And vet there is not lamp at
PEBBLES tannery; not one on Savage
mountain none on Dams, nor one
anywhere south Of Detmold.
About one-fortieth of the towns
territory is nightly left in darkness
that resembles Poe's "Plutonian
Shore" where, as Milton might have
written
under ebon shadows and proved
rocks,
AS ragged as thy socks,
Thy people in Cmmerian darkness dwell.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
miscellaneous Advertisements
DISSOLUTION Oh PARTNERSHIP.

FRosTBURG, MD, Feb 10, 1891.
THE firm of Owen IIitchins and Adam e.
l. Hitchins, trading under the name of
IIitchns Bros, so far as it has been concern
ed in general merchandise, has been dissolved
this day by mutual consent, said firm having
transferred its business to The HITCHINs
Bros. Co., OF FRosTBURG, Mn.
All debts due to and by the late firm on ac-
count of its mercantile business, will be
settled by the said company, which will con-
tinue the mercantile business of the late firm
at the same place.
OWEN HITCHlNS,
ADAM Il. H1TCHINS,
Feb If THE HITCHINS BROS. 60.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-02-21
Miscellaneous Advertisements.

Has attained standard of excellence
which admits of no superior.
1t contains every improvement that
inventive genius, skill and money can
produce.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03
.MUCH ADO" ETC.

The people OF Carson and the
press OF the State seem consider
ably stirred up over a row be-
tween the APPEAL and the V. & 7.
r. r.
The general opinion seems to
be that Mr. Yerington has order
ed all employees Of the shops to
cease taking the APPEAL.
This was our idea of it for n day
or two, but it transpires that no
really only ordered his individual
paper stopped.
This is the North American
privilege Of everybody who takes
the APPEAL. Occasionally this
journal Frances about and makes
its subscribers mad, and they
work their feelings off stopping
the paper.
Mr.. Yerington stops the APPEAL
about once a year in a moment of
tie mporary mental alteration, and
in n few weeks, realizing the low
illness Of his situation he re-sub
scribes. Mr.. Tobey and Mr.. Ben
der frequently do the same thing.
The APPEAL occasionally works
off it's superfluous steam jumping
on the railroads; sometimes on
the c. p, and sometimes on the
V. 1T. Then there comes a row,
and after the row is over the sew
eral railroads that the APPEAL has
jumped upon run tn eir trains with
|. the same regularity as before, and
the APPEAL, after being rolled on
by the various locomotives Of the
roads, comes out regularly every
morning (Mondays exceptedl, at
the old stand and price, and the
free pass system so long in vogue
is not disturbed.
About once year the railroads
and newspapers blow off q little
steam and resume the even tenor
OF their ways.
The APPEAL and the railroads
are both necessary evils in Nevada
and the little runpuses they oc-
casionally indulge in do no harm
TO either, and are more in the ma
ture of social pastimes than any
thing else.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03

Prompt delivery 10 al parts OF the
city. aitf
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03

The publishers of the Overland
Monthly announce for the July
issue a beautifully illustrated arti-
Gle on "The Lakes of California, +"
by Charles Howard Shinn. The
wealth of California in this direc-
tion is not at all appreciated gen.
orally, and the Overland does well
TO call attention to it in this out
ing season. This is followed by q
fine description Of single lake,
Crater Lake, of Oregon, in Martin
A. Kenn's "Off Beaten Paths. "
Artemus Ward has always been
admired on the Pacific Coast ever
since he replied to a telegram,
what viii you take for forty
nights on the Pacific Coast?"
Brandy and Water" The Over
land Monthly for July will print
an appeciative artical on the great
humorist, by Enoch Knight. a
townsmam and intimate friend Of
the genial Brown.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03

The very acme OF gall would
seemed to have been reache d
when n New York doodle" alder
man who was for nine months a
fugitive in Canada fearing to re-
turn lest he should be sent to the
penitentiary, made application
for his salary for those nine
months. As every branch OF the
New York City government is
controlled by Tammany Hall, an
organization Of boodlers. it would
not be surprising if the cheeky ex-
alderman was paid.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03

About six months ago the Alta
recovered judgment against the
Benton for services performed and
supplies furnished, about SIP, 900.
Last Saturday the Benton Com
paDy paid the judgment, and
every thing is now as lovely be-
tween the tGo companies as the
circumstances will permit.-Enter-
prise
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03
PROPOSALS. FOR SUPPLIES.
TIME BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OF the state Orphans Home vii re-
ceive sealed proposals for FURNISHING
supplies Groceries and meats) for the
said Home, for six months from July j,
1891, to Deem Der 81, 1891,
The said proposals Will be received up
to o'clock p. NJ. lUne 80.
All persons desiring 10 make propos-
ais for furnishing said supplies or any
part thereof. will. upon Application 10
the Secretary of the Board or the sup
erintendent at the Home, be fur
nisned with fun statement o. all sup
plies required, and OF all particulars
pertaining thereto.
0RyIs Rho,
Secretary Of the Board.
Carson City, Nevada, June %, lesl. td
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-07-03

The communication sent the AP-
PEAL relative to the Booth Beatty
shooting in Candelaria cannot be
published until the statements in
the letter are substantiated in
court.