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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Case of ChanSelcSS Change.

Evidently the Ledger gets some of its
editorials written outside the business
management but inside the directory
According to the Baltimore SIN John w.
Avirett and J. b. Oder are the only demo-
cratic editors in Allegany county. So it can
be seen that at least one independent editor is
known as a democrat before he is an editor.
We do not dispute his right, but where does
Joe Robinson come in?
This brings wildly to mind the days
of that era when the Noble Order felt
frisky, and Master W orkmen gamboled
over the green and RELOCATED both the
great parties to fight oyer precedence
at the tail of the procession.
1t was in that halcyon period when
one M. W., gayer than all the rest,
announced that he ''was a Knight of
Labor before he was democrat"
We have the epigrammatic words in
print now, and they look so strange
alongside the directory's insinuation.
Tempus .fugH. That is to say, how
time plumes her swift wings and gets
there Once, perhaps twice since the
era spoken of the chief of the l.. A E.
has been a democrat before a X. of L.
Indeed, as between the two he is an
irregular whirligig.
What is he now
A director before democrat. or
rice rerS0
We think it is re,u: wouldn't like to
think it is rice.
AS to Robinson-he's all right in
whatever he concerns himself in con-
nection with the Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
PUBLICATIONS.
Spring Styles for Ladies

Our lady friends vino wish to be properly
and fashionably dressed would do well to
glance over the monthly fashion letter in
In .Nodc dr. Pn'i%, .ll6,t DIES Notes or Ia
.Hodc, the favoritc fashion Journals This
letter is one of the best on the subject with
which it deals, explaining particularly the
styles prevailing or coming in fashion.
Ladies would do well to patronlze these
journals, which are not only reliable, but are
now considered the standards of fashion
wherever they are known. The practical
lesson on cutting given each month in Albunt
DIES NocieS and l." .NOdcdc PaijS is intended to
explain fully how to make the new styles as
soon as they appear. The series of lessons
has been produced under the direct supervision
of Mr.. A. Mcdowell, the inventor of the we'll
known garment drafting machine, which has
proved such Il boon to thousands of dress
makers, and has made the cutting and per-
tect fitting of ladies' garments an easy task to
all. l." .No1c is a good family journal, price
l.5O a year. La .U0dc de Paris and 1buDt
dcS Ro1lcS are intended for more general use
the subscription for each being So 80 year
To every subscriber for either of these Jour
mails who pays years subscription III
advance will be given a premium book on
DresSmaking Simpiiied, valued at $500
Failing to obtain these journals from your
news agent send for them direct to A. Nc
Bowel Il Co., / West 18th Street, New York.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Wafer Works Troubles.

The Mayor and Council of West
minister, Md, are engaged in investi-
eating their water supply with view
of the town becoming the owner.
The Adc0cdte closes review of the
situation with the appended para
graph:
The city made a mistake in not putting in
water works itself, before Col. Taylor con-
ceived the plan and availed himself of the
five cent tax law. The plant could have
been put in for much less than it now will
cost to purchase. Bonds could have been
flOated at five per rent. and the water rents
would have been sufficient to pay operating
a sinking fund with less than five cents tax.
In time, too, the works would have been a
source of revenue rather than an expense, or
perhaps we might have had free water. But
opportunity, and we shall have to pay for
our omission.
SO that we are not alone in trouble
if our situation may be deemed one of
trouble.
The Westminster case shows that
FroStburg would be far better off if
there no old water works to purchase
at a price three times greater than
they are worth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Two Only.

The Ledger insinuates that the jour
NAL is an aristocrat.
The Lelger, as usual, is in II condi-
ton of erroneous mistrust.
The journal is not an ariStocrat-
certainly not in the generally accepted
sense.
For there are but two real "aristoc-
racies.'
The first, "of merit" is open to
competition in a field of effort which the
Le7ger might, could and should enter.
The second, ''of intellect.' is closed
to all but the comparatively few at
whose plastic genesis the benign rulers
of the sidereal universe conspire to
re assemble at the later hour of birth
in presidential influence and impress
lyeneSS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Good for Evil.

The JOURNAL was the first paper in
Maryland to sound the alarm, over
two years ago, Of il suspected con-
spiracy having for its object the
destruction of the canal in the interest
of West Virginia railroad and coal
competition with Maryland institutions
and resources.
A long, stubborn. bitter contest fol-
lowed, the course and result of which,
we are proud to claim, verified our
advanced reading of the ease and vim
dictated the rights of the people.
In that contest the people of Balti-
more, though knowing that Potomac
river outlet 10 the ocean from this see
ton could be of no benefit to them
whatever, gave us no support, nor
even sympathy.
But now that the Western Maryland
railroad is the object of West Virginia
rapacity-the insatiate cupidity of that
monopohStlc quartet, German, Blaine,
DAVIS, Elkius-the city is stirred from
centre to circumference. West Vir-
ginia absorption threatens to divert
trade to Philadelphia sure enough.
Two years ago they were content to see
this region destroyed and take chances
TO secure a share Of the spoils now ''the
chalice is commended TO their own
lips"
The moral Of the situation is this:
The rights of the people in one sec
ton Of the State. when imperiled by
outside interests. demand the pro-
lection of the people Of all the sections.
Baltimore city is exactly where we
We're two years ago, but she let us fight
our battle alone.
And yet it pleases us to learn
that Frostburg's representative, Hon.
George Hosken, voted to save the city
/ from its present trouble.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
All on the Same Level.

Several years ago minister found
serious fault with the JOURNAL for af
tirming that in majormeasure the laws
of society are paramount in the church
to the discipline Of the church.
Yet in the proceedings of the first
days session of the Methodist confer
ence, now sitting in Baltimore. Rev.
w. S. Edwards, presiding elder,
mentioned ''the need of more sociabil-
ity among church members" and said
with much force and pertinency:
l see no objection to an occasional sermon
on the recognition of friends in Heaven, but
suggest several sermons on the recognition
of friends on earth.
The true state of affairs will eventual
ly dawn on the church. for there are
no degrees in the order of christian
nobility.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
How We Fool Ourselves.

The JOURNAL will publish next week
an interesting sketch of the life of Hon.
Thomas johnson, the first governor of
Maryland. and man whose splendid
career should be better known than it
is.
1t is proud distinction that he was
George WaShington's nearest friend
that he nominated the great Virglnian
for commander-in-ch chief of the Ameri-
can army, and that six years later the
latter appointed and commissioned
MIN a Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Yet, we understand, facts like these
do not appear in Maryland textbooks
for Maryland schools.
On the other hand, as the Baltimore
Netrs says:
The school books in the hands OF our chill
dren are, as rule written by authors who
draw large figures of the petty heroes of
their own States and ignore Marylanders
who contributed services of the utmost
value to their State and country. Not few
of the youth of the State would be puzzled
if asked to name a half dozen of the Mary
landcrs conspicuous in the Revolution.
And yet it is fashion to laud our
system and pretend that III textbook
and teacher it is well nigh unapproaeh-
able.
And the commissioners Office and
examiners closet are a double jointed
holy Of HOLES which it were sacrilege
to view, even to pass their imperfec-
tiOuS nv"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
GENERAL ITEMS.
In The Coal Regions,

In this age of luxury We are prone
to forget the dangers undergone, the
lives lost and the hearts saddened in
order to furnish mankind with things
which add merely to his bodily comfort.
When on winter evening you sit IN
an easy chair by bright coal fire, aud
gaze at the ''dream faces" in the glow
ing embers, casting dim shadows on
the walls of the twilight room, do you
ever think of the wonderful working
of a power which can produce it! If
you have not thought OF these things,
60 to the mines and see for yourself,
or read the stories of heroism, poverty
and desperation which cluster around
them.
Go into the coal regions of this
country. You will see towns with
streets of low white houses, some of
wood, others of stone, for the most
part tidy and clean. Many of them
have morning glory or hop vines
trained over their otherwise plain
eXteriors, OF even garden of peoples
and dahlias in front. These are the
homes of the miners-the homes they
work for but seldom see in daylight
:,
and q man steps out of one of these
houses. Let us follow him. Heis tall
and broad Shouldered and his swinging
stride makes us pant to keep up with
him. His costume consists of hobnail-
ed shoes, grimy jeans trousers and
coarse wooden shirt. In his hand he
carries a dinner bucket and little tin
lamp is fastened to a leather strip on
his cap. We arrive at the base of a
mountain. Here we find net work
of tracks. built upon Il levelled piece OF
ground. These tracks are used to con
yey the coal in small cars from the
nine. They run over great weighing
scales where the WeIghmaSter axes
record of the weight of each ear, and
then they are taken to the dump"
where the coal is transferred from the
mine cars TO the railroad cars beneath
by means of iron shoots, or slides.
We pass these and Chamber into one of
the mine ears, drawn by an old mule
or hrokendown horse eXcep: in some
of the more modern mines, where cable
cars have been introduced-aud are
conveyed under tunnel arch into the
darkness beyond.
AS the daylight fades behind us
until it vanishes entirely and leaves us
in utter darkness, save for the sputter-
ing light afforded by the driver lamp,
feeling of awe steals over us. The
silence is broken only by the gathering
Of the mules hoofs, echoing along the
rocky corridors. We are hemmed IN
on all sides, save one which leads to
daylight, by walls of black rock which
sparkle here and there as the lamp light
falls upon them. Occasionally we hear
the sound of running where we cross
some other passage, or the click of the
miners picks. We come to the end of
the line. The car is filed with coal
at one of the rocky chambers. the
driver exchanges few words with the
miners and then starts on his journey
back to daylight.
Such is the miners life day after day,
and often he spends the best years of
his life in these gloomy tunnels, sub
ject to the dangers OF collision, ex-
plosion and flood. Is he not somehow
hero in his way! Old.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05

there they will funk, for "who wants a
smart lawyer foolin' around until he
makes we criminate oursels ?"
With law above and disobedience be-
low him, the lot OF the operator is not
happy one. Ifhe discharges miner
in order to maintain the safety re-
CURED by law, the miner poses as one
of the "victimized" If he does not,
and an accident is traceable thereto,
he is the guilty party, not the miner.
And so it becomes more and more APP
parent as the years go by that regula
ton of mines and supervision ofprivate
property almost fill the fantastic realm
of supcrhuous legislation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
How the Matter Stands.

The $4,000 old water works bond
bill having become law, the JOURNAL
with this issue ceases opposition to it.
1t now goes to the people, who can
not vote it down without repudiating
the floating Indebtedness designed to
be funded under the Act.
1t is perilous ordeal for the towns
credit to pass through. but the people
have permitted Council to impose it
upon them.
If the people do not ratify the pro
posed issue of bonds, goodbye old
water works purchase
II they do, we expect TO resume the
fight to save the $40, 900 for better use.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Both Bad.

After all, the real liar does not make
much by following his profession.
For some Solomon says:
He despises those who believe him and
hates those who do not
And generally the man who is a liar
is apt to be coward.
The addition of that epithet, there
fore, is a work of supererogation.
And it is no worse in literary sense
to be liar than a supererogator.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
4 HaZy Excuse.

With vain effort at hppancy
Schonfarber tries to class Oder with
the man whose conviction forced a
limebath on Schonfarber.
1t won't work.
The convict was Il member of the
Noble Order of North America Oder
never was never walked in, and of
course never was initiated out by
kicking. walking or crawling.
Nor did anybody ever have to be
whitewashed on Oder's account.
However, Schonfarber says:
But then we don't want to be too hard on
Oder.
Why not
With the Ledger "holding him down."
why can't Schonfarber indurate his
feelings? What mystic because" is
behind that ''don't want ,"
In the absence of better misgiving
it is to be feared that Schonfarber's
compassion for the JOURNAL is a piece
of wilful, deliberate and premeditated
udiyete,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
An Outlook.

Should Mr.. German be the demo-
cratic nominee for the presidency the
people may look for the dirticst
national compaign in all the history of
the country.
That of 1854 took the cake to date,
but with that of 1892 it will compare
as a zephyr Of filth to cyclone of
nastiness.
The whole Chesapeake and Ohio
canal business will be ripped up and
the CHASTITY remains of q hundred
political corruptions exposed to public
view.
And as no republican. except Quay,
can show parallel record. the demo-
cratic party will get the next thing to
its death blow.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Must Testify in their Own Behalf.

Charles Jerome Bonaparte, the Bal
timore imperialist and all-round Mary
land republican, contributes to the
Forum whitening indictment of ''fine
Italian" politics.
He calls people and things by
crystalized names, and, scrupling not
to conceal the identity of criminals
with their crimes, writes as one who
who knows whereof he testifies.
1t is pity. however. the task of
publication was not begun by one
more in sympathy with our institu-
tons.
And yet, when it comes to disproof
of Mr.. Bonaparte's allegations. the
ring" will not put on the witness
stand such men as S. Teackle Wallis,
nor even Wyllyam Pynknev WHITE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
\ Genuine Silver Man.

As soon as native Alaskan gets s. gold
piece or $40 bill he Immediately trades it
for silver, having no faith in gold or paper
money.-New York Mining Rtcord
lie is mOnO-metalist of the other
kind, and from the fuss that is made
i'll Congress over free coinage one
would judge that not few "native
Alaskans" had cpept under the tent,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
4 Short Period orGraoe.

1t looks much like Hon. James Il.
Blaine will get the worst Of the airing
he last week gave ex Mrs. James Ct.
Blaine. jr.'s dement's.
The young woman allows him ten
days to do her justice.
Otherwise, the heavens will fall.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
The DiVVy.

Gov. Brown has signed the bill
authorizing the county commissioners
to issue $3.50 of bonds for building
schoolhouses and to levya tax for pay
ing the same.
In this connection examiner Weimer
recently stated to Times reporter that
school buildings will be erected in the
order following:
Barton, Jackson Lonaconing) Frostburg,
Mt. Savage and south Cumberland
What the division will be is not
stated, but how would this work 3
Barton OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ST.. 5U
Homecoming. ........... .............. 20 OOO
Mt. Savage. Observation-Disclosures, l2,5oU
Cumberland. ..........,.......,.W What is left
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05

When darkies get mad they turn pale is a
sheet,
Despite the dark hue of the race
And plenty of white men we frequently meet
When angry get black in the face.
Cumberland Ne,cS.
If there is anybody who doesn't be-
lieve the latter half Of the statement.
let him look at the editorial face of the
Ledger as it scowls like midnight
thunder storm on J Joker Robinson.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
Last Excursion to Washington via B.
a O. r. r.

~,
On ihursGay' Marcn ion. the 3. y
y: H. IL. VIII run ne Iast OF the series
OF excursions t" Washington which
nave become n,, SO popular curing me
winter. ms excursion VIII IN no wise
dl1ter from NOSE WhIch nave preceded
ON, CIV; .G. ~" I "a y az
.toii " ' nv, nu"''' rI'S "''" l'Ne cnJoSe"
rate and the same npeycelirJ train
sor,,;ca If n.,..,.,,.,o, ,.n,,.LaL.,, Oh
man Parlor or SIerning GAYS h.retoforo
provided
WASHINGTON i morn ,,tra,.tivo in
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05

The Ledger published II portrait Of
Frank J. Mcmahon last week and gave
it out tlat-footed that he was born Isl
years ago
The portrait is very good, and the
''silyer threads among the gold" in his
whiskers corroborate the unwelcome
intelligence that our honored fellow
citizen is patriarch.
Last week he was ;he subject of our
fear; this week the object of both our
symr athy and veneration.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05

In a few weeks the people will be
polled for Il new mayor and three
councilmen.
II is useless to make buSiness-like
suggestions.
The contest for bailiff and, this time.
we understand, for clerk also, will
determine who shall register, not the
choice or wishes of the people, but the
DEGREES of the primary.
All we can ask for, and this we do
hopelessly, is-people, do not fill the
Council Chamber with agents for the
sale of the old water works.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
DENTISTRY.
Dr. ]. &. PFEEFFER,

A RECENT GRADUATE Of the Balti-
"A more College of Dental Surgery, has
opened an office in the welI-known Dental
Parlor above Mrs E. Gross store where he
can be found fully prepared to practice his
profession. Artificial Teeth inserted that
cannot be detected from the natural organs.
Crown and Bridge Work a speciality. and all
kinds of Filling Material known to the Den
tai profession manipulated with the most
proficient skill. All in need of Dental work
should give him a call. No nccd whotcrei 10
90 from homc. All work guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction. Office hours from 8 a.
m. to y m, and from | to ) and to 9 p. IN.
Dec II
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
ABOUT PEOPLE.
Strangers in tho Clty aud wheeling Folks
Abrontl-

Strangers In tho city aud Wheeling Folks
AbrontI.
J. E. Trainer, OF West Union, is in the
city.
II. Wise, of Parkersburg, is a stamm
house guest.
NJ. A. Walton, OF Cameron, is at the
Star I'M house.
Prof. John A. Meyers, of Morsantown,
is in the city.
The Gerry, the Tramp" company is
at the Behler. ~
Thomas Cats, OF Moundsville, is q
Windsor guest.
Jacob Koontz, OF New Martinsville. is
Behler guest
II. B. McCown, of Ravenswood, is in
the city to-day.
G. A. Traxler, OF Clarksburg, is regis
tered at the Behler.
Col. r. E. Fast, OF Morgantown, was
in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Burnie S. Mcclure loft yesterday
afternoon on snort business trip to
New York.
Mr.. William l.. link, formerly Of this
city, now of Auburn, N. Y. is hero look
ing up old friends.
General Passenger Agent James NJ.
Hall, OF the Wheeling u Lake Erie road
is registered at the Mcclure.
E. Z. Seybert, P. Weir, John 9. Rog-
ers and ]. H. Mccullough are the Sis
tersvilIe contingent at the Hotel Behler.
The Charles B. Hanford company
left at 8 o'clock this morning over the
Pennsylvania road for the east, on
special.
DR.. ]. G. Hupp and family left yester-
day over the Pan Handle for New York,
to attend the wedding OF DR.. f. j. Le-
Moyne Hupp, which takes place in that
city tomorrow.
Word has been received that Mr..
Tom Woivington, who left to attend the
Chicago convention last June and after
wards located in San francisco, where
he entered the laundry business mad
sailed for Australia last Saturday.
George B. Cushing, NJ. D., has re-
turned from New York, where he has
been resident surgeon in the Bellevue
hospital for the past two years. He has
decided to locate here, and will open
an office at No. 1918 Market street.
Mr.. T. B. Bediiion. well known in
Wheeling, is now filling responsible
position in Kautimann's new jewelry
department, in Pittsburgh. He is an
experienced jeweler, and will no doubt
be hunted up by his Wheeling friends
The New York Herald, in its notice OF
a recent concert in New York, has the
following paragraph: Nine. Kate Rolla,
whose voice and style of singing fit her
for the operate rather than the concert
stage, is evidently singer OF experi-
ence and worth. She sang extremely
we'll an aria from "Giaconda," Boehm's
"Still vie die Nacht," Bemberg's "Chant
Venetien" and, in answer to recalls,
Tosti's "Screnata." Her voice ;sa beau.
tiful and powerful one and she sings
like an artist.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13

Educators are certainly the greatest
beneiactors OF the race, and after read
ing DR.. Franklin Miles popular works,
cannot help declaring him to be among
the most entertaining and educating
authors. "-New York Daily. He is not
a stranger to our readers, as his adver-
tiscments appear in our columns in
every issue, calling attention to the TACT
that his elegant work on Nervous and
Heart Diseases is distributed free by
our entorprising druggists, The Logan
Drug Co. Trial bottles OF DR.. Miles
Nervine are given away, also Book OF
Testimonials showing thatit is unequal
led for Nervous Prostitution, Headache,
Poor Memory, Dizziness, Sleeplessness,
Neuraglia Hysteria, Fits, Epilepsy. 2