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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20
DUBLIC SALE OF OLD MATERIAL AT TIN
1 NAVY YARD. WASHINGTON. ID. C-NAVS


Department. Washington. d. C., February Ia
lsyIn accordance with the pro visions Of the second
section of the act Of Congress. approved August =
Act making appropriations for the naval service Tor
purposes. spproysd June 80. 1880 there will be 10
It the navy yard. Warrington, u. c. MARCH NINE-
TEENTH: lsss certain articles and material belonging
TO the navy, condemned as UNIT therein. con-
sl.ng Of old sextants octants. bineculsrs Watches
bafomeers trsnsits. spyglasses aid about lg!, 600
pounds bronze scrap. CUTTINGS t1rnngs and borings.
each lot. by se,ed rSpo.a. for the purchase Of the
tsE,as to te sold may Be obtained on APPLICATION the
ingtou. DC. The proposals must be made in dupli.
cate inclosed in an envelope Endorsed Propvsas for
purchase OF condemned stores zt the yarl Wash
ington d. to be opened March 10, lSy2 aud IL
DIRE, sed to the paymAster of the navy yard Washnv
ton ID. c. Proposals must reach the office al the nav
master OF the yard not later than ~ O'Clock noon an
the sbovs date, when bids Will t. publicly opened
deposit Of 10 per cent Of the total amount of esc
bid must accompany 1t security for the payment Of
the balance and the removal Of the articles WITHIN
thirty Jays after date Of acceptance OF bid This de-
post will be made with the paymaster OF the yard and
forfeited to the United States in event Of TO
pay such balance and make removal within the tir,s
stated The material and articles VIII % 90 d - sh
ont expsnss 70 the govsrnmenS The right 70 reject
any or all bads v reserved JAMES r 6OLEY. Acting
SECRETARY Of The Navy. fs2Q tau2V
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

NEWTON II. BOWMAN, Manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

Fedora Dress Shields, Best in the
World. Messrs. Woodward l. Lothrop write:
we consider them the best in our stock and
could not get along without them" At all
dealers. feI3-s3m
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

50l-503 7th st. n w.. cor It'll and Z, A gold.
band cup and saucer or a majolIca pitcher
given to every purchaser of one pound Thea
Nectar Tea or one pound A. and p Baking
Powder. lfel6-5tl n. HI. BOWMAN Manager
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

Fits, Spasms, st. Vitus Dance, Drunken
ness, Opium Habit cured by DIR. Miles Neryine.
free samples at Druggists. Afr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

FOR throat Diseases, Cough s, Colds,
&C., effectual relief is found in the use of
''BsO1n's bronchial TrOches." Price Csc. Sold
Olly in bOIes On
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-20

EOR SALE. At PUBLIC AUCTION
L On THURSDAY: FEBRUARY TwENTY-FIFTH,
at THREE O'CLOCK Z. NJ, handsome and CONVEX
lent suburban Home Of 20 acres; 7roon house. barn,
&c nve miles from Washington near ra. road sta.
ton and on good wagon road For full ana
for map Of the country around the city showing TO-
cat on Of place sec address JAMES E. CLEMENTS
1Ssl st. NV fem a.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
IuDaSSaDIp Roads.

Your editorial paragraph on this
subject in your issue of Dec. % brings
to mind that about this season of the
year we are reminded with alarming
regularity of the abOminable condition
of our highways. When the roads re-
main impossible for the farmers
products for a short space of time
business in general throughout the
whole of the State becomes dull. and
if this condition remains for longer
period of time business becomes para
ly2ed. These results have been eX-
perienced too frequently within recent
years to demand further comment.
1t has occurred to me. as it undoubt-
eddy has to many of your readers, that
this condition of things can largely be
remedied by the State putting its con
victs to work upon the improvement
OF our highways. The SIT could
thus support its convicts in Il branch
Of labor that cannot be called skilled,
and probably their employment in this
work would not meet with the op-
position from the labor unions that
their present employment does As
the contract system Is now being abol-
lshed as fast as the present contracts
expire, would It not be well to provide
this sort of employment for our con-
yicts, and by doing so give the State
roads that can be travelled on during
all seasons OF the year? It is un-
doubtedly practicable. have not the
statistics relating to our penltentlarles
at hand. but Think there would prob
ably be as many as 900 or ! 200 male
eonvicts that could be taken from north
ern and southern penitentiaries for this
purpose. If | am nearly right in this
number it is sufficiently large to soon
make itself apparent in Ill improved
condition of our highways.
Good roads are matter of vital i'm
portance to the farmers, and believe
little discussion Of the subject would
be beneficial. GEO. FINDLAY.
Letter tothe Breeders G"zette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
CORRESPONDENCE.
Obituary..

The weight of sorrow always at
tendant on the death of loved ones is
ofttimes added to by the season. and
when, at Christmas time-when all the
world is rejoicing because of the COM
ing of Him who came to save it-when
all are glad because Of the life which
at this time was sent from the great
white throne to earth for the saving of
the nations thereof, the parting with
our dearest and best is fraught with
a sadness peculiarly keen and incon-
solable.
Like Il crash of thunder from Il
cloudless sky came to me the message
-''Debbie A. Mason died at the home
Of her son in-law, John McGee, at
Mckeesport, Pa, on Dec. 10th, 1891 -
She loved me as my mother loves
me and counselcd me us her own son.
Her conversation was ever pure and
free from all that contaminates. A
life like hers is one of those rare con-
ceptions of the Creator which it is i'm
possible for pen of ordinary mortals to
describe and do it full justice. She
was not of the common herd. as her
bright record up yonder will show.
OF the earth, earthly, and as all are,
susceptible to the influence for good or
i'll which the loves of men and women
ever have and will till time shall cease
and eternity begin for ali, like a good
ship, rising from out the ocean s
mighty pillows when the storms of
many days have dashed and goaded
them to unprecedented fury, she throws
aside the clinglng monster that would
send her on the pitiless reef where de-
struction inevitable awaits her, and
passes on to calmer seas and a safe
anchorage-so with my friend. Fate
full storms assaulted her and threatened
to cast her down for aye. but she arose
in the might of he, glorious woman
hood and, tramplng the temptation
and the tempter beueath her scorning
feet, she passed from the tr0ublous
waters and taking fast hold of the
kindly hand Of the gentle Christ, she
loved with the love that passeth human
understanding. She followed in His
footsteps always. and at Christmas
tide, the time of all the year she loved
most, He in His mercy thought it best
to say :'Rest thee, beloved" and the
cheerful, tireless worker in His cause
gave up to others OF her KIND the work
her faithful hand had still to do, and
has gone to :'that bourne whence no
traveller returns" ! feel that Christ.
mas was glorious day for her because
of the glad hands held out to her in
welcome at the portals Of the M lace of
our G g cd because Of the bright eyes
of those who through her efforts and
influence had been partakers of the
joys of the New because
she knew of Christ surely, for He must
have been foremost in welcoming to
Heaven one of the brightest and best of
earth.
With her loved ones I sorrow and
mingle my tears and trust ''some day
to meet with them and with her at the
foot of the great white throne, in
the house of God, in the city not
made with hands, eternal in the
heavens! 4men. KARS,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
4 HALFWAY Reform.

Council passed the ordinance COM
pelling the poor owners of cows to take
care of their stock at night.
This step is just about two-thirds of
the way to "kingdom come"
1t means that we can go to sleep
with some exemption from the fear of
midnight devastation of yard and
garden, but the poor owner of the COWS
is still endowed with the high privilege
of keeping us on guard during the day
that's, all of us poorer ones who have
no quadrupedal Bedouins to make re
prisals.
1t means, also, that our numerous
summer visitors will see that our town
is still rcdolent of the chewn grass of
the pasture-feld and aromatic of the
sweet breath of the kline, somewhat
inhamed, it may be, by the Fedora
scented heritage springing from the
heliotropic shadows of backyard
fences.
But the Council will eventually get
there. A reform all at once would
break the spinal column of its over
weening regard for special and minori-
ty interests.
A suit or two for daylight damages
will induce the Council to complete
the towns emancipation.
Hence, the Council will not forever
leave its picture of a free city half
painted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Tight Place.

a recent Wilkesbarre Pa.) dispatch
says:
Work at the Hartford has been shut down
because of fear for the safety of the miners, if
having been discovered by a mine boss that
a section of the mine in the lower lift, where
over twenty-four men were killed two years
ago, is mass of fire fora distance of 100 feet.
In the holy name of Schonfarber,
how did it ever happen that the com
pany has been so long let off for per-
hitting that fire to exist?
However, it must be remembered
that the poor company hardly ever
knows what is best to do.
In getting rid of black damp it has
to ventilate.
If the mine catches fire the black
damp is gone and there is nothing
with which to put it out.
The ventilation which drives out
black damp gives wing to flame.
And one horror is merely super
seeded by another.
How true it is the poor coal com
pany is often caught between. the boy
that is old aud the sea that is deep.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Justification by Eaiiit.

1t would seem the big end of the
Water Board cannot make out a
satisfactory report" because Mr..
Haverstick does not turn over certain
books and papers.
On the other hand, Mr.. Havcrstick
does not appear to beaware that certain
books and papers are wanting.
At least, the big end does not even
let him know when or where its two
parallel lines are going TO come to-
gether.
There has been superhuman effort
to make a business matter appear
ridiculous and it has succeeded.
1t looks like a sample of Council
manic spite for not entrusting the
Council with the handling of the
$40, 900.
But results show that when the sub
committee kept it out of their hands
wisdom was fully justified of three of
her humblest children.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

The Homecoming STIR appears to re-
gard the JOURNALS item last week
concerning Rev. w. o. Petty and wife
as not "Personal.' The STIR is I'M
doubleday following" the Frostbure
Le''ger., and both are drifting in the
direction Shadrach's ducks flew.
Hyndman PaD Bulietm thinks
Frostburg council wants $4,000 $50
meet expenses of wafer works.
Error. Want that sum to romplett
them. If Council buys old works,
however, 100000 will be wanted fol
both purposes.
Weather this morning fa,r ana
cold.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Criminal ENERGY.

There are no statistics at hand to show
whether coal mine casualties are more fire.
quent and fatal in this country than in Others
or not. But the fact of record is that of late gas
explosions in American mines have been
very numerous and attended by heavy losses
of life That there ought to be additional
means of safety provided by the advancing
science of the age needs not insistence in
words; such catastrophes as that in the
Indian territory speak their own warning
better than columns of argument or appeal
could do.-Washington Cd. c. Star.
Had the same energy been shown by
the Knights of Labor in legislating
against the dangers of g1s in gas
mines as in legislating against gas in
mines where gas does not exist, mine
explosions might have been fewer and
farther between.
The star is informed, therefore, that
it is not the lack of scientific method
which prevails, but its attempted cen
tralization in regions where it is Il per-
feet miSfit
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Still In 1t,

The Leclger takes hydrophobia every
time water is mentioned, especially if
Mr.. Haverstick be concerned.
And this bright, frosty morning it
is disturbed because the JOURNAL
yielded to a general and urgent re-
quest to print a portion of its little
address at the e-Porter banquet.
When it learns that the Norfolk
(Va) IVyinian thought well enough
of the lines to repuhlish them in full it
will doubtless conclude. 10 remain ex-
cluSively in its own Unameliorated
Order of Migfunks.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
GENERAL ITEMS,
The Welsh Language,

Welsh Is Il language of which little
is known nowadays. A few old people
still speak the language well, but it is
rare to find child who is at home IN
its accents. The best Welsh scholar
living is Mrs. Ann Walter Thomas.
She is an English lady and understands
thoroughly Welsh literature and its
near cousin, the Mabinogion. Mrs.
Thomas knows half a dozen other
languages we'll, but her knowledge of
the Welsh is her boast .-E,mhonqe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

The Le.lger hopes TO ''maintain its
position during the year as a news
paper-not an organ
The JOURNAL comedies, although it
seems like flying in the face of Proyi-
dence.
For fhe Lelger, confessedly "not an
organ" is not a newspaper either.
1t is disease.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
DE NTISTRY.
Dr. 7. G. PREIFFER,

A RECENT GRADUATE of the Balti-
~ more College of Dental Surgery, has
opened an office in the well-known Dental
Parlor above Mrs Il. 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 "ccd 'ch"tc"t TO
90 from hone. All work guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction. Office hours from Il.
m; to IL m, and from to and to . p. M.
Dec ~
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

A gentleman in this county, who is
tired and sick of the current methods
of expanding money for bodybuilding
and repairs, proposes the following:
Apply to the Legislature for an Act
authorizing the issue of 100000 County
Road Bonds-i per cent. take the proceeds
and under the immediate supervision of an
expert road-builder make tirstcass road
from one end of the county to the other.
He figures out the scheme this way:
Last year road repairs cost the
county. ........... ............. ~, SOO bi
Take from this amount
Interest,". ........ ....SSOOo %
sinking fund ............ 100000
1900 90
Leaving for distribution under
same expert auspices to lateral
and interseCting roads. .......... 1850 81
1t will be seen that he does not pro-
pose to increase taxes one cent on
account of roads, but will take the
money now raised for that purpose and
build one great highway through the
heart of the county to serve as trade
artery and model for all lateral and
intersecting roads.
After a few years. say five, the
county can begin to redeem the bonds,
which would mean, of course, a steadily
diminishing interest account and a
growing fund for the other roads.
OF course, no increase of taxable
basis is above contemplated, although
good roads are an immediate and direct
stimulus of all values.
But the returns to the people of town
and country in the facility with which
market exchanges will beincreased will
be incalculable.
However, it is needless to argue
self-attesting propositions. Every
body knows the value to every interest
of good roads, but everybody has not
the grit to tackle current systems of
waste, overturn them and institute new
and effective methods.
This is the unanimity and courage
we want.
How shall we arouse them
Will some leading citizen take it
upon himself to call meeting of tax
payers who are most deeply interested
in good roads to give the above pro-
posal consideration, or devise better
onee
If so, there is no time to lose.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

The short-stop and kertlip concern
across the street claims by implication
to be q man, and man who can
"originate.'
To such as it copyright and patent
laws are open for the protection of
their intensely original idea of adver-
Using in the Homecoming STIR.
Years ago the JoURNALpu similar
advertisement in the Homecoming
Valley Times. but there was then no
chump with stub-tail tendencies here
to charge it with ''imitation.'
However, there is no telling what the
good Lords inscrutable wisdom has vet
stored up in the bumptiousness of the
Ledger for the JOURNALS future
amusement.
We hope to be able 10 bear it if we
can get it in sections.
This from the Second paper first
established, 10 the first paper, last
planted:
Can the fust lick be struck last .
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Stand by Your Own Home.

Fellow-citizens, read the following
from patriotic address recently made
by Goodman King, of st. Louis:
But after all is said and done, greater than
all the other agencies and influences COM
bincd, to which have alluded, is the loyalty
and devotion of the citizens of a city to it, by
speaking well of it in their homes to their
friends and neighbors and when visiting
other parts of the union, or other countries,
by dwelling upon its greatness and its
particular points of interest, whether they
concern its social or commercial relations, or
its municipal affairs.
In consonance with this good senti-
ment the true ring of the true Frost
burgers utterances concerning his
town at home or abroad is
My home first my home last my home,
right or wrong.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS,
Preparing for Business,

A Norfolk dispatch to the Baltimore
aSun says:
The Santos building, Main and Atlantic
streets, has been purchased at $4,000 for the
new City National Bank. A. f. Krise, of
Frostburg, Nd, will be president and Frank
A. Porter, of the same place, teller.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
He is a Practical DiSciDIe

We lead others follow.-1mericm Tea
ComPaDy.
We Lead others Misunderstanding
Letgef.
These quotations are made to show
the tea company that some linen" who
"originate" are milnicked by some ape
The tea company is all right, but
the ape is neither an originator nol
leader.
He never thought of anything new
or did anything that was not done be-
fore.
He is constantly a piapiarist.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

The (presenO wonder of the twentieth
century. Who will be Judge Longeneckers
successor?-Bedford Mg"i,rr.
Probably some monkey IN the
geological department of the hereafter
who has died trying to initiate the
FrOstbufV Led06p.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

James Campbell, aged Is, died at
Borden Shaft, Friday, Sth inst. Mr..
c. was u highly respected citizen and
his death a shock to wife and friends.
Thornton Mckenzie, a well known
farmer, died ut his home, near Cresap-
town, Wednesday, aged 81.
Miss Margaret f. Sullivan, aged %
years and 20 days, daughter of Will
liam Sullivan, of Eckhart, died Tues
day, Jan. II, 1892.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Not a Newspaper.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
so it is said.-Ledger.
And the man who can be hatteIed
by a monkey must be, notwithstand-
ing its protestations to the contrary,
''the sincerest form" of an organ
grinder.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

Two teachers were brutallv thump-
ed by boy pupils in Kansas last week,
and two moral suasion parents are
hiding their sons from a popular in
dignation almost approaching lynch
law.
Eternal Indulgence is the price of
deviltry.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16

The Homecoming Star chronicles the
two-year old condition of the Frost
burg Le7ger and damns it family by
simply wishing it we'll" If the .Star
had not been born about four years
before the Ledger the JOURNAL would
esteem its desire as something in the
nature of the yearnlng of Il disciple.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
COUNTY NEWS.


Mrs. Alexander C. Thompson, of Mt.
Savage, a lady manager of the Worlds
Fair, furnished the article headed
The Worlds Exposition" 1t will be
concluded next week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Emphasis on the Word. Crest

1t Is sufficient Endorsement of the
ltn'es as 4 great newspaper to say that
Tor some years it has maintained the
best list of subscribers at Altoona of
any paper published.-Altoona Pa1
I times,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
DEMONSTRATED MERIT,

In order, however, that the enormous
amount of work being done by women
may be appreciated, a tabuated state
ment Will be procured and shown with
every exhibit stating the proportion of
woman's work that enters into it. The
application blanks are now being sent
out to manufacturers contain this in
Quiry. The board of lady managers
has been granted by act of Congress
the great and unusual privilege of
appointing members on each Jury to
award prizes for articles into which
woman 5 work enters. The number of
women on each jury will be pro-
portlonate to the amount of work done
by women in the corresponding depart
ment of classification, The statement
as TO the amount of their work will
therefore be of double significance. for
IN addition to the impressive showing
or how large IL proportion of the heavy
labor of the world is being performed
by the weaker sex, it will also deter
NINE the amount Of jury representation
to which thiS board is entitled
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
Good Advice.

To be sure it is leap year. But
single women are still advised to look
before they leap.-New York WORTH.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-01-16
The Town Docs Not Escape.

People too poor to own a COW are re-
minded that Judge Douglas decided
that, ordinance or no ordinance, night
time or daytime, the town is bound to
protect them from the ravages of
cows.
The Councils ordinance, therefore,
does not exempt the town from day
light liabilities.
1t only encourages the bad feeling
among neighbors which comes from
forcing citizens to pay taxes and then
do their own police duty.