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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
COUNTY NEWS.
Legislative

Senator Pearre has introduced bill
certain old and nearly illegible records
in the clerks office at the usual rate
of compensation therefor.
The mine inspection bill does not
progress very rapidly.
The governor has signed the
Westernport bill
The $15, 200 schoohouSe bond bill is
not popular in the House delegation.
A bill to change the method of select
ing jurors will be introduced next week
1t applies in Allegany and Garrett,
and provides for three jury COM
mlssioners in each, to be appointed by
the governor. They will annually
prepare list of legally eligible
citizens, without reference to party or
political opinions or affiliations, ex-
ceptlng such as may request directly
or indirectly to be placed on said list.
The bill is a lengthy one, providing
with great detail how Jurors shall be
drawn. 1t practically limits grand
jury sessions to ten days. No person
can serve IN two successive courts as
jurors, and anybody tampering with
the list. box, names, jurors or bailiffs
before or after drawing will get it in
the neck" about $500 worth.
The weekly pay bill was unfavorably
reported. Good idea.
Nearly all the old magistrates, regis
trars, and notarieS were reappointed
DR.. A. B. Price, Of Flostburg, WAS
appointed supervisor of elections, rice
Albert Hole, deceased. 1t was found
that 1t would not pay to decapltate j.
Semmes DoVecmon, or the governor
did manly act in saving the ONLY
righteous man among the registrars.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
The Listing system.

With human nature as at present
constituted no system of property as
sessment can be perfect.
Even Henry Georges theory, prob
ably the most concise, comprehensive
and simple Of all proposals., would be
weakened in practice by the caprices
of human Judgment.
But as long as personal property is
held to be taxable, there is no system
superior to the ''listing" process.
For this reason:
To the current method of assessment
there are several objections, including
the only one stated against the list
ing" system.
The latter, as is well known. is that
it places premium on perjury"
There is no more reason to urge this
statement than to contend that the
current method allows a bonus to
corruption.
Most likely not as much, when it is
considered that nine of ten appoint
ments of assessors, as well as other
officials, are made ''for political
reasons"
But human nature, as rule, is not
so bad as the DIRECTORS would have us
believe. A few people would, at their
peril, commit perjury, while the many
would AVOID the danger and tell the
whole truth.
The perjurer would have to main
tain memory ever fresh and green,
for with an annual inquisltion into his
personally any slip would expose him.
Under system like this the assess
ment of personal property in the town
of Frostburg would be more than
doubled, and the realty very largely
augmented. So much so, indeed, that
there is no doubt that, with present
expenses to meet, the tax rate would
come from 80 down to 30 cents.
The same proportionately in the
county.
The basis would be increased, be-
cause people naturally value their own
property higher than other people, for
it is worth more to them.
The objection to the listing system
comes from the wealthy classes, yet it
is just possible they would then pay
less taxes than now on basis that
ereyYdodg seems interested in keeping
as low as possible.
The ''listing" system would obviate
the employment of an army of assessors
and entirely do away with the in
nqmefahle PHiWies enacted annually
at appeal sessions--per1uries inspired
by an unpatriotic and fraudulent effort
to pay less than other people.
II is, therBfore. the easiest, simplest
and cheapest system of assessment
available, and, as a reflex of what
property is considered as ''0rth to the
ocners themselves, 1t is the nearest per-
lection of all methods.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Political.

Those who are specializing concern
ing ring" permission for Mckaig to
again run for Congress do not know
that McKaig will decide that matter
for himself.
If he sees no show it will be just his
Irish luck to fall into state of health
too bad to undergo the fatigue of a
campa; On.
Meanwhile. both Messrs. Wellington
and Pearre appear to be each in re-
publican scheme to be recognized as
"the gentleman from Maryland"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Interview.

Does the old water works company
want to sell its plant?
Yep.
Why does it wish to sell when it
is getting s per- cent. on its generally
conceded selling price
Dunno.
Will the town have enough water if
it purchases the old works.
Yep.
Will the town have enough if it
doesn't purchase the old works.
Nope.
Why not
Dunno.
Will the new works, merged i'll the
old, furnish more water than we now
have?
Yep.
How so?
Dunno.
What will be the difference in supply
between the two water systems con-
joined and two remaining separate?
Big difference.
How so?
Dunno.
Which will furnish more water the
two systems as one, or the two as twoe
Two as one.
How do YOU make that out
Dunno.
Are there more springs on the noun
tain for one than two9
Yep.
How is that
Dunno.
Is one greater than two in old water
works arithmetic
Yep.
Is the town able to pay principal
and interest of the present bonded in
debtedness
Nope.
Why not!
Dunno.
Will it be able to pay principal and
interest on Il bonded Indebtedness
$50, 900 greater than the current debt?
Yep.
How is that
Dunno.
Will the revenue be any greater
proportionatelv to the debt than it is
now!
Yep.
Why so
Dunno.
What is the difference between an
old water consumer paying a low rent
doing the same thing?
Big difference.
How so?
Dunno.
What is the difference between pay
ing low water rents a"i taxes and high
water rents and no taxes?
Tremendous difference.
How much?
Dunno.
Is there anything else in connection
with this matter that you dunno:
Yep.
What is it:
Wot I'm to git fer bein agin the
town.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Division Ot'IabOr,

a boiler inspector is to be appoint
ed at Buffalo, n. Y, and the boile.-
makers of that town contend that one
of their number should be selected.
Ridiculous.
Boiler-makers should make boilers.
And Knights of Labor inspect them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Some Local History"

The story of the Water Board" etc,
i'll last weeks Ledger seems to be
generally correct until it strikes the
Goth paragraph.
1t then appears to become an auto
biography.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

Owen England, constable, feels ae-
grieved at the course of the Le'1ger to-
ward his action in the Stewart war
rant matter.
But at the .)oURNAL's suggestion he
has used no bad language in stating
his case.
He was at first disposed to ''answer
fool according to his folly"
The Ledger is obliged to the JOUR
NAL.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

Daniel Holt had his thumb masheC
by a fall of coal in Carlos mine Thurs
day.
Samuel Armstrong, working il
Carlos mine, was badly hurt by fal
of coal this week.
Yesterday morning John Carter
colored, IL driver in the same mine
was seriously hunt by being squeezed
between two cars.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
That's What.

The keyser CIV. Va.) Tiibune argues
that there are too many papers for the
paying patronage that is going.
Still, if the JOURNAL were to get out
of the way the Ledger would never take
its place i'll public estimation.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Let il Live.

There are those who think the JOUR
NAILS recognition of the senatorial
vote" business is an undue advertise.
ment of the SANDER
But there is nothing in it or about it
that the JOURNAL wants forgotten.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

The Fairmont West Fhginjam says their
water works will be completed in a few days,
and adds in effect that all that remains to be
done is to build them-Ner Dominion.
It is different here.
\ crowd wants to complete the
Frostburg water works by adopting
the very unscriptural experiment of
seeking lot of ''new wine in old
bottles"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

With rumors of libel suit and all
that litigating luxuries imply, the
Frostburg Ledger is beginning to mani
fest the symptoms of an organ.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Who Elects ?

Speaking of Senator Gibson's in
gratitude, Ex-Governor jackson says
1t was who sent him to Congress three
or four times.
And yet there are organs that say
the democracy of Maryland is electing
the professional office-holders of the
State.
No such thing.
The fortunate gentlemen are the
benefciaries of their own primary and
convention .fnesse.
The people have nothing to do with
it-eXcept to take the medicine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Shouln BE Keen ADart.

The Washington Star says:
Editor Cara must be theosophist with
an astral body.
Do not know about CARA, but J. j.
Robinson enjoys some repute as a
kicker who spurs with a star.
With planetary conjunction be-
tween CARA and Robinson, there
would be high old time either in
space or Texas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

Robert Boyd, father of county COM
missioner Boyd, died at the latter's
residence in Homecoming yesterday
morning, aged IS years.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

In Mt. Savage it is pronounced
Creep" Mt. Savage gets its French
direct from Philadelphia.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
An Equation.
Naught equals naught.
4 cfnnl Liciunll l..

Naught equals naught.
A stock dictum is:
There is not enough water.
And there never will be enough as
long as the Council has not the grit to
take what is available.
There is a pipeline laid to one of
the best springs on the mountain-a
spring claimed by the old water com
pany, but which it does not use and
never did uSe-even in all those long
days of drought and danger, when the
people suffered and paid, and the
water company laughed at our calam
ity and collected Its bills.
The Town Council has absolutely
not the grit even to see whether the
company can play the dog in the
Manager act.
Moreover. there is Il line to that
spring of valuable pipe lying uncover
ed-expoSed to the sudden and sharp
changes of winter weather.
Neither Council nor Water Board,
since the latters photographed
stage set in, will take up the pipe or
cover it,
Under such circumstances what is
the cry of mot enough water" worth !?
Nothing. And nothing equals any
other imaginary quantity in any other
socalled argument favoring the pur-
chase of the old water works.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Kin tOthe IdylliSt.

Anent the discussion of acceptable
papers Il weekly publication down
somewhere in or about Ellicott city
SAYS ''if locals crowd editorials out, let
the editorials 60"
This is valid argument with So
called editors who can't write editorials
worth reading.
Hence, it is good rule for the
average paper man to adopt, for his
locals are apt to be far superior matter;
Almost anybody can write locals.
but the editor, hike the poet, is apt to
have been born, not manufactured.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
That $4,000.

1t goes very much against the
grain" to oppose Senator Pearre's bill
to hQnd the county IN the sum OF
$75 900 to build schoolhouses.
But there are reasons which oyer
bear in weight the crying need of a
new building here.
/, The fear that spVepal others will
be built where they are not needed.
=, That roads as objects of improve
ment Just now demand far more fnans
cial consideration than schoOlhouses.
3, A childless school regimeis not the
auspice under which $4,000 should
be distributed .tar ne AeHeH n ne
children.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
The Cart Before the Horse.

The Oakland Democrat very nearly
endorses the JOURNALS remarks on
the ''iisting system" of assessment.
For county like Garrett it Is the
very thing.
And if we had it in Allegany we
would not now be discussing the ques-
tionable expedient of going in debt for
schoolhouses.
1t is folly to save at the spigot and
be careless at the bunghole.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
who Tells the k'ib ?

VINO IellS the FIN!
Readers of the Ledger will remember
its violent impeachment of the JOUR-
NAILS veracity and courage last week
concerning the endorsement story.
But it let itself down this way:
# the Star published such story ne did
not see il.
What is the matter with the Leager's
hindsight? Is it so bad that somebody
can "hide behind it ?"
However, gentleman at Eckhart,
seeing the issue thus raised, kindly
sends the JOURNAL a copy of the Star
of October |, with the following in
quiry marked:
Will the Ledger tell its readers what a GER
tain negotiable paper had to do with its
change of talk on the Ring-antRing ques-
ton? Tell it or stop blowing.
He also informs us that were in
error % in calling the Stars alluson
"a story" GU in the use of the term,
Several occasions" and (3) sin nam
ing an amount for the note
All of which the JOURNAL acknowl
edges with this explanation
That the current talk of the matter
rot confused in orr recollection with
the published reference to it. We
never expected to make use of it and
did not load our memory with details.
Now, then, there is nothing in our
desire to save the town the utterly
needless expense of buying the old
water works that will warrant lying.
Although, the enormity of the pro-
posal can hardly be exaggerated by the
widest apprehensions of Immediately
superinducing considerations.
In such a cause, however, lying and
cowardice, if such thing be possible,
would be pardonable vices.
Later--The Homecoming star of Thurs
day volunteers a statement which ma
terially confirms the Eckhart report
After quoting the same inquiry it
says:
~ lhiS thS 'St'J'' nv i' PiN = iioi h"S
it referred to it since = :
In all our writing and vigorous work of the
late cOmpaign we were particularly careful
not to utter sentence or prefer charge that
we could not substantiate by information
sufficiently strong to justify such action, and
now that the campaign is over we are just as
ready and willing to give the foundation on
which any or all of orr editorial remarks
were constructed as we were in the midst of
the shot and shell of the battle.
If the JOURNAL had needed Il forti-
fication, its choice of the STIR would
have been justified.
Now see how effectually the Star
poses as a cross-eXaminer:
Moreover, the Lc'lyer says ''lf the stu ever
published such a story it did not see it."
How, then, could the Leo,yer know it was a
campaign story?'
No reference to the date of its appearance
in this paper was made by the JOURNAL.
Strange it recalls the item and then remem-
bers that it has not seen it
The Star concludes:
# our friends at Frostburg cannot get along
without the STIR we will willingly tell all we
know about the negotiable paper business.
AS we have not yet been invited to do so we
await further developments.
Speaking for the JOURNAL, thanks.
We know all we want to learn, and
not a syllable from a bank man, liv
ing or dead.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Personal.

Il. M. Boyd, chief county commits
sioner, is recovering from an attack Of
III g,jDle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
The Jury Bill.

Those who are tired of the alleged
Stereotyped and overworked jury list
now in vogue. have an opportunity OF
approving a measure which will make
a radical change in the method of Sc
lection. A synopsis elsewhere print
ed tells the essential features of the
plan.
1t will be a good departure, pro-
vided it does not eventually degenerate
into the abuse it is designed to cure.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
An Effective Remedy.

tip in Rimersburg, Pa, on tin sign
is the following:
Misunderstanding to the law owners of
hogs and COWS must be kept shut up and not
treSpass on other peoples property. BY
shutting them up it will save the owners
money in paying damages and lawsuits, be-
sides the ill-will of their neibors, by order OF
them who will inforce the law
1t will he seen that the ''owners' are
impounded-not the stock.
And there is no distinction between
day and night.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
DENTISTRY.
DIR. T. &. PFEIFFER,

A RECENT GRADUATE of the Balti-
n more College of Dental Surgery, has
opened an office in the wel!-Inown Dental
Pttrlor above Mrs. f.. CrosS 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 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 call. No Hccd whdtercr 10
40 from hone. All work guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction. Office hours from II.
m. to II m, and from l to and to 8 p. M.
Dec -
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13
Notice by Administrative.

TNHIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
l. scriber has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Allegany county, Maryland letters
of administration upon the estate of
Richard Hendley,
Late of Allegany county Maryland, dec d.
All persons having claims against the said
deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same with the vouchers thereof duly anthem
ticated to the subscriber ON or BEFORE the
18TH DAY OF MARCH, 1892.
They may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of the said estate.
All persons knowing themselves indebted
to said estate are requested to make immedi-
ate payment.
Given under my hand this Dbl day OF
December, 1891.
ELIZABETH HENDLEE,
Jan St Administrators.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-02-13

Nothing. And nothing equals any
other imaginary quantity in any other
so called argument favoring the pur-
chase of the old water works.
\ Distinct ion Without a Difference.
The Lnfger came at the JOURNAL
last week straight as hornet, and
like that beast, mad all the way
through.
1t used some immensely impolite
expressions and IN a general way it
WINGED like the jade that is CALLED.
But it is suspected that the jour
NAILS error, if an error, was technical,
and that a great hue and cry of
denial was raised over the statement
that the endorsement was for $3.50,
when we should have written $20O-in
morals distinction without diff
ference.
If we are correct in this, the differ
ence of $50, taken so literally by the
Ledyer, is smaller affair to hide be-
hind than the Homecoming !Stor.
The Leolger says, however, that it
would not publish a story without
knowing that it was true" Conse-
quently it will not print "a story
about a certain Legislators vote for a
United States Senator some years ago"
The Ledger. however. is at full
liberty to publish concerning the allie
CATION therein involved all that it
knows and all that everybody else
knows. And the journal will guar
antee to meet and demolish it, and
that without resorting to any such
bubble as difference of $50.
The Journal will also inform the
Le,1ger that if it will produce a bank
official of high or low degree, in or
out of the county, with whom it (the
JoURNAL) has exchanged q syllable
concerning the $3.50 or even 5000 en-
dorsement, before or since its publica
ton, the JOURNAL will at once pay
the 5000, take up the note and donate
it to the Le7ger' And il will not be
the 5000 either which the legislator
story alleges was paid the JOURNAL
for its vote for James b. Groome.
But the JOURNAL did not learn the
endorsement story solely from the
Homecoming Star. 1t was an open,
current secret at the time the note was
said to have been made, The change
of the Ledger's policy toward the So
called ring was actually weiicted
before the paper showed for itself that
something had happened, and the
JOURNAL has two reputable witnesses
to that effect
The Ledger gives notice that it is
''just the folks" to deal in personali-
ties and that it twill be here all next
summer and next winter"
The JoURSAL kaows the calibre of
| the Ledger. 1t found that opt when, a
couple winters ago, it Thought il
could hold Oder down''-a feat at that
/ time regarded by all others i'll this
yiciuage rs impracticable. Indeed,
the suspicion got out somehow in a
circle of young thoroughbl eds thai the
JOURNALS days were numbered and a
newspaper cataclysm was looked for
every week.
But the great paper is still here, and
its attentions to Leelger projects are
partly responsive to the Ledger's origi-
nal and apparently continuous ded-
ication TO the JoURNAh's unhappiness.
Inshallah,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-07
The Prerent silver Dollar.
To N. Eduor Of ne R,Oist~.

To the Edtf0r or ne hegtStsr.
CAMERON, September 17.-Talk about
wildcat banking. We never had worse
than we have now. When the old State
banks were In vogue there never was
anything compared with the present
system OF swindling that equals the
scheme under the present Sherman sill
yer law. The government Is compelled
to buy "a, 100000 ounces Of silver year
ly. This is coined into silver dollars,
worth Just 65 cents each. Silver certif-
Gates are issued In place OF these dol
lars, and the people are compelled to
take them for 100 cents on the dollar.
Mr.. Blaine holds up his hands In con-
vulsIons over the idea that we are GO
ing TO return to the old State banking
system, yet he approves Of this swind-
ling the people with a dollar the in
trinsic value OF which is 35 cents less
than dollar worth 100 cents. The re-
peal OF the 10 per cent tax by the last
Congress was right, because II
was var tax and had served
its purpose and should go. The
American people are capable
of taking care Of themselves. They
will devise means to secure q circu-
lating medium as good and better than
any now in vogue. BY 1907, when all
our bonds fall due, II this country is
run by the Democratic party. these
bonds will be paid of. We want no
debt to run q banking system upon.
Mr.. Blaine and the Republican party
express great fear lest we will return
to q system OF wildcat currency. The
national BANGING system cannot exist
unless we have bonds. Does Mr..
Blaine and the Republican party pre-
tend we should plunge the country Into
debt, and maintain the debt st the ex-
pense of the people, In order 10 secure
this currency? Does John Sherman,
Blaine, Mckinley, and Harrison, advo-
cate, In their sober moments, an extrav-
CANT policy that would Great debt,
upon which bonds shall be issued TO
secure to the people this currency? Does
any man suppose for q moment that
the American people will be unable 70
provide themselves circulation as
good, as staple, as efficient, with far
less cost, as that Of the National bank
ing system, and Il will also issue dol
lar In silver on parity with gold, and
give the people silver certificate With
100 cents on the dollar, in this aud all
other countries. A dollar that the
laboring man can take to any place and
get its value in gold or any commodity
be wishes 10 buy. A dollar not OF the
Jim Blaine and John Sherman kind,
made in the interest OF the rich, the
gold dollar for the rich man and the
silver doll for the poor man, but they
will both go out upon equal footing,
and each answer the same end. No, the
Democratic party wants no wildcat
currency like John Sherman's bill has
created, nor do we want an enormous
debt In order TO keep the National
baking system afoat
VExI VIDI.