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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
MINING JOURNAL.
FROSTBURG, MD...........MAY 10, 1888
Stillin a Prcdicament.

In copying from the sheet upon
which the JOURNAL made its calcula.
tions last week an error occurred in
taking the total. $25S %, of cash paid
for printing and advertising instead
of 1888 SO, which is $25S2S, less J. M
Zimmerly's bill, 500 rs.
The statement of distribution should
have been printed, therefore, as
follows:
J. NJ. Zimmerly .............. 1915
JOURNAL ''''''''''''''' H'oo
There was no intention whatever to
misrepresent the situation, for there is
not a cent of money nor Whit of
prestige to be made in stating other
than the facts.
Saturday morning Mr.. HarmaH
wrote the Journal for an explana-
ton.
1t was frankly and unreservedly
given.
Yet he says:
Mr.. Oder's Misrepresentation shows to
what he will resort in order to gain point.
He began his note:
Before Ireply, etc,
Yet in something looking like a
postscript, printed after his attempted
reply, he says:
In reply to an inquiry Mr. Oder admits
that he figured on the wrong basis, stating
that he did not discover his error until after
his paper was out
The JOURNAL admitted no such
thing. 1t stated that ''the error was
one Of transcription" and that sit
would be acknowledged and corrected
next week." or words to that effect.
All of which is hereby done.
But the essential facts remain the
same.
Council disposed of Sc per cent. of its
printing to the concern that paid 10
per cent. of printing taxes, and gave II
per cent. of its work to the concern that
paid 81 per- cent. of the printing taxes.
Was this done on business prin-
ciples?
There is dilemma here, either horn
of which the business men" of the
old Council may take and still be in a
hole.
1t is no answer to the question to
charge the JOURNAL with kicking be-
cause it did not receive as much print
ing as it thought it ought to have"
Still less that the Le'lger gives better
services
No ansWer-even if these excuses
contained spark Of truth.
Hence, let any business man of the
old Council dare to admit that in lis
0lcn Business, for instance, he exchanges
Sc per- cent. Of trade for 10 per- cent. of
paw.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Obsolete Philosophy,

The following is reported:
Mr. Krapf said he had no hogs himself but
he saw no objection to people keeping hogs in
townif pens were kept clean. Hogs were here
before the corporation was. He thought it
would also be good idea to allow hogs to run
at large so they could eat the dead chickens
and other refuse thrown into the alleys.-
Ledger.
There is the rub-''if." Many peo-
pie will not keep pens clean, and one
filthy pen will poison "the breath of
life" of neighborhood. And one
rotten pen, permitted to stink, is a
license to an indefinite number. An
example of careless, or even wilful
nastiness is contagious.
There were other things here besides
hogs before ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
evils" which it is the province of in
corporation to mitigate and regulate.
In short, it is the specific Office of in
corporation to save the community
from the operations and issues of all
sorts and degrees of hoggishness.
Dead Chickens as base for pork
and bacon, is an old but most unwel-
come method of sanitation, 1t is a
straight, direct, automatic transfer of
scavenger duty to the human stomach.
Mr.. Krapf is somewhat terse and
forcible in expression, but his view of
the freedom of the hog is nauseating
morceau from the economical lore of the
Dark Ages.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

The Cumberland Neus takes excep-
ton to the statement that Cumberland
jobbery in the building of the court
house is feared, and SHES back this
way:
The only public improvement Frostburg
has eyer engaged in, so far as we can recall,
seems to have given rise to about as much
contention and scandal as the New York
court house did in the days of the Tweed
ring.
Nobody, however, eyer accused the
Water Board or Water Committee of
jobbery. Nobody ever said, or can
say that Jones, Haverstick, Hosken,
Lammert or Wittig ever dishonesty
spent cent.
Some money has been mistakenly
spent, but that is all
The contention" has been about
plans and methods, not word about
spoils, or even the smell of spols.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
More sophistry Cleared I'm.

The Frostburg JOURNAL says it does not
know that taxing an article makes it cheaper
WE'LL we said you didn't know anything
about the tariff. Calico is taxed five cents
per yard, and it can be bought for four.
Who pays the tax? If it were not for this
tariff very little would be made in this
country, and calico would soon go up in
price. So that, in this instance at any rate,
taxing the goods has made it cheaper. Cum.
berland NeWS.
The JOURNAL was looking for some
thing like that.
Which was the reason it didn't say
last week, among the things it didn't
know, that the tariff, which cheapens
calico, for instance, to the consumer.
raises the pay of the producer of
calico.
What the JOURNAL particularly does
not know, however, ls-why that cent,
designed for the producer of calico, is
given to the consumer of calico?
Or if, on the other hand, the cent is
designed for the consumer, why the
tariff people do not say so?
The tariff knife is ble-edged,
sharpened to ''cut smoove whether she
be a ,gwine or a-comin."
Tariff is not only local question.
1t is also reversible question.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Religious.

Rev. I. c. Easson'S subjects to-mor
row Sunday will be in the morning
Bought with a Price ;" in the evening
John the Baptist's Message"
In the will of j. Henry Stickney,
late of Baltimore. deceased, was found
a bequest of $50 900 to the Congre-
gational church, of Frostburg. Md"
About $3.50 were distributed-all
to humane and religious purposes.
Rey. w. w. Van Arsdale, pastor M.
E. Church, preached last Sunday
evening on "Card-Playing and Horse
Racing" Tomorrow evening he will
discuss and denounce "Gambling."
The attendance at st. Johns ?. E.
Church upon the Sunday afternoon
O'Clock service was quite large. 1t
will be continued every Sunday after
noon. The service, as commenced,
was short, the address shorter, and it
is the intention on each afternoon to
have some special musical attraction.
Everyone" saith the Rector, lis in
vited to these services"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Try Them.

The more we hear from E. R.
Johnston the more we are persuaded
he is wise man.
Witness the accompanying observa-
ton and injunction:
We are all beginning to find out that each
one of us is about the size of each other one,
and when Mr.. O'Possum calls Mr.. O'Hog
"narrow-faced," or when Hon. POT" calls
Prof Kettle black, it is high time you
were sending 81 and getting the Courier, or
$50 to editor Oder for the Frostburg
JOURNAL.
A proverb of Solomon, arrayed in
all its glory. is hardly more coruscant
of self-attesting wisdom.
Both the diagnosis and prescription
are infallible.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Circuit Court.

Fanny Arnold, implicated in the
Tross poisoning case, was acquitted.
Mollie Hiteshew was released until
the October term upon her own re-
cognizance, the judges differing as to
her guilt.
In Jack Browns case the verdict is
still under consideration.
So far the Court disagrees with the
Judgment of thinking people here.
All three are regarded guilty, Jack
the least.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Religious Business.

The Ministerial Association met
Monday, LIST inst, and an election of
officers for the current year was held,
resulting as follows:
Tresident-Rev. w. w. Van Arsdale.
Secretary and Tyeasurer-Rev. G. A. Britt.
An interesting paper entitled Hell
Purgatory and Annihilation," was
read by Rev. T. C. Easson. A lively
discussion ollowed.
The question-"ls Time Portion
of Eternity ?"-having been settled by
the JOURNAL, the great paper records
with regret the suspicion that Mr..
Easson's problems remain unsolved.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
PcrSOnal.

DR.. A, M. McMaster has removed to
Cumberland. After quite an extensive
run of practice here he came to the
conclusion to respond favorably to the
solicitations of very large and in
huential delegation of Cumberland
business and professional gentlemen
to settle in that city. His office adj
joins that of the NenS, on Baltimore
street.
H.. c. Rank, the gentlemanly man
ager of the Homecoming Regieeo, came
up Wednesday at noon and returned
during the afternoon, taking the train,
it is thought, at Jumbo. He told the
JOURNAL with far-away look that he
had come to the metropolis of the coal
region son business"
Mrs. W. H. Davis is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Miller,
in Oakland.
F. A. Porter, Of Norfolk, Va, is III
town.
W. F. Robinson, of Philadelphia, is
now the Consolidation coal company's
civil engineer. He is clever gentle
man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Which =?

By an oversight almost ineSplicable yester-
days edition referred to the death" of
Councilman Wittig, when the word should
have been resignation. "-Ledger.
Did the Ledger "discover the error
after the paper was out ?"
Or vast "a misrepresentation mere
ly to gain point?"
But, charitably construed, perhaps
it is a straw showing that although the
Ledger can broadly intimate that the
JOURNALS errors are wilful, it cannot
possibly tell whetherits own are inten-
tional OF not
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Theatrical.

The Moss Jollities" had big
audience Monday evening at Ravens,
crafts Opera House. Since the family
were here several years ago the young
err members have greatly matured and
improved. All are very fine per-
formers, and the diversity of incident
presented throughout "a Quick
Match" is remarkable. The play was
greatly enjoyed, both in its musical and
dramatic features.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Fences.

Years ago the JOURNAL was laugh
ed at for affirming that primarily own
ers of land We're not required to fence
their holdings.
The other day the Baltimore SIN
answered a query as follows:
Under the common law of England no
fences are required. Owners of cattle keep
them at home and are responsible for the
damage done by them when they escape.
This law prevails in Maryland, except where
changed by an act of Assembly. In some
few of the counties the old law is IN force, but
in nearly all Of them there are local laws
which require division fences.
Which seems to settle the matter.
The JOURNAL has been asked, how
ever, to explain the following appar-
ent contradiction:
In these counties the owner of cattle is re-
sponsible for damage done by them if they
escape from the enclosure by reason of his
own defective fence. If, however, the de-
fective fence belongs to the person damaged,
he cannot recover.
Our correspondent wants to learn
How damage is to be inflicted and incurred
unless both fences are defective?
Reference to the paragraph first
quoted will show that the San speaks
of those local laws which require
decision fences" and which, by agree
ment between the owners, may belong
"a portion to each, and which each is
obligated both by compact and self
interest to keep in good condition.
Otherwise, the law would be an
ahSurditv.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

ii IS understood that Councilman Krapf
who is a member Of the new street committee,
believes in vigorous policy Of street i'm
proyement.-Ledger.
Mr.. krapf, the JOURNAL is with
you.
How would paving Broadway solid
frOm Main to Loo street do for a
starter
1t would be an act of simple justice
to what has been the most profitable
and most neglected street in town,
and it would turn the pale daffodil
countenance of the Ledger into bright
bay hoss-radish green.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
In a Bad Way,

Some people seem to think that the Electric
railway will never be built. Perhaps not and
perhaps so. But then there are some people
who do not want it built, and among them is
thought to be one of our journalistic neigh
bors. Is it so, or is it not so?-Ledger.
The Ledger and "Close Observer"
ought to have the matter settled in
their minds by this time.
AT any rate, if no more people read
the JOURNAL than deal at "Close OBJ
servers" store, neither its favor nor it's
disfavor ought to affect it.
But one thing is certain-if the road
depends upon the public enterprise of
such "some people" as the Ledger and
CLOSE Observer" it will, in the Ian
guage of Sir Toby Belch. we believe,
"die a-bOrnip'."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
That Light is Wanted.

If there is no prospect of getting the
electric light, as contracted for, can,
not Council arrange with the Gas com
pany for a resumption of service
The management of this business
cutting half the town out of one light
before the other was secured-was one
of the botches of the last administra-
ton which the women OF the benight-
ed section cannot forgive.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
LOCAL NEWS.
EXPLANATION.

The JOURNAL erred last week in
overhearlng the tete-a-tete between the
Ledger and "Close Observer" 1t
should have been ''Fair Play" and
not Ledger. That is, if it can be said
that a man can actually talk to him
self and be entertained. The JOUR
NAL did not, therefore, mean to say
the Ledger had no money when it came
here. The error was known before
the paper came out, but like the Led
ger generally does-the JOURNAL let it
go anyhow.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
In Memory of-Something Else.

The danger of instituting new holi-
days is illustrated in the talk already
of relay bicycle runs from Cumberland
to Frostburg on Memorial Day.
Baseball attractions will also figure
on that occasion.
Add to these diversions the decora-
ton of the graves of other heroes than
soldiers, and it will be seen that the
primary significance of the day has
given place to sport and absurdity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

The JOURNAL understands the Ledger
charged $40 for publishing the recent
annual Statement"
The space occupied is nearly 43b
inches.
The JOURNAL could have shaped it
better, printed it better on respectable
paper and put it inside of IS inches.
Then, if Council had been seeking
economy, inches of wholly unneces-
sary matter could have been dropped
and the space reduced to % inches.
For this the JOURNALS charge would
have been $2S, or $l4 less than paid
the Ledger.
But the Ledger was doubtless entitled
to something for saying "the peoples
money was not recklessly spent"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Another Statement oft.

Calico, fairfield at cents a yard, is
selling for 4, for which great credit is
given the doctrine OF protection.
Cotton, however, the base of calico,
is selling at price lower than any
remembered by the oldest inhabitant.
1t is essentially an article of export,
like wheat, now largely shut out of
foreign markets in retaliation for our
high embargo Oh trade.
Hence, nobody concerned in cotton
development is really protected"
The wrong mantle consumer, is
slightly taken care of-this in a back
handed way.
And he is less able under the system
to pay 4 cents than when he was a
little while ago to pay 5.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Wait.

We Will rebuild the court house without
one half the row you haye had over your
eightby-ten water works, Mr.. JOURNAL
Cumberland News
Well, the "Smead system" racket is
a fine starter.
Now wait for architectural and
structural differences.
And possible reasons why the lowest
bidders do not get the contracts.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
An Admission.

To go back couple of years the Ledger can
recall time when it was necessary for Mr..
Oder to defend the position now occupied by
the Ledger, etc.-Ledger.
1T there ever was time when the
Ledger paid more taxes than the JOUR
NAL and got less work, that time was
certainly no part of eternity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

In YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Tuesday, May
9, 1898, Cleopatra, aged 5 years, only
daughter of j. H. and Minnie Haber-
lein. of that place, and lately of
Frostburg.
Wednesday evening, May 10, 1898,
Osborn, aged . years and / months,
infant son of George Harris, of this
nlaca
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
appointment.

Leonidas J. Parker has been APP
pointed Justice of the Peace, rice H .
R. Atkinson, deceased. 1t is thought
he will fill the bill pretty well. 1t will
be nip and tuck now between him and
Justice John G. Dennison as to which
can reel off the most equity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Two Questions,

To the Electric road people:
What has the Ledger done for your
enterpriseg
What can it do?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

They do say that the Ledger is the Frost.
burg paper.-Ledger.
In other words
Whoever don't like hash is liar.-Tonl
Todd
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
1t is Used Different from Any Other

When Baby was sick, we gave her Ca>toria.
When she was Child she cried for Castoria
When she became Miss, she cling to Castoria.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

Have your teeth extracted at Ritter's new
Dental Parors.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13
Business Locals.

New Discovery.-Mayers' Magnetic Cure
is used by vapor inhalation and is the only
medicine of the kind ever put on the market
BY inhalation the medicine is not poured into
the stomach and thence sent wandering
through the system. But by inhalation the
medicine is applied directly to the diseased
organ and the only way to reach the affected
parts in the nose. Price 81 per bottle
Guaranteed to cure. For sale by A. F.
Parker and G. f. Pearce 4 Co.. druggists.
Frostburg Dental Parlors, Wehner
prletOr.
Our parlors will be open day or night for
those requiring our services. Special atten-
ton will be paid to treating and filling the
Natural Teeth.
1t is Used Different from Any Other
Medicine.-Our advertised agents and all
druggists are instructed to return the money
to anyone who fails to be cured by Mayers
Magnetic Catarrh Cure. Price 81 for three
months treatment This is saying great
Geal, but it has never failed. For sale by A.
F. Parker and G. f. Pearce & Co., druggists,
or address TUE MAYERs DRUG Co,
Oakland, Md.
Have you called at the Frostburg Dental
ParlOrs to see Teeth extracted without pain
by Electricity? The current can be adjusted
by the operator to suit the most delicate
child.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-05-13

A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-12

The public sense is waking up to its general
ignorance on hygienic matters and is ready to
welcome such publications as The Popular
Health Magazine. the first number OF which has
inst made its appearance. 1t is local as to its
management but in every other respect PROM
ises to be broadly national. Among its contribu-
tors will be found some Of the brightest minds in
the medical world. evidenced in this issue, where
Surgeon General Wyman of the U. s. Marine
hospital service discusses quarantine laws; DR..
William Fl. WEIGH of Johns Hopkins University
talks Of Asiatic cholera in its relations to sani-
tary reforms; Prof. Charles E. Munroe Of Co.
lumbar University says many important things
about pure milk; DR.. John S. Billings writes as
to the health OF Our cities; DIR. Edward Morton
Schaeffer Of Baltimore treats Of the poor man
and cholera, while Albert White Worse Of the
Philadelphia Ledger tells Of recent sanitary re-
forms in Philadelphia. There are other chap
tiers, all interesting. all instructive. the whole
being literary instrument which cannot but
accomplish great good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-12

In all the volume Of sympathetic sound that
has gone up as to the disaster Of Friday morn
ing there il but q single discordant note-ut-
tered by ex-Representative Poindexter Dunn Of
Arkansas. Mr.. Dunn 10 q member Of the COM
mission which is now investigating the work
ings Of the New York custom house and the ap-
praiser's stores, and when he was informed as
10 the awful catastrophe said: ''It's too bad.
/ wouldn't have cared so much if they had been
pensioners instead Of the poor clerks" 1t is
unfortunate that such cold-blooded comment
inhuman no matter how it NAV be rendered
should emanate from representative southern
man. o resident of Arkansas and an e1-confed-
crate soldier. As rule the soldiers of both
sides are on good terms with each other and are
ut all times ready to eulogize each others valor
but this seems to be an exceptional case. Hold
ing such views is il not rather strange that Mr.
Dunn should be willing to hold Federal Office?
But for the bravery Of the veterans whom he
desires to see extermnated Mr.. Dunn might
now be adorning a dry goods box in front Of
the post Office at Forest City, Arkansas. swap
ring snake stories with other loungers and WON
dering when a client would come along.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-12

1t has been intima.ed, and BY some of the
men who escaped from Fridays disaster. that
the coroner will experience difficulty in finding
witnesses who viii testify to official carelessness
in the conduct Of affairs prior to the killing.
the inference being that the clerks fear the dis
pleasure Of official superiors upon whom the
testimony might reflect That some OF the
employees may keep their mouths closed for
policy's sake is possible. but there are others.
and many Of them, who will speak ont boldly
when they are called upon. And they will run
no risk Of losing their situations. The people
OF the United States propose to have the causes
of the great calamity laid bare and will not per-
INIT fear Of official bulldozing to cloud the tes-
timony Of those whose information will throw
ligh: upon the horror. Clerks who have any
thing to say may speak right out,
and il their statements are accurate no
official superior will dare modest or make afraid.
The law-operated by civilian and military
forests now at work for the purpose Of fix
ing responsibility as to the frightful happening,
and the processes should not suffer hindrance
because . few weak brethren waver between
allegiance to the employing power and fidelity
to themselves and to the memories OF the dead
or suffering who were fellow-laborers until Fri
day morning last. More than q score of bread
winners were then flung into eternity by some
body's careessness or recklessness. while four
times as many OF the toilers suffer from serious
injuries received at that time. The country
wants to know who that somebody is, and it
demands tina. every witness who can contribute
toward his identification should speak on. now.
The nation insists upon the truth. the whole
truth and nothing but the truth. 1t will
neither permit individual malice to seize the
opportunity Of undeservedly fastening respon-
sibility for the disaster upon some hated official
nor will I. permit him who is really guilty to
e7ade responsibility by terrorizing witnesses
and suppressing the truth