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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
The Most Popular Teacher.

1t Is thought this county can get one
teacher a trip to the Worlds Fair free
OF all expenses under the offer of the
Pittsburg Times. Coupons are to be
cut from that paper and voted, and in
order to concentrate that vote the
Homecoming STIR proposes to send all
the coupons to the JOURNAL office with
an accompanying slip stating sender's
choice. Within few days of the
close of the vote at Pittsburg three
Judges here will open the sealed en-
velopes and the teacher found to have
most votes, according to the accom-
panying slips. will be entitled t. all
the coupons. Follow these directions :
l, Do not write your choice on the
coupons.
,, Write your choice on slip ac-
companying coupons.
3, Seal both securely in an envelope
and address JOURNAL, Frostburg, Md.
t, Mark envelope GETTYSBURG Times
Coupons"
Three honest judges will ascertain
who is entitled to the honor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
An Old Game.

An Eckhart subscriber finds serious fault
with the following editorial injunction,
clipped from last weeks JOURNAL:
Fellow-citizens, take the last levy list and
scan it carefully.
And then he asks
Who saw 1.-THE last levy list?" Only those
who had big interest in it-through the
Cumberland News and the happy -go-lucky
subscribers of the Frostburg Ledger l saw
one-oy accident, but could not appropriate
and keep it. Consequently, how am l to
verify what you say?
Our friend is assured that figures given
last week are liberal-to Cumberland.
The investment of that city in county
government realizes profit of at least so
per cent,1n per amman.
That is to say, Cumberland puts in about
S67 900 and takes out not less than $1,000 a
clean gain of so per cent.
This is further proven by the fact that
Cum berland does not controvert the figures
She is trying to laugh them down.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
Amend the Code,

ltwoud seem unnecessary for the Council tc
be compelled to instruct an officer every winter
to stop boys from skating on the pavements
As we understand it, this is standing regula
tion-to be enforced every time it is broken
and that the officer should not wait for
police instructions from Council, but &C
ahead and stop the nuisance!
If, however, the section of the Code Of
Ordinances entitled "Coasting, Shedding, ETC., y
does not include prohibition of skating
then Council should strike out the "etc.'
and amend the section so that it will be 9
perpetual command to the Bailitf to stop ont
OF the most annoying nuisances, which
peaceabe people have to encounter.
To be compelled to wait month, more OF
less, for Council to meet, in order to get 6
fresh order against skating is humbug
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
A just Judge.

Judg Ryan OF the Sixth Iowa judicial dis.
trict shows to what length Judicial tyranny
can go in this alleged free country bv pro-
hibiting smoking in the courtroom and
ordering the lawyers to keep their feet off the
tables.-Ledger.
Great judges, venerable patriarch, but you
are ploughng close to the corn.
Still, judge Ryan is judge after the jour.
NAILS own heart.
For no doubt the judge who makes rude,
coarse lawyers behave themselves according
to social law in the courtroom, would keep
them straight also when they are too handy
with libel laws as public instruments of pri.
vate resentment.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
LOCAL NEWS.


MesSrs. Bernard Stern, A. J. Will
son, Thomas Humberston, j. B. Ode
and Marx Wineland were elected Di
rectors of the First National Banl
Tuesday. Subsequently the following
officers were chosen
PreSident-Bernard Stern.
CaShier--John l.. Porter.
assistant T1ShicF-Robertleau AMMAN
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
VIII Our BEST People" Commit
Perjury?
Anent the tax question.

Anent the tax question.
The holders Of invisible property object to
the inquisitorial method of ascertaining bases
of taxation mainly for the alternative
reasons
l. 1t will drive the invisible property out of
the State, Or
2. 1t will compel people to perjure them.
selves for the purpose of keeping it invisible.
AS the class thus interested is generally
held as above criticism, the JOURNAL de-
nounces the objections as at once wholesale
impeachment ofthe patriotism of our patriots
and an unreserved libel of the character for
truth and veracity" of those who must not be
libeled.
lmpeachments of less gravity have been
resented in this longitude by prosecutions
for libel-crinliual libel at that
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
Acknowied gment.


The JOURNAL received the other day an il
Illustrated envelope showing a map of the
territory bounded by the Cumberland
horizon.
From which we are enabled to bet that
Cumberland is no 'pent up Utica"
Like the United States, as told by Cope
land
1t is bo+$nded on the east nv the rising sun
on the west by the setting thereof; on the
north by the Star Spangled Banner, and on
the south by the Day of Judgment.
There are Frostburg, Johnstown, Hunting
don, Pittshurg, etc, each indicated by little
o, while Cumberland itself, like the planet
Saturn, is represented by two distinct rings
and bulrseye!
1t is a very complete map.
The only important thing that is invisible
is the Cumberland system of water supply.
Although the wag who did the literary
work on the map names among Cumberland
Endorsements ample fire protection"
Which NAV mean that when fire starts
there is nobody nor anythingt to impose upon
or interfere with it.
This remarkable envelope was addressed to
Col. J. B. Oder" by some legal joker or
editorial jester.
1t contained poem entitled "a Wall from
Frostburg," whose supra Cumberland ex
cellence in a literary way inclines us to suspect
that it is All exotic from New York which is
tributary to Cumberland, as shown by the
map.
The JOURNAL congratulates the poet upon
his performance and Cumberland upon ts
good luck. For since Grover Cleveland and
W. Mem. McKaig have doomed up as stand.
ing tavorites of tickle fortune, no place,
according to the map-not even that "magc
city by the unsalted seas-Duluth," has
horizon one-fifth as expansive as Cumber-
lands.
And none, so eligibly combustible, has
got along so prosperously by bidding defiance
TO its eligibility, and by so many loud
demonstrations of silent contempt challeng-
ing its COmbustibility
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
Pointer.

If Frostburg had two such men as John j..
Bell and George w. Clark interested in To-
eating the courthouse here, there would be a
rafting among the dry bones of the valley of
Jehoshdphat just below the Narrows.
By the way, Messrs, Bell and Clark-what
will make that electric line hum like a favor
lite airline honey-bee route more than the
cOunty-seat at Frostburg?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
The Potomac Mermaid
IfYou Love Me, Feed Me,

The Cumberland and Pennsylvania rail,
road has come IN for a chance to see how its
value as a trunk line is really regarded in
Cumberland.
For one of the main disadvantages with
which Frostburg has been derided is its
want of railroad facilities" the Cumberland
papers publishing these cloudbursts OF
humor with gladness akin to glee.
The railroad people are therefore informed
that their line doesn tamount to much-when
it doesn't bring Georges Creek pork" to
Cum berland's unappeasable NAV.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
COUNTY NEWS.
BreViticS.

a splendid letter from Barton goes
over for want of room.
Some of the legal editors of the
Cumberland Ne,cS do better work
anonymously than as contributors
over their signatures.
The Hagerstown Mail appears to
think it was case of bustaneous
SpontaneitV.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14

The other day the JOURNAL, as an
individual, was painfully shaken up in
a collision with Il skater travelling at
~ miles an hour. No stops IN fact,
no intermediate stations. When re-
monstrated with afterward about it the
ga'nim asked" Well, why in the
hi didn't you get out of the way 2"
Which indicates that these villains,
lie: alone by the officers until Council
meets, soon contract the notion that
they own the pavements when snow
covered. Council has an Ordinance
against coasting and shedding on the
streets-to save horses from injury,
II II does not include skating on pave
ments, Council should enact one that
wllI.protect humanity from INJURY, and,
what is nearly as bad-the fear of
injury.
The JOURNAL endeayored to make
report of services at the Nj f. Church
Sunday school, last Sunday, memorial
izing Kathleen Oder, brief as possible.
And vet, at the last moment. it is
found that it must be deferred until
next week.
When Frostburg man turns up in
Cumberland some of the daily papers
suspect he has come after the court
house with what Congressman McKaig
once called "a CONNIE poSsetatuS."
Citizens, bring the countv-seat here
and the JOURNAL will publish "a daily
as is daily 1t will stand up" for
town and county alike and take equal
care of each.
A great dead of matter, local and
editorial, goes over until next week.
Cold below zero this morning.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
Can't Live Without II.

Even Hyndman Pa, is ambitious. 1t not
only wants the courthouse, but the whole of
Cumberland is invited to move up there.
For it seems to be q dead sure pop that
Cumberland is going to stay with or follow
that courthouse
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
No Halfway Boring will Answer.

.No hA"ih- oJ oOEbik Will [hhb"CEs
The attention of every body is called to the
letter of 'Aqmd Purd."
The JOURNAL honors it by leading" so
that all its readers may the more readily
honor it by reading
To the Water Committee it carries
message of vital moment.
1t means, in short, that the well must go to
the red shale centre at least IN order to get
water infallibly plentiful and pure.
The Potomac Mermaid.
The young Mrs. Grupdy Of the Homecoming
Re0ieD, apparently wanting to be parasite,
hermit-crab, or sacculina of Cumberland, has
it pretty straight
l, That "Frostburg will not get the court.
house"
2, That representative members of the
Board of County Commissioners" use words
to that effect.
The coal region, it seems, is to be slaughtered
in the house of its friends
The Cumberland siren is irresistlbly
seductive.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
\ Big Enterprise.

The county commissioners Monday
granted a franchise to Messrs. John J .
Bell and George w. Clark, of Iona
coming: William Pearre, of Cumber-
land; James B. Stewart and F. V. L..
Turner, of Washington, D. c., to con-
struct an electric railway from Cum
berland to Westernport, ri0 the Georges
Creek coal region. The company will
be known as the Homecoming and Cum
berland Electric Railway Company,
with capital stock Of $3.50, 900 The
distance from Cumberland to Western
port is % miles, and the route will take
in every town in the region. The
projectors of the scheme are John J.
Bell, mayor of Homecoming, and
George w. Clark. prominent citizen
of that place. Both are hustlels. The
first division of the road will be built
during the coming spring from Iona
coming to Frostburg, with a power
house in each place. 1t will carry
passengers and light merchandise, aud
cars will run at the rate of 20 miles an
hour. 1t will be tremendous addition
to rapid transit facilities in thi IS county
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
Election.

AT a recent meeting of St. Mary 5
Benevolent Society elected the follow
ing officers:
PreSident-John L Richardson.
observation-disclosures McAllister.
TreaSurer-Frank Spates.
Recording Secreta,y-W. J. Daley.
Financial s. james McAllster.
Thursday evening Col. Graham
Dukehart, Of Baltimore, grand lectm-
err, installed the following officers elect
of Mountain Lodge, No. 80, A. F. and
A. NJ.
WorShipfm Haster-F. c. Beall
Senior Warden-AleX. Neal
Junior Warden-Theo Gunnett.
Secreta,y-Josiah Ford.
TreaSurer-George ?. Tenant
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
The Coal Tp1Ip

Shipments of coal from the mines of
the Georges Creek coal region were
in long tons
For week ending Jan. :, 1898. ....... $500
:" year to same date. ............. 1868
Decrease compared with last year,. 23,l39
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14
Sand Rock.
RED
SHALE.
Pitch,
so degrees.

A. hfsevo'r B. We'll SaenSp E.
approximate Section Of
ShoCn Supply.
| The depression the Savage iver
~
Oeetbe
i
of36
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-14

The JOURNAL received the other day an il
Illustrated envelope showing a map of the
territory bounded by the Cumberland
horizon
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
IN THE HOWE.

1t is better to be silent than to say un-
wise or unkind things.
Do not boast OF birth, wealth, inf1uen-
tial friends or bodily prowess.
LooS at those who address you; but in
speaking to others do not stare at them.
Remember that servant is man or a
woman, and will appreciate treatment as
such.
Ladies should pass througha door first,
but gentleman is TO precede in going
up stairs.
Never urge another to do anything
against his desire, unless there is danger
before him.
A compliment, to be appreciated by
any sensible person, must be prompted
by sincerity.
Always give preference to elders, visi-
tors, those OF superior position and those
who are weak or i'll.
Never enter an apartment occupied by
another pelson, except the common
rooms OF a dwelling, without knocking.
Do not forget a kind word 10 each
member OF he family on parting at
nisht Or pea ant greeting on meeting
in tne morning d sod Hous sekeepiHg.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
InYEiIl rAsrrR nsl 6


In 1899 wi NaDeieeps armies were
swcn1 ng over The Continent, Aaassena,
one Of his generals appeared suddenly
on the heights above the little town of
Feldkirch on the Austrian frontier. It
was Easter morning. and the sun glitter
ing on the weapons of the invaders filed
the villagers with terror. The town coun-
Gil hastily assembled to consult what
was to be done. Defense was impossible
Should a deputation be sent to Massena
with the keys of the town and petition
that he treat the place with. mercy?
Then the old dean of the church stood
up. ut is Easter day" he said. "We
have been reckoning our own strength,
and that fails. Let us ring the bells and
have service as usual and leave the mat
ter in higher hands" His words pre-
vailed. Then al at once from three or
four church towers in Feldkirch the
bells began to clang joyful peals. and
the streets filled with worshipers hasten
ing to the church.
The French heard with surprise and
alarm the sudden clangor of joy bells,
and concluding that the Austrian army
had arrived in the night to relieve the
place Massera suddenly broke up his
camp. and before the bells had ceased
ringing not II Frenchman was to be seen
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
APHORIsMS.

Three things are known only in the
following way-a hero in war, friend in
necessity, and a wise man in anger
Arabic.
A liar would be brave toward God,
while he is a coward toward men; for a
lie faces God, and shrinks from man.
Montaigne.
The discovery of what is true, and the
practice of that which is good, are the
two most important objects of philoso-
phy.-vo voltaire.
Keep your conduct abreast of your con-
science, and very soon your conscience
will be illuminated by the radiance OF
God.-W. NJ. Taylor.
The most knowing man in the course OF
the longest life will always have much to
learn; and the wisest and best, much TO
improves
II YOU have built castles in the air, that
is where they belong; if you would not
lose your labor go to work and put foun-
dations under rthem.-Thoreau.
Amusement is the waking sleep of labor
When it absorbs thought, patience and
strength that might have been seriously
employed ii loses its distinctive character,
and becomes the taskmaster OF idleness.
--Willmott.
Look on the bright side OF life. Think
of its pleasant things. Bear its unpleas-
ant things patiently. Remember that
the mercies of life greatly EXCEED its ills,
and that often these ills are mercies in
isguise.-Lavater.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
vhLENr INES.

1t was very, very rainy day. Elsie had
ten valentines TO send, and Harry had
ten, but it was SO damp and cold out-of-
doors and there we're two such croupy
coughs indoors, that John had to go
rround the neig ighborhood and ring tho
door bells before he went TO school; but
there Is as no brother john in the other
houses to ring Harry's and Elsie's door
bell, and after Harry had sent one to
Elsie and Elsie had sent one to Harry,
they were as sober as two owls. Nellie
Bly, came into the sitting room to get her
thiluble, and found them watching the
clouds.
"Dear rnei' she said. 1t rains and
1t pours, it rains and it pours, it rains
and it pours, it rains and ii pour /
don't believe you can say that very fast
for minute"
The children wheeled around in front
of the clock, and before it was three
quarters OF q minute they were saying,
s. It roars and it rains, and Ching till
Nellie BY laughed, too.
That was just what she wanted. Now
go to playing" +" she said. "and we shall
see what we shall see" Then they
laur he'd again, and. Nellie BY went into
the next room with her sewing.
Size left the door open, and couiG hear
the little brother and sister talk ng 7aY
Ike two fnagpies.
FAIRY began at once to set up very
wonderful how n whicha opotamus
was going TO dance IN tub, and L e
seemed to be very busy taking care Of
Samantha, her big rag-doll who vas i'll
with the g catching typhoid fever"
Nellie Bly, Tut away her woriz, and
took up her pen, ard quietly LETT the
room.
By and by she called. .sThese's the bell,
chiidren!"
Down jumped The hippopotauus, who
was balancing on one foot-and poor
Samantha who was in the very mid OF
a hard chill, went headhrsT into the
cradle. The children few TO the front
door, and on the piazza there were two
valentines, one addressed to Harry
Greene, and one to Elsie Greene.
This was Harry's:
The daintiest hippopotamus that ever 1 have
seen
Is one that dances nimbly, named Harry
Norman Green.
And if he smiles upon me shall AXE it for a
To choose hirpopo anus when want a
va ientine.
This was Estes:
When rain is fall{ag frc m cloudy skies
i lock for sunshine in E 81 IS owes;
sonny day is both fai and flee
When see The s@est fec n.y. valentine.
-Ycushs Compan on.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
sIFIERS.

Wheu suple of tramps meet bull-
1og, they ually 4" git together"
I'm in pretty D ckle,' as the fly said
when be fell into jar OF red cabbage.
The bur giar should not be turned away
empty. lie should b. filed with lead.
a revolver is no laree weapon, but it
can be made cover very large man.
II it be srua that true love never dies,
how can there be course of true love?
A pill manufacturer advertises on the
label: & You take the pills; we do the
rest
Binx calls his doctor his biographer
for the reason that he is at work upon
his life.
Our ealesmen never get rufned. They
are different from night-shirts in that
respect.
It is true, though it sounds paradoxi-
cal, that man never has any trouble in
finding trouble Texas Siftings.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.

A Aleech has three jaws, which form .
triangle.
Corsets have been found on the waists
of Egyptian mummies.
An dinary house fly has 5000 eyes;
the dla son fy e, coo eyes.
Eaoug ID rider web to so around the
wore would we gh one nalf pound.
Stasfsh have the power 20 change their
eo,or TO that OF surrounding objects.
A single factory in North Carolina is
turning out 4,o0o, COO cigarettes daily.
The Chinese Emperor had 260 pairs of
boots made for himself some time ago.
Tie product Of American looms has in
creased from S6, ,023 100 IN 1850 TO s170S1
447in 1890.
1t is aid that he city of Pittsburg now
stand on ground once gwen IN exchange
for a violin.
Tie average weight OF the Chinese
bran is aid 10 b. heavier than the aver
are weight OF the bran Vi any o,her
rscs.
The most cunning art, as well as the
highest scent fic Il e to whch wood can
be twisted. turned wreathed, warped or
carved is that when fashioned into an
idea vo in.
Tire pre- white lustre cf snow IS due to
the faei tat al the eiemen arY colors of
ugnt are bseuded together in TIE radiance
thai tnTown off IRON the sur ace of the
thcu d cd and more distinct and perfect
cryS,a :.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
IoKELETS.

Tue widow is not always as mournful
as s1e is dressed-Dansvlle Breeze.
A cyclone is one of those things that
MAKES nan ieel b4ew.-B.ng gnamton
Lead r.
The SPUR of the moment is about as
dar gerous as the pistol tnat isn't ioaded.
-PUc.z.
Talk about your Transformations We
have seen sqdaIe man turn round
Yonkers sta se4man.
Many man wiz fght if you kick his
dog, vile cts his wife carry in all the
wood-Ram's Horn.
The record breaker isn't dishonest, al
though lie ofi>s to beat his way through
life. E IN ra Gazette.
Recipe fer a domestic broiI: First
eaten the hair on your husbands coat
coller.- Boston G azette.
When a girl secdres all the pin-money
she needs she has made a great poin9
with her para p c1yune.
The days of chivairy are spoken of as
the dark ages, pfooabiy because they
were the knight time. Binghamton
Leader.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30

If drop or water is let fa.l on a piece
of paDer, It spread in a large c.rcle. Ii,
however, the a9er has been oiled, or
covered with lam black or some sim lar
substance. the drop OF water will rcil
upon it as bail sligh htty fsstened. This
fact may be made use of for he performs
al ce of pretty tricS.
Take band OF rather strong paper
about a foot WIDE and as long as possible,
several sheets pasted together erd TO
end will do admirably it over a
smoking lamp, or better still, cover
one side of it with graph tie, COM
monty called black lead. or plum
bago. Stand upright on the table
several books decreasing regularly
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
oDDlIlEs
The ulster oveTcoas originated in Ire.


The ulster overcoas originated in Ire
lard
sEoodle is derived from Dutch ana
Gsrman words, meaning rocket er purse.
the Grit Il ckte- n-the-siot machines
were mede by Egypt an Priests ard they
turned on an urn oi no J wafer.
IRE ums Of ssiylan r g ments are
MAC "a IN ii.tie t7-o- y hceled caets, drawn
by b sogs, The sumn.er toiiow ng.
Ger ain G. ecoanut trees n Ind 9. almost
entlre.y 8eless, have been rex. we'd and
n-aGs o tear abuneantiy b. pacing at
ct ths roots
The name pound" as PLACE Tor eep-
fne stray an imals. arose IRON the English
law that the owner tad 10 nay one pound
ster ing before he cou d recover his
stock.
In oiden times su des were buried at
crossroads with a sake d. ven through
the body Tire stake was Of willow, which
grew ra idly and would therefore, more
surely mark the spot.
Charlie V asked to see his own funeral
ce ebrated in The cathedral. 1t was done
wi tie most N mute cetail, and made
auc a frie htfu, lmpres ion upon him
chat he acl ually died two days later
During the reign Of Henry " tae e.
glish parliament passed law requiring
all the geese in Eng and to be counted.
The sheriff of every count was required
to furnish six arrow feat..ers from each
goose.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-03-30
PUCK RIAGs.

"Please hold the wire, Is nc piotuss
said the nail.
I" Lives on the fat Of lie lard Tho
Anti-fat doctor.
You can't make lsathe- oil Z aog's skin
by ting his own olack-and ian bark
1t is better to wear ont ehan to rust
out; and in these rapid days the rule is
crust or Rustic"
The words of mans mouth tell no
more OF the medtations of his heart than
the " ce Of dinner-bell tells of the
quality of the dinner.
Solitude builds up the strength; Society
pulls it Gown. 1t is the necessity of hav-
ing to meet SO many people that turns
the able bodied lemon toe rcus lemonade.
"For the people and by the people,"
generally means a stiff dose of taxation
Tor the man whose wits have brought
him so much money that he is not reck-
oned one Of the people.-Puck.