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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Not Guilty of Base FIattery.

The Cumberland Ne,cs is just now
disseminating some valuable informa-
ton, apart from its recent able effort
showing how the Court of Appeals
erred in overriding an error.
''To a constant reader it explains ::
Inshallah is a word used by the Frostburg
JOURNAL to fill upa long-fet want when the
encyclopedia has been left down stairs. 1t
means well have the court house or blood"
The JOURNAL oyerrules the alterna-
tive. Like Portia, it would award to
Frostburg the congested regulator of
Cumberland's life-current, but not one
drop must be shed.
And our decree, unlike Portals, can
be executed.
Again:
The MewS does not initiate 1t originates,
and others follow.
Shakespeare could have said the same
thing, and the Frostburg Ledger has
said it.
But whence did the NeDS reproduce
it,
1nshallah
Tumblez gOus9
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
A Good Step Properly Taken.

That body of young, progressive
and heroic young men, the Frostburg
fire department, began an organized
movement Tuesday evening that
should be initiated generally.
They believe the water problem is
solved by engineer Townsend's plan.
and that a proper test will develop
i, That the most and best water is in the
red shale measures, and
2, That an artesian outlet on the east side
of Great Savage will afford the town auto
matically an abundant supply for all pur.
poses at original cost only.
The departments action should haye
immediate effect. 1t should
l, Prevent further expense in developing
surface water, and
., Promote investigation and test of the
red shale source of supply.
The firemen know well enough that,
without water, their Office, work and
organization are fruitless of good alike
to themselves and the town.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
n Word in Season.

The JOURNAL warns its brethren of
the press, bent upon political and
economical publication, that they are
not out of the woods.
The Avirett case can be re-opened
in grand jury properly constituted
and Mr.. Avirett can again be ground
into powder between the upper and
neither millstones of justice.
But there can be no "prejudicial
errors" committed in keeping Mr..
Ayirett and his witnesses off the stand
when he starts out to proce the truth of
his allegations.
The moral of the situation was once
very succinctly stated by Col, David
Crockett:
Be sure you are right; then go ahead
Otherwise, our brethren may get
both feet in Jail consomme.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
An Immense Danger.

A Master Workman convicted of
poisoning non-union workmen at
Homestead,
And another Knight of Labor in the
tolls
1t would probably be wrong to hold
the entire Order responsible for this
awful crime, but it verilies the con-
tentlon, often made in these columns,
that tho most dangerous of all I'M
American institutions is "the secret
body organized to carry out a public
purpose
1t is volcanic hotbed of seething,
sometimes OVERLOOKING peril.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
MOI Il Disaster.

Our Garrett county friends, who lately re-
ceived the sum of 50, 126 as a bounty from
the government for the maple sugar raised
by them during the past year, may be inter
ested IN learning that the democrats are al
ready preparing bill to repeal this part of
the Mckinley Act, and that this bounty
feature OF protection is most assuredly DOOM
ed, and that at an early day.-Cumberland
NctrS
This is doubtless designed to be de.
pressing news to the comparatively
few people in this latitude who boil
maple sugar, but how will it affect the
many to whom maple sugar Is not one
OF the necessarles of lifeo
The probability is-maple sugar, a
commodity of small trade proportions,
will sell not a cent higher than now.
for there is no life and death competi-
ton IN the maple sugar markets.
On the other hand, that sum of 81, l2G
will be saved to those who pay it and
get nothing for it.
Hence, the movement to repeal the
sugar bounty clause is one to cut out
of the Mckinley Act of its idioss
Yncrasles-that one which takes
money out of one brooches pocket to
put 1t in the other, minus the salaries
Of the man who collects and the other
fellow who pays.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
a Partial Remedy.

1t is supposed the readers of the
Cumberland Nens are sufficiently dis
eliminating to draw the line of de-
marcation between the people who
want free foreign coal and the people
who are expected to provide free
foreign coal.
If not, it is the JOURNALS desire to
remind them explicitly that it is the
Netcs' own party in its own New
England that wants free foreign coal.
And that the Neus is alarming its
readers with the fear that the demo-
cratic party will give the Ne,os' party
what the Nescs' party wants.
The JOURNAL states the situation as
Il matter of justice.
For it is not fair for the Neus party
in New England to expect, much less
"demand'-as would have been the case
under reciprocity-free foreign coal,
and then have the Nesos at this end of
the line holding the democratic party
responsible for yielding to its own
party's wishes and promoting its own
party's interests.
In this connection there is a ques-
ton we will ask the people of Georges
Creek, namely:
What real, unselfsh interest has
Cumberland in your welfare as against
free fol eign coal 3? Does Cumberland's
own conduct IN fleeing you in do
nestle affairs within an inch of your
lives imply any sympathy with you
that is not first and last vitalized and
energized by its own hoggishness
The JOURNAL knows your answer.
1t knows also that as between you
and the miners of Nova Scotia. alb
stractly, Cumberland has as much re-
spect and concern for the one as the
other.
Now, then, if free foreign coal
comes, as the NeUs seems to want you
to expect, why not mitigate the situa-
ton by unloading the domestic incubus
and set up business for yourselves 7
Let us "temper" the chill Nova
Scotia winds to the shorn Lambs by
letting the feeces grow-we being the
lambs!
In palmer words. let us haye new
county-even if we have to call it
"Cumberland," in order to legitimize
the name of our coal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
An Act Graceful and Brave.

If there is paper in the land dis
qualified by bad exemplary record
from giving advice to Journalists it is
the New York Sun.
1t was equally the relentless enemy
of Hayes and the inveterate maligner
of Cleveland.
Hence, apart from the friendship
which existed between the two ex-
Presidents, there was enough in that
papers malevolence to drive Cleveland
to the grave of Hayes-to show his
characteristic independence of all the
mean criticism the Sun and its copyists
have heaped upon him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
No !!

The editor of the Cumberland Neus,
himself a gallant officer on the losing
side of the war-the side which fought
a two-fold contest against privation
and bullets-wants to decorate the
JOURNAL with a big military title.
The brave captain says:
To Col. ]. B. Oder, of the JOURNAL: I'VE
give him the title of"Col." with a genuine
purpose of being complimentary, because we
know he was where such titles are honestly
won once upon time and that he acquitted
himself like man, and we make this ex.
PLANTATION because that honorable title is SO
much debased and degraded in these days by
having it used to dignity the patronymic OF
many frauds and shams.]
This is tirstrate, but see how it was
unintentionally marred:
Come down on Saturday next and attend
the court house meeting, and give us an op,
portunity of causing you to feel ashamed OF
the remarks you INDUCED in concerning said
meeting in the issue of the JOURNAL on
Saturday.
Our intrepid captain enjoyed several
such invitations during his career as
a soldier-a career inspired and shaped
by a sincere, honest persuasion that he
was contending for his home-rule con-
victions-but did he accept them 2
Perhaps, too, his career was made
the more heroic by the closer and more
personal consider alton that he was
standing between invasion and 1.-THE
Girl Left Behind Me7"
If so, could he have been made to
"feel ashamed" of his talk and conduct
| during that period7
Not much.
The situation, comparatively speak,
ing, may be O. little overdrawn, but
captain, "honor bright"-if you lived
in Frostburg, would you regard con
slant loyalty to the good old town anC
a perpetual effort to make your home
the best on the planet-would yor
think Cumberland enjoyed any sort Of
right to make you "feel ashamed" O.
your nearest and dearest objects o.
patriotic love2
The JOURNAL knows in advance hi.
answer.
1t knows also that little reflector
only is needed for him to apprehene
fully the disrelish it must haye for "ar
opportunity" whose prospectus convey
the very unwelcome promise of over
turning all its knightly notions o
mankind's original object of loyalty.
And of inverting all its pious con
captions Of first and paramount fidelit,
to home and home interests-can w
permit these fond considerations to b.
desecrated, O Frostburg, the New
Jerusalem of Allegany, or the Noun
Zion of the new county?
With one prolonged, sonorou
"Demosthenic" negative, the journal
thunders-NO!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Here the Reader can be His Own
Judge.


Judge.
| We wish to advise the Frostburg JOURNAL
| that we decline to be drawn into any discus
| sion of the decision of the Avirett case-Cum-
berland News.
Times have changed.
1t has not been long ago when the
Neacs was calling for names and
! specifications" and, not getting them
ION tap" was haunting the JOURNAL
almost with contempt of court"
What has come oyer the spirit of its
nightmare?
But let that go.
Our esteemed contemporary con-
tinues:
The NerS reviewed the decision ina respect.
full tone and IN dignifed manner, without
forgetting that it is the law, and must be
loyalty accepted as such by all good citizens
When it had shown wherein the court had
reversed its own decisions in two instances
in reaching its conclusions in the case in
question it was done. To proceed further
would be to indulge in criticism that is not
becoming, even in the columns of public
journal.
One of these instances was disposed
of by the JOURNAL last week, and a
learned legal gentleman volunteers to
inform us in addition that
Judge Alvey made no such ruling in the
Troxell case, because there was no such
question involved.
Which settles that point.
Now, as to "the Gibson case" the
Courts opinion IN ertensO discloses-
l, That this case was not cited in
the argument of the Avirett case,
and
:, That frank acknowledgment of
error in that case seems to be made,
and it is explicitly stated that the law,
enormously relied upon in the Gibson
case, "cannot be invoked in the case
at bar"-the Avirett case.
Why?
The Count answers
That Section rs of Article 5 of the Code)
provides that no judgment or verdict shall be
reversed if there be one good count in the
declaration. This obviously relates only to
cioil cases and has no application whatever to
indictments.
The Court then fortifies its last
position by citing the third Section of
the Act of 1909, which declares that
nothing contained in the Act
shall be construed to extend to any
criminal process or prosecution at the suit
of the State.
The predicament in which the Neecs
finds itself now is this:
The Court ofAppeals admits it erred
in 1.-THE Gibson case" and propes By lac
that 1t erred.
The Neacs, however, contends in effect
that the Court did not err in 'the
Gibson case" although the law ex-
plicitly forbids applying the recognized
rules of judgment in civil suits to
criminal cases.
Now, then, we will leave the reader
to answer the question
Whose aictum is right-that of the
Neeos or that of the law
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Business Locals.

What Am to Do ?-This is tie oft eX-
preston of the weary sufferer with Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia and other painful diseases.
The whole human frame is tortured and
rackcd with pain 1t Is well to remember no
known medicine equals Red Flag Oil for
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains and Bruises.
Price % cents at &. c Shearer Il Co.'S Drug
Store.
Dcntistry.-Drs. =. =. Ritter X Bro have
all the latest appliances to perform any and
all operations pertaining to their profession.
Preservation of the Natural Teeth speciality.
Office opposite Central Hotel.
If YOU want to get at our prices you can do
SO by figuring about 10 per cent. OIL what other
dealers ask you, and you'll be about the mark
We are always the lowest in price as we'll as
best in quality. GFuAuF a. MAYER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
A Back Seat for Us,

Webster is rapidly coming out of the woods,
and she will soon take her stand IN the front
rank among the wealthiest counties of the
State.-Addison CIV. Va.) Echo.
1t is different here where the ruling
policy is to keep the real portion of
the county in the woods that are back.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
"WhO'H Pick DE Cotton 2"

A song and chorus by s. W Straub. This
is one of the best songs that we have seen in
long time. 1t is full of the junction and
pathos peculiar to the race that picked dc
cotton thirty years ago. 1t will doubtless
be very popular. The publishers, s. w.
Straub 4 Co., 245 State ST., Chicago, will mail
a copy to any address upon receipt of SOC.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Something Nice.

The JOURNALS hat went up in the
air OF reading this:
The JOURNAL gets off many more good
things, last Week., and is as bright, spicy. and
interesting a paper IS one wants to find
Cumberland Courier.
1t takes considerable work to get ur
the JOURNAL, but there is good deal
of compensation IN the appreciation
and praise of people as competent to
Judge as Z. r. johnson.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Fatal JanuarY.

Butler, Kenna, Hayes, Lamar,
Blaine!
No months neurology was ever so
crowded with great names
All lawyers
Not to be irreverent, the list does
not include the legal lights put out by
the Maryland Court of Appeals!
Who, though dead, yet speak, and,
speaking, say
Weare not feeling very well ourselves.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Business Locals.

Don't QuarreI-With people for groan.
ing when they suffer with Rheumatism OF
Neuralgia; the pain is simply terrible nc
ancient torture was more painful but people
ought to be blamed if having rheumatism OF
Neuralgia and won't use Red Flag Oil it has
cured hundreds of sufferers and costs only rs
cents at G. c. Shearer & Co.'s Drug Store.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28

The Cumberland Courier is pretty
smart and learned, but it is going to
have a pretty tough time proving that
Luke was an apostle" on the strength
that "he was one that was sent"
The Court of Appeals recently ''sent"
a few lawyers ''to grass"
Are they apostles ?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Sand Rock.

{. Spring.. d. S3enSD +
o ter Supply
The on the right the valley
rapidly divergent the sboIeo
hoIdle
in rec
a. lonnctng well with would
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Am Immense Ofrer-I NAVE ARRANGED for

short time to make dozen of our unexceled
Cabinet Photos and fine 16x20 3life-size
crayop pictures for So. We do this as
another method ofintroducing our work into
every home. This offer also holds good with
anyone who has recently had work done.
For further information call at Gallery.
All work done without pain"
G. u. 1OWIES
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28

About Teeth.-Do you know that Drs.
P. P. Ritter q Bro. extract teeth without
pain by the use of the latest local anaest hetic
known to the profession, and insert Artificial
Teeth that cannot be detected from the nat
ural organs. Office opposite Central Hotel,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28

When Baby was sirE, "" rave her Castorin.
When she was Il Child Sic cried fu!' O. io.!I.
When she became Miss, She cuu.: to Ca,toria.
When she had Children she gave them Castorin
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28
Business Locals.

We consider it feather in each of our hats
when customers tell us that in all their trading
experience they never bought such bargains
as they have gotten at our store.
GEHAUF 4 MAYER,
Furniture men.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-28

A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06
THE TOWN WIPED OUT.

Cisco, Texas, Completely Demolished
BY a Tornado.
A tornado struck the town of Cisco, Texas,
about o'clock at night and totally demol-
ished everything in its path.
Every house but two was levelled to the
ground. Several Of the wrecks took fire. and
many Of those who were not killed outright
py the falling buildings were burned to death
or suffocated. About twenty-five persons lost
thelr lives and forty more were seriously in
jured.
A brakeman on the Houston and Texas Gem
trai hallway was blown from the top of a
freight car and instantly killed, and section
hand on the Texas and Pacific was also killed
The Texas and Pacific Station was lifted
from Its foundation, blown across the track,
and dropped mass of shattered and splinter
ed timbers 400 feet from the railroad.
A freight train of seventeen cars, engine
and caboose on the Texas Central track was
blown from the rails, and the engineer, fire.
man, and more than dozen persons in the
waiting room were reported to have been
killed outright or fatally injured.
There were fifty business houses in the
city, but now only one remains intact. Out
OF the four hundred residences only one es-
capped the fury of the terrible gale
Buildings were shattered in every direction
and are heaped in shapeless masses. Mortar
and brick flying in every direction caused
more real suffering than did the storm ITSELF
The Cisco Roller Mills, the two depots, all
the churches and school buildings of the city
and all the hotels but half OF one were de-
stroyed.
The loss is estimated at over 81, 500, 600,
and the town can hardly rebuild without out
side help.
The tornado was caused by two storms
which came from the southwest and north
east and seemed to meet over thet town, where
the clouds assumed the shape of an inverted
funnel. The range of the storm was two miles
west of Cisco and five miles east.
A tornado also visited Ponca Agency, In
dian Territory, and five people were killed.
They were: Jack Keithley, wife and two
children, and Charles Jackson, of Kansas,
wno was visiting the Keithleys. There were
two other Keithley children injured.
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06
The Canary Industry.

For more than century the breed
ing of canaries has been thriving in
dustry in parts of Germany. In 1850
the German dealers began to ship the
birds to New York, and then to South
America and Australia The profits
are small, but the industry is godsend
to the poor, who make the small wooden
cages. It is estimated that about 250,
900 canary birds are raised every year
in Germany. The most important
market is the United States, which
takes about 100, 900 birds per annum-
When the birds are shipped to this
country they are always accompanied
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06

Among the Incidents of jokes played
writer on ssThe Animal Sense of Ma
ture," in the London Spectator, Is that
of iackdaw which, whenever it found
its setterdog companions asleep, would
steal up to them and pull at the little
fluffy tassels of HAIR between their toes
where the animal was more sensitive
than in other hairy parts OF its body
unpleasantly waking them up. At a
certain house, tame magpie was kept
in the stable yard with two kestrels.
The kestrels were in the habit of sitting
on the sides of the water-pails that
stood outside of the stable doors. At
one time the magpie approached kes-
trel from behind, seized its long tail in
its beak, lerked it violently, and pushed
it over into the pail; but the kestreI
afterward caught the magpie and pun
ished it we'll. A cat expressed it's dis
like OF peacock by jumping through
its spread ont tail when the bird was
displaying it's beauty and exhibiting its
own vanity, to the great discontinue
of the fowl The writer's dog, which
was accustomed to hunting rabbits,
showed its displeasure when its master
mad shot bullfinch by going into the
hedge, finding rabbit, and bringing it
to him. Another dog, which knew
tame ducks and tnat they were not
hunted, but had no acquaintance with
wild ones, was mucn disguised wnen it's
master shot teal, believing he had
made mistake, and would have moth
ing to do with tue game. "He behaved
III exactly the same way when we snot
black rabbit; nothing would persuade
HIM that 1t was not eat, andhe would
do no serious work for tho rest OF the
day." The writer tells also of dogs that
thought 1T beneath their dignity to
chase rails, except when their masters
were engaged III tine sport; and he
speaks OF the very obvious dislike OF
dogs to belaugned at. Popular Science
Monthly.
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06
SIX MEN BURNED.
An Incendiary Believed to Have
kindled the Blaze.


Shortly after O'Clock a. m. the fire alarm
called the department and police to a large
brick tenement at Burlington, Iowa, which
was found to be in flames.
1t was learned that number OF persons
were in the building unable to escape. Every
effort was made by the firemen and police tn
rescue them, but the flames had gained too
much headway, and when the fire was suffi-
cientiy subdued to permit. of an examination
of the interior of the building six burned and
almost unrecognizable corpses were found in
different rooms upstairs. They have been
identified us follows T. G. Schuman, car
pet weaver; Mike Hynes, transient iodger
Mike Lee. stove mouider, just arrived from
Chicago; John Morgan, stove moulder, resi-
dence not known !; Is boiler maker, known as
Charlie, supposed to be from Chicago Joseph
n. Sevindler, a plasterer.
The lodging-house WAS kept by Mrs. judi
son. and was patronized by poorer class Of
laborers and mechanics. There are several
suspicious circumstances connected with the
f1re which the Coroner will Investigate. The
loss to the building and contents was prop-
ably $4,000, with small insurance.
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06
Chinese Experts in Irrigation.

The Chinaman is wonderful irri-
gator, and his presence on the big irri-
gated ranches OF California is a great
boon to the proprietors. He is the
most perfect type of the servile laborer,
and is, therefore, very satisfactory to
those who have no objection to servile
labor. Where there is good system
of irrigation eight Cinnamon will irri-
gate 1000 acres day at u cost of five
cents per acre. They work with re-
markable speed and accuracy, and
often locate checks by the eye that
would ordinarily require the services
OF surveyor. The Chinaman works
so well and so cheap that ne would
soon drive out all white labor If no re-
strictions were imposed on lmmigra-
tion. 1t would require much space to
set forth complete list OF his points
of superiority over the usual hired
help CT the farm. Irrigation Age.
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06

by an attendant. On the return voy-
age these attendants take American
birds and animals to Europe. New
York Sun
Passaic City record., 1893-05-06
Why not, indeed ?

When the Royal Baking Powder makes
finer and more wholesome food at less cost,
which every housekeeper familiar with it will
affirm, why not discard altogether the old
fashioned methods Of soda and sour milk, or
homemade mixture of cream of tartar and
soda, or the cheaper and inferior baking pow
ders and use it exclusively?