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The Portland daily press., 1893-01-26

A-~SS%A
all colors which have been used
to decorate the department, to
90 at 100 a yard, formerly 80 and
$50. One lot of fancy edge satin
Ribbons at zoe, were So and 40c.
One lot of fancy picot edge rib
bons, all colors, at &c, were 12c.
TOILET GOODS.
One lot of Oxydized Puff Boxes
at SC, marked from Zoe. One lot
of toilet Combs at &c, were 10c
and up-damaged. Half dozen
plush boxes, damaged, at 25c.
Six broken Atomizers, all right
but the bulb, 25c, were $1.62.
One celluloid toilet set in plush
box, mirror and brush broken, at
SOC, was $2.75. One Meerschaum
Smoker set in fancy box at SOC,
marked from $1.60-damaged.
Five cut glass Pungents, broken,
at 10c, were &c.
STATIONERY.
One lot of large Etchings at
$1.00, marked down from $1.25,
$3.50 and $500. Another lot of
smaller ones at 25c, were 4Oc.
Six Maude Humphrey water
color prints at 25c, were 500.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-26

Two lines Of French
woven 500 bone corsets,
sizes 2o to 80, at 81 a pair,
marked down from S.
and SO. A lot of "Royal
Worcester" Corsets, in
red, old gold and white,
! the regular 4 90 quality,
to go at ? 90 the pair.
One assorted lot of odds
and ends, including such
well known makes as c.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Pave the Streets.

That is a pretty good piece of work
Of its kind that supervisor England has
done on Steyer street.
But the JOURNAL thinks it the poor
est kind of poor economy to use sand
stone for roadbeds.
Why is nothing permanent done-even
though it be little at time a.?
Why not cut the limestone off Broad
way and thus lower the bed, use the
stone in needed places elsewhere, and
pave that street solid from curb to
curb and from Main to Loo street 7
Make the curb uniform, assess the
binding property-owners with the ex-
pense of curbing and the cost will not
exceed So, 800.
We are about having a splendid new
school building erected-one that we
will show to our visitors with pride.
Why not make the approach to it a
work of equal credit to our taste and
public spirit
Then next year We can pave all or a
portion of some other street, and so
on until within few years the care of
our streets will impose the least tax we
will have to bear.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
PUBLICATIONS.

Ladies' Sleeves for the Summer Season.
The most essential feature of our present
modes is the pre-eminent part which the
sleeves take in the general make up of a
toilette. They constitute the dominant note,
the striking accessory which compels the
attention ofthe beholder. In point of variety
of details, such as draperies. trimming and
ornamentation, they surpass any other part
of the costume. To this complication must
be added the further necessity Of knowing
the historical origin and ascertaining the
style most suitable to the figure of each
individual wearer. The well-known and
popular Mcdowell fashion journals are excel
lent guides i'll this embarrassing perpleXity.
Recognizing the important role of the sleeve
i'll our modern styles, they have devoted
many lessons to the different kinds of the
prevailing sleeves and the manner of making
them. These lessons are invaluable. They
will be found in La Mode de Paris, in Paris
Album Of Fashion and in The French Dress
maker, formerly La Coutuiere.) The former
two cost $3.50 each a year, or 80 cents copy
The latter is $500 per annum, or 80 cents a
copy. La Mode with its low subscription
price of $3.50 year, or Is cents copy, is
unique publication of its kind not duplicated
in this country. you are unable to procure
any of these magazines at your newsdealers
do not accept any substitutes, but apply
directly to Messrs. A. Mcdowell & Co., 4
West 18th Street, New York
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10

The Homecoming churches, it is re-
ported, have system of interchange
able girls. When one church gives an
entertainment each of the other
churches lends a girl or so to hel p the
festivities along. This secures the
floating trade of dozen or two of
young men who are attached to no
church but are attached to the girls.
The new constitution of Mississippi
provides that elections shall be held
but once in four years. What speech
less suffering and sad-eyed misery such
a provision would cause in Allegany
county.
A new election district has been
formed out of the Barton and two
Homecoming districts. 1t is so con-
veniently arranged, it is understood,
that many Homecoming people can now
go outside the corporation to vote.
AT great pains and immense expense
the JOURNAL has secured an interview
with prominent members of "The Vale
Summit Summer School of Philosophy
and Research" concerning the ety.
mology Of 'Pompey Smash" 1t will
be published next week, and will
retire to the shades the theories of toe
"Esoteric Buddhists" of the Frostburg
Ledger company.
James Campbell and T. F. Nc
Cardell are reported as having become
very intimate. Politicians are a good
deal like women. Whoever saw two
girls in love with the same "feller"
that did not pretend to be chick 2"
1t seems to have become an I'M
written law that no man can become
a "colonel" in Cumberland until he
has been there at least year. Before
that his grade is simply major" In
Homecoming the highest title conferred
is "sojer."
A man visited Barton the other day
who had not been there before since
1865. The place had changed so much
that about the only thing he recog-
nized was the handsome face of the
JOURNALS old friend. James Tibbetts.
When sharper wants to "work"
Homecoming for all the place is worth
he asks everybody he introduces him
self to eff the town isn't about six
times bigger than Frostburg 2"
Chow is it, McCardell," asked a
New York man the other day, address
ing Capt. 7. F. McCardell chow is it
that all these fellows are generals and
colonies and you only a captain ?"
so, that's because l was in the war;"
replied McCardell.
There is an immense amount of jury
commission bill sentiment in this
county, but it is not we'll distributed.
A big wad of it is located, for instance,
under the vest of J. Joker Robinson.
One of the conditions that will con-
front each nominee for judge will be
where do you stand on the jury COM
mission bill 2"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
CORRESPONDENTS.
From the Worlds Fair.

CHICAGO, LII, May ~, 1875.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
They used to tell Of the ardent old
parson who tried to terrify a back
sliding member of his congregation by
picturing to him hell with all its hor-
rors, and whose fervid eloquence only
succeeded in bringing forth this re-
tort "lts no use tryin' to bluff me,
Dominic I've liued in Chicago"
This tale has had its day. So much
so, in fact, that the pastor, who is try
ing to paint the pleasures of the Better
Land and, falling short of smile, can
tell it all by adding-''it beats the
Worlds Fair!" For beauty beyond
this is past the possibilities of belief.
1t has been called 1.-The White City,
THE Dream City," "The Wonder
City," and what not; and as yet no
title is fit compendium of its surpass-
ing beauty.
A city of the sky, by the borders of
the blue lake, its white palaces seem in
their magniticence and splendor to
mock the human hands that made
them. 1t is the apotheosis of archi-
lecture and the realization of some
mirage magnificent. There are miles
of broad boulevards, stretches of
beautiful lagoons and thousand
palaces wherein are stored the treas
ures of the world. The largest of
these great buildings covers nearly
forty acres of ground; in Its flooring
alone were driven seven carloads Of
nails. The rest can be computed by
the Hon. Patrick Rourke, late of Mt.
Savage, who is most at home in math-
ematics.
The main buildings are the above
mentioned, which is the Manufacturers
and Liberal Arts building, the Trans
portation building, the Administra-
ton building, the Electricity building,
the Mines building-of interest to ali
at home, Machinery building, Horti-
cultural building, Woman's building,
Fisheries building, Government build
ing, and so on. Besides this every
country has a building and almost
every State.
AS an adjunct and sideshow to this
there is the midway Plaisance,"
where there are Chinese, Japanese,
Javanese, Egyptian, Turkish, Moor
ish, Lapland, Esquimaux, Dahomeyan
and kaffir towns and villages. For
the, benefit of Red Knob Brady l
will add that there are t,co Irish viii
lagos, one of which includes a fac simile
of Barney Castle and the other rep
resentation of the Castle of Donegal.
The Rock of Cashel is also there to
swear by. Irish chanters, Irish black
smiths, Irish dairymaids, Irish bulls,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
1t Cannot be Otherwise.

E. R. Johnston, the wisest man of
his age we know, says:
No matter how much you may do for a
man-you may admire 80 per cent. of his
qualities, and be thick with him 364 days, %
hours, SO minutes and SO seconds but, if
then you touch him on his hobby, or say
that you think he might by some possibility
be mistaken, or have tail-feather less than
the biggest of the angels-I tell you, my
friend, that last seconds work will knock the
bottom out of all the hitherto, unless you
are dealing with a man who has an idea that
he don't know it ALL" or at least knows
very little more than that
The JOURNAL has had occasion to
say before that when man has reach
ed the conclusion that, after all, he
knows precious little, he has made his
first golden inning in true knowledge.
Frequently it takes a long, long
time for man to make this, the home
base, but when he does he is ever after
a conservative assessor of his own
excellencies as a scholastic athlete.
Some-indeed many, never reach
there at all, and of such is the king
dom of inveterate illiteracy.
And theirs is the punishment which
inevitably awaits the final persever-
ance of ignorance.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
ParadOyes.

One of the alleged over-protected
and bounty-fed products of this
country is silver.
Yet, if we err not, the Cumberland
Ne,cs is in favor of Withdrawing the
governments Astounding favor there
from.
Why?
Because the result is-over. produc-
ton has occasioned so great an inAa-
ton of basis, not of currency, that the
reaction is telling heavily against the
commercial business of the country.
Now, suppose high protection should
give us in the same way great big
shipyard in every seaport city, and a
rollingmill, glass works, tin plate
mill, ETC., in erery inland town, would
there not soon be more goods than
consumers ust as there Is more silver
than people who want silver?
For it must be remembered that high
protection draws no line, and can draw
no line between superabundance of
manufacturing development and just
enough of it.
And where it can draw a line, as in
coal, it does not exercise its preroga-
tive, but let's that article incur COM
petition enough to rob the labor which
raises it to the surface of over 800, 900
year.
If, too, we place the Cumberland
Ne'os right, that paper would remove
the bounty from silver at the behest
of exactly those very foreign interests
from whose competition it would
"protect" all american products! The
people whom the SUPERFICIAL Harlan
& Hollingsworth will now patronize,
and of whom we should be entirely
Independent, are the very people
whose demand for the destruction of
silver the Ne,os is unconsciously
voicing.
Yet Harlan & Hollingsworth should
live and flourish, and silver die and be
damned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
COUNTY NEWS.
Political.

fOllC1Cal.
A Baltimore man told the JOURNAL
the other day that the only certain
things in Allegany politics now known
are the nomination of Boyd for Judge,
Avirett for postmaster of Cumberland,
and the success of the jury commission
bill.
One thing is a positive fact-there
is strong sentiment extant among
republicans who are not professional
politicians to run mixed ticket for
County Commissioners. They say
the new law providing for holdoyer
Commissioners favors the scheme, and
it is even proposed that it be agreed to
run but one ticket, the republicans
nominating three Of their very best
men, the democrats two of the same
caste. AS an earnest of this proposal
ga Republican" names "Dayisson
Armstrong, of Frostburg, and Albion
Coles, of Barton, as the sort of men
the county needs at the head of its
finances, especially at this time"
Whether the scheme be practicable or
not is a question the politicians, who
have control, will most probably
decide in the negative. But one thing
is sure-minority representation in all
the fields of public economy is whole
some, while majorities, welded by
partisans of either party, are nothing
less than monarchies.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Why {?

The JOURNAL does not intend nor
desire to impeach the republican
party's attitude toward coal any farther
than the facts of history and political
biography warrant.
Its object in discussing the tariff as
it relates to and involves coal is to
show that there is probably. less to fear
now than since the war of interruption
Of its status, since it is already down
to the revenue basis.
With no strictly partisan purpose,
therefore, we must question the fol-
lowing statement:
The attitude of the republican party toward
the coal interests of the country has never
been one of doubt or uncertainty. 1t has
always favored its protection, and had it
been otherwise the tariff on coal would long
since have been repealed. News.
What was the matter, then, with
the Senate republican, when Mr..
McComas sent up here for committee
on two occasions to go to Washington
to appear against free coal7
Long before that, who reduced coal
to rs cents, after agreeing in the Com
mittee on Ways and Means to cut it
down to so cents?
And, later-who advanced the tariff
42t per cent. all along the lines of
consumption and left coal where it is ?
In other words, who extended high,
and higher, and still higher protection
to nearly every article of prime neces-
ity that encounters foreign competi-
ton, and left coal to make its way as
best it could along the low level of a
revenue basis rate
Moreover, who left miners, thus
really unprotected, to fight their way
against legion of protected indus
tries?
But the JOURNAL will not insist upon
answers to these questions if the NeVs
will answer one-just one-namely:
Why did not Mr.. McComas have the
tariff on coal increased
1t needed it just as much as any
other article, yet it nowhere ever APP
peared that he proposed, or even sug-
gested it as a just act, an impartial act,
or one that belonged as much to his
loyal constituency as to any other.
Yet he voted and worked to build
the wall higher against everything
except coal.
Why did he do it?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
The Remedy.

The Cumberland Netos concludes a
recent editorial on 1.-The Jury System
Question with the sarcastic remark
that
Should any Of the cases go to the Court Of
Appeals an opportunity will be given that
body to set itself right again.
But all the mooted questions in
volved in the method of selecting jurors
can be finally settled, not in the courts,
but by the people practically enacting
next fall the jury commission bill into
law.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
COMPROMISED.

Editor Oder, Of the Frostburg JOURNAL,
objects to being called eccentric.-Cumber-
land Times.
Yes-in the ordinary acceptation of
the term.
Very well, then, how will unique do as
applied to the great paper and sui generis suit
as describing its mighty editor Ibid.
All right, because in some degree
those terms fit every paper and every
editor.
The JOURNAL does not aspire to be
regarded as an oddly nor as an ex-
aggeration.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
o, King, Live Forever

The collapse of one after another of these
natural gas boom towns unites with the
great paper of Frostburg that coal is still
king.-Cumberland Times.
"Still king" although forgotten Sin
the house of its friends" when the
Mckinley Act was rushed through
forgotten when Maryland Congress
men had to be unseated by the Bel
shazzars of high protection as part
of the programme of deliberate for
getfulness.
"Still king ~ Esto perpetua i!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Religious.

A new parochial school hall is in
process of erection as an adjunct of
SIS. Peter and Paul's church, Cumber-
land. The cornerstone is to be laid
to morrow Sunday and Catholic So
cieties of Westernport, Barton, Iona
coming, Frostburg and Mt. Savage are
expected to attend.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
How it WOuld Re.

One party stoutly fought for and kept the
tariff on coal. The other stands pledged to
destroy it.-Cumberland Nens.
If the Ns,os were exactly correct in
that statement, the duty on coal would
be $1.25 per ton, not rs cents.
And if the "other" party Islands
pledged to destroy" the tariff on
COAL" that tariff would now be at
least so cents, not Is cents.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Laughing at an Inflrmity.

The Cumberland Courier is in loye
with "fun." In its own words:
The funniest thing we have seen, during
the last few moons" is this: The Frost
burg daily giving sass to The Great Paper.
Herein is an intimation of lunacy on
the part of the "dally" so pointed that
we are impelled to ask the Courier
whether it is exactly the proper chris
tan caper to be amused at the antics
of an institution that was fred at the
moon, but hit Frostburg-ands tuck7
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10

Irish lacemakers, Irish whisky, turf,
bog oak, black thorns and what not.
1t may be also stated that captious
critics of Celtic extraction, such as
those residents of West Loartown who
changed the name of Pompey Smash
to Vale Summit, found fault with the
correct representation of the Blarney
stone in Irish village No. L. They
claimed it was shamrock. But, as
they say in the song, "and that is Irish
too"
The Midway Plaisancen is the
greatest show on earth. 1t has big
iron wheel, 265 feet high, that turns
around and carries 800 people at a time
swinging through the air.
Maryland is well represented in the
Worlds Fair proper. The biggest
lump of coal at the whole Worlds Fair
is from the Georges Greek coal and
iron company's mines, and there are
many big Jumps there, too-from a
fonr-ton chunk from Pont Prydd to
"a -d't"manous section Of Jossilized
chemical compounds, a tribute from the ter
tiary period Of prehistoric moist formation
as black as political prejudice and burns
LAX ha1eh" donated, together with
the inscription as above, by Uncle
Jake Winters, of Dams mountain.
In the Maryland building Frostburg
has done itself proud and left Cumber.
land far behind in the matter of ex-
hibits. The post of honor is held by a
miniature mine made by C. F. Sullivan
and presented to Hon. Lloyd Lowndes
for exhibition. To show how we poets
hang together
1t bears simple little card
That all who come may scan,
And know that it was sent in care
OF James E. Ratigan!
All, James is a good old friend of
mine and here at last fame has found
him and he knows it not.
Letters of recent date also bring the
cheering intelligence that the Never
Sweat Social Club of Eckhart will come
out in body July 4th. On the COM
mittee on liquid refreshments | note
the names of Stineman Crowley,
Barney Brady, Darby Nelson, Smoke
Eckhart, Cap. Morris, Josie P. Miller
and the Pride of Stovetown, little
Buckcat. To these friends of former
times | also wish to state that western
ways are free and easy and, leaving
out the difference in size, Sunday in
Chicago and Sunday at Clarysville are
about one and the same.
Roy l.. MCCARDELI,.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
BreyitieS.

A special notice ITO Subscribers"
appears at top of first local column,
and the matter is referred to here in
order to assure each delinquent that
he is wrong in thinking that he is the
only one of all the JOURNALS several
thousand readers who gets a mem.
orandum,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Personal.

Bernard Murphy, attorney, was last
week appointed court examiner, rice W.
S. Bridendolph, deceased.
The Cumberland Times speaks of
E. r. Johnston as "the gentle Sydney
of our local press" Could any ex-
preston be finer or more justly
applied?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Pen and Club.

In the hands of those entirely great, like
editor Oder for example, the pen is mightier
than the club.-Cumberland Times.
But few people in Frostburg are
hardly smart enough to appreciate the
weight of anything that does not
smash in their heads.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Annual Meeting.

The stockholders of the Union min
ing company met at their Office in the
Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore,
Tuesday, and reelected:
Presidemt-Hon. Lloyd Lowndes.
Vice President--Capt John Sheridan.
Directors-H. Crowford Black, John
Wilson, Warren Delano, jr., H. T. Weld and
Gilmore Meredith.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Deaths.

Mrs. John C. CLANCY, 70 years old,
died Monday night of paralysis.
Noah Beach, son of John Beach,
died at old Consolidation mine Tues
day morning in the 18th year of his
age.
Mrs. Rhinehart Shaffer, near Mt.
Savage, died Saturday of last week,
aged 60 years. Her husband, who
survives, is brother of H. B. Shaffer,
of Frostburg.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-06-10
Personal.

The eloquent Memorial Address of
Col. R. E. Fast, recently delivered at
Morgantown, w. Va, appears in full
IN the Post, of that place, this week. 1t
is mastery production.