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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
How it Looks Now,

The local editor of the Cumberland
Ne,cs says:
The philosopher of the Big Savage"-he
OF the JOURNAL, we mean-is busily arrang-
ing political slate for "the boys" to smash
as usual next fall. The great paper is
always right in the current of prophecy until
the morning after election.
If there is anything the JOURNALS
political observations last week were
not it is prophecy"
The article was an ante-room look at
the current status quo, as it was APP
parently fixed by the late election.
Gotten up after exhaustive re-
search and immense expense, it was a
reflection of the slate as it now reads.
The latter, however, may be
smashed. but it's November reflection
cannot be busted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01

who seem to be never satisfied, but
constantly inching up aud inching up
to get the last dollar the people can
stand. Those sums. vast in the aggre-
gate, can be kept at home to form a
reserve fund to pay losses, add tional
night watchmen and hue inspectors
aud generally to protect property from
not only fire but depredations.
| suggest, therefore, that the Mayor
and Councilmen take immediate action
and lead In movement to perfect
such an organization as have out
lined.
AS starter, whether organization
MATERIAL lies or not, they should have
all the tiues in town inspected at once
and the defective ones condemned, re-
paired or removed in double-quick
time.
No later than Sunday morning, Nov.
%, roof was discovered on fire, which
was extinguished by several firemen
who happened to be at hand. The
discovery was made alta time (4o'clock
with the wind blowing high when,
but for the opportune presence of these
young men, great amount of damage
might have ensued-the more so be-
cause, owing TO the unreasonable high
rates, mary of our people are without
insurance.
repeat 1.-THE Mayor and Council
men should move and move quickly in
leading to the establishment of an or
ganized, systematic plan which will
CD prevent loss, and, GU when loss has
occurred, reimburse far as practicable
those who have suffered.
AS one citizen will do all in my
power to help 1t along.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
Omission Supplied.

The Cumberland Ncrs Thanksgiving
interview list was quite representative
in character, but not complete. The
following paragraph, with its unmis-
taxable impress of authenticity, is es
sential to both its entirety and syn
metry;
T. i. UcCa,deH-That the Nc~s is an
organ and at liberty to advocate protection
for everything except what is not protected.
7. S.-Under the circumstances, therefore, |
swell with gratitude every time | remember
that was not smashed by any more of that
bad bows good Jokes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
n Few Hard Questions,

N !
To the MINING JOURNAL
see by your aper that nv friend
Capt. McCardell, of the Cumberland
Netcs, is anxious about my safety and
wherea bouts. To save him loss of
sleep, please say | can still be found at
my office, No. 259. 18th street, selling
Kama VIVA "Winifrede" coal at s.. so
per ton, and hauling the same from
one to three miles without extra
charge. while some of the Kanawha
men are still bowling "calamitv,n be-
cause they are not protected IS cents
per ton so they can sell their coal
at the inflated price of $3.50 per ton.
and not give their miners id cent
of it E.
wonder what McCardell thinks,
after all his predictions that the
farmers would have to kill all their
sheep and use their carcasses for
manure, of the advance of from five to
! eight cents per pound for Ohio pulled
wool, and good lambs selling in this
market to day at So each?
And how about people paving 10
cents per pound for graduated sugars,
which have fallen until they can be
bought at wholesale from 81 cents to
~, and all other kinds in proportion ?
And how about that thirty million
dollars the Sugar Trust was to make
on account of the passage of the Senate
bill And what about that little drop
in the Sugar Trust stock from. 81 OS to
So cents?
Then the enormous sums the
Whisky Trust was to make, counted
by millions, and whisky way out of
sight for the poor man, and here we
are selling the choice brands of Old
Bourbon. four years old, tax paid, at
So per gallon. retail? | think the "old
soaks' can still live and be happy,
notwithstanding McCardrll's predic-
ton to the contrary.
AS far as ] am concerned | am not
a particle dismayed. The republican
party had but SO members from the
people in the sd Congress, and we are
certain to send lO7, and probably ITO,
to the 54th Congress.
But let Mr.. McCardell put this in
his pipe and smoke 1.-THE democrats
will elect the next President of these
United States and seat him on the 4th
of March, 1897. Yours truly.
Moses GIBSON.
Addenda.-I would like also to have
McCardell's opinion of a party whose
class legislation makes it possible for
the millers of the North West to meet
IN convention and agree to close their
plants for from sixty to ninety days,
thus forcing up the price of -four on
hand at least 81 per barrel. ground
from wheat for which they paid only
10 to 10 cents-that, too, just after the
country has passed through a great
labor revolution and heated party
contest, lasting nearly six months
with over million Of men out of EN-.
ployment and their children crying
for bread? Quite 80 per cent. of these
millers recently voted the Republican
ticket and sent men to Congress to en-
dorse their Infamous act-an act
which will also stop the sale of wheat
and enable them to fill their elevators
with wheat at IL very much reduced
price to grind into flour after they
have disposed Of what they now have
and enable them later on to hold
another general convention to put up
the price again dollar barrel.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
The Case Stated.

Speaking of Mr.. Cleveland's atten-
ton to the financial question, the
Cumberland Ne,os starts out this way
Having deranged the business of the
country to the extent of precipitating gen
eral financial panic by unwise interference
with the tariff law, the great prophet of the
&. o. p. now proposes to prolong the era of
trouble and business arrangement by
monkeying with the currency, ETC.
1t is probable that Mr.. Cleveland
really had less to do with bringing on
the general financial panic than any
other man, influence, or force in the
country.
1t is more than probable that the
calamity newspaper, more than any
other agency, is the institution that
did the business.
And the calamity campaign did not
start with "unwise interference with
the tariff law" but with an imperative
demand upon Congress to repeal the
highest high protective law in the
country-that which protected the
miners of the silver regions.
To save the high protectionists from
the ruinous consequences of their own
stupendous folly Mr.. Cleveland forced
them to aid in the rescue of the finan-
cial integrity of the country from
themselves, and for this patriotic SER
vice they have meyer been able to for
give him.
But his work in the direction of un-
doing similar financial mischief is
still incomplete. Under the same aus
pieces which passed the Sherman silver
purchase Act came about and now
exists situation described as follows:
With our silver and gold certificates, treas
ury notes, gold reserve, national bank notes,
and everything redeemable in gold whether
SO prescribed or not, a banker can present silver
certificates and demand gold and with the gold
thus obtained from the Treasury pay for gold
bonds issued by the Government to increase
the gold supply in the Treasury, it is plain
that our system is badly mixed.
Any effort now to improve that sys-
TEN, however, is called ''monkeying
with the currency" and adopted as a
pretext to howl more calamity.
But thoughtful people know that no
danger threatens the currency when it
is IN the hands Of man historically,
consistently and immovably a friend
of sound money.
The danger originates elsewhere
in the politics of the people who hold
party above country, and in the policy
OF vicious press-an enginery DOVER
ed with more incendiary power than
patriotic impulse.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
Married

AT the residence of the bride's father,
Shepherdstown, W. Va. Thursday,
Nov. -, 1894, by Rev Frank A.
Strother, of the NJ. E. church, South,
Miss Mary E, McBee to Mr.. Charles f..
Garrett, of Martinsburg, W. Va. The
officiating clergyman, writing to the
JOURNAL at the request of Mr.. Garrett,
states that latter receiving the warm
congratulations of the guests ard en-
joying an elegant repast, the happy
couple left for their home in Martins
burg"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
TOWN AND VICINITY
Personal.

G. A. Daniels and wife, of Rochester,
Pa, are guests of their uncle, John
Myers, of Bowery street.
w. H. Kelly, of the State Bureau
Of Industrial Statistics. Baltimore,
Md, was in town Monday hunting
memorabilia of the late Suspension
Westminster (Md) Fire company
passed a resolution Nov. u thanking
the Fire Department of this place for
attentions shown 4. j. Lawyer, a
member Of the former company, when
here recently. The paper brlstles
with fraternal expressions.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Dis, of Parkers-
burg, W. Va, are guests of Mrs. DIS
father, C. H. Walker.
Edward Slack, of Farmont, w. Va.
Is in town.
Charles Eisentrout, of this place. has
been awarded a pension.
Miss Mabel Hohlng, of Homecoming,
spent this week with Miss Mary Price.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
COUNTY NEWS.
Burned to the Ground.

The large dwelling belonging to the
Borden mining company at Mid
lothian, occupied by Robert $. Harvey.
mining boss, was completely destroyed
by fire Tuesday about noon. The roof
caught from defective tiue and,
under the stimulus of high wind, an
hour later, nothing was left but mass
of embers. Only small portion of
the furniture was burned. Loss 10
the company is about $1,000; to Mr..
Harvey about 5000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
Free Postage For Newspapers.

Postmaster-General Bissell in his annual
report sounds the keynote to one of the
greatest reforms in the postal service that has
ever been proposed. 1t is, in brief, that the
time is nearly at hand when all legitimate
newspapers and periodical magazines may
be transmitted through the mails from pub
fishers into the hands of subscribers free of
all cost.-Baltimore SIN.
The Cumberland Necs seems to
think the same way, but is not dead
sure about it until the people agree
with it at the polls.
Meanwhile, that disrcputable word,
'free." will probably have to be mod
flied out of existence.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01

The best symposium of Thanks
giving thought the JOURNAL has seen
appeared in the Cumberland Netcs
Thursday. This, not because the
JOURNAL figures in it, but because the
answers generally fit the man. There
are few injustices inflicted, but these
are lnseparable from all newspaper
readings of popular opinion outside
those made byindependentl labor papers
of the deepest dye. The JOURNAL APP
pears in the roll of gratitude as follows
j. BenSo" Oder-That the great paper is not
an organ and is at liberty to advocate free
trade IN everything except coal
OF course, that is not only erroneous
but unreasonable. The great paper
cannot return thanks for elderly" it
cannot own. certainly cannot exercise.
Under our system of maintaining gov
eminent trade, ike redemption. can
not go wholly untaxed. But both
ought to be as free as possible, and no
freer.
The JOURNALS return, as represent
ed by the Ne,cs, is. therefore, f.n
anomaly, as will be easily seen when,
for instance, it is stated this way:
That the great paper is not an organ,
and Is at liberty to advocate free sal
walton to everything except the Cum
berland Ne,os.
Is it because the People are GuIIibIe ?
The public school people held con-
vention in Baltimore this week, and it
is related that E. l.. Goslin, of
fredericksburg, opened the debate on
the free book proposal on the negative
side
l, Because the teachers had not favored
it,
,, Because the people had not demanded it,
and
5, Because it would be unwise to increase
taxation.
Mr.. Goslin unconsciously demon
strates that there is big difference
between booming education and slim
ulatlng manufactures, namely
Education is a blessing held sub
sidiary to the evil of high taxation.
while
Manufacturing development is a
destde'utum which grows better and
better the more the tariff, which is a
tax, is raised.
Mr.. Goslin is probably tariff
reformer.
If not, we would like to learn from
him why it is unwise to increase taxa
ton when it is direct. and wise to in
crease it when it is Indirect
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
Correction.

There WIS mistake in the an
nouncement last week of the coming
of Uncle Toms Cabin" The date is
Saturday, Dec. %, at Ravenscraft' S
Opera House. The company was at
Tyrone, Pa, Nov. 10, and the next
issue of the Herald, of that place, said of
its appearance and performance
'Uncle Toms Cabin" as produced by
Stowe Co., appeared at the Academy of
Music Saturday evening, and was greeted by
one of the largest audiences assem- bled at that
house the present season. The company is a
well dressed, prosperous looking lot of people
and their general appearance reflects thrifty
condition of the company. They have
special scenery and plenty of it, and the
company is a good one the popular play
being pr oduced in first class style all the way
through. A quartette of singers is way up
and the various characters are taken by good
artists who are each in their proper places.
Saturday evenings entertainment pleased the
people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01

once knew preacher that thought ii Il
sin to chew, smoke or drink beer, but he was
so hde-bound, string-halt, spawned and
pgecn-toed on politics, that his chief objec-
ton to the devil was on party principle"
and tariff reform.-Erulue Raterty Johnston.
There are lots of preachers of that
class-pastors who can tolerate almost
any wickedness except democracy.
But, dear brother Johnston, the
good man who, according to your
punctuation, thought that beer should
be neither chawed nor smoked, show
ed clearly that while his political con-
ceits were deformed his notions of bar
etiquette were unblemished.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-12-01
Question.

The Engineering and Mining Jo",mat of
November "a reports the soft coal trade as
continuing dull.--Cumberland Nems.
And is the soft coal trade taking
the same view of it the Neecs did ?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
Cost OF Growing Wheat

The United States Department OF
Agriculture has issued summary
made from estimates of 25, 900 farm
ers of the West and Northwest and
OF 1000 experts Of the department on
the cost of growing wheat. The ay-
erage cost per acre for the region COW
cred is SLIGO, while the average for
Wisconsin Is more than dollar high.
or, or $l2.93. Ground rent is the
heaviest single item, and estimated
at nearly SO per acre. The principal
Items Of cost have rema ned about
normal during the past four or five
years, being slightly higher where apy
change is noted owing to increase OF
cost Of labor during the prosperous
times from 1890 to 1892. During
that period, however, the price of
wheat fell nearly one-half. AS a re.
suit either wheat production must be
restricted or large part of it must
be done at loss.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
American MTeeth FactOries.v

The French Nation has recently
been put in possession OF some re.
markablo information in regard to
American "teeth factories. The
United States conmerclal agent at
Luxembourg has sent to the Depart
ment of State the following transla-
ton of a report on artificial teeth:
1t is i'll America that the worst teeth
are found, which accounts for the
multitude Of dentists, more or less
American, scattered over the globe,
and especially for the Importance of
American fabrications of everything
appertaining to the art of the dentist.
If it is possible to believe authentic
documents, the cost of an artificial
tooth at the factory in the United
States should not exceed thirty or
thirtyfive cents. One of these fac
tories in New York sells not less than
S,000,0 900 of these teeth per annum.
The teeth are porcelain, covered with
special enamel, the application of
which is so delicate that there are no
two teeth which are tinted exactly
alike. Moreover there are about fifty
different tints which are artihcially
obtained, corresponding with the
color variations OF natural teeth. The
imitation is carried SO far as to stimu.
late defects, which render the illusion
more complete.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
Understand Your Agreements.

Many of the disputes which arise
between buyer and seller are due to
the fact that in making a contract
the terms are not clearly understood.
In so common matter as the buying
and selling Of goods it is necessary
that all points relative to the trans
action should be definitely stated.
Some houses state distinctly on their
bill heads the terms on which sales
are made, so that the buyer is COM
PEELED to recognize the terms.
There are many other contracts
which come up in the course of busi-
ness which need clearer understand
ing than the act Of buying goods. 1t
is important that both parties should
thoroughly understand the transac-
ton. There are publications devoted
to contracts in which forms are given,
but many of these legal forms seem
better devoted to obscuring than
clearing up matters. In all transac-
lions 1t is necessary to come to a
point and have that point clearly un-
derstood. Long arguments are not
necessary, and the whole tendency of
modern trade is to put things on a
basis Of brevity 1t is advisable to
make a written memorandum of
agreements, for it will always he in
evidence and save many future dis
putes
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
A Rather Cool Spot.

J. G. E. Barker, the weIl.known
mineral man of Neihart, while con-
versing with party of friends on the
veranda of the Park Hotel the other
day, told of pretty chilly place to be
found near the famous Benton group
of mines at Neihart.
''On the northern slope of the Big
Baldy, at an altitude of about 10, 900
feet, Dutro Creek creeps through n
basin on its way to Snow Greek, and
it is in that basin, an acre or more
square, that the sun never shines for
three months-Decemhe January
and February" said Mr.. Baker.
''In that basin the ground never
thaws, even in the hottest summer
days" he continued. II have spent
many years in the mountains, but
never saw such frigid spot before.
Last year we ran tunnel near this
basin, and when fifty feet in the side
OF the mountain struck seams of solid
ice in the formations. The ice had
probably been there for centuries. -
Great Falls wis. Leader.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
He Was Not Disappointed.

"Wby was Adam the happiest man
that ever lived?" roared the gigantic
clown to the ringmaster in the faded
dress suit.
"Why was Adam the happiest man
that ever lived?" roared the latter, in
a voice like a tired horn.
because he had no mother-in-
law"
II knew it," said the thin man in
the top row of the reserved seats, as
he allowed his feet to hang down
between the boards in order to get
the kink out Of them. "Icame to the
circus expecting to hear that joke,
that moss-grown gag, and L have not
been disappointed, It's forty years
since / attended my first circus and
] heard it then. | have heard it at
every circus l have since attended,
and have never missed going at
least once year"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
The Serpent,s Trick.

The power of continuing motion.
less with the lifted head projecting
forward for an indefinite time is one
OF the most wonderful of the SER
pents muscular ieats, and is one OF
the highest Importance TO the ani.
NAL, both when fascinating its vic
tim and when mimicking some mani
mate object as, for instance the
stem and bud Of an aquatic plant;
here it is only referred to on account
of the effect it produces on the hu.
man mind, as enhancing the ser
pent's strangeness. In this attitude,
with the round, unwinking eyes fixed
on the beholder's face, the effect may
be very curious and uncanny.-Fort.
night Review.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
SOME OF THESE DAYS.

Some OF these days all the skies will be
brighter;
Some of these days all tho burdens be
lighter;
Hearts will be happier, souls will be whittier
Some of these days,
Some of these days!
Some of these days in the desert upspring-
ing
Fountains shall flash while the joy-bels are
ringing,
And tho world with its sweetest OF birds
shall so singing
Some of these days,
Some of these days
Some OF these days let US bear with our
sorrow;
Faith in the future, its light we may borrow
There will be JOY in the golden tomorrow
Some of these days,
Some OF these days!
Frank L. Stanton.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
Highest Of all in Leavenng PowerLatest U. Govt Report
R9>!A!!!! 9! Rs%asSF RRskiHS
ABSOLUTELY PURE
What He Wanted.

AT the hospital the other morning
(says LIFE one of the patients was
just recovering from an attack of de-
lirium tremens, and, as is usual in
such cases, desired to dress and &c
home more than anything else. 1t
happened that one of the young la
dies connected with the flower mis-
sion saw him, and, app oaching, said:
II have some beautiful roses here.
Wouldn't you like some?" Slowly
his head turned, and slightly open
ing his Dleary eyes, he said much to
the embarrassment OF the young
woman: "l'd id sight rather
have my pants"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-10-29
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