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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-07-06
CastOria.

O0otOxxd
"CostoriA Is SO we'll adapted to children thse
recommend it Is superior to any prescripeioa
known to me-"
II. A. ARCHER, n. D..
Ill So. Oxford St.. Brooklyn, ny
"Our physicians in the children's depart
n,ent have spoken highly Of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although We only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet We arc FREQ to confess that thu
merits Of Castoria has won US to look with
favor upon it,"
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DIsPENsARY,
Boston, Mass
ALLE C. Smith, Pres,
,rrav Street. Nov York Cfkv.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Hurry is the Word.

The tariff bill is still in the hands of
the Senate Finance Committee. though
Il report to the Senate, it is said, may
be expected. The changes made by
the Committee in the metal schedules
include increases of - to > per rent. on
nearly all forms of finished iron and
steel. The most important change,
however. is that iron ore is taken from
the free list and made subject to
duty of 10 cents per ton: under the
present law the duty is - cents. Coal
is also taken from the proposed free
list and duties provided of 10 cents a
ton on screened or lump coal, ID cents
ton on slack and culm, and Is per-
cent. nd calorem on coke. These, it
will be remembered, are committee
changes only, and the proposed amend
ments will depend on the action of
both Senate and House.
Minor changes, however, are of less
Importance than a speedy settlement.
If the Senate will only act and give us
some decision. some imperfections in
the bill may be pardoned. 1t is delay
which is doing more harm than any
thing else, as Senators ought to realize.
Moreover, if every interest is to be
conciliated by getting its own little
tax inserted not only would there be
no end to the conferences. but it would
be impossible to enact any tariff bill
except one increasing duties.-En-
cheering aud Mining Jonraat.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
\ Word i'm Season,

The relations between employers
and employees in this region have
been of a character so cordial and
pleasant for long time that any fric.
ton over a necessary REIMBURSEMENT of
the wage rate is not anticipated.
There is no doubt whatever that the
employers have approached the in
evitable with great reluctance and
regret.
But there is good reason to believe
that the increasing pressure of com
petition has 0cci,sioned among them
more or less informal discussion of
ways and means to meet it during all
of the time since the contracts were
made last year. Aud it is simple JUS
tice to them to say that they have ex-
plored every resource to solve the
problem without touching wages.
But ''to this complexion they have
been compelled to come" at last.
The wage tendency, one way or
another, in competing regions is down
ward, and this region must get in the
procession, OF stop work.
That is the long and short of it.
We may shut our eyes to the fact,
but the fact remains.
Under these circumstances the JOUR
NAL entertains an abiding trust that
the native good sense and acknowl-
edged intelligence of the miners will
enable them not only to see and
appreciate the situation, but to accept
what cannot be helped as manfully as
possible, to the end that we may not
only hold on to the trade we have, but
increase it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Journalistic Dementja.

The Baltimore Ne~S announces the fact in
one column that the opening of the canal
will give employment to 1890 people, and
then de'otes a whole page to the work of
killing the only trade that the canal can
depend upon to give these people employ.
ment. There are degrees of lunacy, but the
.Ne~s seems to have taken all of them. Cum
berland Ne~s.
And the 'whole page" mailman
would still be second-rate maniac
compared with the author of the
following paragraph, taken from the
same column of the Cumberland Neeos ::
The two Frostburg banks have 500, 695 %
ON deposit. Six months after the Wilson
tariff bill becomes a law these deposits will
disappear.
How any man in his senses could
bring himself to the imprimotur of such
prophecy, even if he were crazy
enough to believe as well as conceive
1t, is past comprehension.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
4 Trouble.

The latest argument against the use of
Nova Scotia coal appears in Hartford, Conn.
paper. 1t is said
The coal IS unlike btuminous coal mined
IN the United States because it is wet, being
mined at such great depth underground.
Poor old n. Show it is kicked about
Coal Trade Jou,wol.
One of the troubles Georges Creek
coal has to contend with is-the men
who buy coal are not the men who
have to handle and use it.
The president of manufacturing
company sits back in his easy chair
intent upon running his plant cheaply
as possible. Hence, few cents per
ton less in price is an Involvement to
take the cheaper fuel.
Not so, however, with the poor fire.
man whose labor and skill are taxed
to make the cheap coal efficient, but
whose voice, or protest, counts for no.
thing at headquarters.
The truth about the matter seems to
be
|, That only the very best grade of
Nova Scotia coal approximates re-
spectability as competitor of Georges
Creek coal, but
., Its probable cheapness willinduce
many manufacturers to give it the
preference
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
The Delicious Book Beer.

Ever since the Cumberland brewing
company have been manufacturing
their famous Book beer there has been
a great demand for it all over the
country. 1t is particularly recon-
mended by able physicians rs tonic
fol persons who have overworked
themselves and are suffering from ner
vous prostratiou. AS beverage it is
simply delicious, as it is pure in COM
position and has been kept in the
vaults for exactly one year. The rep.
utation the Cumberland brewing COM
pany have established for the manu-.
facture of this special brand entities
them to the high encomiums they re-
celve from their army of customers.
This brand, the Book. will be put on
the market to-day, and as the supply
is always limited, orders had better be
sent in in advance Their other peer.
less brands, the Reingold and Erlang-
er, are always on the market, and for
purity and strength have no superiors.
Cumberland Ne,rS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17

Competent readers of the JOURNAL
will testify that if there is one error it
does not commit it is jumping at
conclusions"
1t generally reaches judgment by
citations of fact and processes of logic
that have hitherto proven unanswer-
able and irresistible.
SO that, whether the Knights Of
Labor were in the Kanawha valley
trouble nominally or not, the Lonacon-
ing Recier is informed that their prin-
ciples and methods were on hand in
large numbers and in full force and
virtue.
'By their fruits We shall know them"
is a test as infallible II socialism rs in
christianity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
The Difference,

a newspaper has 5000 readers for
each LOCO subscribers a merchant
who puts out 1000 hand bills gets
possibly 300 or 800 people to read them
that is. if the boy who is trusted to
distribute them does not chuck them
under the sidewalk. The hand bills
cost nearly as much II, Il half column
advertisement in the home newspaper
All the women and girls and half the
men and boys read the advertisements.
Results The merchant who uses the
newspaper has $500 more readers to
each 900 Of its paper readers. There
is no estimating the amount of bust
ness that advertising does bring to the
merchant, but that each dollar invest
ed III advertising brings to the investor
from IS to $40 worth of business there
can be no doubt.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
y Request Granted.

The Journal is reminded that German
~-ike McKaig was able to keep something
in the way of Il rate of protection on coal.
And now will it tell us why John Richie was
able to obtain seventy-tiye cent rate in a
republican House. while its friend, McKaig,
was unable to keep coal off the free list in a
democratic House? Explain, please.-Cum-
berland -NewS.
One and the main reason was-the
republican party was then engaged in
the cheerful work of reducing the
tariff, because, as the Netrs has already
explained, prices, including wages,
"were too high" 1t is easier under
such circumstances to retain "some-
thing" than save ALTO stop the gravity
of coal at IS cents than keep 1t at the
old rate of $l.25.
Still another is-there is big diff
ference between the conditions of 1872
and 1894. Then coal was known,
called and treated as "a staple;' now
it Is "a raw material" There was also
shown more respect for fairness, equal
ity and justice by both parties in tariff
legislation. Hence, when MIR. Richie
showed that
There is no justice in reducing the tariff on
cotton and iron and the other staples 10 per
the extent of 60 per- cent
there were more representatives who
respected the point than there are now
it is probable, therefore, that if Mr..
McComas had put the duty on coal
back to Tl.25 in 1890, as he should
have done when he raised everything
else, Mr.. Mckaig could have accom-
plished at most what Mr.. Richie did
arrest the fall of coal at IS cents.
In the Senate Mr.. Germans voice
and vote are four times greater than
MI. Mckaig's in the House. The
structure and methods of that body
give its members a vast preponderance
of force over those of the House.
But what has even Mr.. German been
able to getP The Ne~s says "something
in the way of a rate of protection on
coal"
But there is no protection in ~ cents +;
none in 80; precious little in 60, and
not much more in 10 cents. Anything
under 60 cents is distinctly revenue
tariff-the sort of tariff Nj. German
says the Wilson bill does not sutfic-
iently provide for.
The only compensation tor us in a
rate below 60 cents is the consolation
that government will get what the
mining interests ought to have.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
n Setback.

1t was an immense pity that Sen
ator Sloan lost his bill providing for
an equal distribution of the State school
fund.
The votes of the counties that make
Il speculation Of beng in the State {;
that get more from the State than they
pay that practically pay no State
taXes-the votes of these counties did
it.
1t was mistake, however, to load
the bill with an additional , cents per
500 for school taxation. This, it is
thought, had much to do with its de
feat.
In which event, We have another
pointed illustration of the JOURNALS
old contention that the public schools
are no better because the people are
unwilling to pay what better schools
cost.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Looking Back ward.

Now that the miners have been notified of
a reduction, the authorized and recognized
organs of the operators will, in their usual
subterfiuous manner, attempt to explain
why it was done; Homecoming Re"ie~.
1t Is an immense pity that anybody
needs explanation.
But one conclusive reason can be
found by looking back into the year
1882, when the foundation was laid by
the labor artists of this region for
cheap coal-dIgging in Elk Garden,
POcahOntaS. etc.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17

CUMBERLAND, Mp, Mare

CUMBERLAND, Mp, March ID, ls9l
To the MINING JoURNAL.
| notice in to-day's Times that Sen
ator Sloan's "Monthly Pay BIZ is
about to be passed.
This was not expected by vast
majority Of people of this county.
The truth Is, there has been too
much outside interference in school
matters and now to place the appoint
ments of teachers in the hands Of
people who seek nothing but revenue
for their stores is an unblushing shame
to the good name Of Allegany. Sure
ly the Governor will see proper to veto
this vicious bill. FATHER.
p. S.-Should not the School Com
missioners attend to the matter and
prevent the bill from becoming IL law
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17

The mosquitoes have all left New
Jersey. Several passed through Cum
berland on Tuesday, and the Courie,
man interviewed them. They said,
we will not live in a state with two
Legislatures. We are in the "bill''
business. and we cannot compete with
two sets Of blood suckers. Actually,
the mosquito trade is ruined | didn't
average four good bites per night dur
ing February. We eat nothing but
tender steak from the cheek and lip of
the fat, beautiful and good.
We advised them to make Il break
for Frostburg, where they would find
all of it. except the cheek and lip. III
one pece-all steak, for it never had
made a mistake. They said they
WOuld -Cumberland CD,i1.ifr
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
"HelD Me, CaSSiuS :"

John Ritchle, democrat, struggled as
bravely to retain rate of duty that would
protect our mining interests as did Louis L.
McComas. Ne"S
That doesn't speak much for Mr..
Richie, who had the House, Senate
and President politically opposed to
him.
On the other hand, Mr.. McComas'
contests were always with his own
party-in House or Senate.
A big fight man has on hand when
he has to save himself from his friends.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17

But, what Apodoldec and Gilead
balm to know that one is being ham
mered by loving hands. Leander.
when licked by Hero. almost likes it,
or Il boy by his ma and the pretty
Jessica" can laugh if Lorenzo Yields
the willow | would rather be kicked
by mule love. than coddled by one
of canal kind. Goes to show how love
pulls the pizin out of the pain and
jerks the ag out of agony Give me
love to rub on the back of lumbago. or
to salve the outside of sorrow For
the interior, love is a little scarey-too
enthnSing-E B. JOhANOn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
A Safe Game

The Homecoming Reoie~ determines
from press reports that the Kanawha
valley miners were not knights of
Labor.
Two facts initiate against the Recier
conclusion, arrived at by jump:
l, They were beaten.
2, They declared the strike Off
after the strike was over.
For it is modern scheme of the
Order not to be known in a strike
until it wins.
If it loses, "mum's the word
Heads | win. tails YOU lose"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
\ Note OfCautiOn,

If all the mines IN this region will work
full time the reduction will not have Il great
effect, but that is not the question, as IS
cents is not sufficient recompense for digging
a ton of coal.-Lonaconing Reriem.
All the mines will work full time if
the consumers demand our coal.
If the consumers do not want our
coal, it is very apt to be an evidence
that our price is too high.
Again-a miner who is not blather-
skite told the JOURNAL the other day
that he can buy more goods for 10
cents than he could year ago for 50.
If this be true, and we have good
reason not to doubt it. reduction to
10 cents is not only practically no re-
duction at all, but an actual increase
The Recie~ is in danger of becoming
a champion of inconslderate I'D captan-
dunn culgus
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
To Test Il ubScriber'S Honesty.

Newspaper subscriptions are infal-
lible tests of mans honesty. They
will sooner or later discover the man.
If he is dishonest he will cheat the
printer some way; say he has paid
what he has not declare that he has Il
receipt somewhere, or sent money and
it was lost in the mail, o. will take the
paper and not pay for it on the ground
that he dld not subscribe for it, or
move off leaving it come to the Office
he left .-Cumherland COURIER
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
LATEST NEWS.
The Expected Reduction.


The action OF many miners in show
ing Willingness to accept Is cents Il ton
is praiseworthy.
At this writing, however, FRIDAY
mornlng) the matteris pending before
a meeting of the company represent
atives i'll Philadelphia, with the chances
favoring rate certainly not higher
than 10 cents.
Lmer-lntelllgence from Philadel-
phia this Saturday morning goes to
the effect that everything in connec-
ton with the coal trade outlook was
discussed except wages.
For the present, therefore: the wage
rate will remain at 80 cents per ton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
How Long, o, Lord-How Long?


The JOURNAL regrets to see that a
portion of the Allegany delegation
saw fit to revive the public school
tenure Of Office bill.
1t will, doubtless, pass, and then we
will see teachers selected and elected
with reference to other than edu-
cationa! and disciplinary qualifica-
tons.
The trustees and commissioners will
be relieved practically of the very
business they are set to do.
The shepherds will abrogate care of
their tlocks and the wolves take charge.
When will the Lord again show
mercy to the poor, neglected, forgotten
children
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Appointments.

The Baltimore conference, NJ. f.
church, in session at Frederick. adj
journed Tuesday after making the
appointments for ensuing year. Rev.
J. r. Wheeler Is continued as presid-
ing elder for this district, and the
following assignments are of further
interest:
F|oStb"Ty circWt-R. +. l.. Wright.
Lo"aco"jng-S. NJ. Afford.
VT. Sacoge-J. ID. Still
Pedmoat-A Bielaski
R'cli"gS Gi,cnt-A. +. Sheilnan.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
II Would Have Been IL Coat-taiI
EcIiDsc.

1t the NerS seriously takes the vote
of New England GU Mr.. Mckaig's
amendment as representing New Eng
land opposition to free coal, the Ners
is pretty hard up.
Had there been any danger of adopt
ing the amendment, Mr. ReWS echjp
,c0uM not hare been seen.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Ought to Know.

"Iou've had twenty-five years ex-
perience as Il farmer Well, it's
pretty hard work. isn't it p
81 thought it was until | came to
town once to run Il grocery store. |
was in the grocery business six months.
| am back on the farm agin, Farmin'
amt work. It's restin'."-Chicago
Irib,Jue,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
\ WaI.In Body.

Prof. Langley demonstrates that if
IA body of coal sufficiently large to last
the United States a thousand years
should be set on fire, the heat given
forth from it would not equal that
which the sun gives out in the thous-
andth part of Il second.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17

Way down upon the Severn river,
Where the electric lights shine
There my heart is turning ever
OFerrall drop that oyster-that'n' mine.
e. r. Johnxton.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
They "Step in where Angels Fear to
Tread"

The Clarksburg CIV. Va Necs says
there is Il great deal of wisdom dis
played by the philosopher who penned
the following lines:
One-third of the fools in this country think
they can beat the lawyers in eXpounding the
law onehalf think they can beat the doctors
healing the sick; two-thirds think they can
beat the minister preaching the gospel, and
all of them think they can beat the editor
running newspaper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
No Divided Allegiancc.

The father of the twin babies had
been left temporarily in charge of
them. At the end of half an hour he
weakened.
!Angellne," he called out to his
wife, in a voice Of agonizing protest,
you'll have to come and take ore of
these boys! No man can serve two
masters!"- Chicago Iribune.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
\ Suggestion.

E'cery business house in this torn M0uM
otcn space IN this paper .tor adcertising tie
pec"liar ercellemcies Of tie houe and its
merrhdndise
Ind ecery s"ch space Stimuli hore an editor
IN tie house Of its o,caer, one Of ,rhose
dNties i shONllbe to Keep TINT xpace oLire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Needless Labor.

The Cumberland Neacs and Lonacon-
ing Recie,c seem to think it necessary
to prove that the democracy of the
State is in favor of the Wilson bill,
including free coal.
Their labor is in vain.
Judgment is confessed.
And it is just probable that the very
vote which the Ne,cs condemns will
again elect Mckaig to Congress.
For what is meat in Allegany may
turn out to be 'pizin'' in Frederick.
Washington and Montgomery.
The idea of cheaper coal is virus
which free coal is propagating.
And, like all big sophistrles, the
notion is contagious.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
GENERAL ITEMS.
SunCO Game.

Investment - Put 81 in the vest get
Ill it yourself: come to see us, ask us
to advise you what to do ncXt.-Cum-
berlaud COuyiT.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
COUNTY NEWS.
Died.

At Eckhart, Sunday, March IL,
1894. Lille Florence Fletcher, infant
daughter CT Mr.. aud Mrs. William
Fletcher. aged | month and + DAYS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Nothingto Crow About.

The sun never sets on Englaud's
dominions," remarked the boastlng
BrtlsheI
"England reminds me of an old hen"
responded the Yankee
why ?" demanded the Britisher,
"a hens son never sets. either. =
Lire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17

j. b, Oder, of the Homecoming MIN
ING JOURNAL, was in Annapolis to-
day and paid the capital Office visit
Annapolis Capital.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
Experience Teaches aLesson.

! have tried many ways of advertls-
ing and have found that for small
town newspaper advertising pays best.
A. i. Bl0ch, C0nae0ut. y.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
specifications, Please.

A Frostburg church is threatened
with Il division because "Ta-ra-ra
Boom de ay' was played at an enter
MISUNDERSTANDING BerieW.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1894-03-17
\ Spoiled Compliment.

The JOURNAL values Cumberland
Ners' compliments very highly, be-
cause they come from head com
petent to render judgment.
But in the following paragraph the
Ners puts IL spider in a luscious
dumping:
Where is the democracy upon this question
now? Such of its organs as are not openly
in favor of free coal are silent upon the
subject. Not one democratic newspaper in
the State of Mary land-unless we except the
trostburg JOURNAL, the abest of them all -
has the moral courage to say one word in
defense of the position Of Senators German
and Gibson upon this subject.
The Neecs is mistaken.
The JOURNAL is not IA democratic
paper.
1t is an independent labor paper Of
the deepest dye-the organ, if an
organ, of the horny hand and begrimed
brow of the genuine son of toll, and
not of the velvet PAIN and alabaster
forehead of his professional etfigy.
Seems Inevitable.
Bill Nye was in Maine last week,
and here is one of his observations:
Maine is Il glorious state. She is very
largely given over to manufactures and looks
upon tariff reduction at the present time with
horror went through the largest cotton
mill in the world last week. 1t is marvel
of ingenuity and power. The river turns
these millions of spindles, and machinery
makes it possible for one man to do the work
formerly done by 1000 women. What is to
be the result at last of this machinery adj
vancement and perfection? Isn't that throw
ing the laborng classes out of work more
than the tariff tinkering?
There was year not long ago dur
ing which the Pocahontas region pro-
duced only II tons.
Last year it sent out over two mill
ions.
Employing Mr.. Nyc's thought
what else can result but lower wages
and loss Of employment, eren i there
scere no foreign coal to .tear'