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The record-union., 1895-12-28
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
-oF THE
National Bank Of D. 0. Mills & Co.,

AT SACRAMENTO, IN THE STATE OF
Ca. ifornia. at the close OF business DECEM-
BER Is, 1895:
The record-union., 1895-12-28

If we have felt disposed to complain
of the prevailing cold weather in Cali
fornia, to WOO content we have but to
read of the terrible blizzards at the
East, and the floods and snowstorms
which affiict two-thirds of the country
beyond the Rocky Mountains.
The record-union., 1895-12-28

The Fresno "Expositor" issued on
Christmas Day was Of twenty-eig
pages, with a brilliantly Illuminated
cover. 1t contained business review,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Where? What? WhY

The New York World drove Croker
out of politics by the never-let-up
where does he get it ?"
1t is now running T. C. Plat crazy
by asking every day-"what does he
do with it p
Taking the cue, a "Toilel" writes to
that paper as follows, the main point
appearing in the last sentence:
Your correspondent, "a Mechanic" is dead
right in his denunciation of the walking del
egate. The only steps ever taken by walk
ing delegate are in the direction of his own
selfish interests. Whether a strike is success
full or not, the walking delegate gets there
all the same" He is parasite on the body
of organized labor. He is not necessity but
a luxury. 1t is time that the honest work.
ingman should quit being bed by men who
toll not, neither do they spin anything but
fables. The walking delegate should be made
to tell ~hy he gets it,
''lt'' is a pronoun of the thind per-
SOD, singular number. neuter gender.
objective case, and stands for Doodle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
CORRESPONDENTS.
Thinks it is Coming.
EAST ORANGE, n. j., April Is, 1895.
To fine MINING JoTTPN.J

EAST ORANGE, N. j., April 49, 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
1t is, of course, true that the Single
Tax cannot be fully put into operation
until majority ofthe thinking people
of a State, or some other political
division, are convinced that some
thing must be done, and that the
Single Tax, as the most just and
feasible method, is the thing to do.
do not know in how many of the
States it would be necessary to change
the constitution in order to put the
system into full operation. In New
York the constitution does not stand
in the way. Within the last month
(abouD the "Alnsworth BILL" giving
every county local option in taxation,
was defeated for the third time in the
Assembly by y against AZ votes. 1t
has gained votes, however, every
session and will ultimatel y pass. That
bill gives every county the option of
raising all taxes by taxing land values,
improvementsa and personal property
any one of them, any two, or all of
them. New York City and Brooklyn
are now largely in favor of abolishing
all taxes on personal properly Tor TWO
reasons among others
l, That experience proves that the
personal tax cannot be to any great
extent collected from those best able
to pay it, and
=, On the ground that the exemption
of personal property from taxation
would attract capital, increase bust
ness and thereby raise the value of
real estate.
But this reform, like all real reforms,
will come step by step, and those steps
are being taken all over the country
now.
More and more people are feeling
that the conditions are becoming I'M
bearable and are looking for remedy
that is peaceful and just.
Slavery exists to-day worse than it
did 40 years ago. The essence Of
slavery was the ability to appropriate
the labor of other men-to live on other
mems earnings. The ownership Of
land enables the land-holder to do that
just as effectually and at less cost than
the ownership Of men.
THEODORE j. WERNER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Crying Unheard.

In its report the grand jury is to be COM
mended for suggesting the Offering of a re-
ward for the apprehension of the Zufall
murder or murderers. The Times has again
and again recommended this as means of
expecting the clearing up of that foul and
bloody crime. Let the reward be offered at
once.-Cumber Times
There are times when Cumberland
is lavish with county money.
There are other times when Cum
berland goes through bloody sweat
of economy with the county's money.
In this case the Times unselfishness
has gone sadly unnoticed, and yet
nearly two-thirds of the money it
wanted to offer has been taken by
"that Cumberland hand" out of "this
regions pocket"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
PUBLICATIONS.
Ladies' Summer Gowns.

New grass linens and ecru linen batistes
have color introduced in dashes bars and
stripes, or else they are quite plain. Among
the new cotton fabrics are some beautiful
Hindoo batlstes and smooth twilled cheviot
suitings. Dotted Swiss muslins with
artistic wreaths boquets or separate
blossoms, printed in natural colors on tinted
or white grounds, easily take the lead for
elegant wear. In the Mcdowell fashion mag
agizines just at hand, can be seen many il
lustrations of these new fabrics and their APP
plications. The latest styles of skirts and
capes appear in special coupon patterns.
La Mode de Paris and Paris Album of Fashion
cost only $3.50 year, or 50 cents per copy ;
The French Dressmaker is So per annuna, or 80
cents copy; La Node costs only $3.50 per
year or Is cents copy. Ifyou are unable to
procure either of these publications from
your newsdealer do not take substitute
from him, but apply by mail to Messrs. A.
Mcdowell & Co., 4 West 18th street, New
York.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Rig Talk.

The Supreme Court of the United States
will have decided before the trial for con-
spiracy next Monday whether or not this is
a country where federal judge can step in
and play the car by ordering people to jail
as his will may dictate.-Eugene Y. Debs
There is sometimes danger of courts
going too far.
One has just aotically placed
under arrest the whole State of South
Carolina for smaller offense than
Mr.. Debs committed.
Now if the latter goes free and the
former is convicted, we will see for the
first time in this country how much
bigger than the State is The Indi-
vidual.
But we cannot help thinking that
the leader and hero of club rule ought
to be held under restraint by some
authority, the more "absolute" the
better.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
GENERAL ITEMS.
A Capital Hint.

The suggestion is made to million
aires that there are now colleges enough
in this country and that public and
free libraries are not scarce, since
books have become so cheap that food
for the mind is cheaper than sustenance
for the body and that there are more
churches than can be filled and so,
as matters now stand, rich but good
man can do no better when he shuffles
off this mortal coil than leave his
money to build good roads. What
better monument could man raise or
have raised for himself than ten miles
of perfect highway, with somewhere
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
LATEST NEWS.
All Fixed Tn.

A large committee accepted an in
vitation to visit Cumberland and talk
over the difference occasioned by the
"grand ball' proposal, and went down
Thursday evening.
The whole trouble was adjusted.
The invitations to come to the great
turnout here June II and Is, stand
here will be no "grand ball." nor any
other solo performance in Cumberland,
and the Cumberland firemen will be
here looking as clipper as those from
the rest of the State, Pennsylvania
and Virginia, if not chipperer.
By the way, the ''Sarah Zane" of
Winchester, Va, the oldest organiza-
ton in this ongitude-consider bly,
over 100 years-will be here in full
force.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
SEMI-I.OCAL NEWS.


The JOURNAL has received from
john A. Myers, of the West Virginia
agricultural experiment station, Nor
gantown, copy Of his Especial Bull
letin," tabulating the analyses and
comparative values of fertilizers. To
farmers this is a valuable sheet. 1t
warns them against purchasing low
priced fertilizers determines for them
which are the best and states prox-
imately their commercial value. With
the Especial Bulletin before him. the
West Virginia farmer who goes astray
in buying ''plant food" does so with
his eyes open.
The JOURNAL is indebted to Theodor
Carl Dietrich, editor of the Daily Nesos,
New Brighton, Pa, for copy of ''The
Daily Neaos March," IL pretty musical
composition dedicated to that paper
and handsomely printed. Mr.. D. is a
brother of our Walter Dietrich, Mr..
Towles' deputy photographer.
There are $500 Masons in Maryland,
and it is thought to be terrific re-
Election among the women when they
contemplate the fact that so many
men know something they can never
find out.
The Baltimore public school author
tiles have unloaded Harvey's grammar.
1t was thought the contract contained
some sort of proposition that led to
a null.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27

Always Plenty of Game in the Woods.
If there were no other papers in this county
but the Frostburg JOURNAL, what would the
editor of that paper write about anyhow? (f)
Cumberland AAegamian.
Censor" Cumberland, Ct id Omne,
etc.
And the JOURNAL would keep them
all busy trying to pull the stickers out
of their hides.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27

along its course a stone bearing the
inscription:
This road was built and is to be kept in
order forever by bequest left by the Hon.
John Smith.
Every wayfarer would bless the dead
and the trees growing up to arch the
roadway would keep his memory
green.-Kansas City (Mo.) Star.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
1.-TWO is a Crowd"


ga Taxpayer" writing to the Cum
berland AUeganian, complains of a
regulation which practically closes the
schools to many pupils in the country
both winter and summer. In the
former the average daily attendance
must be at least II IN the latter 90
In the former many little ones in the
country cannot go on account Of
weather and long distances; in the
latter the high average required i'm
perils the teachers pay, which is low
at the best
ga Taxpayer" then remarks:
Such discrimination ought not to be in
favor ofcity or village schools, and to close
country schools. The farmers from the iso-
lated districts are not excused from any part
of the school tax-they certainly have their
share Of that burden to bear-yet they are
deprived Of the summer term Of school.
Aud even the Alleganian, looking at
motives, is moved to say:
If the intention is not to close the country
schools, we would be glad to know what it is
for.
Gentlemen of the pine barrens, if
there be fund that ought to be dis
tributed with impartial hand it Is the
school fund. You contribute to it
your full share, and ought not to be
compelled to ask, like Thomas South
ern, when you see it return IN the
shape Of teachers salaries
What hand of Providence has brought you
back
To your own home again?
But, gentlemen, the "hand of Prov
idence" is displaced by ''that Cumber-
land hand" There is not room for
both in your pockets.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
A Milennial Harbinger.

We are constantly being told by certain
order of agitators that a scarcity of money is
the principal cause of hard times, and that
general prosperity would at once succeed a
doubling of the amount of circulation
Cumberland NeCs
The same logic would make double
the supply of calico by doubling the
number of yardsticks.
And oil the railroad companies
would have to do to double the output
of coal would be to lay one more track,
for instance, on the G. q P, two more
on the B. & o., and multiply the exist
ing equipments generally by two.
The strangest feature Of the whole
business is that there are so many
men of great ability dominated by the
hallucination of fiat money as king
cure-all for financial ailments. Think
of J John j. Ingalls, and John T. Nor
gan, for instance, as daft on that sub
ject! Each is scholar in politics and
craftsmanship, yet each breaches the
doctrine that the money value of an
inferior metal can be manufactured
and confirmed by legislation.
With the walking delegate they hold
the picturesquely absurd notion that
the operation of the natural law of
demand and supply can and ought to be
repealed and re-enacted so that here
after the demand must equal the supply.
This will make everything plentiful,
it is true, but under the silver flood
dispensation another old natural law
is to be reversed so that the more com
modities man has that he cannot
consume the higher IN price they will
be. And when he wants to dispose of
some of his goods he simply unloads
them upon some involuntary buyer at
his own figures.
The whole system of trade will be
radically changed. Things scarce will
be cheap because they are scarce, and,
strange to say, things high will be low
because they are high.
1t will be great thing for this
region. Hitherto, and even now men
frequently return from the mine with
the word. "no cars" which means no
work. But hereafter these men can
go ahead and fill cars whether they
are at the dump or not, because the
ability to supply will compel an equality
of demand. The necessities of the con-
sumner of coal will have nothing to do
with the matter whatever. The pro-
Queer, especially the silver producer,
will be the king bee of the swarm.
When miner feels the need of few
hundred dollars he will ask no ques-
tons. He will go to the mine, dig the
necessary coal at, say $40 tom notify
the railroad company to take it away,
and the consumer, whether he wants
the coal or not, will send back the
money, and the miner will be happy
until he feels the pinch again.
1t will be an ideal era, and when it
comes it will fully verify the most
extravagant dream of the delegate who
talks so glibly and walks so nimbly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Proof,

The local editor of the Cumberland
Neacs shouts
When Cumberland tries hard, there is no
such thing as failure.
Don't all of us know it
But if there are any Tory citizens
and newspapers in the region who are
unaware of Cumberland omnipotence.
let them look at the premature ruins of
our new county.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27

The New York World goes for a
paper trust with ungloved knuckles,
1t tells how it has destroyed It's com
petitors and held up the consumers of
its product, and calls its members
bandits"
The latter retort and say "the World
is not only indecent, but libellous'
almost the exact words used toward
the JOURNAL IN Cumberland.
No matter, therefore, in what shape
a trust exists, it seems that any expose
of its aggressiveness is Indignantly re-
garded as reflection upon good taste
and morality.
Pretty soon any criticism of such
combinations, especially close home,
will be regarded as really ungodly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Political.

If Hons Isidor Raynor and Lloyd
Lowndes are pitted against each other
for governor. no polls need be opened
in this coal region. A motion to make
it unanimous here for Lowndes will
carry.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Keep Still.


There seems to be some sort of de-
m"nd in Homecoming for high school.
This is a call for an institution which,
under the law, cannot be gratified.
The law provides only for plain,
unvarnished. unfrilled, unfounced and
unruffled common school English
education.
All above that must be provided by
parents.
The law was enacted distinctly for
the poor, not for the rich. 1t is the
only class legislation we know of that
can be justified by public policy.
1t is law that should be observed
more faithfully than it is.
If it were, there would be no ground
for the vaulting ambition of Iona
coming pupils to climb to ripe scholar
ship on funds distinctly dedicated to
primary tuition.
Rather than establish a high school at
Homecoming, or elsewhere, better re-
open the deserted schoolhouses in the
poorer country and let the hum of study
again make them the only really glad
places in the wilderness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
BppyitieS.

The ginger snap war in Chestertown
has cut the price down to 5 cents a
peck.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
"A True Test.

A partisan of Harvey's grammar in
Baltimore impeached another grammar
because it tolerated a sentence term
mating with proposition.
He was overwhelmed, however, by
ripper scholars who stated that "the
best writer's frequently so employed
propositions.
But this is not satisfactory.
By what standard are writer's meas
ured to determine their comparative
qualities of good, better, best
Necessarily by the judgment of their
readers, who are presumably the in
ferior literary court.
The true test is to be found only IN
the philosophy of language-a science
sufficiently exact to prohibit almost
inexorably the use of a part of speech
which means "placing before for
placing behind.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27

Again located.
Judges and clerks have been ap-
pointed to hold the city election in
Cumberland May 20.
Both have to be paid also brilliant
rents.
The bill will be about $542 .46.
OF that amount this region will have
to fork over $307.3
This is bad enough, but to go below
Cumberland and gouge $1,000 out of
the poor, hand-to-mouth, helpless
tillers of the pine barrens to pay Cum
berland judges, clerks and landlords
for Cumberland election expenses is
an oppression beside which those of
King George, inflicted upon the col
onies, "pale away into the nightfa!l of
negative virtues"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Won't Do.

If, as the JOURNAL insists, it is the manifest
design of the Ncws to be personal, its excuse
is the manifest design of the JOURNAL to be
libellous. Not content with gratuitously in
sulting the fremen of this city, it INDUCES in
a most sweeping accusation of dishonesty
against the people of this entire community.
These things we felt it our duty to resent, and
if the ''galled jade winces'' we cannot help
it.-Cumberland Ge~s
Why does not the News regard it a
"duty'' to prone the JOURNAL "libell-
ous," rather than merely crescent" the
wrongs done the city,
Resentment does not meet the
exigency, and the jade that winces
under the friction of mere resentment
is eithera susceptible wincer, or very
inferior jade.
Until the Neacs can prooe, therefore,
that the Cumberland hand is in its own
pocket only, the JOURNAL will be com
PEELED by the arithmetical, historical
and eternal verities to plead-''not
guilty"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Is this "a Reward Wanted p"

Is this "A Reward Wanted 2"
The Cumberland Times must have
something to SELL
Speaking apparently "by the book"
it says:
Let the board of county commissioners
offer reward in the Zufall murder case, and
see how quick things will work the other way
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
They Know Not What They Do.

We are sorry to learn that number of ex-
cellent people in Ohio have been wasting
good eggs on Carl Browne. They should
have used last years crop.-Cumberland
Nems.
1t is hardly fortunate to refer to
''last year" in connection with Mr..
Browne.
Here in Frostburg there was hurry
ing to and fro to find lunch and
quarters for him and his cohorts.
For he and they were then regarded
as horrible examples of ''trade"
which. strange to say, is still not
''free."
Hence, it is not good form 10 waste
eggs of any vintage upon Mr.. Browne,
nor should high protectionists hit a
last years missionary of their faith
when he is down.
The martyrs of no other cause have
been pelted by their friends.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-27
Make it Heavy.


The most ordinary sense of justice debating
Frostburg rights in the premises, we have
not, however, overstepped the bounds of fair
defense to impute "meanness'' to an individ-
ual.-Frostburg JOURNAL.
You "overstepped the bounds of even
common decency when you denounced the
firemen of this city as ''hogs" and degraded
wretches," and characterized the people of
Cumberland collectively as a community of
thieves. We are strongly of the opinion that
you are getting off exceedingly light.-Cum-
berland Ne,cs.
When the JOURNAL SAID "the Cum
berland hand was forever in this
regions pocket" it knew then all it
knows now.
Adding the grand BALI project to
the written and unwritten levies upon
this region, We could come out no less
vigorously than we did,
Moreover, the JOURNAL borrowed
the Objectionable remark from Hon.
S. B. Elkins, who stated in public
speech last fall that "Hon. w. L.
Wilson's hand was in his ElkinsD
pocket" If we remember Alright, the
Ne'os not only did not disapprove Mr..
Elkins' taste, but applauded the re-
mark as apt and true.
Now, then, If on Mr.. Elkins' state
ment Mr.. Wilson is thief, then Cum
berland is a community of thieves"
With only this dfference--Mr Elkins
could not prone his statement without
showing that his own hand was out of
place, but the JOURNAL has proven all
it has said by figures, the accuracy of
not one of which the Ne,os questioned.
Now, then, if a community can be
slandered, let it come on with its suits.
But first call in all copies of last
years levy list, kill all the Office
holders, lock up the courthouse and
let it burn again, with all its contents
especially the contents.
Will 1t Work Both Ways?
The men who framed the constitution had
just emerged from the struggle for independ-
ence whose rallying cry had been that "tax
alton and representation go together
The States were careful to see to it that tax
alton and representation should go together,
so that the sovereignty reserved should not
be impaired, and that when Congress voted
a tax upon property it should be with the
consciousness and under the responsibility
that in so doing the tax so voted would pro-
portionately fall upon the immediate con-
stituents of those who imposed it.-Chief
Justice Fuller.
Very good so far as raising taxes
goes.
But how about distributing taxes !?
Is is not fair to presume that the pro-
ceeds should be distributed with the
same equity far as possible among
those who pay the taxes?
Or does the highest law in the land
countenance equitable imposition of
taxes AMI inequitable distribution of
taxes
Does it mean, for instance, that
$l09. 900, raised Immediately" in this
region, shall be poured through all
possible tunnels into remote Cumber-
land
If it does, then the Constitution of
the United States agrees with the Cum
berland Meas.
1t is not, therefore, the sanctified
instrument we had lorg and fondly
imagined.