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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
GENERAL ITEMS.
Low Rates to Washington.

Washington is at all time place of
interest, but it is particularly so and
is seen at its best advantage during
the winter months, when Congress is
in session. What Rome was to every
soldier of the Empire, what Athens
was to the Greek, Washington is and
and should be to every citizen of the
United States-his glory, his pride,
his Inheritance, his estate-it belongs
to him. All its magnificence, all its
glory, all its fame, its public buildings,
its paintings, its statuary, its monu-
ments, its gardens, its libraries, its
museums its streets and its parks.
You have no doubt often promised
yourself trip to the National Capital.
Why not avail yourself Of the oppor-
tunity to do so now; the next excur.
sion is announced for Thursday, Feb
ruary l4th, the rates are remarkably
low and train service the best, the B.
& 0. has to offer. Its vestibuled and
limited express trains can be used on
either the going or return journey as
best suits your convenience.
We give below a list of stations
showing the time of trains and rates
of fare;
Time. Time. Time Rate
Piedmont, ..l0:25 m CASA m S29a m 50, 4C
Cumberland. ll:30 p m 752a m 9;3sa m 4.55
Correspondingly low rates from
other stations.
Tickets will be good ten days, and
will be valid for passage from Wash
ington to Baltimore at any time with,
in the life of the ticket.
For Pullman Car accommodations
and guide to points of interest in
Washington, address nearest B. & O.
Agent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
Missed the Mark .

The JOURNAL spoke of the digging of
lO4 tons a month as "bOom IN
mining" but the Cumberland Neos dis
putes it. According to that paper, $50
cents ton" is the "boom."
In other words, the JOURNAL argued
not syllable against so cents as "a
fair and reasonable price for mining"
The JOURNAL did not assume
either that meat and clothing had de.
clined correspondingly in price. 1t
pre-supposed that these articles would
follow others down, especially cloth
ing
For if cheaper clothing does not fol-
low free wool. then free trade Is not
what the Ne,os scares its timorous
readers with.
The Ne,cs changes the tense of the
JOURNALS argument in other respects
so materially that it remains unan.
swered, and, what is more to the point,
unanswerable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
BORROW the Money.

We have gone to immense expense
to build our new schoolhouses, and
each one is a monument to the invol-
untary liberalitv of the people.
Were they built for ornamentation
or utility9
If the former, then il is unnecessary
to continue the schools to their Il git
innate limit.
If the latter, they should be usefully
occupied every school day in the year.
Mr.. School Commissioners. borrow
that money and make them both orna,
mental and useful.
Otherwise, they are "A mOckery.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
A Poor Escape.

A discussion of the question whether
or not the miners promised" to work
for 40 cents ton for short time, a
long time, or no time, might raise only
an issue of veracity and be very I'M
profitable otherwise.
But the Homecoming Rerie1 makes
one important admission for that
portion of its constituents who seem TO
be always "on the move" to get some.
thing that is not to be had. 1t says of
the meeting last spring:
Before the miners delegates retired from
the meeting, they informed the operators that
they had no power to accept or reject the
proposition, but stated that they would in
form their constituents, who would decide
the matter.
Their fellow miners, in meeting assembled
at the various mines, decided to accept the
proposition of their employers, but made no
promises as to how long they would mine
coal for 40 cents per ton.
The Recieg could have also said that,
as faction speaks louder than words"
the miners "bound the bargain" by
going to eeork-the most practical &C.
ceptance of contract known.
The assumption that the miners
made no promises" ETC., is a mere
''rat-hole at the other end of the
quarry" For if it had been under
stood by the companies that they in
tended digging coal only for a month,
or two months, the business would
have stopped right there until there
was an understanding that could not
be repudiated.
On the contrary, the companies ac-
cepting the act of going to work as
better than a formal ''promlse" to
work for 10 cents a ton until the
market justified a better price, sold
coal at once for future delivery.
The coal could not be delivered. At
least 60 cents per ton of the proposed
deliveries was lost to mining labor.
And there were other losses, calculable
and incalculable. But one of the
worst was that brought down on the
integrity of the regions labor.
All this when the companies had for
months and months given so cents
after competing regions had reduced
to 10 and 30 cents knoon, and no tell
ing to what figure unknown.
All this, too, in spite of the fact that
the companies had few years ago
raised wages voluntarily-wi without be-
ing asked, and without being under
any promise to do so.
1t is a great pity that men listen to
such twaddle as the Recieto prints.
Moral obllquity is comparatively a
small affair IN an individuals treat
ment of great concerns, but when 1t
takes any hold in the popular con-
science it starts on the road that leads
to the greatest of all dangers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
That's What.

The Louisville (Ky) Courier Journal
says:
Looking at the matter from strictly parti-
san standpoint, as most of the republicans Ill
Congress have insisted on looking at it, it
would be better for the republicans that the
present Congress should take some definite
action on the financial question than that it
should be left entirely to the next Congress
The republicans are as badly split up on
monetary matters as the democrats are.
Worse, and the republican silver
men are much more uncompromising,
aggressive and defiant than the demo-
Gratis. For the smell of the late rebel
lion does not haun: their clothes. They
are just as good Puritans as the best
of them.
To tell the whole truth. they are the
ideal whole-hog high protectionists of
the outfit, with silver as the presiding
god of their idolatry.
They ignore all geography and wipe
out all trade considerations outside the
United States. Or, if they think of
other countries and their trade, it is to
metaphorically take them by the
threats and ram silver down their
outlets.
The Gar of the next House has got
to be Car, or there is going to be
picnic as is picnic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09

This is not the first time that we have
shown that our miners made no agreement,
and can give the facts in the case again, if
notwithstanding Reyiem.
The JOURNAL has never known a
strike to succeed here but once, then
only temporarily.
History seems to teach, therefore.
that the policy of making "no agree
ments' has not been a bowling
success.
An agreement, stuck to, however, IS
the thing. 1t works we'll in the morals
and religion of all other business ex-
changes, and we can't see why it
should not between miners and en-
ployers.
If it would, it is a policy that will
win for all concerned.
An agreement presupposes that
neither party in interest are "a law
unto themselves" 1t implies that it
is the formal and binding result of
mutual concession for mutual good.
Both surrender something in order that
pooling of sacrifices may generate
and develop benefits multiplied by
two. This combination made, whether
formally or not, is more certainly
binding when the parties have once
gone to work under it. To all intents
it is partnership, with the certainties
of return nearly all on the side of the
miners; the uncertainties on the side
OF the companies.
But the ReoieU'S statement, quoted
above. implies that 1t is a common
thing for the miners to make no
agreement" and it clinches the as
surance by the banter that it lean
give the facts in the case again, If
necessary"
1t does not seem to be necessary.
The less proof we have of such one
sided business the better it sounds.
For that proof would probably show
that, while the companies are to be
held for that promised $50 cents a
ton," there has not been and is not
now any agreement on the part of the
miners. It is all on the part of the
companies.
The miner is working for 40 cents a
ton, but he hasn't agreed to work for
that rate. He Is actually taking his
pay at 10 cents ton, but he is taking
1t without agreeing to take it.
Hence, if the companies should keep
"that PROMISE" what assurance would
they have for their customers from
people who go to work without prom
Using "as to how long" they will work 7
people, too, who can be lifted from
every material and moral mooring to
employers and homes, wives and chill
dren, by the special pleadings of organ
lied tramphood
The RecieV, gentlemen, confesses a
judgment which stands to your bust
ness discredit. 1t argues that "this is
not the first time" that You have been
industrlally unworthy of your EN-
ployers' dependence, and it puts a
touch of glory in the fact.
The JOURNAL believes the Recieso is
saying more for you, gentlemen, than
your boosted reputation for intelli-
gence, fairness and integrity will
stand.
AS an organ the Recieo is ''too too
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
w hich ?

The bill repeating the sugar differ
entail duty passed the House over
whelmingly, majority of republicans
voting with the democrats.
Only Mr.. Reed and ian awkward
squad" stood out against it.
The differential involved in form and
essence the predominant quality of
high protection, and the bill repeating
it was equally free trade measure.
The statement of the issue is made
here as an excuse for inquiring which
faction Of its party the Cumberland
Necs Islands blythe free trade
majority or "the awkward squad 2"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
Missionary News.

Mr.. T. T. O'Malley "takes his pen
in hand and ''sits down to let you
know" that he is "still in the land of
the living"
The JOURNAL Is sorry to learn that
Mr.. O'Malley remembers US.
For he had a hand in starting q
trouble here that most of US would like
to sponge off the face of history, if
that were possible.
We had hoped Mr.. O'Malley had for
gotten us so completely that he would
never think of coming back himself or
sending proxy.
Mr.. O'Malley is one OF those innocent
men who didn't go to do it" who
start "sympathy' on bust and
suspension" on a tear, but never
mean nor even expect such dangerous
larks to do any mischief a bit
more than the man who turns a
d-dog on the street without antlel-
pating or intending that the dog should
bite anybody.
Mr.. O'Malley writes quite long
letter, we'll constructed, but not re-
markably so. 1t sounds more like the
prelude TO sample of what Du
Maurier calls ''the poetry of violence"
wherein walking delegation rhymes
with intimidation and justification
with sympathication.
The JOURNAL hopes Mr.. O'Malley
and all his kind will stay peaceably at
home, seek to preserve their good
health and allow us to enjoy 1.-THE
same great blessing"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
We Nav be Weldon.

AS matter of news-the JOURNAL
is credibly informed that the reports
sent abroad of restitution at Ocean
and Midland are exaggerations.
Several men without families. it Is
said. are pinched by small earnings
last month. few as low as Sc.
This sum. however. will buy two
barrels of -four. whereas, if the milling
business were on Fictitious bust it
would get but little over one.
One moral of the lesson seems to be
that while high.priced bread may be a
blessing in high-prlced times, cheap
bread is no less so when work is slack
and wages nominally low.
And such vicissitudes are as sure to
come several times in the course of a
generation as death, the climacteric
disaster, is sure to come at last.
Waves of business depression roll
over the world just as epidemics do.
And although we may for time
lift ourselves up by our boots,raps, re-
Taxation must follow. The backbone
wont always stand even the strain of
prosperity. In the business world, as
in the wider empire of nature, the in
variable law is-action and reaction,
labor and repose, animation and de-
preston. IT is the old electric story
over again of positive and negative
alterations.
And, however much we may be able
to prove what thousand men at big
wages can do in the way of paying
hig prices, we have got to take into
account the fact that there are ''prin-
clpalities and powers above the realm
of political economy that without com
junction or remorse reach down. dis
mantle, and tear up the foundations
of the most towering and glittering
structures of human enterprise.
Hence, 1t may be about as rational
to tell our miners how much better off
they would be with wages at so cents a
ton, and -four at S. barrel-it' they
only had the cork, as to demonstrate by
arithmetical methods to the Nebraska
farmers the vast advantages of work
ing underground in coal region
where hot winds never blow.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
SOmeCOmDensatiOn.

Norfolk and Western railroad went
into receivers hands Wednesday.
Carrying ocean coal at starvation
rates.
But it saves Mr.. T. T. O'Malley the
trouble of 'busting" it after he has
"laid out" the B. & o.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-02-09
Overloaded.

Never bear more than one kind of
trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kin ls-all they have had, all
they now have and all they expect to
have.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
The Gas Engine.

Before the Canadian Association of
Engineers Mr.. George Maclie, expert,
recently dwelt ON the character Of the
gas engine as one Of the rivals of the
steam engine III respect of small powers.
say under 100 horse. Though familiar,
it may be said, TO the mechanical or en-
gineering world, the method OF work
ing peculiar to this engine will be Of in
terest TO the general reader, particularly
the ingenious system by which the gas
is exploded once in every TIVE revolu-
tons, some having ono explosion in
three reyolutions--that is, tho engine
having just passed the center, the charge
Of gas is exploded, the rapid expansion
Of the exploded gas driving the piston to
the end of the stroke, when the exhaust
valve opens and the returning piston
drives the exhaust gas out II then re-
turns again, this time acting as an air
pump. drawing in the next charge of
the return. the exhaust valve remaining
closed during the stroke. The gas is now
compressed, and when.the engine again
passes the center the explosion takes
place, the piston being thus driven for
ward again, the same action taking place
as before, the governor admitting the
necessary amount of air and gas for the
load. There are three different ways Of
exploding tho gas--yia, by an electric
spark in the combustion chamber, or by
gas Jet in the combustion chamber. on
by tube heated redhot. with which the
gas comes in contact at the time Of ex-
plosion.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
THE NEXT POET LAUREATE.


k1pI1nE Commended dec1use Re HAS S0G<
the Song Of the British Soldier.
1t is in the last number Of The Idler,
in symposium upon the selection
of the next poet laureate Of England.
that Mr.. Zangwill makes this special
plea for and brilliant panegyric Of Kip
ling:
Without wasting time in reason
theoretical or practical--far barking ev-
cry other poetical genius, lat me say at
once that my selection is Rudyard Kip
hing. Quite unprompted ly tho passi-
bilities Of TIE laurel and the canary--or
is it the sack that the poet laureate getss
--Kipling has sung the song Of the Rsiss-
ish Flag in verses Of unarr passed imag
NATIVE vigor. He has interpreted the
British soldier. He alone today possesses
the secret of those Macaulay measures
which are trunpets TO the blood OF the
scholarly and the simple alike. while
they are the only meters that really APP
peal to the crowd. His genins-the most
brilliant, not to say glaring. that enr
generation has witnessed, always at a
white heat, and therefore lacking the
mellower radiances--is Of the very fire
that informs Tyrteus. His mind has
the narowness that makes national
bard. and that breadth which is indispen-
sable for British national bird. whose
strains must echo the morning roll of
the drum that follows the sunrise round
the world
'.The only thing which can be urged
against Kipling's claims is his youth
But then Kipling-matured under In
dian skies-was never yonng In truth,
genius never develops, but reyolves ia
cycle Of masterpieces always old
as old as all tie other elemental mystic
ries Tennyson never wrote anything
really popular in the laureate line ex-
cept The Charge Of the Light Brigade
Kiplng would be popular, even if he
had to hymn the virtnous advent of
princely twins. In brief. be is already
practically the laureate Of the British
empire. The appointment only awaits
ratification at the hands Of Tho Widder
of Windsor. .
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
Old Fashioned Discipline.

ColIingwcoa a,st otiicers; ii al rs.ed
order ii niasl. ii E:::sya ssseasa ID ! essssa
ii isss3 Sc rkess said ST
Vincent to 4 yssrssg 8. sut raIaein-
bes that ves arc aa ~ TO RAJ iso
will take 1t away {rosa sea tomorrow
if you behave I'll. Ho also p::a psxsHic-
u,ar attention Is his nlislslli i1aslea1, caa
siiaring it d point If honor with HIM
self that not one should leaxe hin unfit
to pass for promotion. Yet il MAS his
infieSible ruln to uphold the authority
Of every oficsr, whatever his rank, with
the same severity as his own.
II a midship1aan made complaint
AGAINST rs1.fl, fl..f rss,s, yrsss sIf,fsi7infy-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29

From this I turned to listen to very
domestic confab between Judy and her
mate. She had just washed her face and
made herself really pretty. Then she sat
down on bench close to her man and
began to pet him. This bit Of discourse
followed.
Just go and get q shave now, Jim.
I'll give We wing penny II ye will.
for the doin OF. :"
"Bahl What's the matter NV my phiz
anyhow
Nav. Ye doan' look purity. can 4
love We that way
BLAST yer love anyhowl Doan't keep
a-naggin all the time,
please, now. git scrapc. I'm all
washed up. Ye mought look as decent
as / do.
"Lemme alone. I'm on the brain
{I'm thinking). !"
Well, ~ mought have me ON the
brain little more than ye do. Didn't
git ye out O. bein pipched the other
day.
He looked at her, relented, patted her
head and went for shave
The surprise to me in all this was the
genuine wifeliness of that Judy. She was
probably as degraded as womankind even
gets to be, and yet she had enough hu-
manity in her to be really in love =
1.-Two Tramps In England, p" by Josiah
Flynt, in Century.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
DIRECTORY.
BERKELEY COUNTY

CIRCUIT CouRr. Judge, Thirteenth
Judicial Circuit, E. Boyd Fanlkneri
Clerk, VIM. B. Colston; Prosecuting
Attorney. U. S. q. Pitzer; Sheriff. LOUIS
G. tierling; Deputy Sheriffs, Robt. Gold
Elijah W. Van Metre. Alex. Cichan'
Deputy Sheriff and Jailer, Alexander
Elliott.
Terms Of the Court commence on the
second TUESDAY in january, April, and
September.
COUNTY COURT. President. G, P. Ri
ner: Commissioners, II. j. Seibert and
arI r. T.. Thomas; Clerk, G. w. Doll.
Terms commence. first Monday 10
March, june, September and December
Commissioners of Accounts, John 1
Picking. Adrian G. Nadenbousch. l.
Dew. Gerhafdt: Surveyor of Land. 1
w. Woods; Assessor. First District z
L. Nicely; Assessor, Second District
James A. Gageby; General Receiver
Henry j. Seibert, Coroner, VIM Mckee
Sealer of Weights and Measures, ". IL
Lamon; Steward of Almshouse, Thos.
Wolford.
Local Board of Health, E. L. Hoff.
man, John L. Williamson, DR.. 5. N
Myers, the President of County Court,
and Prosecuting Attorney.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
lVEsrERN MARYLAND RAILROAD


Trains leave Cherry Run 10 and II 25
=. ~. Wiiiiamsport 8 Al and II 90, arrive
y Hagerstowu s. and 10 ID. Leave
H. geFetown % a. N and Q 0Oand 4 Is
p.m.ar at Highfeld7 80 aud So. arrive at
Baltimore - 10 n a. m. aud TIP, 5 "a
p ~. connecting for Washington. Phil-
ade'rhla and New York.
Leave Baltimore. A 30. Sa. M. and 09
.. NJ, arrive at Hagefstown at 05 a. IA. 4,
u IS and 90 . M. and At Cherry Run
Al ~ a. M, 20 aud So D. nj. Com
meet on y. & o. East and West con-
u-ct at HighfeId for Gettysburg and
Hanover and over the man line fer
Emmiftsburg, Westminster and all
stations.
Is. q @. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland ard intermediate
points, No. IL, daily at ~ a. m. For
Piedmont and Intermediate, No. H.
daily except Sunday, at % .. m, and
Chicago Express, No. !, daily at 10 43
q. IN.
Leave Bruceville for Frederick st
and 40 am. and 5 40p m. Leave Bruce
vile fer Taneytown. Littlestown. York.
Wrightsyille and Columbia at 8 A. a. m,
and IS p. N.
r. & r. X. Trains leave Shippensburx
at 90 a. M. and 90 and 3 10 .. m.
Leave Hagerstowp for Shippensburg at
b and II 10 a. m. and 9 So p. M. daily.
except Sunday.
J. NJ. HOOD. Pres.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29

The grammar school boy was reading
the paper when he stopped suddenly aud
appealed to his mother.
Say, mother" 10 said, "what does
itmean in the paper here where it says a
scared horse broke loose from where be
was liitehed 70 fence and tore down
the street,"
1t means just what il says, replied
tho mother without thinking.
How can it?' persisted the boy.
Glow conld he tear down lie street,
There amt anything for him to tear
down. He might have torn down tie
fence, but not the street "
Eyes, oil, yes, said the mother quite
as intelligeptly az before.
II guess the paper made a mistake, .
said tho boz. fixing up his own cxplana-
ton, t'and it meant to say be tore up
the street I've seen the streets tore up
a good many times laying street car
tracks and gas pipes and tliiags
He thereupyn resumed his reading and
his mother sat looking at him MS ii rho
feared be might have III attack OF brain
fcvcz. Detroit Free Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-29
Keeping ar Eye on Them.

The directors of bank had engaged
the services Of a watchmail, who came
well recommended, bat did rot seem
overexperienced The chairman, there
fore, sent for him to post him up a bit
and began:
James, this is your first job Of this
kind. isn't it"
Yes, sir. =
"Your duty must be to exercise vigi-
lance. z
Eyes, sir. 9
Be careful how strangers approach
you
II will, sir .
No stranger must be allowed to en-
ter the bank at night under any pretext
whatever. F"
No. sir =
and ous manager, he Is q good man,
honest, reliable aad tEsl worthy, bat il
Will be your duly to keep your ego on
him z
But it viii be hard d watch i've
men and the bank 1T the same time.
Two mem How
"Why, sir, il was Only yesterday thai
the manager called lie i'll fer a talk, and
he said you were che al the best men in
London, but 1t would BE- just as well to
keep both eyes on you aud lei the di.
reetors know il you hang around after
hours. "--Iioudon It'll Bits.