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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Nothing New.

Mr.. German is telling the Maryland voters
that President Cleveland disregarded his adj.
vice on the tariff question. Mr.. Cleveland
wrote Mr.. Catchings to that effect many
months ago.-Chicago Times Herald.
If the JOURNAL errs not the last
national convention of the democratic
party also disregarded Mr.. Germans
advice on the tariff question.
The same body went a step further.
That is to say, it not only overthrow
Mr.. Germans ideal of tariff reform,
but it scattered to the four winds of a
kindly heaven every gossamer vestige
of his known intention to take Mr..
Cleveland's place in democratic affec-
lions and be himself the party's nom
inee for president.
Under all the circumstances nobody
should wonder at the indictments Mr..
German finds against the president
Mr.. Cleveland is an unfaithful
Telemachus.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
ShOnld STAY ut Home.

The "silver tongued orator." j. Al
ways Wrong, blistered Mr.. Lowndes
for giving his miners only 40 cents a
ton.
But he forgot that there is some
thing besides wages to consider.
1.-THE official report in Pennsylvania,
about to be published, be credible, the
average miner over there in 1894 load
ed 376 tons ; in Maryland 947!
Besides, the average wage in Penn
sylvanla is lower than in MAJ yland
The JOURNAL has only time to ask
why in the name Of justice, not to say
humanity, doesn't Mr.. Wrong stay at
home and coin his Maryland grief into
silver oratory over the woes of his
neighbors who are q times worse off
than Mr.. Lowndes' miners?
Fellow-citizens. of all the men in the
universe who should be the very last
to come into this State to denounce
wages and wage conditions, they
are Pennsylvaniaus.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
SEMI-IOCAL NEWS.


Quick Trains to the Atlanta Exposition
Over the Southern Hallway
The Southern railway inaugurated
its winter schedules Sunday, October
6, 1898, aud in addition 20 It's regular
double daily limited train, known as
the Exposition Flyer" leaving New
York at IL a. m, daily; Phila-
delphla l:l2 r. m. /; Baltimore 3:l5 o..
m. ; Washington 1870 p. M, arriving
at Atlanta next day at 1920 a. M,
central time, carrying Pullman sleep
ers and vestibuled day coaches.
The United States Fast Mall leav-
ing Washington at HIS a. M. with
through Pullman sleepers and day
coaches, daily, and the ''Vestibuled
Limited,' at l0:43 p. m , composed of
vestibuled sleepers and day coaches,
with dining car service, are continued
in service, and arrive at Atlanta next
day at 5:2O a. NJ. and 300 D. M,
respectively, central time.
The Southern Railway is the only
line operating solid trains from Wash
lngton to Atlanta over its own tracks.
and the only road entering the EXPOSE
ton Grounds. Time from Washing
ton, only Is hours. Low excursion
rates on sale daily from all coupon
ticket Offices. Those sold on TUESDAYS
and Thursdays Of each week. however,
are lower than othe. days and limit of
tickets correspondingly shorter. Suf-
ticient time is allowed, however, on
the lower rate tickets to spend week
at the Exposition.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
TOWN AND VICINITY.
Over 1O6 Years Old.

About a mile, as a bird would fly,
north east of Frostburg, on a spur of
the Great Savage white farmhouse
glistens in the radiance of cloudless
day. There lives Patrick Mullooly,
an industrious, prosperous farmer,
and with him his aged father in-law,
James Walsh.
1t was on such a day very recently
that the JOURNAL accompanied DR..
Timothy Griffith on Il visit to the
venerable gentleman. A most cordial
welcome was extended, and when the
JOURNALS mission was explained he
entered heartily but modestly into the
enterprise.
The JOURNAL had learned that Mr..
Walsh had passed his centenarian
year and was rich in the recollections
of long and busy life. 1t, therefore,
desired to learn from his own lips ii
brief story of his career.
When he was asked-''w where were
you born ?"-he answered with Celtic
eloquence-''on the beautiful river
Shannon" He stated later and more
precisely that his birthplace is in county
Roscommon, Ireland. He was three
years old when his mother died. hisfrst
most impressive recollection. This
took place in 1892 He knows also that
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
4 GOsnel Truth.

1t must be remembered that down in
the deeps of their hearts hundreds OF
miners good, christian men, were
glad that the militia came here last
year-no matter who invited or who
sent them.
Such men have now not word tc
utter in condemnation of that step
They are as quiet as when on Novem
Der 5, in Australian seclusion, they
will endorse it, ecen though they shoulo
r0te for Hurst?
The republican, therefore. who
"cuts" Mr.. Lowndes on that account
will not only. even from his own point
of view, punish an innocent man, but
he will not mend matters by voting
for Hurst .
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

he was born on the anniversary of the
martyrdom of st. James, whence he
derived his christian name. From
these and corroboratlve family data it
is easily ascertained that Mr.. Walsh
was born July %, 1889, and is, there
fore, well advanced in his 10th year.
He was a matured man when the
battle Of Waterloo was fought, an
event he wildly remembers. Indeed,
he decaims with considerable impress
iveness some lines anent Napoleon's
subsequent Punishment which were
current in that day:
Bony's away from his war and his fghtin'-
Confined in a place where he'll never de-
light in
Sit down and he'll tell all the battles he's
been in
Quite forlorn he does move in the isle of st.
Helenin."
You who have wealth beware of ambition
And you who're confined look at his con-
diton.
The tradesmen and farmer in splendor were
shinin'
Before poor Bony was sent to st HelInin"
Said Mr.. Walsh humorously-'it
was reported at the time that the
verses We're written by Mrs. Bony.'"
When Mr.. Walsh came to this coun-
try there was not railroad south of
Baltimore, nor was the canal yet fin
ished to Williamsport. He remembers
well when the Good Intent" stage
line ran between Frederick and
Wheeling when ix-horse teams,
droves of horses, hogs, and cattle by
thousands We're taken through here
east ward when there were no works
at Mt. Savage, and when all stage CON
veyances We're imported from Russia.
He has known the people and town of
Frostburg over GO years.
Mr.. Walsh is by trade a wagon
maker and still delights IN the use of
saw, plane, hammer and nails. His
health has always been good never in
his life lost a day by sickness from
work. This he attributes to regular
habits of living, total abstinence from
tobacco in all its forms. and tenn
perance in eating and drinking. He
is a dyspeptic now, however-a dis
order which gives him occasional an
noyance.
a touching experience in his noble
life is indicated IN his reason for enlist
ment in the army during the war.
Although then an old man he took the
place of "A son, fearing he might lose
the boy. "He was such a promising
young man, and | didn't want him
to come to HARM" he explained.
He served three years AMI three
months. The one experience which
most impressed him was 1.-THE Hunter
raid, in which bore an humble part
from start to finish -"
Touching HIM upon his literary en-
joyments, Mr.. Walsh responded that
''the Baltimore American is the great
est paper in the world for the money!
He chad read the SIM about 10 years,
but later the American pleases me
better" He reads his favorite paper
through every week and can do so
without glasses.
The old gentleman is quite phi
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Cannot be HclDed.

The strike for an advance of cents
per ton in the soft coal regions of
Pennsylvania is gaining Roadway.
From all accounts the whole trouble
was stirred up by the walking dele
gates-men who thrive on popular
commotion and distress.
On the other hand, the operators
say, in the words of representative :
1t would be a great pleasure to pay the
miners a higher price for mining coal, because
when laborer is paid full price he works
more cheerfuly and protitably for his
employer, but it is impossible to do SO in
this region for the simple reason that the
price for which we are obliged to sell coal
does not leave the operator, even now, a
reasonable profit. The majority of the coal
sold from this region does not net the
operators over 5 cents per ton. Striking
won't benefit the situation, as the operator is
as helpless as the miner. What he cannot get
he cannot giye. The last strike drove trade
from this region which has not been re-
covered.
Facts like these, however, have no
weight with ''silver-tongued orators"
Hence, the community must still
bide its time of relief from the prey of
these pestiferous demagogues. We
can quarantine small pox and similar
virulent contagious, but Noble Order
infections, under the prerogatlves of
a distorted individual sovereignty,
must still be tolerated like the itch and
other outgrowths of unwashed smart
ness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

posite party. Support those papers that are
clean, reliable and staunch for good govern
ment, but shun as a leper any other and es-
pecially those which have sold themselves to
a corrupt gang.
Mr.. Roosevelt was probably not
aware of the fact that the Herald has an
interesting case of appendicitis on hand.
That is to say, the vermiform APP
pendix of its blind intestine is inhamed
by an abnormal desire to see popular
education scattered broadcast over
America through the medium of sur
plus edition of a foreign cyclopRdia-
an exotic system of public enlighten-
ment that ought to go with Gormanism
into the shades of perpetual retirement.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Wrong Crowd.

To and including last Saturday each
miner in this region had loaded 1853
tons of coal.
During the same period last year he
loaded GA tons-a difference III favor
of this year of 70 tons.
20, but the suspension took place
last year." says the miner who com
plains of slack work.
True enough, o king, but did you
ever see work Stacker than during
that suspension
And not content with the compare
tive degree in the premises a pro-
digious effort was made to make it the
slackest work period in the history of
the region.
The Journal. recalls that unpleas-
antness only to show that the men
who created the slackness of 1894 are
not the men who ought to complain of
better work in 1895.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
The Inevitable Way.

The mine inspector of Kentucky
demonstrates in his latest report that
the "sympathetic suspension of last
year resulted in the introduction of
West Virginia coal into many sections
of the State, where the most vigorous
efforts to dislodge it have proven I'M
awaiting.
This region suffered considerably
from the same cause.
But for later suspension in
Pocahontas, from which we profted in
some degree. work would not be so
plentiful as it is.
Those gentlemen. however, who re-
gard work as slack, IN spite of the
nominalll low price of mining, should
charge the occasion to William B.
Wilson.
And if they will look little further
and deeper into the subject he is the
slick gentleman who by "acts, which
speak louder than words" called the
military into this county.
For this no honest man can blame any60dy
else
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
BreVitIcS.

The Vale Summit social club gave Il
select hop in A. O. H. hall, that place.
Thursday evening. The Frostburg So
cial clubs orchestra furnished music.
A new musical instrument called a
vocation, cross between a pipe organ
and a melodeon, is to be IA novelty in
Homecoming next winter. 1t will come
from Scotland, and from all accounts
will turn out to be remotely related to
both the Highland bag pipe and Frost
burg fog whistle.
The members of St. Mary's bene-
iiciai society, living at Eckhart mine,
are holding Il fair i'll the Sporting
clubs hall at that place for the benefit
of the society. The Frostburg Social
clubs orchestra is furnishing the
music.
The Scranton pa Tribune publishes
in full the most eloquent address Of A..
}. Colborn, jr., at Gettysburg last week.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Are the Teachers Responsible =?

An intelligent inquirer makes this
statement to the JOURNAL:
hear children speak Of a pen as "a point"
1t is new to me. Do they get that name in
the course of tuition? Ifso, what warrant
have the teachers for its use? Please look
this up and let us know through your in
valuable paper.
The teachers have no authority
whatever to use, or permit such usage,
much less to inculcate it.
Both pen and point have diversity
Of employments, but none 50 remote
as to make them synonymous. There
is not even such recorded compound
as pen-point.
But if the JOURNAL errs herein,
then point should be "points.' A
point" split, becomes two points.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

losopher-one rich in the spoils of OBJ
servation and experience as well as of
reading. He said 1.-The poor 1--we and
die happiest," and 'too much wealth
is worse than not enough
Mr.. Walsh was originally IL demo-
crat, but the party abandoned the
soldiers, and with that he left the
party. He Is literally disposed, how.
ever, to all classes with high aims and
believes the future is bright with prom
Use for the elevation of humanity.
In physique Mr.. Walsh is below the
middle stature and but slightly stoop-
ed by his great age. He is still hale
and active, his appetite only restrain
ed by his dyspeptic tendency. His
mind is unimpaired and his tongue
has lost none of its Celtic cunning.
He tells with much amusement his
first and only experience with pipe
Of tobacco. An outdoor scene follow
ed: 10 spectators; he thought he
would never be able to smile again.
Speaking of his antecedents he sand
his father, who died at ITO years,
never lost tooth" The JOURNAL,
winking the other eye at DR.. Griffith,
remarked that 1.-THE doctors of that age
were far superior to those of this
but Mr.. Walsh quickly refuted ii is by
affirming that ''no profession had
made more progress during his life
time than the medical" and, Incl
dentally, he added, land you cunt
say too much for my good little ply
stefan here"
Mr.. Walsh has no brothers or sisters
whom he knows are living. His wife
died II years ago, aged y. He was
the father of eleven clildren-five
girls and six boys-eieht living and
three dead. Two sons and one daugh-
ter reside in Cumberland one son in
New Jersey one daughter in Pitts
burg; one daughter in Mt. Savage,
and two daughters here.
On leaving the JOURNAL told Mr..
Walsh that the great paper is about
three quarters Irish. "Wel, SIR
sad he, God bless you, and may YOU
live long enough to secure that other
quarter"
Mr.. Walsh had never had picture
taken, but he promptly accepted an
invitation to visit Towles' gallery and
sit. This he did and several fine
proofs were submitted by the artist
the engraving illustrating this brief
sketch being since made from one of
them. All who know Mr.. Walsh will
recognize it as most excellent re-
production.
a glance backward will disclose the
fact that this venerable mans life is but
little shor; of the span covered by the
Constitution of the United States, and
that he was born within three months
after Washington's first inauguration.
Coming closer home, he was exactly
five months old on the day the Act
passed authorizing the formation of
Alleging county.
Mr.. Walsh's present good health
and strength give promise of years of
life yet. Six more and he will enjoy
a distinction that comes to but few on
earth. TIE light of three centuries
will have shone on his career.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
The Supply Must Not Overbalance the
Demand

PENNSYLVANIA produced over half
million tons less of coal last year than
the year before.
And there were seven thousand more
miners to produce the inferior quantity.
That is to say, in 1898 each miner
dug 412 tons in 1894 376 tons.
The miner lost from both conditions
"a smaller demand for coal and q
larger supply of labor.
But the men who do not look beyond
the ends of their noses, in Pennsyl-
vania as here, blame the operators for
not giving their miners more work"
Here, at least, there is a notion ex-
tant that the whole business of coal
production rests upon the discl elton of
the companies that if they would they
could dump their coal in unmeasured
quantities somehow, upon somebody
somewhere.
But consumers do not buy more
coal than they want any more than
miners buy more sugar than they
want.
In the great study of personal
economy, therefore, the consumer and
the producer in this case are taking
their lessons from the same book of
experience, the consumer being prob
ably the more practical student and
exemplar.
Our operators, like those in Penn
sylvania and elsewhere, have no more
command of their customers than the
sugar planters have of the miners.
They sell all the coal they can to
whomsoever will buy and pay, and
that is the limit of their sovereignty
over the situation.
The man, however, who holds other
wise is either animated by a dema-
gogue's purpose or is gump of the
first magnitude.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
New SchptluIc

The winter schedule of the B. & O.
Ii. is in effect. See changes:
Main line, No. II, winch ran from Balti
more to Piedmont, will hereafter stop II
Cumberland, and No. lG, running from Pied
mont to Baltimore, will start from Cumber
land at S.35 a. m.
No. S, eastbound, will leave Cumberland a
a m, five minutes earlier than before.
No. 2, eastbound leaves at S22 a. m, on,
minute earlier than before.
No. 8, westbound, arrives and leaves q
minutes earlier
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Inevitable EaiIurcS.

The strike in Cleartield, as we I'M
derstand it, is kick against both low
wages and slack work.
The philosophy of the strike, how
ever, seems to work backwards.
|, In order to get better wages the
workingmen must first take no wages,
and
2, In order to make work more
abundant he must first do no work.
To a land animal these methods are
sure failures.
No man can get along in the world
by steps rearward.
Even the crab cannot play his tricks
of locomotion outside Of water.
And no man is more out of his
element in a strike than the miner, es-
pecially the good miner.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

Shipments of coal from the mines of
the Georges Greek coal region were
in long tons
For week ending October 10, 1885,. 69520
" year to same date. .............2, G36 ia
Increase compared with last year.. 277, S6l
Prices Of coal on cars in Boston
are
Clarified 7O0S2 so
Pocahontas and New River...... $1,000 3.l5
These paragraphs are condensed from
the Coal Trade Jomnai:
IHtadelphia-Discussing the Clarified
strike.
Boston-More activity in soft coal.
Ne~ York,-Coal is moving but no change
in price.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Positively No Postponement.

The Cumberland AHeganjan quotes
Delaware paper as saying:
Theeye of the national democracy are now
fixed upon The State of Maryland.
Not so.
The eyes of the national democracy
are fixed upon the state and fate of
Gormanism.
For if Gormanism wins, it is the
programme of Gormanism to have
itself passed upon in the next national
convention, and, winning there. to
submit itself to the judgment of the
American people.
But as Gormanism embodies prin-
ciples and practices which cannot sur
vive in a free, enlightened and ethical
system Of citizenship, it is better, not
to put off until tomorrow the scotch
ing of snake whose head ought to be
bruised to day.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Two of n Kind.

Speaking to Baltimoreans Theodore
Roosevelt said:
You have paper named the Hcrald, osten-
sibly republican, that has twisted itself inside
out. | would not credit, indeed condemn
any public journal that for 81 900, or $1,000
or y per line sells out its principles to the OPP
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
A Second Wanted,

If the worst comes to the worst, and
it is proven that more crime goes
hand in hand with more learning,
then the JOURNAL rises and moves to
abolish the educational department of
the Baltimore Morning HeraH
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
With u DullThud.

One hears very little nowadays of the
Pocahontas coal and It's victories. Has it
dropped into the quietude of the older
concerns, such as Clearlield and Beech Creek ?
Coal Trade Jomual
That is about its level.
1t has made coal so cheap that ITS
income does not provide money enough
to pay for blowing.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Underground Mysteries.

Although there has not been good rain
in this section for several months and none
at all for the past few weeks yet there are re-
ports of several springs, which had been dry,
hlllng with water, and the water in Big Wills
Creek raising in some places last week.
What is the cause ?-Hyndman pa Bulletin.
Probably the same that induces the
largest river in the world to rise on
the edge of region perpetually rain
less.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
COUNTY NEWS.


The jury in ease of d. J. Lewis as.
Cumberland Neers for libel found shat
Mr.. Lewis had been damaged in the
sum Of S30S.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

A correspondent of the usually
accurate Baltimore Sun Is informed by
that paper
that little is a descriptive adjective
Are not all adjectives more or less
"descrlptive,' and most of them dis
tinctly SOP Is it not the nature Of an
adjective to be descriptive
Hence, if the SIN had said "little''
is Il limited limitation it would not
kave been much farther off the track.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
Attemptcd SuiCidc.

Henry Laurish, Of Homecoming, cut
his throat yesterday evening about 6
o'clock because the rain is not forth
coming. Doctors think they can save
his life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

The following local advertisement
appears semi weekly in the Fairmont
CIV. Va.) Mder.
The latch-string at our shaving parlor is
always out. When you want a shave or
haircut quick. remember us. We are AWAY s
at home-Fred Hess and his Pap, Palatine
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26
A Bad Flop.

Is Schonfarber on deck again?
If so, he is bussing his old enemy
German, right on the knee-cap.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-10-26

Every business house in this t0aon MouM
oecm space in this paper for adcertising the
peculiar ercellencieS Of the house and its
merrh0ndise.