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Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Waste Space.

If the papers of the county and
State would talk up the business de-
velopment of their communities more
and politics less the State would be
far more greatly benefited.
For some weeks past great space has
been taken up by mention that Tom,
Dick and Harry So-and-So are pro-
posed by their friends for this and that
office.
Such space is absolutely wasted. 1t
is of comparatively no interest to
anybody except those who are fatter-
ed, and many of such have no other
use for newspapers.
The same space and attention turned
to more material uses would count far
more to the community.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
COUNTY NEWS.
Our School Books.

cSihooA
Considerable discussion of text books
is on dit among teachers, few of
whom must pardon the JOURNAL for
reproducing, perhaps imperfectly,
some observations lately made in its
hearing.
Eggleston's History is not favored for
reasons that will appear in contrast by
comparison with Montgomery's. The
latter is said to be more consecutive in
arrangement and as furnishing be-
sides its elegant text complete out
lines, at once labor-saving to teachers
and time-savlng to learners.
Yet Eggleston's is the School Board
choice for our children.
Creary's Primary Speller is also
condemned as furnishing poor selec-
ton of words and very faulty arrange
ment. Like many other mo,lern books,
it is made to sell.
Yet Creary's Speller is the School
Board choice for our children.
The Fifth Reader in use, author not
remembered, is characterized as want
ing variety and vitality. Most of the
selections are dry, insipid and difficult
of mastery by the pupils of its class.
Yet this Reader is the School Board
choice for our children.
Next comes "a Complete Arlth-
metic," by Rickoff-a book whose
practice sometimes contravenes its def
nitions. After declaring "amount," !"
for instance, as the sum of principal
and interest, it furnishes on page 2l2
at least Z examples where, the
"amount" beng called for, the an
swers give only the interest. The ar
rangement is also bad. A little
chapter on Mensuration" is allowed
to interven between two applications
of the decimal form of fractions-a
grievous fault, which is repeated, it
is said, in the transition from Part to
Part =. And so on.
Yet this Arithmetic is the School
Board choice for our children.
So far as the JOURNAL could see and
hear the objections urged are we'll
founded.
In school books any objection, we'll
founded, is a serious objection. The
school book should be as nearly as
practicable infallible. Indeed, "ike
Caesars wife, it should be above sus-
picion." The plastic mind might dis
cover weakness in the tutor, but it
should never find one in the text.
Hence, 1t is far more essential to
have good school books than good
teachers, though the latter cannot be
too good.
And it is of yet higher Importance
to have good school books than high
schools. A high school with faulty
books is solecism in conditions and
an irredeemable fraud in result.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Chance for Care.

Cleopatra is said TO have spoken all the
languages used by her subjects, together with
Latin and Greek. Altogether she understood
eleven or twelve.
Somebody has condensed the above
information from the biography of the
worlds most famous example of lovely
wickedness, or wicked loneliness.
1t is believed Cleopatra acquired
Latin and Greek" in the high school
at tAlexandria--studies which inspired a
taste for the nine or ten other tongues
IL which she communicated to her
heterogeneous subjects her polyglot
commands.
Fortunately for both scholarship and
morals, Cleopatras seldom darken the
ages, but there is no telling what the
multiplication ofso-called high schools
may yet develop from the raw material
with which Homecoming especially is
said to superabound.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31

There is talk Of making 'the JOUR
NAILS informant" an honorary mem
Der of the SIS. Annanias and Sapphira
club of Cumberland, but its sex is in
the way.
The Knobly mountain poultry as
sociation will hold its annual conven-
ton in December. Erudite Rafferty,
Johnston may give the roosters a puff
but it is doubtful whether he will
deign a word of editorial encourage
ment to the hens.
Wher David J. Lewis awoke yester-
day morning and read that liue-"The
noblest Roman of them all'-he rubbed
his eyes and aSked-"w where am | at p
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest
Ann Bruce to Andrew J. Myers, lot in
Frostburg, $50.
r. II. Gordon, administrator of Mary Nc
Culloh, to Allegany cemetery company OF
Frostburg, piece Of ground in Frostburg, $50
Georges Creek coal and iron company tc
Frank &. Sharp, land near Nelf's run, S25.
Frank c. Beall ct a. to Jennie j. Steele, lot
on Maple street. Frostburg, Sl3O
Belle l.. Boyd and others to John c. Dick
and others, lots III Homecoming, $3.50.
James Mair ct al to Albert Bender, tract of
ground, near Nelf's farm, 1880
Michael Rourke to Amelia G. Engle, lot OF
ground in Eckhart Sl25.
Joshua Kight to R. T. and T. c. Laly, two
lots on Main street in Westernport
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Not a Speculation.

The trostburg JOURNAL says of the nearly
two hundred teachers in that county eight
are subscribers to that paper. We can say
that of the one hundred and fifty in this
county six are subscribers to the Neec Do
mjnton, so the proportion is the same The
JOURNAL is still ahead, as it is not expected to
print columns of district and county institute,
school reports and resolutions galore without
even as much as a thankee.-Morgantow
CIV. Na.) NeU DOmiuion
Whether ''the JOURNAL is still
ahead will be illustrated by an ex-
ample.
The JOURNAL attended the last
Institute at Homecoming, putting in a
day. Another day was dedicated to
writing report in frst-class style
and two columns of space thrown in.
The report was Mandatory of teachers,
people, children, town, etc
Advertised extras were sent down
and eight were sold, only tpo bought
by teachers.
For its two days work, two columns
space and 40 cents outlay for adver-
tising the JOURNAL received a cents
Not only so--the few appreciative
words that came back were drowned
by the whines of several teachers who
fe.t they had been inadequately puffed
"a notion some of them must have
contracted from reading other peoples
copies Of the paper.
AS a rule, therefore. advertising
teachers is about equal to pouring
ones time and space, the newspapers
double gold standard, down a rat-hole.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
GENERAL NEWS.
G. "A. II. National Encampmcnt,
Louisville, Ky.

The B. & 0. railroad company will
sell excursion tickets to Louisville and
return at all ticket stations on its lines
east of the Ohio river at the rate of
one cent per mile each way for the
round trip, for all trains September
7th to 10th, inclusive, valid for return
journey until October 9th, inclusive.
Tickets will also be placed on sale oia
B. & O. at offices of all connecting
lines. Stop-overs will be allowed on
the return trip.
Veterans will bear in mind that all
B. & O. trains run GA Washington and
Harper's Ferry.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Didn't Need n NewspaDer.

An editor quotes the following para
graph from the letter of man who
wrote him to stop sending the paper :
think folks autent to spend their mummy
for paypurs, mi daddy didn't and every
boldly sed he was the intelligentest man in
the kentry and had the smartest family of
boise that ever dug taters
That fellow is a type of many
economists in this county-some of
them specially endowed by a myster-
ious Providence with the right to
vote, sit on iuries and teach school.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Why?

Allegany county pays out large sums
annually for the purpose of road repairs, but
whether the supervisors expend all they re-
ceive for that purpose is question, as the
condition of some of our highways do not
show it.-Lonaconing Reyiew.
Not very large, compared with some
other sums" but as you are 'justly
entitled" to your share, why don't you
go for the supervisors until you
lose some of them9
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Compulsory Conclusion.

The Frostburg JOURNAL complains that the
school teachers don't subscribe for that paper.
That is easily accounted for. They prefer the
AHeganian. We are not complaining. They
know good thing when they seize t.-Cunl-
berland AUeganiam.
AS the JOURNAL does not state facts
in the nature of personal complaints,
nor regard them as hard to "account
for some other than Aleganjan de-
Examinations must be reached.
In fact, it seems necessary to i'm
agine that there are no school teachers.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31

same decrease occurred, and both
years that Mr.. A. NJ. Adams was prin-
cipal one of the assistants was dis
missed by order of the School Board.
An examination of the registers dis
closes the fact that the attendance for
the summer term in 1895, while | was
principal, was larger than during the
corresponding term of the preceding
year.
If | were a 'Cumberland failure"
as alleged, would the patrons of the
avenue school have been unanimous
ly favorable to my return for the en-
SUNG year? Hardly.
If the JOURNALS supposition be
true, would the School Board have ad-
vanced me by appointing me vice
principal In Frostburg, position
which | never asked for? Would
they not rather have given me "a less
responsible position than | held in
Cumberland, instead of advancing
meg
In accepting my resignation as
principal of the Maryland avenue
school to take the vice-principalship
OF the high school here, would the
trustees have given me the following
f1attering endorsement ,
CUMBERLAND, Mp, July Is, 1895
Mr.. ARTHUR f. SMITH, Frostburg, Md
Dear SU'-Your letter of the 18th inst
rendering your resignation as principal of the
Maryland Avenue Public School IN this city,
has been duly received.
In accepting your resignation we desire to
express our hearty appreciation of your ex-
cellent characterand attainments asa teacher,
and OF your earnest and conscientious desire
to serve us as teacher of Maryland Avenue
public school during the past scholastic year.
Wishing you success III the future as a
teacher, and in any other occupation which
you may choose to follow,
We remain yours very truly,
NJ. A. X. f. CARR, President,
WIN. E. GRIFFITH,
DEWARREN II. REYNOLDS,
Trustees Cumberland City Schools.
The evidence then goes to show that
the JOURNALS conclusion was reached
from false premises. The JOURNAL
has been misintormed as to school af-
fairs, and the base scoundrel who has
been It's informant should be denounced
as a lying. villain, deserving of the
fate of Annanias and Sapphira.
Relying on the JOURNAL to publish
only the truth, remain,
Very truly, ARTHUR F. SMITH.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
A Reason for Economy.

To have correspondence from where there
are no other subscribers "costs more than it
comes to-" For this reason some letters are
omitted.-Cumberland AHegJnidn.
Evidently there are places where
neither preacher nor teacher regards
the Allegnnian as a spelling book.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
A Fine Prospectus.

Mr.. Lowndes' letter of acceptance is
well-written, straightforward and
sound.
If his administration, should he be
elected, turns out as well as it now
looks on paper, it will be an epochal
page in the history of the State.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
4 Long Distance NieW

The JOURNAL prints this scrap of in
formation, taken from the Baltimore
World, in order that the Recie,o and
Star may each explain how its politics
''got out :"
Two Homecoming papers, one democratic,
the other republican, have united against
Gormanism and both are fighting for
Lowndes
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
HARD tt INES
COMPEL THE
MOSTSWEEPING REDUCTIONS
EVER KNOWN I'm FROs'TBURG.

Calico, per yard. =! cents
Iard-wide Unbleached
Muslin, per yard. 81 "
Cheviots, 9" " .3I "
10 and -! ct. Percales,
Satines, Ginghams,
Lawns, etc, per yd. Al "
$3.50 chenille Curtains. $l.47
Sailor Hats, each -. s cents
Ladies' Shirt Waists,
each. ...... 13 6
Large Turkish Bath
Towels, per pair. Is "
Ladies' Wrappers
calico, each .43 L"
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Married.

In Homecoming Tuesday, August 81,
1895, by Rev. A. C. Thompson, Miss
Belle Rae, of Borden Shaft, to Mr..
James NJ. Corral, of Midlothian.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Away from its Text,

The Cumberland Aueganian this week
says "it is to late now to tell all it
knows about that wedding" because
"it is no use to cry over spilled milk" "
If too late now on that account, it
was too late last week.
And if all cannot be told because it
was too late, it was equally TOO late to
tell anything about it.
Better stick to the entertainment of
the school-teachers, if "nudges" be
their didactic meat and preceptive
drink.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31

What should be done with preacher who
spells Daniel, Danial? He certainly never
read the book of Danel-Cum berland
AHegdnian.
No, like all those teachers, he doubt
less ''prefers' to read the Allcganian.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
ESCaDed from Jail.

Six prisoners sawed and jumped
their way out of Jail Monday evening.
Three have been caught.
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31

Figured China Silks,
per yard. .23 cent
Leather Mitts, pair. 10
Mosquito Net, all col
ors, per yard. 80. - "
White canton Flannel,
per yard. ...... 3!
50-cent Table Linen,
per yard. ........21
Children's null Hats,
reduced from 81
and Sl.25 to. .25
A 81 Leghorn Hat. .25 I"
A 25-cent ladies Vest. 10 {"
Children's Vests, each 3 I"
Frostburg mining journal., 1895-08-31
Now is the Time.


The Homecoming ReOiew, speaking for
so-called labor, wants "those prin-
ciples to win which will give labor the
legislation asked for,n and concludes
by saying
1t now remains to be seen which party is
labor's friend.
This Is very unsatisfactory, or ought
to be-to so-called labor. If the Re
gieao drops the matter right there, no.
body will ever find out (which party
is labor's friend"
The thing to do is-ask each candi-
date for the House of Delegates what
particular measure he wishes to get
through in behalf of the class of labor
the Recieao represents
The JOURNAL is anxious to see the
answers, for it is eager to pick them
to pieces and show that about 80 per
cent. OF the aspirants are unworthy of
the high place of law-maker.
This stage of the game has been
postponed 100 long already.
And after the nominations it will be
too late altogether to question them,
for with the party seal on their names,
so-called labor will vote for them,
legislation OF not
If the RerieD really means to get for
so-called labor some legislation, it
should lose no time in finding out what
particular measure or measures each
candidate is after.
Otherwise, the Reciero will be sus-
pected of an attempt to fool its clients.
Sounds Funny, but it is Correct.
The Cumberland Meas reports that
Mr. Hurst is quoted as saying
The question, however, is not whether Mr.
Lowndes or the democratic nominee is better
fitted for the place, but whether the demo
cratic party is to maintain its supremacy in
this State.
Mr.. Hurst is learning,
In this case, as in the other, gram.
matically speaking, "better" is grea,
deal better than chest"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
KILLED EVERY ONE.
A Chicago Man Murders His
Whole Family.
Wife and Four Children Smoth-
cred to Death.
TURNED ON THE GAS.
Shut Up the House and He Died
With Them.

CHICAGO, June e.-Frederick He'll
man, a we1l-to-do mason contractor,
murdered his wife and four children
Thursday night and then killed him
self. It was at first supposed that
Hellman and his wife and children met
death by accident, but it developed at
the coroner's inquest that a wholesale
murder was calmly planned, and that
the man intended to kill himself and
end the existence of the members OF
his family.
/ The dead man and his victims are:
FREDERICK HELLMAN, aged 81.
MRS. IDA HELLMAN, aged 80.
FRED HELLMAN, JR., aged IL.
IDA HELLMAN, aged 10.
WILLIAM HELLMAN, aged z.
HEDwIG HELLMAN, the 3-year-old
daughter.
The tragedy took place in a little
brick cottage at Cornelia and Wood
streets. 1t is supposed the act was that
of a madman, as Hellman ten years ago
was sunstruck, from which he never
completely recovered.
Suspicion was first aroused by the
fact that the house in which the He'll
mans lived was tightly closed long
after the usual hour for the family to
ter of Hellmann, who lived next door,
attempted to break into the house, but
were unable to do so. They finally man
aged to force an entrance through a
window in one of the bedrooms and
the dead bodies of all the family were
found. The house was so full of gas
that the two women were nearly over
come. It was at once concluded that
the deaths had been the result of an ac-
- Al.
adhered to the same opinion.
at the inquest, however, an entirely
different complexion was given the
affair by Charles, a brother of He'll
mann. He produced letter written
by the murderer and suicide late on
the previous evening, in which he
clearly stated his purpose of killing
himself, although he gave no intima-
ton of the fact that he was meditating
the deaths of the members of his fam
lily. He spoke of the window through
which the women had crawled as the
only way in which his brother could
gain admission t. the house, and said
that he had left it open for that pur-
pose. The brother had not received
the letter until afternoon, and came
directly to the inquest.
The pc sition of the bodies at the
time they were found indicated that
the two boys and older girl fought
desperately to leave the room after the
father had turned on the gas. The
mother and baby were lying on the in
side of the bed as if in peaceful slum-
Der, but the two boys and the older
girl were in different attitudes and the
expressions on their faces were those
OF persons who had struggled hard.
The fathers hand was firmly placed
| a:ross the mouth of the older boy and
there is an abrasion on the throat of
the other lad as though he had been
strauC led
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
AFRAID OF THE WELL

WOrkmen on the Seneca, Kan, Water
works Excavation Go on = Strike.
SENECA, July 6.-The big we'll for the
new waterWorks has reached depth of
AZ feet
It was reported that the walls of the
well were bullying, and the workmen
have been in such fear that day or
two ago q strike occurred, the wOrkmen
in the we'll who were getting SLIPS per
day demanded 81. They said the work
was dangerous. The contractors gave
those who were willing to keep on ten
minutes to get back to work. and all but
hve went down. The five were dis
charged, and the contractor then went
below and told the men he would give
them $1.75 per day.
Engineer BErrell says there is no pres
ent danger of the well caving in, and he
will call the men out as soon as any signs
of danger are manifest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
RIOT AT A PICNIC.
A Fierce Fight at an Indiana
Religious Gathering.
One Thousand Men and Women
Take Part.
THREE ARE KILLED.
Twenty More Persons May Die
of Their Injuries.

ENGLISH, Ind, July ga terrible
riot occurred at q picnic Thursday at
Siberia, in Perry county, in which
1000 men and women participated.
Three men were killed and ffty-four
persons wounded, many of whom are
women.
The occasion was German Catholic
picnic, and an interruption by anti
Catholics loaded with bad whisky was
the cause of the trouble. It is thought
that the riot would not have taken
place but for the use of liquor, al
though prejudice amounting to almost
bigotry exists on both sides.
DR.. Lomax is a surgeon, and with
two assistants was kept busy from 4
o'clock Thursday afternoon until noon
yesterday dressing the wounds of the
injured. He related some awful incl
dents. A woman in a delicate condi-
ton was kicked, the blow killing the
child and likely to result in her own
death Samuel Wilson, a leader of
the anti-Catholic side, will die from
the effects of a fractured skull, caused
by bottle welded by a woman whose
husband Wilson had cut with a large
knife.
The town is but hamlet of half a
dozen houses and a Catholic church
and is in very isolated portion of the
county. The dangerously wounded
are all in the church apd almost TWEEN
ty are expected to die, while others
are in critical condition. The local
'squires have appointed numerous dep
uties to keep the peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
ARE INTRUDERS.

Two Merchants in the ChOctaw Nation
Are Ordered to Leave.
SOUTH MCALEsTER, I. T., July g.
George S. Good and James Kerr, clerk
of the house of representatives. at
Washington, D. c., composing the firm
of Good & Co., have been declared in
truders by Indian Agent Wisdom and
ordered removed from the Choctaw
nation in five days, and in the event
of their failure to pay royalty to the
Choctaw nation for goods shipped in
and sold. Good & Co., are general
railroad contractors and have had the
contract of building the extension Of
the ChOctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf rail-
way. They are charged with intro
ducing and selling merchandise to cit
liens and nOn-citizens and refusing to
pay royolty of l 4 per cent, as required
by United States laws.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
GROWING BRIGHTER.

midsummer Reports Show . General Ad-
vance In RFaces-CrOp Rrospecta.
New YORK, July 6.-R. G. Dun &
Co. IS Weekly Review of Trade. says:
The midsummer reports from all COM
mercia1 centePs are of especial inter
est, covering the questions on which
the future of business depends. They
indicate distinctly better crop pros
poets than other official or commercial
accounts, a marked increase in retail
distribution of products, an active de-
mand for goods, and q general enlarge
ment of the working force with some
advance in & wages of more than
half q million hands. At the same
time they show that the rapid advance
in prices has somewhat checked the
buying Of few classes of products in
some parts of the country, the outlook
for fall trade is considered bright.
There were 6, $50 commercial failures
in the first half of 1896, against 1909
in the first half of 1894, and 5,4O1 in
the first half of 1893. These CONNER
cia1 failures involved liabilities of $685.
839,944, this year, against SOL, 759, 3o6
last year. The details show a decrease
in every class of failures in the second,
compared with the first quarter of 1895,
both in number and magnitude, and
defaulting liabilities averaging S34,
against $40 for every firm in business,
and So. O4, against $4.O3 for every 81 900
solvent payment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-06
NEWS BREV1TIES.

Carl Browne and Mamie Coxey went
to Washington, but were not married
on the capitol steps.
After twenty FIVE years DR.. Brown re-
turned to his home an Waycross, Ca,
to find his wife married to another.
c. G. Cummins died suddenly at Lin
neus, Mo, His wife ssvas arrested, sus-
pected of having pois5ned him.
Martha Cogle killed her husband on
houseboat at Chattanooga He at
tempted to strike her with an ak.
American delegates to the Interna-
tional Railway congress are making
an effort to have the next meeting
held on this side of the water.
The Democratic committee of An
drew county, Mo-, voted to against
the holding of a state financial con-
vention.
Harvey Beck, who lived near Milan,
Mo-, was run over and killed by a
train while on his way to that place to
celebrate.
Fire in Cincinnati, Ohio. destroyed
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
freight sheds and nineteen freight.
cars, causing $35, 900 losses.