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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
CoRIsIasissNiI NCI.
Tito Burien 1T I'r,-.r

trNuErttvn, No, July p issi
To the MlNtNo lufuNsi
When nay friend, Ar. Thomas. cx-
pressed a desire for a friendly dis
cussiOn of the question ut "liible Read
ing in the Public Schools. ! did net
understand that II vas 30 be in the
columns OF your valuable paper. bat
am satisfied 10 have IL there II be 70
desires IL.
do not think. Mr.. Editor. that i, j.
so very difficult 10 prove that the Bible
is seetarian. Nevertheless, shall not
just now attempt to establish the fact.
My good friend. the Reverend Mr..
Thomas. seems to be not only a logician
but also very asiute taciician. a.
proven by the fact that be- endeavors
to choose his own battle-ground lie
will perhaps excuse me " ! try 10 be
another" The Rev. Mr. Thomas aud
his associates of the Ministers As
ISOLATION of Frostburg have asked the
Board of School COMM ssioners To
make "a change IN the conduct of our
pubic schools. They hcve asked for
change, concerning the wisdom of
which some doctors who are even Wiser
than the Rev. Mr.. Thomas aud myself
disagree. J an asking that the pro-
gram of our public schools shall be
left alone. On whom. then, lies the
onus probandil think he who asks
for a change in the program of an in
sttution that has become so dear TO
all true lovers of the absolute liberty
and of the absolute equality of all the
citizens of the State must prove. and
thoroughly prove, the wisdom of the
proposed step, il he can do so.
l., therefore, request Rev. Mr..
Thomas to publish IN the columns OF
the MINING JOURNAL copy of the
Ministers Associations petition TO the
Board of School Commissioners and
his reasons for asking the change.
After that he will hear from me. ]
am yours truly, J. l.. STERN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
August 1
Special Notices.
Taxpayers Notice.

CORPORATION TAXES for the fiscal wear
~ ending June To- 1897, ARE NOW DUE
AND PAYABLE.
BY action of the Council discount of 5 per
cent. will be allowed on all Taxes paid on or
before August l; 3 per cent. on all paid on or
before September 1. After latter date no dis
count will be allowed
BY an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, Chapter 1876, of the Acts of 1888,
Taxes are lien on the property of the party
taxed, and on all Taxes remaining unpaid for
three months after the same shall have been
levied, the Balitf shall charge and collect in
6per cent. per aa,'tuni.
q" Office at John Odgers' book store. Main
street, where l can be found from to 8
O'Clock every evening, Sundays excepted.
SAMUEL BOWEN,
June 20 BailiT.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Rough on w, j,

Bryan and Sewall, democratic nom
inees for president and vice president,
were endorsed by the silver party.
But Mr.. Sewall did not fare so well
with the populists, who nominated a
Georgia maniac named Tom Watson.
This makes Sewall and Watson
doublets, with Sewall one ahead in
the score.
Pop" said twin to the happy father
who couldn't tell tother from which," '.let
me tell you wot big joke got on NAV"
"All right, go ahead, Silas Jeems."
"Why, she guy William Joe one of them
ice-cold shower-baths this morning and he
yelled awful. Nav got mad, reached for me
and guy me one and l ackted so much like
William Joe that she got madden and madden.
Then we got mixed, and, thinking she ought
to shower me twice she stripped William Joe
and guy him another
The "joke" is rather on Sewall, the
civilian Joe" of the Bryan duo.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
SENII-LOOAL NEWS.
A Model Appointment.

One of president Cleveland's latest
appointments is that of Capt. John
Sheridan, of this county, as u govern
ment director of the Union Pacific
railway company, oice Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, resigned.
This is a very important position, as
the government has a large interest in
the Union Pacific company which re-
quires faithful oversight and expert
administration.
Hence, aside from the captain S
acknowledged personal eligibility for
the place, his business qualifications
and acumen make his selection by the
president one of unusual fitness.
The JOURNAL sincerely hopes he
will accept.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Should Keep Silent,

ohouiu Nccp oitcnt.
Mr.. Bryan talks about "a return to
Jeffersonian principles at last
What does he mean9
Is it "a Jeffersonian principle" that
enables the dishonest to repudiate
about 80 per cent. of their Indebtedness ?
Would Jefferson have condemned
president Cleveland for preserving by
the only means at his command the
national credit
Would Jefferson, unlike Cleveland,
have confessed that there is not enough
power in the United States to put
down a mob violating their own laws ?
Would Jefferson have favor ed an APP
pellate Judiciary whose tenure rested
upon the fluctuations of popular
caprice2
And so on.
But we must insist upon one ques-
ton:
What is there in Jetferson's life,
public services and writings to Justify
the belief that be would have decided
that Debs was right in DESTROYING
property; that the courts were wrong
IN arresting his interference with in
ter'Stato traffic; that Altyeld was right
in sustaining the mob, and thar the
mob was right in resisting both the
State and national authortiese
The last man to speak of "Jeffer-
sonian principles" ought TO be William
Jennings Bryan.
For under his regime it is proposed
to put these principles" into Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep-an after dinner
nap of at least twenty years of up
roarous slumber.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Worse and Worse.

A Baltimore firm seriously proposes
to nominee Mckinley to announce his
favor of "a bounty to farmers on
every farm product exported"
Looks like the wave of lunacy is
rising higher.
With tax on foreign goods import
ed and one on domestic goods exported,
we will be taking all the rest of the
world as fools Paradise.
Sperry, Jones & Co. ought to stand
up and be counted with the man who
always ''sheared his sheep from the
rear" He did this because he twas
ashamed to look his victim i'm the face. y
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Determined to be UnhapDy.

Hon. John E. Hurst declines to pre-
side over a Bryan and Sewall meeting.
Will our gray-haired child of polit-
ical misfortune never stop pouting?
He wouldn't 60 with Mr.. Cowen to
make Maryland antagonism to I'M
sound money heard from ore end of
the land to the other.
And now he wont keep down the
ticket that he swallowed with speech
less protest at Chicago.
Really, Mr.. Hurst should not be
bothered any more by anybody with
attempts to distract his grief.
His party disgruntlement is no long
er an entertaining feature OF the
politically nude in art.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Fact.

After commencing a sound money
view of the JOURNAL the Harper's
Ferry CIV. Va.) Sentinel says:
That's right, brother Oder, stick to sound
money, and now is the time to come over to
protection.
The JOURNAL cannot do that, for
protection" and sound money are not
congenial principles.
10 the true Chinese wall protection
list silver affords all the money value
or convenience he wants or needs.
But the tariff for-revenue man wants
the money that is current with all the
people at home or abroad with whom
he wishes to trade.
AS matter of fact, of the abund-
ance of parties doing business in this
campaign there are only two consistent
representatives
l, The high-tariff free silver man,
and
2, The low-tariff gold man.
so that it has come to pass that if
Maj. Mckinley will in his letter of ac-
ceptance abandon nigh protection and
make sound money the paramount
desiderotum, there will be no democratic
ticket No. 2; he will poll 95 per- cent. of
the sound money vote of the country,
and "make his calling and election
sure"
The Major and the 'Seatinel should
leone over to Macedonia"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
a PaternalIstic Fad.

A sum exceeding $4,000 is required
to provide the county with free school
books, and $500 is the sum with
which they are to be bought.
1t will require considerable hocus
pocus of the free silver variety of
finance to mako the smaller sum reach
rs far as the larger, but as our schools
have been lun ON the bank surplus
plan, the Board ought to be able to
avoid crawling out of the little end of
cOrnucOpia.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Will be Hard tOKeep.

The miners who go a thousand feet into
the earth or climb two thousand feet on the
cliffs and bring forth from their hiding places
the precious metals to be poured into the
channels OF trade, are as much business men
as the few financial magnates who, in a
back room, corner the money of the world.
-Byyans Speech.
We are quite sure the miners of Allegany
county will agree that Mr.. Bryan is right in
this statement. If they will carefully read
his entire speech they will find many other
points equally as true and forcible.-Cum-
berland Times.
If the miners will then read the
Times wholesale endorsement of the
Pittsburg Posts exposition of "the 200
cent dollar" they will find that in
stead of 45 cents they are getting 90
cents ton for digging coal.
And as Mr.. Bryan, his platform and
the Times propose to raise the cost of
the miners living, 1.-THE miners of
Al(egany county" will be sure to learn
after awhile that they will be far worse
off practically then than they are
theoretically now.
For of all the delusive creations of
human fancy the artificial almighty
dollar is going to be the most elusive.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
The COnla.iOnO Of IA I'aIIacY.

The following item appeared in the
editorial columns of June issue of
the Cumberland Times:
A few weeks ago il was said that Dir.
. Carpenter was the only man in Cumberland
who favored free silver. We do not know
whether he has made any converts yet or not,
but we could not find any on Friday
Branch hteiligeacer.
The Htelligeneer should come over to
Cumberland now.
They are not only numerous and
vociferous, but there is strange,
ungodly look about their eyes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
An Untrustworthy Mentor


Reason tells us that if 4l2 grains of silver
becomes worth 100 cents in New York, it will
be worth the same in Ferdinand
Williams.
But experience, the most unerring
of all teachers, imparts no such lesson.
If government can by law double
the price of silver in New York and
London, it can do the same thing with
wheat.
But it cannot do either.
1t cannot go into the market and
become an unlimited buyer of silver
any more than it can become an I'M
limited buyer of wheat.
The government, after all, is the
people, and the people cannot make
themselves rich by buying their sur
plus products at artificial prices from
themselves.
They can no more do this than an
individual can become better off by
transferring 50 cents from one breeches
pocket and calling that sum dollar
when it gets into the other pocket.
treason" is sometimes fallible
oracle.
Indeed, in the language of Syrus,
he who runs for office, like "he who
wishes to do wrong, is never without a
reason"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
A Problem.

Workingmen, allow the JOURNAL to
state something you have not heard
certainly something, like nearly every
thing else in this paper, the JOURNAL
has not seen stated elsewhere.
The free silver organs, especially
those last baptized and confirmed by
the bishops of anarchy, inform you
that "your wages will rise correspond
ingly with your costs of living"
Constituencies as they are, they
guarantee no more.
But what rational man makes a
change in his employment or business
unless he enjoys reasonable surety of
doing better?
But, for once, the organs are right.
Free coinage can do no more for you
than carry your costs of living right
along up with your wages.
For if this were not true, somebody
soouM lose6y free coinage an impossibility
in game where everybody is to win.
Now, then, mining workingmen,
the silverites should not only be made
to promise you that your wages are to
go higher, proportionately, than your
living costs, but you should exact a
guarantee, backed by all the silver in
the Rocky Mountains, that while your
wages are to go up 100 per cent, for in
stance, your rent, -four, meat, etc.,
must never go more than 80 per cent.
above current prices.
If you don't do this, the change for
you is not worth making.
p. S.-Never mind about the farmer.
The silverite will explain to him how
he is to get 100 per cent. more for his
flour, meat, etc., while you are paying
him only so per cent. more for those
articles.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01

ORDERED, This 18th day of July, in the
~ year eighteen hundred and ninety six,
by the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
sitting in Equity, that the sale made and re-
ported i'll the above cause by Albert A. Doub
and David j. Lewis trustees, be ratified and
confirmed unless cause to the contrary there
of be shown on or before the l4th day of
August, 1886; provided a copy of this order
be published in some newspaper published
i'll Allegany county once a week for three
successive weeks before the 18th day of
August, 1896.
The report states the amount of sale to be
800. THEO. LUMAN, Clerk.
True copy-Test; THEo LUMAY,
July lS-3t Clerk
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Our Preference.

The JOURNAL has a letter from an
old boyhood friend who bewails the
rise of an issue which occasions 1.-The
first political disagreement that ever
took place between u.s.
The JOURNAL is equally distressed.
But, old schoolmate and comrade.
the question is more economical than
political.
Still, the JOURNAL would rather he
right than be William Jennings Bryan.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01

FIosTBURG, Mp. July -, 1886.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Please tell the Cumberland Times
that | am in quandaly.
The State platform of my party
places me on a plank Of solid opposition
to free coinage at l6 to |.
The national platform of my party,
on the other hand, places me on a
plank of solid opposition to my State
platform.
What | want now is word from the
Times telling me "where | am at"
And then word explaining why !
am there. A PUZZLED DEMOCRAT.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01

Ex-clitef 7. q. MeCar,leil takes a
dcsk to-day IN the Compirolicr's oflice,
Annapolis. Il Is an excellent appoint
mcnt. MeCari.ll writes . good hand.
understands nRures. asc 81 capital
letters. aud ~ n punctuation be cannot
be- beaicn H. b. Zoo grea; a man 10
be a mere eopyisi. Hence. everything
emanaiiug from She Office requiring
literary surveillance should be- siamT.cd
go. X. 7. y. Me-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Tale orTwo Cities.

There was splendid music at Chicago
by one of the best bands in The coan.
try.
There was none at the last 81. Louis
convention.
Every delegate was his own silver
cornet.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
A Fair differentiation

Chief Judge McSherry has filed an in
dividual opinion in the canal case in which
he says that no one but the State Is asking
for the sale of the canal-Cumberland Nsps
In the absence of more elaborate
testimony the JOURNAL concludes that
the Judge means "the State"-of West
Virginia.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Business Locals.

FOund.-Sunday last, on cemetery road, a
bunch of Keys. If recovery be worth 10
cents, pay that sum to HENRY n. SCHNEIDER.
Two COmmodiOus Stores to Let-In
the central business portion of Frostburg
Best locations on Main street, adjoining
Joseph Bears clothing store. Dwelling in
cluded with each store. Possession given
Immediately. Apply to p. LAMMERT.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
"Au These Like Sheen. etc,

Many people are free silverites be-
cause they hear that Everybody is
going that way"
1t was just so 400 years before the
Christian era when Lysander led the
iron money campaign in Sparta against
the gold standard institutions Of
Lycurgus.
The Spartans fell in with the idea
of "more money" They believed the
government stamp would make money
of iron as we'll as of the finer metals,
and giving the subject no deeper study
than flock of sheep bestows upon the
origin of fences, they followed the bell
wether because everybody else seemed
to be jumping over into the next field.
Lysander won, Sparta fell and has
never amounted to anything since ex-
cept as a neurological memorial of
ideal courage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest :
James Il. Loar and Mary A Eoar to Isabella
Bolton, lot No, I, in Ryan's addition to Mid
land. II 900.
w L. Coleman, property near Homecoming
$3.50
A. II. Shaw to Mrs. Ellen GILES, lot in
Pekin, 500.
Georges Creek Coal and Iron company to
Alexander GILES, lot No. 2, near Homecoming,
Sl25.
John NJ. Boyd and Mary Boyd to John
Abbott, property in Homecoming, $3.50.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
To Whom il May Concern.

LoNAcoNING, MD, July %, 1886
r HEREBY notify the public to extend no
l. credit to my wife, Mrs. ANN NIcoL, on my
account, as after this date will pay no debt
she may contract. ANDREW NiCOL.
July 25-3t
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
COUNTY NEWS.
A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
Death.

The wife of Rev. J. NJ. Clymer, of
Hancock, Md, aud mother of DR.. F.
l.. Clymer, of Midlothian, died at
Poolesvillc, Md. few days ago. She
was Il christian lady of the highest
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
The Truth of 1t.

A writer for the Eastern Shore, Easton,
Nd. says:
You shall not plant crown of thorns on
the brow of labor; you shall not cruelty it on
golden cross, is the motto of every true and
tried populist in this nation.
Paraphrasing couplet from Shak-
speare to suit the occasion it may be
truly said in value for value as in
Measure for Measure" that
What in the preachers but a reverent word,
Is in the popullst flat blasphemy.
Now and Then.
The Cumberland Times of July 2S
explains it this way:
Free silver means this An honest dollar,
whether gold. silver or paper, if of equal
intrinsic value.
But on the 10th day of June the
Times illustrated intrinsic value" in
the following lucid fashion:
Take mutilated ten dollar gold piece to
jeweler and he will give you for it the worth
of its weight in gold. Take ten mutilated
silver dollars to him and he will give you
only the worth of its weight in gold--that is
$3.50, less the weight by mutlliation.
The vast number of people who do
not believe that intrinsic value" can
be made by law will now call a halt on
their skepticism.
For the Chicago platform, which is
only a promise to create "intrinsic
value" by law, has alleady ia the
Times Office minted even paper into
intrinsic" equality with gold.
What puzzles the JOURNAL is-how
can gold dollar be made equal by
law, for instance, to silver certifi-
cate?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-01
ORDER NISI,

No. 1880 Equity.
james A. Saurbaugh
49,, In the
Circuit Court
John T. Moore It al for
Allegany county.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-31
NEW YORK MARKETS.

Wheat-Spot held steady, with trad Ia
quiet. July, 64%c.; August, 649sc.;
Sept, 645Sc.
Corn-Spot trade quiet and dull.
July, 31Ic.; August 32Ac.; Sept.
S1%c.
Oats-Prices are almost stationary.
July, 224; Sept, 22Bc.
Pork-Spot trade quiet and dull.
Sept, Sc. 600; JAM, Sc. 77-sO.
Lard-Contract steady, with fair
inquiry. Sept, So. II; Jan, Sa.55.
Eggs-Steady; free receipts. State
and Pennsylvania, fresh, 1371 @14c.;
southern, 11@12c.; western, fresh.
I1@13c.; duck, l2A@1416c.; goose
15@16c.; western, case, So. 0o@$S.S5
Butter-Extra creamery sells freely
at full previous figures. Melium
goods are in reduced supply with CON
tinued export trade. Creamery, new
western extras, 15c.; state and Penn
sylvania, seconds to best. 13@15c
creamery, western seconds, 10@12c.;
state dairy, half-firkin tubs, fresh, fac
tory, 11c.; state dairy, half-hrkin tubs,
seconds to firsts. 11@141 western i1ni-
tation creamery, seconds to firsts, 1C
@l2c.; western factory, firsts to ex
tras, 9@91Sc.
Cheese-Fancy full cream cleaned dE
freely, but prices no higher. State
full cream, large size, fall made, col.
pred, choice, 6Zc.; late made, choice
31<@7c; large, common to choice,
part skins, 2@416c.
Fotatoes-M Moderate supply, will
steady price and trade fairly good
Norfolk and Eastern Shore rose, prime
per barrel, $1.0O@S1. 12; Norfolk, red
prime, 5000. @$1. 90; North Caroline
prime, S1.00@SJ.12. Long <SANud, il
bulk, per bbL, Si.OOo@$1.l2
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-31
IRON MILLS RESUME
10000 Idle Men Will Soon Be at
Work Again.
SETTLEMENT OF THE WAGE SCALE
The Works Now Starting Are in Ohio,
But Plants in Several Other States
Will Begin Operations Under
the Agreement,

Pittsburg, July 28.-The resumption
OF work at the iron mills which will
soon put to work at least 10000 idle
men was started this week. 1t is esti-
mated that at least that number of
men are interested in the settlement
OF the wage scale with the Ohio manu-.
facturers which occurred at Youngs-
town on Saturday night The success
OF the Amalgamated association in
making the settlements means, also,
that the men employed in the nom
union mills will get an advance in
their wages, and that employers will
sign agreements to pay them the
union prices. The conference was
with the Ohio association, but plants
in several other states will be started
under the agreement. The firms who
signed the scale are as follows: An
DIRE as Bros s. Co., Hazelton, O.;
Brown, Bonnell & Co., four plants at
Youngstown, o.; Union Iron and Steel
company, two plants at Youngstown,
one at Warren, and one at Girard Ma
honing Valley Iron company, two
plants at Youngstown; Falcon Iron and
Nail company, Niles, O.; Coleman,
Shields & Co., Niles, o.; Eagle Iron and
steel company, Ironton, O.; Union
Rolling Mill company, Cleveland;
Carnes & Sons company, Massillon;
Cherry Valley Iron company, Latonia,
o.; Etna Standard Iron and Steel
company, Bridgeport, O.; Central Iron
and Steel company, Brazil, Ind;
Weatheral Rolling Mill company,
Franklin, Ind; Birmingham Rolling
Mill company, Birmingham, Ala;
Alabama Rolling Mill company, Gates
City, Ga; Sharon Iron company, Sha-
ron, Pa; Struthers Iron company,
Struthers, o.; Pomeroy Iron company,
Pomeroy, o.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-07-31
CoMPETiTOR PRISONERS.
How Gentlemen from the American Coz
suIats Were Permitted To Visit Them.

How GentIelnen from the American Com
suIats Were Permitted To Visit Them.
Havana, July 28.-The son of Gen
Lee and two gentlemen from the
American consulate held an interview
with the Competitor prisoners on July
"a. They were not permitted to enter
the prison, but the seven men of the
Competitor were taken outside of the
fort to a guardhouse for the confer
ence. Gen. Lee, being slightly indis-
posed, was not able to be there in
person. The prisoners were closely
guarded, double line of pickets being
stationed around the guardhouse. The
prisoners had not been out of their
cells before for two months. All ap-
peared to be in fairly good health. 1t
is understood that a review of the
Competitor case will be taken up in
the supreme court at Madrid some
time in August. Nothing whatever
has yet been done in the case.