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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
The Office of IeDiSlatiOn

The Baltimore american favored its
readers last Sunday with a capita;
editorial on "Too Much Law Making"
The closing paragraph is worth re-
printing:
In its own sphere legislation should be
tenacious of its power and its rights, but it
should be equally respectful to rights over
which it has no fair or just jurisdiction.
People who undertake to remedy every abuse
by law are, when they gain power to enforce
their theories, like children playing with ex-
plosives and are actually advocatinga system
of potential tyranny-an odious thing,
whether in hereditary king or elected body
The best way to accomplish broad reform is
to help the people to learn to govern them
selves, and then few laws and good ones will
do the rest
Never truer words printed.
We have people in this county--in
this town, who chronically look to the
legislature to redress alleged grievances
and emancipate them from visionary
state of bondage-a liberation which
they must at last achieve for them
selves.
They are people who want to have
their own way on salary.
They would rather displease than
please their employers at As cents a
ton.
And further prefer to do the same
thing at so cents ton.
But as this is impracticable, they
feel that life is failure. liberty a
cheat and the pursuit of happiness a
race for an impalpable pennant.
With good reason, therefore, to
believe that when the legislative inno-
cents from Talbot and the regions be-
yond heard the orator than whom
more better ever stood on the floor
of the House, they saw upon the
exaggerated canvas of an Oriental
Shore Imagination another enslaved
Israel, with Georges Creek as the
stream flowing hard by some modern
Babylon like Homecoming, its banks
thronged by weeping cap:ives resting
in the shade of willows bending undel
the weight of harps tuneless and mute
and declining to sing their native
songs in land that is strange-is il
any wonder the constitution was for
gotten or ignored when the innocents
piled over each other pel!mell in THEN
impetuous rush to vote for the new
deliverance
1t was not for them to reflect, with
Shakespeare, that
Every bondman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.
1t was for them only to yield to the
hypnotism oe spell which is beyond
the reach of art-that enchantment
wherein action is more eloquent Of
human misery than words.
But suppose the inspection bill hac
become law-the very people who
sought its enactment would have haG
to come out in the open and prosecute
its enforcement.
They would have had to do at last
with it all they say they cannot dc
without it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Death Ofan Old Citizen.

James Dawson Powell died at his
home, Eckhart mines, Thursday,
April 30, 1896, age Is years, months
and % days.
Concerning this estimable man a
correspon lent writes:
He was born near Keyser, West Va, and
located at Eckhart mines in 1917, since which
time he had been almost continuously in the
employment of the corporation that operated
at that place now called the Consolidation
Coal company. He ranked among the most
faithful employees of the company, and it is
believed he was longer in its continuous ser
vice than any other man.
Mr. Powell had been failing in health for
few years. but continued in the employ
ment of the company until about January
~ last
The funeral services were conducted at the
residence of the deceased by Rev. Robert L..
Wright Sunday morning, May g. at 10 O. clock,
and the interment took place in the Eckhart
graveyard.
The deceased leaves a widow and family of
grown children to mourn his loss.
James d. Powell was a quiet, peaceable
citizen, temperate in his habits, very in
dustrious and kind husband and father.
He was a member of the NJ. e. Church proba-
bly, 80 years and died trusting in the atoning
blood of risen Redeemer and has gone to
reap his reward.
James d Powell was a son of Nathan
Powell one of the defenders of Roltimora in
the war of 1912. Nathan Powell enlisted at
Cresaptown, this county, and was honorably
discharged at Fort McHenry, Baltimore.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Where Are We At?

Two weeks ago the JOURNAL set a
trap for the Keyser(W. Va.) Echo, and
that paper walked into it last week
with step that was steady and sure.
The JOURNAL quoted Ma. Mckinley
as saying that latter 80 years ex
perience protection had cheopened eeery
manufactured product"
Assuming that wool is "manufac-
tured product which the Echo does
not deny, the JOURNAL suggested indi-
rec'ly that if protection does cheaper
wool, free trade ought to make it high!
But the Echo, not foreseeing this re-
suit, plumply eontradlcts the Major,
and, worse-furnishes official figures
to prove that free trade has done since
1893 exactly what Maj. Mckinley says
protection had done for 30 years"
The JOURNALS object just here is
not at all to make a tariff argument,
but to show that either Maj. Mckinley
Is wrong or the Echo is wrong, and that
it is to the interest of the party that
these gentlemen get together.
In the same speech from which the
Cumberland Nesos quoted the Major
made also this sweeping declaration
There is not an article that we make to day
made possible by protective tariff that has
not been cheapened by protection to the
American consumer
The Echo, however, "sees Just how
free trade" has done the very same
thlng-so plainly, in fact, "that the
wool-grower gets only about half as
much per pound as he used to, gel
under the Mckinley BILL"
And as there are about eight wearers
OF wool to one grower and one fabrl.
Gator of wool, the cheerful figures OF
one philosopher ought to be of more
solid comfort to the vast majority OF
American consumers than the dis.
couraging theory of the other is to the
small minority of American producers
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Prompt Train Service.

During the month of April the
passenger train movement on all
Divisions of the b. and o. system was
remarkable for punctuality. The
through express trains arrived at their
respective destinations on schedule
time ninety-ive per cent. of the time.
This is performance rarely equalled
by roads operating as many trains as
are run on the B. and O., and speaks
well for the efficiency of the rank and
file, as well as the officials of the
Operating Department.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Gloomy Outlook.

Before a meeting of labor bodies of
st. Paul and Minneapolis recently
Louis Nash spoke on "The Best Means
of Promoting Organization" He
said that
So long as the members of labor organiza-
tons persist in buying where they can pur-
chase the cheapest, so long will it be impos-
sible to secure the universal organization of
labor.
In other words, a law of human ia
ture old as the race has got to be de-
clared unconstitutional before the mil
lennium of pr OCCASIONAL labor begins
its thousand years of buying the nee
essaries of life at the highest possible
prices.
No wonder Louis is pessimistic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
"A Current FaIlacy.

There Is a difference between the
rights of corporations and the rights
of individuals, not only in law, but in
ethics.
In fact, corporation rights are only
so many individual rights surrendered
by the mass to other individuals, whose
rights are thus, as Froude says, Ten
larged or increased"
But whether enlarged or in
creased" or diminished in magnitude
or number, there is no law, human or
divine, which invests man, once en-
ployed, with a perpetual mortgage on
the favor of his employer, whether
corporate o: individual.
Yet -tenths of the presumption
rampant in this region is based on the
absurdity that because men have been
employed they are also endowed with
some sort of prerogative to dictate
and legislare how the work is to be
done, how the mines are to be con-
Quoted, how other business is not to be
done, how and when they are to be
pa d, and last, not least of their follies
how they are to keep up by law their
labor organization.
The only measure in the line of
legislative enterprise they have omit
ted is
bill entitled an Act to fix wages for
mining in Allegany and Garrett counties at
so cents a ton.
How they came to leave this out of
the programme is probably past find-
ing out.
And yet it is just as fair, sensible
rational and, by the same tokens the
JOURNAL believes, just as constitution
al as any bill they have lately con-
ceived, introduced and passed.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
If You are Engaged
If You are Married

IF YOU WISH
take special when furnishing your future home that you
SPEND YOUR MONEY TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE AND SPECIALLY
necessary if your income is to be quite limited 1t
ADVISABLE
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new Unmarried hubby deeply interested in wes cook n and
MEALS WHICH ARE PREPARED
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we recommend visit to shOw-ooms At any time
feel sure have much to interest YOU Should you wish
TO EXPLAIN THE MERITS OF
please favor with long call at your earliest convenience
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
At Least Now and Then.

This colloquy took place in the Bal
timore city council the other day:
Mr.. MonteH-The courts have decided that
the streets must be opened.
Mr.. Windfelder-Yes, but the courts are
sometimes wrong.
As Mr.. Montell did not respond it is
likely he went to grass for the evening.
And so with all of us. AS long as
law, unlike mathematics, is not an
exact science, courts and even leaders
of the bar must permit us now and
then to disagree with them.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
How to Treat a Wife.-First get

How to Treat Wife.-First, get a wife !;
second, be patient. You may have great
trials and perplexities in your business, but
donot, therefore, carry to your home cloudy
or contracted brow. Your wife may have
trials which, though Of less magnitude, may
be hard for her to bear A kind word, a ten.
der look will do wonders in chasing from her
brow all clouds of gloom To this we would
add always keep bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy in the house. 1t is the best
and is sure to be needed sooner or later
Your wife will then know that you really
care for her and wish to protect her health
For sale by Metzger u Percy, druggists.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
'onder Louis is pessimistic.
Coming to LII.

A street-car strike in Philadelphia
failed the other day, although the men
had an excellent case.
But as it was worked up by walk
ing delegate, the company would not
even listen to the committee.
Hence, it was the walking delegate
that collapsed.
The feeling has been abroad among
employers for some time to give no
hearing to men backed by walking
delegate.
In short, they are about adopting
the JOURNALS old injunction
Let every man be his own KNIGHT of Labor
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
What Really Happened.

The Baltimore Herald stated approx
ingly last Sunday that
When Senator German said yesterday that
President Cleveland had hand in ship
wrecking the Maryland democracy he merely
stated a familiar fact.
Now if Mr.. Cleveland could be heard
from he would doubtless testify that
Mr.. German had not only "a hand in
the shipwreck' of the national democ-
racy, but that he was the boss of the
wreckers.
But, as matter of fact, it was not
the State democracy that was wrecked
last fall.
1t was Gormanism.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
How They Stand,

The Cumberland Meas, Courier and
Times get the publication of the
general laws for the county. The
Neacs is straight republican, Courier
slightly democratic, and 7imes-not
democratic nor quite republican
Mira German
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
More Constitutional Trouble.

A. B. Howard, jr., declines to vacate
the Office of Labor Statistican to G.. Fl .
Meyers, appointed, on the ground that
the latter's appointment is not con-
stitutional. This step he takes on the
advice Of Clayton Purnell, of Frost
burg, w. G. Devecmon, of Cumber-
land. and W. S. Bryan. of Baltimore
After appointing Hon David E.
Dick, of Homecoming, his clerk, Mr..
Meyers, called for the keys, insignia
and memorabilia of the office. Then he
engaged Messrs. Clabaugh and Gather
to GUST Mr.. Howard-the same Mr.
Clabaugh that Mr.. Dick advised "to
step down and out of the attorney
generalshlp and make place for man
who has TIE ability and manhood to
decide us to the constitutonality of
such measures as the mine inspection
and cOmOanV store bil1S'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
n Partial Fine.

The manager and an dttache of the
Golden Crook Speciality company were
arrested Tuesday evening after the per-
Torrance commenced, Bailiff Bowen
regarding the show as indecent.
Mayor Jones fined them $l5.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
Dead

Philip d. Borden, the last of great
family, died a few days ago in Fall
River, Mass. He was 81 years old and
at his death the Oldest active manu-
facturer in his city. For many years
he held an interest in this region. In
1875 he subscribed for the JOURNAL
and had taken it ever since. The
Borden mining company took its name
from his family.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
A Definition,

The Keyser CIV. Va.) Echo cannot
see how "silver monometalism is ideal
protection
The silver people demand that
government shall ''protect'' their 50
cents to the extent of 100 cents,
which is rate of protection exceed
ing % per cent, or nearly 80 PEI,
cent. higher than even the average Nc
Kinley rate.
Hence, "ideal protection"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Good Roads.

The county commissioners have set
out in earnest to improve the roads.
All are intensely practical men and
the JOURNAL expects to note good
results.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Another COLLAPSE.

No strike in Pocahontas after all.
The walking delegate failed, and the
miners who would not work unless they
could also run the business, acted like
men, free-born-they shook Poca-
hontas dust from their moccaslns and
lit out for regions better than that.
Next to mot striking at all, absquatu-
lating, like honesty, is the best policy.
A Sad Confession.
The animal nature in man yet remains
Cumberland Times.
Too true-even in places that plume
themselves upon not beng "obscure.'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Death.

Mr.. Henry Weinberg, an old res
ident, died Wednesday at an advanced
age. He was long an employee of the
c. q P. R. Co. at the Frostburg station.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Mrs. T. s. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Tenn.
says "'Shiloh's Vitalizer" sayed ny Ute. |
consider it the best remedy for debiiitated
system | ever used" For dyspepsia, Liver or
Kidney trouble it excels. Price rs cts. Sold
by Dan Krapf ir.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Burns are absolutely painless when De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve is promptly APP
piled This statement is true A perfect
remedy for skin diseases, chapped hands and
lips, and never fails TO cure Piles. G. 4.
Pearce Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

For every quarter IN a mans pocket there
are dozen uses and to use each one i'm such
way as to derive the greatest benefit is a
question everyone must solve for himself
We believe, however, that no better use
could be made of one these quarters than to
exchange it for bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarhoea Remedy, a med
lcne that every family should he provided
with. For sale by Metzger q Percy, drug
piStS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

just for the good they will do you These
little Pills are good for indigestion, good for
headache, good for liver complaint, good for
constipation. They are good. G. 4. Pearce
Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

SlOO-ReWard-SbO O-The readers of
this paper will be pleased to learn that there
is at least one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medical fraternity
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re-
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Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying the founda-
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proprietors have so much faith in Its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure Send for
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

It's just as easy to try One Minute Cough
Cure as anything else. It's easier to cure Il
severe cough or cold with it. Let your next
purchase for "A cough be One Minute Cough
Cure. Better medicine; better result better
try It, u. II. Pearce Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
COUNTY NEWS.


The German Savings Bank, Cum
berland. elsewhere advertised, pub
fishes this week an excellent report.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Busy people have no time, and sensible
people have no inclination to use slow rem
edy. One Minute Cough Cure acts promptly
and gives permanent results. Il. +. Pearce
Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Karrs Clover Root will purify your
Blood, clear your Complexion, regulate your
Bowels and make your Head clear as a bell
25c. and soc. Sold by Dan Krapf, jr
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Sold by druggists, 75c.

A little i'll, then little pill. The i'll is
gone, the pill has won. DeWitt's Little Early
Rsers the little pills that cure great ills. &.
e. Pearce Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

It's all the same slight cold, congested
lungs or severe cough. One Minute Cough
Cure banishes them. G. f. Pearce Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Mr.. d. P. Davis, a prominent liveryman
and merchant of Goshen, Va, has this to say
on the subject of rheumatism: Il take pleas
nre in recommending Chamberlain's Pain
Balm tor rheumatism as ] know from per-
sonal experience that it will do all that is
claimed for it: year ago this spring my
brother was laid up in bed with inflammatory
rheumatism and suffered intensely. The
first application of Chamberlaln's Pain Balm
eased the pain and the use of one bottle com
pletely cured him. For sale by Metzger e.
Percy, druggists.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Use Wells Laundry Blue, the best Blu
ing for Laundry use. Each package makes
two quarts, Is cents Sold by G. f. Betz.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

1t is not a miracle. 1t won't cure every
thing, but it will cure piles. That's what
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve will do, because
it has done it in hundreds of cases. e. E.
PearCe Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09
Business Locals.

We might tell you more about One Minute
Cough Cure, but you probably know that it
cures cough. Every one does who has used
it. 1t is a perfect remedy for coughs, colds,
hoarseness. 1t is an especial tavorie for
children, being pleasant to take and quick
in curing.
The German Savings Bank Is now To-
Gated at No. !, South Liberty street, Cumber-
land, Md: Three per cent. interest on deposits.
Open daily 8 a. m. to 3 p. M; Saturday even
ing from to 8 O'clock
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-05-09

Wine and for the good of your health take
only Blood Wine. 1t is the only true Blood
Purifier, for it cures all diseases of the blood,
liver and kidneys, and makes you feel young
and strong, Ifyou do as we say you can get
cured. Remember the name-Btood Vine,
and take no other. Free samples at A. f.
Parker's City Drug Store, Frostburg Large
bottles 50 cents
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-12
PACE g. BOBBiTT.
No. 10 Jefferson st.
COSTLY BELGIAN GUN BARRELS.
They Arc Made by Hand and by a Com
plicated Process.

They Arc Made by Hand and by a Com
plicated Process.
The United States consul in Liege de-
scribcs, i'll recent report, the manufac-
ture of and trade i'll Damascus gun bar.
rels, wholly handmade, in tho valley of
the Vcsdre, in Liege province These
barrels are for sporting guns, and the
industry is many years old, the work
men in the villages in the valley being
almost all gun barrel makers and the
trade descending from father to son.
The best barrels are combination of
the best primary substances, welded
and forged by the martelage a froid
process. The steel comes from West
phalia; tho iron is manufactured at
Couvin, i'll Belgium; the coal, which is
specially suited for the work, from the
Herve highlands, in Belgium, while the
motive power of the factories is obtain
ed from the river Vesdre. The industry
has increased greatly in recent years.
These armes de luxe. as they are called,
are made by men working in pairs each
pair in its own little factory, quite in
dependent Of all others. They are paid
by the piece, the wages being good. and
about 1900 men are engaged on the
work in tho valley. Medium quality
barrels are made of coke iron and steel.
while the superior quality, which arc
produced in the Vesdre valley, are made
Of charcoal iron and steel. An ingenious
marriage" Of these metals gives a COM
position which, when manufactured.
guarantees the required solidity and re-
sistance
The improvement in these damascus
barrels dates from the introduction of
PERCUSSION caps in place of the old flint
lock. Formerly iron barrels alone were
produced Now. to manufacture the
curled damascus, the ingot is composed
Of 80 sheets of iron and steel, each hay-
ing a thickness of four millimeters
which are enveloped in sheet iron box,
placed in ON oven and welded together
at the lowest possible temperature. Each
barrel receives 100 welding beats while
being forged. and if single one Of these
Is unsuccessful the barrel may be a fail
ure, either by alteration of the damas-
cened work or an imperfection in the
welding.
There Is no official test Of these armes
de luxe, but they are thoroughly tested
by the manufacturers before delivery.
The annual production of damascus bar
rels In the Vesdre valley is about 300.-
600 pairs, of value of about $500, 900
francs OF this the wages alone-for all
the guns are acknowledgements to
about 2, 0O0. 900 francs. The principal
markets are Great Britain and the
United States About half the barrels
made in the Vesdre valley are sold to.
manufacturers Of arms in Liege to be
mounted. New York Times
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-12

Have you $3.50 to investY 1t will buy q house
In the centre OF the town that is renting for SS4
per annum.
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-12

$4,000 will buy three good houses with a room
in all, now renting for SEQ per annum
&. 600 will buy alarge 10-room DIVE ling renting
for S240 per annum.