Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-10-03
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every feature. snail keep 1t as q souvenir |
7 - Ssrty, memento of personal friendshiss1
and product of your indefatigable industry
and enterprise worthy of your genius and
ability.
The next is also from outside the
State, correspondent yclept "Anony-
NOUS" whom the JOURNAL was sur
prised three weeks ago to find enter.
tanning "millennial dawn" notion of
free coinage:
The last issue of 1.-The great papers, 18th
year, accompanied by its beautiful "silver
supplement" just received.
| The latter commentaries somewhat I'M
usual event in country journalism, especially
the fact that the papers editorial department
has been under one head all that period.
| Quoting from the supplement, you say
| A few people may find little of 1.-The irony
| of fate in the JOURNALS fluctuations to-day
| Its silver anniversary. But If there be
irony in the occasion it is that of silver
| cry circumstance.
Pardon me, but there is no Irony" either
of fate or circumstance in your artistic
recognition of your "silver' year, but take
| it as happy omen for you this glad ammo
Domini-silver's jubilee! For you it was
meet that your silver anniversary should fall
| right in the ripening season of silver's gori-
/ GUS year
But banter aside-I have read the JOURNAL
many years and so far as have seen it has
never swerved from the purpose printed in
its first issue. 1t has always been paper adj
Missile to any family free alike from dirty
sensatlonalisms and unclean advertisements.
Nothing has entered its columns that offends
good taste or brings blush to the cheek of
innocence. In town, county and State
troubles, though often incisive and forceful,
the JOURNAL has aimed to be Oh the side of
conservatism, Justice and the interest of the
many as against the few. Its evident purpose
all the way through, think, has been to do no
one willingly an injustice, but to deal with all
| impartially, awarding each his full measure
of dues.
Some people may say the foregoing is too
eulogistic but give it as my conception of
| plain truth-nothing more. The aims and
efforts ofthe JOURNALS management to reach
its present high Standard under and through
all the difficulties which beset and harass
such enterprises, have been so manifest that
| believe they deserve this acknowledgment
at the hands of at least one of your patrons.
| Your correspondents artistic taste has not
| been sufficiently cultivated to pass COM
petently upon the fancy and skill which
evolved the supplement- but will venture to
| say the pictures are superb. That of Mr..
Owen Hitchins is gem.
AS far as the literary construction ard
makeup go nothing more seems to be de-
sired. The reproduced tribute to your locality
at the time when the topic of new court
house was on dit is IAN apple of gold in
picture of silver." (No "irony' in that)
The contributions by Mr.. DAVIDSON Arm
strong furnished light on subject of curious
interest. have not read anything in long
time that entertained me so greatly
The "Audalusian" addeuduna furnishes a
clue to the origin ofthose unique and beauti-
full titles in the readings Of period when
scholars might not De surveyors, but sur
veyors were usually scholars.
All in all, permit me to repeat, the silver
supplemental its artistic, historic and
literary features is an elegant memento. 1t
is worthy preservation by your patrons, all
of whom, doubt not, wish, with me, tina
the JOURNALS shadow may never grow
less" and that its Editor may live to observe
his golden jubilee
The next, from a nearby resident, is
short, but he congresses what the
JOURNAL knows to be his earnest ap-
probation and good wishes in small
space:
thank you for the silver supplement of
the JOURNALS 25th anniversary received with
my paper on Saturday last.
1t contains information pertaining to the
early history of my native county of which l
was ignorant.
Will preserve it and my children may
some day, as do now, appreciate the kind
ness ofthe editor of the MINING JOURNAL and
wish for him long life and happiness and the
JOURNAL great prosperity.
Last week Washington Cd. c.
Doctor of Divinity was quoted. This
week another expresses himself:
l was shocked the other day when the
beautiful "silver supplement- came "Can
it be-" asked |, that my old friend of near
ly forty years standing, whom I always
thought brave, true honest, level-headed-
can it be that for spoils and regularity he,
too, has gone over, body and soul, to dis
honesty and repudiaton-to the scheme of
paying debts with money purposely made
cheap or as some advertisers say, at less
than half cost?' And to the boodlers who
scramble for the spells every four years ?
And to those who propose to dishonor the
Supreme Court, last appeal of justice, by
dragging it through the mire of political
caprice and passion every time its decisions
do not suit its masters? And to Altgeldsm,
Weaverism, Tilmansm and Coxeysm
Has the JOURNAL taken in all at gulp? %,
Temporal mores' ~ groaned my heavy
spirit.
Great was my relief when saw that my
fears were unnecessarily sprung-that it was
only an honest niShilee affair, sterling
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