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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-28
POUND NOTICE,

Taken up, and in city pound. on Mata-
moras street, on or about the 9th day OF
May, 1896:
One brown and white COW, no brand.
One black and white COW, no brand.
One red and white COW, branded Alb
connected.
One deep bay horse, branded JR con-
nected, bar below.
One light bay horse, branded M on
gray, white face and legs.
One flea bitten gray mare, left eye out,
branded on left thigh @ ], figure 2 under
meath, and Y on the right.
Which will, II not redeemed before sale
be sold at public auction, to the highesV
bidder for cash, at said pound, al tht
hour Of II o'clock a. m, on the 2nd day
of June, 1896. w. d. DRUsE,
527 81 Marshal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-28
ARE YOU GOING

North or East this Summer? II so, try
the SANTA FEE LIMITED, solid vesti-
bule train between Galveston and St.
Louis; no dirt, no dust.
A delightful mountain ride through In
dian Territory, Arkansas and Missouri.
Pullman Buffet Sleepers. Reclining
Chair Cars, (seats free)
Entire train lighted with Plntch Gas.
For the lowest rates and other informa-
ton, address any SANTA FE representa-
tive, or w. S. KEENAN,,
General Passenger Agent,
Galveston, Texas
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-28
HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.
Why President Hayes, in 1879, Vetoed the
Standard Silver Dollar Coinage Act.

Why President Hayes, in 1879, Vetoed the
Standard silver Dollar Coinage Act.
I President Hayes believed that our ma
tionai honor could not be too jealousy
guarded, In this he differed radically
from our sixteen to one statesmen, who
are anxious not only to see our govern
ment repudiate one-half of its debts,
but to see one-half of all debts repudi-
ated, 1t might be well for these hasty
statesmen to ponder some of Hayes
reasons for vetoing the act (passed over
his head) to coin and make legal tep-
der silver dollars worth, in gold, only
90 to 90 cents. He said that "the right
to pay duties in silver or in silver Ger
tificates for silver deposits will, when
they are issued in sufficient amount
to circulate, put an end to the receipt
of revenue in gold, and thus compel the
payment of silver for both the priu-
cipal and interest of the public debt"
He said that nearly $600,000,000 of
the funded debt then outstanding was
issued since 1873, when gold alone was
the coin for which the bonds were sold.
and gold alone was the coin in which
both parties to the contract understood
that the bonds would be paid" These
bonds" he continues, entered into the
markets of the world. They were paid
for in gold when silver had greatly de-
preciated and when no one would have
10 ho1 do
that they would be paid in silver"
He believed that, in the judgment Of
mankind, It would be an act of bad faith
not to guarantee that pre-existing debts
should be paid in as good money as was
legal tender when these debts were con
tracted-in other words, that the gov
ernment should not legalize the break
ing of contracts. 1.-THE standard of val
ue," he said, Should not be changed
without the consent of both parties to
the contract. National promises should
be kept with unflinching fidelity. There
is no power to compel q nation to pay
its debts. It's credit depends on its
honor. The nation owes what it has
led or allowed it's creditors to expect?
I cannot approve a bill which in my
Judgment authorizes the violation of
sacred obligations. The obligation Of
the public faith transcends all ques-
tons Of profit or public advantage. It's
unquestionable maintenance is the die
tate as well of the highest expediency
as Of the most necessary duty and should
be ever carefully guarded by the execu'
tive, by congress and by the people"
He closed his message by saying that
at is my firm conviction that if the
country is to be benefited by silver
coinage it can be done only by the issue
Of silver dollars of full value, which
viii defraud no man. A currency worth
less than IL purports to be worth will
in the end defraud not only creditors.
but all who are engaged in legitimate
business, and none more surely that
those who are dependent on their daily
labor for their daily bread"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-28

piece, Inc great wrIIer qmcKIy ana TN
consciously put out her hand to stop its
fall. Il hope" said she, replacing it,
that the time will come when we shall
instinctively hold up the man or woman
who begins to fall as naturally and I'M
consciously as we arrest falling piece
of furniture or an ornament"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-28

A writer in one of the English re-
views relates that during conversation
with George Eliot, not long before her
death, vase toDpled over the mantel-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-28
Lawyers Got Most of 1t.

A funny circumstance was brought
out in a recent newspaper item about
some land in Missouri. A law firm
did some legal business for a man
which brought him into the possession
of 100 acres of land, and the firm took
100 acres of the land for it's services.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Death of an EX-Mayor.

Enoch elise, some time ill, died
Saturday night last at his residence,
this place, aged 81 years, months
and 2 days. Mr.. elise was good,
substantial citizen, blacksmith by
trade but later a grocery merchant.
Owing to failing health he had not
been active during the last year of his
life. The esteem in which he was
held was heightened by his good re-
cord as a soldier. He enlisted June
II, 1861, in company X. of the 18th
Virginia Infantry, (FederaD became
orderly sergeant two months later,
and in 1868 was promoted to the second
lieutenancy of his company. He par
ticipated in fourteen of the regular
engagements, was shot throu Oh the
right arm at Winchester, Va, in
1868, fought principally under Gen.
Sherman, and was honorably mustered
out of service at the close of the war.
He was a councilman several terms
and mayor of the town when the
water bonds were issued. The funeral
took place Tuesday afternoon at the
Presbyterian church.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Pretty, but Faulty.

The Homecoming Star publishes the
following good wish, styling it ga
Classic Compliment"
May the Star ever twinkle bright and
steady, to tighten the dark night and guide
US in the right path.-Ferdinand Williams.
The JOURNAL is in doubt about the
"classic" character of Mr.. Williams
invocation.
A single star might contribute some
thing toward frightening the dark
night" but IFS guide" among many
"paths' to the right one, it would
fail in the performance of that high
office. Even ten thousand stars fall
short of showing nocturnal wanderers
''the right path"
Perhaps the loftiest human coneep-
ton of the ornamental galaxy-of the
sun especially, was expressed by
Young when he said they
light us deep into the Deity
But the sun. like his satellites, is a
steady sinner, not a twinkler.
1t was, unfortunate, therefore, for
Mr.. Williams, who is opposed to going
to England for financial lessons,
should have left our own native solar
empire and gone into sidereal domains
whose names are not even known, for
type of stellar illumination that
wrinkles steady" as well as bright"
Even the "classic" adverbs, bright
and steady of those far-away sys-
tens are, down here, just plain, UNI
pretending adjectives.
1t is question, too, whether star
that wrinkles" brightly can be said
to twinkle" steadily also-that is, if
the character of the light be referred
to. Can twinkling light be steady
light9
From the considerations thus sug-
gested the JOURNAL will endeavor to
put Mr.. Williams invocation in
"classic" form:
May the Star ever shine brightly and
steadily-to tighten the Homecoming night,
and to guide us in the path which leads from
the bondage of the gold standard to the
liberty of free and unlimited coinage!
Inshallah +!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
How it Worked Then.

People who want ample circulation
pc, capita will be pleased to learn that
during the revolutionary war between
1776 and 1779 not less than 242 mil
lion dollars were put in circulation.
Each man, woman and child had no
less than $60.50, an average family be-
ing always in pocket about 5000.
This seemed to be very nice, but
when the family had to take all the
money in the house to buy pound of
butter, the delusion lost nearly all it's
exstacy.
At that rate even a blackleg would
have to get $3.50 for digging ton of
coal, and Organization" would have
to do some tall clubbing to soften his
head sufficiently to make him demand
1920 more.
All the time, too, the fathers were
humping Great Britain into the now
undisputed conviction that the United
States are able to have currency of
their own.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Personal.

Max Powers and sister, Miss Lizzie,
enjoyed a visit to Cumberland last
Sunday.
c. W. Forsyth, attorney, and Abner
Lunsford, of Front Royal, Va, were
in town Monday.
Miss Nellie V. Betz returned Mon.
day from pleasant visit to Dunkirk,
Md.
Misses Bertha Person, of Williams
port, Pa, and Eva j. Shaffer. of Som
erset, Pa, are guests of John Harris
family.
Miss Ella NJ. Zell, student of the
Central Commercial College, Cumber-
land, is the guest this week of Miss
Lizzie Powers, of this place.
Fred. j. G. Schofeld, of Washing
ton, d. c., is quite pen sketch artist.
His delineation of sold Mary" now
hanging in the JOURNAL office, is said
to be faithful representation of u
capitol city character. He is son of
Councilman B. 7. Schofeld.
Misses Allie and Bernie Porter re-
turned Tuesday from prolonged visit
to their brother. F. A Porter, Norfolk,
Va.
W. S. Burton is the new councilman.
1t will hardly be in order now for
"Scott" to reach behind his lip and
ask the man who passes around the
hat for the organ grinder-"is it a
chaw of terbacker you want ?"
Hon. John w. Woods, of Roanoke,
Va, left for his home yesterday after
a delightful stay of several weeks here.
Miss Annie l.. Coyner left yesterday
for two months visit to Moorefield,
w. Va.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
A Wicked Preteyt.

A stock phrase, even in this favored
region, is something like this:
Well times can't be any worse.
This is unmitigated folly.
Times, especially here, can be a
great deal worse.
A paralysis in the east, occasioned
by any disturbance of business, can
quickly bring the wolf of want to our
doors. Let the demand for coal fall
off to any material extent and it will
not be long before we will look back
to this as season Of actual prosperity.
In that hour and article of poverty,
too, we will have ample time to ascer-
tain that of all the helpless cures for
our sad situation the most powerless
will be that arrant mockery known as
''the free and unlimited. coinage of
silver"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Silver Standard Consistency

1t seems that on the 10Th day OF
June, 1894, at Failmont, W. Va,
United States Senator Elkins was a
silver mOno-maniac.
No doubt about this.
About this time of our Lords year
1896, says the Cumberland Times
he's for gold, and don't ask us what he
be for to-morrow-his speech at Parkersburg
is very different from the one at Fairmont.
The Senator's politics wobble toe
suddenly and too far to each side The
two speeches referred to are diametric
contradictions of the most pronounced
type.
But the Times is hardly the paper to
call attention to anybody's economic
tickleness OF party Inconsistency.
On and before July 10-a little over
one short month ago, the Times was
"unatterably opposed to the free coin,
age of silver at the ratio of lG to L."
Now, five weeks later, it is "unalter.
ably in favor of it. Indeed. it turn
ed tail on its own Maryland platoon
inside of one day!
The Senator and the Times should
take their cue from the JOURNAL
which has been and is still opposed t.
the free coinage of gold and silver al
any arbitrary ratio.
This is the true, the only safe
ground, and, no matter how far the
misled may stray, they must finally
come back to it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Quite Plausible,

Col. George A. Pearre gives several
strong reasons why Allegany is still
entitled to the Congressional nominal
ton.
He says this is the first of two terms
to which the county Is entitled, which
is correct.
But, gentlemen, confer the honor
upon the gallant colonel and two
years hence you will catch him favor
ing a second term for himself and
incidentally third term for the
county.
In narrower area the colonel is
ably assisting the Hon. William j.
Bryan in making copious contributions
to the gayety of nations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Go Into the Courts

Robert Shriver, of Cumberland, ex
hibits with great clearness "the out
rageous discrimination" against sew
eral counties, including this, in the
distribution of the State school fund
Hence, he proves "the law" or "the
Interpretation of it" to be radically
wrong"
But is it enough to center a protest
against it
Should not Mr. Shriver and other
influential citizens assail it in the
courts ?
If they will do so they will earn the
gratitude of all who are defrauded by
the current misdeal, especially if they
win.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Wrong Again,

Writing to J. C. Harmony, of Can
ton, Ohio, Hon. W. j. Bryan says:
The fact that those of your citizens who
believe that the United States is strong enough
to have financial policy of its own are will
ing to array themselves against townsman
of high character and great personal worth
Indicates the depth of their convictions.
The populist nominee of the demo-
cratic party should know that it is an
error to write or speak of 1.-THE United
States" in the singular number.
Our new master of rhetoric and
elocution should know that the ex-
preston, "the United States is strong
enough" etc., is not only erroneous in
fact, but it is historically inaccurate
and faulty in euphony.
1t is bad enough, Mr.. Bryan, to re-
flute an argument that has not been
made, but to do so in anti Jeffersonian
grammar is objectionable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Journalistic.

j. j. Robinson, editor of the Iona
coming Star, is in New Mexico. He
entered that territory gold standard
advocate; what he will be when he
tries to get out battles the JOURNALS
gift of prophecy.
Meanwhile, George NJ. Perdew, non
professor of several superfluous high
school languages. occupies the tripod,
yields a pen dipped in causiic, and
thus Robinson's absence is not al
together a holiday for Robinson s
enemies.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Not Much Room for Subsidy.

A Georges Creek coal company has
taken contract to furnish the United
States navy $500 tons of coal de-
livered at Boston for $3.19 per ton.
After mining labor is paid about 70
cents per ton, the munifcent sum of
So 40 is left to over $50 miles of rail
roads-less than one-half cent per
ton per mile.
But the railroads do not get it all.
The mine-owner and sales agent have
to be paid, and there are other costs
that must be settled-in all probably
40 cents, leaving to the $50 miles of
railroad, say So.
In So for $50 miles one would hardly
think there is room enough for SUBJ
sidy of 40 cents, but the JOURNAL has
four double columns of unsworn state
ments alleging, in effect, that the
freight, low as it is, is still 40 cents
less.
These statements, it is true, are
not printed by man who has either
built or operated railroads, but one
who knows more about them than real
railroad men do.
In theory he is close kin to those
hLanciers who have found out that the
only way to restore good times is to
adopt bad money.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15

My little boy, when two years Of age, was
taken very ill with bloody tiux. was adj
vised to use Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and luckily procured
part of bottle. l carefully read the di-
rections and gave it accordingly. He was
very low, but slowly and surely he began to
improve, gradually recovered and is now as
stout and strong as ever | feel sure it saved
his life. | never can praise the Remedy half
its worth. l am sorry every one in the
the world does not how good it is, as | do
Mrs. Lima S. Hinton, Grahamsville Marion
Co., Florida. For sale by Metzger II Percy,
Druggists
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
TOWN AND VICINITY.
He Couldn't Find 1t.

a contract to furnish coal to some
institution in Cumberland was made
the other day at 81 40 per ton.
AS this is 80 cents less than the peo-
pie of Frostburg are supplied, it is
presumed that the railroad subsidy of
40 cents a ton is raked in here by the
transfers.
The JOURNAL set one to looking for
it the other day.
After several hours he came back
and, said he couldn't find it.
tWhere is it, then" demanded the
paper that is great.
"Damtino.'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
just So.

Don Cameron, United States Senator
from Pennsylvania, would vote for
Bryan and free coinage but for the
plank in the democratic platform
which denounces federal interference
with strike riots.
That same plank will lose free silver
many, many other votes, for timid
people will judge free silver by its
company.
1t is with principles as with birds
those of the same feather flock to-
gether.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
COUNTY NEWS.
1t Still Spreads.

The Cumberland correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun writes that paper
that
A disease is attacking cows, causing them
to run about in wild sort of manner and
then drop over and die. The farmers call
the disease gone crazy" A number of
cows have died from it,
The tables are turned.
The bottom rail is on top.
People have hitherto been catching
diseases from the lower animals, but
it is our turn now.
1t is clear case of Bryanitis gone
to the proportions of an extra-human
epidemic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
A Costly Assault,

Friday afternoon of last week Ed
ward Conner, Of Ocean, assaulted
William Nickel on his way from work
to his home in this place, and later
resisted arrest by constable Edward
Drew. He was taken Saturday, how
ever, and held until Monday, when a
hearing took place before justice
Isaac A. Kavanagh, of Ocean. Eight
witnesses testified and Conner was
fined $l5 for assault. S. for resisting
arrest, and costs $13 45-in all, sos. As.
a sum which he paid.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
SlGNIi-IiOCAL NEWS.
Tales Of Two Senators.

Mr.. Wellington claims with great conf
dehce that Maryland will give Mckinley and
Hobart 30 COO majority baltimore Americau.
Senator German is quoted by a New York
newspaper as saying that Maryland will give
Bryan 10000 majority Baltimore Sun.
The reader should not feel nonplussed
over this.
The opinions of great men ON some
subjects are no more infallible than
his own.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Social.

Mr.. and Mrs. M. Brooke Tyler gave
a most enjoyable card party Monday
evening in honor of Miss Tyler, Of
Washington, D. C. The following
ladies and getlemen were present:
Misses Mamie McCnlloh, Nellie and Agnes
Price, Carrie Beall, Nilsson and Blanche
Oder, Margaret Grove, Name Haverstick,
Kate KOCH Messrs. Roberdeau Amman, Harry
NJ. Hutson, Graft Haverstick, w. E Kurtz
Cleon Moore, John Strother Lawrence Koch
DR.. ]. NJ. Price, ofthis place, and Mr. Adams,
of Baltimore.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Concerning Those Books.

Concerning Those Books.
The Cumberland Times, which was
opposed last fall to free school books,
now makes feeble apology for them.
1t says:
All the children will haye books and the
teacher will be enabled to better classify the
school and to put each child to work.
This implies that the authorities
who prescribed the books before did
not do so uniformly.
1t implies also that some degree of
chaos has hitherto prevailed in the
school room because the authorities,
who enjoyed as much option then as
now, did not enable the teachers to
"better classify the schools and put
each child to work."
1t implies, too, that somebody did not
obey the law in not supplying the really
needy with the requisite books.
There seems to be no doubt about
these implications, for the Times says
again:
those who never taught don't know the
inconvenience teacher is put to when chill
dren do not have the proper books.
Why did they not have "the proper
books" under the old regime?
Did not those who are to select the
free books prescribe the old ones?
And again-were not the INDECENT
provided for
With these questions unanswered
what are we to think of the next as
surance?-
The cry that because of free books we will
have shorter term is a mistake. The same
cry arose last year when there were no free
books to be given.
The cry arose this year more on ac-
count of the pernicious principle in
volved IN free books than because of
free books" Free schooling is enough
for the people to dispense, perhaps to
mismanagement.
For the Times enjoins us also in this
wise:
Don't worry about the free books being
detrlment unless there is bad management.
Like Mr.. Bryan and his other dis
ciples, the Times refutes arguments
that have not been raised. Nobody
has held that Gree books are de-
triment,' but the JOURNAL does hold
that the principle under which books
are given away is wrong, everlastingIy
wrong.
The Times might as we'll have adj
monished its readers not to "worry
about religion being detriment-
unless there is bal management
"Unless'-aye, there's the rub.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Still Maneuvring for Position,

Still ManeuvrinS for Position,
CUMBERLAND, MD, August 10, 1896.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
The weather is altogether too hot to
spend the little vitality that is left to
a man In the protitless occupation of
hair-splitting.
If Rev. Mr.. Thomas is willing to
discuss the question of the compulsory
Reading of the Bible in the Public
Schools" | am willing to accommodate
him.
But | am not inclined to spend my
leisure hours in logical acrobatics.
Yours very sincerely,
L SuEnN
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1896-08-15
Mixed.

A clipping comes to the JOURNAL
from Denver. Col, somewhat to this
effect:
That cheap food is not boon to the coun-
try. 1t is no benefit to the workingman be-
cause the farmer is therein disabled from buy
ing the workingman's products etc.
The argument is much like the ques-
ton which used to perplex the old
philosophers and theologians
Was the first oak the product Of an acorn,
or was the first acorn the product of an oak
The latter question is still unsettled,
but the answer to the former may be
found in the annals of universal ex-
perience.
1t is this
That the natural law of demand and
supply cannot be disturbed, either by
artificial stimulation or repression,
without correspondingly hurtful re-
action. This is a result as inevitable
as that darkness shall follow sunset.
Hence, if the farmer, who is said to
be the source ofall prosperity, pro
duces more than he can sell, the jour
NAL cannot see how he can escape the
corresponding charge of being also
the occasion OF general adversely.
According to the theory of the
clipping the farmer is, therefore, the
author of both his fortunes and mis-
fortunes-unconsciously, it may be,
but still the author.
In any event, how is free coinage
gong to help him, and, through him,
help the people who do not or cannot
buy his products ?
Is free coinage going to begin with
him-make him prosperous, and,
through him, make everybody else
boom F?
If so, there seems to be 40 per cent.
Of him to boom first, but how is he to
get higher pay from the GO per cent. for
what the 60 per cent. doesn't want, or
doesn't seem to be able to buy9
Which, therefore, evolves first-the
workingman's acorn of demand, or
the farmers oak of supply9