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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

Mrs. E. Fl. B. Pritchard is visiting
relatives in Scranton, Pa.
Miss Florence f. Wood returned
home last Saturday from two months
visit to her brother, Russell Wood, of
New York.
Mrs. William Mooney, of Lonacon-
ing, spent last Sunday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith.
Mrs. r. E. Johnson and Miss Estelle
Judge, Of Cumberland, were guests
Tuesday of Mrs. John S. Little.
Miss Sarah Campbell, of Mt. Saw
age, is visiting Miss Clara Campbell.
Messrs. John G. Wilson and Charles
T Lowndes, of Cumberland, drove up
and spent few hours in the metropolis
Wednesday.
Miss Harriette M. Brown spent part
of last and this week with friends in
McKeesport, Pa.
Misses Virginia Orrck and Mary
Read, accompanied by A. r. Lewis
all of Cumberland, were guests of
Mrs. A. M. Devecmon Wednesday.
James B. Dolan, of Pine Bluff, Ark,
formerly of this place, is visiting his
sister, Mrs. Edward Walsh.
Rev. G. A. j. Cramer and H. w.
Lammert returned Tuesday from
synod, held at Baltimore. They re-
port full session and tie transaction
of Il great deal of business.
Misses Mamie and Sailie McCulloh,
of Elkins, W. Va, are the guests of
the Misses Shearer, Spring street.
Madame Griseida will be at the St.
Cloud hotel next Wednesday. See
New Business Local.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
Married.

AT the residence of the officiating
minister, Rev. C. A. j. Cramer, Fri
day, May 81, 1897, Miss Lucy Matilda
Carter to Mr.. George Fisher Morgan,
both of Eckhart.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
Removal.

Mrs. p. O'Rourke completed this
morning the removal of her stock of
millinery to the room formerly oc-
cupied by the First National Bank.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

Mrs Jacob Hartman is seriously i'll.
Rev. H. Dieckmann. pastor of the
Reformed Church, has been very i'll for
several weeks and is still confined to
his bed
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

The Baltimore Sun was sixty years
old last Monday. The old luminary,
still rising. shines with growing lustre
upon a lengtbening list of lovers of
sunlight.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

The Westtield Gnd.) Ne,cs prints the fol-
lowing in regard to an old resident of that
place: Frank McAyoy, for many years in
the employ Of the L., N. A. & c. Ry. here,
says: 4 have used Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diorrhoea Remedy for ten years
or longer-am never without it in my family.
| consider it the best remedy of the kind
manufactured. | take pleasure in recon-
mending it," 1t is a specific for all bowel
disorders. For sale by &. Z. Pearce Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
Personal,

e. R. Johnston was county Judge
of city election last Monday, and a
good many people seem to have been
afraid to get within 100 feet of his
judicial smiter. Anyway, the vote
was small.
John G. Wilson, of Cumberland. has
been appointed School Commissioner,
oice j. S. Jameson, resigned. A most
excellent selection.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
Business Locals,

Are you made miserable by indigestion,
constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite. vel
low skin? Shiloh's Vitahzer is positive
cure. D. krapf, Frostburg, and McMullen
Bros, Mt. Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
Passing Away.

Ourcrltlcal contemporary the MINING JoUh-
NAL, OF Frostburg, objects to the word, Cum.
berland," as descriptive of the coal and coal
measures of the Georges Geek valley. What.
ever geographical naccuracy there may be in
the designation, it will stick as long the coal
measures last, and most probably few cen.
turtles longer. When word gets into COM
mercal usage tritling error in latitude and
longitude, $50 small that it can scarcely be
measured on the arc ofthe meridian) is not 60
ing to drive it out A great many millions of
tons of 'Cumberand'' coal will be sold and
consumed before the word is expurgated
from the commercial dictionary of the world,
Cum berland Ne,cS
When the JOURNAL began its career
of popular enlightenment here over %
years ago the designation, Georges
Creek COAL" was rarely used.
1t was "Cumberland coal'' every
where.
After getting ''the lay of the land''
the JOURNAL obtained from the late
Owen Hitchins a statement to this
effect:
"Cmberlamd coal' is misnomer. 1t
should be Georges Creek coal
Then and there, in that first year
of the JOURNALS reign-that inaug.
ural year of great paper grace the
campaign against the unwarranted
'prHnomen" began, and, continuing
until now, its use is the exception and
dlsuse the rule.
The conclusion of the Necs, there
fore, that IL fraudulent title, once
written in the rhetoric of Commercial
usage" is ineffaceable, does not follow
viewed from the platform of our bit of
history.
In proof whereof, moreover, the
JOURNAL has understood that very
many eastern buyers have become so
fastidious, not to say sqneamish, that
they regard themselves already bun
coed if anybody attempts to dump on
them any 'Cumberland coal" that has
been or is to be mined in either the
Meyersdale or Elk Garden fields.
And when it purports to come from
"the Cumberland coal region" the
Typographical paradox of this serial of
phenomenal misplacements in the
bright lexicon of commercial usage"
the answer has been rats you don't
mean it and you know you don't ~
Much in the way of "expurgation"
has been accomplished much that
that there is ground for the hope that
in few years more not n syllable of a
name that is neither euphonic nor
aromatic will remain to vex our other
wise irreproachable product with its
antl-cimactic appellatlve.
The day of false pretenses is passing
away. To speed it in all instances let
US continuously employ that old petit
ton which, presuming the steady on
coming of the era wherein "nothing
that maketh a lie' shall abide, ascends
with reverent impetus from this dark
globe to the bright hosts of sidereal
revolution and there DELIVER this mes
sage of cumulative entreaty:
Roll, roll, ROLL around, ye wheels OF Time
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced 1t local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. J. Cheney, Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for testimonials
free. +. j. CHENEY Il Co.,
Sold by druggists, 15c. Toledo, Ohio.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
COUNTY NEWS.
The Weather.
To be warmer Sunday.
The Coal Trade.

Shipments of coal from the mines of
the Georges Creek coal region were
in long tons
For week ending May l5 1897. 1876
year to same date. .............1. 305, 766
Increase compared with last year. =. 147 $50
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
EPWORTH LEAGUE NEWS.
ARTHUR F. SMITH, Edito
ImpOptaut Items

Important Items.
A brief but interesting program was given
last Monday evening.
There will be no meeting next Monday
evening.
The devotional meeting next Sunday even
ing will be conducted by Richard f. CLANCY.
A large attendance is desired.
Cottage prayer meetings are held every
Sunday afternoon at homes of the sick and
aged. All interested in active work are in
vted to assist in conducting these services,
which are managed by the department of
mercy and help.
New Business Locals.
Badness is often preceded or accompanied
by grayness of the hair. To prevent both
badness and grayness use Halls Hair Re
newer.
Wheel Buyers,
The GEO. f. SHEPHERD Co.
will exhibit on
the 25th and Goth days of May
the Celebrated and Much Talked,of
Blue Grass Bicycle.
Go and take a look at it if you are interested
and are thinking of buying
Bicycle.
Fully guaranteed and strictly high grade
Price, S35.
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hotel Gladstone.
Who can fail to take advantage of this offer
Send 10 cents to us for generous trial size or
ask your druggist Ask for Ely's Cream
Balm, the most positive catarrh cure. Full
size so cents
ELY Bros, Sc Warren ST., N. Y. City.
suffered from catarrh of the worst kind
ever since boy, and never hoped for cure,
but Ely's Cream Balm seems to do even that
Many acquaintance have used it with ex-
!! cellent results.-Oscar Ostrum, 45 Warren
Ave, Chicago, Ill.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

81 was nervous tired, irritable and cross
Clover Root Tea has made me well and
happy. MRs E. B. WoREEN.
d. Krapf, Frostburg, and McMullen Bros
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

Pills do not cure Constipation. They onl
aggravate. Kars Glover Root Tea gives pei
feet regularity of the bowels. D. Krapt
Frostburg, and McMullen Bros, Mt. Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

at is the Best on Earth."-That is
what Edwards 4 Parker, merchants of Plains,
Ga, say of Chamberiain's Pain Balm, for
rheumatism, lame back, deep seated and
muscular pains, Sold by G. E. Pearce Drug
90
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22

Consumption can be cured by the use of
Shilohs Cure. This great Cough Cure is the
only known remedy for that terrible disease
D. Krapf Frostburg, and McMullen Bros,
Mt Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
An E,rudite YOuth

"A Henry county negro, says the
Atlanta Constitutions, was discovered
carrying a very large armful of books
which brought forth the inquiry:
''Going to SCHOOL,"
"Yas, sar, boss
do you study all those books?'
mo, sar, dey's my brudder's. Use a
ignorance kind er niger side him, boss
Yer jest oughter see dat niger hggerin He
dun gone an clean cyphered through adj,
dition, partition, substraction distraction,
abomination, justification, hallucination, de
rivltation, creation, amputation and adop,
ton"
Great Judges, what a bright Uncle
Sam socialist that scholar will make
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-05-22
New Business Locals.

Badness is often preceded or accompanied
by grayness of the hair. To prevent both
badness and grayness use Halls Hair Re
newer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30
DUCKS ARE AHEAD.
Far More Profitable Than Chickens For
Market Purposes.

Far More Profitable Than Chickens Fer
Market Purposes.
Duck raising, says a correspondent of
The Rural New Yorker, is something
that 80 out of every 100 farmers know
little about. Many of them have few
common puddle ducks that exc out a
scant living on what they can pick up
out of the feed thrown to the chickens,
which, while it may be abundant, Is Of
such kind and in such a condition that
the poor ducks almost starve amid plen-
ty. In six months they are sent to mar
ket If not big enough or fat enough,
they are surely old enough. If the right
breed of ducks was raised and fed on the
proper food, the profits over broilers and
chicks would compare like this: Last
summer 1 sold young Pekin ducks in
this market at 10 cents per pound, live
weight They were weeks old and
weighed about nine pounds to the pair,
bringing 6715 cents each.
The feed bills show a cost of about 8
cents per pound of duck to bring them
up to this condition. l also sold brOilers
weighing 10 pounds per dozen at -
cents per pound, the chicks being just
the age of the ducks-9 weeks. One
duck weighed as much as three chicks
and sold for 2 cents more per pound. Of
course the chicks consume less food, but
the mortality is greater and the labor
in keeping ahead of lice, vermin and
disease among them is much greater. If
there is any other fowl or animal raised
on the farm that will take on the same
amount of flesh on the same quantity of
food in the same time, have failed to
find it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30
MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR.

some $50, 200, 900, a scheme of reform
known as the "organic statute was
drawn up. This measure appeared to con-
cede large amount of self government to
the island. 1t gave it a legislative assem-
bly, and judicial system of its own. The
latter, however, was merely mockery,
and the former was reduced TO impotence
by being forbidden even TO discuss any
matter which had not previously received
the sanction of the government.
Thus the organic statute proved fail
ure and the island became as discomfort
ed as ever. Another instruction occurred
in 1878, and in the fall of that year,
through the mediation of England, a COM
pact was drawn up which retained the
general system of the organic statute, but
provided for its more practical application.
This was not satisfactory to the Cretans,
however, and they soon divided into two
parties. Intrigue followed intrigue, and
only one man has had the courage to hold
the Office of civil governor for full term.
All the others were driven to resign it.
A crisis came in 1889. The governor
considered it to be his constitutional duty
20 bestow q certain number of appoint
ments On the Liberals, and the Conserya-
tives thereupon took up arms and with
drew to the mountains. Then the half dor
mant fanaticism of the people became
aroused and the island was again plunged
into civil war. In the space of a few
months about 100 Christians and Mussul-
mans were murdered. Nine thousand
dwelling houses, 152 schools, 81 mosques
and II churches were burned. Property to
the amount of hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth was destroyed. The insur-
gent Christians, however, got the worst of
it, The porte soon became master of the
situation and proclaimed martial law. The
compact of 1873 was practically abrogated,
and for the next five years Crete was ruled
automatically by succession Of Mussul-
man governors.
The attention of the powers was attract
I'D to the unhappy state of the island, and
toward the end Of 1894 the porte was in
duced TO select Christian named Alexan-
der Karatheodory Pasha as governor. He
seemed TO be acceptable TO 10th Christians
and Mussulmans The assembly met
again for the first time since 1889 and
passed some good laws. But these were
vetoed by the porte, and trouble again be-
gan. Finally in March of last year the
Christian governor was recalled, and Tur-
khan Pasha, Mussulman, was appointed
in his stead. The change seemed to dis
satisfy everybody, Mussulman as well as
Christian. The number of murders on
both sides increased. Turkhan showed
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30

surgents pushed nOrthward nearly TO Grew
ena before they were beaten back
The most of Thessaly is vast plain
with ranges of hills. In no other part of
greece could troops be so easily maneu-
vered over so large territory. Macedonia
and Albania, on the Turkish side Of the
border, on the contrary, are exceedingly
mountainous. AS compared with Thes-
sally, the Turks have in their frontier ter
ritOry far greater number of strategic
points that are not difficult to defend.
The main difficulty with all this territory
on both sides of the border, from mill
tary point of view, is the entire lack of
good roads. Many of the roads affording
the only means of transit are mere Bride
paths, and all the roads are narrow and
in'bad condition
The powers are plainly in alliance with
Turkey in this crisis, but the cOnsciences
and sympathy of the people are largely in
favor of Greece. This latter ally should
not be despised
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30
PROFIT IN SQUADS.
Pigeon Producing For the Market on
Long Island.


Pigeon Producing For the Market on
Long Island.
P. r. Ketchem of Amityville, Long
Island, began raising squads for market
six years ago with 700 breeding pigeons.
He now has 2, 200. For the acoommoda-
ton of these 1900 p:SooEs .ae las built
ten pens of wire netting, each pen 100
feet long and - feet wide. They vary
in height from - to 16 feet and stand
side by side and are formed by dividing
one great wire rooted Enclosure into ten
parts There are in the pens a few
perches placed at height of about eight
feet for the pigeons to roost upon. There
are ten pigeon houses, one for each pen.
In buying stock for breeding Mr..
Ketcham prefers Antwerps, but it is
difficult to get enough Of them. and so
he has crossed Antwerps with good large
common birds. Pigeons lay two eggs a
month, good birds laying ten months in
the year, from November to August, in
elusive. Then the birds molt, and in
November the females begin laying
again. Where a large number of pi-
geons are kept there will be some that
will mott a little out of season. so
that there will be some eggs and some
squads the year around.
While the pigeon houses are always
kept as clean as they can be without
disturbing the pigeons, only advantage
is taken of the melting season for a
thorough cleaning. \ little stack Of
tobacco stems is placed in the corner of
each house for material, and from this
the birds build their nests, the male bird
carrying the material, straw by straw,
TO the female, which stands at the box
and arranges the nest.
When the female has begun laying
again, it lays its two eggs on successive
days, and at intervals of % days, or
possibly less. On laying the first egg it
begins sitting at once, the male bird
alternating with it. The eggs are hatch
ed in from II to II days. The squads
may be 2 weeks or less old when the
mother bird begins sitting on another
pair of eggs. The young pigeons would
not in the ordinary course of events
leave the nest to fly until they were
or weeks old. If it had but one nest,
the mother bird would lay its eggs and
begin to hatch them in the same nest
with its half grown squads. At the es-
adjustment described here two boxes,
or nests, are provided for each pair Of
birds, so that the female that has half
grown squads in its nest may have an
other nest in which to deposit its eggs.
By this arrangement there is less danger
of the eggs being broken.
Food is provided in the pens twice a
day, in troughs and on the ground, in
quantity sufficient 10 satisfy the pigeons
hunger and to provide them with pick
ings, so that they may supply their
young. Water is supplied in small, shall
low tanks. The pigeons are great drink
ers and they battle often. A pigeon is
likely to take a bath everv two DAYS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30

Inc principal food supplied 20 them is
cracked corn and whole wheat In the
fall, in the melting season, plenty of
hemp seed is given to them, which helps
them to mott and tends to make them
begin laying again quicker. While these
are the principal articles of food there
are fed to the pigeons at intervals, as
they may require them and in limited
quantities, other things as a sort of rel
ish and to keep the birds appetites good
and the birds themselves in good condi-
tion. What these other things are the
pigeon breeders do not disclose.
The pigeon grows rapidly, and in
three or four weeks it is ready to kill as
a SQUAD. Squads of good breed weigh
seven or eight pounds to the dozen. Pr
geons begin to lay when they are from
to 6 months old and continue to lay for
- years. Pigeons once mated, if not
separated, remain mated always.
In the breeding season the pigeon
raiser goes through the pigeon houses in
winter two or three times a week and
in summer about every day and selects
the squads that are of the right age and
size TO kill. The number varies from
week to week. There are some squads
obtainable the year round. Mr.. Ketcham
said that in five years he had not missed
a week in shipping some, though in
some months the supply is very light.
He ships an average of 200 squads a
week for eight TO ten months in the year
and altogether between 1000 and 5000
squads year, at an average wholesale
price Of about 20 cents. This, of course,
is not all profit. There is TO be deducted
the Gust of care and feed and of market
ing, to say nothing Of the original cost
of plant in pens and houses and of stock,
but when such results as these are at
tanned there is in the business what is
described as good, fair profit. "
A great many more squads than pi
geons are sold. Prices are now generally
lower than ever en- account of the ex-
tended facilities for carrying stock in
cold storage. Squads have been sold
years ago at retail as high as 81 dozen.
The average retail price now is about
So a dozen. 1t may be 81 or So in win
ter and So 80 in summer. Dark skinned
squads are worth 81 less.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-04-30

are the facts that the nght1ng Will ne IN
Hellenic territory, which the Greeks know
thoroughly, and the whole of the nation Is
on fire with passionate enthusiasm.
All that the great powers can do just
at present is to look on and lOcaliZe the
conflict as far as it is possible. But the
issue is not merely between Turkey and
Greece, nor the question merely the gov
eminent of Crete. A war between Turkey,
all of whose traditions are despotisln, and
Greece, all of whose traditions are liberty,
may easily involve before it be completed
all Europe in a war between absOlutism
and democracy. 1t may result in an upris-
ing throughout Europe until every govern
ment east of Russia is revolutionized and
make liberalism dominant from the Medi-
terranean, TO the Baltic.
The accompanying map gives a good
general idea of the country in the neigh
borhood of the Greek Turkish frontier,
where the hostile armies confront one an
other 1t is extended south to show the
geographical relations of Athens and the
present region of conflict. The frontier
extends from the IOnian sea at the gulf of
Arta on the west, to the gulf of Salonika,
near Mount Olympus, the tabled home Of
the old Greek deities, on the east.
In moving the Greek troops TO the north
they were embarked on shipboard at the
PirRus, the port of Athens, and sailed
down the gulf Of Egina to the Egean sea
and then north to the port of BOlos, also
known as Volo. This port is connected
with Larissa by rail, and few hours after
landing the troops were in Larissa, the
present headquarters of the Greek army at
the front The Turkish city of Salonika
has been the gathering point Of the Turk
ish forces Salonika is at the head Of the
gulf Of Salonika, IS miles northeast Of the
town of ElassOna in Macedonia. Elassona
is the headquarters of the Turkish forces
in Macedonia. The Turkish troops have
reached this town and other points along
the Turkish military front by two routes
A part of them have gone west by rail to
Verria from Salonika ana then marched
south to Elassona, a distance Of IS miles.
For some weeks the Turks have had
very considerable army posted all along
the frontier from ElassOna to Janina, with
other forces on the gulf of Arta- The
Greeks have also spread part OF the
troops they concentrated at Larissa along
the frontier from Nezeros, south of Mount
Olympus, TO the western border Of Thes-
sally. AT Grevena in Macedonia the Turks
have had an entire division, including in
fantry, cavalry and artillery, under the
command of Haiku Pasha. The Greek in