Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-16
TOWN AND VICINITY.
How il May be Remedicd.

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How il May be Remedicd.
1t has probably not occurred to some
! that in the crystal atmosphere of the
Pacific slope that distance lends" more
"enchantment to the view" than in
humid climates. That is to say, that
Mount Tacoma Should have remain
ed Ranier,) for instance, is quite as
visible from where Mr.. Fairchild wit
messed that famous sunset, nearly 100
miles distant, as is Dams Rock, 5 miles
distant, from Frostburg.
This explains why the planet Venus,
when on the eastern side of the sun, is
there so quickly visible after sunset.
If the reader will now observe that,
inasmuch as Mr.. Fairchild made no
previous reference to the 'silver mug
get" as star, and that the transition
to 1.-THE white sword of the rising
moon was SO instantaneous and APP
parently accomplished without even
the ''shadow of turning" how could
the JOURNAL presume that he was
meaning the evening star. of which he
said nothing, and not meaning the
moon, which he mentioned
1t is true that he used the word
"gleamed," but linguist as careless
of pathological eXactness as Mr.. Fair
child, can be depended upon to apply
to the moon an accomplishment which
she does not literally possess. The
idea of speaking of Venus only as "a
silver nugget is proof in point.
Hence, it was determined that as there
were no other features in the scene
than those intelligibly mentioned, that
the ''siver nugget 1.-THE white sword"
and rising moon" were one and the
same.
Were the sentences constructed as
follows there would be no misunder-
standing in future renditions of the
word-painting:
In a few moments the sun was gone and
there in a sky of gold, like silver nugget,
cleaned the evening star fingered there in
wonder bound till, looking back, | saw drawn
across the dark waste of crashing waves the
white sword of the rising moon.
But the picture would have been
vastly improved had the lecturer per-
mitted his trance to last an hour longer,
then dropped his own attempt at
imagery and adopted Millions verse:
Now glowed the armament
| With living sapphres; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded maesty, at length
| Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light
And DER the dark her silver mantle threw.
The JOURNALS apology for making
so much reference to the sunset picture
is this-Mr. Fairchild intimated
petition last week to the effect that the
JOURNAL should regard its criticism of
the word-painting as "a joke.'
That sort of crawfishing may be in
accord with the ethics of "a paper
that is paper but the electric light,
cemetery and tombstone corners of
Frostburg's great quadrilateral have
been acquainted with the JOURNAL
long enough to know that it is not
joker Of that genus.
A FrostburS Example Commended.
"Stonedyke," writing to the Pied
mont He1uM last week, paid Frostburg
Il compliment:
The other remedy is but why need it be
stated when it may be learned from the
neighboring city of Frostburg whose leading
citizens were giants in intellect, who without
bragadocio set about the task of supplying
their increasing population with an ample
supply OF pure spring water. They knew the
cause Of the failing supplies, but they did not
sit down and vent their choler on the coal
companies, but stretched their arms away be-
yond, overcoming every difficulty and sue
ceeded to a wonderful degree in supplying
their heathful mountain city with the inpid
sparkling waters taken direct from natures
storage. Will Cumberland take Frostburg's
example, which stands for that of all cities
which have become great, or will she pursue
the course she has started out upon and wage
war against industries which have brought
millions of dollars to the county, the majority
of which have been gwen the laborer?