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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Wanted in the Omen.

A wild woman is said to be roaming the
woods in the vicinity of Elkins. Sundry
reliable gentlemen claim to have seen her.
and several parties have been engaged in
searching for her, but at last accounts with
out success.-Keyser CIV. Va Echo.
Without impeaching the reliability
of Elkins whisky, it is possible that
the goddess of the prosperity which is
to come under the Erho's prohibitory
tariff on wool has arrived.
But why should she ''take to the
woods ?"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
En- Route.

The seven sages of ancient Greece
were once asked what state of govern
ment they considered the most perfect.
Six replied as follows:
Where the people are neither too poor nor
too rch.-IHaleS.
Where dignity and office are conferred
upon the most deserving and capable
PttdcuS.
Where the citizens fear censllre more than
nishment.-Cleo6ulus.
Where the laws are most implicitly obeyed
-Chuo.
Where virtue is always honored and vice
detested.-Bias of Prlene.
That State is best where every offence COM
mitted against even the meanest subject is
accounted an injury to the entire community.
-.SOlOn.
The seventh made no answer.
But of the six not one named the
socialism which magnlfies the mass
and minimizes the individual.
Yet it is to this estate of govern
ment' to which Mr.. Debs, in advance
of Mr.. Bryan, is leading the free coin
age democracy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
YES, NV Native Land"

A recent Charlottesville (Va.) dis
patch says:
Hon. w. J. Bryan left this afternoon for
Culpeper. From there he will go by private
conveyance to Sperryville, Rappahannock
county for the purpose of rest and to visit
the home of his ancestors, who came from
that part of Virginia.
Without meaning to presume, the
JOURNAL as an individual has exactly
the same interest in the Sperryville
neighborhood that Mr.. Bryan has.
Pity it is, however, that he did not
stick to the Jeffersonian text, native to
the same prolific soil, that
The proportion between the value of gold
and silveris mercantile problem altogether.
To Mr.. Bryan there is no proportion
between Values" hence there is no
problem, mercantile or otherwise, to
deal with. Free coinage, hitherto I'M
heard of antil partially tried with dis
astrous results, is his solvent for a
condition which never grew out of a
short supply of money.
Mr.. Bryan should have remained an
actor. He is far more successful
discoverer of striking figures of speech
in the domain of fiction than of sound
texts in the gospel of finance.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Sure to Come.

a press dispatch, dated June 20,
says:
Eugene V. Debs stated yesterday in an IN
terview that free silver had receded to such
an extent that it was dead issue. He says
he intends to encourage socialism as the issue
in 1900.
OF the two prophets in the Israel of
popuism Debs is greater than Bryan.
For he sees that the drop from free
coinage to socialism is lust as natur
al as rolling off a log"
The JOURNAL, rarely given to fore
boding, discerns in the inveterate de-
generacy of free coinage a not far dis
tant time when William J. Bryan will
be a bowling dervish in the new Mo-
hammedanism of Uncle Sam.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
"Our Histories"

Two Maryland mel who stand out prom
inently in the Revolutionary period are
Samuel Chase and William Smallw wood.
Yet how many of us can recall their deeds
without getting down our histories !-Hagers-
town HeFdid.
And bow little do "our histories have to
say about their deeds Baltimore Mems
Little as they have, it is more en-
durable than W. J. Bryan's pose as an
Interpreter of Thomas jefferson, and
more accurate than the NeDs' Frost
burg namesake as an expounder of
.Jacksonian piety in politics.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
Illusions.

A religious editor in Baltimore
seems to think that the man who an
nounces that prosperity has come"
has seen spook.
1t is probable, however, that he is
more like the guinea fowl "hollering''
its incessant "pot-rack, pot -rack"-an
announcement which Rev. John j..
Lafferty defines as meaning that ''the
guinea suspects more than it dis
covers"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Bituminous Coal Largely Used.

The changes which have taken place
in the operative economy OF manu-
featuring plants are notably con-
spicuous in the matter of fuel. For
merly. anthracite coal was used uni.
versaily for steam purposes, but now
the btuminous is used III all large
mills, with very few exceptions. Then,
again, the improved methods of hand
ling coal present quite as marked a
change, and particularly in the re-
duction of cost, some of the latter hav-
ing been at the mine, but most of it in
freights and handling: Some fifteen
years ago vessels ranged from 400 to
800 tons burden, LOCO tons being an
extreme size, and loading was uucer-
tain at the present time craft average
fully 1000 tons, schooners run as high
as 5000 tons amt barges between 1000
and 5,000.-New York Sun.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
All "SettlnG"

The most industrious newspaper
home circle in the country is that of
the editor of the Lynden (kansas)
Current. He says:
We are very busy family at our house
hens, wife and ourself all setting. Hens set,
ting on eggs; wife setting type; us setting on
our darned clothes thinking up news.
An ed tor whose wife sets type
ought to be secure from bad rhetoric,
punctuation and spelling.
However, if he is success at "think-
ing up news his readers will overlook
the shape in which it is presented.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Should Make Room for All Of 1t.

Eugene " Debs spoke many word of
truth in his address at the opening Of the
A. r. U. convention. We have room but
for small portion of his remarks Uncle
Sam.
Abridgment is suppression, and
suppression is equivalent to crushing
to earth" the proprietress of ''the eter
nal years of God"
But, ellow-citizens, with better
reason than PLATE, we may ask
What is truth?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
FrostburS Booming.

Frostburg seems to be enjoying building
boom. There is a demand for houses and
the capitalists are supplying the demand.
Some twenty-five buildings are now under
course of erection. Frostburg it will be re-
membered is situated within the "Cumber-
land coar' dstrict.-Cum berland Times.
How about ShantYtOWn2
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Where Is 1t (?

The Hancock Star says that the Cumber-
land base ball team will play in that place on
Saturday when picnic and celebration will
be held. Where is the Cum berland team p
Cumberland Ners
Must be in the vicinity of Never
Seen, of course,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03

The proportion of people in Norway who
speak English is larger than in any other
country of the world.-Baltmore SIM.
On the other hand, the proportion of
people who do not speak English is
thought to be larger in Homecoming
than elsewhere.
Some of whom, moreover, attempt
20 write for neWspapnrS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Caution.

a magistrate down the creek is
charged with holding the judicial
opinion that young lady allowing
herself to be treated three times dur
ing the ice-cream season is equivalent
to accepting proposal to marry next
fall
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Waiting.

The State convention of Ohio Bryan
ties could not stand the free riot and
dirty judiciary planks of the Chicago
platform.
What German and the Cumberland
independent will do now is question.
Wait to hear from the sage-brush
cult, it is reckoned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03

The JOURNAL is not an admirer of
the Hon. David B. Hill, but when he
says "no party as party can bring
prosperity to the country he ex-
presses a great political and economic
truth in a few words.
Still less can faction of a party-a
destructive faction at that, make the
wheels of rebuilding industry go
round.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS
An X-Ray.

FRosTBURG, MD, June IS, 1897
TO the MINING JOURNAL.
If the writer of the letter in last
weeks JOURNAL, headed ga Word in
Time and signed "a Taxpayer" will
sign his name hts signature will be a
complete answer to his letter.
JOSEPH BEAR, MayOr.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
BrcVitics.

A third-town county paper says "the
reform council has again did itself
credit" etc. 1t is thought the SEN
tence was not discovered in any com
munication from the other world, al
though supernatural rhetoric is some
times "fearfully and wonderfully
constructed.
The JOURNAL has an interesting
letter from Mt. Savage, evidently
written by fair hand, which cannot
be published, owing to absence of
name of authoress.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
GEN ERAL ITEMS.


Most any man can start a family or
a newspaper. Its our observation that
it takes hustler to keep either going.
Morgantown CIV. Va.) Neto DOmini0n.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Admission from an Honest Man.

1t matters not how we convince the people
the gold standard is wrong unless we convince
them that what we have to offer in its place
is better instead of worse Horace BoieS
Quite true.
But how can it be done?
In proof whereof see the JOURNALS
great question, first printed one year
ago this blessed month of July, re-
naming unanswered
Written in the first person singular
it is
How can a free coinage or any other law
raise the prices of the commodities have to
sell and lower the prices of those have to buy =?
That question embodies the whole
business.
If silver mono-metalism is TO be a
national blessing it must make each
of us better off.
To make each of US better off, each
of us must sell his products higher or
buy his living lower?
How can either be done9
And how can it be done by Mso
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
MD. 3, 1897.


The JOURNAL has the temerity to suggest
that speculation brought on the panic of 1887.
Speculation never did and never will bring
on panic Speculation changes the fortunes
of individuals, and often wipes out private
fortune, but the contention that individual
speculation can bring about national panic
is "enough to provoke wild laughter in the
throat of death. "-Frostburg Nems.
That beats all.
The fact that an individual can
speculate disastrously, but that Il
community or nation of individuals
cannot do so is something so bran
new that the JOURNAL would be sur
prised at its rawness were it based on
anything it had really had ''the
temerity to suggest"
But the JOURNAL did not Suggest
nor did Mr.. Jameson say that sin
diodual speculation" ever brought
about "a national panic'-if the Ne,os
means by the phrase one individuals
speculation.
During and for several years after
the war, however, this was almost a
nation of spectators who traflicked
hazardously both in its products,
money and, worse-in its financial
honor. These patriots ran up the
greenback price of gold TO 2S6, a
figure which very nearly destroyed
the credit of the government which
the soldiers were trying to save from
the rebels.
Within the four years following the
restoration of governmental authority
the price was hammered down to about
100, when two "individuals '-Gould
and Fisk, conspired to corner" the
free gold in the banks, and they
these two "indicidual spectators"
succeeded in producing what that Fun
rivaled historian,' John Clark Rid
path, called
the most extraordinary monetary excite
ment ever known in the United States, or
in the morU, Several months
elapsed before tle DtslneSS Vi We co"""J IT,
covered from the effects of the shock.
Again, concerning the troubles of
1873 "the unrivaled historian says:
The primary cause of the panic was the
huctuation in the volume and value Of the
national currency. Out of this had arisen
a mHd spirit Of speculation which Slapped the
foundations of business, destroyed financial
confidence, and ended in disaster.
Now, gentle readers, let us all go
back, read the Neos' paragraph crit
ically and reverently ask the Lord
how, in the unlimited plenitude of
His AlI-wise dispensations, the word,
"individual," ever got so far from
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
COUNTY NEWS.
Died.

The wife of William Kelly, living
near Vale Summit, died Saturday last
after a long illness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
BreVitIeS.

There would be good news of good
times in Cumberland if both daily
papers would be good
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03

Nosely IFr"ggs -Thish yer paper says
they've found microbes in soap. Wot
is microbe?
TuDoM Knmt-Derned if | know.
Wot's soap?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
BreVities.

The voice of the man who can say II
made Wellington Senator is now
heard from Montgomery county.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03

President Mckinley would not turn
out of Office the aged and infirm gen
eral, Wade Hampton, one of the
knightliest figures in Confederate
history.
And the other week he informed the
Vanderbilt concern near Ashevile,
n. c., that if 'Biltmore" was ground
too holy for newspaper men, it was too
good for him.
The Biltmore autocrat tumbled and
the place, opened to the freedom of the
press, became an American institution.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
An Excellent Hint,

Two things well considered would prevent
many quarrels; first to have it well ascertain
ed whether we are not disputing terms rather
than things; and, secondly, to examine
whether that on which we differ is worth
contending about.-Cumberland Times.
If free coinage papers generally
would so advise their readers, great
good would be accomplished.
The free coinage advocate neces-
sarily argues "terms," which. boiled
down, are valueless in themselves and
fruitless of result,
Come back, gentlemen let us re-
sumo the conviction that our money,
like public morality, original de-
mocracy and individual piety, should
be sound.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
The Duty on Coal.

A press dispatch of Tuesday states
that
The Senate Committee on Finance has ixed
the duty on coal at 81 cents per long ton.
This rate applies only to coal shipped FROM
countries which do not impose higher rate
on American coal. 1t therefore affects only
Canada, the Canadian rate on American coal
contention to hold the rate down to that
originally fixed by the committee and even
to lower it, but this effort was vigorously
contested by the Senators from the coal pro-
ducing States and the latter class have won.
His Mission.
"You may be able to get away with
the Frostburg Nems, but we have Uncle
Sam left to keep you straight said a
demi- democrat to the JOURNAL the
other day.
But Uncle Sam is not here for the
purpose of excepting the JOURNAL
straight" No, no
Bold, bully, fearless, bilious, sad
Defiant, he would strive a spell
To paint this country twice as bad
As any land this side of Kansas
To be Welded.
A marriage license has been issued
to each Of the following couples:
Donald Miller, Pekin, and Elizabeth A.
Donald, Homecoming.
John r. Mcdonald and Bridget T. Berkin-
baugh, both of Homecoming.
Edward Hogan and Mary Ann Gallagher,
both of Homecoming.
Richard Stewart and Gertrude Pearl
Nightingale, both of Homecoming.
Aaron S. Winters, Midland, and Amelia
waste Homecoming.
John Pardiek and Catharine Marczyuska,
both of Eckhart
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Found.

The JOURNAL found man the other
day who "intends to write the great
paper II private letter answering the
now famous question:
How can free coinage or any other law raise
the prices of the commodities have to sell
and lower the prices of those have to buy
The JOURNAL submits that Il "pri-
waite" answer to IL public question is
hardly fair to the great paper or just
to its greater clientele.
What would we think of the evan
gelist who, able to answer the vital
question
"What shall we do to he Saved"-
should convey il to only one of the
wIcked9
Great as is the JOURNAL, such parti-
aiity FORTS welfare is unjustifiable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03
Personal.

The directory of the Second National
Bank of Cumberland has supplied the
vacancy in its circle occasioned by the
death Of W. R. Percy by electing
Capt. John Sheridan, of Mt. Savage.
With full knowledge and long ex-
perience IN successful institutions, the
captain will be quite at home and the
directory a gamer by his accession.
If the,e be time and room in the Sec
ond National for the joys of good fell
lowship, therein the captain is a royal
list Of the highest and best type.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-07-03

The question of reliability" has
been sprung between the Homecoming
newspapers.
1t is ticklish issue.
Moreover, it is indulgence in weary
debate upon that subject that causes
strained relations between public con-
fidence and said newspapers.
Excepting the JOURNAL, there is
probably not strictly reliable news
paper in the county.
With all others the quality of ere,
liability" is about like Il fellows obser-
walton of Il eats eye. He said:
Sometimes it's long and sometimes it's
round.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-06-01
SIX ARE KILLED.
A TallyhO Coach Struck by Railway
Train with Terrible RsAalts.

A TslIyho Coach struck by . Railway
Train with Terrible Rsaults.
NEW YORK, May sl.-A railroad ac-
cIdent occurred at Valley Stream. L. H.
this afternoon which resulted in the
death OF six persons. A tally-ho coach
hired by members OF the Alpha Delta
Society OF Brooklyn, carrying twenty
two members Of the society on an out
ing, was struck at the Merrick Road
crossing, on the Mineota branch Of the
Long Island railroad, by q train going
at a high rate OF speed. The train
hurled the coach from the track and
slx of It's occupants were almost in-
stantly killed. Three other persons are
so seriously injured that they will not
recover, While not a single one Of the
party escaped without injury.
Those Instantly killed are:
George W. Fashley, jr., S24 Halsey
''TSft' William S5'GsRa aIicarIst ,r. sss Rutledse
''TSfT; %lnsioW sSS0NisN, Lewis. DeKplb avenue,
'f%SStg"i Lester E. Roberts, Monroe street.
i'ITIS' SIIss Dora 5; Burtseh, stuyvesant ave-
nue., Brooklyn. -,
Fractured; Clara Stuart, skull fractur-
Cd. Mrs Anna Andrews, both legs
brnken: Lawrence Barnes, scalp
wound; Walter wellbrook. both thighs
fractured; John Lewis, bruises; Ed
ward Mccormick. driver OF the coach.
badly Injured: Miss Pashley, back
broken; Title Horn, severe shock; Edna
Bulmer, severe shock; Richard Bates
scnip wound; Bessie ellison, scalp
vSnnd. Miss De Belts. leg broken and
hend Injured; Miss Ray stlllmnn, bad
snme OF the dead were frlghtfully
manEied The body OF Lester w. Rob.
erts was ground to pieces. The body or
Miss Burch was also badly manEled.
Winslow Lewis had his neck broken,
both legs were broken, his head was
bndiy Eashed and he was severely cut
about the body,
iFhe crash came almost without warn
ing and the occupants OF the coach had
no time TO make any EFFORT to escape.
BEFORE the most OF them knew or the
impending danger, the train was upon
them, the coach was upset and the en-.
EInc pushing It along the rails, the dead
and injured being cut and manBled be-
meath H.
Thc train that struck the tnllly.ho
was bound east from Mineola. II was
not running fast when the accident
hppened, and accounts diner MS to
whether the whistle was blown. II is
also matter OF dispute whether the
bell was being runE II ls claimed by
gome that II was, and that he merry
party on the coach was making SO much
noise that the driver could not near me
hpil The double team OF the tally-ho
had. crossed the tracks and had the
nfrut wheels OF the coach upon the rails
when the pilot OF the engine was seen
by the driver. He gave the horses n cut
with the whip, but Il was too late and a
moment later the crash came,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-06-01

Special Dispatch TO the 1ntoIiiEencet.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Nay Sl.-At
$50 o'clock this afternoon, on motion of
Mr.. HansEord, the constitutional COM
mittee adjourned to meet At the call OF
the chairman. The adjournment is in
ehect sine die, as the work Of the COM
mlttee Is dnished, but It was made at
the call OF the chairman, 10 that the
committee might be brought together,
II necessary, before the legislature
takes up It's report for consideration.
The sentiment OF the committee fnvOr-
ing a special session. as stated in yes
terday's Intefligencer, was put In ex-
pressed language by a resolution, of
fered to-day by Senator whitaker,
and adopted. The resolution reads:
''Resolved, That 1t Is the sense OF this
committee that his exceIiencY the
governor, do convene the legislature OF
west Virginia in special session at 4
period not later than January !, 1898.
for the purpose OF receiving and con-
sIdering the amendments prepared by
this committee, with q view to submit
ting those that may be ratified to a
vote of the people, at the ensuing gen
eraI election.
Resolved, Further. that copy Of
this resolution be transmitted TO his ex-
cellency, Governor G. W. Atkinson"
Your correspondent submitted copy
of the resolution to Governor Atkinson.
| and asked him for the Intelligeucer, II
he would call a special session. His
reply was brief, conclusive. and em-
phatic. It was in these words:
"Under 10 circumstances VIII can
an extra session"
Members Of the committee express
Themselves as intending TO circulate q
cnil for the signature OF members OF
the legislature by which they may call
themselves together, II three-hfths OF
the members OF each house sign, should
the governor not call special session,
as he evidently does not intend doing.
By resolution the committee author
lied Chairman Fast TO prepare re-
uort OF the proceedings Of the commit
Zee 20 be submitted 20 the governor,
and the legislature. The report 10 to
embrace a compilation OF the amend
Ff1ents adopted by the committee, re-
CnDitul0tlOn OF Nne EeApeShbt NAeaSAA
The proposed changes in the consdtu-
lion viii be OF beneht TO the people. In
the opinion OF the committee, together
with statistics bearing on the same.
and q concise review Of the origin or
the committee, and the necessity Tor Its
creation.
Colonel Fast expects 10 have the re-
mort prepared in about month. A vote
OF thanks was rendered Chairman Fast
and the gayel presented to him. by res
olution, for his ability, etc, in presid-
ing. - -,
adopted to-day. one offered by MT:
Hanen was carried under suspension OF
rules which provided that the inauEu-
ration OF the state officers shall be on
january /, instead Of March T. Another
amendment proposed Axes the maxi
mum for the state school levy at twelve
and one-half cents Then Senator Whit
aker offered a resolution, liking the
maximum Of the state levy for general
purposes at twenty-five ana one-na
cents on the one hundred dollar Valu-
ntlon. which was adopted.