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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-28
A Piece of the Giant. Csuseway.

Patrick A. Collins, while consul-general
to London, secured as a relic piece of the
Giants Causeway. This has arrived in
New York on the steamer Furnessia, con-
signed to an agent for Gen. Collins. Gus
toms officials devoted some time to decid-
ing the puzzling question whether this
piece of rock was subject to any duty or
not. The naval Office held that it was
granite and should pay duty of nine
cents. The collectors Office held that ii
was crude mineral, and, therefore, I'M
dutiable. The latter opinion prevailed,
and Gen. Collins will get his relic duty
free.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-28

A mob broke into the Jail at Lindale,
Texas, Sunday morning, and killed Will
liam Jones, white, who was in custody
charged with the murder of R. w. Stewart,
merchant of that place. Effie Jones, a
negro woman who was also implicated in
the crime, was not molested by the mob.
There was boiler explosion at lumber
mill near Lovellton, Me-, Tuesday after
noon, which killed four men, besides in
Turing the foreman who will probably die,
and several other mill hands. The bodies
of the dead were horribly mutilated. One
of the boilers was blown through the mil
roof. The other boilers were blown 10C
feet into the mill yard and the mill wa;
badly wrecked. The cause of the ex
plosion is not known.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-05-28

ANTED-lnn a girl or middle
NJ aged woman neral house-work In a
.Ntuv Of three anu child. MRS. H, E.
THkYER' au''i' w. O-A
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
A Case i'm Point,

1t is bill to grant pension to the
widow of a soldier. She is "a notorious
woman In Washington. Her behavior
was so bad that the soldier got an
absolute divorce from her and married
a decent woman, who bore him chill
dren. The decent woman is at this
moment drawing deserved pension
as his widow. This dissolute former
wlfe's claim was examined and per-
emptorily rejected on the facts by a
republican administration, but when
it came up in Congress it was passed
without question, simply because our
democratic friends, and particularly
our Southern friends, are politically
too cowardly to vote against pen
sion for anybody that pretends to
be a soldiers widow. Congress makes
no investigation. 1t leaves that to me.
And when | veto bill like this that is
a manifest fraud upon the Treasury |
am denounced as 1.-THE enemy of the
old soldier. 90 r0ge, Cleyelnn6.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

The Homecoming Reoieo has looked
over the James NJ. Sloan boom for the
State Senate and intimates that its
backbone is in just about the right
elasticity for the Senator's reelection.
Some towns ''point with PRIDE to
their distinguished S ms, but Barton,
having nothing of the kind, goes for
more substantial things. Barton
wants two more big Veins" of coal.
The Homecoming Star vetoes a pro-
fessional labor papers right to become
a constituent of a party organ syndi-
cate. The Star seems to be right. 1t
Is only independent labor papers, like
the JOURNAL, that enjoy the right to
say and do what they like.
Pompey Smash has a Rooster Club,
and the membership comprises some
very gay old fowls.
The Lonaconlng Star of recent date
offended many lady teachers. Some
things it said are true, but the ladies
are the victims OF a system partial to
them which they did not establish.
A proposal is afoot in Barton to es-
tablish what the Spanish call an ope,io
de 6uSinesso, and now Homecoming is
thinking of establishing a quarantine
against the sister town. 1t is not a
disease, however, but schoolmaster
in Barton says the English of it is
something in the nature of Board of
Trade.
The Homecoming papers are not
putting in II hours a day" learning
the scriptural precept, Glove We one
another"
Titus A. Brick intimates that j.
Semmes Devecmon is the real editor
of Uncle Sam, and that George E.
Boomer is ga make-believe." In other
words, Boomer is the case of Water
bury watch, and Semmes is the works.
If the relation of these gentlemen be
incorrectly stated, they should unite
in a card couched in the most respect
full terms, saying, in effect, ''Tite, you
are off,"
j. j. Robinson, editor of the Iona
coming Star, took in the Inauguration.
He "arrived in good time" to tele-
graph his paper that he had already
''had pleasant interview with Mr..
Mckinley" So tar as the JOURNAL
has been able to learn both the Major
and the Joker declined to say anything
for publication. The Majors policy,
however, will be to give out nothing
for publication until he has consulted
the Cabinet.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
More Revenue Needed.

Whatever may be the merits of the theory
on which the German Wilson tariff was con-
structed, as revenue bill it has proved to be
a failure. The primary purpose of a tariff
bill is to yield revenue; protection to home
industries is an incident which may be con-
templated in the law, or may grow out of the
law, but the revenue which 1t brings into the
treasury is the main consideration.-Cum
land Ne,cs.
That has been the soundest demo-
cratic doctrine from time immemorial /;
hence the JOURNALS surprise to see it
in so staunch republican paper as
the Nens.
But this is an era of political sur
prises.
For instance one neve, sees time
honored statement like that in a Bry-
anesque paper, or hear it from Bryan
esque lips.
What time and strength that ele-
ment has are now given to quack talk
about free coinage as remedy for
financial ills about as Il sot would pre.
scribe whisky for drunkenness.
Or it whines terms upon which dem
ocrats who never left the party can now
desert it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Very Plausible, but Fallacious.

Very Plausible, but Fallacious.
Come now, don't you honestly think it a
better display ofjudgment. and far more Just
to advise government ownership of mines, a
reduction of the hours of labor sufficient to
meet consumption and give all miners work
and the full value of their labor p ncle Sam.
No, we don't.
1t is too goody goody, entirelie.
Government ownership" is not a
whit better than any other ownership.
And as long as man is chockfull of
human nature, he will in official po-
sition take all the advantages that
position invariably and inevitably
affords.
Hence, the best thing Uncle Sam can
do is to get converted, join the Saliva
ton army, and do his millennlal work
III the name of religion.
For the JOURNAL feels solcmnly sure
that these mines can never be run
under any socialistic, communistic or
Fabian scheme until every solitary
miner has every vestige of the old
Adam purged from both the constitu-
ton and bylaws of his physical as
well as moral corporosity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
The BishOD Took Him too Seriously,


In talking to the young ministers in
the Baltimore conference yesterday in
Baltimore Bishop Mallalieu, having
secured affirmative answers to the
question whether they liked the Meth
odist polity, then asked:
"Now, suppose should send you brethren
as heralds of salvation to the farthest bounds
of this Conference to serve the poorest charges
what would you think of the Methodist pol
ity then?'
1t was an embarrassing question. The
young men hesitated. The Conference saw
the funny side of the situation and an uproar
ious laugh prevented reply for some time.
Then Rev. Nilsson Thomas, one of the candi-
dates, replied:
"If you should do that we might think the
polity were all right, but that there were
something the matter with the Bishop"'
The laugh louder than ever, was on the
Bishop. But he ignored the joke. Very EN-
phatcally he said:
mo, sir. There is something wrong with
you, brother. You should have said, i would
go there without complaint, for it is the will
of the church, and you should have trusted
the bishop and the church polity to make
things right
Rev. Mr.. Thomas is a Frostbu
boy-a son of the late Charles Thomas.
His mother, pardonably proud of a son
who has brought 50 much pleasure,
still resides here.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
How it is i'm Iowa.

The Des Moines Qowa) Capital says
that
The publishers of weekly papers through
out the State will be surprised to learn that
the rates for legal advertising have been re-
duced about 25 per cent. That is to say the
Senate has taken action upon the question in
that direction. Everybody knows how I'M
certain the collection of fees for legal printing
usually is. The printer has to wait until the
costs are paid until he gets paid, and some
times he never gets it. He must put his most
expensive help at work on the composition
of legal matter and must take the greatest
pains to see that no mistakes are made.
He must make an affidavit to the publication
of it, and other things which are not in an
ordinary manner. The price paid, 10 cents
line for the first insertion and cents for
the second insertion. is not more than the
usual advertising rates in the country papers
for local reading matter and in some cases it
is less Publishers claim no rights above
other people. They claim no exemption be-
cause their services are valuable in campaigns
and elections, but they do claim that when an
attorney gets $3.50 or $500 for making fore
closure that it is not unfair that the publisher
should receive So or Sc for publishing the
notice.
The situation is not quite so bad in
Maryland, but there is much truth in
the comments made on the Capitals re-
port by an editorial character dubbed
by the Carroll Qowa) HeruM as "Lafe
Young" They apply here as well as
there. "Lafe" says:
1t is a mistake that the country printer was
ever born.
He is useless cumberer of the ground.
He ought to be called upon
To give an excuse for living.
He publishes resolutions Of coincidence,
Obituary poetry,
Gives 81 worth of local notices
For two 25-cent festival tickets,
And in return is considered dead beat
He writes feeling tributes to the dead,
Elevates men to office,
Booms every thing that booms in town.
Leaves his own business to look after the
business of the public
Is pail bearer at funerals,
Is a groomSman at the weddings,
Writes the marriage notice free,
While the preacher is paid
Writes the birth notice free,
While the doctor is paid
Works for his party late and early.
He publishes city council proceedings free,
When the cry of economy is raised
Ha 10 ha first o ,,oti : int l,a,
If times are hard stop the paper,
But keep the tobacco supply up.
If State is in debt
By having appropriated too much money
at some other time,
Knock the prices on sheritf's sales and Or
iginal notices.
Spare the lawyer, the doctor, the preacher
The carpenter, the shoemaker, the shoveler,
But carve the country publisher,
Whose business was invented by the devil.
He has no business to live,
No right to hope for reward
His reward may be in heaven,
1t is certainly not here;
'Tis his business to make others,
And to be himself unmade.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Stick to Seeds.

Mr.. Wellington has fearlesSly tackled the
dangers Of the distribution of garden seeds.
Forty mail bags allotted to his constituents
in the Sixth district are stored in the bank of
Governor Lowndes at Cumberland, and the
Congressman is getting ready to send them
out. 1t is to be hoped that Mr. Welington's
Georges Creek supporters will not become
jealous of the paternal care of the Govern
ment for the farmers, and demand the dis
tributon of picks and hat-lamps by the
Bureau of Mines and Mining Baltimore
Neacs.
Cant most always sometimes tell"
about that.
The Georges Creek folks have Uncle
Sam with them now, an institution that
has come to abolish the poverty of all
who in more or less degree hate work.
1t is the lazy mans friend.
The hint of ''picks and hat lamps"
is little too suggestive, therefore
even to the four-hour,a day industrials.
To hand pick to a man imbued with
the ethics of the sort of christianity
which demands dollar of elastic
quality for an hour that has 70 india
rubber in it, would be almost as much
out of order as to present an axe to a
tramp.
Stick to seeds, Senator there will
never be 20 hours diurnal holiday for
the poor farmer.
Like "time and tide" vegetable
growth waits for no man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

The Presbyterian congregation de-
cided last Sunday to extend call to
Rev. A. c. Hopkins, of Elk Garden,
W. Va, to become their pastor.
At the NJ. E. Church, South, this
Saturday evening the usual holiness
meeting will be held. The subject of
sermon will be--"From Egypt to
Canaan" The subject tomorrow
Sunday evening will be-"Christ
Prosecuted in Frostbure.r
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
COUNTY NEWS.
To Cross a Bridge.

County commissioners Davisson
Armstrong and Lloyd burst were APP
pointed at Tuesdays session of the
Board a committee of conference with
similar authorities in Mineral county.
w. Va, to consider a wish of the
Piedmont people to have their Savage
river water main brought across the
Potomac on the Luke bridge. The
pipe, formerly lying ON the bed of the
STREAM, Was seriously damaged by the
late food, and the people of the town
have been compelled ever since to
drink rain-barrel water. Those who
have no barrels are forced to take that
liquid merrimeut known as Ohio river
beer, The worst development of indig-
enous gayety known.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Denounced His own Theory


Between Uncle Sam and his cor
respondent, "Aqua,' there is perfect
agreement upon the bad judgment OF
those who voted for the low-priced
water to the Hotel Gladstone.
Botn denounce it, Uncle Sam going
so far as to say that the instance
is but another illustration of the special
privileges and vested rights that has be-
come curse to our country and a burden
upon our people.
The truth about the matter, how
ever, is that this is a sample illustra-
ton of Just what will take place under
municipal ownership OF monopolies'
whenever that system gets going. The
water works are owned by the corpora
ton of Frostburg, and the rate was
fixed by men just as good as ever the
Uncle Sam stripe of socialism will or
ever can put in as representatives of
the people.
Uncle Sam, of course, will have some
fanciful way of getting out of the di-
lemma of denouncing a notable ex-
ample of the workings of one of his
own fads, but the fact remains that
neither he nor any of his tribe can fur
nish any guarantee that representatives
are going to be wiser and better under
his regime than now.
The conclusion to which the JOUR
NAL has been reluctantly forced, there
fore, is-that as long as people have
appetite for office of long or short
tenures public ownership of monopolies
will not be as we'll administered as
under private corporations, properly
franchiSed
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Orphans Court.

AT the session Friday of last week
Petition filed and orders of court passed in
the matter Of the Mercantile Trust and De-
post company of Baltimore administrator c..
t. a. of Henry Thomas Weld, deceased
Petition filed and order of court passed in
the matter of the estate of George W. Clark,
deceased.
James j. Dobbie, administrator of Geo. w.
Clark, deceased, settled his first account.
DAWSON Armstrong, guardian of Lille X.
Baush settled his eleventh and final account
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
The Lords Day Tribute.

With evident editorial appreciation
the Cumberland Times quotes Long
fellow as having said that
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds to-
gether the volume of the week.
This is pretty tribute to the
mono-metallc value of gold, and, best
of all. the Times yielded it unconscious
ly or when it imagined nobody was
looking.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Authorities Differ.

In his new work Fernald says $50
cialism is purely economic term"
He names it as synonym of com
munism, many of whose advocates
would abolish marriage and the fam
lily relation"
If "the 'ethics' of socialism are
identical with the ethics of christianity
to the same extent this week they were
last and the week before there is some.
thing worse on hand than standing
still in religion"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
TOWN AND VICINITY.
w hist.
A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.

Last Tuesday evening Mrs. F. C.
Beall gave small whist party to a
number of her friends as social
tiuality before Lent. Those present
were Mrs. Lieut.. Gatewood, Miss
Mamie McCulloh and Miss Blanche
Oder, and Messrs. A bner Lunsford, J.
Kelly Wimbrough, Cleon B. Moore,
DR.. j. Marshall Price and Miss Nellie
Shaw, of Cumberland. 1t was de-
lightful affair.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
GENERAL ITEMS.
Came at Last.

The editor sat on Il hard bottom
chair trying to think of " thought and
he plunged all his fingers about
through his hair, but not one topic
they brought. He had written on
temperance, tariff and trade, and
prospects of making a crop, and ioked
about ice cream and weak lemonade.
till his readers had told him to stop
and weary of thinking. sleep came to
his eyes and he piilowcd his head ON
the desk, when the thoughts that
awakened had refused to arise, came
in troops that weIe strong aud gro
tesque. And as the ideas airliy float
selects the bright one of the tribe and
this is the gem that while dreaming he
wrote, "noW is the time To subscribe g
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Removal.

The Cumberland Courier has moved
its quarters to place where it has
room to entertain its friends, also its
numerous enemies
so that we can forgive them and start Oft
fresh. There's Mr.. Oder for instance, and
our forgiving apparatus can even reach case
like that He's one OF the hardest men to
forgive that we ever tackled; and yet, you
know, we can't get up any large quantity of
hate towards him.
Of course not. Johnston is too good.
The raw material of hate is not in him.
To him it is sweet to stammer even
one letter
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

Rams Horn says better ventilation in our
churches would make the devil work harder
for what he gets.-Cumberland Times.
Some folks want better ventilation
in mines so that they can work longer.
Others because under government
ownership of Mines they will have to
work only 81 hours day"
But "the old boy" whose periods of
labor are more flexible than those of
the socialists, laughs with "ghoulish
glee" every time he hears of that
"four-hour" suggestion. He knows
that sinners are almost as hard to get
at during four hours work on a week
day as during four hours of church
service OF Sunday. He laughs at the
twelve hours wherein he will find en-
ployment for idle hands.
When that era comes all his work
will be done for him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

Hetty Green accuses Providence of
having engineered her through money
difficulties more than once"
Hetty is one of the pushing, lucky
people whom Uncle sam is endeavoring
to throw off the track.
The moral of which is-Uncle Sam
has undertaken heavy job derailing
people who are engineered" by
providence" through "money diff
fculties."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
The Outlook.

The inaugural address is sound on
money, retrenchment, civil service
and arbitration, but illogical in con-
tending for increased revenue from
decreased importations.
The president INDUCES also in that
anomaly protection and reciprocity,
which can be worked so as to trade
Canada agricultural machinery, for
instance, for free coal.
1t is an economic eccentricity which
the president did not in 1890 approve.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
To be Welded.

A marriage license has been issued
to
David G. Summers and Julia A Yost, both
of Midland.
Albert d. Detfenbaugh and Alice G. Hiner,
both of Mt. Savage.
Goven Thompson and Margaret Jane Smith,
both of Homecoming.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
The True Statement.

Now and then the warning goes out
that free coinage is not dead because
g. millions of people voted for it.
No doubt many of that number did,
including free coinage republicans.
But that the vast majority of demo-
Gratis voted expressly for it the JOUR
NAL does not believe.
What, then, did they support
The answer is embodied in one word
-''regulority."
To contend that they voted for free
coinage proves too much.
1t proves that they also voted for
free riot.
Which nobody believes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest
Anthony Gilmore to C. w. Goetzner jr
lot Al, Morrison's I'd addition, Westernport
81 and other considerations.
Maria Porter to Samuel T. Porter, lots in
Mt Savage, S. and other considerations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
An Ant Illustration.

Whenever bank fails nowadays
the popocrats cheer the event as a
proof that this country needs free
silver. 1t is much as if boiler ex-
ploslon were regarded as evidence
that there should have been more fire
on the CRATE bars. -Clarksburg CIV.
Va.) Telegram,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Fortunate Discovery.

Frederick Adams, Waterman at
Hoffman mine, discovered his own
house on fire Tuesday night. 1t had
started in the kitchen and lmperiled
his sleeping family.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

Mr. German, far from being the bad man
his enemies try to picture him, is the bright
est statesman this country has had from the
foundation of its government.-Cambrid
Hem..
What species of biographical meat
doth the judgmatic Cambridge Item
feed upon?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
IMPOSSIBLE.

If one will look in the Citizens
National bank and see the strong box
which holds its money, and then look
at the one the First National is putting
in, he might question the wisdom of
such precaution if the peoples currency
is to be made irredeemable.
For who will want or need to be
burglar or highwayman when money
will be the cheapest of all exchanges
AS shown last week, it is possible for
the written pledge of a single debt-pay-
ing man to be far better article of
currency than that of all the people
whose best promise Is that it never
will be paid.
People, if you will measure all Uncle
SANS fallacies by this one proposal of
money based on the faith and credit
of the probationary, remember,
that is to be issued without limit and
never to be redeemed-you will get
the full stature of his nonsense about
government ownership" etc.
He and his adherents can no more
accomplish what they propose than
they can copy infinity or exemplify
eternity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
BreVitieS.

A trout weighing II pounds was
taken out of Savage river lately, and
still there are liars who insist that
"the noble Savage is not navigable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06

Consumption can be cured by the use of
Shloh's 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, 1897-03-06

Thousands suffer from Catarrh or cold in
the head and have never tried the popular
remedy. There is no longer any excuse, as
10,cent trial size of Ely's Cream Balm can be
had of your druggist or we mail it for 10
cents. Full size 80 cents
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-06
Business Locals,

\ White Shirt that does mt fit is a misery
Buy the Emery band short bosom Shirt and
WINELAND will assure you a fit.