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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
A Point in Good Manners.

Somebody styling himself patriot
lc" writes to the American Citizen, of
Boston, Mass, to the effect that "the
JOURNAL uphoids Mr.. Boyle" the
Eekhart school principal, because he
is Roman Catholic.'i
There is not a particle of truth in
that because"
The JOURNAL learned from good
testlmony-most of it Protestant, that
Mr.. Boyle is an excellent teacher
lone of the best in the county," and on
general principles this was and is
deemed reason enough to retain him.
Indeed, so far as the JOURNAL has
been able to learn, Mr.. Boyle has
never given the slightest otfense in
the line of his religious predictions
toward those who disagree with him
either inside or outside his school.
Then, why should he be displaced
especially to please those whom ne has
offended only by the accident of birth ?
Is the public school system to be used
as an engine of racial or religious
ostracism by secret order aggregations
recruited from the unripe constit.
nencles OF the perennial empire of
vealdom ?
But the JOURNALS view is-that
when teacher becomes unacceptable,
no matter why, it is conspicuously be-
coming in people who have no children.
who pay no taxes and are otherwise
pre-eminently disinterested, to occupy
back seats, swallow their tongues and
take the lock jaw.
This hint, like the public school
system and every other business estab-
lishment, is based upon no religious
prepossession whatever.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
A Sterling Old Man,

Brief mention was made last week
of the death at Allegany mines of the
venerable Maxwell Hamilton, ST.,
Thursday, Feb. Is, 1897. III addition
it is due his friends to state that he
was born in County Armagh, parish of
lyman, Ireland, Feb. IL, 1911, and
was, therefore, Sc years and Z days old.
He was baptized by Marshall McGee,
curate. His widow, slightly his Junior,
survives, with four daughters-Mr
James Powers, Mrs. William Roney,
Mrs. William Matthias, Mrs. James
Shea-and one son, Maxwell Hamilton,
Jr., assistant mine foreman at Union
mines. Mr.. Hamilton was an in.
dustrlous, honest, faithful man-made
OF the moral stuff which makes towns,
States and nations great. He lived in
the house in which he died 10 years. an
acceptable tenant of the Consolidation
coal company.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Irrcdeemable Money.

1t is little difficult to see where
there is any difference other than in
degree between the principles involved
in free coinage of silver and fiat money.
There is none in kind, free coinage
being the first step toward irredeem-
able money.
Still Uncte Sam seems to oppose the
first step to his fad. He says:
The next fight will not be on free silver"
and the First Great Battle'' will also be the
last. Silver or gold will not be the issue.
The issue, insofar as it concerns money,
will be upon the only true, scientific and in
corruptible money that it is possible for
human beings to use-greenbacks based upon
neither silver, gold, iron nor brass, but upon
the faith and credit of the nation.
Whenever that sort of money be-
comes current, the counterfeit, Chased
upon neither silver, gold, iron nor
BRASS" will be just as good as any
othermoney.
In that day, too, ''thc faith and
credit Of the nation" will not be as
good nor as acceptable for a dollar as
the pledge of a single man who enjoys
debt-paying reputation.
People likely to be bamboozled by
such folly as a currency that is never
to be redeemed, that is to be multiplied
indefinitely, ought to remember that a
nation is only the community enlarged ;
that community is only the mass of
individuals that compose 1t, and that
while 1.-THE faith and credit" of the
community ought to be superior to
those of the individual, under such
auspices they are not, and that without
the quality of final redemption in
money deJts cannot be pail in money.
And when debts cannot be so paid
it is only a step farther to find out that
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

contracts cannot be made that are
based on money that is useless for ten
der In the payment of debts. That is,
while you may force irredeemab BILE
money IN payment Of a debt, you can
not compel your neighbor to become
your creditor in the next transaction.
You cannot compel him to make a
pair of shoes for irredeemable money.
You may trap him once in a legal ten
der transaction, but you will thus
teach him not to trust you again.
So that irredeemable money will
soon reach a landing, for the legal
tender law which can take from man
the option of working for what he
wants, will either stop industry, or it
will fall into a mass of shapeless
failure.
These thoughts are put in homely
style because the JOURNAL wants
workingmen to understand that ire
deemable money is not money at all
not a whit mole than counterfeit
money.
And if irredeemable money is to be-
come a national blessing, then we
should run up shafts of honor to the
memory of every counterfeiter who
has suffered martyrdom in jail or peni-
Tertiary for making money in all
respects as good as any that the mod
ern socialism proposes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
SEMI-I4OCAL NEWS.
An Amendment Moved.

Fs'ry Fatetic-Don't you wish we lived in
country were grub and booze growed on
trees?
weary UotSo"-Naw. I'd rather it growed
on bushes Trees would have to be climbed.
Cincinnati knqui,er
Cert.
Under government ownership"
trees are only going to be allowed to
grow four hours a day, which will
keep them in the bush period about
SIX times longer
Aud then it Uhch SANS particular
brand of socialism can provide the
grub and booze for fruit, our forests
will be what Milton denominated--
A limbo large and broad, since called
The paradise Of fools
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
BurGlarieS.

Between midnight and dawn
Wednesday James Thomas saloon, on
Bowery, was entered and 9 revolvers.
q bottles cold Braddock" Whiskev, .
boxes cigars and about 100 cent pieces
taken.
Same party probably entered Justice
Benjamin Jenkins store, same street,
and got IS.
Hamilton e. Reese, on Union street,
butchers, lost 80 pounds of meat and
$3.50 in nickels and coppers.
James r. Day, same street, missed 5
pounds of peppermint candy.
An attempt to enter county commits
sioner E. H. B. Pritchard's store failed.
The lock was broken but a bar across
the door prevented entry.
Same esult followed an effort to get
in William McLuckie's store.
The post-office at Eckhart also!suffer-
ed the loss of , cents and s. in stamps.
All the mail was upset. Then the
burglars ate can of oysters, box of
sardlnes and can of tomatoes. These
discoveries Wednesday morning stirred
Johnnie Dundon considerably, who
said-''them fellers dursn't monkey
with Uncle Sam, so | telegraphed this
morning for detective"
The authorities suspect the parties,
but have no ground for action.
The people should be on the lookout
to give them the coolest kind of a
cold reception if caught in the house.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
COUNTY NEWS.
Married.

All the residence of the bride. Eek.
hart, Md, Tuesday, Feb. %, 1897, by
Rev. c. A. j. Cramer, of Frostburg,
Mrs. Mary Creitzburg to Mr.. Patrick
Lynch, of same place.
AT the residence of the brides father,
Borden Shaft, Thursday, Feb. Is, 1897,
by Rev. A. G.. Thomson, of Lonacon-
ing, Miss Ann Quinn to Mr.. Henry
McGill, of this place.
In Cumberland Thursday, Feb. p,
1897, by Rev. M. F. b. Rice, Miss Ella
Blank, of Hoffman, to Mr.. Adam Scott
of Vale Summit.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
ORIGINAL POETRY
Notice that

Notice that
When the children go a-gathering
Pretty shells along the beach,
The prettiest are always
Just a little ont of reach,
When across the fragrant meadow
They chase the butterfly,
The brightest ones are always
lust olittle bit too h.gh'
When a mans ambition spurs him
On to brighter, better things,
Oftimes just as he gets there
They have taken to them wings
The bushes where the ripest berries grow
With thorns are full
The trees that bear the richest fruit
Are guarded by "old Bull"
And all through life you IL notice
IF you've got lick of sense
That what we seek the hardest
Is across another's fence.
w. H. CARSON.
Taylor, Texas, Feb. IS, 1897.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
For Good Roads.

G. f. Schneider, local consul l.. A =.
W., this place. is in receipt of a letter
from Conway w. Sans, State consul,
proposing to address the local wheel
men and people generally on the SUBJ
ject of good roads. Mr.. Schneider
says the meeting will be held, probably
Tuesday. March @.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

Newspapers getting proposals from
the "Pennsylvania Cycle company
1888 Forbes street, Pittsburg, Pa
will probably save money by consign.
ing them to the waste basket.
A correspondent wants to know
WHETHER sounds roughly is good
grammar" 1t is not, but as it o.
CURED in about the last article written
always under stress-it escaped
notice until too late.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Wrong.

From the Page Necs, published at
Luray, Va, place dear to the JOUR
NAL, comes the intelligence that John
S. Cook was fined $l5 for killing three
hogs.
1t is probable that in the interest of
good neighborship Mr.. Cook was too
handy with his gun, but the concluding
paragraph throws some mitigating
light upon his performance
1t is to be hoped that the lesson will be a
useful one to Mr.. Cook, and that hereafter he
will not shoot his neigh bors' hogs merely be-
cause they pass over the excuse of Il fence he
has surrounding his land.
If that reproof be based upon law,
it is a statute that ought to he obsolete.
In town or country no man should be
compelled to fence against his neigh
boris stock.
The fencing should be done by the
man who owns the stock--to keep his
own property on his own premises.
To fine one, therefore, for not fenc-
ing out stock that has no right to run
at large is doubly unjust.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
They Are Easily Pleased.

The Homecoming Reoieo cites its
success CD as proof that miners Are
Not Ungrateful."
This is 'the worst yet"
For it does not constitute a single
item in "the bill of particulars" the
JOURNAL asked for.
But the Reoie,c is not even success
as purveyor of opprobrious adject
ives-if it knows what an adjective is.
In view of this sad situation perhaps
some miner can inventory the deeds
which have placed the Rerieec in ben
efclary relation to him and his com
rades.
Even then it ought to be understood
that friendship is not something that
is exchangeable for subscription pat
ronage.
Moreover, that the friendship which
helps US into continual racket with
our bread and butter may be very
costly at any price, or on any terms.
Anyway, the Rerie~'s history, what
there is of it, proclaims with trumpet
tongued debility that is a fiat failure.
And as it occupies 50 little space in
the annals of these times it is certain
that miners who, beyond the $3.50 paid
for its friendship, esteem it an lnstitu-
ton worth thanking God for, are sat
isfied with the favor of one of the
weakest of all the needless establish
ments which an unsearchable Provi-
dence has ordained in the line of news
paper alDeudicitis
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
The RalIOnpnS.

Samuel Bowen is first in the field for
Bailitf. He is steady, bold, dignified
officer, and no untried man in town
will command more popular regard
and Difference than he. 1t has been
said he will have no opposition, but in
the nature of things that is hardly
probable. His friends should be at
work.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Same Old Thing.
Uncle Sam honors the JOURNAL in til
nara Hell
parallel

JHcie Sum hOnOrS the JOURNAL III the
parallel
Socia III would The ethics of Social
drag the wort by ism are identical with
down; it is degrading. the ethics of Christian
MINING JOURNAL, ity. - Encyclopaedia
Frostburg, Md. BRITANNICA, the au-
thority Of the world.
The JOURNAL did not discuss 1.-The
ethics Of socialism, per- sc, but the par
ticular genius which seems to animate
the propaganda reflected by Uncle Sum.
Everything in moral, economical
and religious domains has its "ethics"
even every contradiction and anon
ally. There ale, for instance, the eth
ics' of matrimony and the "ethics' of
celibacy.
The injection of that beautiful term
into Uncle SAINTS stripe of socialism does
not change the latter's quality, but
rather help to make more plausible
the frightful danger which it DISCUSSES.
1t is the same old abolitionst of COM
parative industrial and economic alti-
tudes-the same old destroyer of the
boundary lines between the industrious
and the lazy, the economist and the
spendthrift
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
AckuOWled 0nentS

The JOURNAL is indebted to l.. T..
Dryden, superintendent of the State
Bureau of immigration, for several
copies of 1.-THE State of Maryland, and
the Advantages it Offers to Immigrants,
especially Farmers, Manufacturers
and Capitalists''-a neat pamphlet of
about 30 pages of interesting text and
handsome illustrations and maps. 1t
ought to do great good.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Official VISIT.

Rev. ID. B. Winstead, of Baltimore,
grand chaplain of the Royal Arcanum,
accompanied by W. T. Allen, collec-
tor of Potomac Council, Cumberland,
was here yesterday upoa an official
visit to Frostburg Council. With
grand warden H. B. Colborn and
others pleasant time was spent at the
St. Cloud hotel.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

The little daughter of Mr.. Fred Weber,
Holland, Mass, had very bad cold and
cough which he had not been able to cure
with any thing. gave him 25 cent bottle
OF Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says w P.
Holden. merchant and postmaster at West
Brimfield, and the next time | saw him he
said it worked like charm. This remedy is
intended especially for acute throat and lung
diseases such as colds Group and whooping
cough. and 1t is famous for its cures There
is no danger in giving it to children for it con
talns nothing injurious. For sale by &. f
PearCe Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

Last year William Wittig had a
huge suit of clothes made by H. B.
Colborn, noted by the JOURNAL at the
time. This year he has ordered a
brown cheviot. In taking his meas
ure Mr.. Colborn discovered that he is
& feet - inches in height-a gain of !
inch over last year. The coat is a 3G.
inch sack-a very unusual length.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

John Heating dined his brother Elks
IN Cumberland Monday evening. The
menu was a tempting affair. the
speeches were good and John was
greatly and deservedly magnified by
the brethren for his fraternal hospi-
tality
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Omission Supplied.

The JOURNAL came near forgetting
that ''Julia,' professedly lady,
writing from Frostburg to Uncle Sam,
charges the JOURNAL with being "a
worshipper of wealth."
She is mistaken.
The JOURNAL prefers being under
stood as an admirer of the popular
system under which one can acquire
that which he is best fitted for. Under
it ii man can accumulate learning,
wisdom, piety, and, best of all, con-
tentment. The last is indispensable to
happiness in all conditions of wealth,
or, as Ming Sum Paon Keen, Chinese
philosopher, says wealth is vex-
alton to the discontented."
Hence, the JOURNAL is no more ga
worshipper of wealth. than any other
good thing rightly obtained and used.
In this respect its disposition is far
better than that of those who abolish
competition for pre-eminence in any
department of requirement. Wealth
is only so by comparison so also
talent, industry, even beauty. If all
were wealthy there would be no rich
people; if all talented, there would be
no artists; if ali Industrious, activity
would be a routine condition, and if
all ladies were beautiful, like the
JOURNAL hopes Julia" is, there would
be no bellies. With the advent of such
an era classification would cease and
rivalry dissolve into the inertia of
both mental and physical stagnation.
Hence, the JOURNAL, as before
stated, is only au admirer of the sys-
tenn under which a man endowed With
money getting and money-saving tai
ents can get and save money.
If he does not belong to this class
then the same system is liked because it
permits him to spend his money if he
wants to.
Julia" on the other hand. seems to
entertain some grudge against people
who are endowed more than others
with the sleight of thrift. She wor-
ships the wealth that in competition
her masculine friends cannot earn or
cannot save. And, in order to have
opportunity overbalance individuality
she would repeal the Almighty law
under which 1.-THE fttest survive"
She would "pool' talent with medi-
ocrity, reduce all biases to one guage,
and lower the distinctively personal to
the monotonously mechanical.
OF the two schemes, "Julia.' the
JOURNAL prefers that which is found
ed upon the equal right of each to do
legally the best he can.
That this privilege is often abused is
confessed, but, fortunately, like the
christian religion, its integrity does
not stand upon the elastic rectilude of
the comparative few who pervert its
immunities and misdirect its forces.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
improvements,

The premises in and about the mine
entries at Eckhart and Hoffman, AS at
Ocean, are Illuminated by electric
plants, just located. 1t is said the Con-
solidation coal company is preparing
for good work next season.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest {:
George W. Staup to Barnard Murphy, land
in Midlothian, 1890.
Union Mining company to Mary ". Goet1
lot in ut Savage, 81 and other Consi ierations
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Accident.

George Walters, boss driver in
Ocean mine, had collar-b bone broken
Friday of last week by crush between
mine-car and timber. The injury is
a painful one, but he is improving.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Death.

The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
d. F. McMullen sympathize with them
in the loss of their infant daughter,
Rose Mary, aged . years and ) months.
She died Tuesday, 23d inst, of
diphtheria,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Married,

At the residence of Mrs. Gleine,
this place, Wednesday. Feb. a, 1897,
by Rev. C. A. J. Cramer, Miss Chris
tiana Ort to Mr.. John Gleine, both of
this place.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
\ Certainty.

\ bad cause is never advanced by bad tenn
per, fact which some Of our contemporaries
in the counties would do well to remember
Baltimore NcrS.
The Neeos probably overlooks the
fact that the relationship of the two is
very nearl y as intimate as that be-
tween "a bad cause and any of its
bad effects.
When, therefore, one sees "bad tenn
per" inspiring any contention he may
put down with the certainty of in
fallibility the conclusion that there is
something rotten in, the moral con-
stitution of the inspiration.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
An Error.

The Westminster Adcocate says the
JOURNAL
is in error in stating that the Advocate en-
dorsed the State democratic platform of June
10, 1896.
In explanation the ..4drocate estab-
fishes the fact that the error was tech
meal rather than actual.
The Adeocate is one of the best papers
in the State-one of those the JOUR-
NAL regrets to see 60 confessedly
against its convictions even con lines
of policy"
Had the Adcocote stood as boldly
against the State platform before July
9 as after its consistency would be
wholly unassailable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Business Locals.

InrOuSh Sleeping Cars to Toledo
Commencing February q, the B. 4 o. r. r.,
| C., III. V. IL T., will establish daily line OF
Pullman Sleeping Cars between Baltimore,
| Washington, Columbus and Toledo, Ella
| Parkersburg and Athens. The west-bound
train Will run as follows:
Cumberland. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Ais a. m.
IleuilloHl. ..''...... o:lU
Arrive at Toledo 6:25 next afternoon.
Direct connection is made for Detroit, ar
irving $40 p. M.
This is the best service ever offered between
| Washington, Central Ohio and Michigan,
and will doubtless prove to be popular with
| the public. [tF27
Our people are growing more and more in
| the habit oflooking to q. E. Pearce Drug Co.,
| for the latest and best of everything in the
| drug line. They sell Chamberlain's Cough
| Remedy, famous for its cures of bad colds,
Group and whooping cough. When in need
of such medicine give this remedy trial
| and you will be more than pleased with the
result
For Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint you
have printed guarantee on every bottle OF
| Shiloh's Nltalzer. 1t never fails to cure ID.
krapf, Frostburg, and McMulen Bros, Mt.
Savage.
Low Rates to Washington for the
Ilt D. N w. H. N. Will Sell
round trip tickets to Washington, d. G., from
all stations on its lines east of the Ohio River,
for all trains March l, ,, 3, and all trains on
the morning of the 4th that reach Washing
ton not later than noon, at rate of two cents
per mile in each direction, valid for return
| journey until March Sth inclusive.
| The rate from stations i'll this vicinity will
be as follows
| Cum berland. ......................S Sc IL
| Correspondingly low rates from other
| stations. Itt27
| Constipation causes more than half tire ais
of women. -karl's Glover Root Tea is a
pleasant cure for Constipation. d. Krapf,
Frostburg, and McMullen Bros, Mt. Savage.
Threw Away His Canes.-Mr. ID. Wiley,
ex-postmaster Black Creek. N. Y, was so
badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was
only able to hobble around with canes and
even then it caused him great pain. After
using Chamberlain's Pain Balm he was 50
much improved that he threw away his
canes. He says this liniment did him more
good than all other medicines and treatment
put together. For sale at 81 cents per bottle
by 6. f. Pearce Drug Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Lecture.

An advertisement elsewhere printed
announces lecture and exhibition of
A-Ray apparatus and microscope by
DR.. J. H. McGann. All should attend
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27

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 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 a teaspoonful 1t acts directly on
blood or mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for testimonials
free. f. j. CHENEY, & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold nv JrupoiStS sSp
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-27
Died.

Friday, Feb. 26, 1897, at the resi-
dence Of mis- mother, this place, Mr..
James Duffy, aged % years and 8
months. He had been ill some time