Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-12-18

graph MN as one who has at least
made Il little superficial study colos-
sal reproach to the name of education,
if he has not also enacted religion as a
lie beside which all other lies pale into
'white sword shimmers in the east of
"silver nugget glimmers in the west.
In a New Role.
ga Frostburg gentleman"--probably
"Fair Play who, perhaps, has been
getting this paper as courtesy to his
profession
permitted us to look over the files of the
JOURNAL which he had kept for many years.
An extended examination showed that every
man who essayed to print newspaper in
Frostburg had to run gauntlet of malicious
misrepresentation, mean inSinuations,
scurrllous defamation, libelous reports con.
cerning his business standing--had his mo-
tlves impeached, his friends blackguarded-
and subjected to all the petty annoyances
which hydrocephalous flea could devise
Foruu
In the JOURNALS Judgment Fair
child never wrote that. 1t may err, but
it believes him too good man to yield
to an inspiration born in the hell which
burns the hypocrite's hates in the
hypocrite's heart.
Yet Fairchild permitted that and
worse paragraphs to go in his paper as
editorial
Fairchild, tile lecturer, national head
quarters in Frostburg, Md, fathers
expressions like 'senseless jargon,' as
though he did not know that all jargon
Is senseless ''gratuitous imperti-
nences," as though impertinences are
sometimes begged or bought; "de-
graded groveling," as though some
groveling is exalted "stilted pedant-
ry." as though all pedantry does not
move on stills, and "embittered rail
ing" as though there are styles of rail
ing sweet to his taste.
The discovery by his proxy of that
redundant combination-"Da
boasting," may have been unfortunate
In Il two-fold sense, for the captain, be-
sides being a military man, had been
also "a student of divinity :"
These and collateral terms, which
comprise the greater part of the
Forum's article, read quite as we'll
backwards as forwards-this almost
without altering the sense, and, there
fore. fall under the sweeping condem-
nation of Prof. A. S. Hill, one of
"Fair Plays" favorite authorities.
He says:
The fault of saying again exactly what has
been said is the crudest form of repetition,
and is necer eTcusable,
In this disreputable instance, how
ever, the F0rum's fault is one literally
OF pleonasm-use of ''useless words"
equally inexcusable.
Edwin Percy Whipple, critic and
essayist, said ironically to authors of
such explosions as that partly under
review:
Fill your head with words, and when YOU
get an idea fit it to them-this is the current
method, prolific in famished intellects and
starveling expressions.
And now the JOURNAL must again
insist that Fairchild cannot be the
author, but that if the bushwhacker
can be traced, it very much fears the
trail would lead straight to"Fair Play"
manifestly a hypocrite whose awful
crime sis invisible, except to Cod
perhaps, in this particular instance,
serpent who, judged by his anony-
nous, sneaking malignity, glides over
the smooth grass plots of an easy relig-
ious life, basks his spotted skin in the
favor of people who think him good,
but stlngs to death the few who know
him as he doubtless knows himself.
Bulwer tells of Tully, a character
than whom Casca was "lanker and