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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Tuesday, NOyember2,

lot llle purpose vi eIettluS PURSUITS lDI
the following Offices
One Comptroller of the Treasury =
One Clerk of the Court of Appeals =
One State Senator :
Five Delegates to the Legislature =
One Sheriff )
One Clerk of the Circuit Court =
Two County Commissioners :
One County Treasurer, and
One County Surveyor.
The polls will be open at O'Clock a m.
and will be closed at O'Clock D. m at the
following places:
Mrs. J. T. Mcknight S residence
District No 2.-OldtOwn.
James CarderS residence
District No. .-Flintstone.-Howard House
District No 4.-Cmnberldnd
Precinct No kings office, Liberty street
Precinct No. 2-Martz's store,
Virginia lane (second)
District No. 5.-Cun,berldnd.
Precinct No. Mo- 8 Knox street.
Precinct No. 2-Canada Hose house
District No. 6.-Cmnberland.
Precinct No. Court House.
Precinct No. mo. rs Cumberland street
District No. 7.-Ram'ings-
Porter d Williams store
District No. s. Hcsterport.
Precinct No. Mrs. Hogan's store
Precinct No. odd Fellows hall.
District No. 9-Bal1on
Store used by Samuel Bradley
District No 10.-Lonacouing
Precinct No I-Contners barber shop
Precinct No. 2-Firemen's hall
District No 11.-Frostbny.
Precinct No Samuel Jetfries' store.
Precinct No. 2-Annex to Hotel Gladstone
Precinct 10. 81. w. Craig's barber shop
District No 12.-Frostbury
Harris Shears residence
corner Washington and Bowery streets
District No. l3.--W. Sagage.
Precinct No. 1-Brannon's store-room
Precinct No. 2-Odd Fellows hall.
District No. 14.-C~nberldnd.
Precinct No 1-Wikinson's store
Precinct No. 2-City station house
District No 15.-Lonacouing.
Precinct No. esquire McFarlane's office
Precinct No. 2-Mrs. Hamilton's residence
District No. l6.-Norh Bramch.
Stephen Bloss residence
District No 17.-Falc Summit
Fatkins hall
District No 1S-Oceau.
Knights of Labor hall
District No. l9-Bor7em Shatt.
Midlothian club house
District No. 20-EWcrSlie.
NJ. Corrigan's residence. Corrigansville
District No. 21.-Gross.
c. Gross residence, Six-Mile House
District No. 22.-tm,berlamd.
Precinct No. Ia Harrison street
Precinct No. 2-Friendship Hose house
District No. 23-Cunjerland.
Precinct No. William kephart's store
Precinct No. 2-corner Decatur and
Frederick streets
District No. 24.--Echhan.
Young Mems Club room
District No 25.--Itkjn
Mrs. Yousts store
This notice is given by authority of and in
pursuance of Section IL, of Article 80, chapter
2O2, of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland. 1896.
By order of the Board
A. G. SMITH, NJ d, President,
P. H. DAUGHTREY,
DAVID WALKER,
True copy-Test: Supervisors.
c. EDGAR KELLER,
Oct 3O-1t
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Wanted,

The patients of DR.. Veno, the healer
who wears remarkable vest, will be
interested in the Geographic statement
that he is wanted at Butte, Montana,
for some offense not stated. He was
arrested at Pocatello, but how he got
away Is not confded to generous
public.
Later.-Dr. Veno says it is not him
self, but another "great healing pow
err" known as DIR. Reno" that is
wanted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Religious.

Rev. Harry S. Ecker was ordained
a minister of the Presbyterian church
and installed as pastor of the Broad
way church Tuesday evening, as fore
cast in the JOURNAL last Saturday.
Rev. ID. W. Griffin, pastor of the
M. E. Church, South. has returned
from South Boston, Va, and will fill
his pulpit to morrow Sunday at the
usual hours. AT the morning service
the doors of the church will be open
for the admission of new m embers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
A Sound Decision.

A Minneapolis (Minn.) Judge, whose
head is as level as a sound money
plank in gold standard platform, in
case where a bicycle rider sued
man for driving over him with two
seated surrey, charged the jury as
follows:
charge you, as between bicycle and
horse and carriage, neither has any greater
right than the other; two-wheeled vehicle
has just as much right ON the street as four
wheeled vehicle-a vehicle driven by man
power has just as much right as one driven
by horse power, no more, no less. Each one
has the same right on the street as the other.
The fact that the bicycle might be a new in
vention does not make any difference; many
things we use nowadays are new inventions,
and have just as much right as the old ones.
So | charge you in that respect that you must
treat them with the same consideration; one
has just as much right as the other.
If this judge-name not given, but
deserving eminence, had been educat-
ed under the auspices of fve-year
electric light contract, he would have
held IL different view of the right of
"new Inventions to use. He would
contend that, no matter how much
better and cheaper the new, the old
style is to survive in Frostburg until
1902. That is, the old style cost. The
people are not to enjoy the benefit of
discovery and development mean
while, but continue the purchase and
re-purchase of the existing plant and
never own anything but the right to
chafe and kick unavailingly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
MEMORIAL.

FRosTBURG, Mp, October 10, 1897.
ITO Postmaster General GARY,
i Washington, ID. c.,
Honored SH-We, the undersigned mem
bers of the Frostburg Ministerial Association,
hereby call your attention to several obsceni-
ties in publication that is circulating in this
district among the homes of our people. A
marked copy of this paper, tncle Sam. is sent
you at the same time as this letter. We take
this method of entering our protest against
allowing this sheet to pass through the mails,
inasmuch as it certainly comes under the
class of publications excluded from them by
reason of vieness Moreover the attention
of the inspector of mails ought to be called to
the editor who is responsible for the pubica-
ton and circulation of such stuff, and that
Immediately. Very respectfully,
HENRY THOMAS President
HARRY S. ECKER. r. NJ. WEST.
C. A. J. CRAMER c. A. HAUSER
w. w. WOOD. C. A. BRITT,
Oct 80 Secretary
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Married.

w. j. O'Brien, jr., best man in the
Parker-Porter wedding here in June,
was married Wednesday in Washing
ton, ID. G: Miss Bessie Van Rrnsalaer
Kern, of the latter city, is the bride.
Bernard Kaplan. once sewing
machine salesman here, won II wife
over in West Virginia and is no more
among bachelors.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Election.

At a regular meeting of Ohr Chap
ter, No. 26, Royal Arch Masons, Thurs
day evening of last week the follow
ing members were elected officers for
the ensuing year:
NJ. H. H. Pr. g. Beal.
f. K.-Josiah Ford
H. S-Willam Davis.
See, etdry-D. d. Price.
Treasurer-H. b. Colborn.
Representative 10 Grand Chapter-H. b.
ColbOrn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Died.

Monday, October %, 1897, Miss
Clara LaRue, daughter of F. W.
LaRue, of this place, aged % years.
Jabez Warn, of this place, died
Thursday morning after long illness.
The widow and five children are left
to deplore the untimely loss of good
husband and father.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Another EXAMPLE,

Just above yOn sandy bar,
AS the day grows fainter and DINNER
Lonely and lovely. single star
Lights the air with sllv'ry glimmer
Let the reader substitute ga silver
nugget" for "a single star" and then
determine whether all would have
translated the expression alike and
Alright.
And isn't ''glimmer" better than
"gleam ?"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30

The newest addition to the press of the
State is the Populist Good Government
Banner, the publication OF which has begun
at fredericksburg, in Caroline county. Mr..
Frank II. Jones is the editor. This is the
second populist paper in Maryland The
other is the Rising Sun Baltimore
NeHs
The Nems overlooks U'ncle Sum, of
Cumberland also the Frostburg
Forum, which might us we'll be popu-
list paper for all the good it can do
the republican party. For it has--not
rising sun, but rising moon tendencies.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Hint.

The marble-yard industry. very dull
in Frostburg just now, more import
ant business interfering, is booming
in Ohio. A man out there was very
lonely after his wife died, and he put
up a handsome tombstone to her
memory. Heput on as an inscription:
The Light of My life has Gone Out.
After few months he married again
and had the cutter chisel tail to the
period after the last word. and add
but Have Struck Another Match.
This incident furnishes pointer to
all marble concerns that may wish to
boom their department of mortuary
work by suggesting exultant supple
ments to the sunset literature now too
current in funereal circles.
There is no doubt that many old
epitaphs can be improved by adaenda
based upon the Providence of succeed
ing circumstances.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
BreVitle.

Prof. j. F. Rueckert, a familiar
figure here, and his pastor, Rev. T. j.
Yost, of Cumberland, have reached
the parting of the ways. The profess
sor, who was organist, it issaid, did not
put enough ginger in his instrumental
execution of the sacred science; in
fact, he holds to the now old.fashioned
but correct notion that decotion is the
predominant element of sacred music,
and he so illustrated it in his perform
ance. But the pastor, according to the
professor, wanted some embroidered
intermezzo action, or, as the dancers
say, something quick and devilish"
thrown il. Disagreement here proved
final.
1t was not correct after all to say
there was cow-hooking accident in
this town recently. With an ordi
nance against the liberty of the COW
and means to enforce it, the,e is moth
ing accidental in the event of a COW
killing a child.
A few people hold the notion that
"there is nothing in" the charitable
work of clarifying the sunset situation.
They are much mistaken. A question
of the highest art was involved, as
many, very many others now admit.
Big Billy Lewis brought down the
champion stone slab the other day for
Conrad Zinkan. 1t is ID feet s inches
long by 5 feet wide.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Interesting Meeting.

The Georges Creek Medical AS
soclation met at Hotel Gladstone
Thursday, Oct. 81, 1897, and was call
ed to order by the president, DR.. C. G..
Jacobs. The following members were
present-Drs. w. Q. Shilling, S. A..
Boucher, T. Conroy, B. M. Cromwell,
c. {. Jacobs, T. Griffith, w. O. Nc
Lane and J. C. Cobey.
The annual election of officers took
place with the following results:
President-Dr B. M. Cromwell.
First Vice. residest-Dr. w. Q. Shilling.
Second Vice reSiaent-Dr T. Conroy.
Secretary-Dr. J. c. Cobey.
Treasmrer-Dr. 7. Griffith
The retiring president, DR.. C. c..
Jacobs, appointed Drs. Boucher and
SHILLING to escort DR.. Cromwell to the
chair.
DR.. Cromwell delivered very in
teresting and pleasant address. He
complimented the Society upon its
success and development during the
last year, and pledged himself to do
all in his power to further its advance
ment in the future. At the same time
he asked all the members for their
hearty cooperation.
At the conclusion of his remarks the
Doctor was loudly applauded.
Dr.. w. @. SHILLING, of Homecoming,
read most excellent paper, which was
discussed by number of the gentle
men present.
The Society then adjourned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
TOWN AND VICINITY.


One of the faults of the age is the endeavor
to leap to heights that were made to be
climbed. Such is the phiosophic observation
of Orange Judd Farmer.-Cumberland Necs.
And such is the experience of Lee
Fairchild Forum.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
New Advertisements.
For Rent,

CIEVERAL desirable ROOMS to gentlemen
~ only. Apply at JOURNAL OFFICE.
Oct 80
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Tuesday, November 2, 1897,

being the Tuesday after the first Monday in
November next, between the hours of 8
O'Clock m. and g o'clock p. m. for the
purpose of electing-
One Comptroller of the Treasury =
One Clerk of the Court of Appeals :
One State Senator;-
Five Delegates to the Legislature :
One Sheriff 3
One Clerk of the Circuit Court;
Two County Commissioners;
One County Treasurer. and
One County Surveyor.
Attention is hereby called to the above no.
tice, and keepers of hotels, taverns, saloons,
stores, drinking establishments. or any other
place where liquors are sold, and all other
persons are hereby notified that by Article
33, Section l05 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland no spirituous or fermented
liquors, ale or beer, or intoxicating drinks of
any kind can be sold, bartered or given away
or disposed of on election day.
AUGUST l.. MILLER,
Oct 30 Sheriff of Allegany County
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
New Advertisements.
Sherin's Notice.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. That an
~ Election will be held in the several
Election Districts and Precincts of Alegany
county, at such places as shall be designated
by the proper authorities for the location of
the polls on
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-10-30
Election Notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
IN To the Registrars, Judges and
Clerk of Election. and to the Voters OF
Allegany county. That an Election will be
held in the several Districts and Precincts
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07
Written for The Prison Mirror.
DESPOTISM OF DEBT.
RICIIAR

Many young man has been driven on
by temptation to what he thought
would oe paradislcal enjoyment, but
after a while influences with darker
hue and swarthier arm close in upon
him and he finds that instead of max
ing an excursion into garden he has
been driven to some prison or other.
We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy them.
Society slaughters great many young
men by behest: you must keep up ap-
pearances, whatever be your salary;
you must dress as well as others; you
must treat and give rum and brandy
to your friends; you must smoke as
costly cigars; you must give as expen-
sive entertainments, and you must
live in as fashionable a boarding
house; if you have not the money,
borrow; if you can't borrow, steal it,
or make a false entry, or subtract here
and there bill from bundle of bank
notes or anyway so you get it. You
will only have to make the deception a
little while, in few months or a year
or two you can make it all right. No.
body will be hurt by it; nobody will be
the wiser; you yourself will not be
damaged.
BY this awful process thousand
men have been led to state prison.
Suppose you borrow; there is nothing
wrong about borrowing money. There
is hardly man who has not sometimes
borrowed money. Vast estates have
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07
Written for The Prison Mirror.
THE INTUITIvE RELIGIOUS
FORCE.

That the religious instinct now eX-
listing in human nature, like every
other phase of our social life, is an
artificial product, few will admit; yet,
reasoning from the hypothesis of
mans early brute condition, accepting
the theory of evolution, no other de-
ductlon is possible. Every step we
trace this instinct backwards: every
form this instinct has given expression
to: every race that vehiculates this in
stinct or it. expression, adds to it and
points those elemental indexes to its
artificial production.
Historians in general agree and al
most all intelligent people admit that
long period of absolute darkness en-
velopes the early social life of the
human family anterior to the first
faint view that has been obtained of
the ideas by which the race was moved
in its early upward progress. What,
then. was the condition of the human
mind during this epoch? Of knowl-
edge in general what did the race
know: Of religion what could it know?
Long centuries of habitual training
has increased the potentiality Of the
human brain; generation after genera
ton, age on age, has developed the
faculties of the brain just in accord
ance with the acquisition of ideas that
demand their development. If this be
not so, then the savages, the barbarian
of ancient life, were better qualified to
select their social ideas than are we to
denounce them.
But we know differently; for prog
ress must first find birth in the mental
ere it is born in the material world.
We, as race, find it difficult to con-
~ceive of the preceding conditions of
a race. We assume that whatever is,
has been. This is the stumbling block
over which many people fall in their
analysis of the religious instinct in
man. They assume that human nature
has always been as it now is. While
admitting his material advance, they
deny the possibility of progress, of a
terminating, formative, or develop
ment period to mans religious in
stincts, yet every page of history
reveals this formative and progressive
development.
The formative era of mans religious
instinct lies in that period of darkness,
during which man rose from his brute
condition to that higher phase of life
when the social group was formed and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07

lutely cannot give even the ghost of
logical reason. Why? Because
there is no one cause for anything
which we, through our senses, realize
to exist, unless we accept the theolOg-
ical cause, God. Everything which we
realize as existing is an endless chain
of links hitched together; and any one
of them cannot be said to be ''the
cause" of any other one, individually.
What appears to be the cause, when
viewed from one point, instantly
changes to result when looked upon
from another point; and this ever
changing and altering of individual
and conglomerate parts of the universe
makes the solving of the riddle an i'm
possibility.
Probably, there is no other word in
the English language which puts us to
the blush so often or so persistently as
this word 'why?" with its interroga-
tive appendage. Any diaper-clad prod
ICY is, through it, armed with
weapon capable of putting to route the
most philosophic of us, with all our
boasted wisdom.
In all probability, the first thing
Adam did after Eve and he had been
turned out of Eden, was to ask her
"Why she did it," And, from that
day down to the present mankind has
been continually asking and trying to
solve the riddle "Why?"
"Why?" has kept the astronomers
for hundreds of years sweeping the
heavens with unceasing diligence. 1t
has kept the worlds most famous
scholars searching for an answer to it.
And what is the result? When you
come to sum it all up, and weigh the
answer, you will find it to be, Because"
And this Because" is the most you
can make out of it. Don't misunder-
stand me. l am not stating that man
kind receives no benefit from the
attempt to discover the causes of re-
suits. Mankind does reap prOdigous
and innumerable rewards. But man
never yet got one iota nearer to solv-
ing the "Why?" of "the thusness of
things than can be summed up in the
juvenile reason so often given by
children in good faith when asked to
state, why 'they think So or "do
thus" and they answer because"
RICHARD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07
Written for The Prison MuTOr.
WHY P

Do you ever become discouraged in
your endeavors to discover the causes
Of things? Of course you do; every
body does. And yet mankind seems
never to give up the chase after
"cause." Man does a great many
things which it would be difficult for
him to give logical reason for doing.
But of all that he does, probably trying
to solve that old old riddle "Why ?" is
the one thing for doing which he abso-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07
Vol. XI.-NO. IL.
MY TREASURE.


have hidden away from the light of day
treasure l sacred hold;
And it flashes not with the diamonds ray
And it is not yellow gold;
And it is not beryl, nor sapphire rare
AS blue as the trOpic sea-
This treasure, guarded with love and care.
Is worthless to all but me!
1t is not the ghost of a rosebud pale,
Or of rose full-blown and red;
Nor violet plucked in some messy dale.
With its fragrant sweetness fled.
'Tis no leaf by lovers touch made DEAR
For me it has memories none
OF that springtime of JOY and hope and fear
When my heart was lost and won.
But it brings me the sound of baby feet,
And the lisp of silent voice;
And the small moist hands that my own
hands meet
Make my empty heart rejoice.
In the holy calm when the bright stars shine
The deepening azure through,
There is a kiss of mine, there is tear of mine
For my treasure-a baby's shoe.
-Phila. Sat. Eve. Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-30
TIE ROMAN SENATE.

CF7rom the speech of Senator Turpie.l
Some of the rules of the Roman SEN
ate resembled our own. No business
could be transacted without the pres
ence of a quorum. The question of
quorum, as familiar in that assembly
as in this might be raised at any time,
by any member, in two words address,
ed the presiding Officer-numera Sena-
tum-cOunt the senate. A senator de-
string to speak sometimes addressed
the chair, but in every case his fellow
senators collectively, as patres con-
script. The speeches of the senators
might be and often were read from
manuscript, a practice which has last
ed even until this day There was no
previous question or clOture. Debate
was held without limit as to time. Those
who grossly abused this right of speak
ing without interruption were some
times forced to quit by the noise and
clamOr made by their fellow members
Occasionally the whole senate Joined in
these demonstrations The presiding
officer attempted to interrupt, more
than once, an obnoxious speaker but
this was not tolerated by the senate.
When a, certain senator one day, in
order to prevent a decree from being
passed, tried to waste time in speaking,
Caesar, who was then consul, and by
virtue of his office the presiding officer
of the senate, ordered him to be ar
rested and taken to prison, but the
whole house arose to their feet to fol-
low him. which caused Caesar to re-
scind his order and the Senator held
the floor. The debates were some
times, though rarely, prolonged into the
night, when lamps were ordered and
lighted, though night sessions of the
senate We're especially discouraged by
two of its rules No new reference
could be made or question raised after
the tenth hour, 4 o'clock in the after
noon; no decree could be passed after
sunset-ruIeS the reaSOnableness of
which might well be, in our own day,
worthy of consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-30
MUNICIPAL LIGHTS.
% Electric Plants Owned by Michi-
gan Cities.

Lansing, Mich, April 30.-The state
labor bureau is investigating the gas,
water and electric plants of Michigan
cities, and Commissioner Moore's depu-
ties and inspectors are already gather
ing the required data on the subject for
a report which will be unquestionably
one of the most interesting ever issued
by the bureau.
The investigation thus far made in
this line shows that of the Il chartered
cites in the state, SO are lighted by
electricity, % of these also having gas
plants. OF the SO electric light plants,
p are owned by cites, SO by corpora
tions and nine by private individuals.
OF the 20 gas plants, three are owned
by cities, "a by corporations, and two
by private individuals.
But two of the cities of Michigan
have no water plants. OF the SO water
plants in cities, 81 are owned by the
municipalities. Is by corporations and
four by individuals.
OF the POS Incorporated villages in
the state, 79 have electric light plants
and one also has a gas plant, the latter
being owned by a corporation OF the
70 electric light plants, "a are owned by
the villages, "a by corporations and q
by private individuals.
Ninety-three of the villages have wa
terworks 81 of which are municipal
plants. eight belong to corporations and
four to individuals.