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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
There are Others

Other mining operators have their
troubles, too, even the silver mine
owners who are standing out against
strikes.
Their deal with Altgeld, Tlllman,
Debs, ct al, having fallen through,
they endeavored to recoup portion of
their lost investment in that firm by
reducing the wages of their miners.
The case is so bad that when the
Order of Walking Delegates proposed
to send a representative to each So
called district. the Order was informed
that ''it had enough to do to stay at
home and squeeze its weekly pension
out of coal and other gold standard
minerals"
1t is said to be the coolest setback
the Order has experienced since Will
liam B. Wilson reported that the
Maryland military. headed by Douglas
and Wilmer, declined absolutely to be
initiated
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Hit the Nail on the Head.

That was a good reply Speaker Reed
made the other day to a committee
who asked
that the time be given for the considera-
ton of twenty-five bills on the House calen-
dar providing for public buildings in various
parts Of the country.
Then followed some discussion of
the deficit rate, which the speaker
thought would not be helped by giant
ing the request.
But the committee replied that the bills did
not appropriate a dollar, and that they fixed
the "'afinmn Of cost of the buildings and
appropriations were left in the hands of
future Congresses by the appropriation COM
nittce
To this Nh. Reed rejoined-
that he did not approve of this method of
mortgaging the revenues of the government
"A very apt statement. 1t is bad
enough for government to live beyond
its income, but to provide for con-
tlnuous bankruptcy is wilful and
deliberate ruin.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
A Plain DUTY.

The bricklayers' union of Washing
ton city is after Hon. John Sherman
for not discovering that there is a
dead-line for statesmen between union
and non-union labor.
The bricklayers' union, like nearly
all other labor orders, is an organized
attempt to monopolize all the work
gong, fix its own prices, work when
and as long as it pleases, and ostracize
other equally deserving workmen who
do not allow it to place its manaeles
on their hands and metre upon their
stomachs.
In this matter Mr.. Sherman ought
to "know neither Jew nor Greek, bond
nor Free" but treat each alike without
regard to his slavery under a master
workman o. his far higher status as an
independent and unterrifed exemplar
of the truth, ages old, that every man
is his own Knight of Labor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Limited Powers.

Probably no one can write more youmi-
nous screed against the degradation of chattel
slavery than can the editor of the MINING
JOURNAL or denounce with more vigor the
wickedness of the Turks or the barbarty of
the Spaniards.- tncle Sam.
1.-The editor of the MINING JOURNAL"
does not write 'screeds." And he can
not write "voluminously." Uncle Sam
can elaborate lone, lorn thought to
long double, column dimensions, but
the JOURNAL, short of wind, is in
capable of supertuous effort.
Hence, neither 1.-THE wickedness of
the Turks nor the barbarity of the
Spaniards" has ever been denounced
in these columns. Domestic evils have
commanded our attention to the ex-
clusion of foreign. We have miseries
of our own to look after. The ravages
OF the walking delegate and the waste
OF the master workman have demanded
both prevention and cure, and now,
just as we We're about to proclaim a
permanent peace dreadful misnomer,
yclept Uncle Sam, has settled in our
regained Arcadia to renew and con-
tinue the discord of imaginary woe.
We repeat-the JOURNAL does not
write. "voluminously," and if its pro-
auctions be "screeds," their method
has the merit of Napoleon's harangues,
which blasted only few minutes, yet
electrified whole armies
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Brevities.

Titus A. Brick thinks that whatever
notoriety the most distinguished cit
izen of Pocahontas has achieved is
wholly due to his pale rose colored
whiskers.
If it be a fact that to more school
houses and better teachers per- capita
in New Jersey than elsewhere is due
the sound money landslide in that
State, it is not only logical sequence
but it is an overwhelming argument
IN favor of a bigger investment every
where in the popular education that is
solid and safe.
The Lincoln (Mo) Times says that
city wants tailor, cooper, telephone,
stone cutter, handle factory, cannery,
dairy, brickyard and a sexton to bury
the dead merchants who do not adver-
tise."
The populists and Bryanesque demo-
Gratis have full possession of Nebraska,
but their office, holders have not yet de-
cided that under the gold standard
their salaries are too high.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Let Them Work.

The popuhstic no.work theory for
people in confinement, sane and in
sane, isregarded as "cruelly inhuman"
in New York, where it has been tried
in the State hospitals for the insane.
To these unfortunates work is the
only avenue open for them to get away
from themselves, and "no work" is a
door which more certainly closes
against all 'hope of restoration to
health and reason"
The true doctrine is-let the in
dustrious, the criminal and the crazy
work.
Enforced idleness to all of these
classes III any extent is a monstrous
crime.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
The Better Way.

The Uncle Sam crowd wants to abolish
convict labor and some.people in New
York, with more piety than good sense,
have succeeded in inauguratiny the
reign of idleness at Sing Sing. After
about two weeks exr erieacc--
"a prisoner attempted suicide by throwing
himself from gallery to the floor seventy.
five feet below, iniuring himself so severely
that he cannot recover His excuse was that
he feared his mind would give way in ell
forced idleness
In addition to this the warden re-
ports that
since the new order went into effect the
convicts have been much more unrulv and
harder to manage than they were before
1t Is far better for all concerned to
furnish prisoners work, even though
their labor completes with that outside.
And still much better than the
Altgeld plan under which they are
turned outside to compete by working
or stealing.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
A ChanGeless Change.

Strange things occur when a body
of men representing a fad get to-
gether.
The Federation of Labor, one of the
most respectable of the professional
labor unions, at its convention in
Cincinnati the other week defeated a
resolution assailing the power of the
courts on the ground
that the national and State constitutions
were against the laboring classes more than
the courts.
1t is stated further that most of the
speakers
advocated abolishing all the constitutions,
as it was difficult to amend these instruments
in accordance with the changes of the times.
These are fine logicians. They
would leave the house, but remove its
foundation they would let the court
remain, but destroy the pedestal
upon which it stands.
They would probably leave the
statutory and burn the organic pre-
serve the shadow and demolish the
substance.
1t really appears that the Bill of
Rights, the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the Constitution-those fruits
of civilization which comprise the re-
demption of freedoms promise for
ages of effort and the elimination of
the effort of ages-were written in vain,
and that, after all, Mason, jefferson and
Madison lived and died unavailingly
in the service of their country and
humanity.
These gentlemen of the Federation
talk of amending organic law to ac-
cord with the changes of the times"
Concerning the liberty of the indi-
vidua!, upon which all phases of lib
erty are founded, mo changes of SEA-
son nor of place can make any change"
i'll that freeborn right. AS far back
as the last century before the advent of
the Christian era Cicero said
Liberty is the power Of doing what the law
permits.
1t is still so and must remain so.
Every step toward modification of
that statement is a stride toward an
archy, and every step of opposition to
1t is plunge toward the beastly rule
of the jungle.
What the gentlemen of the Fedora
ton seem to want is to get back into
the Middle Ages and work up through
all the represslons of monarchy to ii
new 1776.
With such an experience they will
be able to determine that elderly reg,
nlated by law is the highest achieve
ment of human desire and good enough
for any people.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

Why don't the Red Cross Society help the
suffering Cubans?-Cumberland Courier
Yea, verify.
But why go so far from home?
Why, o why doesn' the K. c. S. APP
point a standing committee to "set up
with Cncle Sam, who means, mourns
and groans over the woes of pro-
fessional labor and will not be com
forted-who chews the bitter cud of
hopeless hyperbole and freely coins
his nominations into melancholy lines
of dismal rhetoric
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
OBITUARY..
Lines


In memory of HABnY WILSON, who depar
ed this life Wednesday. December 80, lS9t
aged years.
In the silent grave we laid him;
Brightness from our home has flown.
And it seems so dark and dreary,
And the days have longer grown
For the one we loved has left us.
And our life is full of care;
Angels came and claimed our darling
Vacant stands his little chair.
The room through which he battered,
In bis merry, childish play,
Seems so dark, so cold and silent
Since our darling went away
We have still his little garments,
And lock of golden hair;
But the angels claimed our darling
Vacant stands his little chair
But we must not mourn his absence,
For God wil!ed that it should be-
So we'll try to bear the burden
Until death shall set us free.
When our life on earth is ended,
We shall meet him over there;
Angels claimed our darling Harry
Vacant stands his little chair.
FpJENn
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Mine improvements.

Ocean mine of the Consolidation
coal company has been equipped with
an electric plant and now As lights
illuminate the grounds round about
the entry. Not only so-the SWANS
from "Mesopotamia and beyond" as
Prof. Buckley used to say, have been
known to carefully leave behind their
Waterburys when going to interview
what Rudyard Kipling calls "my
purrin' dynamos.n
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

Charles ERODE, of Mt. Savage, be-
came suddenly insane Tuesday while
at work in the New York Mining COM
pany's new mine. He is young man
with small family, for whom much
sympathy is expressed.
Albert Harris, of Eckhart, young
man, insane about month, was taken
Wednesday to an eastern hospital.
He was brought back Thursday, how
ever, the hospital physicians declining
to receive him. His friends still re
gard him as irrational.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
The Good Time Coming

There was some complaint current
awhile ago that the supply of turkeys
for the holidays was not sufficient to
meet the demand.
But, never mind, gentlemen-''un-
der government ownership" of turkey
yards, when "the minimum rate of
work and wages" at turkey culture
shall be "four hours IL day, and 81 an
hour there will be no such thing as
demand nor supply.
There will be turkey-meat gn1ore for
all of Uncle Sans constituelts-all
white meat at that.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

Marksmanshipis the subject of much
interest at Borden Shaft. A gold
medal is to be acquired as a standing
prize for shooting matches, the winner
to wear until some better marksman
relieves him. The officers of the
Borden Shaft Rifle Team" are
C"ptai't-Peter f. Mcdonald.
Sec1rtary-William Barnard
Treamner-Chares Merrill
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
COUNTY NEWS.
A Hard Worker.

HaFu w Ofkcf.
When I"cie Sam takes up his pen
To write editorials galo,e
He pays full heed to workingmen
Who stand round smoke, spit and cuss and
roar.
The murmur of the buzzing throng
Ne'er precipitates him in stew;
He "strikes gait and joys along
As dear Maud s. used to gaily do.
His thinks obey an iron will
A big purpose-bulIy, strong and great
Animates bill on bill
To save this poor, bleeding wretched State.
In honest labor he delights;
Come weather inclement, cold or warm:
He'll put in short days and long nights
On lines Of professional reform.
He does too much it seems to me-
For one little slender man-but. pshaw,
hope he doesn't wish to see
Each inspection bill become a law.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
What Prosperity Cannot DO.

In Chicago thus far 900 families have
made application for assistance tothe board
of public charity. This means that of
Chcago's ZOO, 900 inhabitants at least 100, 600
are on the verge Of starvation. That's
mighty queer. Mckinley was IN Chicago
only the other day. He ought to at least
taken his Prosperity out for an airing
Iucle Sam.
The JOURNAL has worse news than
that from Chicago.
A recent issue of the Tribune of that
city says:
There are 200 saloons in Chicago Averag-
ng their receipts, at $1,000 EACH shows a
total Of sd 600 900, 95 per cent. of which is
paid by those who toll with their hands
The wage workers spend about 5000, 600, 600 a
year on intoxicating liquors, and $500, 600, 600
on nicotine. This deadly drain on earnings
is only part of the harm done. The rest con-
sists Of moral deterioration, physical and
mental degeneracy, faut-finding, discomfort
destruction of industrious inclinations and
general goodfor nothingness.
If Inc1e SANS 100000" happen to
be a fraction of the 7ribune's "95 per
cent.," the JOURNAL would like to learn
how "Mr. McKinley's prosperity" is
going to help them. To such it is to
be doubted whether prosperity" is
not an evil.
1t is more than likely, therefore,
that the heads of the 40 900 families"
belong to that class of whom it is said
"they cannot stand prosperity''-a fail
ing due, it may be, to heredity, en-
vironment, or some cause or surround
ing beyond removal or relief by either
employment or charity.
Hence, there is no force whatever
in Cncle Sums statement-no more than
if he had said there are 5000 people
IN FrOStburp go of whom are colored
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Cabinet Session,

,joha W. E'raqS-" What shall | say
now about the latest light pro ect ?"
j. j. Rodinson-"Say nothing until
we see what that miserable sheet on
jackson street says about it. and then
take the other side.''
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
The Coal Trade.

Shipments of coal from the mines of
the Georges Creek coal region were
in long tons
For week ending Jan. 16, 1897. ..... 52,45l
year 10 same date. ...............l2j,9 31
Increase compared with last year. =. II, 49,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
There and Here.

Big business boom in England.
Plenty of work, good wages, nobody
idle except those who want to be.
Expectations exceeding importations
by millions-to tariff ridden as well as
free trade countries.
All this under gold standard auspices,
while, over here. a large fraction of
the people are damning the gold
standard as the author of both our few
real woes and our many imaginary
ones.
What fools we mortal Americans be ,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Business Locals,

Not a few who read what Mr. Robert
Rows, of Holland, Va, has to say below,
will remember their own experience under
like circumstances: Last winter | had la
grippe which left me in a low state of health
! tried numerous remedies, none of which
did me any good until | was induced to try
a bottle OF Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
The first bottle of it so far relieved me that |
was enabled to attend to my work, and the
second bottle effected cure For sale at 25
and so cents per bottle by G. E. Pearce Drug
Co.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest :
Jennings Run Council, No. Is, Jr. O. U.
A. NJ, TO G. c. Uhl, lease of first floor, new
hall, Mt. Savage, for years.
Union Mining company to Mt Savage
Enamel Brick company, lot in Mt. Savage,
81, etc.
Esther X. Morrison, trustee to Board OF
School Commissioners, lot in Westernport,
800.
Elizabeth Reider to George H. Reidler. lot
in Homecoming, S. etc.
Robert Carr to Thomas Carr, interest in
estate of Robert Carr. ST. deceased 81 OOO
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Served Him Right. Though,

Senator Hill was the regular" nom
lnee for U. S. Senator in the New York
Legislature.
Five silver democrsts "bolted" the
caucus decree and voted for other
men.
Great is Bryanesque Regularity
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
n Vain Hone

The Lonaconlng Recie,o few weeks
back intimated that there is a rocky
road ahead for "the company stores"
1t had been hoped that the Recie,o
had found out that it is never in order
to turn any portion of the Bill of
Rights upside down.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
The Army of Denuuciation.

The populist platform denounces the
Pacific railroad) funding bill as Infamous"
tucic sam
OF course. That is what popuist
platforms are built for-to 'denounce
as Infamous everything that populism
suspects, or that it will not or cannot
understand.
The great wonder is that it has not
denounced as infamous" the law I'M
der which some people are born black.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Personal.

Mrs. John w. Arnold, accompanied
by her little daughter, of Eckhart. will
leave next Thursday for Birmingham,
Ala, to visit brother in that city.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Comet Coming.

Hadley's comet is coming back.
This is the same comet that in 1856,
after the battle of Belgrade, terrified
Turks and Christians alike. and even
at It's latest return in 1885, and in a
century of civilization, frightened the
ignorant and superstitious. 1t is to
be regretted that although the eye of
science already sees it within the orb
of Neptune, it will not be visible to the
world until the great paper is 40 years
old,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

That Growing Son of yours is hard on
clothes, but it is cheaper and better to give
him full swing. Doctors bills come higher
than clothes. Good all-wool Suits-Coat,
Vest and Pants, cost from 80 up.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Orphans Court.


At the session Tuesday
Adam E. Hitchins, executor of John
Douglas deceased, filed petitions and orders
OF court passed in matters pertaining to the
said estate
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

Wanted-Several faithful Men or Women
to travel for responsible established house in
Maryland. Salary $3.50, payable SIS weekly
and expenses Position permanent. Refer
ence. Enclose self-addressed stamped envel-
ope. The NATIONAL,
tA3 Star Building, Chicago, Ill.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

"A Head always needs Hat, and | supply
Hats to heads of all sizes and shapes. Buy
your Hats at WINELAND's and you will
ALWAYS be ahead. See?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
Protection OfCOaI,

The applicants for more protection on coal
deplore the competition of Canada But two
thirds of the bituminous coal exported goes
to that country. On the other hand, four
titths of the coal imported comes from British
Columbia and countries on the other side of
the Pacific, and is required for the main
tenance of the manufacturing industries on
the Pacific coast. Why did not the COM
mttee bring out some of these facts New
York Times.
Perhaps they are not facts.
In which event, the committee"
might as well Summon the spirits
from the Vastly deep"
Hearing which one time an old
Dutchman remarked
Veil, den, ven the vastly deep don't got no
alcohols, will dew COON?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

Diseased blood, constipation and kidney
liver and troubles are cured by Karls Glover
Root Tea. d. Krapf, Frostburg, and Nc
Mullen Bros, Mt. Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

Capt. Sweeney, U. S. A, San Diego, CAL,
says: 'Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is the first
medicine have ever found that would do
me any good" Price SO cents. D. Krapf,
Frostburg, and McMullen Bros, Mt Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

81 was nervous, tired, irritable and cross
Clover Root Tea has made me we'll and
happy. MRS +. B. WoREEN.
D. Krapf, Frostburg, and McMullen Bros
Mt Savage
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23

ENdhSelISin onOulu Begin at Home.
The announcement of the fact that
ga convention of the miners of the
Georges Creek, Beech Creek, Clear
field, Meyersdale and Pocahontas re-
gions would be held in the knights of
Labor Hall, Cumberland, one day re-
Gently was coupled with the statement
that
The miners ofthe Georges Creek and Cum
berland region are said to be better organized
now than at any time since 1886.
More Is the pity.
These "anti-monopolistic" organiza-
lions Of monopoly against the con-
sumers do not seem to profit by either
the lessons of history or of experience.
They don't know, either, that tho
worst thing that could happen to them
would be to secure the control of
property that is not their own.
They don't know that this whole
question was fought out in the Jungle
until even the pagans were at last
forced to decide that "might is not
right"
There are lots of oorrelative ques-
tons that might be added, suggesting
rich field yearning for public school
and even religious culture. If our
teachers could quit counting the
stipend which comes to them through
lapse of hours rather than labor, and
our ministers preach the equal rights
OF the weak with the strong, instead of
politics, there is world of paganism
bowling for regeneration right in their
schools and congregations.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-01-23
PrlnninlnS Not Men

The trouble the democratic party is in to-
day could have been avoided in this city, in
this State and in the country at large if the
party, as whole, had chosen to stand firmly
by its principles rather than follow the lead
of particular men, who seemed to be con-
cerned only for keeping themselves at the
head of affairs. II 'cas on principles, not men'
that The di0ision took place. Men may come
and men may go, but principles endure for
ever.-Baltimore Sun.
The JOURNAL italicizes the central
truth of that statement.
Notwithstanding the fact that there
was almost enough in the conduct of
the particular men who seemed to be
concerned only for keeping themselves
at the head of affairs to divide the
party, yet sit was on principles, not
men, that the division took place"
There were democrats who would
have supported free coinage but could
not endorse undemocratic free riot.
There were others who, believing
that Bryan was not, and, as it turns
out, is not democrat, would still have
supported him but for the platforms
undemocratic assault upon the in
tegrity of the courts.
And so on.
1t has come to pass, therefore, that
if the Chicago platform is to become
the party's decalogue, its days as q
party are few and full of the sorrow
Of defeat. On that expression of
vicious programme it can never again
muster the legions who supported it
last year with fear and trembling.