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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-05-14
Sunday Schedule.

In addition No. leaves Piedmont S:45 a. m. F.:
arrives Frostburg lO:44 Il. m. and No. 9, leaving
Frostburg 200 p. m, reaches Piedmont BOP p.
m.. stopping at all intermediate stations.
*On theatre nights, when admission tickets
are sold by Agents to performance at theatre.
leave Cumberland at close of performance.
Al trains stop at Hays street station. Cum
berand.
Nos. l, 2, T. ), and 9daily except Sunday.
Nos, q and run Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays only.
l.. NJ. HAMILTON,
March 26 Superintendent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-05-14
Pittsburg Division.

*Except Sunday Nos As and A carry
passengers. No. II is a local train from Cum
berland to Pittsburg and No. IA from Pitts.
burg to Cum mberland. Nos and make 3
stops each way between Cumberland and
Pittsburg. az" Through tickets, east and
west, for sale at Cumberland.
NJ. C. CLARKE,
VIM NJ. GREENE, Ticket Agent.
General Manager. d. b. MARTIN,
Nov 20 Manager Passenger Traffic.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-05-14

During the last year no fewer than
10000 school children were taught to
swim by instructors employed by the
London Schools Swimming association.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-05-14

The gOssamer iron made at Swansea,
England, is so thin that 4. 800 plates are
needed to make an inch in thickness.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-05-14
TOO MUCH BEST MAN.
A BACHELOR WHO OBLIGATED AT
FORTY WEDDINGS.

Why Lieutenant Pri.ice Has Such a Fine
Collection of Scarfpins-Each One of
Them Is the Eey to a ROmance-A
Warning to All Young Men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
A BAsELEss SANDER.


The article in the News last evening CIV
ing an account of an alleged scheme on the
part of a few Republicans in Marion coun-
ty to control, by corrupt means. the State
convention, is not only a tissue Of false
hoods but it does great injustice to the Re-
publican organization in the county. The
only name mentioned is that of Mr.. Lafol-
lette, who is represented at the head of a
combination to make pool to control all of
the nominations in the State. The Journal
knows that Mr.. Lafollette has not been
in any conference with Marion county Re-
publicans in regard to the use of the
Marion county delegation in connection
with delegations from other parts of the
State. Any statement to the contrary is
fslsehood. What Mr.. Lafollette has done as
an individual on his own motion is a matter
Of no consequence.
The statement that money has been de-
manded of aspirants as the condition of
admission to a pool made by members of
the Marion county organization under the
direction of Mr.. Lafoliette or otherwise is a
very stupid lie. Mr.. Posey, whose name
has been dragged into the story of the
News, will affirm. No aspirant for a NOM
ination can be found who will affirm over
his name that he has been asked to con-
tribute money to any man recognized in the
Marion county organization as the price of
its support or the support of any combna-
ton which has been talked of or made. The
statement is so absurd that the wonder is
that it should be made in the newspaper
gossip of a convention.
The friends of all the aspirants have made
or have tried to make combinations to pro-
mote the nomination of their favorites. This
has always been done, and it has been done
this year; but to affirm that the friends of
Mr.. Henry in Marion county have put Mr..
Lafollette forward to ask money of any
pirant in return is fiction too idotic for
the proverbial silly season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
1NDIANA,s GRAND OLD MAN.

Attention is called to letter from Hon.
R. w. Thompson printed in this issue of
the Journal. The Journal would not UNI
dertake to say how often during the last
fifty years it has had occasion to speak
approvingly of the character and services
of this longtime distinguished and now
venerable statesman. and it still takes
pleasure in bearing testimony to these and
to the clearness. soundness and consistency
regrets an invitation to attend the State
convention Colonel Thompson mentions that
the first one he ever attended was held in
Terre Haute, Jan. %, 1888. more than sixty
years ago. For twenty years after that
ne acted with the old Wing party of which
he was an honored leader, and since then
has maintained the same relation with the
Republican party. The Journal is of the
impression that he has attended every Re-
publican State convention held in Indiana
during the last forty years. often drafting
and reading the platforms and always cleo
trifying the convention with his ringing
eloquence that combined the dignity and
stateliness of the old school with the more
popular elements of the new. Colonel
Thompson was born in June, 1909. and is
therefore six years older than the great
German statesman who has just died. He
entered public life several years before Bis
marck did and served in the national Con-
gress when Bismarck was still unknown
beyond the borders of a single German
state. Though now in his eighty-ninth
year and not strong enough to attend the
State convention, he INDUCES hope that
he may be able to take some part in the
campaign for the success of the principles
which he holds very dear and for the de-
feat of the party which, to his mind has
stood as the embodiment of vicious princi-
pies and bad government ever since his
entrance into politics. His earnest appeal
to the convention to take no backward step
on the money question should be needed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03

cunning and unadulterated rascality of its
promoter. Yet, so far as appears, he was
the only rascal in the whole business. The
directors were all duped as well as the
stockholders. Jernegan succeeded in getting
great deal of publicity and drawing some
good names TO his support. but there is
no evidence that he paid a cent to any news
paper unless for legitimate advertising, or
that he paid anybody for the use of his
name or for introducing him to anybody
else. He conceived, organized, engineered
and promoted the whole thing himself and
got away with all the swag. The London
case is very different. Promoter Hooley
swindled more people than Promoter Jerne-
gan did, but unlike the latter, he had nu-
merous confederates. Lords and earls
charged and received from $4,000 to $4,000
for the use of their names to deceive and
swindle other people, and then offered Pro-
moter Hooley big brides to swear falsely
in their defense. Some of these titled rascals
charged him several Thousand dollars for
introducing and recommending him to other
noblemen who in turn became his partners
in rascality for consideration. Prominent
business men seem to have been as much
ION the make" as the titled gentry, and
gave the use Of their names for a consid-
GRAFTON. The press dispatch characterizes
the disclosure as "a gigantic fabric of
bribery and matchmaking by which boards
of directors were organized of purchased
names and backed by a subsidized press"
Thus it appears that while the worship of
the omnipotent guinea in England is quite
as devout as that Of the almighty dollar
in the United States. English methods of
rascality are decidedly more cosmopolitan
than ours. English rascality is not any more
ingenious than the American product, but
it is broader in scope. ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH RAsCALITY.

The people of the United States have had
to hear great deal, first and last, about
their love of money and their inordinate
pursuit of 1.-The almighty dollar, When
this phrase was first used by one of the most
American of American writer's he could not
vorite stigmatic expression with foreign
ers and especially with Englishmen. But our
English cousins love money fully as well
as we do, and they worship the omnipo-
tent guinea with quite as much devotion
as we do the almighty dollar. No such scan
dial has ever occurred in the United States
as that now being aired in a London bank
rupt court, and comparison between it
and the latest swindlng scheme in this
country shows that English swindling is
conducted on a much broader and more
Celebrates scale than the same industry in
the United States. The Rev. Prescott F.
ager of the Eleetrolytic Marine Salts Com
pany, has just shown himself to be one of
the shrewdest, slickest and most successful
sxindlers OF recent times, getting away to
Europe with several hundred thousand
dollars of other peoples money paid for
stock in company organized for the pur-
pose of extracting pure gold from sea
water The details and management of the
scheme as published in the Journal. all
most compel adrairation for the phenomenal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
GOVERNMENT OF CITIES.
Prof. ParsOns's Address Before the
League of municipalities.

DETROIT, Aug 2.-Some 500 city fathers
and officials attended to-day's sessions OF
the League of American Municipalities. The
feature of the session was an address on
self-government for cities by Prof. Frank
Parsons, of Boston University. president OF
the National League for promoting public
ownership of monopolies Prof Parsons
held that the principle of self-government
as applied through our present laws is de-
fcient in four respects, namely: First, in
area, because, while the state is self-gov-
erned, the municipality is c&e creature OF
the states enactments, and consequently
every other city in a state is obliged to be
consulted about what &ny particular city
chooses to do; second, deficient as to class
distinction, since women, although part OF
the people, are not yet permitted to parti-
cipate in the peoples self-government; third.
that the principle of self-government is not
applied to Industrial as it is to political life,
the speaker urging that workingmen ought
to have part in the government of their
own respective groups in industrials; fourth.
that the self-governing principle is not COM
plete as to method, since the people are
masters only during election times. while
their public servants hold the sovereignty
for the balance of their terms The reme-
dies, according to Professor Parsons, are
the initiative and referendum, woman SUI
frage cooperative industries instead OF
monopolieS, and entire self-government for
cities free from state control. The latter
point was enlarged upon and illustrated.
The professor asserted that the present
charter of San Francisco is the most nota-
BILE instance of progress toward self-govern-
ment in cities.
Mayor Young, of Akron, o., and Mayor
Evans, of Birmingham, Ala, read papers on
the relative adequacy of administrative
boards of commissions, as compared with
common council committees
Questions of policy concerning regulation
of saloons developed an interesting discus
sion this afternoon The principal address
on this topic was by Mayor George r:
Perry, of Grand Rapids. Prof. Parsons, or
Boston, being called on, gave the follow
ing as sort of formula for annulling the
evils of the liquor traffic without Interior
ing with personal liberty: First. education
of children along temperance lines; second,
industrial reforms to enable all men to nave
comfortable homes; third, local option Tor
Cities fourth, enact the South Carolina
dspensary or some similar law which
should cut out the element of private in
vestment and profit in liquor dealing
Mayor SALESMAN, of Erie, read paper on
street paving and Mayor Taggart, of In
danapolis was excused from speaking on
that subject on account of hoarseness. Inls
evening the delegates were taken TO Belle
Isle which was beautifully Illuminated for
the occasion with more than ten thousand
colored lights
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
REVENUE LAW DECISIONS
RULINGS OF INTEREST TO BANKS,
MERCHANTS AND OTHERS.
TwO-Cent Stamps Required on Orders
to Pay MOney-Duplicate Mortgages
Must Also Pay the War Tax.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Internal Revenue
Collector Treat has received a number Of
important decisions, one of which will set
at rest professional difference of some
weeks standing between a number of large
banking houses and the revenue officers.
The question was whether or not the ac-
ceptance of draft accompanied by an or
der upon a bank to pay the same should
have a 2-cent stamp affixed. The collector
ruled that it should, and many banks ac-
cepted this ruling. Some, however, dis
puted it and have not required that ac-
ceptance be stamped The commissioner 8
ruling is as follows:
Drafts drawn upon or issued by any
bank, trust company or any person or per-
stamp; and If the acceptance is accompanied
by an order to bank to pay the same and
charge to the amount of the drawee, this
accompanying order requires 2-cent stamp
as an order for the payment of the money"
The banks who disputed the first ruling
are, it is said liable for the tax on all un-
question. The loss of revenue by their fail
ure to comply with the law, the collector
said, was considerable"
The following question was forwarded to
the commissioner yesterday: when a
mortgage, executed in duplicate. Is record
ed in various counties and States, must a
cate?'' -
A dispatch in reply reads: "A mortgage
cannot De laWIully RECORDED IN any county
unless 1t is duly stamped. therefore dupli-
cate mortgages must be stamped If it is
necessary to reform them
The following question was recently sub
mtted: IF a merchant receives a draft
from a foreign country, drawn at three
days sight and he accepts 1T at sight, ten
dering a check for the same on his bank
with 2-cent stamp affixed, is he compelled,
in addition. to place the war-revenue stamp
on the acceptance of the same? He accepts
at sight and does not take advantage of the
three days interest"
The ruling was that 1.-The acceptor. no
matter whether he takes advantage Of the
three days or not, is required at the time Of
accepting to place upon the paper a stamp,
as required upon a bill of exchange. If he
gives his check in payment. of course, the
bank requires 2-cent stamp"
Another important ruling was that a re-
ceipt for monthly rent is taxable as a
memorandum contract.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH.

The substitution of American authority
and methods for those of Spain in the
islands soon to come under our control will
much political friction. Nothing could be
more different than the American IDEAS
forms and methods of government and those
which the Spanish have been practicing
for hundreds of years in their colonies. To
begin with, there is the radical difference
between Latin and Anglo-Saxon ideas, and
this has been accentuated by the culture Of
progress on one side and adherence to me-
diaeval ideas on the other. The substitu-
ton of one for the other will involve a
fundamental change of social systems and
the replacement of one civilization by an
other. A single incident will illustrate this.
At Ponce two of the leading Jesuit priests
of the place, representing thousand
churches in the province, called on General
Wilson for information as to how far and
in what manner the United States authori-
ties would contribute to the support of the
church. There is something almost pathetic
in the simple ignorance thus displayed
Under the Spanish system, as everybody
knows, the state and church are closely
connected, the support of the one going
hand in hand with that of the other. 1t is
system of strict reciprocity. by which the
state guarantees patronage. protection and
degree of pecuniary support to the Roman
Catholic Church, with discriminating laws
and administration against all other
churches or denominations, in return for
which the church becomes the right arm
of the government. and church prelates its
agents for the extension of its power, the
suppression of discomfort or instruction
and the maintenance of government au-
thority generally. This partnership be-
tween church and state prevails wherever
Spanish government exists, and it is so
close and strong that to break it would be
to destroy the government. One can read
lily imagine the bewiderment of the good
priests of Ponce at the sudden overturning
of a system which had been undis-
turbed for centuries. They saw a new
flag. new faces. new uniforms, and all the
evidences of new power and a new regime.
Their first thought would naturally be of
| the church and themselves, and what the
change meant for them. Would the old
| system be continued, extended or modified?
Would the partnership between the church
| and state continue or would 1t be annulled
| Would the church receive the same sup
port 1t did before. or more or less? They
must have been greatly surprised when
| General Wilson informed them that under
| the Constitution of the United States it
was not possible to apply any govern
mental money for church purposes. directly
or indirectly, in any form whatever. And
! when Chaplain Chadwick, Of the Cincinnati,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
TRANSFER OF SICK.
Fever-StricIken Soldiers Removed
from the Transport COnchO.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-The quarantine
boat James w. Wadsworth transferred sew
enty-nine sick soldiers from the transport
Concho to-day to Swinburne island. Among
them was Capt William Panlding. of the
Tenth United States Infantry Two men
were left on board the Concho. They We're
Corporal L. w. washington, Company g.
Twenty fourth Infantry, who was wounded
in the thigh. and Private Morgan Simpson,.
Company B. Sixth Infantry. rwho was
wounded in the foot These men are not
fever patients, and will be transferred to
the S. r. Smith infirmary. at New Brighton.
for treatment. Private James Rougher.
Company d. Thirteenth Infantry, who was
suffering with typhoid fever, died in transit
to Swinburne island on board the James w.
Wadsworth. An autopsy will be held to-
morrow morning to determine theocause OF
death. The tug Charles f. Allen. went to
Swinburne island this afternoon ana trans
ferred Bryan Leighton. who is suffering
with measles, to the reception hospital.
foot of East Sixteenth street, whence he
was taken to the Willard Parker Hospital.
This tug also took some of the GONZALES
cent soldiers from Hoffman island TO Fort
charge by the post. The officers were sent.
from Hoffman island TO Fort Wads-
worth shortly afterwards. The SOL
diers sick with Slight attacks Of malarial
fever and minor diseases were sent to the
S. r. Smith infirmary. Eleven of these
were from Swinburne island; the others
from Hoffman island.
DR.. Doty viii hold a Consultation with the
commander of the United States cruiser
Yale as TO the advisability of disinfecting
tina vessel, The Yale has been in active
ser vice for long time In tropical waters.
anc II Is believed by the government au-
thorities to be proper measure to take adj
vantage of the disnfecting plant of the
quarantine boat James w Wadsworth TO do
the work while the Yale Is anchored off
Tompkinsville. The work performed by the
disinfecting force of the quarantine on the
United States cruiser Harvard was consld-
cred so effective that similar work should
be done on the Yale.
Major Heyl, assistant inspector general
OF the United States army. visited quaran-
Secretary of War Alger 10 investigate the
condition Of the transport concho~ After
consultation with DR.. Doty he returned to
this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03

The end of the naval operations Of the
war is so plainly in sight that the govern
ment is justified in beginning the reduction
of the force, and, correspondingly, of ex-
penditures. 1t is said that nearly all the
vessels which were pressed into the service
and improvised for various hostile opera
tons at the beginning Of the war will be
disposed of or returned to their former own
ers as soon as possible. The ordering OF
three of the war ships, the Texas. the Iowa
and the Indiana, to Northern ports for re-
pairs is another indication that the gov
eminent regards the heavy naval work OF
the war as practically finished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03

Prince Bismarck's written instruction re-
garding his epitaph is characteristic AS
penned by himself it will be: prince Won
Bismarck, born April /, 1915. died -" with
the addition of "A faithful German and
servant Of Emperor William l." This is not
only in keeping with the rugged simplicity
of the great statesman's character. but
shows that he wished to link his name with
that of his first master and not that of his
last one. 1t was enough for him to have been
a faithful servant of one who understood,
appreciated and sympathized with him, and
he was willing it should be forgotten that
he had served another Emperor of whom
this could not be said If his epitaph is
carved in stone according to his directions
he will have the last word in history.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03

Last night the Republican crowd about
the hotels was larger than was ever known
in an off year. 1t was the joyful coming
together of friends from different parts of
the State. 1t was joyful because it is, for
many reasons, a Republican year. The
prosperity which set IN with the election of
Mckinley, the course pursued by the Re-
publican party and administration in the
conduct of the war and the general vindica-
ton of the Republican contentious in the
campaign of 1896 give the assurance not
but Of the confidence to which the Repub-
lican policy is entitled.
There is the usual rivalry Of aspirants for
the nominations when victory seems as
sured, but that is an excellent omen. Bet
ter have hot contest for nominations than
to appeal to reluctant men to be candi-
dates. There are the usual rumors of COM
binations. but, like those of the past, they
are the imaginings of superheated magma
lions.
All the arrangements for the convention
have been carefully made with view to
fair play and expedition of it's business.
The convention will not be compelled to
wait the agreement Of the platform COM
mittee. as there is no difference of opinion
among Republicans on the issues and their
treatment. 1t will be one of the largest
and most enthusiastic conventions ever held
by the Republicans of Indiana.
The large number of intelligent young
men who are here as delegates must be
noticed by all those who go where party
men congregate 1t is fact which assures
not only Republican ascendency in Indiana
but intelligent management Of public at
fairs =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03

In conducting negotiation for peace. or
IN fact any other International negotiation.
the President should not accord any weight
TO the representation that 1.-The people
should be taken into the confidence Of the
administration" This expression has been
used within the last few days, even In the
Associated Press dispatches from Washing
ton, as indicating the duty of the President
70 give Immediate publicity to every step
and feature of the negotiations with Spain.
It ID radically wrong. The President is not
under any such obligation At the proper
time ana under proper circumstances it is
all right Cor the administration 70 take
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03

A prominent Mississippian, which State
has Ee4 yst alled its quota under the call
for volunteers, says that if the war had
been put on the ground of Remember the
AIaine instead of freeing Cuba, the call for
volunteers would have met with a much
heartier response in that State. Mississip-
plans spesk of the Cuban insurgents as "a
lot Of niggers." They certainly are not an
attractive lot, but there are sufficient rea-
sons for prosecuting the war outside of
them