Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-04
BreVitieS

Brevities
John M. Alec, the funny Mississippi
congressman, thinks the legal pro-
fession should be ennobled by admit
ting only good, qualified men to the
fraternity. Mr.. Allen may not know
it, but he differs considerably in this
matter with the Frostburg Forum-;l
court which, in its decision of the
King case, holds, in effect, that if Il
man wants to be a lawyer and with the
lawyers stand, he has a right to break
into the Bar Association. The Frost
burg authority's view is violent in
theory, but as condition it is tiasco.
The proposal on DIT to take a census
of town population, including that of
the anneXes, is good one. That Job
has never been properly done ; hence,
the town has never had the credit to
which it has been and is entitled.
The Forum accuses the JOURNAL of
''sending the other Heavenly Twin
to the Council Chamber-not to report
the business transacted, but to distort,
ridicule, impugn the motives, to
blacken by mis-statement those who
in anyway oppose Mr.. Romans bust
ness" Not only so, but it atfirms that
Sandy Smith ''must, necessarily, com
mand big wages" Sandy is paid,
poorly paid for his dastardly work for
the JOURNAL, but can anybody outside
the Forum guess why that paper want
ed Sandy's dastardly notes awhile ago
as foundation for its own Council re-
port Later-It was the best report
the FD1pi1n ever nuhliShed
An lrishman informs the JOURNAL
that although the English spell it
"fathe,," the Welsh "ddad," the true
way is "Gaid." He knows this be-
cause he once participated in a wake
where the individual in the coffin was
frequently referred to as "daid, be
jabers !"
1t is not for the Forum nor anything
nor anybody like it to announce "what
Oder meant to say For that purpose
he is his own interpreter. Mr.. Shuck-
hart had perfect right to accept posi-
ton on the committee and do as he
did; DR.. Griffith, an incorporation of
the Forum company and presumably a
stakeholder, should have declined to
serve, and ID. ID. Price, a corporate as
oOoi'tlo vi tic pleSiueut VI inc COul-
pany in several concerns, would have
shown apparent disinterestedness had
he also gracefully declined.
The Forum blubbers over the vilifca-
ton of its friends, to whom 1t ''sticketh
closer than to its leading circula-
ton" The Forum is evidently an APP
plicant for membership in what Roy
l.. McCardell calls 1.-THE cult of the in
consolable.'
The Cumberland Neecs says &C. J.
Fisher found on his farm near Patter-
sons Creek, a coin bearing ON one side
the inscription, Georgius III. Rex and
on the other Virginia, l773." The
Ne,rS should be circumspect. The
Forum, with its inimitable penchcnt for
manufacturing humor at the expense
of syntaX, might rise and ask-was
'the inscription on this side of the
FARM" or 1.-THE other side of "Pat-
terson's creek p
An estimable resident exhibited a
Forum news item this week which told
how out of 1.-TWO men, who attempted
to cross a river, -four reached shore
and "the Others sad to state, "were
drowned.' 10 prove 1t, the names of
the others, six in all. We're printed.
Estimable residents forget, however,
that arithmetic, like rhetoric, is not an
The argument that republicans
should support a paper that is repnb-
hcan" does not hold in the Frostburg
instance. A paper that assails half
the republican party, and the better
half at that, cannot by the longest and
most tense stretch of the most elastic
imagination be called "a republican
paper
Some local and other matter on first
page. Overflow. some Of it, two weeks
old, but readable.
Horace Walpole once said he ''could
be proud of his country if it were not
for his countrymen." Here in Frost
burg it is-''we could be proud of our
town were it not for the electric light
company's anti-cOrporation organ"
And when one thinks of it us repub-
lican anti-republiaan party paper the
conviction comes home that it is not
even a cenotaph of the Republican,, pub
lished here in the late seventies or
early eighties.
The telephone office has been re-
moved from J. M. Zimmerly's office to
Miss Campbell's store, next door.
He was introduced to gentleman
the other day as SANDY Smith. the
great pugilist -" The gentleman, him
self athletic, drew back, but was
quickly assured that "Mr. Smith is a
knock-down and drag-out hero of
terra-cotta controversy"
Alfred Jettries, water superintend-
ent, started the pumps yesterday and
the people of Frostburg are getting so
gallons of pure mountain spring water
every minute.
The Foum laid great stress on the
word, IBID" 1t had to do this to
make its system of arithmetic show
that apparently the JOURNAL got 500
more than Zimmerly's IBID" OF $l25.
But the JOURNAL got only $l55. 10
$50. 40 more, instead of $60-this after
allowing that everybody concerned ex-
cept Iimmerly is a liar. 1t is plain
that when the Forum wants to make a
poiut neither figures nor punctuation
a