Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-03-11

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does not involve nor imply call for
curfew law, nor, indeed, is it sug-
gestive of any Legislation save that of
a negative but firm regulation in fam
! lily affairs.
The JOURNAL refers to the sort of
local literature that is peddled out here
at the rate of 81 year-a sort that in
far too many instances nullifes the IN
structlon which the children of both
sexes receive at the county's costly
public schools.
A few examples will suffice to Justify
the JOURNALS solicitude.
In an article published in the Forum
last week the appended passage oc-
ours
If he had an extensive circulation, like the
Forum and Re"ie~ and other newspapers"
etc.
This is most wretched violation of
the law of grammatical concord.
1.-The Forum and Recie,C and other
newspapers are not persons. They
are things, and things do not consist
with such pronouns as che
And act like hen disturbed while hatch
ing on her nest.
This implies sad contradiction of
a fact in natural history. Hens Fever
hatch eggs when they are off their
nests. Could they do so, they would
be saved lot of tedious devotion to
the more than humane task of provid-
ing the community with spring chick
ems.
Here is a man who sneers at tombstone
journalism" and, hyena like, digs up cOrpses
that are long dead ana buried, and dishes
them up to his readers as literary delicaCles,
and expect them to relish and appreciate them.
Expect may be misprlnt, but the
JOURNAL doubts it. 1t should be En-
poets, to agree with the singular subject.
There is some news in that para
graph which surprises the JOURNAL.
ltdid not know that Goshhorns papers
are 'corpses, long dead and buried"
The trait of hospitality accorded the
"hyena' by the Forum does not at all
accord with that animals geological
reputation.
A philosopher once said that there ,rcyr
sermons in stones"
An ineXcusable error. In the first
place, the author of the optimistic pas
sage which the Forum mutilates has
never been reckoned "a philosopher"
In the next. truths of general, current
import are spoken of in the present
tense, never in the past. The com
plete quotation follows:
And thls-our life exempt from public
haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books IN the running
brooks,
Sermons in stones and good in everything
How passing pity the Forum should
not be tree" nor "brook,' nor
"stone ~ How more than passing
pity that its ''good" should be merged
Gin everything" in order that we may
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wholly invisible to the naked eye
We will give him future attention.
Did the Forum fear It's readers would
think it Twill give him. past "atten-
ton p Children of the public schools,
do not be bullIed out of the dictum that
the auxiliary, TWILL" implies the
future tense. 1t Is a reflection upon
you and your teachers that paper
must tell you what you know to be
self-evident. If it We're to print a cut
of horse with the statement under
meath, this is horse,' it would not
more hagrantly impeach your intel.
ligence as well as requirements.
Thursday morning was the darkest day
this winter
Morning. is only part of a day
The statement, if fact, should read
Thursday morning was the darkest
this winter.
The tenth paragraph-too long and
scattering to quote-is almost too
wicked to appear in these columns.
Indeed, the references to the infirmitles
Of "the All-Seeing Eye' are blasphe-
nous.
On this account the JOURNAL will
not dwell at this point, but conclude
by asking, with unaffected impressive
ness-can the people afford to encour-
age an institution which, perhaps un-
knowingly, counteracts so hurtfully all
the beneficent purposes for which pub
lie schools have been instituted among
men? Take this fine passage from
the New York WOrM:
This multitude of children our schools are
training for citizenship. These boys will
presently rule the land we live in, and the
| schools are trying to see to it that they shall
rule well. The girls will be the mothers of
those who are to come after us, and the schools
are training them for their exalted work.
| The flag of the Republic floats over every
| school house, and beneath it is nursery of
enlightened citizenship. Let us never grudge
dollar of their cost.
Indeed, let us care only for the dol
lar mis-spent for some supposed edu-
cational instrument that undoes out
side all or any part of what has been
accomplished inside-that at last turns
out to be what George M. Hansel calls
"a bluntstrument.r