Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-06-10
COUNTY NEWS.



of methods of raising money for re-
llgious purposes, said that when an
ice-cream freezer goes in a church the
Holy Spirit goes out"
Illustrating the efficacy of simple
remedies, a Cumberland barkeeper
put two buns to flight the other day
by Tapping a towel, wet with Potomac
water, in their faces. They made a
joint report later that it wasn't the
towel.
The Cleaner speaks of the star as
"Lonaconing's leading newspaper
How it reaches that conclusion the
JOURNAL doesn't know Probably be-
cause the Star has no legal smarty
connected with its editorial outfit.
Last weeks Homecoming Star, edited
/ by Caius j. Asinius Joker Polio Rob
inson, let up on the Haroun AL Raschld
! Bustids of the ReUie1o to an extent that
excited the popular inquiry-"has the
RecieO played the Cervera act -
Nothing appearing to the contrary,
the verdict implies that if the Reciew
| had ever had a case it would be en-
titled to damages.
| The Mayor of Cumberland and his
! Council have united in the conviction
that no more money should be spent
in looking for good water until liti
cation determines finally that the city
shall have bad water.
A Westernport letter, received last
week, describes the smells brought
down Georges Creek by the recent
high water as terrific in the magni-
tude and intensity of their vileness."
Those from Homecoming alone, where
live the judges of stately diction"
and "keen SATIRE" must have been
particularly sickening. All being
natural" however, according to the
Cumberland ideal of physical Pile
nomaen0, they went into the anti-pulp
mill gullet unsmelt.
The department of education will
suspended operations last Wednesday
for three months, partly in order to
let the school fund catch up. A
months schooling is lost because the
people are practically unwilling to
'chip in" the means to continue the
priceless blessing that much longer
per- aanun.
Judge Tuthill, of Chicago, decided
Monday, May -, that, ETC., and on
Friday, May 2G, he took it all back
and decided exactly the other way.
The legal department of the Lonacon-
ing ReojetC is pretty near as wobbly as
that.
A Cumberland man claims to have
settled in that town "A years ago.
"At that time, he says, ''the bullfrogs
had possession of the water supply and
the water-snakes had pre-empted the
Potomac The question now is
whether the Cumberland society of
chemists, journalists and theologues
are the real, genuine. simon-pure
legatees of the snakes?
A Curious State of Law.
A Baltimore writer in the New York
WOrld says:
ApropoS of lynching. There are thirty
States in the Union that do not by law punish
with death the crime for which lynchng is
most frequent. 1t is by common consent the
most atrocious and irremediable of crimes,
yet only fifteen Ofthe States make it capital
oftense, though III many States even arson
and lesser crimes are punishable by death
That lynching is crime there
is no doubt, but with so many avenues
of escape in the delays and contra
rleties of law for those who commit the
crime, there are few who can say what
they would or would not do when pro-
voked by all the peculiarly aggravat-
ing circumstances of a lower-race
assault.
The later exposure of woman on the
witness-stand, where, in order to save
the brute, she must be made to incrim-
mate herself, if possible, is also pow
erful deterrent of lawful proceeding.
And yet 1t were better that the brute
should be hung only after fair trial.
SUNDAY School Convention,