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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

The New York Engineering and Min
ing Jo"rH0i reports that
The demand for coal in the Atlantic Sea
board soft coal trade continues stronger The
shoal water ports are heard from now. Buy
ers at these ports are sending i'll orders thick
and fast; they are looking for coal and try
ing to get stocked up for the winter. Ship
pers are not able to keep boats for this trade
from accommodating at the tide-water shipping
ports, thus showing aside shipments to other
points. In some cases this is merely a matter
OF giving preference to the most urgent orders.
In many cases. however, the delay in ship
ments is due to the short car supply at the
colleries. This car shortage causes much
complaint from producers, and it is asserted
that the railroads show open favoritism for
three concerns. During the past week other
producers have been able to obtain only a
little more than 50 per cent. of the total num-
Der of cars wanted. The main lines for the
past weeks have acted much IN this fashion:
They would allow the producers up to IS or
so per cent the number of cars wanted and
afterward allow loaded cars to accumulate
along the lines; then car supply would be
cut to 80 per cent. When producers protested
the accumulated cars would be rushed
through to tidewater and the railroads would
point to this improvement IN transportation
as an offset to the car supply at the mines.
When cars on road were reduced to a mini
mum the supply of cars would be increased
to IS per cent. and the former course of action
repeated.
Trade in the far East is very activeland con-
sumers who have been unable to get supply
of better grades are stocking up on poorer
Goals. Along the Sound the same conditions
prevail. No shipper seems able to supply all
orders from this territory for good coal. New
York harbor trade is also good Al-rai
trade is large and producers are obliged to GU.
down on orders to keep their shipments fair
ly distributed. Export business shows num-
erous inquiries and steady shipments.
Transportation from mines to tide is rreg-
ular.
Speculative prices on Cearfield coal have
fallen slightly and are now about 81 Asa 81. IS
to consumers f. o. b. New York llarbor ports
Jobbers get coal little cheaper.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
CORRESPONDENTS,
Vote For pearre.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct 16, 1900.
, tho MININc TOIrpN,I

CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct. 16, 1900.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Knowing that your natural inclination
tends toward the principles of the old
democratic party, | have been reading
your paper very carefully to determine
whether you are going to support Nc
Kinley again, or whether you will take
Mr.. Bryan, with his reiterated Chicago
platform, but have been unable to de-
eide. So-called imperialism" almost
seems to offset "16-tO-1."
But however you may decide that
question, it appears to the writer that,
championing the cause of the working
man, as you have been of late, You
should have something definite to say in
regard to the candidate for Congress
from the Sixth district. Thisis strictly IA
workingman's county, and if the men
who toll for their living will take the
time to look up the records of the two
aspirants for Congress and then vote ac-
cordingly, Mr.. Little will discover that
the voters of Allegany county keep their
eyes on our public men and do not sup
port those who will not do as much
for them.
The records of both Mr.. Pearre and
wants them. Mr.. Little was member
Of the Maryland State Senate in 1884,
and Mr.. Pearre also served a term in the
State Senate as well as part of his pres
ent term i'll Congress.
The present Congressman has ALWAYS
gone ON record i'll support of labor bills,
while Mr.. Littles record shows that he
was nearly always the other way. One
of the bills he opposed during that
session was the one affecting the miners
of Allegany and Garrett counties, regu-
lating the hours of labor, etc, he being
one OF seven to vote against it. The
vote was 40 to March 81, 1884.
If workingmen will not support the
officials who look after their interests
honestly while i'll office, it will be hard
CT than ever to get men to do it.
If the miners of Georges Creek are
the kind of men | think they are the
Creek will this year give larger major
lty than it has ever given i'll IL national
election.
Stand by the man who has stood by
you, and no one knows that fact better
than the miners of Georges Greek
A WORKINGMAN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Everybody Here Knows This.

Just one year ago the JOURNAL told
how
With admirable courage and commendable
freedom from tine-cut distinctions Col Pearre
read the riot act to the Trust H said, in
substance, that unless operations are resumed
i'll the Cumberland mill, his sense of duty
will compel him to smash one of the broadest,
widest longest and strongest principles of his
political life.
In palmer words, he would introduce an
amendment to the Dingley Act repeating the
tariff on tin-something hitherto unheard of
in the long history of legislative protection of
American labor.
The Trust tumbled
Operations We're resumed and have
been continued.
What did the business?
The threat to repeal the tariff on tin?
Less than that
The mere declaration of an otcmpt in
that direction was enough
That a prohibitive tariff is the mother
W-'o" of trusts is no longer question.
And that Mr.. Bryan remedy for the
misbehavior of trusts which owe their
imperialistic life to the tariff is the true
one has been proren by no lcSSo StafeSman
than C0I PpdrrP.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Concerning Arbitration.

The Cumberland Nems dissents from the
idea of compulsory arbitration "Arbitration
is not arbitration" it says, "if it is compul-
sory."-Batimore Nems.
SO with imperialism, which, if it be
not compulsory, is not imperialism. :"
But how can an adherent of Mark
Hanna favor voluntary "arbitration' or
disapprove of compulsory arbitration ?"
For the time is coming, moyb", when
"arbitration" of any brand will be out
Of date. Under an imperialistic regime
the voluntary kind is unthinkable.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Political.

In Il local way nothing will be doing
next week except a big meeting Saturday
eveningnext week when Pcarre, Powder
ly and Litchman will speak.
At the democratic club meeting Thurs
day evening an invitation to Hon.
George L. Wellington to speak early in
November, if possible, was adopted.
At same meeting the following dele
gates were elected to represent the club
at the great Madison Square Garden
demonstration of democratic clubs in
New York city on the 27th inst.
ID. F. McMullen John b. Shannon,
George Stern, Henry Mayer,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Ever-Present Dangers.

To those who call imperialism" non
sense the lessons of history are either
unread or unstudied. In Macaulay's
first chapter of his History of England
he wrote
We have been taught by long experience
that We cannot, ~ithom danger, suffer any
There is, therefore, one price for
liberty which never falls. Itisvigilance
which is eternal-which never ceases in
time of peace, never abates in time of
war, which is immutable and immortal
1t is not "nonsenSe' to remember that
your house is always i'll peril of fire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

Capt. Richard P. Leary, of the United
States Navy, just returned from some
where and speaking of certain eminent
citizens who disapprove of the war upon
the FilipinoS, says
If had my way would hang every d-n
one ofthem
That is the very essence of imperialism.
Whenever the taX-eatcr would hang
the tax payer for disloyalty, the people
should recognize i'll his confessed onim"S
the hiss of the serpent whose only kind
ness is that it gives warning of the
worse that is coming.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

Nearly all the countries of Europe
have dotted their hats, so to speak, to
Edison, but "the commercial spirit of
America so dominates the life of the
people that they do not adequately
appreciate their really great men.
Very few things travel slower than an
unwilling charity.
When one reads of the large betting
odds i'll favor of Mckinley the question
arises is the confidence of the gamblers
based upon the presumption that enough
people are sufficiently venal to be bought
by Mark Hanna alleged corruption
fund?
Men often die prematurely because
they live inconsiderately.
A young pastor over i'll Virginia dis
tributes every Sunday morning to his
auditors printed skeleton of his fore
noon sermon. Il want them to follow
me- he says, land take home some
tangible remembrance of the lessons
taught" But as it is hoped they get
more than the bones of skeleton an
offer was made to pay his printing bills
when, bless goodness, it turned out,
fortunately for the congregation, that he
is a printer turned preacher.
The fellow who tries to be wicked
generally runs up against the law at
last, and the newspaper which tries to
be too utterly good usually makes ludi-
crouS musS of it.
A st. Louis chop-house uses a ton of
cheese every week for Welsh rarebits
and Belgian hares bit rare.
An Englishman, George Brooks, re-
turned to his native land, tells his
neighbors that he found no statesmen
i'll America 1t is evident Mr.. Brooks
failed to call on any of his countrymen
who, before they could get on the State
central committee, were compelled to
engage i'll the newspaper business.
Some time ago the people of Tomb
stone, Arizona, having become tired of
the name of their town, moved to have
it changed but whether they succeeded
the JOURNAL never learned They said
that the report that "a rose smells as
sweet by one name as another" is more
or less delusive. Which is fact
tombstone for town is about as in
apt as For"m is for a newspaper organ
of burial-vault company.
A black-and tan rat-dog died i'll Gar
rett county Friday evening of last week,
after the Forum was printed, and the
people up there had to wait seven days
before they could see an account of the
particulars i'll print.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
CircumStantiaI Evidence.

Mr.. Pink Whiskers of Pocahontas
writes of ga Strengthening egg brought
into Fred. Durr's place by Bryan man
living north Of town. 1t was the maiden
effort of a Plymouth Rock pullet and
resembled perfectly formed gourd, i'll
Guiding handle. 1t is certainly curious
freak of nature, hard to account for, but
one worth any pullet's while to cackle
over Ldter-'.'A near neighbor of the
man above alluded to came i'll just now
with gourd he had cultivated into a
champion which he had intended to
send to the neutrality-suspicious. committee
as Il sample of Mckinley prosperity, but
after pulling it he found that all the
seed had been picked out of it by a fowl
to him unknown, but supposed to belong
to some democrat"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Coincidence.

On the train the other day going to
Cumberland gentleman, talking demo-
cratic politics, dcplored the fact that his
party had no newspaper organ i'll the
county; that the one pretending to fill
that office is a mere mouthpiece of a
faction, and it is hated even by many of
that faction
Going furtheranOther gentleman came
i'll and he, too, launched into politics.
He turned out to be an enthusiastic
Pearre man and exhibited about equal
parts of friendship for the Lowndes and
Wellington corners (he called them
corners" probably of a triangle.) 1t
didn't take him long to reach the fact
that his party, as party, has no organ.
In his words, emitting the non-eSSential
eXpletives-''only one-third of our party
is represented i'll our newspaper; that is,
represented At the right time. Call that
Il party organ ~ he fairly yelled.
"Great -r' But, as before midi
Gated, this column is hardly long nor
wide enough to hold diction that is
both unnecessarily elaborate and ex-
plosive.
The lesson is plain.
Each party badly needs real organ.
But neither will get it so long as only
Il few-"OnIy .fnction,' own it and,
like the trust, run it in their own inter
est at popular expense.
The whole party should own its organ
in the sense that all its constituents
should patronize it-not as Il bestowal
of favor, or as a grant of charity, but as
debt due to the promotion Of good
government to 1.-THE greatest number"
If possible, the editor, or publisher,
should o~H the organ and thus become
the architect of his own future in the
premises. He should, at the very least,
enjoy plenary discretion concerning all
party literature, always looking to the
benefit of the whole, never to the advan-
tage of part at the expense of the
whole.
This may appear an ideal portraiture
of the unavailable, but so long as people
recognize the organ as theoretically
needful, yet practically a tax upon their
good will, so long they should hold their
peace.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
BreVitieS.

There is talk of restocking the POto-
mac above the intake with bass so thick
that when a man reports having caught
two fish at one time on the same hook
he will not be regarded necessarily as q
candidate for increasing Cumberland's
Three Member Society of Ananias
Faller vat know mae haze say Cresap-
town cow eat sax bushel apples, an, bay
yeminy, shae gev fay pounds of apple
butter max mornen.
A cartoon would do Webster Davis i'll
justice. Itwould paint the lily. He is it.
Some Homecoming florist talks of plant
ing several thousand tube-roses next
spring. He wants to distinguish that
place from Barton and Pekin by its
smell. The contrast will be almost
hemisphere.
The Eckhart Philosopher was much
stirred up this week by report from
Cumberland that one of his neighbors
had gone down there on a spree, tackled
a restaurant, ate 'SaX dozen oysters,
washed them down met gallon of beer,
then went to hotel for dinner an, bay
yeminy, cleared oop every platter on fav
tables and topped off the whole lot bay
drenken bottle ov catsup.'
Cumberland is amilk -and-water town,
the water predominating. The milk
sold there, according to some analysis, is
so per- rent. water not all Potomac
water, but water for all that. And it is
recorded i'll the archives of physical
growth and development that water
with bad rep. never fattens
Some paper last week printed his
name and title civilian j. Warner, or
ganizer,' which was erroneous. There
are editors who differ with Mr.. Warner
on economic matters, but none will say
he is a j. certainly not J. j., nor
even J. B.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Killed While Resisting an Officer.

Owen Stowell, said to be of this place,
a driver in New York mine, was shot
though the heart in Cumberland shortly
after 1 o'clock last Sunday morning
by Edward O'Neill, city policeman,
The unfortunate affair started i'll Il
drunken quarrel in which Stowen was
the aggressor. When the officer came
upon the scene Stowell ran, STOPPING
meanwhile and picking up stone. AT
any rate, it was with stone the officer
was struck in the mouth. Not knowing
what was coming next, the latter fired
with the result stated. The grand jury
released O'Neillaftera hearing. Stowell
was u years old, married, but had not
lived with his wife.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Something Lacking.

There appears to be something wrong
with ga Workingman' s. statement that
Major Little opposed a bill i'll 1884
CIRCULATING the hours OF labor
There are only 26 votes i'll the Senate
hot Sc.
Perhaps the Major was member of
the House
In which event there must have been
some provision which did not comport
with his convictions of what is legally
proper.
Because bill is labor bill it is not on
that account always just the thing for a
legislature to enact into law.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
FROsTBURG, MD. OCTOBER %, 1900
A Misleading Clam.


The Cumberland News confesses that
its party "has not been able to maintain
the popularity of the cycling fad
Why not?
What is the party of progress and
prosperity here for?
Gentlemen, it is the fad mills that
most need party favor and governmental
stimulation.
The factories which turn out the real
thing in glass, tin, etc, can travel more or
less prosperously "on their merits ON
the antiquated philosophy of "demand
and supply" of goods people m"1 have.
The JOURNAL heard of a man lastSun
day who deprecated "holding the repub-
hcan party responsible for the industrial
paralyses which follow the refusal of
coal operators to give for instance, go
cents a ton"
That may be wrong doubtless is, but
is it not a natural result of the claim,
constantly made, that all the prosperity
that workingmen enjoy comes from the
republican party?
Is it not a poor rule that doesn't work
both ways:
Like the fishmonger in New York
who, when asked why he called himself
can ichthyologist," what :
the use of being fellow unless you can
become a whale of fellow" why
doesn't the party which processes foolish
ont prosperity to the eating millions do
the Job in a manner and with liberal
ity that will everywhere stop every kick
that is coming or can come?
For instance, Mark Hanna i'll a Chi
cago speech last Saturday said he "waS
largely responsible for the offer of an
increase of 10 per- rent. i'll the wages of
the Pennsylvania miners
Was he not little too late i'll doing the
right thing to make his intercession
meritorious in a party sense?
If the 10 per crDt. advance is rightly
theirs, why did he not have his party
join in the miners plea i'll the outset?
Why did he allow work to stop, idle
ness and suffering to ensue, and why
permit the States soldiers to become the
guardian angels of those who were with
holding prosperity from others who
wished to share i'll the party's bounty?
In general terms, if prosperity be a
speciality i'll the way of party benefac-
tons, why, i'll a vast majority of in
stances, does it have to be asked for,
begged for, and struck for?
Why do prosperity papers, like the
Ne"s, take the other side when Georges
Creek miners want ) cents more pros
pcrity than the operators are willing to
part with?
In the JOURNALS Judgment, the pros
pcrity claim is the most unqualified, I'M
reserved and explicit fraud ever set up
to tempt intelligent people to stray from
the straight and narrow path of plain,
common sense
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest:
At Tuesdays session.
Samuel S. Warwick to Jean Mccormick,
property at Barton, $50.
Andrew J. Wilson to Enoch H Pritchard,
lot in Beall's first addition, Frostburg, $1,000.
Thomas Carr to Hiram S. Coleman, prop
erty at Tannery, 81 600, etc.
Joseph Rushton to William ii. Gutter, lot
8, Knapp's Meadow, onaconing, $3.50
Samuel w. Shoemaker ct at, admins
traitors; to Charles G. Watson, property
known as Castle Garden" 800.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
4 Sad Reminder.

Intelligence of the death of Hon. w.
L. Wilson this week must have brought a
pang of remorse to those Senatorial demo-
Gratis who, in the interest of the Sugar
Trust, the Shirt Collar and Cuff Trust,
etc, butchered his tariff bill until it's
average came within 2 per- rent. of that
of the Mckinley Act
1t was that terrific breach of demo-
cratic principle and faith that drove the
party pell nell into the adoption of free
coinage and other populistic vagaries.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Nav be Mistaken,
That is not faith which drops its hold.
Once we have trusted, in our clasp

That is not faith which drops its hold.
Once we have trusted, in our clasp
Forever lies life's changeless gold,
Nor withers in our loosened grasp;
True faith through all time keeps its clasp
-Margaret Sangster.
Great judges, Maggie, had the Nc
Kinley administration held to its prom,
Use four years ago to preserve the gold
standard, your lines could be applied.
But the JOURNAL is hoping that ALI
son, McComas ri al. are mistaken III
their belief that, after all, they actually
went back on their own word of honor,
made-not only to their party, but to the
people.
That is to say, Maggie, they may not
be the apostates they seem to seriously
think they are.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

I think that word, prosperity" is
posted ON the wrong building .-John
Brddy.
clark from the tombs ~ A rolling
stone never gets fat.-J. b. IjWiams.
When you aint watching prohibition
lists keep your eye on the GIenner.'
We are people likely to do good things
when nobody is looking .-Hr"ryF cook
A bird i'll the hand gathers no moss
IlDriH Z
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

1t is said that three republican ex-sheriffs
of Alegany county have followed Senator
Wellington into the Brysnese camp.-Forum.
And still Senator Wellington is
hundred fold better republican than
those whose convictions, unlike his, are
supplied to them ready-made by the
party for party use and party purpose
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Pointers to CORRESPONDENTS,

The Windber CPa.) Ero serves up the
following rules for the guidance of its
correspondents:
i, Send news in us early as practicable.
2, Paragraph each item of news, and a
good plan is to number it, thus avoiding
confusion.
3, Give the facts in a news item.
4, Don't attempt to write jokes unless the
joke is apparent i'll the item itself.
5, Never write on both sides of paper, nor
neglect to sign your name at bottom of last
page.
6, Notes on the weather are not news I'M
less damage is reported therefrom.
7, Do not write simply to fill up; the waste
basket is being pretty well filled without it.
Every fact calculated to inform interest or
please is news; the more people it informs,
interests or pleases the more valuable it is.
The work of correspondents who fol
low those rules is very acceptable to
papers like the JOURNAL.
But they impose needless care, labor
not to say hardship, upon contributors
to sheets of the Forum class.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

Isn't there real substantial difference be-
tween prosperity and preying upon prosper
ity?
Is it really true that those who are preying
upon prosperity are the causes of prosperity,
and that the stopping of stealing means the
destruction ofprosperity New York World.
Those are about the results of some
current arguments in newspapers and on
the stump.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
To the Point,

The Cumberland Nc~S does not like
Webster Davis oratory.
But really Mr.. Davis talks like a man
who has not particle of faith in the eff
ficacy of circumlocution.
In palmer terms-he talks like one
who does not believe in calling spade
an agricultural bluntstrument.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
Four Years Ago.

The JOURNAL did not support Nc
Kinley four years ago, as ga Working
man" states. 1t supported "sound
money" and as an individual voted for
Palmer and Buckner.
But as "sound money is now being
used as a mask to cover an assault upon
popular government, the JOURNAL leaves
"sound money" as a bridge to be crossed
when we come to it again.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20
New and Old Music,

The Chicago JourUoi notes two touch
ing songs, Her Sweetheart Was Massa-
cred i'll Pekin," 10 cents, and "The
Hold-up Man May Have Mother" II
cents. We will stand by the old favor
ties, "Willy's Pants Are on the Shore, y
and "a Thousand Fleas Are on Our
Dog. "-Indianapolis JOnrnM.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-10-20

At Fridays session last week
Thomas p. Lyons, guardian of Edwin G..
Hawkins, Of Allegany county, settled his
third and final account, and Older was passed
for an allowance and pay over to ward.