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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

der such assaults by other State corporations?
2, Is the order of United Mine Workers an
incorporated body?
3, If so, is it chartered with the rights of
mercenary to invade other States and attack
their industries, even though the latter be
also incorporated?
4, If it is not incorporated, what are its
rights as promoter Of Pennsylvania mining
interests and correspondirgly destructionist
of similar Maryland interests?
These inquiries can be instituted and
carried on at any time-nOw or after the
suspension is over, and they should be
pressed. The "stirring-up of strife and
advertising" occasioned thereby will be
so much of the noise and smoke of a
battle waged i'll Self-defenSe. If the
operators of competing coal regions We're
to send Pennsylvania conStabulary or
military here to tie up ourmining indus
tries the State of Maryland would quick
ly find way to meet the invaders and
drive them back.
The Bureau 5 reply, therefore, appears
to be an effort to limit its usefulness to
the promotion of industrial development
and to expose its uselcSsness as a protect
or of that development after it is pro
NOTED. II goes further and tacitly CON
feSSeS that it is satisfied with its present
limited powers aud has no disposition to
seek those which will make it efficient
for defense as well as promotion. 1t is
not its duty to question the rights of
Pennsylvania corporations to enter
Maryland and assail home corporations,
home business, home industry, home
comfort, home everything, nor is it its
''business' TO inquire into the right of
labor organizations to loan or sell them
selves to Pennsylvania corporations as
the implements with which such assaults
are alleged to be made.
The JOURNAL still disagrceS with this
view 1t still holds that enough has been
alleged to warrant the Bureau in probing
the matter to the bottom and laying the
results before the next legislature with a
request for all practicable enlargement
Of powers to prevent rcpetitions Of such
invasions as has been alleged is now
upon us.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Orphans Court.
Vt Fridays session last week

AT Fridays session last week
Annie j. Price and NJ. Gibson Porter, adj
ministrators of Andrew b. Price, deceased,
filed an inventory of personal property of
their intestate and an order was passed aul.
thorizing the sale Of the same.
AT Tuesdays session.
The sale of real estate made by David w.
Sloan and Duncan }. Sloan, executors of
Alexander Sloan, deceased, was finally rati-
fled and confirmed.
A r. Percy, guardian ofJohn Percy, of
Allegany county, settled her first account.
}. W. S. COChrane, administrator Of John
H. kOOntz, deceased, settled his first and final
account.
Lucy J. Fresh, guardian of Charles T.
Fresh, Of Allegany county, settled her second
account and an order ofaIowance was passed
thereon.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Party InSinCerity.
Know Not What They %,

The Chicago TmrS-Ucruid says
Keep watch of the man who doesn't like
press that is free-another Van Wyck
Behind him is crouching low
The click Of the type the roar of the press
Are never hateful to people unless
They're afraid that the world may know.
There are people under the protection
of the Maryland Declaration Of Rights,
who are 'allowed to speak absolutely
unquestioned their sentiments on all
subjects" the matter of the suspension
being star topic.
These same people, however, are not
tolerant Of the elderly of the press. -
There are other people who glory i'll
the freedom of speech, but denounce the
same liberty i'll print, and these are they
who unknowingly would establish the
eternal untitneSS of things.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

To Mr.. TOwles' kind invitation | add my
own, with the assurance that every effort
will be made to keep the stock and work up
to the same high standard he has established.
The arrangement under which am to have
the benefit Of his very superior tuition dur
ing the current three months feel sure will
enable me thenceforward to meet the most
e%aclng taste of 4 community educated by
his service 70 the mos artistic ideals Mean
while, remember that he is still with me.
JUnc9 S. GRAFT HAVERSTICK.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
\ Little History.

EX-Mine Inspector Thomas Brown,
writing to the Cumberland Times, gives
''the prices IL ton for mining Big Vein
coal since the first ton was shipped by
rail to market"
% cents, 33 cents, 81, IS cents, so cents, 40
cents, As cents
The figures IS and 33 cents-were
ante-war rates; 81 for awhile during the
war; 50 cents from the war up into the
seventies; then 80 cents; next 10 cents :;
last 10 cents. Continuing, Mr.. Brown
says:
The last named as cents) was the price
paid before the strike, So cents is now offered
and 60 cents is asked by the miners.
The advances of and 10 cents from
the lO-cent rate We're made in accord
with promises by the companies.
1t is also remembered that of all the
suspensions since the war the miners
won in but one-if the JOURNAL mistakes
not-in the early eighties, shortly after
the close of the spring contracts. For II
brief period, forgotten by Ny. Brown
perhaps - cents was paid.
This induced the companies to adopt
the saving feature known as 1.-THE strike
clause" since which all revolts have
practically been against not the COM
panics, but og0j"I Hc coDS0mcrx'
1t is needless to say these are Il very
large crowd OF people, far away and
wholly without sympathy for anything
or anybody i'll connection with coal min
lng-who entertain no more concern for
the miners welfare than do the miners
for the prosperity of the farmers in
Minnesota who grow their bread.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Ihc Situation.

The most important event Of the week
was the sccurcment by the Business
Mems committee Of il conference of
Consolidation miners with president G..
X. Lord.
At the request of the leading miners
the matter was taken up by the COM
mittce and Mr.. Lords consent obtained.
y meeting was next held at Wright's
crossing Thursday afternoon, where
eight delegates, representing the four
large mines of the Consolidation Coal
company, We're elected.
These went to Cumberland yesterday
and the conference is believed to be pro-
cecding as this issue goes to press.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Anti-NIcPjt.

We are opposed to the Civil-Servce law he
cause it is un-AmeriCan.
This was the motto on one of two kim
dred tranSparencies carried in the nation
al republican parade, five miles long, in
Philadelphia Monday night
If the merit system, upon which the
civil-servicc law is based be Gun
American then our system of public
education is also ''un-American.
So also are all other incentives to
civilized DEVELOPMENT.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

The following notes of veal estate
transfers are of more OF less interest:
Thomas E. Boston to Frank Bills. lot in
Homecoming, $50.
The Borden Mining company to George
Edward Skdmore lot in Borden names $500
David Sloan It a. to Thomas NJ and E}'s
worth Gineyau, 2O) acres land near oIitowu,
5000, and 30 shares stock Shenandoah Nil
ling company, par value $1,000.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Moves III Circle.

'Do you know what makes money so
scarce asked the man who was making an
inHamnatory speech on social subjects.
YES, sir, answered Il man in the front
row. Its sitting here listening to you III
stead of going to work. '-Salisbury (Pa,)
star.
Isn't that Ground robin?"
Money scarce because worker confrSscS
he is ''listening," not working.
On the other hand, the worker has no
''wOrk" to ego to" because money at 60
cents ton is said to be too ''scarce'
How is this ANYWAY?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

The Midland correspondent of the Balti-
more Morning HGdid is achieving a reputa-
ton for over estimating crowds that would
make him a very acceptable crowd-2uager at
the Hagerstown and Frederick fairs.-Cum-
berand Nc~S.
How would he answer as filling for
the affidavit division of the circulation
department of a marble-yard afflicted
with newspaper appendicitis?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
COUNTY NEWS.
Thrifty Somcrsct-Poor AI!c9any

The Salisbury CPa.) Stor says
Our streets are being worked this week by
Georges Creek miners who came here to seek
work. Our native people here all have more
profitable employment, and our street COM
missioner Is glad to hire strangers. Truly
we are having a boom here
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
BrcViticS.

Aye har socialist somofagun talk en-
Coombcrland oddcr day an haze say re
publican or democrat bane cut on sem
piece. Haze say socialist fallcrs bane
only kind ov men vat know yuSt right
way to do tenAs. Aye notice haze lax to
say "faller voarkcnmenS," bot Aye bet
tray dollar and fufty-saN cent haze hat
not done days hard voark en- twcnty-von
var Ell saXteen mont, except ven haze var
voarken hes yaw.
y report uuauthCnticated comes from
down the Creek that Il hypnotiSt buried
Il middle-aged woman at Lonacon-
ing one day last week and dug her
up three hours later the experiment to
show his power. She awoke all right
none the worse for her experience. 1t
turned out, however, that the test was
really not test The woman had sold
goods many years i'll store whose pro-
prictor did not believe i'll advertising. "
About five workers in or about the
mines who had gone elsewhere and en-
gagged work have died or been killed
sore Il long way from home. The suS-
pension may not be chargeablc with
these calanties, but when death comes
the blow falls lighter upon those who
survive when it finds its victim at home.
Faller vat know mae hac say Won var
ago AYE veil loaf around vor light yob
an regular pay" An, bay yeminy, Aye
tai hem odder day eff haze don't look en-
enstead ov out hae vcllhaf to talk regular
yob an light pay.
Fallcr vat know mae haze say das bane
great troubles en- voman's club en- COON
bcrland oddcr day ven fuftecn vomenS
cast twcntySaX votes.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
\ SmCcnssfmI Oncnimg.

From reliable accounts the people of
Midland gave the opening Of the FIRST
National Bank at that place Tuesday Il
very flattering reception. The JOURNAL
has some particulars which. obtained too
late for this issue. will appear next.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

"Philip's Boy says.
The deepest thinkers in this county are the
miners of Georges Creek when several hun
dred feet down under the ground
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
An Expert.

The Nineland 0iausas) Weekly Vine,
tells of an undertaken i'll that vicinagr
who evidently understands the business
from the word. "one," to the word
puff
One of the peasantcst sights we have had
i'll this town in long time was the artistic
manner in which John Griffin, of Lawrence
buried Bill Kruger, who died since our last
issue. Mr.. Griffin had his trade at his fingers
ends and he handled our dead citizen with
an agility that was startling in originality
He was everywhere all the time, weeping
with the afflicted widow, discussing weather
prospects with farmers and soliciting business
from the other attendants at the funeral. He
will doubtless be able to get all the business
in these parts. Before leaving for home he
subscribed for this great family weekly, pay
ing year III advance, hence this puff.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

The Homecoming star announces semi
weekly editions until further notice, that
Of SATURDAY, to be known as "hnt stuff =,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
New Definition.

What is an island:
\ body Of land surrounded by Iona
coming
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Coming Events.

The annual commencement exercises
of the Central Commercial College,
Cumberland, will be held i'll the Acad-
envy Of Music Thursday evening, 2Sth
inst. Elaborate preparations are under
way for AN interesting occasion. The
annual address will be delivered by Rev.
b. DIN Eldredgc, of Winchester, Va,
whose subject will be "Winning Forces
of Life, or How to VIM" Mr.. Eldredge
is IN orator of high rcputc. The Cum
bcrland and Pennsylvania railroad
management has consented to hold the
train-No. :, until II p. ~, to accom-
MEDIATE Georges Creek attendants.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23
Sad.

The H"uUcr, otherwise Il great up
litter, sympathizes with poor clothes for
rich thoughts. 1t holds, like the anti
merit politician, that the fertility of
ignorance should be cultivated rather
than stcrilizcd.
Not so with editor Johnson, who
knows better but revoltcd lightly against
an implied caution to be more careful
to brighten his thought with the polish
of grammatic dictiGn.
1t is sad, not to say distressing to re-
fleet that there is so much open rebellion
i'll FroStburg against the imperialism of
the synthesis Observation-Disclosures
Party Insincerity.
1t Is a delicate job to write the republican
platform. Having majority of both houses
of Congress, peope may wonder why the
party does not enact its demands into law in
stead of putting them i'll PLATFORM Chicago
Record.
And after 'enacting its demands, -
why does not 'thcparty" provide amply
for their enforcement:
Did "the party discharge its duties
with the same force it makes its ode
mandS, its nominees for the House of
Representatives could not then dpride
the civil-scrvicc law and say on the
stump they are opposed to it's il is
UOW udmiHii,rrd."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

Business Weather Note.
ments planted IN the JOURNAL.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-06-23

Chief of Bureau of Industrial Statistics.
In Mr.. Smiths entire letter the point
made by the JOURNAL is not touched.
He replies to a contention the JOURNAL
did not make and ignores those which it
did. To establish this the questions of
the JOURNALS article, embodying the
gist of the whole, are here repeated
/, Are Maryland corporations helpless I'M
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27

The Siamese youth have only one
game worth considering, and that one
is indigenous--or native to Burmah-
the question of parentage being
much -mooted one. At all events, the
game requires a certain amount of ac-
tivity, and is very interesting to the on
locker. 1t is kind Of football-in fact,
| have heard it called Burmese foot
ball-played with ball about four
inches in diameter, made of braided
rotan. entirely hollow, very strong ana
resilient. The number of contestants
is not arbitrarily fixed, but play is
sharpest when there are enough to
form a circle about ten feet in dame
ter. The larger the circle after 1t has
passed the desirable diameter the slow
err the play. The game is to keep the
ball tossing into the air without break
| ing the circle. AS man fails at his
opportunity he drops out, and wher
there remain but four or six the work
lis sharp and very pretty. The ball il
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27
Author of Annie Laurie"

A quaint, venerable lady. who might,
to all appearances, have just stepped
out of GOLDSMITH comedy or Gains
borough picture, died the other day in
the person of Lady John Scott Spottis-
woode, the composer of annie Laurie
and other familiar melodies. She was
"a years of age, and aunt of the Duke
Of Buccleugh, and closely related to
the late General Wauchope.
She had very strong character, and
was great upholder of old manners
and customs. When travelling she
rode in = carriage, always he'd posi-
lions, and encouraged the observance of
old customs. She was a liberal bene-
factor of the poor and maintained a
meal mill as relic Of old times. and
she preferred thatch on roofs snd peat
for fires. She was an indefdtigable
collector of antiquities.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27
Two Beautiful Gowns.

A dinner gown of mauve satin has
skirt of luxeuil lace. Over the front
and back are panels of the satin en-
broidered with figures of purple panne,
emphasized with gold beads. The cor
sage is of the embrold cred satin, held
by corselet of white lace. The mitt
sleeves are Of purple, figures on mauve,
mousseAne de sole, being substituted
far-tba- satin One shoulder strap Is
sage by butterfly of gold beads anu
amethysts; bows of purple and mauve
tulle held by these butterflies cress the
other shoulder. With it is worn in the
hair a gold and amethyst butterfly
holding short purple and mauye
feather
A pretty gown for the ball room has
a tunic of white lace, with the edge
embroidered in velvet roses. This is
slightly draped over skirt of White
satin, with edge finished with a line OF
sable. On the corsage is packet corse-
let of lace with embroidered edge. The
decolletage is finished with rufiles OF
white tulle, and strings of artificial
roses make the shoulder straps.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27
NO. SO

A styIlrh white net for evening
gowns is massed with large is.,-qcale
scquins put on In scallops.
Meteore crepe dc chimes. SPOTTED
with chenille, like flowers in white. are
one of the novelties of The season.
Lace waists in delicate lovely de-
signs will be one of the prominent
toilettes for the summer.
Embroidered ecru linen which is
transparent makes lovely summer
gowns with pink bastiste for the I'M
derdress which may be accordion plat.
ed. Use the plated batiste fer the un-
der bodice with short bolcro OF thu
linen.
Untrimmed hats made of .ulle and
chiffon, are now to be had in many
smart shapes, and If one is at all clcv.
er about such things. they can easily
be trimmed so that they closely simu-
late an expensive hat.
Following the ruffled ribbons that we
have been having for trimmings there
has come a charming embroidered
mousselin de sole ribbon, scalloped at
one edge. all ready to use as an elab-
crate form Of trimming
One of the prettiest new models in
Paris gowns has a short holero, cur
wing in the back in two scallops, over
deep pointed girdle of moire silk.
The gown Is of marine blue chevlot,
with the front panel piped with white.
Handsome pattern gowns are of
point d'esprit in large coarse net,
with an allover design in silk ap.
pliqued on. All black Is handsome
and black on steel ground effective.
Nothing has been more stylish, how
ever, In appliqmed gowns than the
black cloth appliqued on 10 black silk.
The newer frocks have most of them
a crush belt of some kind. One Of
these gowns, having a broad pointed
collar, so broad that the effect is al
most like yoke, has a belt of the
material, blue figured silk, crushed a
little around the waist and above point
ed to match the collar and fitted hav-
ing something the effect Of corselet.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27
Women clarks in Russia.

In Russia women have been for some
years employed as apothecaries' clerks.
and it is said that the public as well
as the apothecaries themselves mani
fest preference for them over men.
In Germany, too a movement iu this
direction has been started. the Wur-
temburg Minister of Education hav-
ing resolved to give women chance to
secure the necessary instruction and
pass examinations. On this subject an
article in a prominent journal by DR..
W. Wachter gives the impression that
If women do secure this privilege it
will be anything but sinecure, Ger
man apothecaries' clerks have to un-
dergo very severe course of studies,
and, when they receive position, they
are expected to be on duty from seven
or eight in the morning to ten or eleven
at night, besides attending to the night
bell every other night, If not every
night. For all this they receive from
fifteen dollars to eighteen dollars a
month, with board and lodging, or
thirty dollars to thirty-seven dollars
WITHOUT DOaru ana LOGGING. III lew
exceptional cases an assistant may re-
ceive as much as fifty dollars a month.
Under such circumstances 1t is hardly
a wonder that young men do not crowd
into this field of employment. 1t Is,
indeed, the difficulty of getting assist
ants, especially in villages, that has
made many of the apothecaries willing
to consider the candidacy of woAen.
DR.. Wachter, however, sounds two
notes of warning. Women clerks, he
urges, should under no circumstances
nfr66efeRt l9Mef M ROY wages le than the men, and
sent to act, when business is slack, as
assistant to the apothecary's wife, thus
enabling her to dispense with SER
want.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27
WONDERS OF coRNsrALKS
Discarded Baruysrd Truck Now an Important
Article for Manufacture.

The third cellulose plant in the Uni
ted States the first in Indiana, and the
second largest in the world, Is being
compieted at Linden, Ind. Uver %Ioo,
the plant will employ 100 men. riieS'ai.---
corn pith, for ages considered worth
less, will then be put on the market as
4 protection for battleships of all ma
tons, as smokeless powder. dynamite
and other high explosives, as fine als
paper, as varnish, kodak films, car-box.
packing, filler, waterproof cloth, llno-
leum, imitation silk, patent leather
finish. face powder, slicate packing,
and in hundred more as varied ana
novel forms of which the farmer, VINO
has been throwing stalks away az
waste, never dreamed.
The outer lining-that part which IN
closes the pith-will be made into nour
as an adulterant, as a cattle feed,
chicken fattener and an egg producer.
Part Of it will be made up into candy,
some Of it into coloring dyes, and sun
other elements of it will become part
of far more novel processes. 1t Will
add thousands Of dollars to the crop
receipts of Indiana farmers, Will con-
sumo only that which has been waste,
and VIII furnish employment for
skilled workers. The plant being
erected at Linden includes all OF that
plant which has been operated at Rock
ford, ILL.,. to which has been added
enough to make the new almost twice
as large as the old concern. The other
two plants are owned by the same, the
Marsden Company, $4,000, 600 synui-
cate at Philadelphia, which controls
the patents covering the processes.
They are located at Owensboro, ky.'
and West Point, Va. A fourth Will be
erected this year at Peoria, Ill. ny
these factories 160000,000 tons OF corn
stalks that have annually been going
to waste will be used. These plants
make the stalks worth $3 ton, ana
, thus in the next twenty years increase
the income of farms STANDARDIZATION ny
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-04-27
Hobbies for Children.

Where mothers and fathers seem to
lose hold of their children is in lack
of interest in their amusements. Boys
and girls who have reached the age OF
twelve or thereabouts want some other
occupation besides going to school and
romping about after school hours. 1t
is Just at this age that the children
need interesting in some hobby. II
they do not take up the hobby when
they are young there is very little prob
ability that they will have time to do
in after years. The need of the grown
up folks of the present day is more
time.
Each days work seems to swallow
up all ones energy until there is hard
ly any time for improvement of any
sort. 1t is because men and women
do not know how to use up protitably
the few spare minutes they may have
in the day that we have so many SLOW
enly, gossiping wives, drunken hus-
bands and neglected children. The
boys and girls should be encouraged to
interest themselves in work of some
kind either in manual labor, such as
carpentry, wood carving or meta
work, in work for those poorer ol
weaker than themselves. or else IL
some special branch of study. such a!
botany, chemistry, cookery or dairy
work. Not only will some such hobb!
serve to occupy what would otherwise
be wasted hours, but in after years i
might probably be source of income