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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Whore the Great Paper is Solid.

A Philadelphia newspaper correspond
ent wrote so slightingly of the personnel
of Cumberland's democratic audience
that the NcrS, for the first time in its
life. went over body, boots and heel
taps to the democratic defense.
This instance furnishes Il pointer to
the democratic committee, namely
At each democratic turnout in Gum
berland hire Il city correspondent to
come on with his linguistic kaleidoscope
and make fun of the audience.
This will assure two instead of one
organ pro t"mPoT.
The truth is, however, the audience
was considerably sprinkled with good
republicans-prettyl ladies and handsome
men, as fine and orderly as Philadelphia
can show on any similar occasion.
The JOURNAL stands by the .NrWS.
For as between Cumberland and
Philadelphia, the JOURNAL is for Cum
berland all the time, although Philadel-
phia makes fewer faces over villain
Ously worse water supply-the tainted
concomitant of an immense area of
manufacturing prosperity.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
TOWN AND VICINITY.


If the GIc0Drr'S charges against the
officer are as false as the one it makes
implicitly against the JOURNAL, the
officer will soon have IA firstclass case to
take into court.
The English Lutheran church Sunday
school enjoyed picnic i'll the Wine
brenner grove Thursday.
Another ice factory needed. At least
somebody says the GI"o"er is the hot
test paper in the county" Keep your
eye on the"-ice factory
Wonder what turned the poor men
and workingmen against Jonathan?
Must have been and is his illiberal treat
ment of his brother, David.
Justice j. G.. Dennison thinks the
papers should have stated that he did
the principal work in obtaining Mrs.
Margaret Thomas pension-that all
Col. Pearre did was to ask the depart
ment for a report.
1t is reported that the Forum, seeing
the stereotyped line, keep your eye on
the GedDer," will soon adopt the injunc-
tion-''fiap your ear toward the big drum
cylinder
Cumberland has more Fourth of July
sentiment on tap than any town in the
county, but when it comes to editorial
Authorizations one paper i'll Frostburg
can beat all others, hands down.
1t is IA question with good many peO-
pie i'll Frostburg which is to be preferred
summer, with its warmth and picnics,
or winter, with its cold and surprise
parties?
For some time prominent people have
Helped Me" The JOURNAL takes the
hint and contemplates an essay on
Papers That Have Hindered Me, ="
with the Fo,Hm as the leading cause of
its lack of faith i'll the sanity of Lilo
estimates of the value of dollar.
a Missouri paper says "blackleg is
killing some calves i'll Clinton county"
Hereabout it is numbering whole beef
and tanning the hides in some printing
offices.
Corrected returns from the town dis
tricts show that there are three men
| who would hold the office of State COM
mitteeman. This comes, it is said. from
reliable sources as denial of the in
famous report that there is but one such
| man.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
A Bad EXamDle.

The Cumberland NeWS of Wednesday
published list of 80 prominent" demo-
Gratis who will not this year vote for
Mr.. Bryan.
But nobody could find i'll same issue
word concerning what Mr.. Wellington
intends to do, although that gentleman
the evening before thrilled big house
full of people with statement of his
prospectus.
As a matter of fact, however, the as
sertion of independence, SO tiercely
treated by both parties when their own
OK is gored, is an indication of growth
in political virtue. Had there been
more of it i'll recent years the people
would not now be compelled to choose
between evils.
Hence has come to pass the true
saying that
He who adheres to his party, right or
wrong, cannot truly love his country.
Mr.. Mckinley owes his election four
years ago to democrats who, exactly
like Wellington, could not conscientious
ly follow their party into wrong
But he and his partisans are setting
an example which forbids democrats, as
well as republicans from leaving their
party for any cause.
And he and his party are thus making
substantial bid to the independent
element of the country to retire him and
his party from the power they so much
enjoy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Nothing.

1t is more than likely that when Mr.
Bryan reaches the stage of readiness to
answer the question
What will you do. if elected, to secure the
immediate restoration ''of free coinage of
silver at the ratio of Is to ~
He will, as stated elsewhere. answer
by asking
What cdn do?
In addition to the fact that he will
have about 50 of silver on hand to begin
paying 500 of c"rrrnt expenses, he is
estopped by the gold standard law of
March II from doing that-unless his
antagonists, who are asking the question,
.fdjIcd 10 make that lar c6rctirr.
Then, rs there is to be another session
of il gold-standard Congress before he
will 90 into the Presidential office, those
who are asking questions sincere,
can easily tie his hands yet tighter if
there be any slack places i'll law of
their own making.
More than all that-Mr. Bryan dis
tinctly AYERS that under no circumstances
will he again be Il candidate i'll 190i-a
period intervening during which his
qucstioners will hold absolute control of
the Senate, body whose consent he
must have to do anything affecting the
currency.
Hence, it is child'S-play to ask Mr..
Bryan "what will You do"
The proper form is--if it must he asked
what cd,, you do?
To which the answer is-if my ques-
TONERS We're sincere last March or will
be sincere before next March, IcunHof do
oHythiny!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Fatal Omission.

Among the Incorporate utterances OF
the premature OBLIGATION over the
elimination of color from Potomac pol
luton were few by j. Semmes Dcvec-
mon.
This gentleman seemed to regret that
the pulp mill people had "voluntarily'
shut down instead of being compelled to
do so by law.
Then he didn't know whether the
proposed change of process would
pollute the river or not, but if it did and
the law, hitherto so Intellectual, would
not stop it, "the people should stop it
themselves"
Moreover, the people should stop all
other pollutionS, invisible as well as
visible
Lastly, nobody who testified against
the pulp mill had told any lies i'll court.
But Mr.. Devecmon entirely forgets to
state where the people of Georges Greek
would be located and what they would
be doing when Cumberland people,
abandoning the law, become engaged i'll
stopping the visible pulp-mill and the
invisible mine pollutions.
This omission is large enough to i'll
validate his entire effort
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
n Continuous Issue.

Mr.. Cages reply to Mr. Schurz ancnt
free coinage as national danger con-
firms IA suspicion occasionally heard that
the republican party manages to leave
enough scarecrow i'll its financial legis-
lation to make free coinage ii continuous
issue.
A little while ago Mr. Gage congratu-
lated the country and especially his
party upon the final establishment of
the gold standard
So empathic was his felicitation that in
substance it went into the Philadelphia
platform.
Later he announced that the gold
standard, under Mr.. Bryan, would be
in peril.
And now his party wont have time
during the next session of Congress to
place the gold standard utterly beyond
Mr.. Bryan reach-won't have time in
three months to write, pass and sign less
than ten lines that will hold Mr.. Bryan
i'll check during his entire term.
Is it to be always too late to lock the
stable-door when the horse is gone?
Is free coinage, for party purposes, to
be forever possible?
Is the safety of the gold standard to
be always topic for joy in the spring
and its peril an occasion for terror III the
fall?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Outing.

The JOURNAL asan individual accepted
the invitation of pious democrat Tues
day to 90 to Deer Park and assist i'll
meeting, greeting and welcoming Hon.
w. J. Bryan to Maryland, Our Mary
land"
Taking back seat on the observation
car of train %, at Cumberland, the
paper that is great found itself one of Il
party made up of representatives of the
wilds of Montgomery, the wastes of
Washington, the deserts of Frederick
the sOlitudes of Bedford, Pa, the oasis
called Cumberland, and the metropolis
of Frostburg.
The only original sinner i'll the crowd
was Duncan Sinclair, eX-school com
missioner, but he made himself so very
amiable that it became impossible to
obtain even one vote i'll favor of throw
ing him off the car.
Keyser was passed, likewise Piedmont !;
then it was observed, after getting above
the Georges Greek delta, how the water
was discolored by the pulp-mill, and
how it wasn't above the mill. Yet, O.,
yet lit is strange, unSavory, undrink-
able hue of brown and blue, dark and
red, which comes down i'll the flow from
Elk Garden.
The JOURNAL had listened in silence
to the comments upon the pulp-mill and
then listened loudly for those upon other
concentrations, but the peace of the
wilderness untainted by civilization,
somewhat like that which ''passeth all
understanding, had fallen, leaving the
JOURNAL to marvel whether two more
Publications are not Indispensable to
Cumberland's complete emancipation
from the prosperity it derives from the
upper river country.
Very shortly after arrival ut Deer
Park Mr.. Bryan's train came in. He
alighted and was quickly surrounded
by people eager to shake his hand. One
man held baby for buss; Mr.. Bryan
aimed accurately, but the youngster,
excited, quickly turned, and the buSS
landed on the back of its head. A num-
Der laughed at the mishap, none SO
heartily as Mr.. Bryan himself.
After supper the party took the train
for Cumberland; later We're introduced
to the great Commoner, and so on.
The meeting in Cumberland was an
elaborate, we'll managed affair. The
hundreds inside and thousands outside
were well provided for. The former
heard Senator Wellington and Mr..
Bryan, the latter ex-Gov. Pattison, of
Pennsylvania, Mr.. Bryan and others.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08

An Out-weSt town buried its hogs
dead from cholera, OH the bank of the
river above the water-works. 1t took
the people long time to find out, how
ever, how town pollution got upstream.
Until discovery those who held the
right theory were charged with perjury.
The Cumberland Nc~S complains of
the prominence taken by the gold-stand-
ard element of the democracy at the
Bryan meeting Tuesday. That feature
was more apparent than real-more ac-
cidental than predetermined.
Australia has a very remarkable
fashion in fish-worms, which, however,
would hardly make good bait for trout
or bass. They are 6 feet long L l., inches
i'll diameter, exhale scent analogous to
that of sulphite and color similar to
invisible green vitriol. They would
promote fish culture i'll Wills Creek
more energetically than lime.
Mrs. Mary Myers, of Homecoming,
widow of Henry Myers, has received
from the government S350-back pay
due her husband at time of his death,
and Col. Pearre is at work securing
to her regular pension on same account.
William Warmer, organizer, writing
to the Cumberland Times of Monday
concerning Georges Greek feeling in the
pulp-mill matter, altogether overshoots
"the paramount issue As IA spokes-
man on local topics other than organi-
zation he is too modern to be an oracle.
Wills Creek has been behaving very
badly i'll the way of blowing its breath
in the county-seat's face. The latter
had held its nose just about as long rs it
could stand such atmosphere and then,
without appealing to law or gospel, the
sensitive victims scattered lime on the
dry bed within the city limits" Who
knows but that lime would have cured
the Potomac of its visible and will still
cure it of its invisible stinks? Hey?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
ScltiShnPSS and pOIiteneSS.

Writing to His Imperial Majesty,
Wilhelm Second, concerning the com
plction and opening Of the German
cable, president Mckinley says:
In tins age of progress every tie that brings
nations nearer in their commercial relations
and friendly interest works their common
good aud cannot fail to strengthen their
cordianty and promote their mutual advance,
Inent in the paths of peace.
Ordinarily one wouldn't imagine that
the author of sentiment so friendly
and christianlike could ever have built Il
Chinese wall between "the commercial
relations" Of his and other countries.
But in politics it seems to he one thing
to be sincere with ones own people, an
other thing to he sincere with people
who are not ones own.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
A Rank DeluSfOn.

An incident Of that very premature
ratification meeting i'll Cumberland
Friday evening of last week is related
by the .Ne~s as follows:
Gen. Sprgg referred to the opposition OF
the people of Georges Creek to the efforts Of
the city to stop pollution and their camor
against the expenditure of county money to
prosecute the suits. He said:
Not long ago they thought their rights were
being invaded and they called on the county
for protection This has cost $4,000 OF your
money and it is not known yet that the strike
is over. The pulp mill suits cost sll,WO ana
we did not prevent any one from going TO
work nor did we hurl any stones.
The gallant general was pretty hard
up for parallel when he reached that
stage of his caustic address.
There is very little, if any, similarity
between the conditions under which the
Georges Creek strike for conference
and more wages and the Cumberland
strike against manufacturing growth ON
the upper Potomac We're brought on.
If miners sought the cOunty's pro
ttCIlOn IL wits lOl Ih'ii llSh' w "'iiN'
which is Hcir O,rU.
If the companies sought protection, 1t
was for their property, which Is h"'r
OTn.
But Cumberland assumed and still as
sumcs monopoly right to river which
is not and cannot be made the property
of any individual, corporation or munnc-
ipality.
Cumberland, however, sets up con-
troll over the stream which, if establish
ed by any imperial mod"S op"ra"d', legal
or otherwise, estops all industrial growth
above the intake. Not only so, carried
its full length, the prohibition destroys
all existing development.
1t was against these results the people
of Georges Creek protested; it was es-
pecially against the policy oftnki"g H"ir
money and using it to destroy the value
of their o,rn property, the advantages OF
tbrir oU'u region as manufacturing as
well us mining centre, and hFir orr"
equal rights to the use of the Potomac.
When, therefore, Cumberland oratory
vaunts itself as the voice of proprietary
right in the Potomac it does so without
the shadow of justification i'll ethics,
human or Divine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Coming Events.

A red-ink hanger announces the
Fourth Annual Picnic and Carnival OF
the Salisbury, Band at Salisbury, Pa,
Saturday, September 10. Great things
are promised, all Frostburg is invited
and if all Frostburg accepts it will be
an unabridged success. The hanger
states that
The great German Arion Band of Frost
burg, Md, and the far-famed Beal's Military
Band of Meyersdale, Pa, will be with us
and it is needless to say that these two great
bands are worth going many miles to SEE
and hear. The former is the best band in
Maryland outside of Baltimore. The latter
is numbered among the best in the State Of
Pennsylvania.
All concerning the Arion is true.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Not IrOnical.
The Baltimore .NcrS has questi

The Baltimore .Nc~S has il question
"fhc g"cstjon'-
that Mr. Bryan ought to be made to
answer-and that he will be made to answer
is just this:
What will you do, if elected President,
to fulfill your pledge to secure the I'm,
mediate restoration" of free coinage OF
silver at Ii toll? Will you, or will you not
urge the measure upon Congress? Will you,
or will you not instruct your Secretary OF
the Treasury to use any powers he may hnd
himself to possess so as to promote break
down of the gold standard? DO you regard
the silver plank which you insisted upon at
Kansas City as a mere form OF words or is II
to be the keynote of administrative and egs-
lative action if the Democratic party Is
victorious?
The JOURNAL would not presume to
anticipate Mr.. Bryan i'll answering ''the
question" but it would suggest that 'th'
question" is incomplete.
"Thc question" should bc-Mr. Bryan,
what cuu you do in the ways set out by
the Nc~S'
For instance, Mr.. Bryan, the Balti-
more NcwS company owes IL debt of 500,
payable i'll gold, or III coin-how ca"
that company begin to pay the debt
when it has only 50 of silver coin on
hand and no lawful power to increase
its holdings of silver coin?
The analogy between Mr.. Bryan S
powcr as president and the -Nr"S' COM
pany's objiity thus given is very nearly
if not entirely accurate.
"A charming feature however, of
the .Nc"S' question sis the fact that it is
not the least bit irOnical.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Political.

The county democratic convention met
in Cumberland Saturday, LIST inst, and
elected Capt. John Sheridan, of Mt.
Savage; DR.. G.. L. Carder and Lee
Lichenstein, of Cumberland John
Chambers and Edward Donahoe, of
Frostburg, delegates to the congressional
convention at Rockville.
The resolutions "cndorxcd the Kansas
City platform, but "rcconmrndcd J. B.
Shannon as candidate for Congress"
George Stern, of Frostburg, presided.
Charles A. Little, of Hagerstown,
was nominated at Rockville, Mr.. Shan
non having practically abandoned the
idea of making the race.
The republican State central com.
mittee for this county organized by
electing John J. Bell chairman and Viii.
liam Pearre, secretary and treasurer
These are excellent officers, but was il
just the square thing to ignore Big 26
If SO, why so? Hey
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Quest
The Cumberland News asks

The Cumberland Ne,rs asks
Why does not the Times come out plainly
and say it favors Acknowledgement in Mary
land similar to the elimination schemes
carried out in other States.
The JOURNAL does not wish to become
involved i'll a NeWs- Times controversy,
but it cannot forbear asking the former
whether it thinks the sentiment of the
brute who aSsliled James w. Manning
and Miss Bertha Meeks, reported i'll
same issue, is one that ought to have a
share in the voice of the people?
In answering it should remember that
such offences come to this latitude by re-
tail in North Carolina by wholesale.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
A Present Duty.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
New Business Locals.

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be ncurable, For Il great many years doctors
pronounced 1t local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment pronounced it in
durable Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by f. J. Cheney, Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure OH the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to teaspoonful 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for testimonials.
f. J. CHENEY Il Co.,
Sold by druggists, 75c. Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Instructor and Manager,

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
exacting taste of community educated by
his service to the most artistic ideals. Mean
while, remember that he is still with me.
June9 S. GRAFT HAVERSTICK.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Real Estate Transfers.

The following notes of real estate
transfers are of more or less interest:
The American Coal company to Andrew i
Shaw, parcels. of land in Allegany county,
$40.
Mary l.. Duckworth and Harrison Duck
worth to James o. Ross, interest in tract in
the county, 81.
Glen G. and Luke w. Wood to Mary A.
Price, lot in Frost's addition, Frostburg.
$3.50.
Robert c. Weedy to Andrew Spier, interest
in estate of Robert Carr ST., $3.50.
George W. Polan to Emma w. Ross, lot in
Barton, 5000.
P. c. Barnes. trustee to Mrs. Catharine
Darnley, lot in Pekin, 81.
John NJ. and Ann Jane Eagan to Patrick
J. and Agnes Cavanaugh prope ty in Mid
land, 1865.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Died.

Rev. J. r. Wood left Thursday to at
tend the funeral and interment of his
mother at Lafayette, Ind, who died
early in the week in the State of Wash
ingtOn.
DR.. w. 0. McLane left Sunday to at
tend the obsequies of his father in Balti-
more who died that morning in that
city at an advanced age.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Mayor and BaiIiT Condemned

At recent meeting of United Mine
Workers in Homecoming resolution
condemning the destruction of the scales
at Potomac mine, Barton, was adopted |;
also one blaming Mayor Thompson, of
Homecoming, for improper conduct dur
ing the trouble there i'll June. In this
connection it is charged that the Mayor
would not permit the bailitf to arrest a
non union miner alleged to be obstrep-
prOuS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
SneCial Notice.

Several hundred memoranda go out
to-day with wdicid showing how the
account of each subscriber stands.
Let none think he is the only one
logged.
The money is needed.
Were it not so the JOURNAL would not
have told you
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Accidents.

james II. Fuller, at work at Mt.
Savage, cut one of his thumbs very pain
fully with an axe Thursday of last week
Henry Hartig, hurt severely in his
left eye by flying piece of coal while at
work i'll the mine last Saturday, will be
on the retired list for few days yet.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Real Harmony on All but One Issue

teaT Harmony on All but One ISSUE
The statement that "the government
is already coming silver at the ratio of
l6 to L. may be offset by the assurance
of equal truth that the gold standard
people also have their gold standard.
Both. then, ought to he satistied-as
the people of Kansas once were with
their prohibition law
THE prohibitionistS have their prohi-
bition," said the late John J. Ingalls,,
land the whisky drinkers have their
whisky"
There appears, then, no escape from
the claim that the paramount issue is
imperialism.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
Difference Between Statesmen

look to the diffusion of light and educa-
ton as the resource most to be relied on for
ameliorating the condition, promoting the
virtue and advancing the happiness of man.
Thomas Jefferson.
Other statesmen look to the repeal of
all civil-service qualifications, which are
based upon eight and education" for a
cure-all of the ills of life.
In other words, when every party
rooter is supplied with an office, then
the millennium.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1900-09-08
To be Welded.

A marriage license has been granted
to each of the following couples:
Herbert L. Price, of Bloomington, Md.
and May Virginia Price, of Hedgesvlle, w.
Va.
John Richard Kirby and Nellie Catharine
Orndorff both of Eckhart.