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New-York tribune., 1901-06-23

be astir and caught an excellent snapshot of the
gigantic cloud of gas. several miles high
This picture is perhaps unique, for the gas
chiefly that from smokeIess powder. which
lasted only few moments. 1t was taken from
point near Vallejo. and a half miles from
the scene of the explosion. and 10y show ing the
enormous height To- which the column ascended
explains clearly why greater damage was
done TO the SURROUNDINGS
The magazine stone structure with
walls nearly five feet thick. covered by a light
roof The building measured i,It by In feet
IL contained 3's' tcns Of powder most of il the
new srnokeless variety made since the Spanish
war. costing S!,s'M ton with "a small quantity
Of old brown powder, valued at >5to q ton IL
ton. fortunately at hour when no workren
or Keepers were near, and beyond a slight
initial shock and rumbling was noiseess The
ROOF was shattered and lifted So high thar a
large section of II fell Valona more. than two
miles away. The quick destruction of the roof
releasing the gases from confinement had the
effect OF converting the magazine into a huge
mortar. with muZZle vertical. and its entire
charge was blown straight up ilniting as il
After the photograph was taken BUILDINGS
surrounding the magazine ignited and the white
cloud was replaced 10y black smoke Fire en-
gines from the navy yard and from Vallejo and
many tuSboats got the fire under control i'm an
hour and extinguished it in course OF the day
New-York tribune., 1901-06-23

upon them. and massive casks stored away and
hidden in murky corners, the musky itavor oi
the wine Yervading all; the sound of voices now
faint now distinct. then faint and far away
again coming out from narrow passageways or
rooTny vaults. il new, strange world
that he is in and the words Of his guide. thirty
thousand bottles in this tier" "one hundred
thousand bottles on this row OF tables, seven
hundred and nifty thousand bottles. perhaps in
ALL" twenty thousand gallons in yon cash," fall
upon his If he half awake and half
asleep and seem like voices in the night. When
he comes into the sunlight again there is
amber haze ON hill and valley, and nearby
things look far away-the effect of the candle
light and the long strained vision in the dark
vaults below. And may well believe his
guide after the sights in those underground
spaces of that old cellar that nearly million
bottles of wine. still and sparkling. all from
the vineyards and presses of the ancient winery.
lie there awaiting the natural processes of time
to fit them for sending forth To he bought and
crunk A bit of rural France within hour
and Il half of New Yorks busy marts, and how
few there who know il!
New-York tribune., 1901-06-23

ana It's belongings, passed into other hands, and
although the increasing demand for American
wines has compelled additions to the original
cellar and its tunnels and vaults neither its
quaint form nor the flavor of its antiquity has
been disturbed
only sixty miles from New-York. and yet how
few people know that in this short distance they
may come into what may we'll De called pict-
uresque bit of France itself-the vneclad slopes
the ancient wine cellar, and the journey into its
deep down, dungeOnlike tunnels. AS lighted
candle in hand. carried at the end of a long
wooden stick descends into those under
ground depths and follows his guide through
the maZeS of the vaulted chambers, some mar
row, some wide, all high rooted and black as
pitch, save for the twinkng here and there of
the candles of other tourists through the depths
like hrefiies in the darkness; with great rows of
bottles ranked high either side, glittering
now and then the fitful flare of a candle falls
New-York tribune., 1901-06-23
THE KILLARNEY HUNT

: Alfred Perceval Graves
The stag is up and hound ana pup
Are tuning round Killarney;
The hunt is out, O. there's shout,
You'd hear il down to Blarney-
There goes the stag acrCsS the craS,
ROyaI now | warrant,
See, how he sails across the rails,
Look how he's took the torrent
Yoicks, tally no. now off they go.
See, there the stag is skimIain!
He's through the brake. he's IN the iaiie.
And after him they're sVIErnin.
Their fiOatin' ranks are on his Hanks,
They're closin' now behind him.
He feels the land. he's up the strand
Now mind him. oh, now mind him!
Hul-hullahOO, they fash in view
Along the shining shingie,
In lengthening row they streaming so,
Now with the shades they minSle;
While underneath the evening star
a phantom hunt seems flying,
Now swelling near, now falling Tar,
Now down the darkness dying
New-York tribune., 1901-06-23
rs THE "BLUE coat TO BE AROLYSHFD,

From The London Chronicle
III Is ruInored that the ancient costume Of .be.
ChristS Hospital boys is be changed for n
more modern Sarb One would think thar tho
uprootinS OF the old school in Newgate-st v,ae
enough, and that the costume would mo more
than ever valued as the visible svmhoI Of tha.
schoois continuous history at London and
Horshan Although the blue coat was the or,li-
mary INery OF serving men in the sixteenth CEN
tury. time and boyhood have given to i, prestige
ana a place in English hearts from which N
sderatiOn. va
New-York tribune., 1901-06-23

From The Brazilian Review.

Another so-called volcano has erupted itself
at Santos and is squirting out a gas that burns
with a pale blue flame. The volcano is the
beach. and only lasts while the tide is high.
1t is supposed by some to be a sign of the times
sent as a warning of the evil days to come
and an admontion To reform Certainly there is
plenty of room for Improvement of SantistaS
though there many of them who protest
that they are worse than their nelghborS,
indeed, a good deal better. and that the vol
canO' is not sent as a warning at all. hut to
supply cheap and eaSy remedy against all the
ills that flesh is heir to. a lad who was going
by with ones dinner was so taken UP
by the volcano as 10 forget to look where he
going. and so came 10 the ground and
smashed the china To pieces. Remembering the
miraculous properties of the volcano he dipped
the pieces into the flame. said prayer back
ward and the trick was done His plates
good as new! lie then tried ii on the soup and
New-York tribune., 1901-06-23

ca tables, but there the oracle refused to wofk'
proving that while splendid for sursicai appii-
cations it was useless when the cOnnpialht u
purely medical. A company was fOrIheu OH
the spot for acquisition of sole rights 10 the Voi
cano" which is to be bottled and retaliei az
prices within the reach of every pocket liNe-
ly demand has sprung up, and the cures winch
put Eduardo Silva and other curandlefos INTO
the shade. reported TO be already numerous
and interesting
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A REMIRkABL EXPLOSION.
SMOKELESS POWDER GAS SPREAD SEVERAL
MILES BUT NO LIVES LOST

Washington. June ol-HaIf a million dol
lars worth of government explosives went up
in smoke within five minutes at the naval
powder magazine in the Mare Island Navy
Yard near San Francisco. at q O'Clock on the
morning of June 5, and among the chief wonders
of the event is the fact that no lives were lost
and an enterprsing photographer happened to
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02

county business, or will You do the best
you can under the law-place two men
in the commissioners board known TO
be both capable and honest and who will
do all III their power against eXtravagant
political management of your business?
Will you say by your votes that you
want the present unbuSinesslike methods
to cOntiuc, or that you want the public
business conducted according to business
principles?
In all times deeds of hrroiSm have
commanded the admiration of mankind
WreathS of laurel have always crowned
the brow of valOr. He who left his dear
ones to face the battle always was enti-
tied to disbursement i'll the hearts of his
fellows. But none of these heroic things
Is greater than is the duty and the re-
ward of him who rises i'll moral rebellion
against the party and public servants
who prostitute their positions TO their
own selfish purposes and aggrandize
ment and to the destruction of the pcO-
pies rights. The man who will forsake
his party. and stand by the right is IA
moral hero no less deserving the plaudits
of his fellow citizens than the military
or naval hero.
There Is another view of this import
ant matter to which call attention, and
which, think, ought to appeal to the
justice, honesty and fair mindedneSs of
every right-thinking man in the county.
1t Is thiS-there are nearly four thousand
democrats i'll this county and it is safeto
say nine-tenths of them are tax PAYERS.
Under the law the COmmi SSiOncrS board
consists of five members. Three of the
present board, all of whom are rcpubli-
cans. Will hold office until the next reg.
ular election. Three constitutes major
ity of the board. Would it not accord
with justice, right, fair-dealing between
man to man, to give the large number of
tax paying democrats representation i'll
the body which levieS and di>burses all
the money collected from the people in
the shape of taxes for county purposes?
In all seriousness | put this question to
every honest, fair-minded man who NAV
read this communication. Will not in
telligent, just, honorable, fair reminded
republicans do by democratic taxpayers
as they would have democratic taxpay-
ers do by them, if positions We're rever-
Sed: Democratic taxpayers have as
much interest i'll economical, clean coun-
~ government, as republicans can posi-
bly, have. Their money is required for
county purposes why should they not
have some voice in the disbursement of
it?
As one having no other interest in the
matter than as taxpayer and friend of
good government, | appeal to Justice
loving republicans to vote for Kenncwey
and Phillips. FAIR PLAY.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
The Survival ofthe Fittest.

Mr.. Dooley on the Laws Delays" is
a timely piece of Irish brogue sarcasm.
Speaking of freemen, the average
judge is the only real, actual sovereign
on terra frm" to-day.
More than any other man, he is ex-
empt from popular structure.
The product of lawyer-made laws,
criticism of his Inconsistencies ranks
with Itse majrStie by small majority
This ought not to be.
He should be held to as strict account
for the proper and prompt performance
of his duties as any other servant of the
people.
His continuance in office as reward
for well-doing. however, should not de
pend upon the favor of a party majority,
nor should he be impeached for any
cause merely because IA party minority
cannot prolong his tenure.
In the judiciary somehow JOUR
NAL does not know how, the tittest should
survive, and continue to survive
The judge whose judicial conSistrocy
most makes the administration of law an
exact science is the servant who should
be re-employed when his term expires.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.


Nearly every paragraph under this
heading, considered from IA campaign
standpoint, should begin with what the
Hon, Timothy Campbell, of Tigcrtown
and county, n. Y, calls 1.-The personal
prumoun, If. -
The new ballot introduces an element
of uncertainty decidedly ticklish to both
parties,
But it appears TO the Journal that it
Will be advantageous to the democrats
i'll the lower counties and Disadvantage
Gus to them i'll sections where the darkey
is not numerous enough to be Extensively
self-aSSertive.
In the State, therefore, the result will
be an enigma until the votes are counted
In the county-here where the ballots
will likely cut but little figure in the
relative proportions of the partieS-the
usual result will be affected only by the
disatfeCtiOn among republicans to their
party ticket. That this was consider
able there is no doubt. Time, active
campaigning and pathetic appeal to
party sentiment, feeling and prejudice,
have induced some to recall their kick
Others, however, are Obduratc, but to
what extent the nature Of the case makes
prOblenatiCal.
IN the contest, notably between Roman
and Lewis, the complication is thickened
by ii significant expectation entertained
by republicans that Roman will poll
enough democratic votes to offset all
surplus detection on his side. There is
little said of this, but it is IL vital factor
III all estimates of results.
The democrats, with diSatlcctcd re
publican assistance, may electsthc clerk
two commissioners and two members of
the House of Delegates, but if they do it
will be by narrow margin.
In short, now, as at the beginning of
the campaign, the JOURNAL sees nothing
in the situation to alter its conviction
that the only feasible way of escape
| from ring domination is through formal,
| systematic, dignitird fusIon-an ar
rangement wherein the minority, being
| liberal to the majority, will be content
to accept its place at the foot of the table,
or 90 wholly unfed.
In other words. the democrats must
| afford diSatfectcd republicans the major
ity excuse for irreguarity of being able
to vote for republicans.
Otherwise, the hateful sense of Subirc-
| ton To faCtiunal tyranny in their own
| party Will continue to minimize to
nuthingucSS rs election day approaches.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
CORRESPONDENCE.


ruin: Why not do aS the good people
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and New
York are doing-unite with those who
can and will help You to adopt another
Declaration of Independence: Neither
kenneweg nor Phillips have have pOliti-
cal axes to grind at your expense. These
gentlemen are not politicians; they dc
not owe their nominations to cliqucS
rings, or politicians. Both were nOmi-
mated by the democratic county conven-
ton because H| prOpIr drm1ndcd II. II
they are elected the true interests of the
people, irrespective of politics, will be the
rule and guide Of their official conduct,
There was no trading nor bargaining
necessary to bring about the nomination
of these gentlemen; the people demanded
the nomination of these TWO gentlemen
because of their peculiar fitness for the
important position of county commits
Sioncr and because both gentlemen are
known to he men of unquestiOned integ-
rity, business capability, and to be per-
fectly free from all entanSlements calcu-
lated to embarrasS them III the discharge
of their duties to the people.
Can this much be said of Mr.. George
and judge Rice: VIII any honest, truth
full man in the county, familiar with the
facts, say their nominations We're not the
result of deals, trades, bargains? Why,
the entire day and night preceding the re-
publican county convention (which was
the Lords day was devoted exclusively
to making bargains and trades. Nobody
who was about either the Windsor or
Arlington hotels on that day would ever
have thoughtit waSthe Lords day. The
leaders of the machine We're all there
utilizing that holy day to make such
trades and bargains as would enable
them to jam through the convention the
next day their slate. Judge Rice and
Mr.. George Were both engaged i'll that
proceeding; both owe their NOMINATIONS
to the trades and bargains made that day
and night; both owe allegiance to the
selfish political machine which control
led that convention, and of course, they
Will he bound to manage county affairs
i'll accordance with the dictates of this
political machine, of which they are the
representatives, and the rights and in.
terests of the people, as i'll the past, will
be ignored by them.
The line of demarkation, rs before in
timatcd, between competency aud in
competency, between clean, economical,
non partisan county government and
ring or machine rule in county affairs
was never more clearly drawn than III
this campaign. Which will YOU, voters
and tax payers of Allegany county, St.
lect on election day: Will you continue
the present maladministration of your
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
The Election Law.

The ballot is all right No voter
really competent to exercise the right of
suffrage but can do so, and that within
two or three of the seven minutes allowed
him, especially if he knows before he
enters the booth what he wants to do.
If it DISTINGUISHES a voter who cannot
see well, that is his misfortune.
If it does the same thing for the voter
who cannot read, that may be his fault
as well as misfortune.
Laws are not made to meet eXcep-
tional individual conditions.
Had the current election law been en-
acted at the regular session Of the LegIs-
lature. accompanied yaprim"rge ELECTION
law equally safeguarding the rights of
the people to construct yood tickets. it
would have been the best thing ever pro
jected in the suffrage annals of Maryland.
But passed at a special session under
false pretenses, its virtues are the degen-
crate offspring of factional necessity.
They are the tainted progeny of an eX-
clusiveness which acknowledges only
one of its set i'll all Maryland as fit to
represent i-not the State, at the seat of
national spoildom-only one.
The JOURNAL again insists that the
law, in restricting the franchise to those
who better know how to exercise it,
ought not to be condem ned.
The republican party erred, therefore,
in making platform pledge to repeal it
in the event of republican success.
How the party can do this after win
ming under its auspices is another ques-
ton.
The JOURNAL predicts that the law is
here to stay, and that If any party wants
to make its tenure of power more secure,
it has got to enact primary election
law Of the same character and force
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
A Real Evil.

1t is a good thing for many people
that county election day comes but once
year.
Were the occasion oftener it would be
serious matter.
In all the JOURNALS career it has
never observed as much idleness, drunk
enness and decentralization as is current
here now on account of the election.
Why this should be the case and the
means furnished for promoting a social
condition so degrading involve reasons
that defy all the laws of good breeding
and polite manners.
Compared with it, party rascality, of
which one hears so much, is nothing.
BY its side the election law is IL new
decalogue and the ballot a leaf from the
Tree of Life. That the people must be
corrupted in order to get them to vote
right is Il terrific moral contradiction.
What boots it if the ballot minimizes bri-
berry and debauchery magnifies it?
The expenditure of money in elections
should become Il matter for rigid i'll
quest not only how much spent, but
no" spent, to whom spent and for "hnt
spent. 1t ought to be the duty of every
January grand jury to compel all nom
inees and party officers to report under
oath itemized accounts of expenses in
CURED and paid during the last Novem-
Der campaign-this under law provid-
ing for term i'll Jail instead of Office i'll
event of proof of perjury.
Before a really clean ballot is secured
the present law should he reinforced by
strong preventive and preventative pro-
visions, preceded by a primary election
law Of the same type and authority.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
TOWN ANDVICINITY.


Mountain Lodge, No. 90 Ancient, Free
and Accepted MasonS, and Frostburg
City Lodge, No. SIS, Knights of Pythias,
will unite in Il service COmmemorating
the life and services of the late President
Mckinley i'll Meats Opera House at 81 :,
o'clock Sunday afternoon, 10th INST E.
Rev. H. 5. Ecker, of the First Presby-
terrain church, will preside, and Hon.
George A. Pearre, of cumberland, de
liver an address. Appropriate hymns
will also be sung.
Mrs. Ellen Burns Earle, of Milldale,
Va, has issued invitations to the mar
riage of her daughter Miss Elizabeth
Kounslar Earle, to DIR. James Carpenter
Cobey, of Frostburg, Md. The wedding
will take place Thursday evening,
November II, 1901, at : o'clock i'll the
Meade Memorial Church, White Post, Va.
\ tour will follow, terminating Decem
Der 1, after which DR.. and Mrs Cobey
will be Eat home" i'll Frostburg to their
many friends.
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The Main Reason.

The JOURNAL understands there are
those who find fault with it for not tax
ing one side are the other"
But the JOURNAL, in politics as in re-
ligion, views neither from the stand
point of name or denomination.
1t might say in the latter case that it
attempts to examine every question in
the light of universal law to find some
scientific basis.
In the former, especially in this cam,
paign, it found at the bottom of so-callrd
popular movements nothing but an un.
democratic and an un-republican founda.
ton for the promotion in each case OF
but one man.
And i'll instances of that sort it grace.
fully but firmly declines to turn any,
bOdy's private grindstone.
That is about all
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1901-11-02
The Letter, 90"

The pupils of republican school mas
tcrS have, in many instances, graduated
and are ready to enter into the stern
realities of voting the same old ticket
All they had to learn is-vote the
name of no party that has an 90 i'll it..
That is, in looking at his ballot III the
oppressive silence of the darkened booth
aud under the murky rays of the dim
flicker of an apparently expiring lamp,
the lllltCrate voter is to vote for no party
that tolcrates "anything round even
Ill its name.
1t may be his first knowing whack at
Il ring but he must administer the
whack.
If the democrats suffer from tn" re-
turn of IA trick upon the suffrage it will
be no more than they deserve.
The JOURNAL is glad, however, that
Fr0Stburg newspapers are exempt from
such an ordeal. If they Were to be
turned down ON Il test similarly absurd
the GIruUtr alone would survive. Both
the For"m and JOURNAL would 90 out on
the second round, both editors ON the
first and Cook on the second and third.
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Personal.

VI Soi"i'
The Misses Hitchins have returned
home from the Pan American EXpoSi-
ton, Buffalo, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Kcrgan, of
Frostburg, Md" says the Fairmont
tW. Va hdr.r, 'are the guests of their
daughter, Mrs. Howard Harden"
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. A. Benson returned
from their wedding tour Wednesday.
Walter +. COyner, of Grafton, w. Va.
spent Thursday forenoon with his mother
Mrs. w. r. Coyner.
William j. Cooper returned home
Tuesday evening after spending a week
with his daughter, Mrs. William Thomas,
in Cumberland.
Mr.. Pink Whiskers of Pocahuntas was
in town Thursday and, being inter
viewed, said-"I grieve over the unhal-
lowed way my venerable name is taken
i'll vain in Cumberland.
Miss Minnie Mayer is visiting relatives
mt Pittsburg, Pa
Miss Lula Speir was among Cumbcr-
land friends last Saturday.
Mrs. r. Harvey, of Lord, was in town
Wednesday visiting her aged mother,
Mrs. Henry Wagner.
Mrs. Emery G.. Hitchins and little
uduSnter, Alice, are NlSlulnS Ill mus
burg, Pa.
Henry +. Cook, editor of the Girunrr,
spent Wednesday night as the guest of
the town of Carlos. The mayor met him
ut the gates, gave him "the keys of the
city" and treated him otherwise with al
the distinction due to the editor of q
metropolitan paper. The later converse
grew so confidential that the mayor I'M
boSOmed the combination to the editor
proof safe, when Mr.. Cook aScertained
that Carlos is one of those places here
and there between Evergreen and Never
Seen that have no public debt and n,
money to pay it with. Mr.. Cook in
Inmates that he and the mayor were i'm
pressed with each others special apti
tude and general all-round qoIornm.
Mrs. Otto Frey, of PittSburg, Pa, i,
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
n. Benson, of this place.
Miss Caroline T. Beall is visiting rel.
ativcs IN Norfolk. Va.
Miss Mollic Armstrong j. visiting hcI
sister, Mrs. j. f. Ockermam, Baltimore
Misses Matte Stevens and Mamie
Sisco, of Cumberland, were among Frost,
burg friends Monday.
Fred. DUR, of PocahontaS, was in
town yesterday with key. Looked
like cider.
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Gold Standard.

The JOURNAL cannot remember the
Maryland paper of last week in which
it was stated, in effect, that party feel
this time
But, as a matter of fact, party feel
ing never tluctuates hairs breadth
1t maintains an undertaking average
of 100 DPr cent,