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FROSTBURG, MD. - - NOV. 18, 1911.
8.-B.
David J. Davies, sporting editor of
the Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch wrote to
C. C. Culbertson, manager of the
Piedmont (W. Va.) team recently that,
in his judgment, “Piedmont is en
titled to the series in the fact that
Cumberland undoubtedly violated the
articles of agreement.”
His reason sounds well, too. He
says—
“ The game of September 6th was a
regularly scheduled game and had to
be played before there could be any
arrangements for the playing of a
postponed game.”
And now the Piedmont Independent
wants to know whether Mr. Waiting
Wager Brown will cough up that S2OO
purse?”
Mr. Brown is into a fix that is tight —
He hates to do wrong, but how can he
do right ?
They Should Resume.
It is reported that “a reader of the
Mining Journal” requested the Eck
hart correspondent of the Cumber
land Times “to remind its (Journai.)
editor of two rules of rhetoric, namely
‘what is due to the reader, and what
is due to common usage,’ ” etc.
The Journai, does not believe any
“request” of the kind has ever been
handed up or down to the Eckhart
correspondent of the Times.
It does not believe that there is any
body in Eckhart who knows less of
“two rules of rhetoric” than the Times
correspondent.
Certainly nobody else in that town
would allege as a “rule of rhetoric”
the indefinite statement—“ what is
due.”
Rhetoric is a science, and “rules”
in any science are stated with a pre
cision as to nature, quality and quan
tity, that leaves nothing for guess
work.
But if rhetoric owes anything—in
quantity, for instance, “to thereader,”
how much ?
If anything to the ignoramus, how
much more ?
If it owes anything to “common
usage,” how much?
If anything to popular ignorance,
how much more ?
The Journai, does not know, or
want to know either the correspondent
of the Times in Eckhart or his al
leged “huncher,” but both are con
fessedly re-eligible to freshman posi
tions in some primary school.
A Wise Choice of Ancestors.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, who has
achieved wide reputation by proving
in gracefully written articles that
many obvious facts are not so, thus
attacks the cherished theories of
heredity:
Our ancestry in the past has been
pretty mixed, and when we take into
account that nowadays our parents
are only estimated as having con
tributed between 1 and 5 per cent, of
our make-up, and all the rest of it has
come trailing down from ancestors
from ten to thirty generations back,
pretty much everybody’s ancestry in
any civilized community to-day aver
ages about the same thing.
Dr. Hutchinson is right in advising
us to disregard individual ancestors.
It would little profit any man to be
descended, say from Charlemagne,
since that great man’s share in in
fluencing his descendant would be but
a man3 T -millionth part. But that is
different from saying that “pretty
much everybody’s ancestry averages
about the same thing.”
The individual ancestor of 200 or 800
years ago is unimportant. But it is
important to the man of to-day that
his ancestors for a considerable period
have been drawn from a certain type
or class or race. It is no accident
that the Norman Frenchman is bigger
than the Gascon, or that there are
more blue-eyed men to the thousand
in Venice than in Palermo. Even in
limited area and among men of
the same race, striking differences
are wrought by differing food, en
vironment and occupation. England
is the classic illustration. For cen
turies there has been no overturning
of its society by civil wars, and primo
geniture and entail have kept alive
social classes within which marriage
has been confined. The well-fed Eng
lishman of a “county family” is de
cidedly bigger than the cotton-weaver
of the same race, and the miner dif
fers almost as much from either.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, also a phy
sician and a literary man, expressed a
scientific fact when he counselled the
ambitious to make a judicious choice
of their ancestors New York World.
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Real Estate Transfers.
Abraham P. Gross to Noah Hend
ley, Maryland avenue, Cumberland,
$lO, etc. 1
Samuel McGowan to J. M. Eagan,
Midland, $lO, etc.
C. E. Shumaker et ux. to Simon P.
Newlon et ux., Hammond’s addition,
Westernport, $l,lOO.
Maryland Coal and Iron Company to
Mary Chambers, Georges Creek, $2.
William P. Douglas to William J.
C. Nickel, McCulloh street, $250.
J. H. Bepler et ux. to James Engle,
West Union street, Frostburg, $6,500.
H. P. Whitworth et ux. to J. T.
. Laughlin, Luke, SIOO.
J. A. Davis to Sarah Davis, Water
: street, Frostburg, $5, etc.
C. C. Gorsuch to John A. Caldwell,
Frostburg, $5, etc.
A. A. Doub, attorney, to J. F. Bush
nell, Georges Creek Basin Coal Com
pany, $20,500.
Kate K. McKeever to Edward Duf ty,
Frostburg; $1,750. ,
W. E. G. Hitchins to E. Cloyd Evans, <
Frostburg, $lO, etc.
Name Him.
All miners are not like The Eckhart 1
Philosopher.—Eckhart correspondent
of the Cumberland Times.
Unquestionably true.
Still, if there be in the correspond
ent’s estimation a typical miner—one
that every other miner is like, who is
he?
Investigation.
Dr. C. W. G. Rohrer, of the State
Board of Health, was here Friday and
Saturday of last week investigating
conditions in the typhoid-fever district.
No result was given out while here,
but he stated that he would commu- '
nicate shortly with the Town Board.
Is Maryland a Perfect State? Her 1
Political and Mineral
Productions.
In the Woods, Nov. 14, 1911.
To the Mining Journai,.
Now that the election is over, I have
come forth again from my silent re
treat to claim no special acquaintance
with political conditions in Maryland.
But I see by a glance at the election
returns, although I accept the judg
ment of the people, that there is a
mass of voters congealed in the Demo
cratic party that has not thawed out
yet, for the food administered during
the campaign was “flap-doodle,” and
for the benefit of all those who did not
know its true meaning I will gladly
state that it is a preparation that fools
are fed on.
Therefore, it is easy to see that they
were a force in the State and had
much to do with the general defeat of
the State ticket.
But, as I said before, the election is
over; we will all share alike its result,
and to-day the busy hum of industry
from the picks of the Georges Creek
miners—the most expert, skillful, and
intelligent miners in the world, are
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heard on every side.
As I walk down the county-road,
being too poor to ride, surveying the
sun moving in his brightness and tak
ing his progress among the constella
tions, a thought arose in me.
Is Maryland a perfect State ?
Or is the Consolidation Coal, which
is Mr. Hesse’s proud boast as the finest
steam-producing coal in the world, her
only mineral production ?
As I was meditating on these things
with astonishment a friendly instruc
tor appeared in the person of A. E.
Reppert, the Consolidation Coal Com
pany’s expert mineralogist—the only
man iff the State with a practical
knowledge of where the precious
minerals and hidden treasures can be
found.
I observed in his person a lively
look, a piercing eye, something fiery
and irregular in all his movements,
and I said to him—“ Mr. Reppert, are
there any other minerals in these hills
with the exception of coal?”
Placing his hand in his pocket, he
drew forth a number of shining little
objects which appeared to me as glit
tering pebbles.
“These,” said he, “are samples of
the ores embedded in the mountains
of Maryland, and are among the finest
in the world!”
Taking three of the shining gems,
and placing them before me, he said—
“ These are Red-Ball Hematite Ore,
Black Oxide Amalgamized Ore, and
Black Copper Ore. I have had,” said
he, “an analysis made of these by the
best chemists in the States, and their
percentage is rich enough to work
large profits to those interested.
There is,” said he, “abundance of
Brown Hematite Ore to be found in
Allegany county, Maryland, but it is
found only in pockets, and, therefore,
does not pay to remove from the
earth.”
He then produced a very fine sample
of plumbago, which is to be found in
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He then gave me a piece of mica, or
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All these specimens shown to me by
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Mr. Reppert informed me that “book
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and enlivened by no murmur until it
falls into the Dead Sea of Oblivion.
To demonstrate the philosophy more
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removing the precious minerals from
the bowels of the earth with talk.
You must have knowledge,” said he,
“practical knowledge, and this can
only be obtained by tireless action
with the free use of pick and shovel.”
He then darted like an eagle up
the mountain to explore the cloudless
chambers of Mine Number Nine, leav
ing me to gaze after him in wonder
and admiration.
I proceeded on my journey until I
reached the historic Iron Village of
Mount Savage, as it was at this place
that the first iron rail in the United
States was made.
As I look upon the site of the old
Rolling Mill, at present occupied by
the Mt. Savage Fire Brick Company,
it reminds me of a monument of ex-
Governor Lowndes’ industry and good
will towards labor.
While my eyes are feasting upon
this gigantic enterprise the hustling,
noisy locomotives whirl down the
mountain grades with heavy-laden
cars of black diamonds.
When I speak of black diamonds I
mean coal—the beautiful, brilliant
stone made of carbon, but I will have
to conclude on coal until another time,
when I will tell you all about it from
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Sore and tired with the dust of
travel, incrusted on the perspiration
of my brow, I wend my way home to
Eckhart, where at my white-washed
stove I will dream of the time foreman
James Weston will not leave coal
enough to roast an egg or blister Devi
Carter’s big boots.
I may then again have another in
spiration.
The Man in the Woods.
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