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The Frostburg Spirit SUCCESSOR TO MININGgIfeJoURNAL: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. P. L. Livengood, Editor and Owner S UMSCMIVTION MATES : \ One Year $1.50 Six Months 75c Ten Months $1.25 Four Months 50c Eight Months SI.OO Two Months 25c Single Copies, at the ollice 3c; by mail 5c B3T" A discount of 25 cents given to all who pay a full year’s subscription in advance. AD VJEIt TISING It A TES : Transient advertising, other than political, legal or local, 15 cents per inch each insertion. Political advertising rates made known on application. Legal advertising at legal rates. £ Display advertisements to run four inser tions or more, 10 cents per inch each insertion, except for advertisements not exceeding 3 inches, on which the rate is 12% cents per inch. Business Locals, “Wanted,” “For Sale,” “Lost,” “Found,” and miscellaneous notices, 5 cents per line. Resolutions of Respect, 5 cents per line. Cards of Thanks, 10 cents per line. Free to patrons of The Spirit. Advertising copy must be received no later than 3 p. m., Tuesday, to insure publication' same week. No advertisement accepted for less than 25 cents, and nothing of a money-making charac ter will be advertised in The Spirit’s columns free of charge. FROSTBURG, MD. - - NOV. 13, 1913 J AS THE SPIRIT MOYETH ' The Bull Moose candidates in “Billygany” county got just enough votes to be ashamed of. Hats off to “Dick” Chaney! He was the only Bull Moose candidate in “Bullygany” county that carried a single precinct. But “Dick” came near losing out even at Shaft, WELL, anyway, the “Bullygany” county Bull Moosers beat the Prohibs, but it kept them all-fired busy to do it, and the Prohibition party will be here long after the Bull Mopse party is forgotten. The “Bullygany” county Bull Moosers also ran at the late election, but not one of them, save Grand mother Wellington alone, could even keep in sight of the Socialist woman candidate from Midland. And Grand mother Wellington herself had but little on Sister Koontz in the race. The official returns for the late election, which appear in this paper, form an interesting study. Among other things, the figures show that the Progressive candidates ran a lower average vote than the Socialist candidates. The average of the former is in round figures, 546, while the average of the latter is 588. WHERE some of the “Bullygany” county Bull Moose candidates made a mistake was in pretending to be the only real friends of the workirigmen. The candidate who is always harping on how he loves the workingman, is usually a four-flusher and/not half as good a friend of the workingman as the fellow who says-nothing about it. The workingmen are not fools, and they usually know their real friends. When it comes to a real, downright, idiotic and unjust tax system, that of our own state has all other bad tax systems that we know of beaten to a frazzle. Marjdand also has the cra ziest election ballot that has probably been devised by man in any enlight ened age. The lawmakers of a state should make it as easy as possible for all voters to vote their political sen timents, but in our state it has been made as hard as possible. It does not require, more than ordinary intelli gence to vote the Maryland ballot as desired, but it requires first-class eye sight, and that is something a great many voters do not possess. One of the greatest troubles with Maryland is that the state has been dominated too many years by corrupt Demo cratic bosses. JESUS Christ said' while on earth: “Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” With the more or less reverened “Billy” Sunday, however, it is dif ferent. “Billy” has barred babies from his religious debauch now in progress at Johnstown, Pa., and that means that poor, tired mothers who have no nurses to leave their babies with, are also barred from hearing “Billy’s” balderdash and billingsgate. “Billy” says babies get on his nerves. Now, who would have thought that anything could affect the nerve of that man? Well, the babies are los ing nothing by “Billy’s” edict, and neither are the mothers who are kept away from Sunday’s slangy seances and great religious g'host dance for revenue only. Does it pay to advertise? Well, we guess yes. Do people read advertise ments? They surely do. A second hand heatiug stove advertised a few times in this paper for sale, soon brought manj' inquiries, and althoug-h the stove is sold, and the advertise ment discontinued, the inquiries are still coming, which goes to show that no man living can tell when an ad vertisement ceases to work. The guns advertised during the last few weeks in this paper are also being shown to people almost daily who have read the advertisements. We still have the guns, however, be ~ cause they are higher class firearms than those answering the advertise ments desire to buy. Nevertheless, they are the greatest gun bargains ever offered in Frostburg, and one of these day's they will be sold to peo ple who want something high class and nifty' at a figure far below cost. The Consolidation Coal Company will pay to their employes in this region, at the coming pay day, oyer $85,000. Everybody knows what that means to this community, yet some cheap politicians who are playing con stantly to the grandstand, would have people think that just because a cor poration is a corporation, it has no business in politics. Everybody has business in politics, corporations as well'as individuals, and if the cor porations could be run out of Alle gany county, a whole lot of cheap politicians would leave the county aIY so, for in the absence of corporations they would have nothing whereby to throw dust in the eyes of the people. Corporations, like individuals, must be restricted to certain limits, of course, but the fellows that need the most watching are almost invariably a lot of cheap political soreheads who try to cover their own crooked ness by harping constantly on cor porations and “the interests.” Such fellows ndfarly always have axes to grind, and usually very dull ones at that. f Dear friends, The Frostburg Spirit is not a newspaper just now. The editor and publisher does not claim that it is a newspaper at this time. No man on earth could make it a newspaper while it is printed in a ver itable hell on earth—the room it occupies on Mechanic street. Why is it a hell on earth? Come in any old evening after 8 o’clock and judge for yourself. Come in and see what a delightfully dead floor there is above us. Come in and see how you would like to be held up for S4O a month for the privilege of being in hell. Yes, the editor is getting mad at the inhuman and brutal treatment he is getting here, and he is going to move out of his present quarters just as soon as he can get a suitable place to move into. His poor old heart is near the bursting point, for reasons given in detail elsewhere in this paper. Nevertheless, he is just get ting into good fighting trim, for it is a fact that when too much oppression and exthrtion is piled on, a man gets too desperate to yield to despair. There are a good many people in this town who know what the editor of paper can do with a pen when goaded to desperation. He has demonstrated that on many occasions to his own gratification, and to the utter dismay and discomfiture of his oppressors. He is getting his Dutch up right now, and when it reaches the 200-degree-in -the-shade point, stop, look, and listen, and keep off the grass. The old Spirit quill-pusher can give you hot shot that makes “Billy” Sunday’s fiery darts fired at the devil, look like 30 cents in comparson. He’s going to stay in business right here in Frostburg, and he’s soon going to waken up some of the snakes. Just wait until he gets his plant into suit able quarters, and then he’ll show you how to throw ink straight to the mark. A brighter day is dawning. Good friends will come to the rescue. Good people will swear by The Spirit, and bad people will swear at it. The editor is getting tired of offering to meet oppressors and extortioners more than half way in an effort to ad just differences, and it will soon be a case of turn loqge the dogs of war. The camel’s back has stood for the last straw, and it refuses to carry any more straws of oppression or extor tion. The Spirit is bound to become a live and up-to-date sheet in time, and it will always be fouud hewing the line, no matter who gets “pasted” in the mug by the chips. But good, fair-minded, people will have nothing to fear. 'Stay with The Spirit, and it will become a power in this commun ity for good. Selah! INTOLERANCE. Intolerance is the great enemy of all religion. Intolerance breeds hate. It destroys charity and feeds upon broth erly love. It is founded upon prej udice and makes its appeal to ignor ance. One would imagine that enough blood had been shed in this world to wipe out religious prejudice, to drown intolerance in a sacrificial sea. And yet here and there, even in our day, there are seen reversions to a dying type; here and there are found “throwbacks” in whose minds the is sues decided a century, two centuries, three centuries ago are ever foremost. It must be apparent that the man who deliberately appeals to religious prejudice in order to gain a personal end attempts to “put back the hands of the clock.” He voluntarily retreats into the mental and moral atmosphere of the middle ages. Were all men to become bigots, were all all men to become intolerant, this republic would fall because it would become essentially unchristian. So says the Johnstown (Pa.) Demo crat, and truer words were never ut tered. EDUCATION SHOULD REPAY COST. The average young man as he is going through college, especially if his expenses are paid by his parents or others, is likely to give little thought to the matter of making the money spent for his education a good investment. But if he earns his own way or spends money that he himself has earned, he has an excellent means of learning whether his earning ca pacity is increased by his college course. While a literary education may in some respects be valued in terms other than dollars and cents, a purely mechanical or technical college course ought to be placed on a purely financial basis. The young man with the technical education ought to be able to earn interest on its costs as well as to pay the principal out of his earnings over and above the amount he could have earned without the education. Of course, some may say that his college education places a man in a higher class of workers than he would have been in if he had not attended college. But such claims have little foundation in fact. For the qualities that place a man in one class or an other are largely inherent in the in dividual. Parents who send their sons to col lege ought to make perfectly clear to them that any education that can not pay for itself is not worth having, and in fact represents an economic loss that neither the parent himself, the boy nor the college should be willing to bear. In substantly every other situation that man finds himself he must justify his existence on an eco nomic basis. In other words, he either is or he is not a necessary cog in the world’s machinery. If he doesn’t earn his cost and keep, somebody else, he may be sure, is earning it for him. This fact is not always so plain to his eyes as when his father hands him the cash to buy his clothes and pay his board, but it is not'the less a fact. Perhaps in no field does a college education promise more prompt and direct pecuninary returns than in that of agriculture. Cases are known of farmer boys who by putting into prac tice at once the knowledge of scientif ic agriculture that they gained from term to term in college have increas ed the output of the home farm enough to pay their college expenses out of the increase alone. One young man, for example, who spent all of his summer vacations on his father’s farm during his four years’ course nearly doubled the farm’s output and at the same time he brought the land from a very low to a very high state of fertility. This is no fairy tale, but a postive fact; and it may be remarked in pass ing that the son’s greatest difficulty in introducing scientific methods of farming was not with the land, but with his father. Strangely enough the parent who has sufficient faith in a college course in agriculture to in vest $2,000 or $3,000 in it seldom has faith or courage enough to permit his own son to apply those scientific meth ods on the old farm that paid for his education. First M. E. Church Services Sun day, November t6th. 9 A. M., class meeting; 10 A. M., Sunday school; 11 A. M., sermon by the pastor; 6:45 P. M., Ep worth Eeague; 7:30 P. M., sermon by the pastor. Dr. D. H. Martin, Pastor./ DODGED THE WASPS. Simple Trick by Which the Woodsmen Escaped a Stinging. A man on his first trip into the wilds and marshes of an unknown country with the United States drainage engi neers was struck by a unique method they have to escape from the attack of wasps and hornets. The country traversed is generally covered with thick undergrowth, and a path has to be cut through this all along the line. So when a big wasp nest is reached there is very little warning, some times the axmen cutting into a big one with their machetes. The person, relating this experience was some sixty feet behind the ax men with the instrument when all at once the two axmen dropped in their tracks as if they had been struck by a thunderbolt. The man behind and the two chainmen did likewise. While they were lying prone on the grass and wet marsh they heard what sounded like bullets zooing over their heads. One after the other they came with angry zips. When things had quieted down a bit work was con tinued, and the new man found that to escape from wasps or hornets the thing to do was to drop instanter. The insects seem to be so mad that they fly in straight lines along a level and do not have time to hunt around for you. It is said that hornets are not so prone to follow this rule as wasps, but the wasps never vary. Men have been stung to death by hornets, and horses and mules likewise.—Chicago Record-Herald. A Record In Fletcherizing. If they learn the art of chewing even people whose food expense is only threepence a day can make their meals last a long tinje. A chewer, according to dietetic experts, is one who chews all things so long as they have any taste left in them. Gladstone, we are told, used to take thirty-two bites to every mouthful of food. The modern school of chewers would regard this as dangerously rapid eating. “I have tried chewing conscientiously,” writes Mr. Eustace Miles. “A banana has cost 800 bites, a small mouthful of bread and cheese 240 bites, a greedy mouthful of biscuit (while I was walk ing on a Yorkshire moor) over 1,000 bites. It still seemed to taste about as much as at first, but I knew that taste by then, so I swallowed.”—London Chronicle. Missed the Bird and Lost. The Glasgow News records a singu lar incident during a lawn tennis tie. The two players, who may be term ed A and B, were very evenly match ed. The game was long, and some times one and sometimes the other narrowly led. At length when A was within a stroke of defeat he returned a ball softly, and it looked as if his fate was sealed. So it would have been, but just at that moment a bird flew across the court in a line parallel with the ball. As all good tennis players can well understand. B mistook the bird for the ball and "smashed” at it vigorous ly. It swiftly rose and he missed it by a feather’s breadth, and ere he could recover his balance the ball had dropped on his court This stroke proved the turning point in the tie, as A thereafter played up strongly and ran out winner. THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT, FROSTBURG, MD. Wait Paint. There are painters and waiters. Which am I going to do? Paint or wait? Which is better? How much am I worth with my property waiting?’ ~How much if I paint? Will my house be worth more or less if I paint? Say it costs $2 a gallon Devoe—>l wouldn’t paint any other—and $3 or $4 more for putting it on. That’s SSO or S6O a 10-gallon job. The money is gone. Is it in the house ? Is it all in the house ? Suppose I were selling; what should I get for that house fresh-painted and what should I get for it needing paint? I wonder why men paint before selling ? DEVOE J. W. Shea, Agent. sells it. Advertisement FOR THE BEST Fire Insurance IN THE WORLD 12-25-pd Apply to J. B. ODER. Let Us Dry-Steam Clean and Press Your Coat, Pants and Test! We do not drive the dirt into the lining of the goods, but force it from the inside out. This process is strictly sanitary. It removes all dirt, raises the nap, renders the garment sterilized like new and not shrink a thread. , Ladies’ Coats, Jackets , Skirts, Etc., receive special attention! Shall we call for your next package ? FROSTBURG STEAM LAUNDRY A. S. BURTON, Proprietor. PHOTOGRAPHER. ARTISTIC FRAMING. Oti Broadway, Frostburg, Md. Poultry, Pigeons, Butter, Eggs, Produce, Poultry and Stock Supplies. Have a limited number of “The Poultrymen’s Complete Hand Book, What to Do and How to Do It,” to be given free with purchases of Pratt’s Products. /No-Flj'” is guaranteed to keep flies away. Phone 289 k. THOMAS L. POPP, . 8 S. Water St., Opp. Postoffice, Frostburg, Md. Executors Notice THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub scriber has obtained from the Orphans’ Court of Allegany County, Maryland, letters testamentary on the estate of Michael Yenshaw, late of Allegany County, Maryland, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated, to the subscriber on or before the Ist day of January, 1914. They may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said es tate. All persons knowing themselves indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment. Given under my hand this 6th day of November, 1913. THOMAS GATEHOUSE, Executor. 11—6 11—20 Cumberland and Westernport Electric Railway. TIME TABLE. First car leaves Frostburg for Cumberland at 6:00 a. m., Eckhart 6:12, Clarysville 6;19, Red Hill 6:24, Long’s 6:30, Narrows Park 6:40, arriv ing at Baltimore street, Cumberland, at 7:00 a. m. Car leaves Frostburg every hour after wards for Cumberland (on the hour) last car leaving Frostburg at 11:00 o’clock p. m. First car leaves Baltimore street, Cumber land, for Frostburg at 7:00 a. m., Narrows Park 7;20, Long’s 7:30, Red Hill 7:36, Clarysville 7:41, Eckhart 7:48, arriving at Frostburg at 8:00 a. m. Car leaves Cumberland every hour afterwards for Frostburg (on the hour) last car leaving Cumberland at 12:00 o’clock midnight. First car leaves Frostburg for Westernport at 5:00 a. m., Borden Shaft 5;12, Blake’s 5:23, Midland 5:30, Lonacomng 5:47, Moscow 6:00, Barton 6:08, Reynolds 6:13, Franklin 6:29, West ernport 6:30. Car leaves Frostburg every hour (on the hour) last car leaving Frostburg for Westernport at 11:00 o’clock p. m. Last car leaves Frostburg for Lonaconing at 12;00 o’clock midnight, arriving at Lonaconing 12:47 a. m., returning leaves Lonaconing 12:50 a. m., arriving at Frostburg 1:30 a. m. First car leaves Westernport for Frostburg at 5:30 a. m., Franklin 5:40, Reynolds 5:47, Bar ton 5:52, Moscow 6:00, Lonaconing 6:12, Midland 6:30, Blake’s 6:37, Borden Shaft 6:48, Frostburg 7:00. Car lerves Westernport every hour after wards for Frostburg, last car leaving Western port at 11:30 p m. for Frostburg. Alßcars east and west connect at Frostburg. J. E. TAYLOR, Superintendent. Cone But Not Forgotten! HOW glibly the exrpression comes during the funeral services. How much does it really mean a month afterward? What is the outward and visible sign of your remembrance? A suitable Monument according to your means? Or is it— A NEGLECTED GRAVE? J.B. WILLIAMS CO., Western Maryland’s Leading Marble and Granite Dealers, 60 East Main Street - - Frostburg', Md. 99 N. Centre Street, Cumberland, Md. /) MOTICE! When in Meyersdale, stop at the New Slicer House GEORGE LOGUE, Proprietor. THOMAS GATEHOUSE, Justice of the Peace, 4 MECHANIC STREET, FROSTBURG, MD. All business entrusted to me is attended to promptly and satisfactorily. Dr. J. C. Pfeiffer, THE DENTIST, 7E. Union St. Frostburg, Md. Allegany Cemetery. 2200 LOTS. Prices $9.00 to $22.50. perpetuae charter. J. B. Williams, secretary and treasurer. Office: C. & P. Phone: 60 E. Main Street. No. 52. FROSTBURG, MD. You Mnst> J? Not> Forget / If it is anything in the Jewelers’ line JEFFRIES BROS. HAVE IT! There is nothing too good for us to sell or anything too bad for us to repair. A satisfactory guarantee with everything JEFFRIES BROS. Frostburg’s Leading Jewelers and Opticians, 10 E. Union St. We give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps WM. ENGLE JAS. ENGLE Engle Meat Market DEALERS IN Live Stock and Dressed Meats Butter and Eggs Poultry in Season 66 EAST UNION STREET 17 WEST UNION STREET PUTNAM DYES ARE FADELESS Each package will color wool, silk, cotton and mix ed goods. Eor sale at our store at 10c per package. We are also sole ,agents for International' Sto c k Eood, put up in 25c and 50c packages and 25-pound pails GRIFFITH BROS., Opposite Postoffice. the Picture. TN the above illustration, the A artist meant to give you some notion of the neatness, dressiness and real distinc tion of Clothcraft Clothes. But he couldn’t tell you in the picture that Clothcraft sells for $lO to S2O, under a strict guar antee of all-wool, fast color and satisfactory wear. Otto Hohing & Sons, The Original One-Price Outfitters, FROSTBURG, MARYLAND 00000000.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 1 OSTEOPATHIC I § HEALTH WITHOUT DRUGS § O The principle of Osteopathy is a method of treating diseases q O without Knife or Drugs, and by Scientific Adjusting and Manipu- O g lating of the Bones, Muscles, Glands and Nerves of the body. The O O Osteopath normalizes the chemical producing organs and hence g O does not require medicine to bring about a cure. 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