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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.' NO. 43
A Plea For The Poor-
Merry Christmas For AD
EVERYBODY SHOULD JOIN IN THE GOOD WORK
OF PROVIDING A COMMUNITY
CHRISTMAS TREE.
Hunt Up the Poor and the Needy and See that
Every Heart is Made Glad During the
Coming Yuletide Season.
Whew! How sharp the wind is! It
must be coming right down from Sav
age Mountain. We knew it was go
ing to turn cold when we turned the
Broadway corner this very morning.
Well, winter is about here; and what
in winter without winter weather,
we’d like to know? Winter is all right
for some of us, and many of us like it.
But how about the people who don’t
know where to get coal, and who
have no money for wlrm clothes?
How about the little hungry fellow
right here in this town this very day?
There are not so many of them, of
course, yet there are some. “Can’t
do a thing for them,” is always the
cry of some people. But let us forget
ourselves for a while and remember
the little ones who are hungry and
cold, just as we’d like people to re
member our own children if they Were
hungry, and cold and lonesome when
the wind begins to whistle around the
doors and windows, and to cry from
the top of Big Savage Mountain like
a thousand children in pitiful distress.
What shall we do to help make
others happy, you and I? Let’s get
together in this old town of ours, right
now, and let’s give the poor and for
lorn and the helpless and friendless
men woman and children of this com
munity a Christmas—a Christmas
that they will remember as long as
they live. Let’s get the children at
home to help. Get up a little club;
have a little show; take up a collec
tion. and turn' the money over to the
•cln'istiUas iunci-.
And you, big fellows and grown-up
girls, how you can help this proposi
tion out if you will only make a little
sacrifice, a little self-denial! Every
body help, regardless of political af-
MONARCH PRINTING COMPANY.
New Printery to Be Established in
Cumberland by Henry F." Cook
and Chas. A. Rodda.
Henry F. Cook and Chas. A. Rodda,
who have been following, the printing
business in this city for a number of
years, have purchased a job printing
outfit which they will install in Cum
berland at an early date and do busi
ness in that city under the name of
Monarch Printing Co. In addition to
doing a general job printing business,
they will also print a monthly Prohibi
tion periodical which will be edited by
Findley C. Hendrickson, a well-known
Cumberland lawyer, who was the Pro
hibition candidate for U. S. Senator
at the late election.
Messrs. Cook and Rodda were both
members of The Mining Journal
Publishing Co. until that concern sold
out to P. L. Livengood, .editor and
publisher of this paper. After the
sale, both of them entered the employ
of the Mining Journal’s successor,
continuing -with this publication until
week before last, when Mr. Cook re
signed in order to make the prelimin
ary arrangements for the new Cum
berland printery. Mr. Rodda, how
ever, will continue in the employ of
this paper until sometime next month,
but expects to join his partner shortly
after their new plant is ready for busi
ness.
Cumberland is already well supplied
with printing establishments, but our
friends Cook and Rodda think there is
a good field there for at least one
more, which may or may not be the
case. Be that as it may, however,
we wish them such success as honest
effort and fair business methods
merit.
SEEDTIME.
You don’t plant oats upon a hill
A hundred miles away,
And somewhere else your corn to drill
You know would never pay.
You plant at home to get the yield,
Whatever crops are'grown—
For planting in some other field
Will never help your own.
And it’s the same with dollars, too—
For dollars, too, are seed;
The cash today away you threw
Tomorrow you may need.
Don’t send your wealth afar to roam,
But wiser learn to sow— ,
Just plant.your mohey here at home,
And watch your dollars grow!
YOU’LL BE SORRY in after years
if you fail to get one or more copies
of the beautifully illustrated Frost
burg Souvenir Books for sale at 15
cents per copy, while they last, at
The Spirit office. tf.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT
!t filiations, regardless of creed or color.
•- “In unity there is strength.”
)- Let the hand of charity go out full
e to the needy, regardless of what they
;. are or whose fault it is that they are
.t in this deplorable condition,
r, Hello there, little haggard-face!
t How did you come by such a pair of
:. haunting eyes? Did they grow so big
t looking for Santa Claus, who neverl
o seemed to get around to where you
? live?
v Well, he’ll come this year, all right,
? all right, if this movement is a suc
f cess, and it must be a success. We’ll
t have a “wireless” sent to old .Santa, I
e and we’ll mention your name in par
t ticular. And say, he will have some
r thing for you in his pack that will
3 bring the color to those pale cheeks of
. yours and make your sad eyes laugh
e with joy. He’ll come this year, never
•! fear.
e Now come on, you who can help in
a this worthy movement; let’s begin
g this very day. The time is now very
short. Yet if there are plenty of wil
„ ling hands and lots of open hearts,
t much good work can be done in a
little while.
Hunt out the families who haven’t
3 got coal; look ujfthe poor who are not
able to buy a good Christmas dinner.
Provide for them first. There are
not many such, but there are some,
j. And then lets have the big Com
. munity Christmas tree. Everyone is
’ invited to help make this the greatest
a and best Christmas ever known in our
good old town.. Get do your
part, whether it be much or little.
J Do it for the love of God and the hap
piness of your fellow-man, and with
the angels proclaim, “Glory to God in
' the highest, peace on earth, good will
- toward men.”
GETTY WANTS HIS LIBERTY.
i A Harmless Inebriate Who Should
be Shown Mercy.
Leon Getty, of -Grantsville, who
1 some time ago was sent to prison at
• Jessup’s Cut, upon his own request,
' in order that he might be kept from
• strong drink, is now pleading to be
liberated. He was sentenced to the
Cut for a year, some time ago, by
Justice Daub, of Hagerstown, but
1 since the poor fellow has been there
for several weeks, he begs to be liber
ated, declaring that the Cut is no
place for a poor inebriate who is anx
-1 ious to lead a better life, and in that
he is undoubtedly right.
Getty is a harmless character, ex
cept to himself, and those who know
1 him best regard his fondness for
' strong drink as a disease. Jessup’s
Cut is undoubtedly a. torture to him,
and little good can be hoped for in
1 sending a poor mortal of his type to a
place of that kind. There are better
1 places than Jessup’s Cut for poor fel
lows like Leon Getty, and it is the
opinion of this paper that in cases of
his kind, Jessup’s Cut makes them
worse instead of better.
In a letter recently received by
Justice Doub, Getty states that he has
more than enough of the place, de
claring that at the time he asked the
Justice to give him a year he did not
think how long that would be, and
now he thinks that a few months will
be a plenty, and he doesn’t know how
1 he will be able to stand it in that 1 aw
ful place for so long a time. He de
; dares that he will go to church every
day, and asks the Justice if he couldn’t
■ shorten his sentence. He says that
he reads his Bible every day, but the
thoughts of being in such a place is
almost more than he can stand. He
asked the Justice to write to him and
tell him what he can do for him, and
he advises all who are in the same
. “boat” as he is to brace up, as a few
months in the Cut will make them
wish they had. He says the Cut is no
fit place for a decent, sober and relig
ious man, as most of the inmates are
not suitable for companions, and the
life is so confining. He says that he
will never indulge in any hilarity of
any kind if he is allowed to escape.
He would not have chosen the Cut,
save for the fact that he did not know
what sort of a place it was.
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You can’t send an absent friend a
more desirable present than a copy of
, the handsomely illustrated Frost
, burg Souvenir Book for sale at The
| Spirit office, unless you make the
> friend a present of a year’s subscrip
: tion to The Spirit. Both are worth
several times their cost. tf.
The above is a splendid picture of
- the home of The Frostburg Spirit and
1 its working force as it was constitut
f ed several weeks ago. The building
1 is the new Hohing, Lapp and Speir
' block on Mechanic street, between
Broadway and Water street. The men
i in the picture are, naming them in the
1 regular order beginning at ttm left,
’ Henry F. Cook, advertising, j<m and
- make-up man; Tom J. Blake, news
■ compositor; W. S. Livengood, Jr., cub
L editor and printer’s devil; Charles A.
Rodda, all-round compositor and
; pressman; P. L. Livengood, propri
etor, editor, reporter, bookkeeper,
■ solicitor, business manager, collector
: and general roust-about. The latter
is 1 the only man on the job whose
■ work is never dene, yet he likes his
> job and would rather hold it down
; than to be the Czar of Russia or the
Sultan of Turkey.
Those of our readers who tiave- not |
PASSED MUTELY TO
.
THE SPIRIT WORLD
Apoplexy Fatal to John T. Hock
ing', Coal Operator and Form
> er Citizen of Frostburg.
The stroke of apoplexy which pros
trated John T. Hocking on Wednesday
afternoon, Nov. sth, resulted in his
death last Friday morning. Although
he recovered consciousness at inter
vals sufficiently to smile in recogni
tion of those at his bedside, he rtever
spoke again, and he passed in silence
to the spirit world.
Mr. Hocking was born at St. Just,
County Cornwall, England, in 1842.
He came to this country with his par
ents when 7 years old. He lived at
Clarksburg, W. Va., and Frostburg,
Md., and came to Meyersdale in 1872,
having lived here 42 years out of his
71. He was the eldest son of the late
John Hocking, and with his father was
a pioneer in the coal mining industry
in the Mej 7 ersdale region.
For many years, and until the time
of his death, he was associated with
his brothers George and William in
the coal business. He was also iden
tified with a number of other indus
tries and business enterprise's and was
considered a good businessman and
public-spirited citized. As the head
of his family, after his father’s death,
he was more like a tender father than
a brother to his brothers and sisters.
His council was always sought and re
spected by his near relatives. He
never married, but was very domestic
in his family life and tastes, living in
quiet peace and happiness with his
three sisters and youngest brother in
the family mansion.
His surviving brothers are George
H., William G. and Henry T. Hocking;
his sisters: Miss Belle and Mary
Hocking and Mrs. Sada Hoffman,
widow.
Funeral services were held at the
residence at 2 o’clock Monday after
noon, by his pastor, Rev. George A.
Neeld.
The singing was by Messrs. Cook,
Clutton, Baldwin and Thorley. There
were many beautiful floral tributes
and a large concourse of sorrowing
friends followed the remains to their
last resting place in Union Cemetery.
The following named relatives and
friends from distant places attended
the absequies: Lee F. Hoffman, Bed
ford, Pa.; George Hocking, Mrs.
Nicholas Hocking, Pittsburg; Miss
Mary Hocking, Nicholas Hocking,
Charles. Jeffries, George Jeffries,
Frostburg, Md.; W. C. Chapman, Bal
timore, Md.; Mrs. Brainerd Bayless
and son, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Meyersdale Republican, Nov. 20th.
y™ paid to The
Spirit, are requested to take another
good look at the building,, then start
out to find it, not forgetting to bring
a “plunk” and a half with them when
they call, and pay up for a year.
That’s the proper way to encourage a
worthy home industry. Besides,
Christmas will soon be here, and The
Spirit man will need some of the coin
now due him to provide Christmas
cheer not only for his own large brood
of youngsters, but also wants to con
tribute to the community Christmas
tree that is projected for others.
Moreover, the editor’s birthday
(Dec. 14th) is drawing near, when he
will, if he lives that long, round out
the first half-century of his journey
from the cradle to the grave, and he
is now trying to save up enough
money for a big birthday blow-out.
The big celebration, however, will
| not take place tills year, but the ar-
FROM GEO. K. WALKER.
Fortner Citizen of Eckhart Still
Interested in the News from
Frostburg.
GreEnsburG, Pa., Nov. 20, 1913.
Editor Spirit:— Enclosed find 21
cents, for which please send me a
Frostburg souvenir book.
We are receiving your paper regu
larly, and it is very interesting to us
all. I hope you will succeed in your
new venture. It does me good to look
over the columns of ymur paper, as it
is printed only one mile from where I
was born—the village of Eckhart.
I notice you often have items from
old Salisbury, or Brushtown as it was
called long years ago. I have often
heard my father speak of Brushtown
when I was a mere boy, but I did not
think then that I would make my home
there for 20 years. Salisbury is all
right, and in that I know you will
agree with me.
I hope you and family are improv
ing in health by this time. My folks
are all about as well as usual.
With kind regards to you and fam
ily, I am very respectfully yours,
Geo. K. Waeker.
Col. E. A. Thomas Wants More.
Col. E. A. Thomas, who took charge
of Hotel Clarysville on Oct. 27th, was
a business caller at The Spirit office
one day last week. He left a cash
order for some job printing, and was
so well pleased with the work that he
came to town again on Tuesday of
this week and handed in another cash
order for printing of the high class
turned out only by The Spirit shop.'
“And more will follow,” said the
genial colonel, “for you are my
neighbor and do my work to suit me. ’ ’
Col. Thomas is building up a fine
reputation for Hotel Clarysville, for
he is not only a most excellent hotel
man, but impresses all who come in
contact with him as being one of
nature’s noblemen. The genial sun
shine of his nature appeals to every
body.
WHOM WE HELP.
When some people are asked to do
something for this town they seem to
think they are asked to do something
for somebody else.
Well, they are. But they can’t do
something for somebody else without
doing something for themselves also.
The school taxes you pay help edu
cate other men’s children. But other
men help educate yours.
Other people are doing things for
you all the time. If other men hesi
tated you would suffer.
Since the beginning men have lived
in communities. Why? So they
could help each other.
The more we help each other the
more we get out of the community.
Help. That gives you the right to
make the other fellow help also.
‘rangeiirenfs are now being- made to
■ have the big event “pulled off” on
: schedule time at the end of his second
half-century.
Like Christmas shopping, the ar
rangements for a centennarian’s birth
day celebration should be attended to
early, and that’s why the editor is
getting busy on the job now. All
patrons of the paper who pay their
subscriptions promptly will be invited
to the big blow-out SO years hence,
when the jollification will be kept up
for at least a week, and every fellow
andj'fellowess” present will be shown
the time of their lives.
Now, that ought to be a good in
ducement for eyerybody to come
around with some cash, for SO years
will soon slip around, and the editor
proposes to give Frostburg its first
opportunity to celebrate the birthday
of a centennarian, unless venerable
Thomas Humberston, Frostburg’s
grand old man, beats him to it, which
The Spirit hopes he will do.
TRAMPED ON. TAIL
OF BIG PANTHER
Exciting Experience of a
Garrett County Man a
Few Years Ago.
George Shockey’s encounter with a
panther while crossing Great Savage
mountain, recently, has revived stories
about a panther, probably the same
animal, being seen at various times
during the last decade or two in ad
jacent portions of Somerset county,
Pa., and Garrett county, Md.
N. B. Hechler of Sippleville, who
returned from a tour through the wilds
of Garrett county, last week, states
that the story about Mr. Shockey and
the panther has been read with much
interest by the natives of that section,
as it Recalled to them the adventure of
one of their number, Oscar Broad
water, with one of the big mountain
cats.
Mr. Broadwater, who lives near Sut
ton, Md., so the story goes, and an
other man were driving through the
woods in a buggy six or seven years
ago, when a big panther darted across
the road in front of them and disap
peared with a yowl in the brush. Be
ing curious to see where the animal
went, Mr. Broadwater turned the lines
over to his companion and started on
a reconnoisance through the woods.
He had walked for some distance
without seeing any signs of the panther
and was about to turn around when
he tramped on something alive, and
behold it was the panther’s tail which
protruded from a thicket in which the
beast was lying. .
The animal seemed as much sur
prised and frightened as was Mr.
Broadwater at this unexpected en
counter. It gave a mighty yell as it
jumped to its feet and removed its
tail from the proximity of Mr. Broad
water’s pedal extermities at a' rapid
rate. Broadwater made tracks in the
opposite direction as fast as he could
go. He did not want any closer ac
quaintance with a panther that allow
ed its tail to be tramped upon Mey
ersdale Republican.
HOW WE HURT OURSELVES
If you have anything to sell in this
community—labor, crops or material
- the people here must have money
u ith which to buy it..
If you keep sending your money
away rfom home it will be a longtime
g' tting back; it may never get back
at all.
If all of it were sent away and none
of it came back, how long would this
town last?
It Is Bad Business for a local bus
inessman not to have his advertise
| ment in this paper. tf.
Interesting Pen Pictures
| Of Picturesque Politics
■A NATIVE FROSTBURGER TELLS HOW THEY
I DO THINGS POLITICALLY AND OTHERWISE
I IN THE GREAT STATE OF KANSAS.
iMeti, Measures and a Noted “He-Female” Orator
| Reviewed in an Intensely Inter-
I esting Way.
I Weir City, Kans., Nov. 17, 1913.
1 Editor Spirit: —Everything comes
I after politics in, Kansas. With the
I family, the winter’s supplies, the sum-
I mers’s division of the work and dis-
I position of the help, are all made
I upon the proposition that so much
I money must be, first, provided for the
I “coming campaign.” Every man and,
I now, every woman, is a “pernicious
I partisan,” and there is no speculation
las to whether Smith will attend the
■ primaries or Jones stump the county.
■ That they both will perform their
■ parts in the approaching campaign,
I rio one doubts, but their is a grave
" doubt that anyone can prophesy the
banner they will fight under. The
certainty is that they will be active
participants in the fray ; the uncer
tainty is what party will receive their
support.
Political campaigns in this state be
gin, but never close. It is a contin
uous performance, a free bill, with
the best of lights, comfortable seats
and good music, and neither sex,
color nor “previous condition of ser
vitude” acting as a bar.
All Kansans Are Born Politicians —
No End of Political Issues.
In other states, when a child is born,
the parents begin to speculate upon
what to make of the newcomer, what
occupation he should follow, or what
profession they should educate him
for. In Kansas his future occupation
is fixed; he will be a of
course, and the parents get their wor
ry from what his side line will be.
For the reason that our elections are
now two years apart, nearly every
adult citizen is compelled to work a
little.
And when it comes to issues, Kan
sas is more erratic than a tailless kite.
Prohibition, adopted in 1880, recom
mended itself to the people because it
was practically a new departure.
There were few real prohibitionists in
the state, but there was the same per
cent, of advertisers there are now,
and they could swallow any issue that
was different from others. There was
a certain element of consistency in
their actions, too, when one knows
the facts. They have never missed a
drink by the enactment of this sump
tuary law since its passage.
Kansas Temperate, but Seldom
Have Beerless Banquets.
They can booze at the “joints” and
brag of prohibition in the public
places, and are never happier than
when comparing the excellent moral
conditions in their own cnmmon
wealth with those of the whiskey
cursed. More banquets, feasts, bar
becues, celebrations and public gath
erings, use prohibited refreshments
as a feature of the meeting in Kansas
than mark “wide ' open” territory.
In Kansas a banquet without beer
would be like playing Hamlet without
a ghost, making eggnog without
whiskey, or a divorce without a
woman in it. Distilled or fermented
spirits are as ne'cessary as chewing
gum is to a stenographer.
But the world knows us as a tem
perate, sober, consistent common
wealth, with the most stringent laws
against the manufacture, sale or use
of stimulants, and we are ready to
prove the man a liar who thinks to
the contrary.
A public speaker said in a temper
ance lecture last summer, that only
seven whiskey stamps had been is
sued by the U. S. collectors’ office for
Kansas, in Cherokee county, since 1
July Ist, 1913. That was true, but 1
there were ISS cases pending against 1
persons, in the district court, for liq
uor law violations, and with one or
two exceptions, they have since plead
ed guilty. A carload of empty beer
kegs awaiting shipment, were piled
up near the depot in this city, and a
“nigger” was stretched out on them,
enjoying the sun. An eastern man, .
awaiting a train, walked up and look- :
ed the mountain of beer casks over, 1
soliloquizing: “And this is prohibi- ]
tion Kansas!” That “nigger” heard ■
him, and wishing to correct a wrong :
impression that he noted existed in ,
the mind of the stranger, said: “No i
sah, dis am Weir City, Kansas!” 1
Populism and its Vogaries.
In the early 90’s Populism began to -
dominate the restless issue-hunters, 1
and like all these false issues, rarebit
dreams and fairy pictures, only need
ed a little success to convince the 1
voters of its falacy. But it produced -
some “left-handed statesmen” as well '
as impracticable ideas. W. A. Peffer,
early took the leadership of the party,
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and finally landed in the U. S. Senate,
successor to that “irridescent” states
man, John J. Ingalls, who, with eigh
teen years experience in the Upper
house, never put his imprint on a
single piece of legislation.
A Famous aad Dangerous “He-
Female” Orator.
Populism thrived for five years,and
then, as a party, ceased to exist. In
disintegrating, the different units re
turned to their first love, and remain
ed, barring an occasional local insur
rection. Populism was the first or
ganized effort to discourage success
that we have any history of. A pros
perous business man was as much a
criminal in its view as was the high
wayman. The possession of a com
petency was evidence of gilt—if that
party was a Republican—if a Populist,
they were silent. Among the. strange
things it brought about, outside of
Peffer, /was a “he-famile” known to
the world afterwards as Mary Ellen
Lease. Mary was an orator, and her
Populism was acquired. She was the
most vindictive, abusive, bitter, un
fair and eloquent speaker that ever
misrepresented facts or advocated
false doctrines. She spoke in every
county in Kansas, and had a following
that made her a dangerous political
enemy for year. Her enemies called
her “Mary’-Jen Lease” —when at a
distance S flourished during the
years of w prices and good crops,
when corn was 10 cents per bushel
and whiskey four dollars, and it was
hard for the farmer to maker both
ends meet. In her talks she always
told the farmers they were raising too
much corn, it was glutting the market
and giving the rich jobbers a chance
to fix prices. “Whatyou want to do,”
she would say, “is raise less corn* and
more hell.” She went to New York
and, I understand, engaged in the
practice of law. And we had nothing
particularly against the Empire state,
either.
I sometimes wonder if any one has
preserved the different ideas, theories,
dreams and fancies that this party at
different times put forth and advocat
ed. It would make interesting read
ing now, but would be looked upon as
pure fiction. I heard a “rippin,’ roar
in,’rarin’ “Pop”one day defclare “that
Christ’s crucifixion was brought about
by the fuel trust, and that Noah was
in complete control of the transporta
tion facilities at the time of the high
water.” The origination, as it were,
of plutocic persecution and infamous
monopoly.
Ball Moosers Perpetuate Wild
\ Ideas of Populists.
Populism, in its original form, only
lived about four .years. Its ghost,
however, like that of John Brown,
goes marching on, and the Bull Moose
insurrection brought out much that
the same martyrs to public good had
in years past bitterly condemned.
Those republic-killing, nation-disor
ganizers, the initiative, referendum
and recall were a part of the Populist
ic declaration of independence, with
state-wide primaries and election of
U. S. Senators by popular vote. All
of these and many other ideas that
still hold the odor of the imigrant
ship, were appropriated by the Kansas
“lilywhites, ” who in addition to the
socialistic and anarchistic theories
advanced, insisted that they were the
annointed of Jehovah, chosen to save
the republic.
And all the time these fads were
discouraging enterprising men from
development of the state’s resources
as they should have been developed,
but there was general prosperity and
excellent times, thanks mostly to a
Republican business administration.
What the World’s Greatest Four-
Flusher Accomplished for
Kansas.
Roosevelt naturally took the Kan
sans by storm. The greatest -four
flusher that ever deceived a people,
the greatest political boss that ever
herded and drove his supporters
whenever and wherever his eratic
fancy dictated, and who knew no
crime as great as difference of opin
ion, swept those hero-worshippers off
their feet. He carried the state last
year, with Democratic votes, and
Kansas kept her inconsistent political
record in tact.
We are now indebted (?) to this new
form of populism for a Democratic Gov
ernornor that Democrats hate; a “Bull
Moose” Senator, (Bristow) that rattles
around in Long’s seat as does the pro
verbial mustard seed in the dried
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