The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1883-03-01

and they issue an order to the delin
quent fishermen to remove the delin-
quent poles, Of course it is not done.
Then the Pilot Commissioners quiet
ly fit cut = tug and start on a raid
and pull up every pole that is beyond
thu line. The howls, the protests,
the prayers, and the threats that
then cnsue from the mariners arc
simply awe inspiring, but the Nik-
ings of the Pilot Board do not mind
them. Ia fact they rather eDjay
them. 1t adds a sort Of zest to
their work and man always is at
least a cruel animal. | took part in
one of these expeditions and confess
it WAS quite an enjoyment. You felt
like a buccanneer OF the nineteenth
century, and gloried in possession Of
might and right too. The sense of
cruelty was lessened by the fact
that the fishing season was nearly
over, and that of course the fisher
men were thereby saved the expense
Of removing their paraphernalia.
Evangelist Barnes, the mountain
apostle, as he loved to hear himself
called, has left us to 90 to Europe.
He was a fat failure here, whatever
he may have been in the West, aud
as ke is very plain spoken man,
much more vigorous in his language
than the apostles were in their time,
he has no hesitation in expressing
his disgust. Brooklyn particularly
displeased him, and he said that it
was a place where wickednesS and
sin literally dropped off the trees. l
confess I do rot see how Barnes ever
expects to make i success here. His
style Of cratoiy and ercss familiarity
with Christ, ard his hearers was
positively repulsive, but it seems that
the revjvalists invariably drop into
this style. ! remember the Wild.
ow Van Colt when she commenced
her career az missionary. She was
strong, earnest speaker, and if at
times she transgresscd the bounds Of
enthusiasts it vas pardonable. Now
however she has dropped down to the
level Of all sensational religienists.-
She conducted revival services re-
Gently at a very nice Methodist
Church, and her manner grew often
sive that the minister Of the church
felt so ashamed over his mistake in
inviting her and almost stayed away
from church. One gentleman she
aroused so much by her blackguardly
way of telling him TO come up 10 the
platform and canfess his sins, as hell
was warming befsre his feet on ac-
count Of his crimes, that he left the
church so as not to insult her Souls
are not brought to the fold in this
way.
The terrible disaster in the paroch-
iaI school of the Catholic Church of
the Most Holy Redsemer, by which
about twenty Children were killed,
and as many more MANNED aad
wounded, still fills the minds of every
body with horror. The fact that ap-
pears most glsringly is that the chill
drea we're not drilled how to act in
case of fire as they are in the public
schools. A few weeks ago there vas
an alarm of fire in a public school for
colored children. They were ofcourse
as much panic sticken as aAy6ody
would be under such circumstances.
But the'principal retained her pres
ence of mind. She gave the wanted
signal, familiar to her charges from
repeated drills. The children re-
membered it, gathered in rank and
file and marched out, without having
so much as 4 dress ruiHed. The fire
then was found to be slight. Had
the same discipline prevailed at the
School Of tAe Most Holy Redeemer,
not child would have been injured
for the fire was unimportant. The