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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

A century and quarter ago, before
the United States was thought of, when
the most radical liberal and come outer
would as soon have expected the ocean
to open and swallow all the continent as
that the American colonies would ever
be anything else than loyal dependency
of the British crown, then it was that
the Methodist church on this side Of the
Atlantic was founded by handful Of
plain people in little room in New
York city. It was the starting of the
John Street church, the first Methodist
congregation in America. The denomi-
nation now has over a million members
and nobody knows how many million
dollars, and the old John Street Metho-
dist church in New York lately cele-
brated its one hundred and twenty-fftb
anniversary.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

The gentlemen comprising the survey
ing party now working for the Bear Val
ley company up Millard's canyon. were
on Monday treated to sight which sci
dom comes to men in this center Of civil
cation. We get the story from Messrs
Pollock and Ross, transit men Of the
party.
The men were working up the canyon
about mile above the Willard House
when they heard peculiar. crashing
noise. Looking up they saw on the cliffs
high above the stream, and about guar
ter of q mile from them, two noble
bucks standing, with heads lowered,
about ten feet from eacn other. Thus
they stood eying each other End paving
the dirt for fully minute. Then they
made q simultaneous spring, and came
together with noise like falling tree.
So violent was the conclusion that the
animals were thrown back until dis.
lance of ten or fifteen again interviewed
between them. The men, fascinated
with the sight, watched the deer go
through the same performance again
and again.
Finally, after more than usually
violent rush, the bucks did not separate.
but struggled as if apparently trying to
push each other back. 1t soon became
plain to the men, however, that instead
Of pushing they were pulling away from
each other. In other words their horns
had become locked, and from raging
combatants the bucks became fright.
ened animals, and were only bent on Sc
curing divorce. Messrs. Ross, Pol
lock and party then conceived the idea
of taking advantage of the helpless con-
dition of the bucks and capturing them.
They made great rush for the scene,
but before they reached it the deer in
their struggles approached too near the
edge of the cliff and both of them fell
to their death in the pool below. When
the party reached the water the deer
were found locked in each others horns
quite dead.
The gentlemen thought to skin the
deer and bring in the hides to lend an air
of authenticity to the tale, but the law
is so strict as to having in your posses
sion the hide of newly deceased deer,
no matter whether the deer dies of Ia
grippe, commits suicide or falls ont of a
balloon, that they bore.-Banning
Herald.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18
Educational CAMPAIGNS.

Educational campaigns" is favorite
phrase in the mouths of writers and
speakers, used in reference to the politi-
cal contests of the past two or three
years. Political campaigns might be
educational, and as matter of fact al
ways would be, only for the unfairness
of the human mind where its interests or
prejudices are concerned. All may be
fair in love and war, but all is not fair in
the field Of argument and opinion. far
from it.
Whichever side of question an arguer
is on, he ought to know that one Of the
first rules of logic is to concede to the
opposing side all the facts that fairly be-
long to it, with their proper differences.
But the style of political argument too
much in vogue in the campaign just
passed has been to seize on two facts
that exist side by side and claim one as
the consequence Of the other It is as if
the logician should say, ga horse has
four legs; table has four legs. there
fore table is horse
If the cause of university extension
advances in America as is expected,
then we may hope in time to hear ora
tors that are fair in argument, letting
facts go for what they are worth and
knowing how to use them. Then po-
itical campaigns will indeed be educa-
tional The man who distorts facts has
a graver responsibility to shoulder. than
he perhaps thinks. What mankind
needs most for the progress of the race
is to get rid OF prejudice, and not twist
facts to the side of their passions or in
terests. The man who knowingly APP
peals to ignorance or prejudice among
the masses therefore does incalculable
injury.
Therefore don't rise above party, but
De fair and square in argument.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

Two ocean steamers have been com
menced by the Cunard line that may
eclipse in speed any Of the Atlantic racers
already on the sea. The immense new
Cunarders will carry Q 1000 tons of freight
and 700 cabin passengers. The vessels
will be guaranteed to make twenty-one
miles an hour in the open sea. That
speed would be 504 miles in day. At
500 miles a day the Cunarder would cross
the ocean in about five days and fifteen
hours. Meantime that lively Scotch
American, Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, pre-
diets that before the Cunarders get their
racers afoat the Inman line will have
built in the United States, on the Della
ware, two Atlantic steamers that will
outrun anything that ever crossed the
sea, except cable message, and make
the Cunarders turn green with envy.
Well, we shall see.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

The old goes out and the new comes
in. Time out OF mind Hebrew men
have worshiped in their synagogues with
covered heads, and the stranger who Wis
tied Jewish house of devotion always
took his hat off and slyly put it on again
as soon as he discovered his mistake.
But some of the Jewish young men have
grown FESTIVE under the old custom, and
from time to time have sought to shake
it off and be permitted to remove their
hats in church, like other men. In Cleve-
land the innovation has at length been
successful in one congregation. 1t was
decided by vote, after q warm discus
sion, that hats should come off in the
synagogue, but still those who wished to
keep them on might do so, which was
roundabout way of telling the young
men they might take their hats off if
they wanted to and would not bother
the old gentlemen
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

Three little dirty half clad girls made
brief sensation on upper Broadway the
coolest day recently. The eldest was
not more than eight, and her companions
might have been siz and seven respec-
lively. The eight-year-old carried a
faded, rib rotten parasol that had once
been pale blue, and her two companions
were trying to squeeze their heads I'M
der it, while they carried the rear of
their short dresses in one hand, as ladies
manipulate their trains at a muddy
crossing.
The eldest divided her attention be-
tween the proper angle for the parasol
and getting her little skirt down low
enough to touch the sidewalk, which
she occasionally accomplished by stoop-
ing. Three pairs of feet were visible
through the dilapidated shoes, and the
shabby old July hats wouldn't have
been picked out of the gutter And
these three little girls playing lady on
Broadway We're evidently delighted at
the good humored attention of stalwart
gentlemen in heavy listers, ladies in
costly furs and carriage drivers muffled
to the ears in warm livery New York
Herald
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18
The Gillian Affair.

Oct. 10 number Of American seamen
of the nsn-of-war Baltimore We're at
tackled by Gillian mob in the streets
of Valparaiso. One American, the Bal
timores boatswain, was killed, another
died of his wounds and five altogether
were injured. Bayonet wounds on the
soldiers bodies showed that the Valpa-
raise police Lad helped the mob rather
than those attacked. Oct. %, one week
later, President Harrison sent dispatch
to Minister Egan in Chill, bidding him
lay the matter before the Gillian gov
eminent, also asking whether there was
any justification for the act of the mob,
and why the guilty parties were not
brought to justice. The officers of the
Baltimore believe the attack was made on
account of hostility on the part of Chill
ians to Americans because Of the belief
that the United States sympathized with
Balmaceda in the late revolution in
Chill, also because the representatives of
our government protected political refu-
gees at the close of that revolution.
Thereupon English papers, ever ready
to criticise in an unfriendly way the
United States, began to comment harsh
ly on this governments haste in de-
handing explanations of the fight in
Valparaiso, and bringing up our non
action in case of ltaly's demand for salts
faction after the New Orleans riot. The
fact that the English have large interests
in Chilli is also to be remembered In
connection with this criticism it may be
remarked that the British government
itself made a precedent for the United
States to follow in the case where salts
faction was demanded of Brazil in 1868.
Three drunken British naval officers in
citizens dress were arrested by the po-
lice for street disturbances in one of the
Brazilian towns. Satisfaction for this
outrage and also for money claim Of
over $50 n00-a claim brought against
Brazil by the British bark Prince Of
Wales-was demanded. When the de-
nand was not at once complied with,
q British Inan-of-war immediately seized
and held five Brazilian sailing vessels
and one steamer.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

Men have lost their lives in quick
sands, but seldom, if ever, has any man
come nearer sinking down to death in
quick sawdust than did Merchant Tailor
E. w. Battle, of Williamsport. Walk
ing along eight or ten yards from the
river bank, upon what he did not know
was made ground almost entirely COM
posed of sawdust, he began to sink be-
fore he realized any danger. After he
had gone down to his waist, and could
not regain the shore, he removed his
upper garments and threw himself as
fast as possible out into the river, where
he struck wading ground and made his
way in the water around the treacherous
sawdust tract.-Cor. Philadelphia Rec
ord
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18
Southern Literature.

1t is altogether probable that the COM
ing American novelist will hail from the
south. Thomas Nelson Page gives in
Lippincott's Magazine sketch of the
work in literature done by southerners
since the war which is full of informa-
ton. There is touch of the pathetic
in the story of how southern writers
toiled on unrewarded and unknown
There were no southern readers. The
south either would not or could not pay
for books; the north would not believe
at first that a southerner could write
anything worth reading During the
war few melancholy attempts were
made at publishing, but with touch of
humor Mr.. Page remarks that paper was
very scarce indeed, and the government
needed most of it to print money on
Still, Augusta j. Evans novel, "Ma-
caria," published during the war, ran up
to sale of 10000
After the war southern women were
the first to take up literature Augusta
J. Evans wrote est. Elmo" which be-
came popular in the north. In 1870 a
new novelist appeared ON the scene, one
whose nom de plume is Christian Reid.
Her stories at once attracted attention,
as they still do. But they are too Eng
fish in treatment to be of the pure
American type, Mr.. Page says. Mary
E. Bryan's novels are read by the thou
sand too.
Numbers of southern magazines sprang
up, but they languished few years and
died for want of support. The poets Of
the south, Paul Hayne and Sydney La
nier, wrote till they found an audience
even in the north, where the prejudice
against everything southern was thought
to be so bitter. But they died before
reaching the full reward of their labors.
1t is notable the number of gifted in
dividuals who started in literature in
the south, walked over the thorny road
little way and then passed out of life.
Perhaps the bitterness of disappoint-
ment and despair weighed them down
and crushed them. At any rate now,
though, the south cannot complain Of
want of recognition in the north or in
the world. Famous southerners are in
every field. Joel Chandler Harris has
made world wide reputation in ''Uncle
Remus" and other publications as hui
morist. In the field of fiction perhaps
the south will distinguish itself most,
however. There is George w. Cable,
with his stories Of Creole life. Even
though cultivated Creoles do not talk
patois," these stories are of thrilling in
terest. There is q field for literature in
the south richer than elsewhere in Amer
lea. Charles Egbert Craddock Miss
Murfree) has found this out. So have
M. G.. McClelland, Anelie Rives Chan
Ter, Mrs. Preston. L. g. de Leon and
Mrs. Burton Harrison Katherine Pear
son Woods. who wrote "Metzerott, Shoe
maker" is southern girl
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

The ,ncst cruelty in the "stitch, stitch,
stitch" business in cities is practlced by
the sweaters, who contract with large
firm to make garments at given price.
Then they sublet the work to poor wom-
en- in garrets and tenement houses and
squeeze these victims of ignorance and
weak will down to the last, lowest rates.
One large Chicago house has taken a
stand against the sweater. It gives out
no cloakmaking to sweaters.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18
Very silly.

A lady who, since the memory Of the
present generation, has been earning her
living by writing newspaper and maya
zine articles and in various other ways,
and is therefore quite as much of IA work
ing woman as if she scrubbed floors for %
maintenance, writes paper lamenting
the degeneracy of domestic help in the
United States, and remarks:
We can never have the perfect service" In
republic.
Dear! dear! by all means this lady
should migrate, bandbox and bundle, to
Europe and live there, where from the
superior heights of writing at a cent
word, more or less, she can look down
upon the woman who sweeps up her lit
erary litter and enjoy the perfect serv-
ice" which only a monarchy or an en-
pire can yield. Her aristocratic sensi-
tivities are quite too acute for her to
tarry longer in her own country, where,
as the old man said when speaking to
the Sunday school class, maybe all
these little boys and girls will some day
be presidents.
The perfect service" in the domestic
line in America went when women who
wanted to introduce foreign ways
brought into their kitchen the cap and
back door business, and set themselves
up as persons of another race than the
people who for wages performed their
work. Then every self respecting Amer
lean girl fled the kitchen. Joan of Arc
was hostler. What horrid creature
she would have been to this blue blooded
magazine hack
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

That fine old train OF tine British char
acter which in certain Qocahties known
as wife k:nkzng districts prompts hus-
band to kick tbs partner of his bosom
senseless and then stamp her in the face
with his hobnailed shoes, crops ont
strikingiy in paper on corporal punish
ment which the very reverend, the
dean of St. 2auls, London, contributes
to The North American Review SIS
corporal punishment degrading?' asks
the very reverend, the dean. Oh, no, it
is not So far from it, beating children
seems to be in bis merciful and right
eous judgment the most glorisus and
inspiritirg tonic that can be administered
to the depraved young reprobates and
desperadoes whom English people make
themselves the parents Of
1t seems odd enough to see dean of
the Church of England boldly standing
forth as an advocate of beating chill
dren. Worse still, his deanship appears
to have the matter very much at heart.
The indications of feeling that fiogging
is considered in America degrading
punishment, and that this feeling is
spreading even to England. are painful
signs" to him-positively painful. Then
he proceeds to tell us that SO far as his ex-
perience goes the children that were beat
en- most beastishly and horribly are the
ones that have most revesence for their
parents in their adult years. He quotes
particularly the case of girl whose moth
er used to lash her like dog on the slight
est provocation, or with no provocation
at all. The girl would have died for her
mother, the gentle. kind hearted dean
says.
He gives us Scripture texts, does the
dean, gives them to us good and strong
and red hot, about the rod and stripes.
etc. If this high toned gentleman has
young lady daughters, no doubt he sends
them to that London school where grown
girls are tied hand and foot and laid
stomach down across table and beaten
upon their bare backs with birch rod.
If so, how they must reverence their
parent on the fathers side, to be sure! 1t
is refreshing, nay, it is positively delight
full and exhilarating, to see the champion
of religion whose fundamental teach.
ings are love, good will and peace thus
come down good and strong and solid
for beating original sin out of those de-
PRAYED wretches, the children Of Chris
tian parents Do not appeal to their
nobler feelings, their sense of justice,
their affection and their reason to correct
their faults, for they have none of these
nobler qualities, the little villains.
Whack it out of 'em, dean!
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

Superintendent Porter of the eleventh
census contributes paper to The North
American Review on the subject Of the
American peoples debts, though unfor-
tunately he does not tell us how to pay
them. He insists, however, that the adj
dition of mortgage Indebtedness statis-
tics to the census will have wholesome
effect ON the national mind, in that it
will call attention to the subject and en-
able both Operations and individuals to
see how much more or less they are in
debt than they were ten and twenty
years ago and thus stimulate them TO
make an effort to get out
The states have reason to felicitate
themselves. We find from an exhibit
published by Mr.. Porter that the state
debts of the Union amounted to nine
dollars per capita for the whole country
in 1870. In 1890 the sum had declined
to six dollars per capita, while in 1890 it
is only three dollars. 1t may be that
the figures here are so smal that some
of the states may be tempted to jump
into debt again. The per capita debt of
all kinds-state. city, county and ma
tional-was in 1870 $s4. 81 per head. In
1890 it is 1926
There are debt making and debt pay
ing periods, Mr.. Porter finds. We have
had repeatedly "almost crazes Of going
;c+, 5ah+ o~J +hoco ba,y, baa,, fo1lorryad
by periods of retrenchment and reform.
Everything moves in waves. Beginning
in 1880 the states had their fever of in
ternal improvements, and so high did
the impulse run that in some cases pub
lie improvements far in advance of the
requirements of the population were
ordered. The state debt epidemic
reached its elimination in 1912. when
some of the strongest states in the Union
staggered on the verge of bankruptcy.
From 1870 to 1877 came the municipal
improvement craze, and the per capita
debt of cities doubled between 1870 and
1880, and, like the state debts before it,
went far in advance Of the population.
The last decade the country over has
been one of retrenchment and debt pay
ing Mr.. Porter calls attention to the
fact, however, that debt is not always
sign of financial depression. On the
contrary, it is frequently sign of pros
perity, since sound headed business men
and corporations frequently increase
their working capital by borrowing
when they are certain that very act will
bring them larger returns.
AS to mortgages, abstracts of 9,000,-
900 mortgages are now on file in the
census department. 1t cost $1,00O,000
to collect mortgage statistics, which
sum would have paid off good many
Of them.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

The place Of another one of the few re-
manning Union generals will be vacant
when the G. A. r. meets next year in
Washington. 1t could scarcely have
been believed by those who saw him
during his last term in congress that
General Hovey was 50 near seventy years
old lie scarcely looked beyond fifty,
yet the dispatches announcing his death
announced also that he was in the
seventy-frst year of his age. His con-
slant activity and energetic spirit kept
him young.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18

Would it not seem strange to have an
American pope? 1t is fact that Car
dinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, is among
those seriously mentioned as a candidate
for the papal succession in case of the
death of Leo XIII, who is eighty-on
years old and feeble. In case of his
election to the pontifcate Cardinal Glib
bons would undoubtedly continue the
liberal spirit and policy which has char
acterized the present papal administra-
tion in dealing with the great social
questions of the time. And he would be
quite untrammeled in political complica-
tons that might arise in Europe. But
an American in the papal chair would
make the pilgrim fathers turn over in
their graves.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-18
American Naval Apprentices.

Lieutenant A. B. Wyckoff, of the
United States navy, writes for Scribner's
paper which will be full of information
to youths who aspire to become Ameri-
can man-of- wars men. At Coasters
Harbor island, near Newport, r. L., is
the United States training ship for sea-
men in our navy The officers for the
navy are educated at Annapolis, Md
The best of the seamen trained at the
station and on ships are eligible to hold
petty offices among their fellow seamen,
with more privileges and better pay
after taking courses prescribed for them
in gunnery, electricity and torpedo man
agement.
There are too few enlisting stations
for naval apprentices, in the judgment
of Lieutenant Wyckoff. There are re-
ceiving ships at the navy yards of the
Atlantic coast, and at Erie, Pa. The
Michigan is the vessel at Erie, the Min
nesota is the one for New York city. Boys
that enlist at any of these places are sent
to the training station at Coasters Harbor
island. The naval apprentice remains
at the station at least six months. While
there he receives instruction in English,
gunnery and seamanship. Then he goes
off for cruise on an old fashioned sail
ing warship to learn to be sailor. He
has two cruises of six months each-one
in summer to Europe, the other in win5e
among the West Indies islands. During
this year he is exercised in all the drills
that give young sailor health, muscular
strength and agility. From the training
chip the youth is transferred to regular
man-of-war, a cruiser. Here he learns
what modern naval warfare really is,
and has besides the splendid physique
and quickness he obtained on the sailing
vessel. Thence till he is twenty-one he
remains in the service.
Boys may enlist as naval apprentices
from the ages of fourteen to eighteen,
inclusive. They must pass physical
examination to show that they are
sound and must know how to read and
write. If accepted, the youth signs an
agreement to remain in the service of
the government till he is twenty-one.
He then enters at the training station
and receives clothing. He also gets nine
dollars month and his food. At the
training station, after time, he NAV
get from ten dollars to eleven dollars a
month if he is worthy. After cruising
six months on a ship his pay may be
again advanced to nineteen dollars q
month, and at the close of year of such
service to twenty-four dollars a month,
II the examining board recommend him.
The boys are thoroughly well treated
and have excellent food, with plenty of
time for recreation. The recruits that
make the best seamen and are therefore
considered most desirable by the naval
authorities are youths from the farms
and agricultural districts of the country.