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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

II the reader will turn IL the map Of
Greenland and follow the Northwestern
coast with his finger I'LL he comes to q
ssoint n dogs 43 min. north Latitude he
will be at the exact spot in Prudhos
Land where Lieutenant Peary. with his
broken leg. his wife and fsw devoted
followers. will spend the months Of long
arctic darkness waiting for the break q
day next spring Then in April or May
Peary viii attempt by sledging through
Greenland to approach as near as possible
to the north pole next summer by land
This is way which has never been tried
yet. although in 1888 the lieutenant
made such an exploring trip 100 miles
into the interior Of Greenland He be-
lieves. however tina. the north coast Of
thar country reaches in its extreme limit
no farther than to IS dega If he reaches
this limit he will then be within less
than $50 miles Of the north pole itself
In 1881 Lockwood and Brsrnard, of the
Greedy expedition. gained poiat Of lat
itude IS dogs. "a min. north, near the
same northern coast for which Peary
will aim
Peary expects to make depots Of pro-
visions along the route as he goes north
ward Himself and the two members
Of his party who come ont in the best
shape in the spring will make the trip
northward. carrying surveying materials
and provisions on small sledges that will
be dragged by the explorers themselves,
probably. Peary doubling the utility Of
taking dogs
Will their fellow countrymen ever see
Lieutenant Peary and his plucky wife
againa Some of the party who came
back in the Kite when it steamed out Of
Mccormick bay. on the north shore Of
Murchison sound, through Baffin's bay
southwark and home again, are of opin-
ion that the explorers will add their
names to those of the victims Of the
frozen. cruel north. For one thing,
Peary's plan Of return is pronounced by
experienced whalers 70 be utter mad
ness. The lieutenant expects that pass
ing whaiers will bring his party back
next summer Failing in this. he will
make for Upernavik, 500 miles south,
through snow. fog and ice, in the whale
boats be has with him. This attempt,
whalers declare, will be certain destruc-
ton 1t looks now as though the Amer
lean people will be called on to send an
other expedition next summer over the
track pursued by the Kite, have it reach
Camp Peary in time to come away be-
fore the ice closes in in 1899. and bring
off the intrepid explorer. This of course
will be gladly done.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

General Schofeld has approved the
army tactics. They will go into opera
ton when they have also been approved
by the secretary of war. The main depar-
ture in the new system will b- in the
skirmish drill In future there will be
no driving in the skirrnish line" so ia
miliar to our soldiers during the war.
Instead, the skirmish line is to stand its
ground and be strengthened cumulative
ly as the opposing force increases its at
tack. Thus the skirmish line is not to
retreat at the first signal of attack, but
to continue advancing steadily, and to
be strengthened steadily from the rear,
until the whole army is engaged
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Twenty-nine months ago the territory
Of Oklahoma. in the heart Of the Indian
territory. was settled in an hour. This
September the presidents proclamation
opened to settlers other than Indians
800. 900 acres more on the eastern border
Of Oklahoma. They. too, were settled in
an hour. The new lands lie between the
Cimmarron river on the north and the
Canadian on the south. They are divi-
ded by the new settlers into two coun-
ties. one occupying the northern the
other the southern portion Of the newly
ceded lands. The county seats were So
lected by the United States government
beforehand, go that in these cases there
can be no county seat war.
The northern county seat is called
Chandler, the southern Tecumseh. Each
site is forty miles from Guthrie. 0. T..
1t may be mentioned that lawyers
shingles were waiting to be hoisted upon
tents before the government survey Of
these sites was completed. 1t is there
fore no nse for any young lawyers from
the states to go ont there and grow up
with the country. The unique feature
Of this new last boom was the number OF
negroes who entered with the rest. de-
termined to fight for homesteads
When the government lands Of this
country were first opened to settlement.
the United States was glad to give them
away to anybody who would take and
till them. Even then some Of the most
fertile remained fifty years before they
were occupied That day mas gone for
ever If we bad dozen more terri
tories all would be settled with boom,
Just as Oklahoma has been. In this
generation we have "a hungry people.
ever drawing higher" TO whatever they
can get.
Well. luck to the 10000 September
boomers who went in and made towns
and farms in night OF the lands sold
to the government by the iowas. Macs.
Foxes and pcttAwatamies! Luck to she
postmaster OF Tecumseh. who got his ap-
pointnient before the town was laid outi
All OF you, men. women and children,
black and white-may none OF your
booms prove bromerangf
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

With all due Difference to his emperor
and the plan Of insuring state insurance
for workingmen, Professor Geffcken is
doubtful Of its utility. It is not old age
that troubles wof akingmen. but the want
Of work to do. II the state or any other
agency could guarantee them work
throughout their lives they would ask
for no old age insurance, from the fact
they would seldom become toe old to
labor.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Even the explosive rainmaker mus,
live and learn. The government rain
makers have gone forward one step il
the acquisition of knowledge. They
have learned that in some certain condi-
tons of the atmosphere they cannot
make the rain descend, no matter how
much powder they explode. This wa
the case at Ell Paso, though, as compen
sation for their failure, heavy rains did
fall. following the explosions, all about
them outside of radius Of 100 miles
They believe these rains were in some
cases at least the result Of their arti
fetal thunder.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13
Seeing Europe cheapsy.

One of the returned European tourists
writes TO the New York Press to tell
how he saw a good part OF the old coun-
try for $500, counting passage money
and all. and mad what we Americans
call splendid time.
Re begins and counts expenses from
New York 1t is better in the begin.
ming to take a cheaper line from New
York to Glasgow. and not go to Liver
pool st all Our friend is also opposed
to buying return ticket by the same
route. although it is apparently cheaper.
1t necessitates going over the same
ground twice. His steamship ticket
over will cost seventy dollars Five to
ten dollars will pay stewards and other
fees on shipboard. He counts all ex-
penses abroad for sixty days at $3.50 a
day, $3.50. That will leave enough TO
bring the traveller bacA to New York,
The tourist can. however, get first
class passage on some of the Glasgow
ships for less than seventy dollars.
From Glasgow the traveller should go
through the Trosachs and Soch Lomond
to Edinburgh. thence by way of Mel
rose. Abbotsford, York and Oxford to
London. Great Britain is the most ex-
pensive part of Europe in which to trav-
Ell, says the writer, and Scotland is the
most expensive part Of Great Britain.
Between Melrose and York the $500
man will be able to make detour and
see the lovely lake region. In London
he will get lodgings and have his meals
out. By little shining round" he
can find restaurants that are good at a
moderate price. When he visits the
theater he must select cheap seats
From London he goes by way of New,
haven and Dieppe to Paris. At Paris
he takes hotel in the Latin quarter
He pays fifty to seventy-five cents fol-
lodgings and breakfast. and takes his
other meals at restaurants. In Paris
and London the total necessary expenses
of living alone need not be over 81 to
$3.50 day, From Paris he goes tc
Switzerland and does considerable walk
ing in that wonderland Of snow noun.
tains and manure piles" thence down
the Rhine to Cologne, with q final peer
at Belgium and Holland Then he sails
home from Amsterdam.
He must. however, travel third elias.
on all trains, which Americans do moi
like to do, but which we are assured re
peatedly by those who have tried it il
nothing when you are used to it
Baedeker's guide books are necessity
and the tourist saves money by having
plenty of them. Hotels are mentioned
in these guide books, and our writer wa
accustomed to select the last starred
hostelry that was named. The 500
tourist must not hire cabs or hacks, ant
he must walk whenever he can. Thu
he will save his money and have muci
more fun than his friend who spends ,
thousand dollars in the same length o
<,,V,a
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

If you were a photographer and lived
in Germany and should make and ex-
hibit a picture OF the emperor with bis
beard half grown and sSubby, and I'M
handsome, you would be visited by the
police, frightened within an inch Of your
life and your pictures confscated and
destroyed For his mighty littleness,
Emperor William, has issued an edict
till the beard he is trying to grow is ma
tured. Imagine President Harrison shaw
ing off his beard. then sending forth to
the minions over whom he rules All order
Eat no photographer shall catch him till
it grows out again.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Worth noting is the address of the
colored Bishop Turner in Boston. He
urges the people Of his race to migrate
to Africa He says from 10000 to $780,
900 might go in body and set up gov
eminent Of their own. There they could
demonstrate their administrative ability.
But why should they not go to Lberiaf
There is government already founded;
there they can secure free lands. They
are adapted to the climate and with the
fertile soil they can do something which
is better even than demonstrating their
administrative capacity politically they
can demonstrate their capacity indus
trially. Halt million Of the negroes
that swarm. ragged and unemployed,
around some Of the southern and central
cities might go to Liberia and become
prosperous farmers. Migrating to better
their condition brought all the early
white settlers to America The same
motive would not be an unworthy one
in prompting black men to go to Africa
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

There Is naturalization mill in
Havre, France, which supplies fraudu-
lent naturalization papers ready stamped
and sealed to emigrants who will buy
them. although the fellows never saw
America and cannot speak word Of
English. 1t would be interesting to
know whether it is native born Ameri-
can who is at the head of this nefarioui
business The man who would thus
foist the scum of Europe upon his ma.
tive land is worse than a murderer
and meaner than horse thief
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13
Fact and Fancy as to Australia.

For some years Australia has been re-
garded as having the most wealth pei
capita Of any country ON the globe. The
latest figures are not at hand. but it ii
likely that the United States, with its
81 900 per head of the population, will
push Australia very close. The next
Australian property census will be
looked for with interest.
David Christie Murray declares there
is more material comfort to the square
inch in the far southwestern continent
than anywhere else on the globe, state
ment which Americans will be inclined
to question. The future of this strange
realm Of mingled romance and hard
fact is one that peculiarly interests the
student Of social and economic science.
Australia was settled two generations
ago by British penal colonists, men and
women, who left to their posterity,
along with material accumulations. the
heritage Of dark histories Of crime.
The convicts often become rich and
respectable men. Their children and
grandchildren frequently occupy today
the highest places of honor in that new
world. The question is therefore par
TALLY solved as to whether crime and
pauperism can be educated out Of the
blood. The factors to be considered
therefore in summing up the character
istics of the Australians as people are
their ancestry, the effect of the climate
on them, and finally, the effect of the
sudden and extraordinary opportunities
for gaining wealth.
The climate is extremely hot for tho
Anglo-Saxon race. In the southern part
of the continent the temperature is near
ly on level with that of southern
France. Going northward Of course it
grows hotter. till after Queensland is
passed it is tropical altogether. and in
the extreme north the white man who
lives and thrives will have to be diff
ferent person from the American and
European of the present. A native Aus
tralian prophesies that the Australian
white man Of the coming race will be-
tall, thin, greedy and pushing, grabbing
as he goes, carrying all before him and
enriching himself. He will be talented
intellectually in coarse, hard way, and
will be an expert rider and swimmer.
In 500 years the white race in Australia
will have run out altogether.
The toughest statement made by Mr..
Murray, however, in regard to this
strange, rich country is that it is the
wickedest country on the globe in respect
to crimes against person and property,
and in respect to drunkenness. In the
latter shortcomings we are told that it
beats even Switzerland New South
Wales contains the most rascals froua
the business standpoint and Queensland
the mos. d-unkards
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

A new source Of prosperity has come
to the aouth, and that is the winter tour
ist Each ynar the number Of rich peo-
Pile who can afford to flee from rigor-
Gus climate becomes greater, and these
find nowhere at once so much comfort
and beauty as in the southern part Of
their own land. Florida has increased
more rapidly in wealth than any other
southern state, and the reason is simply
oranges and tourists.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

An Americans will be glad to hear
that Anna Dickinson is recovering her
health and is once more able to take the
platform. rot only with her old time
magnetism and ringing voice, but with
some Of her old time lectures.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

One feature Of working girls picnica
and outings is always the dancing, which
they seem to enjoy as well without a
with men. The last thing party of
men would think of on an outing would
be dancing. This shows radical differ
snce in the sexes that the psychologists
have not taken sufficient cognizance Of.
Perhaps in the coming race dancing will
be given over to girls altogether. as it Il
in the oriental nations.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13
Solving the Money Question.

It would be solved for the majority of
mankind if the financial doctors would
only show them how to get sufficient
amount of the money Silver "of the
present weight and ineness," or gold or
greenbacks, or anything would do. But
this is exactly what the financial scien-
fists are unable to accomplish
Mr.. Charles 8. Ashley, however, be-
ieves he has found out a way to prevent
farm lands and other salable property
from being sometimes up and some
times down." in the way in which they
fuctuate with the money standard in
our generation. Mr.. Ashley considers
that we should cease to think that the
government has power to make a dollar,
and educate ourselves to the view that
the function of government should be
to coin the precious metals and certify
to the weight and quality Of the money
made. II governments undertook this
only, making slight charge for making
the metal into coins, then there would
be nothing to hinder the free coinage of
gold and silver
To proven. mad fluctuations in the
relative value of gold, silver and paper
money, in all contracts there should be
an agreement to pay, not in go many
dollars, but in coins of given weight
and fineness. Banks might begin this
method by agreeing to pay depositors in
coin of specified kind. Railroad mort
cages and all contracts of magnitude
could be worded in the same way.
When A buys farm be would obtain
possession of it by inserting in his mort
gage the promise to pay B in dollars OF
the standard value at the time he pur-
chased it.
Thus Mr.. Ashley believes the currency
question could be taken out Of the realm
Of politics altogether. and that in time
the conception of money would become
that Of commodity which furnished a
convenient medium Of exchange. The
value of the metals would then be gov
erned, like that of every other COM
modify, by the market demand and sup
ply-in fact, Just as 1t now is; but in
that case business would be protected
from ups and downs by the insertion
into contracts of the clause mentioned,
specifying the weight and fneness Of
the coins in which payment was to be
made.
As matter Of fact, this clause is al
ready being inserted in many long time
contracts If it was done in all cases
business would readily adapt itself TO
the new conditions Tho Toledo and
North Michigan railway promises to re-
deem its bonds in gold coin Of the pres
ent weight and fneness- Hon. John
Warner testified before a congressional
committee that since the passage Of the
last silver coinage act banks, corpora
lions and insurance companies in great
numbers had inserted in their reinvest-
ment and new lean contracts q gold
clause.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Ii every traveller on a southwestern
railway carried a loaded revolver, knew
how to use it and would use it in the
nick Of time to blow the countenance
of anybody who molested him in . car.
then it would be impossible for SIX mask
ed men to capture a whole train
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

"she shot herself on his doorsrep be
caase HE love for her had cooled" was
whas German baroness did. When
will baronesses and other women learn
that the best man who ever lived is not
worth killing themselves for?
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Edward S. Clayburn is . prominent
vineyardman of California. He has been
making tour Of the vine growing dis
tricts of Europe In France, Italy, Spain
and Germany the vines are dying rapid
ly. In France and Italy, he says, three
fourths of the vines have been destroyed
by phylloxera- The eyes OF European
vine growers are turning toward Amer
lea Mr.. Clayburn says, 1T will not be
long before the United States will lead
the world in the production Of grapes
and wine"
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

OF the two ways Of fighting what a
man believes to be doctrinal errors in a
church-staying in and fighting on the
inside or leaving it and fighting on the
outside-Rev. Howard MacQueary, the
Episcopal hereto. his chosen the second
one. He will hereafter train in the Uni
versalist camp, having accepted call to
be the pastor Of congregation Of that
denomination in Saginaw, Mich.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Don't put the national guard under
control OF the war department, says
Captain g. S. Wilson, of the Twelfth
United States infantry The better
class Of young men would not then be-
long to it. The result would be TO re-
cruit loafers, and the end would be q
paid militia That would be as bad as
q standing army out and out
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Tie irrigation congress at Salt Lake
City closed its labors by memorializing
the United States congress to make an
appropriation for irrigating the arid
lands Of Montana, the Dakotas, Wy
o1ning. Nebraska. Kansas and Okla
homa, that the desert may be changed
to fertile farms.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

It is interesting to know that the high
est authority Of the Catholic church, at
Rome itself, has at length settled the
Connecticut marriage case and pro-
nounced marriage ceremony solem-
nized BY Methodist preacher to o.
binding and valid
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Rural New YORKER: The census shows
that u the 12,t0O.0O0 families in the
coantry, 10.250, 900 live in homes or
farms free from mortgage encumbrances
Isn't it time for the calamity criers, foi
this season at least. to take back seat?
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Sixty cents year V whas Edison prs-
diets viii be the cost Of heating and
lighting house when electricity mss
fully shown its power. But we'd b.
glad to have il come IN our time
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13
II you cannot talk anything but per-
sonalities. don't converse at all

Wagner's music did what Empress
Frederick could not do-made Paris
reconciied 50 letting the Gernaans at
least live.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Canada and the United States are
united under gron.is II they are not
above. hy tho new ssaanel under the St
Clair river from Sarnia TO Port Huron.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Auscng the new uses to which cleo
tricity has been adapted ia fruit canning
in the great factories Of California
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Reciprocity is only an international
form of protection. says William Henry
Hrzlbert.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-13

Fhe ssddest fact about books nova
days Is that one never hnds anything
new in them
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-12-30
OUR TRADE RELATIONS.
COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH BRI-
TISH COLONIES.
Articles Which Are to be Admitted
Free of Duty at the Ports In
cluded in the Agreement.
Special 10 the REcoRp-ux1oN.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Reciprocity ar
engagements have been entered into be-
tween Secretary Blaine and the British
Minister, to embrace the British West
Indies Colonies, Jamaica, Barbados.
Leeward and Windward Islands, except
Grenada, Trinidad and British Guiana.
The official proclamation and correspond
ence will probably not be issued for ten
days or two weeks, as it must await no.
tice that necessary legislation of the colo
MES has been enacted. Following are the
principal articles to be admitted tree
Animals alive, beef, beef and pork pre-
served in cans, printed matter, bottles.
bran, mlddlings and shorts, carts, wagons,
ears and barrows mot including vehicles
OF pleaSure), cotton seed and products
eggs, fertilizers of all kinds, fish. fresh
or on ice, and salmon and oysters in
cans, fruits and vegetables fresh and
dried when not canned, timed or in bot
tles), gold and silver coin of the United
States and bullion, hay and straw for
forage, ice, India rubber and gutta-
percha goods, implements, utensils and
tools for agriculture, lime of all kinds all
materials and appliances for RAILWAYS
and tramways, paper of all kinds for
printing and wrapping, Photographic APP
pdTdLuS anu cLelillcdIS, all accessories for
printing, quicksilver, resin. tar. pitch
and turpentine, salt, sewing machines,
ship building materials Including wire
ropel, starch of Indian corn or maize.
steam and power engines, steam boilers
and steam pipes, sulphur, tanbark, cleo
trical apparatus and appliances of all
kinds for communication or illumination:
trees, plants, pines and seeds and grains
OF all kinds for propagation or cultiva-
ton, wire for fences and proprietary
medicines.
The following affect Jamaica only:
Coal and coke, sugar trefined), wire for
fences, appliances for fastening the same.
zinc, tin and lead sheets.
Articles to be admitted at 50 per cent.
reduction of the present duty: Bacon
and bacon hams, bread and biscuits, but
ter, cheese, lard, and compounds; lum-
Der OF pitch pine, in rough or prepared
for buildings, to be reduced to shiilings
per 600 feet. Articles to be admitted at
% per cent reduction of present duty
Beet, sailed and picked; corn and maize.
cornmeal, oats, petroleum and its prod
ucts; pork, sailed or pickled; wheat.