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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-09-26
STATE OF WEST yIReINrA,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
CHARLESTON.

The STATE or West VIRGINIA:
TO ne Commissioners or Election In berkeley,
jefferson and Morgan Counties:
A vacancy having occurred in the office OF
Judge Of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit OF this
State, caused by the death Of Hon. Jos, s.
Duckwall, OF Morgan county. Judge Of said
Circuit, who was elected for the term begin
ming on the first day of January, 1899, and end
ing on the thirtyfifst day Of December, 1895, you
are hereby commanded, IN the name Of the
state of West Virginia, to cause poll toNbe
opened and an election to be held IN your re-
spective counties, at the next general election
to be held on Tuesday, the eighth day Of No
yeinber 1902 for the purpose of electing a
Judge Of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, TO
All the vacancy IN said Office for said unexpred
term s*-
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Paper Money.

The prejudice against paper money
is diving away. AS light and intelli-
gcncc circulates among the people, its
true status and legitimate function, as
money circulating medium is bccom-
ing better understood. Its recognition
is acknowledged and it assumes its le-
gal status in the vocabulary of finance,
and the canons of public opinion.
Why not? 1t is equal to any other
money fabric. Perhaps not as durable
as silver and gold, but that cant affect
its gcnuineness or affect It's validity.
When worn ont it can be reissued just
the same as anything else. AS 10 Its
convenience and convertabilitv, we
think all will agree. In this respect it
stands supreme and involuntarilv as
serts itself against all comers. 1t is
preferable to both gold and silver on
account of its liShtness and ready
adaptation to I'll the wants of individ-
ual manipulation and the general Uses
Of both business and trade.
Ave, who would be willing TO give it
up. or have it put in the background
of financial standing and money values
Indeed, there is no necessity for this,
and there is no practical benefit t. be
derived therefrom. Gold and oliver
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VOTE FOR PRINCIPLE.
THAT IS WHAT THE PEOPLES
PARTY ASKS OF YOU.
It Has Come to Pass that Party Has Too
Completely Taken the F'1ace of rrinci-
pie in the American Mind-lsefOrln
Notes.
Not Partisan.


We have no desire to become parti-
san. We have no disposition to abuse
anybody. Wholesale abuse of parties
and candidates is libel on American
fairness, intelligence, and candor. As
rule, all parties put up their best men
for candidates, or at least they put up
ordinarily good people, and to abuse
and lie about Il man as soon as he be-
comes a candidate, is disgusting, to
say the least of it.
But while We care little for partyism,
we care much Tor principle, and for
This we intend to do the very best SER
vice in our power.
1t has come to pass that party has
completely taken the place of princi-
pie in the Amer can mind. This makes
party leaders dcmineering and selfish.
if not unscrupulous. They feel they
are entirely safe in counting the party
vote, no matter what they do. This
blind adherence to party must stop, or
public administration will go all the
time from bad to worse.
Take the condition of things at pres
snt. The organized farmers every
where, millions strong, and the organ
ized laborers as well. have uniformly,
and with one voice. asked for the re-
| nlonctization of silver. They have not
united upon this demand as the best
| financial reform measure, but as the
most conservative one, one that had
been the rule through the major years
If the Republic, and one that could
aot be charged rs departure from
;imc-honored financial landmarks.
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80. WHITTIER RlS DEAD.
The Quaker Poet, at Ripe Old Ago,
PASSES Peacefully Away.

The Quaker Poet. at Ripe Old Ago.
PASSES Peacefully Away.
John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet,
died at .4:30 o'clock "Wednesday morn.
ing, at Hampton Falls, n. H. The end
was like his life, peaceful, and he passed
away like one falling asleep. His near
est relatives and DR.. Douglass were at
his bedside when death came. and no
seemed to be conscious OF his surrounds
ings at the last moment. The funeral,
at Amesbury, according TO the Quaker
custom, will be simple, with no sermon.
John G. Whittier's latter years had
been beautiful ideal of old age. Long
ago he laid aside the heavy cares Of life
to reap the reward of his labors for man.
kind, aad beloved of a nation and tho
entire EngEsh-speakins race he awaited
patiently the summons to hiS final home.
1t had been his custom of late years to
spend his summers at Oak Knoll and his
winters at his home in Amesbury, always
among the hooks he so dearly loved.
His birthplace, near Havcrhill, Mass,
still stands, only little altered from
| what it was in 1907.
A farmers son, born at time when
New England farm life was more frugal
than it is nowadays, he had none OF the
opportunities for culture which Holmes
and Lowell enjoyed in their youth. His
| parents were intelligent and upright
people of limited means, who lived in
| the simplicity of the Quaker faith. and
| there was but little in his early sur
| roundings to encourage and develop q
| literary taste. Whitticr's only school
instruction was at Il district school and
| afterward at the Havcrhill Academy,
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The SluggcrA.

NOT James Corbett, but John Barley
corn, knocked out Sullivan.-Buffalo
Express.
AT last Bully Sullivan received dose
of his own medicine it must be said
to his credit that he always fought fair.
-Milwaukcc Sentinel.
Ir is doubtful if a more unspcakable
iuf1ian than Sullivan ever entered the
ring, and as long as he was champion
it was dominated by touShs.--St. Louis
Republic.
IT was a sad blow to the dramatic
profession. Eooth is getting old, and
who is there left to take the place Of the
uncrowned J-hn L.? - Louisville
Courier Journal.
THE glory of Sullivan has departed.
The spell which attached TO his name
SO long has been destroyed. Reputa-
ton, money, and friends are gone. On
this broad planet there Is no person or
thing SO dead an:i discredited as de-
fcated puyilist.-St. Louis. Globe DEM
Ocrat.
IF, now, we must have prize fights
and devotees of the ring, then ii is .
pleasure to chronicle the final defeat OF
the brute and bully who has worn his
hOnors braZenly for SO many years.
When Corbett knocked out Sullivan, it
came Us near to being a triumph OF de-
cency as such an event could be.-St.
Paul PiOneer-Press.
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Get right. vote right. and all will
come right. Temnle Forum.
Rob the producer and YOU kill the
goose that lays the golden egg Medi-
cine Lodge Index.
Success depends upon vigilence. 1t
is the price of liberty. Don't sleep at
your post. fort Scott Lantern.
Ignorance rules the world. The
blind lead the blind. The man who
seeks true wisdom is crank
Pueblo Crisis.
The strike of hunger may be APP
reased by charity. but the demand of
intelligence awakens Justice Phila-
delphia Justice.
Some henologist SAYS that if you
want good results don't set reform
eggs under old party hens. s.-Progres-
sivc Farmer.
ANY man can we'll afford to be called
Il crank. if he turns the machine in the
right direction. Liberty Hill Peoples
Party Paper.
It is the solemn duty of every citizen
to carefully investigate the reform
movement before passing judgment
upon it.--Lexington Clipper.
The farmer who depends on & cent
cotton to buy 10 cent bacon. will not
he able to educate his children.
Smithville Monitor.
Were it not for labor. capital could
not be, and without labor existing
capital would he useless and unprofit-
able Kansas City Phalanx.
Alliance men should remember that
there is no place like the ballot box
for enforcing respect for their opinions
Waslin gton Economist.
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where he paid for his tuition by
work done out Of study hours.
But he began to rhyme almost
as soon as he was able to read. His
father frowned upon his efforts, which
for a long time were kept secret, but his
sister had faith in his work and encour-
aged it. One of his earliest poems,
The Fxile's Departure" she sent with
out his knowledge to the Newburyport
Free Press, signing it with his initial,
w., Haverhill, June l, 1896" The
publication Of this poem led to the ac-
Iuaintance and friendship of William
Lloyd Garrison, then the editor Of the
paper, a friendship which lasted and in
creased until death ended it.
After this it was not long before
Whittier's household lyrics gave him
such a hold op the poruiaE heart, as
later, in the struggle for emancipation,
made him power in the land.
1t is unnecessary to quote from works
SO familiar to almost every reader, but
Skipper Ireson's Ride, The Witch's
Daughter. Mary Garvin," Mer cries"
The Playmate" and Maud Muller"
Probably the most POI ular quotation in
poetry Is the couplet from Maud Null
ler:"
For OF all sad words of tongue or pen.
The saddest are these, alt might have
been
Despite his advanced years-he was
two years older than Tennyson and
twelve years the senior OF Walt Whit
mamie was until recently sturdy
and active, and the most charming per-
sonality in the world of letters. His
mental powers We're keen and acute to the
last. He gave but little time of late to
literary effort, his eye being dimmed
erary production was poem In the At
lantic to DIR. Holmes. and the last verso
he wrote was on the occasion Of DIR.
Holmes recent birthday.
Mr.. Whittier never married. Between
his sister Elizabeth and himself there
existed the rarest and most delicate love
and friendship, which. doubtless, had no
little to do with the poets inspirations.
His home was broken up at her death
| and his heart suffered in the same mis-
| fortune its greatest shock. His niece
came to him at the death of his sister
| and always strove to make that great
| loss as little felt as possible.
Mr.. Whittier was not a rich man, nor
| was he poor. Aboat fifty or sixty thou
| sand copies of his works are sold every
| year, and on the revenues thus derived
he was able TO pass his declining years
| in ease and comfort.
The news of the death of John G.
Whittier was received at Haverhill
| with universal feelings Of sadness and
regret. The city hall bell was struck
| eighty four times at 8 O'Clock as indi-
| eating the age of the deceased, and
flags on the public buildings and school
houses were displayed at half mast as
tokens of respect for the dead poet.
Throughout the literary world the
event, though not unexpected, evokes
the profoundest regret.
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This demand for the reinstatement of
silver has been made in assembly and
convention. from the rostrum and
through the press. hv private letter
and in the ballot box. Yet the demand
has been lightly put aside by the party
leaders actually ignored on the most
trivial excuses.
SO of option dealing, or gambling in
thc prices OF farm products. Legisla-
tic. on this subject has been demanded
in every possible way by the organized
farmers throughout the country. and
its evils have been portrayed with an
eioquence that might stir the multi
tudes. until even the statesmen have
been compelled to admit them. But
Congress has not needed the demand,
and calls upon the people to wait until
after the election.
People, farmers. how long have ynl,
been waiting? How have former prom
ises been redeemed? What greater
security have we for the future? Ii
you continue to vote as You have voted,
and keep in power the machines that
have so often deceived you,. and that
the influences of the lobby, and SO
cowardlv III the presence of the gold
power, will not that vote endorse this
cowardice, approve the work of the
past, and cannot you be pointed at
from " Washington as one of the pillars
that stand under these ruinons systems
| to uphold them? There is something
more in this than mere vote, some
thing more than party. There is prin-
| ciple i'll it, and for one we shall vote
principle this time. even if party must
sink into Oblivion because of our do
| ing SO.
Hence, dear reader, we are not ask
ing you to be partisan, not asking
you to be a Democrat, Republican, o1
a Peoples party man, but We are ask
ing you to be a voter for principle, ant
to vote in such way as will show tha
you do not approve the ruinous legis
lation of the past, and the cowardic'
that keeps Congress from restoring
justice to the people.-Progressiv'
| Farmer
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Something About Gingerbread.

We should be greatly surprised to
see our everyday bread come to our
tables tied with yellow and green
ribbons or decorated with golden
stars, but there was a time in En-
gland when SO simple Il thing as
gingerbread was treated in a much
more extraordinary way. In its
earlier form gingerbread was simply
a bread paste, with ginger and sweet
ening added. A very crude imagina-
tion went to work at it, and the
markct-placcs were crowded with
gingerbread kings and queens, saints
and rOosterS, adorned with gilt
crowns. and scepters, with halos,
wings, and tails.
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have their uses, and help to make up
the details of this financial problem,
and they will doubtless be used as
money as long as civilization lasts. But
paper money is the money ofthc period,
til, money of the people. and it is des-
tined to bear this function from this
time on. We hail and welcome the
consummation. 1t cxcites pleasing re-
Election. and stimulates courage and
resolution for all the reforms that eX-
cite our hopes or challenge our atten-
iion. National View.
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PHILIP of Macedon was assassinated
by his own guards when about TO start
on the conquest Of Greece.
FERGUS III. of Scotland was stabbed
by his jealous Qneen. who Immediately
afterward committed suicide.
CONSTANTINE XII., the last Emperor
Of the.East, was killed in the storming Of
Constantinople by the Turks.
IVAN vi. was imprisoned for eighteen
years and finally murdered. Mary
Queen of Scots was beheaded.
LEO VI. reigned seven months and
was poisoned by Marosia, an infamous
woman of great power in Rome.
In forty-nine years, from A. D. 26O to
A. d. 800, sixteen Roman Emperors were
assassinated by their successors.
GALBA was murdered by men who
were in every way trusted by him and
whom he had signally befriended.
CoMMoDus, the Gladiator Emperor,
was murdered by the Pretorian guards
who had placed him on the throne
CLAuDIus was poisoned by his in
famous wife, Agrippina. to make room
for her equally Infamous son Nero.
OTTo II. of Germany massacred his
chief mobiles at q feast and himself died
of a wound from a poisoned arrow.
Or s venty-three historic Kings ol
Scotland sixty-one are said to have died
in battle or to have been murdered.
QUEEN MARY Of England died of NOR.
tification at the loss Of Calais, the las,
| Of the English colonial possessions.
LOUIS TX, the saint after whom the
city of st. Louis is named, died Of the
plague while on crusade in kfrica.
EDWARD III. died OF a broken heart
caused by the death, from consumption,
! OF his son, the famous Black Prince.
| THE names of fifty-two Saxon kings
! are preserved, all of whom, with the ex.
ception of four, died a violent death.
MAGMA CHARTA JOHN died OF mortifi-
cation at the loss Of his baggage and
! treasure while crossing q dangerous
ford.
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All Sorts.

THE Gulf stream flows at the rate Of
four miles an hour.
BANNER COUNTY, Nebraska, boasts
Of a new born baby who weighs AT
pounds.
MICHIGAN has nearly $1,000 Meth
odists, with church property valued at
over So, 75O,OOO.
AN insect in the ear may be drowned
out with tepid water, or killed by few
drops Of sweet oil.
PERHAPS the most happily named
man in England is Thankful Joy, .
Hampshire cricketer.
THE first elevated road in Great
Britain will be in Live rpool. The road
is already in the course of construction.
CATHOLIC congregations in Prussia
are increasing in much greater proper
tion than the increase OF the popu!a-
tion.
A HUNTING-HORN In Limoges enamel.
made in 1880, and believed to have for
merly belonged to Horace Wall ole, was
sold recently for $3l, 500.
BEGINNING in October Russian will
be taught in two OF the Paris colleges
and perhaps be put on the same footing
as German and English.
SMALL electric lamps are being tried
/; by the London police in place Of the old
fashioned oil bulrs-eyes. The experi-
ments have proved highly satisfactory
, thus far.
In speaking Of the solidification of .
body by cooling, Professor Dewar says
that water con be made to become solid
BY the evaporation of a quarter of its
! weight.
A BLUE crane. rare bird in that re.
gion, was shot the other day near Man.
istee, Mich. It measured six feet from
tip to tip Of wings and five feet from
1 head to feet.
A FLORIDA silver half dollar Of I760 ID
worth $40, while the Virginia silver half
dollar Of 1773 is valued at So. The pew.
ter Continental dollar of It's 10
worth s..
INVESTIGATIONS OF rain drops lead to
the conclusion that come of the large
drops must be more. or less hollow, as
they fail when striking to wet the whole
surface inclosed within the drop:
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DISPATCHES from Europe accum-
ulatc evidence that the cholera is
spreading rapidly and causing panic
among the people Of Southeastern
Russia The terrible disease seems
to have started on its western march
from Turkestan and Khorassan, Il
province of Northeastern Persia,
where it is raging with frightful
fatality. Thence, owing to lax quar-
antine regulations. it spread across
the Caspian to Baku, the great
petroleum shipping port, where the
utmost CONSERVATION prevails owing
to its alarming ravageS The Trans
Caspian railway has served as a
medium for carrying the contagiOn
from Russia in Asia, and there is now
no question that it has gained a
lodgmcnt in European Russia. Not
withstanding the precautions taken
at TitliS, SebastOpOl, and at the
numerous frontier towns it found no
difficulty in passing the barriers, and
there is now no question that it is
spreading in eastern Russia, as it has
appeared at TZaritZin, on the Volga,
and other places, in which case the
ADMINISTRATION districts will now be
afflicted with fresh horror. 1t is
even reported that the disease has
made its appearance at Brindisi, on
the heel of the Italian boot. This
report, however, needs confirmation.
Meanwhile there can be no doubt that
Eastern Russia is afflicted with gcnu.
| inc Asiatic cholera of the malignant
type in spite of the efforts of the
Russian Government to stamp it out
with cordons of soldiers instead OF
| sanitary measures.
"THE unspeakable Turk" has for.
hidden the importation of quack
medicines. Possibly sthe Sick Man
has been experimenting, and has hi,
own reasonA
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ton has the bclance been so small and
it is steadily decreasing. Optimist
are predicting that the balance will in
crease when the new crops begin to
move out. But last wear, although
the exports We're heavy beyond pre-
celent, there was gain of only
$?.G0O,O 200 from July to January, while
the year before there was loss of
over $23, 900, 600 These facts ought
to convince Congress that it ca1r-
not move too rapidly If it means
to stop the displacement of gold 10y
silver and silver notes and the descent
to the silver standard If Congress
does not mean to do that. the none
tarv conference Will be hckl in vain-
Chicago Hearld
The time will come when both gold
and silver will hc dcmonotizcd. The
avaricc greed and legal robbery prac
ticcd hv the few, If persisted in, will
drive the people in self defense, to do
this. The reason why geld contin
ually flows out OF our Golfers, is that it
goes to pay interest due on "wa.crel'
railroad, and IL Thousand other kinds
of bonds held by Foreigners Our
whole financial system is CRYING
shame to American patriotism and
wisdom. We have continued to elect
towards and traitors to. Congress a
majority of whom should be hung for
treason. How long, will the people
continue such men in Office: p Alliance
Independent.
Not settled Yet.
\ man SAYS to us the other day J:
The Peoples party is dead; the cur
rencv question is settled Wercplicd: :
If the currency question is settled
will you please tell us why in the
name of goodness you do not let 1t
rest? There is not a session of Cohg
ress hut what you fellows who howl
the loudcst that the currency question
is settled do your hardest to change
things. Why in the dickens don't You
let it stay settled? The currency
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With u Mortgage - the ] arm.

The rich have only scorn for the toiler lowly
born.
Till we hear the battle horn loud and faster:
And the men go marching down from the farm
and from the town.
AMI the ~,raceS OF renown known disaster,
vi h this mortgage on the farm-
With Il mortgage on the farm life seems but q
round of harm.
1t has lost the smile and cheers it was keeping:
And the birds sing i'll the corn every dewy
summer morn.
am weary AMI forIorn. often weeping.
With this mortgage on the farm.
Not place to- turn and fee with this night
mare over me.
I'm IL slave VINO once was free in my glory.
And the greedy rulers grind while the tired
waaverS wind.
Driven cattle. hunted hind-s;,l OLD story.
With this mortgage on the farm
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THE reason Congress refuses to dis
cuss the sub-treasury as set forth by
the Peoples party, can be for no other
than this, that when the people have
learned inst what it is, just as the
Farmers Alliance have learned it, they
will insist upon its passage. The banks
know that the sub-treasury bill will
knock the national banking system
silly. They do not intend the people
shall get any further knowledge
through Congress, or allow the coun'
try to know how weak the arguments
of the opposition are.
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GEN. J. b. WEAVER, on commemora-
ton day, said:
Il answer, standing reverently amid
sea of graves, where glory guards
with solemn sound the bivouac of the
dead, no North, no South, but band
of brothers reunited in commop
brotherhood.
"Under the sod and the dew.
Awaiting the judgment day,
There are sighs and tears for the blue.
Tears and siGhs for the grey"