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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-15
/ TOWN CLOCK WANTED.
Let Us ALI Make an Effort to Ser
cure One. 4
EVERY ONE URGED TO SIGN,
The Following PstIiIon is Intended % b Used Be-
iors the Mayor and city Council
sizu nj

For some time past THE WoRLDlhas
lbeen lammering away at the city
council fora towaeclock, and has con
cluded to use this means 10 ascertain
the feeling Of the general public re-
garding il. Below we publish peti-
ton, which we urge every citizen and
business men il this city 10 sign.
This will give the Mayor and mem
bers Of the city council an idea what
the public at large think Of it, and
whether they are satisfied to be with
out town clock. When good mum
Der Of signatures are attached The
World viii place this petition before
the council, and continue doing 80 as
fast as new names are added. Also as
a reminder We willcontinue publishing
the Petition until some action is
taken. If you are not cailsd upon to
sign, drop a postal card in the Office as
to your intention, and You win be
promptly waited upon. 0urcity needs
town clock badly, and we are going
to make an effort 10 get it Following
is the petition
70 ne Honorable Mayor and Members Of
The city Council Of Marttnsbmg. W..
"a: 4
Gentlemen ~:
We, the undersigned citizens and
business men Of the city Of Martins
burg, West Va, knowing the value
Of, and advantage to the public gen
orally. do hereby respectfully petition
your honorable body to take some inn
mediate steps towards-the erection Of
4 TOWN CLOCK. Neiglboring towns
much smaller than ours take especial
pride in this direction, and we see no
reason why our city should not have
one and first.class one at that. It
is an Invaluable thing, and we urge
you, as our representatives, to take
immediate action toward the erection
Of a good and permanent TOWN
CLOCK. SIGNED,
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-15
9 August
Flower

Hon. does he feeI9-He feels
cranky, and is constantly ex-
perimenting, dieting himself,
adopting strange notions, and
changing the cooking, the
dishes, the hours. and manner
Of his eating august F7otcer
the remedy.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-15

Hou does he feel2--He feels
at times a gnawing, voracious,
Unsuitable appetite, wholly UNI
accountable. unnatural and un-
healthy. august Fotcer the
remedy.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-15

Hcw does he feel2-He feels
no desire to 20 to the table and
a grumbling, fault-finding,
over-nicety about what is set
before him when he is there
august FloaCer the remedy.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-15

Hon does he feeI2- He feels
after a spell of this abnormal
an utter adherence,
and detestation Of
food as If a mouthful would
kill him august FioWere the
remedy.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-15

Hon. does he feel2-He has
irregular bowels and peculiar
stools August Floicer The rem
edy. ioi9Iy
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
: The Decline of Roasting.


Forty years ago 1t was the commonest
thing In the world to meet men, young
men especially, who believed, in the sim
plest honesty. that they could do all man.
ner of things which they could not do in
the least, or only badly. They knew Ian
gusges, they could write profound essays,
they could impress women, they were
great athletes, or they could do
any one of hundred other thiDgs-dsnce,
perhaps. like Sir William Jonee, the great
Orientalist. Experts in any OF these
things, if gcod-nstured, smiled and passed
on, aware that argument was useless, or,
if malicious, set the takers down as boast
full liars; but both exaggerated the amount
of deliberate falsehood in the speakers,
who, as q rule. were almost completely
sefdeceived. They wished to be self de-
csived, perhaps, but measuring themselves
without standards, they actually were so.
That source of error has ended; univer-
sal competition, universal examinations,
universal publicity, and habit of frank
ness not easily accounted for, have rem
dered self. deception as to mems powers ex-
ceedtngly rare. The educated know what
they cannot do with curious exactness,
and have lost through knowing 1t some
thing Of their old energy aud an amazing
| quantity of their old hopefulness. They
zee themselves and acknowledge themsslvei
30 thoroughly beaten by the specialists
and they half doubt IL effort Is of AM
value, and stop at the foot of the laddel
because the experts run up the rungs Q,
fast. We know that to be quite comicall-
true as regards studies both academies
and professional, and are told that Il /
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
No. 1913

true all through the athletic world. tina
only point ct which II breaks down bstnr
the varieties Of sport in which the nan
depends In part upon allies or upon anil
mails.
Then the vanity Of judging comes In
and disturbs the perfectness of self -knovl-
edge-men who cannot ride, for instance,
believing that they know who can. About
Themselves. however, they make no mis-
tAke. There is the "rscord, |" and the man
who studies IL does not believe hImssH q
great jumper, or cricketer, or runner sny
more. There Ia, of course, In the intSl-
lectuAl domain, one striking apparent ex-
ception to this rule. Quite as many men
believe themselves poets as ever, and re-
tain that conviction al their lives, In spite
of hssrtrending rebufs from an unbslisv-
Ing world That, however, is only an Ap-
parent exception, there being In poetry 90
many differences of kind that there is
practically no unknswerAhls standard Of
comparison, and human vanity, which 10
not aonorRaAlly weak In vsrtiaers, having
therefore its free play. In all other de-
pArfnenn OF life, men, with rare sTcep-
tons, know very accurately what they
can do and what they must leave undoae;
and the unconscious boAster of old, who
very often had q great deal OF plnek and
go. has pretty well disappeared 'sTn
try" is about much as you can get q
ten, indeed, he VIII not say that. or do IL
eithsr, but khrinks back alarmed By what
he recognizes to be others superior gifts.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
NOT LIKE NEW HAVEN.

Some "recent developments" in Water
bury and San Francisco have bsen both
surprising and painful. It appears that
there are some black sheep among the
flock of noble school-ms'ams in Water
bury. 1t is openly charged that these
black sheep not only drink, but get drunk;
that one of them has been arrested for
being drunk; that another has been seen
lying drunk on the floor of the school
vestigation is In progress, and the truth,
or part of it, will soon be made known.
In San Francisco it does not appear that
any Ct the "lady teachers" have been driv
en- or led to drink, or that they have gone
to drink of their own accord. But 1t is said
that some of them have secured their places
more by bribing the directors than because
of their qualifications to teach. One di-
rector asserts that offers of money are "ss
common as raindrops," and he does not
hesitate to say that this means that the
offers are often accepted. There Is some
evidence that brokerage system exists
through which young women who are in
the secret obtain appointments. A
woman with the reputation of securing q
great many places is said to be member
of one of the first families in the city.
President F. A. Hyde of the Board of
School Dire ectors eaye: 81 have known for
years that there was such a thing" (brib-
ery), and he adds that an 'inducement'
has been offered to himself by a woman
who wanted friend made teacher in the
schools. Secretary George Beanston of
the Board of Education says the scandal
has been In the air long time. Supervisor
Denman, who has been connected with the
| School department of the city as principal,
| director, and county superintendent for
| forty three years, says: The main
| cause of all the trouble in the School
department Is personal patronage. In
my opinion, all appointments should
be made by the board as a whole
and not by the individual members
There WAS q time when all the members Of
| the board of education attended the exam
inatien of teachers and there was great
rivalry and enthusiasm displayed in secur
ing the very best instructors for the de
partment. Now all this ia changed. Th'
members appoint In turn. and clever
directors do not say anything about thu
appointment of the one director, because
when their turn comes around they do no
want anything said against their nomina
tions This is all wrong, and, to put i
mildly, detriment to our public schoo
system.
It is sad to see noble and self-sacrific
ing profession 60 disgraced, and especial.
by women. New Haven can congratulate
herself on being free from any such thing
IS are now disturbing San Francisco ant
Waterbury. New Haven school teacher
do not buy their places, nor do they drinl
run. And they know the difference be
tween good salary and marrying TO
1 Iovan
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01

mango county, Pennsylvania, which never
yielded drop of oil except on Sunday, to
the great grief of the Sabbatarians. But
there Is well in Wheeler Canyon, Cslifor-
mia, known as the Lunstic Oh Spring,
which Is quite as curious. When the new
moon appears it begins to flow oil, and
the flow increases in volume as the moon
grows. When the moon Is full the spring
yields three barrels q day. When the
moon reaches Its last quarter the flow
ceases.
1t Is reported that there Is an establish
ment in Savannah where cotton-seed oil is
converted into q substance equivalent to
india-rubber. The process Is q secret
one, and there Is no other similar factory
in the country. The profits are said to
be very great. The oil costs about so
cents per gallon, or about $l35 per ton;
and tons of rubber are produced and sold
at s., 900 per ton. The article Is said to be
shipped to a prominent rubber manufac-
turer in Boston. If these statements are
correct, the cotton planters have reason to
rejoice.
The figures of school enrolment, accord
ing to the compendium of the twelfth GEN.
sus, just issued, show that In 1890 the
number of children in the schools Of this
country was 14,37S,6 or nearly one
fourth of the entire population. Fifty
years ago the school enrolment was only
- r.
ton. OF the total number 12, 705, 1856 are
in the public schools and /, ,667, 2s4 in priv
ate and parochial schools. AS the foreign
born population according to the last CEN
sus was 9, ,249, SAT, or nearly one seventh of
the total, 1t will be seen that the children
of foreign born parents are receiving the
benefit of American school education, and
of course are being transformed into Eng
hsh speaking Americans. The enrolment
of colored children Is 1,948, ,S61.
Baron Won Muller hss attacked one poi
son with another and believes that he has
found the real cure for the bites of venom
certainly gives warrant to the belief. He
studied the subject in India, setting ous
with an inquiry as to the actual effect of
the snake poison. He found that it did
not destroy the tissues of the body, but
suspended the action of the motor and
vsso-motor nerve centers. The known
properties of strychnine suggested 1t as the
proper antidote and he began to experiment
with It, He has used it on a considerable
number of persons bitten by venomous
snakes. and every one has recovered. The
treatment is to give subcutaneous ipjec-
tions of twenty minims of strychnine every
are produced.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01

narrow in front and at the sides. Indeed,
1t Is quite like the prettiest skirt of the
last two years, except that about the edge
It /. finished with q ruche or soft putting.
1t has, of course, quite q train, and is
just as pretty and graceful thing as q
slender girl can put herself into.
Sketched herewith is another model
particularly suitable for tall, slender wo-
men, ss the triple skirt is apt to mako even
q quite tall figure look short. The fstric
is pale green woollen suiting, with the yoke
and cuffs of figured silk in q contrasting
shade and embroidered In any pretty de-
sign. The yoke ia alike back and front,
and Is finished with a rever-like bertha
made of gathered ruffie of the suiting.
The sleeves are the full balloon style.
The skirt will require a foundation, pre-
ferably of silk. On this the three skirts
are sewed. If the material used Is heavy
cloth the edges do not require finish,
but IL other fabric is taken each skirt
must be fnished.by q narrow bias fold,
not showing, however, from the outside.
A narrow ruffle is put around the bot
tom of the foundation skirt, and the last
of the three skirts is sewed into the belt,
which is about two and a half to three
inches wide. FLoRKTrE.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
STARRY ".

To see stars Ia sometimes Synonymous
with rapt vision.-Lowell Courier.
knowledge is power, except in the case
of the man who knows he is whipped
Indianapolis Journal
Eleanore-So you doa't give Jack per-
mission to kiss youi
Msud-Ne, he just kisses me.
Little boy-The hens ont west must be
awful little. Mamma-Why sol Little
boy-Uncls John says he's seen hail
stones there as large as hens eggs.-Good
News.
Sufficient evidence-Sambo-Wh you
get dat chickeni Mark Anthony-Nebber
you mind bout dat chicken. Tain't yours.
''How you know 'tainti" "'Csuss I
found hit in youah coop."-New York
Weekly.
The Rev. DIR. Lake-We are distinctly
told that in the future state there will be
no marriage. nor giving in marriage. Mrs.
Young De Parted-Oh, no; that explains
why one day will be as thousand years.
Vogue.
Guest-"Hi there, waiter; come back
here! What's this you've brought me that
smells sol"
Waiter-"That, sir, lie fromage de brIe. ="
Guest-"Wel1, remove the debris."-
Truth.
When a girl has finally made up her
mind that she is eternally homely, and de.
cides not to feel bad about 1t any more, II
unsettles her dresdfully to have man fall
| in love with her and begin to pay her com:
| pliments-Texas Siftipgs.
Old gentleman-What would like to bs
when you grow upi Boyd like to be G
bricklayer. That's q commendable am
bition. Why would you Hike to be q brick
lsyeri Cause there's 30 many days wher
bricklayers can't work.-Good News.
Wsyside COMMUNICATION say yor
wunst lived off'n the fat of the land
jeered Wslkabout seggs. "How d. ye ea
III" ... ..
ssEtt 1t with the forks of the road" re
sponded Rusty Rufus.-Chicago Tribune
Cleverton-AIss Pendash had on her ne,
gown when called the other night. Hav
you seen 1T Dashaway-Yes. was ther
last night. Cleverton-Didn't you thin
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
IS PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
One Dollar Per Year Gin advance).
Single Copies cents.


THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
The big show in Chicago will open to-
day. 1t isn't ready to open, but 1t will
open all the same, and be got ready after
ward. It will be at least month before
things are really in shsps there. 1t is not
surprising that the situation is as 1t is.
The managers have worked heroically, but
their task has been too much for them. Ii
has greatly outgrown the original plan, and
many of the hindrancss could not have
been foreseen and provided against. The
last month, when time was especial
ly valuable, has been especially
unfortunate in the matter of weather
Hailstorms, windstorms, gsles, hurricanes
and tornadoes have sssailed the workers
and the work. Delays in one quarter have
made delays in other quarters, and there
has been trouble enough to discourage
ordinary people. But the worlds fair
makers are not ordinary people. They
have kept at work and done the best they
could. 1t is not their fault the great work
isn't finished.
But when the fair is in good running
order it will be the most magnificent show
of the kind that has ever been given.
There is no doubt about that. 1t will not
only be the greatest show on earth, but it
will be the most moral show, If keeping 1t
closed Sunday can make 1t so. 1t has cost
over $20, 600, 900, and It will have to do a
big business in order to pay, or come out
even. It doesn't look now as if 1t would
pay; but there is no telling. 1t will GER
tainly be a most satisfying success as a
spectacle.
As for Chicago, she is windy and proud
beyond description, and she has some
right to be, for she has gone deep into her
own pocket for the fair, and has done her
full share of the work. As a side show to
the big show che will be well worth atten-
tion this summer.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01

1t fitted beautifullyi DashAway-The gas
was 20 low couldn't see.-The Cloak Re-
view.
The First Pstient.-Young DR.. Meyer Ia
sitting In crowded tavern. Enter Jo-
ham, his servant, who says In q loud
voice: ooh, doctor, come home at once,
there is patient waiting for you;" then
he whispers into the doctors ear, ST have
looked the front door 30 he can't get away ~
-Fliegende Blatter.
The father (sorrowfullyl-Your ab-
sorption in social zayety grisyes ne. At
your age, such life had no fAselnAtlons
for me.
The son (condssoendlnglyl-At my age
you probably lacked the fascination Q
which inherit from my mothers side of
the family.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Rev. DR.. Wilde of Toronto in re-
cent sermon declared that the time is com
ing when no man can tell lie. 1t Is
noticeable that the Rev. DR.. Wilde didn't
say anything about Woman.
The intelligent compositor and the lynx
eyed proofreader have been playing at
Hillsboro, Texas. The editor of the Regis
ter of that place wrote that the ''Solons"
were as busy as bees. The word appeared
In print "saloons."
A sale of real estate on Broadway, New
York, recently shows how values have
gone up in that city during the past 80
years. The building at Nos. SO and s6i
Broadway, four-story structure, oecu-
pied an grocery on the first door, was
bought in 1868 for $4,000. 1t has just
been sold for $685., 900.
There was once queer oil well in We
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
aRATKFUL-CoMFoRTING
Epps's Cocoa.
S. n. STREET. & co.

REAKFAST-SUPPER.
"By thorough kpoWledge OF the natural laws
which govern the operations OF digestion and nu-
triton, and by q careful application OF the hne
properties of well selected Cocoa, Mr.. Epps has
provided our breakfast tables with delicstely
fiayored beverage which may save many
heavy doctors bls- II is by the iudicaous use Of
such articles Of diet that q constitution may oe
gradually built up until strong enough to resist
every tendency 10 disease Hundreds or subtle
maladies are floating around us ready to attack
many a fatal shaft by Keeping ourselves well for
titled with pure blood and q properly nourtshed
franae.--Cdvn Service Gazette
Made simply with boiling water or milk Sold
only In half pound tins by grocers, labeled thus:
ais tu&wly London EnclAnd.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
gutrrmaI aud Gnmrter,

The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
lished In Connecticut.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
FASHION NOTES.
TWO Models for the slender.

The very slender woman is Wise who
considers the pretty blouse house dress
seen among the new styles. 1t is made of
soft elk and the bodice is g blouse that
seems to fasten nowhere at all. 1t is not
particularly full in the back or at the sides,
but 1t is almost like bag in front. 1t is
tied in by a ribbon belt, and the waist is
just as small as nature allows and art &C.
complishes. The sleeves are big and soft,
and they stop at the elbows If the arms
permit of it. About the neck Is a shirred
ruffle, the shirring making almost yoke,
and the ruffis lying on the shoulders, but
not falling over them. The skirt is very
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-24
HELPED BOOTH TO HIDE.
A Chicsgoan Tells the Story of Aiding the
Crippled Assassin To Escape.

Lieut.. A. r. cambridge of Chicago. one of
three confederate soldiers who, i'll a measure,
assisted John Wilkes Booth to escape after be
had assassinated Abraham Lincoln was here
one night last week, says a st. Louis dispatch
to the Philadelphia Press, and entertained a
party OF guests by relating his experience with
the noted assassin.
Il had heard that Mr.. Lincoln had been as
sassinated." said Lieut.. cambridge, but had
no idea Of meeting with his slayer in the man.
ner did. One afternoon Capt. Ruggies, Capt.
Jett and myself were standing on the bank of
the Rappahannock river, on the King George
county, Va. side, when two men drove up in a
buggy. One of them alighted, and advancing
toward US, asked me If could get them
across. as they were escaped prisoners from
Fort McHenry. Capt. Jett did not believe his
story. and after questioning the stranger closely
he finally admitted that his name Harold
and that the man in the buggy none other
than Booth.
Hearing the explanation of his friend and
partner IN crime, Booth jumped out of the
buggy the best he could with a broken leg and
after hobblIng to Us on one crutch exclaimed:
'Geatlenlen, have heard what Harold told
YOU Ny name is Booth and / am worth
500. 900 to any Of you. Is there any of you
who has the courage to win the prizcT He had
a pistol In each hand and determined look on
ms face We decided to assist them to O GER
| tain extent and crossed them to Port ROYAL
where we succeeded in securing lodgings for the
fugitiyes on a farm owned by a man named
Garrett on the road to Bowling Green.
I'VE left Booth in hammock ont in the front
yard with Harold to care for him and retraced
our steps, when an old negro by tho name OF
! Henry Lucas met US and informed me that q
squad of soldiers was crossing the river in pur-
suit Of the fugitives We had just ferried over
Wehurried back and passed the farm house where
| Booth was still reclining in a hammock called
Z 49, \ l. 49, -
coming up the road and that he had better gel
| into place o. safety. He shouted to US:
Ride. boys. 1t will never do for the blu.
coats to find You with me. will take care o.
myself
I'VE found refuge at a neighboring farm
house, where we remained until the mex
morning. The capture and death of Bootl
| followed"