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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-07-11
A scripturar Injunction.

cat the second battle of Bull Run, ,,
remarked a member of one of the
New York posts, 1.-The famous Thirty
fifth regiment from Jefferson county,
New \ ork, suffered terribly, and eff
forts were Immediately made by the
friends at home to fill it's thinned
ranks. Among the first to spring to
its rescue was one Augustus Buel,
who was famous as a hunter in John
Browns tract and distinguished for
being capital fellow and an excel
lent marksman. His uncle, Deacon
Wetherby, met Gus day or two after
he had enlisted and said:
Well, Augustus, understand you
have enlisted in the Thirty-fifth?'
Yes, uncle, / have was the re-
ply, and I am to start for the regi-
ment tomorrow morning
That's right, my boy. that's right
continued the deacon. 4 am very
glad you have enlisted, and you have
my prayers and blessings. And, now,
Augustus, boy, let me give you a
little advice: When you go into bat
tie have your gun well charged and in
good order. When the order is given
to advance on the rebels, I want you,
my dear boy, to remember the scrip
tural Injunction, 1T is more blessed
to give than to receive" ''-Washing-
ton Star.
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Soldier Taken for a Girl.

George W. Logan of Salem, Va,
who came to the u. c. v. reunion as
delegate from Hop Dyole Camp, tells
an interesting story illustrative of the
belief of Union soldiers that many
women disguised themselves as men
and fought in the Confederate army.
Mr.. Logan was only seventeen years
old when he was taken prisoner in an
attack on Fort Cannon. He was very
slender, but deep-chested, and very
girlish in his appearance, being fair,
with high color and wearing his long,
light-brown hair brushed straight
back and impaired. Taken to Point
Lookout and later to City Point. he
attracted the attention of an officer of
the escort. The Federal officer treat
ed the youthful prisoner with as
much courtesy as circumstances per-
mitted, frequently conversing with
him.
One day the officer asked to be told
the truth regarding the belief among
Federal soldiers that many women
were serving in the Confederate
the best of southern womanhood. Mr..
Logan said it was not true, but he had
heard, in common with others, that
q few women had so served.
81 believe this was so,'' said Mr..
Logan yesterday, "but I do not think
there were more than a dozen such
instances, and / have no positive
knowledge of any
The Federal officer was thoughtful
for a while after the conversation re-
ferred to, and then urged the prisoner
to forswear the Confederacy and go
to the officers Pennsylvania home. Il
can arrange it without trouble" said
the officer, land my people will re-
ceive you and treat you like one of
the family" A dozen times or more
the officer urged the point.
Il subsequently learned said Mr..
Logan, that he believed I was a girl
and that it was for that reason that
he wanted me to go to Pennsylvania.
He never intiIoated such a reason to
me, but my information came in
way that seemed to be reliable, and
then it was that I understood why, be-
fore our conversation about women,
he had offered to procure me a bath
ing suit if I wished to go swimming at
any time."-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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ments- They looked to Wesley as
their father and asked what they
should do.
The crisis was reached in 1884.
Years before Wesley had been con-
WINGED that in the primitive church
bishops and presbyters had the right
to ordain, and he now proceeded to ex-
ercise that right, Influenced thereto
chiefly by the demands of his Ameri-
can followers, but partly by Scripture,
history and reason"
On Sept. 2, 1884, Rev. John Wesley,
Thomas Coke and James Creighton,
.-presbyters of the church of England =
formed a pres bytery. and ordained
Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey
as elders and Thomas Coke, LII ID.
superintendent for the church of
God under our care in America"
When the term bishop was after
ward substituted for the superinten-
dent by the Methodist Episcopal
church, he tenaciously opposed it, al
though he made no objection to the
designation Episcopal.
Wesley was in his SD year when
his act of separation" was thus con-
summated, much to the surprise and
chagrin of Charles. He died on
March 2, 1871.
In four instances John Wesley be-
came lover before he made the mis-
take of marrying, at the age of 48, one
who proved unworthy of his affec-
ton.
Miss Betty Kirkham, sister of one
of his early Methodist friends, was his
first love, and his correspondence with
her was of the most romantic nature,
suited to the chivalrous fashion of the
day. Afterward he correspondent in
lover style with Mrs. Pendarves, who,
however, married a Delany, and then
came his Inflated affair with Miss Hop
key, in Georgia, into which he was
drawn by his guileless and unsuspi-
cious nature.
But the broken courtship which
brought him most pain was with Mrs.
Grace Murray. She was a sailors
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cal manifestations such as marked the
great awakening in New England.
Wesley never encouraged such phe-
nomena, but made every effort to con-
troll them, sometimes regarding the
fits as a device of Satan to stop the
work. However, the evangelists be-
Iieved that the large majority were
the result of real conviction for sin,
and one of Wesley's recent biograph-
ers of the Anglican church gives
credit for their genuine character
The foundation of the first Method
ist preaching room" in the world was
laid in Bristol May IL, 1879, and was
afterward known as 1.-The old room in
the Horse fair Wesley was obliged
to raise the funds and became the
owner. In this way nearly all the
chapels built in his early career were
vested for a while. Afterward trusts
were created and by his deed of dec
laration" all his interests in these
buildings were transferred to his in
corporated conference
The Methodist classes and class
meetings were inaugurated in 1742, the
original purpose blending the raising
of funds by contributions from mem
bers with spiritual consolation, educa-
ton and uplift-
Wesley's first organizations, while
they partook largely of the character
of modern churches, were called soci-
cites. and he did not then aspire to
any other designation The first was
formed in London in April. 1879.
Before long, however, the Wesleys
were excluded from the pulpits of the
Anglican church, and by 1740 the
clergy excluded them and their con-
verts from the Lords table The so
cieties grew in number, and on Feb.
Is, 1743, John Wesley sent out the
general rules in his own name.
signed later by Charles Wesley also.
In these the society was defined as
"a company of men having the form
and seeking the power of godliness,
united in order to pray together, to
receive the word of exhortation. and to
watch over one another in love, that
they may help each other to work out
their salvation
There was but one condition for ad-
mission--a desire to fee from the
wrath to come and to be saved from
their sins" But to show fruits it was
expected that all should evidence their
desire by doing no harm. by avoid
ing evil in every kind, especially that
which was most generally practiced.,
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ACCOMPLISHED

including such diversions as cannot
be used in the name of the Lord Je-
sus.''
Thus was laid the broad platform Of
the spirit and creed on which was to
stand the great Methodist church and
inspire its fervent zeal, its social tenn
per, its philanthropies and its spiritual
character
But Wesley was finally driven, much
against his desire, to make a distinct
separation of his societies from the
church of England. The brothers be-
gan to administer the sacrament, and
societies, although many Methodists
continued to attend the communion Of
the Anglican church.
The irregularities alarmed the pre-
lates of the day and even the Rev.
Samuel characterized the action of his
brother. John Wesley, as "schismatic."
But through it all the mother stood by
John in his new movement and en-
joyed attendance at the infant Meth
odist church in the Foundry chapel,
when it withdrew from the Fetter lane
society.
John Wesley was summoned before
Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, but
after a severe catechizing the latter
said: You can read the acts and laws
as well as 1. / determine nothing"
Notwithstanding this, the bishop short
ly issued a pastoral letter, in which he
charged the Methodists with boasting
and enthusiasm, and finally excluded
Charles Wesley from the vicarage at
Islington.
Again, in 1740 the bishop summoned
Wesley before him, but when he had
concluded his examination, he said:
4'If this be all you mean, publish it to
the world" an Injunction which Yves
ley gladly obeyed.
But f1eld-preaching again alarmed
the bishop, and in another pastoral he
classed the Methodists with 'deists,
papists and other disturbers of the
kingdom of Cod Wesley was de-
nounced in pamphlets and otherwise
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under the influence of one or them,
Peter Boiler, John became convinced
of his want of that faith whereby
alone we are saved" This was en-
phasfzed by his experience with a
man under sentence of death, and the
influence of this was such that on
May "a, 1888, he came to the full be-
lief in the new creed, which before
had been as sealed box to him.
This revolutionized the whole char
acter and method of his ministry. OF
the event Rev. Hugh Price Hughes
wrote: THE rubicon was crossed The
sweeping aside of ecclesiastical tradi-
lions, the rejection of the apostolic
succession, the ordination with his
own hands of presbyters and bishops,
the final organization of separate
and fully equipped church, were all
logically involved in what took place
that night"
which then flashed upon one of the
most powerful and most active intel
lects in England is the true source of
English Methodism.''
Wesley soon organized a corps OF
helpers, went forth to proclaim the
gospel of his famous sermon before
are We saved through faith'-the key
note of all his subsequent ministry.
On New Years eve, 1889, seven of
the Oxford Methodists-an ministers
OF the church of England-and some
sixty others held "watch-night" serv-
ice and love feast both of which
were subsequently ingrained into uni
versal Methodist custom. Watch
night was first established as reg
ular custom at Kingswood, Dec. 81,
1740.
Whitefield had already begun to
preach in the open air, and Wesley
adopted the custom with some mis-
givings, which were modified by his
remembrance of "the Sermon on the
Mount" Under his preaching at Bris-
toll multitudes broke out into strange
cries and shouts, with singular physi-
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Confederate Flag for s2s.

One of the most interesting articles,
considered historically, that were put
up at yesterdays sale of the Grim col
lection at the Fourth Regiment Ar
mory, accor ding to the Baltimore
American, was an old Confederate flag
of the Montgomery" design, showing
the seven stars of the original Confed-
crate states. As the old banner. torn
by bullets, faded and bedimmed by
age, was brought to the auctfoneer's
stand and unfurled a wave of entbu-
siasm spread through the hall. In
putting it up Auctioneer o. A. Kirk
land said that the flag was captured
by Capt. Farber of the United States
Navy prior to 1864, while in the block
ade service The first big. $25, which
was offered, was not contested. ana
the flag was knocked down to tbe
Smithsonian Institute for that sum
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CAMPFIRE
TILES

tach teams from division ordnance
train to bring up the bridge. A friend
OF mine who was dispatched with the
order says as Gen. Osterhaus read the
order he braced himself up majesti-
caily to his full hight and exclaimed,
Ven, l pc TAM Do Cheneral Howart
dink poot my hand in my booklet and
pull out mules?' but the sturdy mules
OF the ordnance train had the bridge
on hand in good time. The boys of
the pontoon train were not many days
In recruiting some of the best mules
in Georgia, and the boys went singing
to the sea.'-National Tribune.
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Hooker at Lockout.

Gen. Hooker, Fighting Joe,' as he
was proudly called by his devoted
followers, and whom it was my pleas
ure to meet and to know well after
the war, was one of the brilliant sol
diers of the Union army, says Gen.
John B. Gordon in Scribner's. He had
already been hailed as the hero of the
battle of the clouds at Lookout
mountain, and whatever may be said
of the small force which he met in the
fight upon that mountains side and
top, the conception was a bold one.
1t Is most improbable that Gen. Hook
er was Informed as to the number of
Confederates he was to meet in the
effort to capture the high and rugged
point Lookout, which commanded a
perfect view of the city of Chattanoo-
ga and the entire field of operations
around it. His movement through
the dense underbrush up the rocky
sleeps and over the limestone cliffs
was executed with a celebrity and
dash which reflected high credit upon
both the commander and his men.
Among these men, by the way, was
one of those merry-makers-those dis
pensers of good cheer-found in both
the Confederate and Union armies,
who constituted themselves veritable
fountains of good humor. whose spirits
glowed and sparkled in all situations,
whether in the camp, on the march, or
under fire. The special role of this
one was to entertain his comrades
with song, and as Hooker's men were
struggling up the sides of Lookout
mountain, climbing over the huge
rocks, and being picked on of them
by the Confederate sharpshooters,
this frolicsome soldier amused and
amazed his comrades by singing, in
stentorian tones, his ludicrous camp
song, the refrain of which was big
pig, little pig, root hog or die" The
singer is now DIR. H S. Cooper of Col
orado.
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To blossoms.

Faire pledges of a fruitful Tree,
Why do you fall so fast?
Your date is NOT SO past,
But you may stay yet here while,
To blush and gently smile,
And go at last
What, were wee borne to be
An houre or half's delight,
And SO to bid good night?
Twas pitie Nature brought wee forth
Merely to shew your worth,
And lose you quite.
But you are lovely Leaves, where we
May read how soon things have
Their end, though neser so brave;
And after they have shown their pride,
Like you a while they glide
Into the grave -Herrick-
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Horse Loved His Master.

zone of the strangest incidents of
animal devotion of which ever heard
was that of the favorite horse of my
said Mrs. Clara M. Doolittle, a .tene-
ment inspector, the other day. Dur
ing the civil war, after my brother
reached Corinth,- Miss, as major in
the Illinois Yates sharpshooters, he
was stricken with fever and soon
died.
During my brothers illness his
favorite horse. Sahib, was tethered
mile away from the wilderness of
tents in a small cleared Enclosure
One morning the groom, who visited
the horse daily, was unable to find it,
and after searching for hours came to
report the loss to my brother. Imag-
inc his surprise to find the animal
contentedly standing in the tent with
his head touching my sick brothers
breast.
The horse had broken away from
where it had been tied and found it's
way to the tent alone. 1t persisted in
staying near the tent, and the sol
diers, moved by its devotion, did not
attempt to drive it away. A few days
later Sahib, without a bride, followed
the ambulance, which carried the
body of his master. For three days
after my brothers death the horse re-
fused to touch food and was inconsol
able.'-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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Honor Confederate Dead.

For the first time a memorial SER
vice was held Memorial day in Airing
ton National Cemetery, Washington,
in honor of the memory of the Confed-
crate soldiers who are buried there.
The services we're conducted by Asso-
Citations of Confederate Veterans and
Sons of Confederate Veterans and
auxiliary societies.
Soon after Arlington was establish
ed as a National cemetery many I'M
identified Confederates were buried
there, and their graves have ever
been kept green by the Federal au-
thorities. Recently, by the authority
of Congress, the remains of a consid-
cradle number of Confederate SOL
diers who had been buried at different
places in the North were removed to
Arlington and Inferred in a section of
that cemetery. 1t has been the GUS
tom annually for friends of the Con-
federate dead buried at Arlington to
place flowers on their graves, select
ing a day following the National holt
day. This year simple exercises in
connection with the scattering of
flowers were held.
The little burying ground out near
Fort Stevens, where lie buried 1877 of
Jubal Early's troopers, who lost their
lives when the famous attack on
Washington was made in 1864, was
also decorated.
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During the month of October,
1864" says John n. Morton of Hamil-
ton, Mo-, Hoods raid cut on all sup
plies of forage for Atlanta The mules
Of the pontoon train, Army of the Ten
lessee. at the Chattahoochee river
east of Atlanta, subsisted for weeks
on weeds, brush and the bark gnawed
from trees. When Sherman marched
from November Is, from Atlanta, the
pontoon train was drawn by skeleton
mules After crossing the first stream
and the wet pontoons were loaded,
1t was impossible for the emaciated
mules to draw them A great uproar
followed when the next stream was
reached, and the pontoon bridge mules
in the rear An order was issued by
Gen. Howard that Gen. Osterhaus de-
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-05
THE JAPANESE WOMAN.
ane Is Not Shave, a& Some Suppose
 But the Autocrat and Idol of tine Home.

'sNo race can rise higher than it's mothers" Japanese women are. es- sentially a race of mothers, and the care and rearing of their children oc- cupies so much of their time and thought that they are unable to have that extensive social life their vest ern sisters enjoy, even were it not for the etiquette which makes 1t ac- tually fashionable for them to find their pleasures in their homes, writes Onoto Watanna, in Home and Flow CTS.
 Many have imputed to Japanese women in consequence a lack of knowledge and undue meekness, re- garding them as little more than serv' ants of their families and husbands. Such criticism is purely superficial and far from being accurate; indeed, it is very inaccurate.
 The position of Japanese woman is a high one. She is addressed as "Okusama,' the honorable lady of the house, and she is treated with the greatest consideration and re- spect by her husband and her family Far from being a meek, slavish cret ture of the household, she is more oi the mentor, the autocrat and idol Of the home. In domestic affairs she has full control. Her duties are on- erous, but never repugnant to her. They consist of managing the house hold, practicing economy, making her home pleasant both in appearance and by her cheerfulness of disposi- 4I~ nd tion of her children for even after the children have entered school they are still under her tutelage.
 As her home is therefore her world, it is only natural thatAit has become the inherent instinct of the Japanese women to lavish the greatest love and tenderness upon their homes, and to expend much time and thought in endeavoring to make them as attractive and as pleasant as pos sible.
 Her house is the acme of purity. To western eye the aspect of the interior of a Japanese house may at first seem bare and barren. In truth, the Japanese abhor decoration of any kind,, and consider it not only mar tistic, but extremely vulgar. was once shown a so-called Japanese room" in the house of a Chicago mill lionaire, and I am quite sure that the average Japanese hou""wife would have thought herself le room of some insane person, C. e in some curiosity shop. Such +. ofusion of articles scattered broadcast about the room! Such a frightful display of mixed-up ornaments hanging to the wall!
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-05
Must Keep Their Promis es.

Barnum would have hard sail9ng down in Mexico. The Latin races do not have the love for humbugs that is characteristic of Anglo-SaxoRs. If an American is "bilked'i he enjoys seeing his neighbor go against the same game, but that is not true of Mexican. If a man advertises an attraction and fails to produce it exactly as advertised he gets into serious trouble with Mexico, Theatergoers insist on having all per- formances up to specifications and go out of their way to see the managers punished who attempt to defraud the public. The sphere of the press agent is limited in that country. Many man. agers who are not familiar with the customs andlaws of Mexico have found themselves behind the bars because they posted paper picturing acts which were not reproduced faithfully.-Chi- eago Chronicle
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-05
Private Mailing Cards.

"The newest thing in private mailing cards in this country is card with places in it made translucent, to repre- sent say, windows. Openings are stamped out of the body of the card which is then backed with thin, or ange-tinted paper that will let light through when the card is held up to it, but which is of such a character that it can be written over witout plotting. Here, for example, is card with a pie ture of the New York post office. as seen from the south. The light spaces in this are the window openings and a crescent moon shows above. There are light spaces also in these buildings seen to the left up Broadway, none of these translucent spots being observ- able as such when the card is being handled in the ordinary manner. But hold the card up to the light and you have a picture of the New York post office by night.-N. Y. Journal.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are now some six Europeans in the Buddhist priesthood in Burma.
 A missionary in India writes that for three weeks in May the tempera- ture in her office ranged from 1o1 to 1o3 degrees, falling only one degree at night.
 Missionaries in China are attempting to introduce the alphabet as substi- tute for the cumbersome aggregation of complicated signs now in use. monthly paper and some books are to be printed on these lines.
 Japan Christians belonging to tho Greek church have seeded and estab lished a church and holy synod of their own. They did not like being under the orders of the Russian holy synod or the local Greek bishop, Nicoli, whom they have been urging in vain to resign.
 At the recent international confer. ence on tut crculosis at Berlin D1 Obertusche. 1ggested that teache- suffering frt--. conc'' ion ought l receive sanatoriUl4- .tment, ant permission to return duty ought to be withheld till all danger of infection had passed away; they should receive their salaries during their illness.
 gift of a large collection of edition de luxe volumes, mostly historical and scientific, is the partial reward re- ceived by the University of Chicago for its active participation in the 'Franco-American movement" to es- tablish closer educa tional relations between France and the United States. The French minister of public instruc- tion has presented to the university a collection of all the works so far is- sued. Several thousand volumes have already been shipped.
 A socialist Sunday-school movement, which has been firmly planted in Great Britain for some years, is described in the Boston gationalist. The headquarters of the movement is at Glasgow. In that city there are eight schools, = half-penny magazine called tng Socialist is issued. Social: .ay schools also exist in London lerpool, Bradford, and oth- CT citie A little textbook of 1e pages l.,s recently. been published, presenting sociaIistic doctrines in lan- guage suited to the minds of children. By these publications the children are taught to hate cIericism and capital ism, to strive against the ''evi1 giants" of oppression and exploitation, and to help unite all nationalities and races in the same impulse of brotherly love-