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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24
ADOPTS NEWlCATECHISM
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY, CONTINUES COMMITTEE
Problem How to Attract Young Men
to the Ministry Taken up--Mod-
orator Gets GaveI.

Louisville, Ky, May 2Z.--OVer the
earnest objection of many commission.
ers, led by ex-Chancellor H. M. Me
Cracker. of the University of New
York, the General Assembly of the
Northern Presbyterian church adopted
the proposed intermediate catechism
providing. however, that the commit
tee be continued another year to re-
ceive suggested reyisions and amend
ments, on which to report at the 1913
assembly in Aatlanta, Ga.
The catechism, intended for rellg-
ious instruction for the young, is the
product of four years of labor on the
part Of committee of IL, headed this
last year by Rev. DR.. David S. Schaff,
Of Pittsburg. 1t consists of 70 ques-
lions and answers in the usual cate
chetical form, couched in simple Ian
guage, as against 107 questions and
answers in the shorter catechism.
Calvins catechism of 1912 opens:
what is the chief end of mans
life?"
Answer: ITO know Cod"
What do we most need to know"
Answer: I'VE most need to know
what God would have US believe and
do"
Wants "Dry" States Kept "Dry."
Though the General Assembly did
not act ON a recommendation of one
man who wanted the Assembly to
memoriali2e the Federal Government
to prohibit the manufacture. importa
/ ton and distribution of intoxicating
/ beverages, it took a very positive stand
on the temperance question yesterday
Congressional legislation to prohibit
/ Interstate shipment of liquor into Pro
hibition States or districts was in
! dorsed.
The moderator, Rev. DR.. Mark A.
Matthews, has come to be known as
the most enthusiastic gavel user, and
yesterday in an address which greatly
/ entertained the commissioners, Rev
DR. David c. Wylie. pastor of the
! Scotch Presbyterian church of New
York presented to the presiding officer
huge steel-bound mallet, urging it
would better serve the moderator's
purpose.
! Many Churches Without Pastors.
After the surprising declaration that
there are 1000 churches in the United
States "pastorless and shepherdless"
had been made, resolutions were adop-
ted urging that all Presbyterian com
missioners Qaymen) keep in close
touch with young men who might be
candidates for the ministry.
Rev. Joseph w. Cochran, of Phila-
delphia, discussing a minister's ''liv-
ing chances" declared
1--WE hear advices to the effect that
a man to be a minister must starve.
never knew that to be true, I'll admit
that the salaries are not princely, but
it can't be remedied, except by this
very assembly"
Immediately Rev. DR. Henry ]. Beck
er. of Dayton Ohio. interrupted
Hundreds of gray-haired men of the
ministry annually are dismissed or
cast aside. Men Of brains education
and good records are eliminated for
no other reason than that they are too
old"
To this DR. Becker attributed the
gradual decline of successful candi-
dates for the ministry. The young
men need the advice and counsel of
their elders, but now there are too few
elders.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24
iEEl iHl

rs scalp locks eift held by the In
dams as Of priceless value
Col Cummns and his Far East ex-
hibition, has, for the past six years
been touring Europe and the continent
returning to America last fall to con
solidate with the Young Buffalo Wild
West show. The union Of these widely
different exhibitions into our tremend
GUS arenic amusement enterprise will
mark an epoch in outdoor amuse
ments The Young Buffalo Wild West
and Col Cummins Far East combined
will exhibit in Martinsburg on Satur
day May %.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24
Moved
S5-24-6t.

Druggist Clarence w. Tabler, who
recently removed here from Waynes-
burg, Pa, is moving into the Pen ].
Thompson house, 304 South Raleigh
street.
Mr. E. B. Duvall is moving from
East Burke street into his new house
on West Race street, near Maple ave
nue..
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24

See me before you sell your lambs
and wool. i, c. HOFFMAN.
c. & P. Phone. TT
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24

Best attendance, High school; best
attendance in ward gchools. B0Fke
Street school; best room in attend
ance, Sth grade John Street school,
school having least percentage Of tar
diness, John Street school; rooms
having no cases of hardness, LIST and
Sth grades Burke Street. I'd A. Z and
grades, John Street, I'd, 2, 6, Z and
grades High Street school; schools
having no cases of corporal punish
ment during month: Burke Street aud
John Street schools.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24
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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24

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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24
Second Report.

The report for the ninth month was
in part as follows
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-05-24
Mr.. Hannis at High School

Mr.. Herbert e Hanu,s. this city,
now an instructor i'm mathematics and
nearing his graduation i he law de-
partment of Washingtou and Lee Uni
versity, Lexington, Va was upon his
written application elected TO Prof.
VOLTS place in the High school fac
ulty as teacher Of Latin and mathe-
mates next term. Mr. lambs is an
exceptionally bright yoma man and
e is especially well equipped rar the du-
ties that he will enter uua hvra next
September as teacher
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
E. L. Aldrich
"The Real Estate Man
Room | Estes Bldg.
Both Phones Keokuk
ENGLISH IDEA OF
AMERICAN SLANG
Our Slang is Good For One Thing,
Says the Engllsh--lt Saves
Lots Of Time.

Time was-and not SO very long
ago, either-when the only distinc-
lively American expression known in
this country was Il guess says a
London paper. To say Il guess" and
endeavor-not always with success
to speak it through your nose, was
the recognized way of impersonating
an American. 1t was always sure OF
an appreciative and understanding
laugh--the laugh that indicates, Yes,
yes; I'm just as intelligent as you,
and know exactly what you intend :
Nowadays, we don's know why, our
common speech is well Favored with
transatlantic .dioms. Not always
slang, we mean. American slang
has it's uses. though the only one we
can think Of at the moment is that
| it saves trouble. When one has clas-
sified ones friends and acquaintances
as "the limit" and the goods" one
has been spared much labor of char
acterization Otherwise the argot OF
the Bowery is more curious than
beautiful. But we go further. we
fix things up" Instead of finishing a
task we are through with it." We
do not begin, but start in.' This
habit is spreading like a canker
through all classes of the community
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30
TO SELL PANAMA
CANAL MACHINERY
Big Bargain Sale Of 5000, 900 Worth
Of Second Hand Machinery to
be Sold.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The big
gest bargain sale of machinery in his
tory is promised upon the completion
of the Panama canal. To dispose of
machinery costing more than $4,000
Doe is the problem confronting govern
ment authorities when the canal is
opened.
Although understood in a general
way, Colonel Goethals, superintend-
ent of the canal work, reports actual
figures of machinery bought since the
United States began digging the "big
ditch" Here are few of the prin-
cipal items:
Steam shovels, 1O2; cars. 41s1;
locomotives, 1879; rock drills, 725;
cranes. 10; dredges, IA; barges, A.
Many of the locomotives and cars
| will be useful in operating the canal
and the Panama railroad but most OF
the dredges, steam shovels and noun
tains Of other steel implements will be
put on the block for sale
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
has suggested the plan of transferring
much of the discarded machinery to
Alaska for use in constructing a gov.
eminent railroad to the interior OF
that territory II congress does not
authorize the federal railway in
| Alaska, however, most of the Panama
machinery will be sold for the bes,
price 1t will bring.
Colonel Goethals emphaticallv de
clares, however, that the French plan
of leaving discarded machinery to rot
and rust will not be adopted by this
country. Uncle Sam is too thrifty
Old, corroded, discarded machinery
once used by the French in their at.
tempt to dig canal were monu.
ments OF their failure, lining the canal
route until the Americans took charge.
Some of the old French material was
used, but most dumped into the jungle
far away from the excavations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

even to those conservative gentle
men, the dramatists, who name their
new productions THE Glad Eye or
Looking for Trouble" No doubt we
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

shall be told by apologists for the
habit that all the expressions we have
noted are to be found in Shakespeare
or Milton. That may be. but We
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

doubt If Miss Corelli's predecessor Al
Stratford-on-Ayon ever caused one Of
his heroines to be called 'lallapar
looza.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
WORD FROM THE RECRUIT.


We've heard from our son Billy-he's
with big league team
A-train1n' in the Southland-it's aIIus
been his dream
To be Cobb the Second. He jest sent
US a card;
There amt word upon it about his
swattin' hard,
But this is all he writes US, with joy
that naught can quench:
L m eatin' at a. hotel where the menu
cards in French"
He don't tell how he's feelin' or what
his chances is,
Or how that curves a-workin' he called
the Grand Pazizz;
No word he sends of slidin', or battin'
pitchers far,
Or landin' right this season and glean1in'
as star;
This here is all he's writin'-right from
the players bench.
II eatin' at hotel where the menu
cards in French"
We've turned it upside downward, and
read it sideways, too,
But to his playin' chances we can't get
any clue;
He don't say how he's feelin' or how his
spitbal breaks,
Or if his legs are weary or how his
shoulder aches;
This word is al-doggone it! I'd give
his ear a wrench
I'm eatin' at a hotel where the menu
cards in French"
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
AYHAWKER JOTS

It is better to miss fire, advises the
Penalosa News, than to hit the wrong
] mark.
One of the stores at Alton adver-
baked beam
ker City Public Record as one who
wants the other fellows job.
How strange it is, thinks the Rex
ford News. that some paragrapher
alimony the grass widows mite.
Kansas figures in the Los Angeles
dynamiting case at last, reports the
Troy Chief. One of the three dicta-
graph reporters, who are to appear
against Clarence Darrow, is Waldo
Falcon, a former Hiawatha boy.
In advertising the healthful climate
of Brown county, Ewing Herbert of
the Hiawatha World, says that peo-
pie who weighed seven, eight or ten
pounds when they came to that coun-
try thirty or forty years ago. now
weight 200 pounds.
Two circuses and one wild west
show are headed towards Kingman
this season. says the Kingman Lead
er-Courier, and it explains: The cir
Gus people are first to learn of good
crop prospects in any given section
and plan their itinerary accordingly.
Here's a chance for the mathe-
NAUTICAL sharks to do a little figuring.
know: IF you can haul one ton of
hay over bad roads where you could
haul three on a good road, what tax
per day do you pay to keep the roads
bad?
Ralph Faxon goes to Wichita the
first of May to head the city's pub
ncity bureau at a salary of $4,000
per, notes the Kinsley Mercury and
it adds: Considering the fact that in
the course of a year Ralph will grind
out over 100000 line of copy, it's
cheap enough.
A big, fat, jolly Atchison man has
round. red face which wears a
continual broad smile, says the Atchi-
son Globe. He was spending the
evening at a friends house lately,
and noticed that the 5-year-old boy
of the family was watching him very
closely. The little fellow gradually
edged up to the Atchison man and
said, Say, mister, don't you ever take
your false face off?'' s1-
The Eureka Herald has heard of
some Greenwood county farmers who
have dragged the roads by their
farms for four years without expense
to the township, county or state. They
claim they have lost no time from
their work and their farms show it.
Furth ermore, they feel that the per-
sonal benefit derived has been ample
compensation. If every one would
work on that principle, adds the Her
aid, what heavenly place this would
be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
by THE WY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

| Washington society experts think the
yelled land that's about alp womai
who put on a hoochee recently, was ar
antique But what's the odds, so loES
as she kept her face covered. After ali
The ColonePs lady, and Julie OGrady
or Spring and Fall areSmuch alike be-
low the collar bone.
The biggest ship in the world had
about as much luck trying to push =
hole in CONCEALED portion of the North
Atlantic as a tugboat would expert
ence. When it comes to cutting Ice,
size doesn't always count.
Credit for the Roosevelt victory i'll
Pennsylvania is undoubtedly due to the
great numOer of Dutch who live there
Dutch characteristic is to take
joke seriously.
At Evanston, ILL.,, high school frater-
mites are the issue of the city election
But as you may have noticed. no issue
is too trivial for use in a city CAM
paign.
Washington women who smoke as
they turkey trot have started some
thing that may be of advantage to
jewellers. Diamond studded ash trays.
to be suspended over the wishbone
with gold chain, will be the next
thing in decorations.
Those Mexicans had better beware
The y. S. government is getting real
Hot about the murder of Americans,
and may get SO angry that it refuses
to smoke Mexican cigarettesI
Word comes from Great Bend that
a 36-year-old mule has just died at
that place. This is worthy of note,
being the only case on record, to the
best of our knowledge, of a mule dying
without the help of some man with an
ak or shotgun.
Our idea of a pound of candy worth
dollar is similar to Dodd Gastons
Idea of dog worth $50.
The world is certainly getting bet
ter, If there is any truth in the patent
medicine testimonials. So blamed many
have been cured, that it is hard to
believe the mortuary statistics.
A girl experiences no difficulty in
dancing all night in the shoes that
Almost Kill her while she is washing
dishes.
The New York woman who left her
husband SIS to be paid five cents at
time, played him a dirty trick. Think
of a man having to run to the admin
istrator between beers!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
wee T,obsters BaIk a Shin.

When the New York and South
American Steamship company s
steamship Charcas arrived at Tomp
kinsville Wednesday from Coronal
with a cargo of iron ore and nitrate
of silver, Chief Officer Whitan and
Chief Engineer Wilson had a Won
drous yarn to spin of how the ship
was held up at intervals for three
days by myriads of tiny Holsters off
the west coast of Patagonia.
According to the chief officer, the
Charcas left Coronel on December 10,
and on the 23d, nearing the Straits of
Magellan, she ran into what appeared
to be a floating island of tiny Holsters.
They were so thick that the Charcas
had to force her way through the
crustaceous mass for three days and
nights, making a peculiar grating
noise which disturbed the engineers
in their slumber.
Four hours after the steamship
struck the lobster shoal the chief en-
gineer discovered that the condenser
pump would not work, so he had the
BILE was. The pipe was cloSged up
with the small Holsters. He cleared it
and then the pump worked for an
other five hours, and had to be clean
ed out again. This continued at in
tervals for the entire time the Char
cas- was among the Shoal.
Chief Officer Whitan said he did
not have any specimens of the small
Holsters to show, but he pointed out
places along the side of the steamship
where the Hlliputian crustaceans had
eaten off the paint in their anger at
Crossley, the captain, went to the Of
flee of William r. Grace Sons the
agents, and related the marvellous
story.-New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.1
It's a long to road to heaven with lots
of short cuts to the other place.
A woman has so much Imagination she
can imagine it's common sense.
If a man could escape smallpox by
running into politics. it would be better
for him to stand still
What a woman likes about reading over
old love letters is how queer it would
seem now if any Of 1t had come true.
The most artistic liar is the man who
goes to prize fight and tells his wife it
was an up1fft meeting.
The bridge We ought to cross when we
come to it We have crossed so many
times before we came to it that then we
try not to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

When boy isn't hungry, he is sick.
Being interesting without slang is a real
test of ability.
If a man is really making money he
never boasts of it.
If you are guilty it is safe to assume
you are suspected.
Nearly every loser has a choice collec-
ton of excuses that don't help.
A Young Things notion of superfluous
company is spelled chaperon.
A young man with a new rain coat is
always expecting stormy weather.
Some men are stingy they want to
see the parade without going to the circus.
So many people aren't willing to put off
till tomorrow what they can say today.
few women are religious enough to go
to church on Easter without any special
scenery.
What has become of the old-fashioned
boy who used to pull his fingers and
make the joints crack.
You will observe that the gent who takes
whisky as medicine usually has something
the matter with him.
No, Percival political economy doesn't
consist of saving the peoples money, as
you have been led to believe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
says UNCLE CAV

I am not surprised that a lot of
pure white souls are still trying to
relegate the Star Spangled Banner"
and a few other red blooded national
songs to the scrap heap and substi-
tute for them anemic concoctions of
the pink tea persuasion. So long as
there are pink tea personalities
among us, we may expect hysterical
are merely so many signs that ma
ture is keeping up her process of
elimination and that there are a
number of individuals who are about
to die of sheer Generalization.
National unity is a matter of red
blood-the kind of red blood that is
thicker than water. States are built
Of men who are of the earth earthly
and have in their veins the blood of
brutes. tempered to something fine,
but not diluted, and in their hearts
the courage of their animal ances-
tors, ennobled by a wealth of human
experience, but still hot when needs
arise.
National spirit is an emotion and
not a theory-it is f ling rather
than thought-love rather than wis
dom. 1t is the cry of courage-brute
rings in the Battle Hymn of the Re
public the instructive love of the
good home soil that surges and
bursts and spark1es in Dixie the
shout of triumph that halls the flag
that is still there" after bloody con-
flict and hopes and fears and joys
that are too deep for reason.
These are not ladylike emotions.
They bloom at their best In gore and
sweat. They are offerings to the
"God of Battles and the fighting in
stinct that burns at times in the
breast of every manly man and finds
response in the heart of every wom-
anly woman.
All of which is perhaps a homily
upon the sturdier virtues, if you are
looking for homilies. At any rate,
there is nothing in this view that will
appeal to the musical anemics. In
the process of elimination, which is
decomposition, they have reached the
state of Generalization. And, being
ethereal, they cannot comprehend the
good brute red.-(Copyright, 1912, by
w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16

/ There was another pouting spell
and Nancy didn't throw kisses after
the nonhero as he climbed the fence
and started for home. 1t does seem
as if male lovers ought to be more
obliging, but take them as they run
and they are a selfish lot. Nancy re-
allied it and was. offish for week.
1t might have been longer had not
Stever come over to say:
81 don't know anything about this
hero business you talk of, but III tell
you what I'm willing to do for your
sake
E'Oh. Steve. YOU are nice now!"
1--WE have lost a pitchfork in the
horse pond and are going to drain
the water off tomorrow. III Waoe
through it first, if you say So.
Il surely will. There's two feet of
water in it,
"Only two feet ?''
And as much as a foot of mud.
may get mired and lose my life"
"Oh, but you WON'T know you
won't! Steve, it isn't bit heroic for
a man to wade around in a horse
pond"
'"Then what in thunder am I going
to do?"
The poor girl couldn't tell him, and
her pillow was wet with tears that
night. Steve was good, but he was SO
unromantic and unheroic. why
couldn't he be just a little difterent?
the lovers, and then one day, as Steve
was hoeing the corn he had planted
when he first fell in love, he saw
Nancy driving into town with the old
white horse. She had passed by
quarter of a mile when he heard the
below of Bakers old bull on the high
way. He ran to head the animal off
and turn him back, ana presently was
in the middle of the road and waving
the hoe and calling out. Then the
bull seemed to come for him, and he
knew no more for three days. AS he
opened his eyes a tear fell on his
cheek. It was a tear from Nancy Baf-
fins left eye, and she c1apped her
hands and exclaimed:
HE lives! He lives!"
"Of course I live replied Steve,
but what has happened?"
why. you are hero!"
"How?"
you faced Bakers old bull for my
sake and let him break three Of your
ribs and an arm, and we are going
to get married as soon as you are well
again. Brave and gallant chevalier
have some of this chicken soup"-
copyrighted 1919, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.1


You can always tell a belle by her rings.
The man who can please himself is
easily pleased.
A man never complains of his wife's
RELATIONSHIP she hasn't any.
Physical culture doesn't necessarily
make a woman strongIninded-
But a man who leads double life never
does two mems work.
Don't be gutter. There is still plenty
of room in, the hall of fame.
It's easier to lead some men to drink
than it is to drive them away from it.
Many a woman let's her neighborS' af-
fairs worry her more than her own.
All women are more less credulous,
and some have faith in their husbands.
More young men might manage to earn
a living If their fathers declined to do II
for them
Perhaps the worst thing about charity
is that it covers multitude of sins that
should be exposed.
The modern girl is never satisfied until
she gets a hat too large for her head and
shoes too small for her feet.
The real thing in honest men is one who
pays the widow that IS he borrowed II
the late lamented just before he left this
vale of tears