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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-09

with outlandish little pocket, which,
with its psraphernalia of antique house
wives, bodkins, scissors, and thimbles,
was her constant companion.
"The needle-book, Milly," she said,
family: "look in the needle-book."
"But grandmamma, the leaves are all
sewn together"
"Cut them open, child; but be care
full. I'm going to give that needle-b book
to you, Milly. 1t was one | bought when
you were wee baby. All my treasures
belong to you. child"
Frank Blakesley stood looking over
his wife's shoulder. as she obeyed the
old lady's behest, deftly passing the
scissors points between the flannel
leaves, scolloped and embroidered, and
faded silks, which had once boasted all
the colors of the rainbow. Suddenly he
altered an exclamation, and in the same
instant Milly dropped the scissors.
"Grandmamma, there is money here,
sewed to the inside of each leaf-thous-
and dollar notes I"
Grandmamma Kirke smiled serenely.
Chow many, Melicent2"
"Ten, grandmamma"
' Yes, yes, thought SO, said the old
lady, nodding her head. cts all right.
Take them, Frank, and spend them as
you and Milly please; they are the old
grandmamma's gift"
"Ten thousand dollars" cried Milly.
ooh, grandmamma, you never told me
this I"
Because / wanted you to depend on
yourself, my girl; but | always meant it
for you. Now leave me in quiet little
while; want to sleep"
And half an hour afterward Grand
mamma Kirke died.
OTIS precious BORE" said Mr.. Charles
Glare, when the strange story reached
his ears, as it was not long in doing, OF
course. Blakesley always seemed to
have all the luck. If I'd know'd about
the money, don't know that should
have objected to the old lady"
But Grandmamma Kirke's money was
better invested in Frank Blakesley than
in Charley Glare. Meliceut did not re
greet her choice.
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"Pes1ectiD Responsible 2"



One of the most trying creditors that
our business men have to deal with is
the man who is perfectly responsible"
None but the merchants and the build
ers, and the contractors know of the
large number making up the class we
are referring to men who have got some
property together, and are entirely able
to pay their debts, and for that very rea-
son ought topay them; but who actually
make their responsibility reason for
not paying. "Ain't perfectly respon-
sible?'' they ask. Of course that's why
you trust them-you think them respon-
sible and therefore you expect them to
pay when your bill is presented. But
they don't do it and appear to be offended
at your feeling disappointed for are
they not perfectly responsible ?" Ger
tainly, certainly; but then what is the
good of mans responsibility if he
doesn't pay? That's the puzzle. A man
who is not perfectly responsible who
has no real estate, no property-is the
man who is expected to pay on the nail,
while his more prosperous fellow citizen
is to be trusted an indefinite period
This seems rather an upsetting Of the
true state of things. 1t is not much sat
isfaction to young man who has just
starred in business, and needs to keep
his capital we'll in hand, to be told that
his customer is perfectly responsible
which too often means, if it means any
thing, that he is man who can be sued,
and after tedious delay, and much
trouble, and the recovery of a judgment,
can be forced by the constable or the
sheriff to pay what he ought to have paid
in the first place. The verbal promise
to pay of the wealthiest mau in town is
not SO valuable to the young merchant
as the poorest customers cash in hand.
If you are perfectly responsible" good
sir, it should be your first duty to pay
your debts promptly.
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VOLUME III.
LOVE AND "a SON.
BY ROSA vRETSER JEFFREY.

Young Love went sailing without fear
Upon lotus leaf,
Though Reason said, " Pray let ne steer,
Or you will come to grief"
Then laughed the sauey god and cried,
/" You look too grum and blue,
Go walk along the rivers side,
I'll paddle my own canoe
So Reason, plodding on the shore,
Watched Loves trail sballop floating,
And thoaght---" Though walking is a bore,
It's very risky boating.
Halo young imp, you will be wrecked,
Your bark is very frail."
But Love sang gayly, 1 expect
To have jolly ssilP;
Z" Keep off the rocks ami cataracts,
They oft beguile stranger"
Quoth Love" A truce to stupid facts
rather like the danger.
The stream is smooth, the sky is clear,
You need not come to measure
The crystal deeps through which steer,
My pilot shall be Pleasure I"
On with the tide did Cupid drift,
His hand at Reason kissing,
To where those suu-lit waters swift
Swift down the rocks went Kissing
A warning seorned, danger spurned,
OF which he saw no token;
Loves lotus Leaf was overturned
His fairy rudder broken;
The gossamer sail was torn to strings;
He ssized on Pleasure, crying,
=" Come let US rise Though drenched my wings
They're light enough for flying
From yonder 5ark---to ruined Winfield
We shall escape in season.
III fly with Pleasure through the world,
And leave my wrecks to Reason"
Scr timer for June
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Dancing Aaafnsf Tfnme.

All the seats were cleared away IRON
the floor of Tammany Hall in New York
City, the other evening, but few hun
dred people occupied the sides and gal
lery, and watched Prof =. Valleau Car
tier, the yotary of Terpsiehore, in his
effort to beat former achievement, by
Waiting for six hours, without pausing
for rest or refreshments. Mr.. Cartier is
a young man, probably not more than
thirty years of age, and of slight but
athletic proportions. Dancing seems to
be no exertion to him, and hour after
hour he glided over the smooth floor as
easily as though he had but Just COM
menced the exercise.
Precisely at seven o'clock the Profess
sor, in full evening dress, appeared upon
the floor, and to the strains of violin
and piano commenced his task, with
MIR. j. Puttick for partner. The Prot.
whirled gracefully around, dancing mile
after mile without appearing TO beinoon-
veniently heated, or showing any signs
of exhaustion. At the end of half an
hour Mr.. Puttick retired, and his place
was taken by Mrs. p. V. Cartier, wife of
the Pro essor With her Mr.. Cartier
was more at his ease.
After the Professor had wearied sew
eral partners his indeiatigable wife again
took the floor. Despite her previous
exertions, she danced for thirty.two min
utes, when she yielded her place to Mr.,
Murphy, leaving her husband apparently
as fresh rs when he started at seven
o'clock. Occasionally he drank half
glass of lager beer, holding the glass to
his lips without ceasing moment to
whirl around in the waltz, and at frequent
intervals he took piece of lemon from
the hand of an attendant.
Mr.. Murphy YVES content to rest MIS-
reputation upon a ten minutes recor8.
Alter waltzing with several other parS
ners, the Professor showed unmistakable
signs of WEAKNESS. One of them held
him tightly around the waist, and
allowed him to rest as much as possible.
Instead of lemon, Jumps of ice were
placed in his mouth, and towards eleven
o'clock he seemed to get fresh strength.
Loud cheers greeted the Professor as he
completed his fifth hour; but he entered
upon his last sixty minutes in a very
exhausted condition indeed. All the
sprlngy grace and ease that had charac-
Cerized his dancing early in the evening
had disappeared, and he waltzed slowly,
and leaned heavily upon his partner,
bat with indomitable resolution he
danced on, and, after twenty minutes
with Mr.. Hayes, he threw his arms
around Mr.. VIM. MacGregor's waist,
and started again with apparently re-
newed vigor. A lady in another part of
the hall, who had overtasked her dane
ing powers, fell from her partners arms
TO the floor in tainting fit, and was
with difficulty restored to consciousness;
but the Professor waltzed ON.
He looks fresher than he did an
hour ago." one of the judges said. "He'l
do it," And he did Mrs. Cartier sue
ceeded Mr.. MacGregor as her husbands
partner, and at one o'clock in the morn
ing, amid tumultuous bursts of applause,
he completed the unparalleled task Of
dancing for six consecutive hours.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-09

GENERAL GRANT is the first ex-Presi-
dent to go to foreign parts since the days
of Frank Pierce. Of the nineteen Pres
idents, Washington, Madison. Jackson,
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln
and johnson never crossed the ocean.
Those who visited foreign lands were
John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Quincy
Adams, van Buren,, Fillmore, Pierce
and Buchanan.
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HOtc Ned Caught a Ro6ber.

A good many years ago, the family of
a country storekeeper in Eastern Mary
land, having on one occasion a houseiul
Of company" to lodge, sent their two
boys to spend the night at the store.
The elder of the two was smart lad of
sixteen, named Ned. They made up
snug bunk behind the counter and were
much pleased with their new quarters.
What happened afterwards, the younger
brother tells in recent number of the
Missouri Republican:
We soon talked ourselves to sleep, and
had been sleeping perhaps for several
hours when we were awakened by
grand crash of some description, and
was prodigiously frightened.
"What is that, Ned T' l anxiously
whispered.
" Hush, lie still" he replied, as he
raised up and lisened intently. Two or
three crashing blows on the window
shutter with some heavy implement left
no room for doubt on the mind of any
person of even limited information as to
the nature of the sounds.
"What Is it, Ned % l reiterated.
" l think it is robbers trying to break
in" he replied.
l had read little about robbers
principally Italian bandits-and the word
psqa meaning to my ears full of horror.
[ thought of nothing else but being
gagged and carried off to a cave bound
hand aud foot, and being subjected to
all sorts of barbarities. Terror nearly
overpowered me in the darkness and
stiffness when every sound in nature
seemed hushed except the occasional
crash on the window. and the loud beat
ing Of my own heart, every pulsation of
which sounded to me like the blow of q
sledge-hammer, and when my brother
rose to 60 toward the window which was
being SO rudely assaulted, l would have
screamed had not my voice been par
alyzed by fright.
As Ned advanced towards the window
I listened with suspended breath to dis
cover what would happen. He had
scarcely got in front of the counter, NOV
ng softly and silently, when the robber
got the window-shuttar open and found
the sash already raised, the season being
warm.
Just beside the window stood barrel
of tar on end, with the head out for con-
venience of dispensing it, and as the rob-
Der, after pausing a moment to learn if
all were quiet, had balanced himself
across the window-sill in climbing in,
Ned scooped a handful of the tar and
suddenly smeared it over the marauder's
face and eyes. The intolerable smart to
his eyes from the acrid and penetrating
stuff caused the robber to utter shrill
cry Of pain as he fell to the ground out
side of the window, where he lay with
ing in pain ard unable to make even an
effort to get away. An cutlery soon
brought plenty of people to the spot and
he was carried of to prison.
Ned got a good deal of credit for his
GOODNESS IN the emergency and for bis
shrewd plan of capturing the burglar.
but he disclaims any merit as to the
latter, saying that in feeling round for
some weapon with which to strike the
fellow, he accidertly ran his hand into
the tar, and just happened to think what
good joke it would be to dab it into his
face and eyes, without any thought as to
what the result might be.
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Birds are not the only animals which
migrate. The journeys of the salmon
are as regular and remarkable as those of
birds. The salmon lays its eggs in small,
shallow streams of fresh water, often
thousand miles from the ocean. These
eggs are left to hatch by themselves;
yet, when the little fish reach the proper
age, they abandon the small streams
where they were born, and begin their
long trips to the ocean.
When they reach the salt water they
find abundance of food, and grow very
rapidly. They remain in the ocean I'M
til the time comes for them to lay their
eggs. Then in some wonderful way, they
find the mouth of the river by which
they reached the ocean, and travel up it,
through lakes and over rapids, falls and
mill-dams, sometimes leaping over
distractions which are more than ten
feet high.
Having reached the shallow streams
where they were born, they lay their
eggs, and then return to the sea, but 30
thin and haggard that the fishermen at
the mouths of the salmon rivers call
them by different name, and it is hard
to believe that they are of the same
species with those which are caught
while ascending the rivers. Once in the
ocean, again, they quickly recover their
lost strength.
The great migrations of insects are so
we'll known that we need say little about
them. We all remember the army of
locusts told about in the Bible. Within
few years we have learned that our
country is not free from danger of the
same kind, for in the Western States
swarms of grasshoppers may come before
the wind, and sweep over the country,
changing green fields into a brown desert,
and leaving no green thing behind them.
These insect migrations, like those of the
wild pigeons, do not occur at any partic-
ular season, and are caused by lack of
food.
1t is not generally known that our
gray squirrels sometimes assemble in
great troops and migrate to better
country. This does not occur very often;
but occasionally, when the squirrels are
very abundant in region where food
is scarce, they band together and move
straightforward, through forest and
deids, until they find place where food
il abundant. These, End the journeys
of many other ANIMALS, show that the
tendency to migrate is not confined to
birds.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-09

THE Arizona Indians have a weakness
for cremation. Among them when .
husband and wife get at that point where
in civilized land separation in bed and
board is considered desirable, the grand
councilof the tribe sits on the case and
condemns the couple to be burnt to-
gether- When, moreover, q mother dies
in chi ldbirth, the offspring is burnt alive
on it's own responsibility. No mission
aries,
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NUMBER 8.
TEE puzzlrD DUrcamAx.
BY CHARLES F. ADAMS.


I'm broken-hearted Deutscher,
Yots villed NIT Grief unt shame,
dells you vot der drouble ish--
doesn't know my name.
You drinks II ferry vunny, ehf
Ven you der story hear,
You will not wonder den so mooch,
IL vas so shtranse und queer.
Mein mudder had dwo fiddle OWNS
Dey vas me und mein brudderi
We lookt so very mooch alike
No Won knew vich from toder.
Won Of der poys was Yawcup,
Und Hans der oder's name;
But den II made no different
We both got called der same.
Veil, Won Of us got tead---
Yaw, Mynheer, dat is so;
But vedder Hans or Yawcup,
Mein mudder sue don know.
Und so am iu droubles
CANT git droo mein he'd
vedder Tn Hans volts living,
Or Yawcup vot is ted.
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An Extraordinary Bat Hunt.

Inc sacramento (Cal) Unt0n says:
The large double building on the north
side of nj Street, between Third and
Fourth, owned by E Torrey, and occu-
pied as boarding house, has of late APP
peared to be the headquarters of vast
number of bats, which managed to get
in between the ceiling and roof through
small apertures along side the water
spout, The vampires became a great
nuisance, and Mr.. Torrey concluded to
make an effort to get rid ofthem. With
this end in view he procured fve-gal
lon cosl-oil can and arranged it some
thing like rat.trap, SO that the bats
might enter it readily, but could not get
out. A number of small holes were also
punched in the can to admit light The
trap was placed in such position as to
completely cover the opening through
which the animals passed in and out OF
the building. The result was that
short time after dark it was filed with
the little pests, who made great scratch
ing and squealing. The remainder of the
bats, finding their usual place of exit
stopped up, looked about for another,
and discovered small hole in the
plastering of the ceiling. Through this
they made their way in great numbers,
and found themselves prisoners in the
sleeping apartment of two young wo-
men. The latter, aroused from their
slumbers pya mysterious noise, and feel.
ing their faces famed by invisible wings,
became alarmed and sprang from the
bed, but their feet came down upon a
mass Of squirming, scratching and biting
something's, while other something's
struck them in the face and on the head
and body, chattering viciously, and hay
ing disagreeably cold and damp feeling.
1t was not a pleasant situation by any
means, and the girls opened the door and
fastened into the hall, calling for as
sistance, and closely followed by their
tormentors. Other occupants of the
house, alarmed at the noise, opened their
doors to see what the trouble was, but
were glad to close them again to keep out
the bats. Some of the boarGers desired
tc go down stairs, but every step was
bat-roost, and they had to get out upon
the balconies. After much hard work,
which lasted nearly until daylight, the
animals were driven or swept from
the upper story down into the basement,
where they gathered into heap, 80 far
as possible, and were killed by the appli-
cation of boiling water. Those thus killed
numbered, by actual count, seven hun
dred and sixty, and the girls subse-
quently killed four more Ia 'neir room.
The trap was placed In a washtub filed
with water, and Its occupants drowned.
There being considerable curiosity to
ascertain the Number of bats fve-gal-
Ion measure could hold, they were
counted, and amounted to two hundred
and twenty-eigbt The slain, all told,
filled four buckets. The opening in the
ceiling in the girls apartment was plas-
tered up, and the trap was again set
On that evening it was well filed,
judging from the noise, and it was esti-
mated that there was a right smart
chance of bats about the house still.
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HOsC Mother Cuts Hair.

You can always tell boy whose
mother cuts his hair. Not because the
edges of his hair look as though they had
been chewed off by an absent-minded
horse, but you tell it by the way he
stops on the street and wiggles his should
els. When fond mother has to cut her
boys hair, she is careful to avoid any
annoyance and mess by laying sheet on
the carpet. 1t has never occurred TO her
to set him ON the floor, and put the
sheet around his neck. Then she draws
the front hair over his eyes, and leaves
it there, while she cuts that which is at
the back. The hair which lies over his
eyes appears to be on fire. She has I'M
consciously continued to push his head
forward until his nose presses his breast,
and is too busy too notice the snuffling
sound that is becoming frequent. In the
meantime he is seized with an irresisti-
BILE desire to blow his nose, but recollects
that his handkerchief is in the other
room. There is fly lights on his nose,
and does it SO Unexpectedly that he
involuntarily lodges, and catches the
point of the shears in his left ear. At
this he commences to cry and wishes he
was a man. But his mother doesn't
notice him. She merely hits him on the
other ear to inspire him with confidence.
When she is through, she holds his
jacket collar bae1 from his neck, and
with her mouth blows the short bits
from the top of his head down his back.
He calls her attention to this fact, but
she looks for a new place on his head,
and hits him there. Then he takes the
awful disfgured head to the mirror and
looks at it, and, young as he is, shudders
as he thinks of what the boys will say.
How often. oh, how often we find q
man who Will pay eleven dollars for s.
box of cigars without question or s
moments hesitation, who will contract
his brows and start back in speeches.
horror and stare for ten straight minutes
at the item, to one piece of dress braid,
ten cents" in dry goods bill that his
trembling wife hands him.
, 1877-11-09
CASUALTIES,
RIVER DISASTER.

hlf Elk DlS1AAIElks
Fp|efaf Nt.stseh 10 Tae caIrugp Tribune.
kEoKuK, 1u.. Nov. H-Thu steamer, A1ex
Mitchell. Of the kcokuk Northern Liue, whicl
was sunk near burlington In August last, met
with another disaster at point four miles bo-
low this city this evening at 3 O'Clock. She was
On her way down the river With two heavily
loa.lcsl bargcs, and shortly after passing tue
mouth Ut the Des Aotnes lAver struck snag
sud went to tho bottom. Slla t]Iled yery slow
II, aud was near half an hour IN sinking. She
SWING around with her bow up stream,
and IL lJ1ng on the snAg Ia
about seven feet Of water, her lower
deck being covered to depth Of two feet. Her
kcclson is broken In TWO, aud abe Is reported to
hc woras damaged than when shc sunk the lust
time. Dott1 sMUke-atacks fell when she was
sinking. About 100 tons Of fright arc under
water, No llyss were lost OF persons Injured.
The passengers, scvents-ire In, number, were
trat'strFret to the Nar Eagle, aua takea on
down tle river,
, 1877-11-09
NOMINATIONS.
THE BELGIAN MISSION.

Sptcin, itsoatch 10 7ns CAieu9o Tribune.
WAsMIN0roS, D. G., Nov. 8.-The nomtns-
tton Ut Henry l.. 2antlfort to-day as Minister to
belgium will meet with considerable opposition
In many quarters sandfosd preceded Russell
Jones Us Minister 10 Belgium, and was oncc rc-
Iectcd by tho scnato for the spanlsl, mission.
1t Is charged that Sanford, wll,te Minister to
Belgium, was engaged In improper transactions
III the purchase Ut Belgian uauskc.s md cloth
for tho army. Something about wllat tlIeso
charges arc, now they hare been received by
pctsons In authority. and how they arc ex-
planned, may be learned from thn following
statement malc by person holding infinite
relations at lilo White House, who claims to
KNOW whereof he speaks. TEe story gives
A CURIOUS insight
into political and diplomatic life, and Is told by
one wllo has himself been diplomat: sand.
by Secretary Evarts, whose especial friend he Is,
aod a!so by Frederick Seward, Assistant sccre-
tary Ut State, Tho appointment was sought py
Eyarts a. q personal fa1or, and ID Ais own ap-
po!ntncu.. a. Cen. co1n'y's appointment to tho
Sandwich lslunds and that Of GoY. G. Noyes 10
tho French mission were tho personal ap-
pointn,cnts Of ths President The following
may be said to b. Sandfdf1's
explanation Of thu various charges which hare
BEEN made against him. First, Us to the pur-
clasu Ut Belgian arms during the War, Sanford
was actinE a. agent Of tho Government. Ilu
"as 'A3't 4s'e" W eeate' WIN 41'''J :" W.
for the Belgium muskets by Aoyey & Gu. ,sas
Si9 aud fraction for each Of this guns.
1noae , son'lastsa ~ u'tet'y w ea"asouo s.
"e5e op.a1nea ~ =" @sesa%e VI - eaeps "'!'!e
those delivered oY booKef' anothef urn. ausonnt-
ed to about $l3 EACH III making those contracts
for tho arms Saudforl claIms 10 haye douo
tho 1ov.rnment rreat .eyvta. nra IN h.vo
, .ao .,s. 49, ats, ,.....;a as41 "a1 y
aetcu uhaer '"c spee'a4 '"stt"e'soas .! tao AN"
mIhIstsatlols Ills course - ea4a 70 tafc Ueeu
approved by Quattcrmaster.ueueratM MclGs. .As
, 1877-11-09

tcntleti tn cnmpcl compliance with the law un-
der pcna1ty Of immediate forfeiture of all
rights privileges. franchises, anil iails rrtrtsesl
frntn tho United States. together with all prof,-
crty u every kint belonging 4, The companies.
]! is 'let'Vnc.l tn test the question nj thc tx,rcr
ntf thc Executive Department N execute exist
ing 1aTs regulating the operatin VI the*e IA.
for the removal of all legal ltnpclimentt. II any
should hc fDIntt, which prerr1t the President
from enforcing the acts OF Congress:
, 1877-11-09

Epscto1 DttD<stcA 10 5A4 CAteaas 7r4Axmf,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8.-The sliYer-dol-
lar people generally assert With great confidence
to-day that tho bll passed By tho House will
pass the Seuata without amendment, and re-
cciye tha Presidents approval. Some OF tho
more anxiouA among them, however, do not
have Tits confidence. There sas meeting Of
tho Seuate Finance Committee ttls Mot9 9iux "