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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17

"Alice! Can | believe my eyesg he
said, at last, in the pause OF the dance.
al should think you might, rather"
was the nonchalant reply.
"Pray, how did you Gomez
"Pray, how did you come? / rode.
Did you walk?"
DWELL, but about the baby, Alice Y'
he asked, anxiously.
She put her rosy lips to his ear, and in
subdued voice, exclaimed:
Hang the baby"
Herbert started, and changed color.
To be sure he had used the same Ian
guage; but from her it was too exasper-
ating. How he got through the even
ing he could hardly tell. When, at last,
they were together in the carriage, driv-
ing home, there might have been an
open rupture, but for the determined
calmness of Alice, who took everything
as matter of course.
One glance in the beautiful nursery
unsealed his eyes. There, by the fire,
sat Mabel, her luxuriant tresses falling
in glossy freedom over her shoulders,
while the little fellow on her lap,
clutching at one long, shining curl,
crowed and laughed, as well as he could
for "auntie's" smothering kisses.
A sudden revulsion of feeling came to
the fathers heart at sight of this sweet
home-picture.
"Aha l know who contrived this
plot" he said. "But am glad to see
you, Mabel, nevertheless"
Wasn't she the belle of the ball 2"
answered Mabel saucily.
There's no doubt of that At any
rate, didn't get chance to dance with
her."
"Of course. Who ever heard in So
cety of dancing with on g wife7' she
said, sarcastically. ~ see that she fol-
lowed my directions implicitly. You
must learn, sir, that house divided
against itself, cannot stand-that il, if
one-half is flirting at party, and the
other half is at home, crying her eyes
out"
ooh, Alice, were you reallyT"
| should think she was. | can as
sure you that l myself saw half the
house dissolved in tears, and so wretched
mabel, hushp' said Alice, implor-
ingly.
i" Traitor, do you turn on me?" ex-
claimed Mabel, with mock displeasure.
My child" she went on, tossing the
crying cherub, "tell your selfish papa
that he also has some obligations, and
that if you had known you were to be
the bone of contention in this family,
you'd have stayed in the garden of an
gels, where you were wanted"
Herbert was strongly affected by this
audacious outburst, but it had the eff
feet of leading him to see his duty in
new light. 1t taught him to reflect
opened his eyes to his selfishness; and
made him, from that evening, better
and more consid rate husband.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17
Some Facts to be Remembered about
the SIM.


The sun is $4,000 times as large as
this earth.
The sun is 400 times as far off as the
moon.
A lady who weighs 100 pounds here
would weigh 300 pounds if on the
surface of the sun.
The heat given off by the sun would
melt 287, 100000 cubic miles Of ice every
second.
The diameter of the earth bears the
same relation to its distance from the
sun as the breadth of hair to 125 feet.
A railroad train travelling without
stops at the rate of forty miles an hour
would get to the sun in 263 years.
The sun is believed to become some
$50 feet smaller every year.
This contraction would be sufficient
TO generate the enormous quantity of
heat which it radiates.
Another theory is that comets and
meteoric matter falling into the sun
may be its aliment to Offset the tremen-
dous loss which combustion certainly
involves.
1t would require the combustion of
thirty feet of coal over the entire sur
face of the sun every second to generate
the same heat.
The stars are supposed to average
larger than our sun and TO have plane
tary systems like his.
The nearest star is 100000 times as
far off as our sun.
1t takes light eight minutes to come
from the sun, but it must have required
$4,000 years to come from the farthest
visible stars.
When the eleven-year storms on the
sun occur, the magnetic needle on the
earth is variable and sometimes consid-
erably DETECTED.
The earth is flying around the sun at
the rate of 1000 miles a minute.
The sun and all the stars are moving
through space, accompanied by their
planetary systems, at rate varying
from 20 to 200 miles a second.
Some of the sun spots (craters) are
100000 miles in diameter, and one of
them would easily swallow up the whole
of the planets, Jupiter himself only
making a mouthful.
Maedlers curious and brilliant specu-
lation is that the star Alevone is the
central sun of our universe, and that
our sun and the visible stars are swing
ing around it in orbits measured by mil
lions of years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17

skins" writes Charles L. Sharpless in
the Country Gentleman. In regard to the
relative merits of white and yellow skins,
he says: First that white skins with
white ears are poor yielders of butter;
second, that the largest quantity of
cream does not always make the largest
quantity of butter; third, that many
white-skinned COWS are large but
ter yielders, but only when they have
yellow ears; and fourth, that as to
yields of butter the yellow-skinned
cows, when compared with equal guam
titles of milk, and at corresponding
times, will yield more butter, and Of
better quality, than will the white
skinned cows, even when they have yell
low ears"
PRESERVED OUNCES: Pare, quarter
and core the fruit, saving skins and
cores. Put the ounces over the fire
with just enough wafer to cover them,
and simmer until perfectly tender, but
do not let them break. Take out the
fruit and spread on dishes to cool; add
the parings and cores to the water in
which the ounces were boiled and cook
one hour; then strain through jelly
bag, and to each pint of this liquor
allow a pound of sugar. Boil and
skim this, then put in fruit and boil
fifteen minutes. Take it off the fire and
let it stand in deep dish twenty-four
hours. Then drain off the syrup, and
let it boil again; put in the ounces, and
boil fifteen minutes Take out the fruit
and spread on dishes to cool; boil down
the syrup thick; put the fruit in your
jars until two-thirds full, then cover
with the syrup.
The pantry shelves are getting grimy
or finger MARKS around the door htches
are looking dark and unsightly. For
lack of time they are left day after day, for
it is hard work to scour all the time,
and it wears of the paint, too. The hus-
band keeps his bottle of oil, or perhaps
a large can holds it, for he never stints
in that. Now suppose his wife had her
bottle of spirits of ammonia to use she
takes her basin of water and clean cloth,
just puts on few drops of the fluid and
wipes off all the dirt; it is worth more
than half days labor, and does not
hurt the paint either. She could put
few drops in her dish water and see how
easily her dishes could be cleaned a few
drops on a sponge could clean all the
windows in the sitting room, making
them shine like crystal. 1t would take
the stains off the teaspoons, and tea
spoonful in the mop-pail would do more
toward washing up the kitchen floor
'han ten pounds of elbow grease applied
to the mop-handle. A housewife has
just as much right to make her work
easy and expeditions as her husband has.
If she does not do it, the fault is her
own in great measure.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HO USE.

DISSOLVE muriate of lime in water
until it will dissolve no more; make also
a similar solution of carbonate of pot.
ash; both will be transparent fluids, but
if equal quantities of each be stirred to-
gether they will become solid mass.
PARcHED RICE: Parch your rice to a
nice brown, throw it into little sailed
water; do not stir it more than neces-
sary; serve with cream and sugar
Roasted rice boiled and mashed is a
good infant diet in case of summer COM
plant.
A GOOD farmer always gets every hing
ready, so that when suitable weather
commences, he can take advantage of it,
and thus make Nature do the best she
can for him. He is particular al,o
about what he plants, for he knows in
ftrior seed always give an inferior pro-
duct.
To KEEP EGGS: A house wife writes to
the Maine Farmer that eggs may be
except as long as you wish )" by simply
placing them in colander, pouring
boiling water over them sufficiently to
cook " the thin outside skin which
excludes the air, and then set away in a
cool place.
CHOCOLATE CREAM: One quart of
milk, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch,
four of grated chocolate, a little salt,
and two-thirds of cup of sugar Mix
the chocolate and corn starch together
with little water, sweeten and salt it,
adding to it the milk just before it
comes to boil. Boil about five minutes,
stirring constantly; add teaspoonful
of butter, and flavor with vanilla.
THOUGH in exceptional instances in
dividual hens will lay one hundred and
fifty to two hundred eggs per annum,
yet when several hundred are kept, the
average is not generally over ten or
eleven dozen. When we kept six hun
dred fowls ourselves, embracing eight
OF ten different breeds, and counted the
eggs daily, year after year, we averaged
never over one hundred and thirty eggs
per hen per year, and in some instances
as low as one hundred and fifteen. But
we believe that by prolonged selection of
the best layers, generation after genera
ton, and skillful management, hundreds
of fowls can be made to yield an aver
age of agross per annum.-Poulhy World.
"IF there is any deficiency to-day in
Jerseys, it is the whiteness of their
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17
Battling with the Winds and Waves.

Some interesting particulars of the
recent disastrous voyage of the ship
Alnwick Castle are given by an English
contemporary. The Alnwick Castle is
a fine, large ship of one thousand a.
one hundred tons, and to the strength of
her solid oak timbers must be ascribed
the fact that she did not founder in the
hurricane which she experienced. She
was bound from England to Point de
Gale, with cargo of coal. When she
bad been out about one month thick,
black, misty rain came on, accompanied
by fearful hurricane. For three hours
there was absolute darkness, and the
roar of the sea was perfectly appalling.
Between eleven and twelve o'clock sea
struck the ship, causing her to lurch
heavily to leeward, and while the men
were working at the pumps the main
mast leaped clean overheard.
Anything more wonderful the Cap
tain never saw, and how the men es
capped without harm it is impossible to
understand. At the same time the
miZzenmast was carried away about
three feet above the poop deck, and the
ship was helpless log. The Captain,
who was on the poop, was crushed down
by the rigging which fell with the
mizzenmast, and man with less phys
ique would hardly have escaped with his
life. One of the seamen was washed
across the main deck with the spars that
were floating about, and as the seas
rolled off the spars fell on him, crushing
his chest and breaking the collar bone
The mizzenmast, in falling overheard,
damaged the main pumps SO that they
could not be worked. The crew became
panic stricken, but the Captain, shat
tered as he was, went among them, and
persuaded them to work at the pumps,
and he was obeyed. The greatest dan
ger was now with the masts, which were
battering in the ships side, and had al
ready broken the port lights of the stern
cabin, letting in great volumes of water.
The bolts of the main chain plates
had also been torn out of the ships
side, leaving dangerous leaks.
At this critical time, Captain Yelland,
who had his wife on board, went and
gave her the information of their condi-
ton, which left no hope, and then re-
turned to his work. Two staunch men
undertook to go into the hold to. see
what damage the masts and spars had
done to the sides, and they were success
full in plugging the chain bolt holes.
No other damage had been done. The
Captain endeavored to make the ship
steady by launching sea-anchor, by
attaching hawser to the fore-topmast,
which had come down, and for half an
hour the promise was held out that some
rest would be given the men, but then
the hawser parted, and the ship was
tossed about again.
The hurricane had passed over, how
ever, and on the next day the rigging
up of jury masts was commenced, and
the vessels head was put for Table Bay,
which port was eight hundred miles
away. Each day, however, brought
new dangers, as the sea was continually
washing over the main deck; and SO
fearfully out of repair has the Alnwick
Castle become, through her wonderful
voyage, that she must remain in Table
Bay nearly two months
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17

A BALTIMORE tramp mlstook gospel
tent for a circus last Sunday. The Rev.
Mr.. Cummings was leading in prayer,
and all the brethren were on their knees,
when strange figure darted up the
aisle with yell, and, mounting the
pulpit, gave the Bible preparatory
whack, and proceeded to square off, as if
to address the crowd. The effect was
electric. People sprang to their feet
and a dozen hands were laid upon the
wild looking intruder. His shoes and
pantaloons were in bad repair, his hair
was unkempt, and his beard unshaven,
and although he wore coat, there was
nothing between it and his skin. When
he was taken to a police station he was
asked who he was. "Pll tell you," he
exclaimed with energy: "Pm the
devil! Old Nick! Flibberty-gibbet
Mephistopheles! Beelzebub! Bob In
gersol! Hoopla, yere We are for the
lower regions, get alangp and as he
said this he cracked an imaginary whip.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17
New Code Of Filtration.
[Puck.1

The systems of fan and handkerchief,
and even of hat filtration, have been
fully explained to the public at large !;
but it is strange that the code most gen
orally in use, and better calculated than
any other to express with precision and
accuracy large variety of sentiments,
has never been completely formulated
for the benefit of those who wish to be-
come profcients in this beautiful art.
tits with pleasure that Puck comes for
ward to present to his readers the fol-
lowing CAREFUL y-edited and entirely
trustworthy
/. Pulling up the shirtsleeves and
slightly moistening the palms of the
hands" Step over here minute; Iwish
to speak to you.
Ii. stepping up behind man, grasp
ing him by the scruff OF the neck, and
advancing rapidly" Please follow me.
Ill. Putting forefnger to right eye
and drawing down lower lid" Don't
you (or do you) wish you had it?
". "Nonchalantly chucking brick,
or other light object, on top of a mans
tile" Who's your halter?
V. Taking a mans nose between
your fore and second fingers, and
slightly changing the position of same"
| address myself to you.
VI. "Abruptly altering the angle of a
mans coat-tails by insinuating your boot
toe under them" Do not linger.
VII. " Putting the point Of your ell
bow between any two of mans ribs,
and jarring his internal economy We
are observed.
VIII. Doubling up your fist and
placing it firmly upon the bridge of a
mans nose" l love you, but not de-
votedly or passionately.
TX. "Grasping a mans ear between
your upper and lower jaws, and gently
working the jaws" My heart is an
others.
x. Lifting another person up in
your arm, and walking in any specified
direction" Come with me.
XII. Rapidly removing the chair on
which man is about to sit down."
We are not entirely sympathetic in our
objects.
XII. Taking a brief observation
across kind of impromptu sextant,
constructed of all the fingers of one
hand outspread, the thumb centering
on the nose" Farewell, this parting is
forever
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17
Grains of Gold,

Very few persons have sense enough to
despise the praise of fool.
Physic, for the most part, is but SUBJ
stitute for exercise or intemperance.
Patience-A virtue which some peo-
people think every one wants but them
selves.
How few faults there are seen by us,
which we have not ourselves committed.
To speak harshly to pr rson of sensi-
bilitv, is like striking harpsichord with
your fist.
In the assurance of strength there is
strength. The strongest are weak with
out confidence.
One doubt solved by yourself will open
your mind mpre than the solution of
many by another.
If one knew what is said of him in his
absence he would become very modest
man indeed.
The mind that busies itself much with
the future has need to be an uncom-
monty cheerful one.
Appointments once made become
debts. | have no right to throw away
your time if l do my own.
Men look at the faults of otEers with a
oCitoSoPO tuClT OWu VIII tQc Same
inst ument reversed.
The man who mounts the high horse is
invariably the one who gets the least
pity when he falls.
Show naughty man that you do not
look up to him, and he will not then look
down upon you.
He that thinks himself the happiest
really is SO; but he that thinks himself
the wisest, is fool.
Harsh words are like hailstones in
summer, which if melted, would fertil-
ize what they batter down.
One act of benefcence, one act of real
usefulness, is worth all the abstract SEN
timent in the world.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-08-17
GLEANINGS FROM THE MUSE.
LOVERS ASSURANCE.
BY R. S. GOODRICH.

The storm is coming on apace,
The trees begin 10 shiver
Big drops of rain drum on the pane,
And set me all a-quiver.
The clouds are black as ink, and OF
How wildly 1t Iightened.
And this premoniiory hush
Joe, am sadly frightened.
No wonder, darling, you're afraid
In such a storm as this is:
But never fear the lightning, dear,
I'll blind your eyes with kisses"
It's driving down upon us now
The very house Is rocking,
Wind-currents roar, rain-torrents pour
o, how my knees are knockingi
The thunders crash and roll as though
The sky had split asunder;
Joe, l shall surely faint away,
I'm so afraid of thunder.
Darling, you well might faint away
In such storm as this Is:
But never fear the thunder, dear,
u silence bring with kisses"
It's such catching season, Joe,
I'm in a constant panic;
There's that about a thuDder-cloud
Which seems almost Satanic.
What did you say, Joe? That you wish
'Twould come on every day SO?
You cru fellow Let me go
You do not dare to say so?
"Of such a cruel wis, my dear,
The explanation this is:
The grass and grain need frequent rain,
And 1-need frequent kisses"
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Poultry on a Large Scale.-Like ev

Poultry on Large Scale.-Like ev-
erything else, poultry requires to have
common sense used in its management
There is common sense in a few hens
being kept by any man living in city
and having a small yard at the back of
his house where he perhaps has a stable
with pair of horses, but there would be
folly in his having great numbers
There is good common sense in having a
fine lot of fowls running around every
farm homestead, but none in keeping so
many as to bring on disease. There
would be common sense in placing one
thousand hens in families of fifty over
two hundred acres, giving them full lib
erty to range where they pleased, and
having their roosts so constructed that a
yoke of oxen or a pair of horses could be
hitched to them and haul them to a new
site when crops growing near required
the absence of the poultry, or when a
coop had been a good while in one place,
and the surroundings were becoming
saturated too much with the manure
On large farm with springs and run
ming streams of water, ten thousand
might be kept, by persevering attention
in moving when necessary, and by plow-
ing some ground all the while, near the
fowls, and also by planting patches of
rye in September to give them green food
through the winter, which would be
available whenever the snew is not lying
thereon. But it would he folly for ten
thousand or only one thousand to be
kept confined on few acres, and expect
anything but disaster. With ample
range fowls will be healthy in small
families and require little besides what
they will find by foraging, at the same
time they will lay eggs enough to make
two dollars per hen; but confine them
on few acres and they will eat double
of purch sed food and lay not more than
seventy-fve cents worth of eggs per
head in proportion to the close confne-
ment.
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For the escape from the system of its waste
and debris, which, if retained, would vitiate
the bodily fuids and overthrow heath.
That important channel of exit, the bowels,
may be kept permanently free from OBJ
stomach Bitters, which not only liberates
impurities, butiavigorates the lining of the
intestinal canal when weakened by con-
sripation or the unwise use of violent purga-
tives. The stomach, liver and urinary
organs are likewise reinforced and aroused
to healthful action by this beneficent tonic
and corrective, and every organ, fiber,
muscle and nerve experiences share of its
invigorating influence. Unobjectionable in
flavor, most genial and wholesome med
icinal imulant, and owing its efficacy to-
botanic sources exclusively, it is the remedy
best adapted to household use on account
of its safety, wide scope and speedy action.
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THE MARKETS..

-Flour-Extra, s4@4 rs; spring,
"a 1895 40; patent, IS 25@7 Is; family, g. 5oS6;
oPpT s. sS 'I@ ka a sG q S@, s
Grain-WheAt, prime TO choice red, CSC. @s1 05;
prime to choice amber hill, and white, &c g
Hay, prime to choice timothy, se@il. Mess pork
saSSi2sSe. ' >'0'>'
INDIANAPOLIS. = Flour Fancy, IS 5o@6; fam
lily, 81 SOFAS. Grain Wheat, No. 2 red winter,
24@25c. Rye, SOC. Bulk msats--Shoulders, SIC;
clear rib sides, SIC Lard, &c. Sugar Picked
Hams, s@9%c. Hogs, s494 10.
LOUISVILLE-Flour- Extra, SS@l3 rs; extra
family, SO 75G4 rs; A No. l, "a 5095. Grain
Wheat, No. red, 90c.; amber aud white, Csc,
Corn, white, re; mixed s9e Oats 90 mixed,
Lard, choice Leaf in fierce, Sc choice in kegs &C.
Cotton, 11Hc
NEW YORK. - Flour-Superfne State and
Western 50 5o@3 80; common to good extra
wheat extra, S So@s 50; common to good extra
Ohio, s4@5 IS; common to choice st. Louis extra
family, 81 1897; Minnesota patent process, extra
good to prime, S6@7. Grain-W heat, CSC. @Sl 1919.
Rye, 63@6sc Corn, 4l1a@ 4c. Oats, 8o@S7o.
7 . d714c Wool domestic feeces, 2Sa48c pulled
ls@87c.; unwashed, 10000, Texas, 12@27c.
PHILADELPHIAs-Fl Flour Western superfne,
1898 5; Western extra S4@4 Is; Pennsylvania
81 5095 25, Wheat, Pennsylvania winter red, 81 0S
al IL; Pennsylvania amber, 81 1901 49, Penn
%, w5t 81 s e. eg ysS Western
2sa31c. Mess Pork, rump mess, $40 50@1o =.
Lard, butchers, NIKE, sN@7c. and city kettle
rendered 712@7A Petroleum, refined test, II 1sc.,
and crude, in barrels, S19@s1Sc.
STOCK MARKETS.
CINCINNATI.-BeefC attle-Common, 1A9214c.;
fair to medium, 215@s314c; good to choice butcher
grades S]s@4.SSc fair TO good shippers, 44@4s4c.;
fair to good heavy oxen, 21@sc fair to good feed
Common to fair, 2Aa8c, and good to choice, 314@
SIC. Hogs-Common, $3@3 IS fair to good light,
So 4o@3 POI fair to good packing grades IS 5o@3 2o
selected butchers, So 70a375
BUFFALO.-Beef Cattle-S Sales were made of
choice to best steers at "a s5@5 per 100 lbs good
butchers, and shippers steers "a so@4 80; medium
WE'RE dull s
and sales were made at 3 5Oa4; stockers in
fair supply at 50 40. Sheep and Lambs-Fair to
grades, saga e5 lambs, @5 so. Hogs-sales made
Of medium and heavy hogs at 81 4094 rs per 100
| lbs
NEW YORK.-Beef Cattle Common to prime
steers, S@101c. per lb., to dress So to 81 lbs to
the gross cwt extra and fancy steers, 101l@11c :,
to dress 81 lbs. Exporters used 500 head at 914@
1oc, to dress Sc lbs, exclusive of seven car loads
purchased for the English market in Chicago, and
which were not for sale here. Sheep and Lambs
Sales made of sheep at So 1905 IS per 100 lbs the
averaging i2s lbs: lambs, S. 1896 Is for western,
Southern. and State grades.
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Hogs-Yorkers and Bal
aS 81 soa 40 mixed heavy Grades s. 1s@
were selling slow at d Id. off last week.
WOOL.---In Cincinnati, bury wool is dull at
| 12@l5c. Strictly graded lots bring the follow
h., 1s@2oc.; coarse Clothing 2o@2ie; medium
clothing, 22@24c.; long combing, Is 026c. Fleece
| v ashed---Fine merino, 30@32c.; coarse clothing
Ss5e. rub-washed, common, 2s@ ss c0 good to
| choice, 32@33c. Pulled-Superhne, 25O27c.