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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
Harriet HOSmer.

Harriet Hosmer, who has gained more
reputation as sculptor than any woman
IN America, is the daughter of physician,
and was born at WATERFOWL, Mass, some
torty-nine years ago. Naturally fragile,
her father encouraged her to lead an
outdoor life, and to take great deal of
exercise. She was taught TO ride and
shoot and develop her body in every
way. She grew into hoyden and was,
as may be supposed, rather masculine in
her tastes and feelings; but she was
physically strong, which was far more
important. She went to school at
Lenox, and there met the daughter of
Wayman Grow, of ST. Louis, between
whom and herself close friendship was
soon formed. Miss Crow afterward be-
came the wife of a nephew of Charlotte
Cushman, the actress. Harriet early
displayed talent for modelling, fitting up
rude studio in her fathers house, and
filling it with clay models. She went to
Boston, received few lessons from the
artist Stevenson, and then visited St.
Louis, to see her schoolgirl friend. The
medical college there was then the only
one in the Republic which admitted
women, and she entered it to study
anatomy, SO essential to the prosecution
OF her art. She resided with the Crow
family, and but for their social position,
would probably have been tabooed by
general society, mainly French, very
conservative there in those days, because
OF her studenthood at a medical college,
her attendance on scientific lectures at
night, her going home without escort,
and generally Independent ways, which
were regarded with amazement and gem
eral disfavor. Through the generosity
OF her friend, Mrs. Hosmer was enabled
to realize the dream of her art life in
Rome. She there studied under Gibson,
and her first regular works were the
ideal heads of Daphne and Medusa,
purchased by Samuel Appleton, of Bos-
ton. She then made the statue of Ben
ton for st. Louis 1t stands in Lafayette
Falkland the Zenobia, in the Mercantile
Library of that city was ordered by
Wayman Crow. Her other works are
well known. Save a brief visit to her
native land in 1857, she has lived in
Rome since she first went there, and her
studio is one of the first places TO which
wandering Americans wend their way.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
Long Branch Architecture.
From a Late Letter


Between the road and the waters
edge there is string of cottages of
various colors, dimensions, and grades of
ugliness. On the opposite side of the
avenue there is similar row of houses
which are a good deal like the Others,
only not so homely. The principal object
of the Long Branch architects seems to
have been the indulgence of a passion
for frightful designs, atrocious colorings,
and infamous constructions. Some of
the chaps who laid out the cottages
which are strung along the sea-shore
south of the principal hotels must have
done their work right after bad attacks
of nightmare. A toadstool, compared to
many of these structures, is model of
beauty and a miracle Of graceful contour.
The colors which have been employed in
painting these marvels of constructive
science vary from dead white to the
most aggravated form of brown. Such
unholy revels in hue were never seen
before, and it is to be profoundly hoped
that they will never be dreamed of
again.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
LIZZIE BOURNE.


The White Mountain Echo tells the
following story: "About two O'Clock
on the afternoon CT September IS, 1855,
a gentleman accompanied by his daugh-
ter and niece, the latter the daughter of
Hon. f. f. Bourne, of Kennebunk. Me.
started without guide from the Glen
House Tor pedestrian excursion to the
summit of Mt. Washington The ear
riage road was then in course of con
struction, and completed about half way
up the mountain. But, TO quote from
Mr.. Sweetser's narrative, when the
party reached tie Half Way House, the
mountain above was seen To be wrapped
in dense cloud, through which strong
winds blew with unfailing steadiness.
The climbers pressed on into the yellow
twilight ahead, and followed the trail
which they fondly hoped would lead
them to the hospitable Summit House
above. They had not gone far when
they lost the path and were left to wan
der over the rugged wastes, chilled to
the heart by ravenous icy winds, cut and
worn out by the sharp rocks and the
skeleton trees, and, above all. overpow-
cred by the nameless dread which sezes
upon poor humanity when confronted
by dangers of an unusual and mysterious
character.
The Inflated pilgrims at last
reached the base of The ultimate peak,
and assembled it part way. Here the
darkness grew deeper and the gale more
icy, until at last it seemed im possible to
go farther; and one of the ladies fell
down in utter and absolute exhaustion.
The leader of the party built wall of
stones between her and the blast, and
then sat down with his daughter TO
await her revival. But the night air
was deadly, with its burden of frost.
and the rocks were cold and pitiless.
Lizzie Bourne died at 10 o'clock, and
amid the terrors of the darkness and the
storm, her kinsiolk held CHASTITY vigil
until morning. 1t was then discovered
that they were so close to the Summit
House that few more minutes of active
climbing would have placed them within
its sheltering walls, where light and
warmth and nourishment awaited their
arrival.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
Deposit Of a Little Lamb.
Augusta (Ga.l News. |


On the day in 'tarch, 1873, when the
fearful cyclone which ravaged middle
Georgia was doing its most destructive
work, white lamb, no larger than an
ordinary sized house cat, was safely de-
posted, among the other debris, in the
yard of Mr. Dan Prather, an old gentle
man who lives near Berzella, on the
Georgia road. As soon as the lamb was
discovered, some one of Mr. Prather's
family ran out, picked it up and carried
it into the house. Where it came from
no one knew but it was fed and nur-
tured, and became a pet in the house
hold. In fact, like Mary's lamb, it fol
lowed Mr.. Prather about all the time.
After making inquiries, Mr.. Prather
could find no one who owned flock of
sheep in the direction from which the
cyclone came for distance of twenty
miles, and where his pet came from was
more mystery than ever. AT any rate,
it grew up to be a fine healthy sheep, and
as the years passed it was regularly
sheared and the wool applied to domes-
tic uses. There was no other sheep on
the place, and it is doubtful if ever this
lamb saw another of its species since the
memorable March winds took her upon
its wings and deposited her safely in
Mr.. Prather's yard. This was over six
years ago, and the yield of wool from
this lost sheep has averaged annually
about five pounds. Mr.. Prather brought
to town this years clip, which Melted
six pounds, for which he received
twenty-five cents per pound.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
The story is told. You may draw
your own inferences."
Fixing Things Bceorehand.

Did Mr.. John Sherman have reason,
eight months ago, to expect that his
friends of the First National Bank
would find it impossible to pay back
into the treasury the millions which he
proposed to leave ON deposit with
themp
Jn the circular 'ssued by Mr.. Sher-
man on the LIST of August, 1878, the re-
lations of the Government with banks
acting rs agents of the Government in
the sale of 4-per-cent bonds were
clearly defined. That circular gave the
banks ninety days in which to turn over
the money received for 4 per cents.
This was its language:
As soon as the 4-per- cent bonds are paid for
by certificates of deposit OF such public de-
positories, or otherwise a call will ISSUE ma
turing within ninety days, for the redemption
of6-per-oent bonds, and the money received
for a-per-cent bonds will remain on deposit
until such cali natures.
On the LIST of January, of the present
year, Mr.. Sherman increased the COM
mission to be allowed TO the First
National and other depository banks en-
the bonds for which they might sub.
scribe. This kind act of MIR. Sherman's
practically put the whole business OF
selling the bonds into the hands of tho
favored banks, chiefly the FIRST National,
for il enabled them to undersell the
Government itself in disposing of the
bonds in small quantities to actual pur-
chasers. At that time, as will be re-
membered, the daily subscriptions in
creased in an enormous proportion.
simultaneously with the increase, Mr..
Sherman issued another circular, sus-
pending that of Aug. /, 1878.
This new circular said nothing
about ninety days grace to the banks.
In almost so many words it promised tho
First National Bank, controlled by the
old Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. ring,
that the money derived from the sale of
the bonds should remain on deposit us
long as Mr.. Sherman chose to let it re-
main. This was the language of the
new circular:
The money received by depository banks on
account Of subscriptions will remain on deposit
with said bank, but subject TO the order OF tho
Treasurer OF tho United States.
Several interesting questions arise:
Did John Sherman, in the kindness of
his great heart, foresee, eight months
ago, that the Jay Cooke financiers would
be embarrassed to settle with the Gov
eminent within the ninety days limit?
Did the ingenious financiers of the
First National Bank, in the simplicity
of their natures, misinterpret the
thoughtful act OF kindness, and assume
that Mr.. Sherman meant that they
might go on owing the Government
thirty or forty millions until the crack
of doom?
What would become of the peoples
money if the Jay Cooke, McCulloch e.
Go. fnanciers should fail, as they have
been known to do before?
Is the refundipg Of the 6-per-cent.
loan an accomplished fact, as Mr.. John
Sherman claims in his stump speeches
in Ohio and elsewhere2
If 80, where is the money, or it's equiv
alent in called bonds, that ought to be
in the treasury of the United States2-
Ns,o York sam.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

Mr.. WILSON FLAGG explains in the
atlantic Monthly why certain birds, like
chickadees and robins, never forage in
compact focks, as do the sparrows and
other grain-eating birds. Their food
consists of insects, and hence they are
compelled to scatter. Their natural
gregariousness, however, causes them to
sound note every now and then, in
order to keep within hearing. Wood
peckers do not call to each other while
feeding, because their hammering is
sufficient. Mr.. Flagg notices singular
fact in the association together, yet not
in the same troop, of the downy wood
pecker and the chickadee. There seems
to be sort of affinity, he says, between
the small woodpeckers the creepers and
the chickadees. They do not join COM
pany, but keep within hearing of one
another from sociable feeding. When
birds are grain-eaters, they go in large,
close focks, like the red-winged black
birds, because their food is abundant.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
The Acceptance of Presents.

1t is scarcely necessary TO say, remarks
the Lddys journal, that unmarried
women should not accept presents from
gentlemen who are not related or en-
gagged to them, as every well bred per
son is aware of the fact. There is a
rule to the effect that in presenting a
book to friend, the name of the one to
whom you give it must not be written
in it unless requested. This rule is bet
ter honored in the breach than in the
observance, when the giver of the book
is its author. "Our tokens Of love"
says Emerson, care for the most part
barbarous, cold, and lifeless because they
do not represent our life. The only gift
is portion of myself Therefore, let
the farmer give his corn; the miner, a
gem; the sailor, coral and Shells the
painter, his picture; and the poet, his
poem. Mere costliness does not consti-
tute The soul of present; it is the kind
of feeling that it manifests, which gives
it value. Those who possess noble ma
lures do not make gifts where they feel
neither affection nor respect Their
gifts are bestowed out of the fulIness of
kind hearts.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
Old Mining Camps.

An old mining camp in the growing
hours of dusk has an air of the most
peaceful acquiescence with the ways of
Providence. There is nothing else like
1t in the universe. The sleepiest fisher
village which ever chung to black cliffs
above the lazy breakers and the white
shore will rouse when shoals of herring
fill the bay, or when the winter storms
come with their wild rage bearing some
doomed ship on the foaming rocks; the
sleepiest village of the valley grows,
though slowly, by increase in the value
of lands, and the drift of Improvements
in the community. But the old min
ing camp is mystery to the thoughtful
inquirer. If man moves away, there
his house stands and rots into pile of
kindling-wood. Yonder was a pretty
garden on the slope, but the progress of
the mines has cut the water bitches,
which, now cannot reach it, and so ii is
neglected and barren. Here is build
ing solid brick walls, iron shutters,
door which would withstand seige; it
was bank once, where exchanges could
be had on London, Hamburg and all the
great centers of trade; now it is plas-
tered over with red paper signs and oc-
cupied by score of narrow-lidded, yell
low Chinese. Yet there are quiet,
shaded cottages and the most lovely of
homes in almost every one of these old
mining camps. Take little turn apart
from the decaying business center of the
town, and you will find what would de-
light the most care-hardened traveller.
Quiet men sitting on the doorsteps and
watching that last culver of sunlight in
the pines which is so eternally new and
glorious; fair women, in summer gar
ments of white, standing by fragrant
pillars of roses; chubby-faced children,
full of healthy merriment, slipping in
and out among the trees, or playing on
the terraced bit of grass plot beside the
grape trellis. Ali we have at last found
out the charm of many mountain
town which cynical tourists delight to
deny. There are abiding places and
homes of men here, also, even as in the
fairest of valleys.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20
The Notions OF Mr.. VIM. M. Eyarts.

The volume of 428 pages, just pub
lished from the State Department, I'M
der the title of "The State of Labor in
Europe: 1875" and consisting of letters
on the subject received from Hayes
Consuls, opens with letter of Mr.. Ev-
arts, which covers one-tenth of the re-
port and processes to generalize the
facts which it sets forth. The greater
part of the Consular letters to be found
in the report are brazen illustrations of
the stupidity, ignorance and incapacity
of the men sent abroad upon official
duty by Mr.. VIM. M. Evarts; and the
spirit that runs through the report, from
first to last is far from being candid or
being justified by experience. The toll
er is told by these officials, sitting in
their easy chairs and drawing large sal
aries for signing their names, that his
condition is of the very worst; that it
cannot be bettered, and that the only
thing for him to do is to accept il re-
signedly, and to make the most of the
wages he is able to get. Some apology
may be made for the Consular CORES
pondence, but there is none possible
for Mr.. VIM. M. Evarts when he joins
ia the hue and cry against the working
classes of Europe, and actually traces
the wrongs and evils under which they
suffer to their struggles for industrial
and social improvement.
Mr. VIM. M. Evarts tells the work
ingmen of the United States:
Under no consideration must we have
strikes; under no consideration must our fac
tories lie idle. II our manufacturers cannot
run their establishments proftably and pay the
prevailing wages, our working people must
help them to make profit BY consenting to a
reduction Of wages.
American workingmeg are admon-
ished by Mr.. VIM. M Evarts to prepare
for reduction of wages to the basis of
the European mechanic and laborer.
Here are his very words:
In the near future the workingman of New
York cannot expect twice or thrice the wages of
his fellow-worker in Europe, while all other
things-food, rent, clothing, etc.-are on an
equality; nor can the coal miner of Pennsyl-
vania expect twice the wages Of the Northum-
bertrand miner, while coal from the Northum
berland mines can be landed in New York at
less than the price of Pennsylvania coal.
Again Mr.. VIM. M. Evarts says:
The first great truth to be learned by the
manufacturers and workingmen is that the
days Of sudden fortunes and double wages are
gone
Again Mr.. VIM. M. Evarts says:
Let the workingman feel, as he should feel,
that the man who employs him, who enables
him to feed and clothe his wife and children, is
his friend as well as his employer, and that
all within and about the workshop are things
to be protected, even with life il necessary, in
stead Of being destroyed.
Mr.. VIM. Nj. Evarts is said to be an
aspirant for the nomination for Gov.
.ernor Of this State, and for the Presi-
dency also. These are his sentiments
and opinions concerning the life and
labor of the great body Of the American
people, the men who earn their bread
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

in regard to the assertion which has
recently been made that the sun never
sets on American sell, the Scientific
american says that this is Boosting too
much; that.we have really four hours of
darkness every night, as when the linger-
ing rays of the sun are kissing the hills
of our furthest Aleutian island good
night they are ssluting the hill-tops of
Ireland with good morning, while the
breadth of the Atlantic lies between us
and daylight,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

The Boston Post thinks the Rev.
Joseph Cook too hifalutin, and to con-
vey to its readers an idea of his vocabu-
larry, recites the following: "The other
day the Rev. Joseph Cook saw street
gamin with a bottle of liquor, and
grieved at the sight, said to the lad ]:
Son, by the development of the in
herent propensity to Bacchanalian re-
velry we involutionize to the grade of
pachyderm. QUEEN deus cult perdere,
pri,,s 'dementat.' This judicious rebuke
had its effect. The good man passed on.
The lad dropped the bottle, staggered to
a seat on the curbstone, and spent three
hours in meditation, at the end of which
time he was conveyed in a hack to the
hospital
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

The mystery surrounding the
Waynesville horror appears to be pretty
well cleared up so far as the identity of
the guilty party is concerned. The dis.
covery of the body of the boy Anderson,
killed by his own hand, points without
much room for doubt to his being the
author Of one of the most cold-blooded
murders in the entire history of crime
But what could have prompted him to
the commission of it yet remains an
enigma.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

THE sternest hearts are melted by the
gentleness of women; and in no capac-
ity can she more efectually develop this
delightful power than in that of wife.
By her persuasive manners she solicits
and commands obedience; and it should
be her highest aim not to impair this
power. To enable her to do this, it is
necessary that she should know how to
govern her temper; and this she must
mainly effect by striving early to adapt
herself to the exigencies incidental to
her altered position.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

A SITE has been reserved on Bedloe's
Island, New York harbor, for the cree
tion of Bartholdi's gigantic statue,
" Liberty Enlightening the World"
now rapidly advancing to completion in
Paris. The head will doubtless be
crowned with tiara of electric lights.
There should be as many of them as
there are states in the Union. This
gift of France to America will be one
of the future wonders of the world.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

The story goes that the recent dele
cation OF negroes sent to Kansas by
Mississippi planters that they might
return and report adversely to the coun-
try and, if possible, put a stop to the
colored exodus, were so captivated by
the beautiful country and Dountiful
harvests that many of them forgot to
return at all, while others went back
to tell their friends and neighbors of
tn beauty and bounty they had found,
and to induce further emigration.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

BURDETr, of the Burlington Ha,0keye,
has bad opinion OF so-called great
men. He says: "a writer recently set
himself at work to get out series of
papers on tThe Great Men of Amer
ica,' but, after diligently reading them
up in the journals of opposite political
faiths, he came to the conclusion that
we have none at present, and never had
more than enc or two in all our history
as nation, and that he could not find
out just who they were"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

AN ancient burial ground is being ex-
cavated by local literary society at
jacksonville, Ohio. Many human bones
and stone implements have been found,
but the strangest discovery is that of
about four bushels of corn, thoroughly
carbonized, but retaining it's original
appearance, except in color. The con-
lecture is that it was put there as part
of an INDIAN burial rite.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

HALF century ago a French law re-
CURED the suspension of all work on
Sundays, but it remained dead letter
on the statute books. 1t is now to be
enforced, as may be seen by the Paris
papers. This does otapply to recreation.
The museums and theaters are always
crowded on Sundays, and the public
exhibitions on the Champs Elysees are
better patronized that day than any
other
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by the sweat of their brow. They are
the notions, too, of other Republican
leaders. The whole policy OF the Re-
publican party is to degrade and 'impov-
erish labor; to create aristocratic classes;
to ennoble wealth; and to plant deeply
in this soil the tastes, habits and insti-
buttons of the monarchical SYSTEM
Mem York Sfi1l.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

The emigration of Southern negroes
to the northwest is reported to be going
steadily forward. The later emigrants
are of better class and require little
assistance. The movement is expected
to receive great impetus after the
gathering of the crops
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

CONNECTICUT newspapers are nov
discussing with some vigor, the pro-
posed amendment to the State Constitu-
ton making sessions of the legislature
biennial. The amendment will be voted
on next autumn. Twenty-six states in
the Union have already adopted amend
ments Of this kind.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

Base ball, it will be remembered by
old-settlers, is a game played by eighteen
persons who wear shirts and drawers,
and scatter around the field and try to
catch cannon-balI covered with raw
hide. The game is to get people to pay
two shillings to come inside the fence.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

INSTEAD of losing Gibraltar, it looks
as though England was getting finer
grip upon Tangiers. John BULBS motto
is to get all he can, and keep all he gets,
and if he does not live up to it, it is
owing to circumstances over which he
has no control
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

GENERAL GRANT has been sued.
He is one of the Trustees of the Metro
politan M. E. Church, in Washington,
and the Baltimore Equitable Society
bring suit against the Trustees for an
overdue mortgage.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-20

WHILE our ears are constantly as
sailed by distressing reports of the fail
ure of crops in Europe, it is pleasant to
hear such a statement within our own
borders as that which comes from Mime
sofa. Fifty millions of dollars worth of
farm produce is the quantity the Min
nesotans expect to put in market.