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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
MacauIey's AnnihilatOr.

On one Monday morning as Mr.. Mac
alley, the actor, was about to get on
board the train, a queer-looking man
stepped up to him and asked for few
minutes conversation, which was pleas
antly granted by Mr.. Macauley, who has
less airs about him with strangers than
any actor in the profession.
I'D like to see that annihilator that
you have-that gun that shoves out like
telescope"
Certainly, sir; I have it in my va
lise. It frequently comes handy when
strangers fool with me-"
The actor went into the train, fol-
lowed by the stranger, and soon pro-
duced his "annihilator," which the 9TH
er grasped eagerly and began to work,
his eyes cleaning with delight.
"Tbat's daisy, by Jove it is What's
its ranger"
IL never really knew how far it would
shoot. 1t carries pound of powder to
pint of shot, and the charge spreads
out in all directions"
1--WE got little racket myselfi" said
the stranger, pulling out an immense
six-shooter from behind. "That's the
boy that was the terror of Phoebe for
years."
"Ah! Are you the celebrated Pat
Holland, poet and fighter of Phoebe ?"
Il am pretty we'll recognized in the
sage-brush country by that name.
When I haul this machinery out it
clears the streets quicker than squad
of New York police could do it. I'd
like to buy that annihilator of yours,
for sort of companion piece, as it
were, to understanding to balance
me on the other SIDE"
$40 tell you the truth, Mr.. Holland"
replied Macauley, laughing, "this affair
of mine is only sham. It doesn't
shoot at adjust meant for the stage,
you know"
"Holy Mosesl You don't mean to
say that you can't kill man with it?"
Exactly"
"Good-by, sirl I've been goin' to see
you night after night, supposin' this
weapon was the real cheese, and Pm
sold. used to dream about it night
after night, and now to find out it's 81
fraud. It's too terriblel"
Here Pat sat down on a Car step and
wept like child Virqinia Citu
Chronicle.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
"YacOb und Kaderine."

Jacob Strauss" said the Magistrate
in Essex Market Court yesterday. An
awkward looking German lad stepped
forward.
Mrs. Catherine Strauss" said the
Justice. A long, lank German lass adj
vanced.
You are man and wife?"
Yah" answered Jacob.
Sand you had quarrel?"
"Dot's So" said Catherine Strauss.
Mrs. Strauss has black eye, which
her husband gave her?"
"Und poorly plue und plack eye it
was" said the wife, crying.
But Mr.. Strauss declares that he is
very sorry he hit her, begs her forgive
ness, and says he will not do it again"
So help me! uff I don't you lock
me oop und send for me-"
Will you pardon him, Mrs. Strauss ?"
"Yel, don't like dot young man to
get punished so quick, as only dree
months married." she said, eying her
spouse askance.
Will you be ever so good hereafter,
Mr.. Strauss?"
Il don't speak Won word NIT crossness
NIT her no more"
@You are both satisfied?"
"Yah," together
Let me see you make up then"
"Yakob," cried the wife, advancing
toward Mr. Strauss.
Kaderine," said the husband, as he
embraced her affectionately with one
arm and wiped away tear on the coat
sleeve of the other.-Ne,o York Her.
aid.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
EVERYBODY ADVERTISES.
But There Arc Ways Not the Best for Every
Man to Do It.

Dut hcro <AfB ways NOT tn6 Best Tor Every
Man to Do It.
An exchange has the following point
ed article that will do for the businesa
men of every place to read
The man who says he doesn't be-
Geve in advertising is unconsciously
all the time doing just what he depre-
Gates. He hangs coats outside of his
door, or puts dry goods in his windows
that's advertising. He sends out
drummers through the country, or puts
his name on his wagon-that's adver-
Using. He labels his articles or manu-
factures-thats advertising. If he has
lost his cow he puts written notice in
the postoffice, or tells his sister-in- law
and that's advertising, too. He has
his name put up in gilt letters over
his door-and what is that but adver-
tising9 He paints his shop green or
red; or, if tailor, he wears the latest
styles; il doctor, he has a boy call
him out of church in haste; if an auc-
tioneer, he bellows to attract the atten-
ton of passers-by if heavy merchant,
he keeps high pile of boxes on the
sidewalk in front of his store-and all
for advertising. A man can't do bust
ness without advertising, and the ques-
ton is whether to call 10 his aid the
engine that moves the world-the
printing press, with its thousands of
messengers working night and day, the
steam engine adding to its repeating
capacity untold power and miraculous
speed; or, rejecting all these, go back
to the days when newspapers and rail
roads were unknown. But advertising
costs money! So does everything that
is worth having. If advertising cost
nothing, then the second, third, and
fourth-class petty shops would stand an
equal chance with the most responsible
houses. If you wans to prove to the
world that yours is frst-class estab-
lishment, advertise. A good advertise
ment in a newspaper pays no fare on
railroads; costs nothing for hotel bills;
gives away no boxes of cigars to GUS
toners, merino dresses to customers
wives; drinks no whisky nader the
head of travelling expenses, but goes at
once and at all times about it's business
free of expense"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Six Miles to School.

One of Dickens characters, Mark
Tapley, was noted for being jolly under
difficulties. How many school-boys
would initiate the remarkable Mark and
be jolly if they had to walk six miles to
school and back every day? Yet Sir
Titus Salt, the founder of the model
manufacturing town, Saltaire, used to
do it when boy of 9'years.
The village in which this young Salt
lived could boast of no, better educator
than s. woman who kept dame school.
AS the parents of number of boys
wished to give thema classical and COM
mereial education, they sent their sons
to a school six miles distant, kept by a
clergyman.
The boys started early in the morn
ing, carrying their dinners with them,
Titus being an oatmeal cake and kettle
OF milk. In winter he often had to go
in the dark MORNINGS and milk the COW
himself for his daily supply.
But the lads never thought of COM
planning of the length of the journey.
1t was bracing constitutional" and
they made the road ring with their
CHEEKY voices. They would rendez-
vous at an appointed time and certain
spot. Those who were in time wrote
their names on piece of slate. This
was put in a well-known hole in wall,
that the late-comers might see who had
been punctual and gone on their way.
So far from doing them any harm,
this daily journey strengthened the
boys constitutions and developed their
bodies. When Titus became man he
had working-power which enabled
him to do large amount Of labor with
but slight fatigue.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
A LEGEND OF HARVEST.

So long ago that history pays
No heed nor record of how long,
Back in the lovely. dreamy days,
The days of story and of song,
Before the world had crowded grown,
While wrong on earth was hard to fnd,
And half the earth had never known
The forms and faces of mankind,
When just as now the years would keep
Their terms of SHOWS and suns and flowers,
1t CHANGED that Summer dropt asleep,
One morning, in field of flowers.
And while the warm weeks came and fed,
In all their tender wealth of charm,
She slept, with beauteous golden head
Laid softly on her weary arm.
She did not hear the waving trees,
The warbling brook she did not hear,
Nor yet the velvet-c03ted bees
That doomed about hur rosy ear.
In many yellow breezy mass,
The rich wheat ripeDed far away,
And, glittering on the fragrant grass,
Her yer sickle idly lay.
But then at last, one noontide hour,
gorgeoua moth, while lowering by,
Mistook her sweet mouth for a flower,
And Summer walked. with startled cry.
She rose, in anxious wonder. now,
To gaze upon the heightened wheat,
And saw its plenteops tassels bow
Dead-ripe below the sultry heat.
Half crazed, she wandered east and west
Amid the peaceful spacious CLINE,
Until at length, with painting breast,
She stood before old Father Time.
With tears of shame she told him all,
While pointing to the wheat unknown,
And said, @What power shall make il fall
Ere Autumn's bitter winds have blownf"
Then Father Time, with laughter gay,
Bow ed all his frame, and crooked his knees
And tossed his White beard like the spray
That crowns the crests of wintry seas.
-Oh, daughter, cheer your hearth he cried;
@The wheat will fall ere falls the night.
We two shall NOV it, side by side,
And reap it in the stars pale hghti'
So Summer cleared her brow OF gloom,
And forth with Father Time she went,
and, haRgard Age by Youth in bloom,
Above the tawny wheat they bent.
Ere fall of night the harvest fell;
But since that season, fair and blithe,
As encient annals love to tell,
Old Father Time has borne scythei
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Treatment Of Scarlet Fever with Sui
phur.

The foreign medical Journals quite,
generally notice the successful treat.
menb of scarlet fever by DIR. 81 Pigeon.
by the use of sulphur. 1t appears that
all the cases in which he employed this
remedy were well marked, and the cpl
dsrmis on the arms in each case came
sway like the skin of a snake. The pa
hent was thoroughly anointed twice
daily with sulphur ointmsnt, and Ave
or ten grains of sulphur given in a little
jam three times day. Sufficient sui
phur was burned twice daily, on GOALS
on shovel to fill the rooms WITH the
fumes, and, of course, was thoroughly
inhaled by the patient. DR.. Pigeon as
serts that, under this mode OF treat
ment, each case improved Immediately,
and none were over eight days in MAX
ing complete recovery.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
The Queen and Long1ellow.

When Mr.. Longfellow, says the Lon
don Literary World, visited Queen
Victoria, at Windsor Castle, the ser.
wants crowded on the stairway and in
the lobbies to get view of him. On
the Queen asking them the next day
why this compliment was paid to the
poet, she was told that they used to
listen to Prince Albert reading
Evangeline" to his children, and,
knowing the lines nearly by heart, they
longed to see the man who wrote
them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Curious Freak Of Natare.

One of the most remarkable of ma
lures curious freaks can be seen in the
garden of Mr.. Caleb Grow, of this
place. It is nothing more nor less than
peach tree bearing full-grown pump
kin. This tree bore none of it's natural
fruit this season; but, nevertheless,
there hangs the healthy growing pump
kin, Just as if it had grown from the
blossom to its present size, which is
considerably larger that mans head.
Hartford (Ky.) Neaos.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

The French Forestry Department is
satisfied that forests directly increase
the supply of water in their neighbor-
hood. From careful observations at
Senlis and Nancy they have decided
that it rains more abundantly in wood
ed tracts, and that, while the leaves and
branches give back the water quickly
to the air, they prevent rapid evapora-
ton from the ground, and are thus ia
vorable to the formation Of springs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
A. Boys Remonstrance.


I am feeling very badly; everything is going to
smash;
All the tbings hsve believed in going with &
crash
The folks growing learned, and all their wretch
ed lore il
Used to shake fellows faith in his bestowed
stories.
The fairies have been scattered and the geni they
have gone;
There are so enchanted castles they have vanished
every one;
Aladdin never lived. and the deas ScheheraZade,
Though very entertaining, was much mistaken
LADY.
OF course see through Santa Claus, had to, long
And Christmas will be going the next thing that
know.
For heard, wasn't listening-I heard the parson
say,
he had really-yes had realIy-grave doubts
and as for Master Washington, they say the goose
should catch it;
Who believed single minute in that story Of the
hatchet.
They've sven a rap at Crusoe, and dear old Fri
Well ali believe in Friday, we boys will, till we
diel
They may say it's not authentic" and such like If
they dare
When they strike blow at Friday they hit us
boys. So therel
And I've been reading in book, writ by some col
lege swell,
That there never was genuine, real Hoe William
That he was Just myth, or what we boys would
call sell;
That he didn't shoot the apple, nor desler, not
bit
That all the other nations have a legend Just
like it.
1 think It's little business for a college man to
tight
Against these dear old stories, and send them out
of sight.
And all the boys are just mad and so the girls
are, too;
And so we called q meeting to decide what we
should do.
And we passed some resolutions, because that is
the
And only way for meetings, when it's all hat can
be done.
l send you here list: Resolved, that there
william Tell;
That, by his bow and arrow, the tyrant Oeser fell
Resolved, that he not myth-whateyer that
may be-
But that he shot the apple, and Switzerland was
free.
Resolved, that Crusoe lived, and Friday, and the
goat.
Resolved, that H.tle Georgy his fathers fruittree
smote,
And owned up like hero. Resolved, that all the
science
OF all the learned professors shall not shake
firm reliance
In the parties have mentioned and we do
hereby make known
The fact that we boys feel that we have some
rights of our own
And request that in the future these rights be left
alone.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

LIMBURaER cheese made in this coun-
try is superior in every respect to that
produced abroad.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

MORE things are wrought by prayer
than the world dreams of.-Tennyson,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
A Cave That Tells a, Tragic Story

The wonderful cave which is to be
seen near Bnrnet is certainly one Of
the greatest curiosities of the age.
While passing through this cave gen.
tleman discovered small aperture
about six inches in width. Having a
pick he broke into this opening, and to
his establishment he soon discovered a
large and airy apartment. Entering
this, he found what appeared to be a.
stone table beautifully carved. Several
stone chairs stood in one corner of the
room. He continued his search, and at
last in dark corner he found the
skeleton Of man. He attempted to
raise it from the floor, but though he
exerted his utmost strength he could
not move it. He says that it appeared
to be solid stone. Tt is impossible to
conjecture who Yves the hermit or how
long thu skeleton has remained hidden
away in that silent cave.-Bsmraet
(TeTasA Bulletin.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27

IT'S wise railroad stock that knows
its own par.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
The Struggle for Life in France,

The dream of every young French
man whose pockets are empty is to
marry girl who has from $4,000 to
$4,000, and to earn about e200 q year
for himself by means of situation af-
fording fixed salary. 1t is not an ex-
travagant dream, and, to do the French
man justice, he is quite happy if he
realizes it. Having got 9300 or e400
year, he docs not seek to enlarge his
income, but lives prudently within his
means, and invests some savings every
year with commendable judgment. The
very fact, however, that most French
men should pitch their ambition so low
as to require nothing more than what
an Enghshman would call little COM
potency shows how keen the struggle
for life here is, and when one reflects
that the thousands of men who covet
the position of petit RENTER are joined
annually by 10000 young recruits fresh
from the schools, and with all their tai
ents whetted according to the newest
systems for the social fray, one cannot
wonder at the large number of educated
young men who find their way into
jails. The last annual report of the
Ministry of Justice dwells upon the in
creasing number of well-educated per-
sons who are imprisoned for offenses
against property. M. Victor Hugo and
his friends, who used to laud education
as the panacea for all social and polit-
zeal ills, may find this hard fact to di-
gest, butthere it lies; and one may add
that for determination in offenses
against life, as well as in swiHdling, the
nighly-trained young men who have
been through the best lycees are quite
equal to the uncultured rough.-PoH
Mall Gazette.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
Too Clever to Live.


John Barretier is declared to have
been the master of five languages when
no was only 9 years of age. In his 18th
year he published a learned letter
in Latin, and translated the "Travels
of Rabbi Benjamin" from the Hebrew
into the French. -Four years later the
fame of his learning and writings at
tracted the notice of the King of
Prussia, who sent for him TO court.
On passing through Halle on his
journey, he SO distinguished himself in
his conversation with the professors of
the University that they offered him
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
The whole university was delighted and
amazed with his wit and knowledge,
and on his arrival at Berlin the King
honored him with peculiar marks Of
distinction, declaring that such abilities
properly cultivated might exalt Barre
tier in ten years to be the greatest
Minister of State in Europe. But the
young philosopher was not dazzled with
such prospects, and returned to Halle
to pursue his studies. His health I'M
fortunately gave way in his 10Th year,
and after lingering for eighteen months
he died; another illustration of the ex-
preston. "Too clever to live long,
Chambers Journal.
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able by having long confidence talks
with any gentleman who may visit the
louse."
81 don't know what you mean, Miss
Patterson" Maggie said, Indignantly.
But Miss Patterson had swept out of
the room without deigning to reply.
Then Maggie went into her own little
room, the one place she had in the
world entirely to herself and cried till
her eyes we're red and her head ached.
The lessons did not progress that
morning. Maggie was thinking of
Alic, who was no doubt strolling about
the common, listening to the band and
making love to the heiress. The chill
dren were more than usually stupid,
too, and all the world seemed upside
down, and all the ways turned crooked.
Suddenly, at about IL o'clock, just
when Maggie was in the middle of ex-
pounding as best she could the eccen-
tricities of the French grammar, there
was knock at the school-room door.
"Come ill.," she said.
The door opened, and there stood be-
fore her astonished eyes the form of
Alic Granger, and behind him was
man-evidently his servant-with box
ON his shoulder.
Gall right, Tim, put it down; that's
right; now be off. There. I've brought
the curiositiesround, Maggie; thought
you'd like to see them"
Oil What will Mrs. Marshall and
Miss Patterson say?" said Maggie, in
CONSERVATION.
Nothing to you for the next half
hour or so. for have just seen them
safely on their way to IVoolwich, and
thought I should just get quiet chat
with you. My dears," he said. turning
to Maggie's wide-eyed, open-mouthed
pupils, I'm quite sure you'll Like to be
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-09-04
A FOUL CRIME COMMITTED !

We learn that Alexander Bryce,
Jr., who resided nine miles from Wal.
halla, in the Northwest portion of the
County, was sho. andinstantly killed
on Monday night last. The follow
ing are the particulars as we learn
them from those who were present
at the inquest:
On Monday night Bryce was at
Jo.so Eos q, near his W place.
About an hour after dark Cox and
Bryce started to the house of the lat.
te,. On the way, when in about 6f-
ry or sixty yards Of Bryce's house
they were accosted by two persons,
one of whom enqu'red Of Cox who
were pres mt, Cox replied, himself
AID Bryce. One Of the men then
Immediately fired at Bryce. Three
shots were fired altogether. two OF
which would have proved fatal. AT
the third fire Bryce Iell and expired
Immediately.
The perpetrators Of this fon! crime
,re unknown. The cause which lei
to it is supposed TO lie OF a local ma
ture. No political significance Gail
be attached 10 this uni, rtunate affair
The Jury of inquest returned as
thei: verdict tlltt the deceased came
to hi. death from the ELECTS OF gun.
shot wounds, inflicted by persons tc
them unknown.-hcowc Courier.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-09-04
TAX NOTICE.

EDaEFIELp, C. H., S. c., Sept. l, 1879.
WHE Treasurer's Books will be open
u for the collection Of Taxes at the fol-
lowing places on days named from 8
o'clock, a. NJ. until S O'clock P. NJ.
AT Edgefield G. 81. From Monday
Sept. 18th, to Saturday Sept. 9th.
Holders Store, Monday Sept. 10Th.
Landrum's Store, Tuesday Sept. 3Olh.
Trenton, Wednesday Oct. LIST.
Johnston, Thursday Oct. End.
Caughman's Store Friday Oct 3rd.
Ridge Spring, Saturday Oct. 4th.
Edgefeld G. FL from Monday OGt.-Gt
to Saturday Oct 18th.
Mt. Willing, Monday Oct. 18th.
Coleman's x Roads, Tuesday Oct. 18th.
Richardsonville. Wednesday Oct 18th.
.Haltiwanger's, Thursday Oct. 10th.
bursts Store, Friday Oct. 18th.
Meeting Street, Saturday Oct. 18th.
~Cheathain's, Monday Oct. Goth
Tafbert's Store, Tuesday Oct. 2Tst.
Liberty Hill, Wednesday Oct. 22nd.
White House, Thursday Oct. Gard.
Meriwether's School House Friday Oct.
oath.
Red Hill, Saturday Oct. 25th.
Edgefield G. H. from Monday Oct. 9th
to Friday Oct. 3lst. After whichAm
alties will attach.
Taxpayers will take notice that / make
my appointments To go around SSFa
as my time will permit, and the books
will be open only five days after my re-
turn to Edgefield G. H.
B. e. NICHOLSON.
County Treasurer.
Cant . dt-1o7Q
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1879-09-04
THE LAW FOR MURDERERs.

Every departure from the good
Bible law of capital punishment has
been followed by a fearful increase i'll
the number of murders and of other
Crimes" and in every State where
the death penalty has been abolished
there is a growing public sentiment
in favor of the re-enactment OF the
law. There is no safety without it
and the Prisons are full of those
whose hands are red with the blood
of their neighbors. In Kentucky lit
is urged that it would be better to
hang congicts than to imprison them
Tor I;fe," and the Georgia legislature
are considering two very important
measures-to expedite the trial of
m%urderers and to repeal the "Alston
Law" which provided that juries
should decide whether a murderer
should be confined in the %penitentia-
ry or hung. In all the other States
where a mistaken humanity has pro-
vided for the immunity Of the prlso-
ner rather than the safety Of society
there is a movement to make murder
and all the graver crimes punishable
by death. 1t may not be in accord
with the merciIul tendencies OF the
age but why redhanded assasslns
should be treated with more consld-
Grafton than their poor victims is a
question hal has never been satisf;.c-
torily answered. Of late years there
has been entirely too much tender
ness for criminals and these efforts to
rebuild the gallows are a step in the
right direction. The law has been
an insufficient protection for society
AMI through corrupt courts, half
hearted prosecutions and money-mak-
ing executives murder has been made
a kind of lnhuman past:me. If more
men were hung there would be less
necessity for lynch law and fewer
m~urderers. Capital punishment has
the highest possible endorsement-it
is right and proper and effective. No
other method has ever filled its place.
1t is a sickly sentimentality that
would make the protection Of thieves
and cut Threats more sacred than the
purity and we'll being Of society
AL6euiWe Medium.