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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
Are You All Readyi

zone of the most remarkable occur
rences | ever heard of was related to
me this morning. remarked State
Street broker yesterday. II have heard
Of good many wonderful dreams, but
this has some features about it which
border on the marvellous.
"What is the story?" queried another
broker, whose business was apparently
dull enough to allow him plenty of time
to study the miraculous, since he had
almost forgotten how to buy and sell.
"Well, replied the first speaker, II
was told to-day by leading city hall
official. whose trustworthiness is un-
doubted, that a daughter of the late
Harvey Jewell (who was SO well and
favorably known in Boston in legal and
business circles, and was brother of
the late Marshall JewelD had recently
very queer and unusual experience,
and one calculated to make a deep i'm
preston upon the strongest mind.
Some weeks ago she had dream in
which she distinctly saw an undertaken
drive up to her residence in a hearse.
He was peculiar looking man. His
queerly shaped nose, which looked as
il it had been broken and twisted to one
side, gave his countenance an express
sion which would have made identifi-
cation easy and certain. He came di-
rectly toward her, and, as he said Are
you all readyp she suddenly awoke.
''The dream seemed apeculiar one,
but did not attract very much attention
in the household until, a few days or a
week later, it was repeated with exactly
the same characteristics. down to the
Are you all ready?' and the awaken
ing.
s.And now comes the strangest part
of the story. Some little time after
ward the young lady was visiting in
Cincinnati and went to an apartment
hotel to callupon friend. She stepped
into the elevator with others, and was
startled to hear: Are you readyP' from
the man in charge. She was still more
startled on looking around and behold
ing the exact picture of the man OF the
dream, even to the mishappened nose.
1t made such an impression upon her
mind that she requested to be let out of
the elevator at the first landing. She
stepped out, and the other occupants
went out at the next landing and the
man remained. The elevator machin-
cry gave out; suddenly the car went up
and then down, and the man was in
stantly killed.
"You have all heard of the warnings
of dreams. All can say is that this is
the first well-authenticated case l have
ever known, and if it does not border on
the supernatural do not know what
does. 1t was good way to restore
ones peace of mind, but a most re-
markable sequel. Boston Globe.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There Is colored church in New
York City whose leading members have
property valued at $4,000, 000.-N Y.
Times
The Reformed Episcopal Church in
General Council at Baltimore resolved
to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its
organization December 10 next.
1--we never saw the book" re-
marked member of the Baltimore
Board of School Commissioners. in a
discussion about introducing q new
grammar. -Bdltip,ore San.
DR.. Lyon Playfair, in a recent
speech on the Scotch universities, said:
"Whereas the English universities
taught man to spend f1,000 year
with dignity and intelligence, the Scotch
universities taught him to makeit.
DIR. w. w. Macfarlane has offered
. twelve-dollar medal as prize to the
young ladies of Hardin College. Mis-
soqri, for the best essay on any subject,
filling At least three foolscap pages and
containing no word Of more than two
syllables.
Boston University has now the
largest conservatory Of music in this
country, whether measured by the
number in the faculty, the attendance
of students, or the number and excel
lence Of instruments and accommoda-
tons for pupils. Boston Transcript.
Union Theological Seminary, New
York, has property worth 81, $50, 600,
which is an increase of nearly million
dollars as compared with what 1t pos
foy L
of wealthy friends and the rise in GER
tain pieces of real estate have united to
bring about this prosperous state of af-
fairs.-N. Y. Sun.
Rev. DIR. ID. H. Wheeler, formerly
United States Consul at Genoa, subse-
quently Professor of English Literature
and History in the Northwestern Uni.
versity at Evanston, ILL.,, and for the
past few years editor of the New York
Methodist, has been elected President Of
the Allegheny College at Meadvilie.
Pa.
"A report from the records of the
courts of France upon the relation be-
tween education and crime describes re-
suits directly opposed to those obtained
in the United States courts. OF $4,000
persons wholly illiterate, five were
criminals; of the same number able to
read and write, six were transgressors,
and of an equal number of persons of
superior instruction, fifteen were under
the ban. Relapses into crime were
found much more numerous among
educated people.-N. Y. Herald.
Nearly two hundred women of
New York, wives of some of the best
known citizens, have petitioned the
Board of Education to make the teach
ing of sewing to girls between ten and
twelve compulsory in the primary
schools. A plan of teaching ac-
companies the petition, and pro-
vides that after attaining certain pro-
ficiency the children may bring their
own work. This is step in the right
direction. The tendency of our modern
education is too often away from home
it trains the brain, but does not make
housewives. But as these good women
point out sewing is of much more i'm
portancc to the mother of poor fam
lily than arithmetic, or geography, or
history m y Tribune.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY. JUNE g. 1883.

photographed the western firm. They
had the cabinet and returned it at once;
so that before many days the little,
nervous fingers were searching in the
presence of the lawyer and myself for
the precious papers.
She found them! j shall never forget
her face when she held them up. The
halo was there as she said, so softly;
Thank God!"
And it seems to cling to me yet, and
to make me think how much misery our
evil passions can work through selfish
ness and thoughtleness.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
Conversation.

A ready, easy and discreet talker is
one of the rarest characters met with
in society. And yet there is scarcely .
single other accomplishment that can
render one so charming as can this.
We are filled with admiration for him
at once, and if he be person of fair
character we find ourselves craving his
friendship. that we may revel in the
luxury of the words that fall from his
lips. Good conversational powers give
q man an influence among his fellows
that he would never WELD without it,
and he who would help to elevate his
race can do no better than to cultivate
this rare gift. We also are in sorry
need of it in our homes. There is great
and lasting good to be accomplished by
the parents in molding the characters
of their children and developing their
young minds, to say nothing of the i'm
portant work OF perfecting their con-
versational powers, by simply convers-
ing well in the family circle. Children
are good listeners and admirable imi-
tators; they will hear what you say and
note how you say it. If you allow your
table and fireside talks to be groveling
in their nature, or gossip or in any way
unworthy of you as cultivated men and
women, you need expect nothing better
of the children than that they will talk
as father and mother do. II you in
dulge in expressive slang. so will
they, and much also that is neither ex-
pressive nor fit for tears polite"
The ability to talk well has been said
by one of our modern writers to be
among the lost arts. But we cannot
agree with him fully. The professional
conyersationalist, who crammed for
occasion and prepared his talk for a
dinner party with rs much care as the
cook her viands, has doubtless become
almost thing Of the past. and no one
will be sorry when the few remaining
species of the genus shall be numbered
with their kind; but there is style of
conversation as vastly different from
this as is day from night, and that is
the spontaneous expression of truth
from well-stored mind, or of the sem
timents of pure heart full of love for
humanity.
In the first case, the man crammed
to the end that he might show his SUI
periority or sustain the reputation of a
brilliant conversationalist, while the
other, with no ambition to crafty and
without thought of self, is careful
only that those in his company shall be
happy for the time being.
The very selfish man is never good
talker. He may have glib tongue
and goodly store of information, but
the all-important ~ will assert itself
so continuously that his most devoted
,4dmirer, if we except himself from the
list, will be wearied from the verge of
impotence with him. Here, then, we
find the true secret of good converse
tional ability to lie in the power of tn,
man to forget self and become inter-
ested in others. But this will be found
a most difficult role to assume where
the proper sentiments of heart are
wanting, and he who attempts it under
such circumstances will find, despite
his most desperate efforts to the con-
trary, that partial failure at least will
be his portion. Huntington Hawk-Eye.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
Prof. Huxley on Elementary Teaching.

There are great many people who
imagine that elementary teaching might
be properly carried out by teachers pro-
vided with only elementary knowledge.
Let me assure you that that is the pro-
foundest mistake in the world. There
is nothing so difficult to do as to write
good elementary book, and there is
nobody so hard to teach properly and
well as people who know nothing about
a subject; and will tell you why. fl
address an audience of persons who are
occupied in the same line Of work as
myself can assume that they know a
vast deal, and that they can find out the
blunders l make. If they don't, it is
their fault and not mine; but when /
appear before a body of people who
know nothing about the matter, who
take for gospel whatever l say, surely
it becomes needful thatI consider what
l say, make sure that it will
not impose upon the credulity of those
who have faith in me. In the second
place, it involves that difficult process of
knowing what you know SO we'll that
you can talk about it as you can talk
about your ordinary business. A man
can always talk about his own business.
He can always make it plain; but if his
knowledge is hearsay he is afraid to go
beyond what he has recollected and
put it before those that are ignorant in
such q shape that they shall compre-
bend it. That is why, to be good ele-
mentary teacher, to teach the elements
of any subject, requires most careful
consideration if you are master Of the
subject; and if you are not a master of
it it is needful you should familiarize
yourself with SO much as you are called
upon to teach-soak yourself in it, SO to
speak until you know it as part of
your daily life and daily knowledge, and
then you will be able to teach anybody.
That is what mean by practical
teachers, and although the deficiency
is being remedied to large extent, I
think it is one which has long existed,
and which has existed from no fault of
those who undertook to teach, but be-
cause until within the last score years
it absolutely was not possible for any
one in great many branches of science,
whatever his desire might be, to get in
struction which would enable him to be
a good teacher of elementary things.
All that is being rapidly altered, and I
hope it will soon become thing of the
past. '-Nature.
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NUMBER 81.
avoid. But there was no smile in the
IL Il. l.

avoid. But there was no smile in the
serious talk she gave him.
Don't fret any moro about baby.
dear, for he seems to have got over e.
But | want you to remember, little boy.
that II is very crucl and wrong thing
to brighten any one, child or grown pef.
son. 1t is dangerous-no one can tell
tho harm il may do. Children have
sometimes lost their minds through Sud
den fright, and that Frank, Is moro
sad and terrible than death. Other
poor little ones have suffered moro than
we can tell from such cruel fun. Now,
Frank, make up your mind that you
will never cause pain to any one in this
way"
II never willl' said Frank, earnestly,
"and I'll tell mamma and Bridget a.
soon us ! go home" s
It raincd three days after this, and
then no found the mask = shapcless
wad of wet paper.
'sOh, You ugly thingrs he said. ssli
tho rain hadn't spoiled you, would
have done 1t. " Youth's Companion.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
A Mystery Of the Sea.

The American brig Mary Celeste.
two hundred and sixty-eight tons regis
ter, under the command Of Captain Bob
Fleming, sailed from this port last
week. Ten years ago q British NOR
chairman sailing the Mediterranean
saw the Mary Celeste . few miles to
the leeward, with all sail set, yet be-
having in such manner that sailor
could sea that something wasswrong.
Receiving no answer to their hail, they
boarded her. The sight that greeted
them there excited a. feeling oflntcnse
curiosity, Every sail was set; the tillcr
was dashed fast, and not q rope was out
Of place. Everything allow and aloft
was in perfect order. The fire was
burning quietly in the galley. The din
ner was standing untasted and scarcely
cold; the cargo in the hold was intact.
The pumps were dry. No one, living
or dead, was on board. The sailors
searched vainly for an explanation Of
the sudden disappearance Of the Cap
tain, his wife, HIS child and crew. The
log, written up to the hour of her dis
covery, showed that she hailed from
Boston. There was not drop of blood,
lock Of hair, disordered room. or
anything to. show the sign Of strug-
gle. The boats were in their places.
There was not the slightest clew by
which a reasonable hypothesis could be
advanced to explain where the crew
had gone. From that day to this, not
the slightest ,clew has been obtained by
the owners. nor have they ever been
able to frame an explanation Of how she
waa abandoned or hazard A o11nsa N to
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
For Young Readers.
WORDS WITH WINGS

II words
We're bids,
and swiftly icw
From tips
To lips
Owned, dear, by you;
Would they,
To-day,
BE hawks and erows2
Or blue,
And true, ~
And swcetp Who knowa1
Let's play
To-day
We choose the best;
Birds blue
And true,
With dovc-like hreastl
Ills queer,
My dear.
We never knew
That words. ~
Like birds.
Had wings and fiowt
--Jessto McGreg,r, 30 81. lNfcholas.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23

An English cotton operator visiting
Fall hiver recently, said he would rath-
er have the value Of the waste from the
cotton mills than their profits. One of
them alone figures their annual loss at
go, OO0.-B0st0n journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23

Miss Fannie Mills, of Sandusky, o.,
is not an overly big woman, but she has
a great foot on her. One of her shoes,
now on exhibition in museum, is
seventeen inches long, seven inches
wide, eighteen inches around the ankle
and twenty-five inches around the heel.
Cleveland Leader.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23
VOLUME XIV.
TIE SPRING TINE.
WHAT Is TO BE EXPECTED

WHAT 10 TO BE EXPECTEDs
Nov the milk-man wakes us early,
With his long and mournful cry:
And the greens look fresh and curly
As the peddler carts them by;
And the youth with mustache twirly
Sports vest whose hue is peariy,
AS he goes TO meethis girlie
On the sly.
Now the father thinks with grooming
That the boys all want new boots,
And the mother knows with moaning
That the girls must haze spring suits;
And the plumber
Man look GUNNER.
For he has no show i'm summer:
But not so the merry drummer,
Setting out with heart of glee
To talk people deaf and dumb, or
To death, as itmay be. -
Now the man who owns garden
Issues forth to view the same.
Andbegins his hands to harden
And his back 70 make quite lame;
And the small boy thinks OF "hookey"
In calm, determined way.
And, hiding SLATE and book, he
4 Pess = marbiesall the day.
Now the poet searches madly
In last Springs rejected verses
Searches wildly, searches sadly.
And with language full of curses;
And the gentle maiden yearneth
For the long, long goldepdays, ~
As she, planning wisely, turnefh W.
Her last Summers polonnaise
a md the young mans bosom burneth ~
y For one or two damp days -
He is wishing -
To go fishing
So he says.
Now the painter is most precious,
And engaged for all he's worth;
While the builder hopes areepaciouS, Z
And the rag-man's full of mirfh;
And ten million schemes fallacious
In ten million brains have birth,
About this time, good gracious!
All sorts of things come forth.
Madeline $. Bridges. in The Continent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23

To illustrate the longevity Of medi-
cal men, London paper notes that
during 1882 twenty English physicians
died at ages between seventy-eight and
ninety-six.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-23

Day by day good old citizens gather
around Boston Commons and lament
railroad encroachments and the gradual
ruin of the field. boston Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29
Our George at WInterport.

Our George has developed into the social SEN
sation Of the season. We gave last week the
impartial and unimpeachable testimony of Ed
llor Fuller to the effect that our contributor
was the belle of the Governors reception-Goy-
crnor omitted-at Rockland and now we learn
that he WAS the bright particular star of IA So
cliti gathering at the residence of Hon. Fred
Atwood. IN WinterpOrt, on Thursday evening
last His toilet on this last occasion was agr-
cultural in design, and was imported at large
expense from Pars-Maine. His hair was
powdered with hayseed and chaplet of carrots
rested on his marble brow \ pair of names
We're thrown negligently over his shoulders
from which We're pendent rosettes of onions
and beets. He wore pillow sulkys for earrings
and Il Meadow King mower hung from his
watch chain. His coat was thrown open in
front, barn-door style, and he wore a butter
stamp for bouton-are. His neither garments
were bifurcated, as described in the Courier
Gazette In one coat tail pocket he had pack
age OF butter Color and i'll the other an Angus
ia cork screw, much the worse for wear. ma
licously placed there by Howard Owen. His
handkerchief was scented with Bradey's SUI
perphosphate. and you can Just bet cent that
there was never any doubt as to his wherea-
bouts. AT supper he gracefully picked his
teeth between the courses with rubber coated
scythe, and helped himself to cucumbers with
one Of AtwOod's hay rakcs, four for quarter
Of dollar. He certainly was the Meadow
King of the eyenins-the observed of all OBJ
servers. His own observations are published
in another column.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

There We're two brothers in Calais who used
to peH each other with billiard balls, or zone
would throw the other down stairs, but it was
always done good-naturedly, and they were al
ways on the best Of terms" Their names are
Herbert ". and Joseph Eaton, and they are
Wcll-to-do manufacturers. On Tuesday evening
of last week, Herbert drew revolver from his
overcoat pocket, and saying, 50 Joe, | have had
enough Of your fooling," shot his brother in the
leIt chest. He then turned and shot friend,
Joseph Kelley, Jr. The affair took place in the
office in rearof Joseph Eaton's residence, at the
close of g social" day, when the Eatons were
feeling very 'merry." That is the way the des-
patches read but the plain English of it is that
the brothers were drunk. Kelley has since died
but )seph Eaton will recover. The murderer
fed after the shooting, but subsequently, gave
himself up; and, strange to say was admitted
to bail in the sum of $500. How long since
murder became a bailable offence in this State i?
Eaton has not been seen since he gave BAIL and
has no doubt left for parts unknown. If the
affair has been correctly reported, the authori-
ties have certainly fallen very far short of doing
their duty.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

Mr.. Murch was detained at home by sickness
when the glass schedule of the tariff bill was
under discussion and the Rockland Opinion
says:
We regret that the representative did not
have an opportunity to enlarge on this very i'm
portant phase of the tariff question.
1t strikes us that the principal difficulty in
the way of our late NJ. C.'s ''enlarging" on this,
or any other question, is the lack of material.
You cannot fill a peck measure with a pint Of
peanuts.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

A despatch in daily paper reports the return
to port of Gloucester schooner which had scar
ried away the foremost maintopmast." There
is evidently IA mistake here. 1t might have been
the jib-boom mainboom, or the cat-head davitt,
that was carried away. What some of these
newspaper men don't know about seamanship
would make large library.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

The Boston Herald says that the Frenh Ca
nadians are coming to the front in Mair poll
tics, and that cone Of them has been cosen
selectman in Watervile and in LeIston.n
Our esteemed contemporary no doub means
s'tWO Of Them" etc.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

Queen Victoria slipped upon the stairs the
Windsor Palace on Saturday, and sustaind in
juries. but was able to hold council wit the
Ministry Monday.
No doubt the housemaid left a bar ofsoap
on the stairs after scrubbing them. Eve the
residents Of palaces are not exempt froi the
yicssitudes which befall those who live TRENT
Al boI,cas
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

The Savannah News says that Mrs. Mary
Austin, of Washington, Georgia, who died re-
Gently, was the mother of forty -four children,
including six sets Of tripets.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

We should have given credit to N. G. l..
McCleery. the industrious Maine correspondent
Of the Boston Journal, for the summary of
laws enacted by the Legislature, published last
week
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

Howard Owens Gazetteer of Walo County
now in press, gives the name of De town as
WinterportFredAtwoo
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

Thomas j. Stephens, who has mae $3.50 900
by the manufacture Of glue, is the Democratic
candidate for mayor Of Cincinnati.
The Democrats will stick to him a long AS he
has Il dollar.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

consecutive polygamy' is thphrase used
by DR.. Dix in describing New hgland mar
riagcs and divorces.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

The expenses of the Civil Service Commits
sion will be about $685. 900 IL year.
And its value to the country-remains to be
seen
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-03-29

The Democratic press is not dwelling in har.
mony to an alarming extent just now. The
tariff issue is what troubles them. The Mobile
Register has locked horns with the Louisvie
Courier-Journal on this questions and the Rib
mond Wing unkindly remarks:
If Boss Watterson is to run party in 1874,
with "a tariff for revenue only as its platfCm,
it will be a small affair, like Watterson hlreIf
"a snCeze in Il skillet, to use the vernacula.