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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
NUMBER 10.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A century-old school-house was
RACED at Hartford, Conn.,, the other day.
The kentucky Methodist Conference
reports a loss Of S73 members during
the past year.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction for Dakota reports fifty thou
sand children enrolled in the schools
last summer.
No other book of the Bible is SO
much in demand in India as that OF
Proverbs. Its epigramatic wisdom is
highly appreciated by the Hindoos.
The study of historical and political
science is growing in favor among the
universities. At Harvard and John
Hopkins more attention is paid these
branches than ever befors.-N T. In
dependent
"A student of the University of
Georgia was given this simple sum; II
the third of six be three what would the
fourth of twenty bep This bright
student, after figuring for half An hour,
gave it up.
The old Christ Church, Boston,
Episcopal, well-known as the North
Church in which the lantern was hung
as a signal to Paul Revere in revolution
airy times, was reopened for worship re-
Gently. Boston journal.
1t is very important for the preach
er to be interesting. but it is more inn
portant for him to be true to the gospel.
1t is fatal mistake to aim at being in
teresting, as though that were the SUI
preme end of the gospel ministry. Aim
to save souls.-Indianapolis Journal.
AT the annual session of the South
ern New York Baptist Association, held
recently at Emanuel Church, the read
ing of the letters from the various
churches showed general state of pros
perity, and revealed the gratifying fact
that in nearly all the churches there had
been deep spiritual interest and an in
crease of membership.-M Y. Times.
There are now in the United States,
exclusively for colored students, Sc nor
NAL schools, with $500 students; As
academies, with 6,633 students; IS col
leges with 2.298; "a theological schools
with 665; four law schools with So; and
three medical schools, with 1875. 1t il
evident that much greater facilities for
the higher education of this race need
ITO be provided. Y. Examiner.
Sir Lyon Playfair has collected sta
tistics, based upon the death rate, to
show that the health of children has i'm
proved thirty-three per cent. under the
operation of the compulsory education
act in Great Britain. 1t would be
interesting to determine whether, this
| improved condition is due to the COM
Portable housing of the children during
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Some one asks how the great men
OF this country began life. We are I'M
der the impression that they generally
began life as infants. IN. Y. Tribune.
The latest Georgia man hanged by
mob was seventy-four years old.
There is now and then locality in
which murderer is not allowed. to die
of old age.-Louisvillc Courier-Journal
-"Ah, Bings. where are you going
for the winter?' 20, / shall take a
run over to Italy and do Mt. Vesuvius.' -
II see-going to foreign climb. -
Rochester Post Express.
Robert Bonner ought to look out that
Maud S. doesn't elope with her groom.
That sort of thing is becoming alarm
ingly common with those of her SEX
LoWeH Citizen.
The most depressing news we have
had for long time is the report that
Asiatic cholera and Oscar Wilde will
reach America next year. Strict quar-
antine regulations against Oscar should
be enforced. Norristown Herald.
- Would you like this bound in Tur-
key?" asked gentlemanly book agent
of his rural customer for '.Scatcher's
Universal History of the World" 20,
no" was the reply, mo use sending on
it clear out there; bind it in New York.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
-Lankson, who looks older than he is
BY the way Plumpton, there's about
a years difference in our ages, isn't
there? Plumpton who looks younger
than he is-A year! Why, when was a
little boy and you used to pass our house
/ remember my father saying: There
goes old Lankson. life.
"A Joke that Kicked-sI PLAYED 4
good joke on my wife last night" said
Tweezers, who isn't kept out Of Jail on
account OF his brightness. What was
it," II had our colored coachman
stand in the dark hall and kiss her SO
she'd think it was me-" What did
she do?' Nothing. She only came
into the parlor where l was sitting
and said: why, Tweezers, didn't
know you had got home. - CHICAGO
NeUs.
81 say, young man," said physi-
clan, stopping him on the street, s.you
are not well. Your face is flushed and
you are in high fever. Let me feel
your pulse. . lin all right, protested
the youth. mo. you are not, said the
physician, positively. Your pulse Is
over 100, and in less than two minutes
you will be in a cold sweat. You take
my advice and go home.'' s.I-I cant
go home am resolved to ask old
Jones for his daughters hand tonight
or perish miserably in the attempt. =
Wrong diagnosis, Inuttered the 4
tor to himself. - TEXAS Siflin1s
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
A PERFECT BRASS BAND.


The Only Sure Recipe for Properly Eff.
fecting Such an Organization.
All the romance has gone out of the
cowboys life. The magnificent liberty
he was wont to enjoy, the recklessness
of the roundup, the hairbreadth escapes
from Indians, the thousands of buffaloes
he saw, his camp fire, his fair Indian
princess, and his cattle roaming thou
sand hills, are all hereafter the merest
myths to the innocent reporter who
wandered into the gallery of the Expo
sition Hall yesterday and saw dozen
or more savage-looking cowboys blow
ing sweet music out of the intricate
folds of a lot of brass instruments. The
sight shattered the Globe Democrat
young mans dreams Of the wild West
forever. There before him was the
Cowboy Band executing Beethoven
sonata, Chopin nocturne, or some
thing of the kind, while the leader
waved a sixteen-inch silver-plated forty
four-caliber revolver over them for
baton. 1t was impossible to imagine
that these were genuine cowboys, but
every one had his certificate, and the
leader, who waved the six-shooter, as
sured the small reporter who questioned
him that brave men had persisted in re-
fusing to accept the genuineness of the
cowboy musicians.
They toot until the people in the next
county imagine that lot of crazy bar
bers are out somewhere in their neigh
borhood serenading the singing coyotes.
Night after night passes in this way,
until the self-educated musicians get an
opportunity to burst in upon civilization
and give the friends of culture and high
art taste of their quality The change
is pretty good one, SO say the cattle
men, as the music some cowboys make
will kill jack rabbits at ninety yards
and brighten coyotes if they are inside
the county line.
"What do you swing that gun forp"
the Globe Democrat reporter asked the
leader of the Cowboy Band
'That's my baton, was the answer.
"Is it loadedp"
"Yes."
"What forp''
ITO kill the first man who strikes q
false note.n
Advice to leaders of local bands: Get
forty-four-caliber revolver and use it
mighty quick.-St. Louis GIo6e-Demo-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
A Cunning Little Squirrel.

Mrs. B. w. Scott had a pet squirrel
that was very tame and great favorite
with the neighbors round about. It
would 60 into the stores and find the
ground pea box and other goodies and
help himself literally, and play with the
boys and search for good things in their
pockets, and when night came, like .
moral, well-b-ed squirrel, he would re-
turn to his cage and enjoy such sweet
sleep as awaits the pesscssor of clear
conscience. But, alas! H.. Marstalrs
pointer cruelty pounced upon him, s3sa
in . few moments poor Bunny had
probably hardly whole bone in his
poor little body. Misledgevil1s Chross-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
THE CROOKEDESr THING.
How a Boy, Who Afterwards Became q
Clergyman, Did His Best to get
Whipping.

whipping.
This amusing anecdote was told me a
few years ago by an intimate friend of
the noted divine:
1t seems that Dr. Robert Breckin-
ridge lost his father in his early child
hood, so that his training was left en-
tirely to his mother, who was little
woman with large mind and wonder
full will power; consequently she and
her son Robert often had cause for dis
agreement, when she not infrequently
came out second best When he was
about five, one of these encounters oc-
Cured. One day, when Mrs. Breckin-
ridge was particularly busy, Robert of
course became unusually rampagious.
His mother stood him as long as pos
sible, then she said, .Robert, if you do
or say another crooked thing this even
ing, / will punish you well, SIR
She left, and heard nothing more from
him for some hours, when. on going up
stairs, she stumbled upon Robert, whom
she saw lying on the top stair twisted in
the most horrible shape. His face was
frightfully drawn as though in pain,
and he muttered something inaudibly.
Mrs. B. became greatly alarmed, and
called a servant to carry the child to
her room. There she begged him to
tell her, if he could, what hurt him,
whereupon he jumped up in bed,
laughed in her face, and shrieked,
sRani's horn!-ram's horn! You told
me, mamma, if l said or did another
crooked thing you would punish me,
and have said and done the crookedest
| know--ram' horn. So, there!' So
saying, he got up and fled.
The sequel to the story did not hear,
but let us hope that when Mrs. Breckin-
ridge caught him he received the whip
ping he so richly deserved. From what
l have heard of her character. think
he did arper's Magazine
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
The Time to Fail.


Grocer, to his shopman: Pedro, 1
owe about three thousand francs =
Eyes, sir"
Il have two thousand francs in the
safe, but the shop is empty; / think il is
the right moment to fail.''
That's just what / think
"but want plausible pretcxt for
my creditors. You have plenty Of
brains; think the matter over to-nioht
and tomorrow morning.
The clerk promised to think il ears
fully over. On entering the shop merit
morning, the grocer found the safe omen.
the money gone, and in its place note.
which ran as follows: Il have taken
the two thousand francs, and Am 81 -
America 1t is the best excuse YOU can
give 70 your creditors. -Aygcsaul
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
The Russian Stove.

The Russian stove is made of fire re-
sisting porcelain, is always ornamental,
and frequently highly artistic, hand
some article of furniture. Internally it
Is divided by thick fire-clay walls into
several upright chambers of fiues, usu-
ally six in number. Some dry firewood
is lighted in a suitable fire place, and is
supplied with only sufficient air to eff
feet combustion, all of which enters be-
low and passes through the fiues. The
productions of combustion being thus
undiluted with unnecessary cold air, are
very highly heated, and in this state
pass up and down through the different
compartments. AT the end of this long
journey they have given up most of their
heat 10 the twenty-four heat absorbing
surfaces of the fire-clay walls. Then all
communication with the chimney is cut
off; the fire is put out, having done its
work, and che interior of the stove has
bottled up its caloric ready for emission
into the room, and, passing through the
non-conducting walls of the stove. is
radiated into the apartments. - Philddel-
phia Press.
With Patti the making OF $50 is
= mere song.--N Y. Mail and cypress.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
VOLUME XVI.
MY KNIGHT.

In days of old the Warrior knight
To tourney rode afieid
In brazen greaves and corselet digit,
With sword and helm AMI shield;
His trusty lance in rest he bore,
And favor of his lady wore.
High courage on the battle plain,
In tilt and loyal quest,
Hatred of fear and scorn of pain
His valiant sonl possessed;
Dying he only wished to feel
A foeman worthy of his steel.
Be thine such royal need to gain
As knighthood FEVER knew,
Such lofty purpose to attain,
Such noble quest pursue.
While armed hosts In dread array
And ambusbed foes beset thy way.
BE strong of heart, of purpose strong,
As spurred and armorcd knl Rht,
Be brave to fight against the wrong,
And loyal to the right,
And nobler triumphs thine shall be
Than ever knights of chivalry.
Let Vice throughout her broad domain
Before thy prowess flee,
And Virtue with her modest train
A champion. find in thee.
And heart and arm and brain be strong
10 help the weak and right the wrong.
Mrs. IL. NJ. GrtsWotd, u, s. s. Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
FIDO WAS HUNGRY.
How Mr.. Atkins Restored q Pet Dogs Ar
petite in Three Days.

u
petite in Three Days.
ats astonishin' said tough old
dog fancier the other day, cow fashions
in lap dogs Gums an goes. Fust there
wuz the King Charles-es-es; an for a
lazy, wuthless set o. ours they take the
cake. Then cum the greyhounds, the
regulation Eyetalian stan -in-the-sun-
an -shiver breed Nobody ever know'd
what they wuz good fur, barrin' the
ladies as owned 'em and fed 'em on
lump sugar Then there cum the black
an'-tan, an gamer, wirier little cuss
never worried rat nor them there
black-muzzled, pop-eyed bulgin-forridid
dogs. Howsomever, wot with stauffin'
and pamperin' on 'em, the only sign O.
game they'd show arter belongin' to
some o. them sassiety ladies fur six
months 'ud be to crawl unner a chair
an stick their teith in gemmun's leg.
Then cum the pugs, good fur nuthin',
most on EN-; great feeders and lazy as
the dickens. A lady brot me one onct,
and says she to me, Mr.. Atkins, this
pore dog O. mine as lost lis appytite;
do you think you can cure my FidoP' l
looked the brute over an, SOr, there
wuzn't nuthin more the matter with
i'm than overfeedin'. Leave i'm ere
fur few days, num- seq /, fur I
knowed there wuz twenty dollars in the
job. just locked Mr.. Fido up in the
cellar with a tomato-can full of water
an not a cussed thing to eat In three
days the lady was back, an says she:
+" Mr.. Atkins, is my pore dogs Apply
tite restoredp'
:" Yes, m says I. 4 think it is
So borrowed plateful of fine shavin's
from the carpenter mex door, an when
Fido cum tearin' up the cellar steps l
just poured little meat gravy on them
shavin's. 1t would ha' done yer heart
good to see Fido bolt the mess, shavins
an all. Appytite restoredP You'd
better believe it was. london Punch.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
Not His Fault.

A County Treasurer in New Hamp-
shire was forced to acknowledge the
other day that the county stronghold
was not only empty, but that his books
wouldn't balance within $4,000 There
was rumpus and an investigation, but
the Treasurer carried serene expression
and was ready to answer all questions.
..It really isn't my fault" he pro-
ceeded to explain. ''You know we want
a new bridge over Lick skillit Creekp I
hoped to build it without calling on the
taxpayers. That $4,000 went to buy
wheat, and I calculated on profit of at
least SO, 900 in one deal"
''And you lost allp''
Every dollar. Wheat went right down
on me-"
"You might have known it!'' shrieked
one of his bondsmen.
'sHowp Do control the wheat mar
ketp I'm sorry, gentlemen, real sorry,
but / have the consolation of knowing
that while my two bondsmen lose
$18, 900, the toiling masses will have the
enefit of the decline in wheat. y Wall
Street NesDs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20

--Pearl-rimmed eyeglasses of violet
color are now used extensively by fash
ionables of both sexes in New York. The
originator was . Vassar school girl.
N. =, Sun,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
...Onlu a woman,s lock of hair,, !

-"Only woman's lock of hair was
thought to be a touching inscription.
If SO, what pathos may there not be in
the eighty tons annually taken to Mar
seilles, France! Could we trace the
history of only few locks in that mass
we might come upon tragedies great or
small. Y Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20

During the last fiscal year over
$1,000, 600 worth of precious stones
were imported by this country, to say
nothing of what Was struggled. ~ \.
Sun
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20

With Patti the making OF s., 900 is
= mere song. IN Y. Mail and Express.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-22

both before and after Mr.. Blaine has lived
a true husband and father, beyond the touch
or suggestion Of scandal Yet for political
reasons-because he is. a candidate Of an OPP
posing party for the presidency the Indianap-
oils Sentinel, in the interests of the Demo
cratic party, does not hesitate to invade that
home, and cast its filthy venom over the fair
name and fame of wife and mother It is an
'eunspeakable outrage" an unutterable in
fanny. We caution the. Sentinel and the
Democracy that, in thus sowing to the wind
they will reap the whirlwind. The hot breath
of indignation from people that reveres the
home as the foundation of society and the
state, and who revere the virtue Of wifehood
and motherhood, will not stand idly by and
allow such villainous assault to go unre-
buked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-22

GOVERNOR OGLEsBY fell into the very matt
ural error Of saying Governor Hendricks was
member Of the national Democratic conven-
ton Of 1864, which declared the war for the
Union failure, whereupon Mr.. Hendricks
SEXES the opportunity to reprint q card
in the Illinois papers affirming his loyalty to
the government during the war. The facts
are that Governor Hendricks was present ut
Chicago during the sessions Of that conyen-
ton and it is absurd to the last degree to
suppose that he was there--a United States
senator, most prominent man in the Demo
cratic party and had no part OF lot in inspir-
ing Or consenting to its deliyerances and pro
ceedings. However, the Democratic national
convention Of 1854 did declare the war for the
Union failure, and Mr.. Hendricks accepted
that declaration as tenet Of Democrats faith,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.


THE personal estate Of the late Bishop Matthew
Simpson is valued at S93O83.
PROFESSOR MosELEY has discovered beast, or
mollusk which has 1000 eyes.
BROOKLYN woman forgot her baby and left It in
street car. BY running half block and yelling
she succeeded in stopping the and recovering her
heir.
n is of the latest agpnies for ladies to carry
about 5gith Them back cushion of some expensive
material depending from the elbow by velvet or satin
ribbon.
DAUGHTER Of DIR. Psvy, the physician 81 the
Greedy expedition who died at Cape Sabine lives in
Paris Ky. She is little girl and hor father left no
money for her support
The most successful voudoo doctor in Washington
hssf fills skillet with water and into it drops two
silver coins He then directs the dupe to choose one
TO represent himself and the other his enemy While
the water is made to boil, thus making the pieces
dance, the ccniurer drops in the feathers Of black
chicken repeating at the same time mysterious form
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-22
GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS.
A Sudden Change in the Democratic
Estimate of the Situation in Ohio.
The Dreadful Effect Of Free Trade in Switzer-
land, Holland and England-The Plain
Duty of Church People
THE SITUATION IN ONO.
= Demoeratle Paper say. ! RspuDlIean VIC

Democratic Paper Says Republican Vic
tory Means the Election of Blaine.
New York Star (John Kelly's Paper.1
1t seems we have all along been maliciously
deceived about Ohio. The Democratic commit
tee got the most encouraging reports from the
Buckeye borders The Republican bolt was
enormous, and the saloon-keepers would lay
down SO to every one the Republicans could put
up. In word the State was sure for Cleve-
land and reform, if not for Hendricks. Orders
were promptly sent out for every Democratic
organ in the country to proclaim that Ohio
would decide the November battle in October
and that the first election was going
to be the final test of the Dem
ocratic strength But we observe a
sudden refrigeration of these warm hopes All
at once many of our Democratic brethren begin
to sneer at Ohio and fout its claims. They re-
call that the State has always gone Republican
in presidential years, and proclaim that the
October election is pretty small potatoes any
way and not worth minding if it gives a Re-
publican majority. In short they say the Ohio
Democrats know nothing and show nothing, and
give up the contest in advance With that sar-
donic faulty for which our chosen leaders are
remarkable, they chuckle over their sagacity in
avoiding a threatening snare. We say to the
lion, leader s. Go on! Push forward into the
snare and if you can't break through die in
your tracks. If death is inevitable, why pro-
long the agony2 For defeat in Ohio in October
means Blaineis Inauguration next March Go
on 90 on!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-22
THAT MISSING LETTER.

The one staple charge against Mr.. Blaine's
explanation Of the Fisher Mulligan letters in
the House of Representatives, in 1876, is
that he suppressed one Of the series, which he
said he did not find in the package he took
from the confidential bookkeeping letter
thief-a letter from Fisher to himself For
eight years this charge has been repeated
against Mr.. Blaine, but the last publication
reveals that he told the&ruth to the House
and to the country that he did not have the
letter; that it was not in the package, for it
was in the lot which has just been published,
showing that it was in the custody Of one of
the two precious scamps and scoundrels dur
ing all these eight years in which Mr. Blaine
has suffered the ISLANDERS of the 'independent7
and Democratic liars. The point is now made
by these ibelers and slanderers that the
copies of Fishers letters to Blaine, just pub
lished, were '1etter-press' copies, not originals,
and, therefore, the Original" of the supposed
suppressed letter was in the Mulligan package,
and was with the others Of the lot that passed
into the hands of Mr.. Blaine. Upon this the
New York Sun says;
Fisher did not have the originals after he
mailed them and Mulligan could not have
produced them either in 1876 or on Monday
last. Then he had and now he has Blaine's
writings in the original, and Fishers In the
letter-press copies. Is this quite clear to the
POST Moreover, if Mr. Blaine had found the
Fisher letter of Oct. "a 1871, among the
other papers in the celebrated package, and
had suppressed it then and there, the docu-
ment thus destroyed would have been the
letter-press copy, not the original But the
letter-press copy has been in Mulligans hands
from 1876 until 1884, and it is now in the safe
of Fishers and Mulligan's lawyers. Is this
quite clear to the Timesg How our contem-
poraries could have fallen into the error of
supposing that Fishers budget consisted, not
only Of the originals Of Blaine's writings, but
also Of the originals of Fishers, passes COM
prehension. Thus disappears the last resource
of the journals which, in their anxiety to
paint Blaine black away down to his boots,
have maintained, in face of the facts of the
charge that he tempered with the Mulligan
letters when he pretended to give them In
full to the House eight years ago."
The publication of the second batch Of let
tiers is complete REPUTATION of the charge
against Mr.. Blaine, and shows that he was
honest and open in his statement before Con
gress when he took A. OOO, 900 of the Ameri-
can people into his confidence. He is equally
honest and straightforward now when he takes
81, DOC, 900 of his fellow-citizens into his con-
fdence and the verdict of November will be
a thorough vindication Of him by those whom
he has trusted and who trust him in return