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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

thrust into the spinal column Of hiiles
OF good poetry, but the cold, steel-Elue
fact is, the female katydid is voiceles.
But he would not sing either were she
not there to listen. She may not voice
the song; she does better and does what
he could not do; she inspires the singer
and so creates the song.
So he sang for us last night. And
down the Swallowed paths of life 1
walked again the chirping voice tails
man that opened all the years. Down
winding cow-paths, lettering underneath
the whispering oaks through tangled
grasses in the orchard glooms; across
the foot-bridge where the little brook
went singing softly all night long. dim
ping above the clear, white, shining
pebbles; up to the brow of the long hill
that in impressive ma, esty looked down
upon the starlit waters of the sleeping
lake; through opening fores. glades
where the soft yellow rays of sunset
fingered longest and most lovingly;
through all the hallowed paths that only
lovers know and love; and through it all
the timid clasp of little hand, and
love-lit eyes that caught the starlight's
CLEAN. Down into the Swallowed paths
that led through ways Of pain, through
long dark valleys where the damps were
chill; through ways of tears, where the
waters of Marah lay black and bitter in
the pools; across the arid deserts where
the heavens were brass; through night
to light, till, where the brook went sing
ing softly years ago, the silent river
flowed without a note of song, and in
the clear celestial light that kissed her
eyes, the starlight faded, pale and gray.
Last night, the katydid sang the
same old song he sung long years ago.
The same old song. The old, old song
he used to sing. 1t was SO new; I
think | never heard it sung before. He
had added few stanzas to it since first
l heard him sing. There was no touch
of sorrow in it then. There was no
minor strain; there was no cadence
like a moan of pain; no tremolo OF
quiveriug lip and piteous sob; there
was no wall of anguish in it then. All,
katydid, you have dwelt in some other
planet since you sang to us SO long ago.
For where, in this bright world of love
and sunshine, of happy hearts and sum-
mer skies, could you learn to sing such
plaintive themes? What god taught
you that tears and laughter journey
hand in handp That dark-robed sor-
row walks with glad-eyed joy?-R. j.
Basrdette. IN Burlington HaUkeye.
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NUMBER so.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

--We have now S00,cp school
teachers, and an average OF mCkv ses.
sixty six pupils for each.-M =. S
une.
The first Presbyterian church IN
Indiana was planted near vincennes IN
1906. The membership now In the
State is about $4,000. = Indianapolis
Journal.
"A tabernacle having no resPecs =
creed is proposed at Atlanta, Ca
gentleman has signitied his Willingness
10 head list with 5000. Adanta mas
twenty-six Methodist churches alone.
A year ago the National Educa-
tional Association was LARGELY in debt.
To day 1t owes nothing ana has TX
thousand dollars in the treasury. ms
is indicative OF strong feeling OF nSF-
monious co operation among the teach
ers of tho country The Cuyrent.
"A white child ten years Of age who
can not write his name is by some sup
posed to be a rarity in this country, bus
such children numbered more than
half million In 1870, and nearly 6OO,UOO
in 1880. Thirteen white children oue
Of hundred in the year 1880 escaPeo
the combined influences OF churcn. nay
school. Sunday-school and family
teaching. - Chicago Herald.
The Independent notices that
women preachers are getting to be
regular thing in Massachusetts,. "Iho
Congregational yearbook It snys,
records two Congregational churches
in that State supplied by women
Thought not formally instalicd,) one
of whom, Annie II. Shaw, has acted -
pastor for five years, and the other,
Louise S. Baker. for four years. That
women can be pastors in the conserva-'
tive old orthodox churches OF Massa-
chusetts is, then, an accomplished fact.
but not as yet an acknowledged
accomplished fact, as the timid
brackets around their ycarbooks In
dicatcs.
Pupils in the public schools arc
kept at work upon arithmetic from
eight to ten wears. This fact has ro-
ceived the attention of Mr.. Washington
GLADDEN., who SAYS 1.-The reason why
oue-seventh of the years allotted to
human life are consumed upon the
study of arithmetic is that the science
has been developed in most Of our text
books to needless extent" He finds
n great many superlluous subjects are
introduced; that the application Of
arithmetic to all manner OF possible
and impossible transactions Is extended
so far that life becomes burden TO
many pupil before the book Is fin
ished. lie would shorten the time OF
this study two or three years.-E1-
cidn3e.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27
The Man Who Doesn't.

We fear there are very many good
men who have succeeded in deluding
themselves into the belief that an an
nual vacation is something born of evil
and too frivolous to be considered. We
humbly submit that this is mistake.
What does it avail man to save two
or three years in lifetime that might
profitably be spent in vacations and die
ten years too soonp
The man who doesn't take vacation
loses half the fun of life. After time
he only begins to have a glimmering
perception of a joke, and eventually he
forgets how to laugh.
The man who doesn't take vaca-
ton by-and-by neglects to kiss his
wife. ,snd the lips whose honey in form
or days>he was wont to hang upon until
he threatened to wear them out shrivel
and take on the flavor of sawdust, and
part only in fast-increasing asperity.
The man who doesn't take avacation
after season begins to be Jared in his
soul by the laughter of child, and it is
only a question of time when he shall
take to wearing shawl and carrying
potato in his pocket for rheumatism.
The man who doesn't take vacation
wakes prematurely old. Dust accu.
mulates upon his coat collar, his trousers
shrivel from the foot and bag hopeless
ly at the knee, and he begins to exhibit
an aversion to taking bath oftener
than once month and then only in
warm weather.
The man who doesn't take vaca-
ton is failure. His neighbours hens
scratch up his early seed, the Assessors
tax him for double what he is worth,
his horse breaks through the stable
floor and snaps leg, he goes to the
polls and votes the wrong ticket through
mistake, his daughter elopes with sew
ing-machine man while book-agent is
OBTAINING him in the parlor with cam
paign life of the opposition candidate,
and a raspberry seed gets under the
plate of his false teeth when the minis
ter is present at supper and he creates
scandal that convulses the parish to
it's very periphery. The life of that
man is sorrow and vexation of spirit,
and his life goes out and leaves no radi-
ated beam.
But the man who annually lays of
the cares of business as a cloak, and
gets him away even briefly to other
scenes-ah, that man is blessed. Pros
perity attendeth all his ways. he buys
pasture-land and finds coal-mine in
it, relative dies in foreign parts and
leaves him money, he groweth stronger
and heartier as the years go by, every.
body admires him. children love to imi.
tate the music of his laugh, his family
reverence his every wish, the tax-col.
lector loves him, when he is nominated
for office the other side turns to and
votes for him to man, and the career
of that man is happiness and his end is
peace.
Therefore, dearly beloved, this epis-
tie is unto you,. and we do adjure you
by the longest hair of the prophets
beard that thenceforth you shun the
way of the unwise one, and be no longer
as the man who doesn't take a vacation.
| -R0ckland Courier Gazette.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

A man whose hair and whiskers wefs
plertifully sprinkled with gray was In
the city Yesterday to see about buying
a large quantity of lead pipe. When
he asked how much mile and a half
of certain size would cost. the dealer
stood off and looked at him in amaze
ment.
"Ohl / amt loony." replied the man.
'sBut what can you want OF milo
snd half of this pipe, costing you
many hundred dollarsp"
"See here.n replied the other, as he
took chair and became confidential,
I'm a w.dower."
"Yes."
.I'm thinking of taking second
wife. She dotes on front yard. I've
got the yard. She. dotes on lawn orna-
nents. I've been around pricing stone
dogs, cAst-irou deer ara terra-cotta
rabbits till you can't rest. She dotes
On fountains. That's why l want the
pipe" M ~
.eM"But why so much of it?'
because I've got to run the pipe to
a spring on hill mile and half
away"
ucu uc Hdu cAPiaihOu INV iuuNu
fall he had the dealer told him that he
couldn't get fountain enough to dam
pen sunflower.
"Won't be no squirt to 1t, ehP"
NO
won't squirt foot highP"
mo, sir, not an inch.
swell, no fountain. no marriage.
She's sot on that. I'll go back and
offer to fill the yard with decoy ducks
and conch-shells, and put stained glass
windows in the horse barn, but l
reckon the match is off. I've offered
TO get force-pump and hire coot by
the year to work it, but she says it
wouldn't be pictures rue. Might build
a cistern on legs and let the water play
through fountain, but she is too
romantic. | can't do no more. and if
she insists on a fountain With squirt
to it III look around for some one else
somebody who don't want Corinthian
columns under the cornrcrib and a
Grecian facade to the pig-pen. Detroit
Free Press.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27
THE DAIRY.

AT this season the troughs whers
stock are watered should be well
eleansed at least once week. Leaves
and sediment rapidly decay in warm
weather, and there will be subsequent
damage to the health of stock and the
purity Of milk given by cows. So large
a portion of pure milk is water that the
quality of water which cows have to
drink becomes very important Chica-
90 Times.
The quality of butter depends imme-
diately upon the character of the cows
food, and should put the cautious dairy
man upon his guard to see that his
cows can not get any kind of food that
will injure the quality of the milk.
Hence he should be sure to destroy all
the weeds in his pasture even more
carefully than he does in his own corn
field; and as water. when tainted, will
work the same evil as bad food, he
should see that only pure article is
within reach of the cows Western
Agrjculturist.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27
Modifying Nature.

Speaking of rains recalls the fact
that the dry and arid regions of this
country are steadily diminishing. As
the cultivation of the American soil
extends, the area upon which rain falls
enlarges, In, California, seasons Of
drought when wheat could not be
grown were formerly frequent, but of
late years there has been no failure
of the small grain crops from this
cause. Then the number of days in
which rain falls has increased.
Formerly rain rarely fell later than
April, bat this year rain storms of great
violence occurred as late as June.
Rain also now falls often in western
Kansas, whore formerly it was very
unfrequent. 1t is supposed the extern
sion of telegraph and railway lines has
something to do with transformations
in districts heretofore arid.
The fashionable girl Of the period
now says father in the good old
fashioned way. Papa and mann
ma ays denomissatcd as vulgar,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27
How He Managed.

Elbow do you manage TO always
have money in your pocketp" asked 3
friend of another, the other day, and
continued: II pay out what have and
then forget, aud half the time have not
a nickel, and am often embarrassed by
it, and cannot get in the way of re-
Numbering 10 supply myself with
change" ''That was just my fix,
said his sympathizing interlocutor,
ssand with ME it extended to everything
--soiled handkerchiefs or none at all,
and everything that a man conld for
get. Well, sir, got married, and my
wife found that she had to provide for
me, and see that ! was supplied with
such things. That suggested a happy
idea, and elected her treasurer of the
firm. and now she sees to it that have
handkerchiefs, gloves, money, and all
such personal necessaries. ''But does
she not ask you what you have done
with the money she gave eyou?" ''No,
sir" wasathe reply, with some asperity
-.'my wife is a gentleman Il should
say lady, with what in a gentleman
would be gentlemanly instincts,
THAT is just like my wife," put in
a bystander. ''che said l never knew
how to pack my valise, and said she
would pack it for me, and so when l
opened it at the hotel found dozen
collars and no shirt.r
''Do you make your. wife the treas
urer of the firm?" asked the sleek and
happy husband.
mo, sir. don't."
swell, sir, you just give her hun
dred dollars, and put her on that kind
of training. and I'll wager you hat
that your shirts and collars will match
every time" M
Chicago shouted the brakeman,
and each one wendell his way TO his den
and desk, bordering on the lesson Of
the hour Chicago Interior.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

1t is your we'll fed, comfortable fellow
who grumbles most. The countryman
10 rs happy as grig upon potatoes and
oatmeal. He changes his oatmeal for
something better as soon as he can, but
even after this step is effected, when
rolls and anchovy toast take the place
of porridge, he grumheth not. or turn
eth up his nose at the remembrance of
his former fare. but eats it. Your city
gentleman is very different sort of an
imal. Were he kept to potatoes and
oatmeal great would be the grumble.
When he is prompted to something.
better he grumbles for another step;
when he gets it he is again for still
further elevation, and at length were
you to set him down to the very best
dinner he would grumble at it for not
being better one. If he cannot grum-
BILE with his beef, it is hard if he can
not be indignant with his mustard. IAN
excellent dinner you remark. "Ex-
cellent-reslly good; but the waiting,
disgusting.
As general rule the latest men
erumble more about their meat, and
stylishiy dressed men have most holes to
pick in the coats their tailors provide
for them. And here note the difference
between complaining and grumbling.
The poor wretch who crouches by the
area railing, and writes Starving"
with chalk upon the pavement, COM
plains mutely, unobtrusively; the fiat
boy" who dimes at the fashionable
restaurants, and finds the champag ne
just one degree under-iced, and the
beef one turn overdone, grumbles and
neither mutely nor unobtrusively; ON
the contrary, he thinks himself an i'll.
used individual, and the pavement
chalker may think himself lucky if he
gets q cent from the other stuffed with
the flesh of the OK and the wines Of
Epernay.
One source of grumbling not to be
lost sight OF is that which is supplied
by our feelings of self Importance and
innate dignity. People tn nix it beneath
them to be too easily pleased they are
not the sort of folks that anything will do
for-not they-and they seek to prove
by grumbllng at what they have the
superior quality or what they ought to
have. How many are they who are
nothing If not critical; but it is not
their discernment that makes them spy
FAULTS il is the wish to be thought to
have discernment. Talent is proved
in their estimation by fault-finding.
They grumble over work of art, NOS
SO much to show what stupid fellow
tho author is as what smart fellows
they are for having found out his short.
comings. Goldsmith taught q golden
rule to the art grumblers: s'Say that the
picture would have been better painted
had the painser taken more pains"
Safe and sure, no criticism enunciated.
no theory advanced, but a grumble
successfully achieved. The grumbler
thinks that if he processes too much
pleasure with q picture or statue he ID
showing himself to be one Of the mere
herd, please with rattle, tickled
with straw he picks out de ects.
and upon these stepping stones be
hopes to spring inIo the dignity Of
knowledge and ability Brooklyn Eag,s.
The low price Of qrinine is due to the
1f,,rn ~ fkf, trns, e., ne. :. la
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27
Sights in Central America.

At eight O. clock in the morning we
started on the Ferro Curril Railroad
for Rio Sucio. We rode until four in
the afternoon through a wondrous
country. On either side for miles were
hundreds of banana plantations in
different stages of growth. One
can form some idea of the vast
number of bauanas consumed when
they see these plantations and hun
dreds of thousands of punches ready
for shipment. AS we whizzed through
the woods fresh beauties would greet the
eye. The tallest trees ever saw, with
apparently no bark, doomed up against
the sky; then a forest of cocoa palm,
cactus and many other beautiful trees,
and below aperfect Jungle of shrub and
underground. In these very tall trees
are the orchids, or air plants, SO choice
and expensive in the North. Their
scarlet blossoms are very conspicuous
in the midst OF so much green. From
Rio Sucio we started for San Jose on
horseback and Immediately began the
ascent Of the mountain. There was
something about our situation so ave-
inspiring that for time we rode on in
silence. The dizzy heights above, the
high wall on one side and gulf or val
ley on 0he other revealed by the dim
light of the lantern which light our
pathway. The Serene was grand beyond
description. As we assembled we could
see the mountainshigh, high above MS,
and looking down. the valley. far, far
beneath. Now and then we crossed a
mountain stream rushing and tumbling
doxvn fba<,,vaoirfoo Tho fol;a frf. ~, IN
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

II offer you myself, my life. my ~, =
said widower at the feet Of s lovo1y
lass. .'Will you be minep''
Did you give your first wife four hev
bonnets year and eight new droepssl's
.sYes. / gave her six new bonn<l1
last six years he lived y
Then can rot marry you
sAnd Why
:. Beeaue6 tken you h1sen'e messy
enough left to buy me more than -;
bonnet and one dress for three 70
>-lloston Times
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

lie Moyne Of crematory fame. never
allows the use Of preserved fruits in his
household. He says they were intended
to be eaten only in season. -f,.iiadslphio
Press.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27

The low price Of quinine is due to the
culture OF the tree in III, East Iudioa-
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-27
To Dairymen.

Charles f. Marvin, of Rochester,
Mimi, has been appointed superinten-
dent of the dairy department of the
Worlds Exposition to be held in New
Orleans next winter. He has issued the
following circular, which will interest
dairymen:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-12-29
THE DISAGREEM ENT
Between the House and Senate-What
Will BE Done With the Naval Bill!
WASHINGTON, Dec. ~.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27
Secretary Chandler has in preparation a
circular to the heads of bureaus instructing
them in the matter of the fiscal responsibility
of the department after the 3 st inst, beyond
which date the current appropriations for the
naval service do not extend If Congress
acts at once on re-assemblng, no embarrass-
ments wilFesult from the failure to make
appropriations in advance Ii there should
be deadlock of considerable length the navy
will continue to exist and may serve various
useful purposes, though it will be AT consid.
cradle inconvenience The pay of the navy
will go on. Contracts may be entered into
for the continuance of the work already
begun under former appropriations, and sup
plies may be purchased; but for these pur-
poses the department will merely give certi-
ticates instead of cash, and sailor, officer or
contractor will become a creditor of the gov
ernment. The prospect for the early recon-
citation of the differences between the House
and Senate is not good. Incidental express
sions by members of the House committee
indicste a purpose not to confer with the
Senate on either of the three amended bills.
MIR. Randall has sent to Secretary Chandler
a copy of the thrtyone day bill as amended
by the Senate, so as to provide for six months
with a letter asking if the amount therein
provided Will be sutlclent tor the department
during the remainder of the fiscal year.
There can be little doubt that the secretary
will declare the amounts named for some
bureaus insufficient, which fact may be used
in the justification of the position of the
House in refusing to assent to the Senate
amendments. Should the point BE- made
that the amounts proposed are too low, the
Senate committee will meet it by showing
that the disputed measure in the House bill
was prepared last session on the basis of the
estimates, and were objected to then because
the Senate had by its own amendments made
the appropriation too high. The senators
will, moreover, urge that they are not welded
to the amounts of either of the pending bills,
but are willing to adjust them in conference.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-12-29
BURNED AT SEA.
The ship Alert, of Boston, Struck by
Lightning and Set ON Fire-The
Crew Picked up bv Pass
ing steamer.

NEW YORK, Dec. p.
Capt. Park, of the steamer Alert, whic b
was burned at sea. November IA. came as a
passenger on the steamer Maraheus, from
Para. He makes the following report:
The ship Alert, of Boston. sailed from
New York October %, for Shanghai, with a
cargo of 40. 900 cases of oil and crew of
eighteen persons, besides the captains wife
and child. All weat well until the morning
of Nov. /, LAT s0.40 N, long. 20, 10 w, where
the trade winds were lost and heavy weather
prevailed.
At 10 A. NJ. rain fell in torrents, accompa-
MED by vivid flashes of lightning, and in 4
few minutes lightning struck the fore royal
mast, which was carried away TO tine yard,
cutting some of the running rigging. and
and taking large piece out of the fore-royal
sail.
The shock felled several men to the deck.
An examination disclosed nothing out of
place except few small splinters of wood
that came from aloft, at the foot of the fore
mast. At 1880 A. NJ. smoke was seen COM
ing out of the fore-hatch, which was covered
with tarpaulins.
On lifting the hatch a suffocating smoke
arose at once. | ordered water poured down
the hatch, as it was impossible to get below
deck The smoke soon drove the men from
the hatch. then ordered the matches put on
and csulked down, which was done in part,
when shortly afterwards they were plown off
by terrible explosion. The flames reached
as high as the fore-yard, and the heat was
intense.
at once prepared to leave the ship. We
were provided with three good boats These
were loaded with water and provisions and
each person was allowed to take some cloth
ing. At ll.30 o'clock we were afloat on a
choppy sea. In the meantime the ship was q
mass of flames and continued to burn until
late At night, when she foundered
| caused the boats to be made fast to one
another, and in this position we lay, waiting
some passing vessel. At ) A. Nj. on Nov 10
a steamers lights were seen bearing down
upon us. 1t belonged to the French steam
ship Comte a Etu, of Havre, for Pernam-
buco.
We were taken on boar and arrived at Per-
nambuco, Nov. 10. The captain, with his
wife and boy, came home. leaving the Off
GERS and crew in charge of the American con-
sui at Pernambuco. The Alert was 1899
tons rerister. She vac built in Boston and
owned by Littlefield & Sons OF that city.