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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
A NIGHT Ely THE NILE.
An Egyptian Camp-A Cataract That Does
Not Roar.

Not Roar.
One night, after reaching Shellal
writes correspondent from the Nile, 1
had set out alone to walk along the
banks and across bit of desert in order,
if possible, to get near view of the
rapids under bright moonlight. Emerg-
ing from dense palm grove, where
Egyptian soldiers were lying about en-
joying the cool night air, my path fol
some distance followed the river bank,
by which dozens of trading craft were
moored, the long bent yards of their
latent sails sharply defined against the
clear sky, and their swarthy, white
robed crews lying asleep among sacks
of grain under the wide-spreading
branches of acacia, lebbekh, or syca-
more fig-trees. Then it swept round
the mud walls of an Arab village, outside
which groups of women were passing the
hours after truly feminine fash
ion in gossiping and shrill laugh
ter, and then it became lost for a
time in the desert sand. Still there was
the rush of water to. guide one. Pres
emily that was merged in sound louder
and more weird-at first something like
the monotonous wall of mourners at an
Irish wake it seemed-then grew into
groans mingled with subdued shrieks.
By the riverside one would have been at
no loss to account for this strange
music; but in the midst of sandhills one
does not expect to come across the
creaking, grunting skayeyeh. or wooden
| rhna al fr1. 10,
however, on high rock, and the bullock
is walking round and round at its me-
chanical toll, of which there seems to be
no cessation night or day. The wheel
seemed to be set up there for the simple
purpose of irrigating a half-acre patch
of scant maize, but whence the water
came remains a mystery to me yet.
Less than a quarter of an hour of brisk
walking brought me to the river again,
where it ran between high cliffs of huge
black granite. Travellers ancient and
modern have told how the thunder of
this cataract often deafened people living
league or two from it. | am afraid
these writers must have INDUCED in a
license that is the privilege of trav-
elers and poets. This night, at any
rate, the rapids roared as gently as any
sucking dove. Far from being loud as
the boom of waves against English
cliffs, its noise would have been drowned
by the rush of an ordinary moorland
torrent in flood. The strength of Nile
current, however, can no more be judged
by its boisterousness than the force of
human passion can. When it flows most
| silently it is often swiftest and most
dangerous. The rapids between Phile
and Assouan do not break into foam and
buster like fretting burn, but rush
over hidden rocks with a scarcely per-
ceptible swell. Therein lies such danger
as the boats sent out for this expedition
may have to encounter, but where a
heavy diabyah or clumsy nuggah can
60 these vessels of incomparably lighter
draught will not be likely to sustain
much damage, even if it be absolutely
necessary to take them through cata-
racts.-London Standard.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
COW CATECHlSM.
Artemus Ward Would Probably Call This
Dialogue "Sarkasm," But There Is
Moral In 1t.


Moral in 1t.
@. What is scrub eowp
A. A scrub COW is domesticated
animal which does not get food and
shelter enough to make her grow large
or put on flesh, and therefore she "must
60"
@. Does she give any milk?
A. Well, yes, plenty of it; but the
quality is not good.
@. Why is the quality not gocdo
A. Because her food and drink are
not good. Being of kindly disposition
she lets down milk instead of making
growth and putting on flesh, and being
cheap anything is good enough for herr
it does not pay to shelter her from the
solar rays and the bot flies of summer,
nor the blasts and slush of winter; SO
poor bossy unjust GO to give place to
Princess Royal the fortieth
@. What is an improved cow.
A. An improved COW is domesti-
Gated female animal of bovine aristoc-
racy on whose leavings the scrub COW
feeds.
@. Does she get all she needsp
A. Yes; if she didn't she would be s
scrub, too. Being costly, she feeds on
the delicacies of the season and all sorts
of expensive condiments for the purpose
of coaxing her to eat more after she has
had enough, and nothing is too good for
her. Whenever the weather permits,
the blanket is taken off her and she is
groomed as slick as mouse; and she
has drawing-room comforts all the yeaI
round.
Q. Does she give any mi!kP
A. Well, some; but not enough to
raise her calf (f she should chance to
have one), the scrub COW making up the
deficiency.
@. But her milk must be of excellent
quality, must it notp
A. No; as she looks out for No. 1, the
essence of her food runs to bone and
flesh, and the refuse to milk.
@. Well, then, her flesh must be good
not SOP
A. No; the muscle is innutritious and
immature, and the fat is a mass of dis
eased obesity. if not of fatty degenera-
ton.
@. What, then, is the advantage of
the improved cowp
A. She costs a pile of money, is
stylish. and belongs to a good family
COlndn's Rural World.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
TAUGHT HIM POLITENESS.
How Colonel McCOnkey, School Trustee
Insisted Upon Being Addressed.

How Colonel McCOnkey, School Trustee,
Insisted Upon Being Addressed.
The pay-train stopped at Willow Bend
to pay the railroad hands, and to liqui-
date claims for cattle on the track in
that section. A gaunt hungry-looking
granger stepped up to the smart young
man who was dispensing the cash in the
rear end of the car.
Got my name on your books, Mis-
terp''
.'How should / know unless you tell
| me your nanleP'
"Kerrect you are. You have got the
edge on me there. Well, my name is
Rufus McConkey."
'Yes," said the young man, referring
to his books; ''Mr. McConkey, have
got you down for hog"
- ''Have me down for a hog, have youp
Well, I'll have you down for half an
hour, and I'll be on top of you, maxim
it sorter excitin' to you, if you dom re-
wise that expression. Now, say after
me: Colonel McConkey, School Trustee,
Fourth District-Your name, sir, is on
this here list, as honey fider creditor
of the /. & G. N. Railroad; which the
amount are ten dollars, the vally of one
spotted Berkshire hog; said amount
of ten dollars, it do me proud to hand
to you. Won't you have cigar, Col
nelP"
The smart young assistant paymaster
repeated after Mr.. McConkey word for
word, handed Mr.. McConkey the ten
dollars, and then gave him a cigar.
Colonel McConkey put the hammer of
his six-shooter back to half-cock, and
then strobe out, muttering: ''Some city
chaps think they're smart, but they'll
find they has to come out on the pera-
res to learn perliteness an grammar.
- Ier0s StftiuQs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
She Wore the Steamer.

A Confederate officer during the wal
captured Federal steamer in the Gull
and brought it into Galveston. Federal
steamers were not so plentiful as the
gossip of the war would seem to indi.
cate; and this prize was to the officer
as the apple of his eye.
Being called away to Red River he
left the steamer in charge of his wife
she had his power of attorney.
His Red River expedition did not turn
out satisfactorily His troops were
overpowered with superior numbers and
badly beaten.
Their commander returned hastily to
get his steamer and secure reinforce
ments. On arriving in Galveston he
learned to his dismay that his steamer
was gone.
where's my wifep" he asked impa
tiently of the servants.
"She gone to Missy C.'s party, Mas.
sa, said the Oldest and most faithful OF
them.
Without stopping to dress, he hurried
to Mrs. C.'s, covered with dust and mud,
and presented himself at the door.
He was shown in. His wife excused
herself to her cavalier.
''What is the matter?' she asked
''Where's my steamerp' said the
officer in tones of suppressed excite
ment.
"Why, here it is, my DEAR" said his
beautiful wife.
And then she pointed to diamond
cross glittering on her fair breast
Ingleside.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A noiseless violin has been. in
vented. Now when some one discovers
a noiseless opera singer the weary soul
Of the public will find rest. - Chicago
Tribune.
An old negro woman, praying for
certain slanderer, said: 20, Lord,
won't you be kind enough to take do
door of his mouth off, and when you put
it on again just hang ii on the gospel
hinges OF peace on earth and good will
TO men.
"A young lady who was too sick to
wash the supper dishes recovered suffi-
GENTLY fifteen minutes after her mother
had performed the job to play croquet
and ''sit up" with young man until
midnight What delicate creatures
American girls are, anyhow Drake's 8
Travellers MaJazine.
You may talk as much as YOU
please" remarked the irascible man:
''but let me tell you that consider your
arguments as well as yourself beneath
my notice. ! don't give you SO much as
thought" II hope not" was the re-
spouse; Il wouldn't have you bank
rupt yourself on my account. Boston
transcript.
--''Wife, / wish you could make pies
that would taste as good as my mothers
used to- ..Well, my dear, YOU run out
and bring in pailful of water and hod-
full of coal and an armfrl of wood. Just as
you used to for your mother, and maybe
you will like my pies as well.' He con-
cluded the pies would do just as they
were.-Boston Post.
Say, ma, seen niger put seven
eggs in his mouth all at once" said
Johnny Quarle as he came in from his
supper. '.Humph, that's nothing; your
father put that butcher shop and 4
horse and wagon into hiss tartlv re-
piled Mrs. Quarle. Whisky was the
ruination of the old man.-Bro0klv,a
Times.
He was reading patent-medicine
almanac. Suddenly he jumped up and
shouted to his wife; Somebody run Tor
the doctor; I'm sick. I'm the sickest
man on the footstool There amt =
disease known to medical science that
haven't got pronounced symptoms Of.
| have reached the advanced stage n
everything. Somebody run for the doc
tor quickw--Dets'oH Post.
Father, please tell me what en-
tail means and if we have such a law ~
she United States?" Father-Under
The law of entail, my boy, the landed
property of the father is handed down
to the eldest son, successfully, genera
ton after generation. We have NO
such provision in the United States.
Here the money generally goes to the
lawyers who settle the fathers estate.
You see the differencepr Y. Sun,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
MORGANTOWN WEST SATURDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1884,
took me out of the kettle, 1 tainted

took me out of the kettle, / tainted
again in his arms.
ION investigation, It was found that
the Indian had not only taken all the
bread and cake and pies in the house,
but had seized upon gray patchwork
quilt, fathers winter overcoat and a
bright scarlet petticoat of mothers. The
silver spoons and heavy silver tankard
the very one that is standing on the
sideboard nowhere all in plain sight;
but he probably had no idea of their
value and so left them untouched
.'All the men in the settlement i'm
mediately turned out in pursuit of the
thief; but they did not capture him.
And he was never seen or heard of in
that region again. Susan Hartley
SUett, IN Golden DAYS.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
NUMBER 8.
SCHOOL. AND CHURCH.

The almost universal practice Of
teaching abstract numbers before con-
crete is an inversion of nature and conn.,
mon sense.-Philadelphia Press.
The most sublime announcement
ever made to man is that Jesus Christ
came into the world to save sinners; and
yet we are so familiar with it that we
7egard it as a commonplace.
-Four young ladies were among the
recipients of scholarships at the recent
contest in Cornell University. Four
young men also won. Cornell believes
IN equal honors and privileges. -Syra-
case Journal.
The Duke of Norfolk has given to
the Catholic Church since 1868, when
he became of age, more than 81, 500, 900,
besides very large sums to private chart
ties which amount to nearly as much
more.
Bishop Wordsworth, of the Church
of England, diocese of Scotland, has
lately announced to his clergy that he
despairs of union between the Estab-
lished Church of Scotland, the Aud
Kirk and the Episcopal Church in that
land.
The eldest daughter of DR.. Thomas,
| of Baltimore, one of the Johns Hopkins
trustees. recently graduated from Zurich
University with the highest honors in
philosopy earned by any student in the
past two hundred years.
During the trial of disputed set
Element at Leith, Scotland, one Of the
witnesses was asked: do sermons
that are delivered and not read edify
you mostp" He excited the visibility Of
the Court by replying, Il consider that
| If ministers can not remember their
sermons, it is perfectly unreasonable to
| expect their hearers to do so.a
"A man visiting London went to
church and seated himself without hcsi-
tation in the nearest pew. Soon the
owner came in, eyed the stranger crit
ically, and writing MY pew on the
| fiyleaf of prayer-book, handed the
book to the intruder. The stranger read
the message, smiled beautiful smile,
and wrote underneath: mice pew.
What do you pay for it?"
The difference between the condi-
ton of education in the South and that
in the North is wildly set forth in a few
statistics which we take from the report
of the Commissioner of Education. Ac-
cording to this document the average
school year consists in North Carolina
of 62.5 days, in Georgia of SIS, in Ten
nessee of 70, in Rhode Island of 1874, in
New Jersey of 1872, in Maryland Of 1919.
In Alabama the annual per capita ex-
pense of each child is Sl.01, in Massa-
chusetts, 1888. - Chicago Journal
OF the donations by women to diff
ferent colleges in this country $3.50, 900
has been given for the benefit of women,
less than half of the sum given by wo-
men for mans benefit; $l37, 900 have
been bestowed by women to co-educa-l
tional institutions, not taking into ac-
count the immense sum given by Mrs.
Fiske to Cornell University, which is
now in litigation. There are now -, 900
women graduates from colleges who aid,
in measure, these institutions. Vas
sar graduates have given $4,000 in.
fifty years to their dina mater. The
Harvard Annex has received sum of
$4,000. Wellesley, through Mrs.
Valera Stone, has been benefited over
100000 worth, and Smith College,
founded by lady, Miss Sophia Smith,
has had 1865, 000.-C Cleveland Leader.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13

The greatest readers of newspapers
in the world are the Hungarians. 1t is
said that the peasants in that country.
with very rare exceptions, know how to
read, take an active part in public af-
fairs, discuss and judge political meas
ures, and are often elected members Of
municipal bodies. Nine. Adam, who
recently wrote a charming book Of
travels in Hungary, was told that there
is not town without its literary club.
In the cafes you find as many papers as
in France. The most insignificant
journal has its readers. A city of %, 900
inhabitants is mentioned where, among
its numerous clubs and restaurants,
there was one that took in 105 news
papers, dailies and weeklies-an in
credible number. The list is posted up
in the establishment, and includes jour-
mails in Hungarian, German and En-
glish, treating Of politics, literature,
agriculture, education, and even the
tAahions. Louis Globe Dsnsocrek
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
THE DAIRY.

The attempt to have cow for butter
and beef is trying to make butter and
tallow with the same machine.-Boston
Globe.
Next year is it cheese or butter?
Select your cows accordingly. A COW
may be grand for cheese and poor for
butter, or vice Cleveland Herald.
Mr.. Cheever, dairy authority, says
the reason why not over ten per
cent. of the butter sent into market is
good, is due to the ignorance of the best
method of making.
1t is only very few years since the
quantity of cheese manufactured in this
country amounted to no more than Co.,
100000 to 100000 pounds, three
quarters of which was exported. Now
the annual production reaches nearly
$50, 900, 900 pounds of which only one
fourth is exported, the remainder being
consumed at home.-N. Y. Independ-
ent
Actual performance is the measure
by which the dairy value of each COW
should be tested. There are certain
general principles on which herd may
be built up. but those who would have
the best must make the individual
animal sponsor to its own ability. The
herd selected in this way ought, by every
principle of common sense, to be the
very best and most profitable herd to be
obtained. IN. Y. Times.
The question of winter dairying is
being agitated to a considerable degree
among the dairymen of Iowa, Minnesota
and those portions of Wisconsin where
it is not practiced. 1t is winter dairy
ing that gives the greatest profit, and ii
is singular that the farmers in those
States have not prohted by the example
set them by those of Northern Illinois,
where to a greater extent than in any
other portion of the conatry it is sue
cessfully followed. -Elgin Adcocate.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13
A MARROW ESCAPE.
The Struggle Between a Man and Fero-
cious Panther.

The Struggle Between a Man and a FerO-
cious Panther.
A Bombay shikaree narrates how he
once actually fell into the claws of a
panther, and lived to tell the tale. After
describing the incidents of the hunt up
to the time when the beast broke cover,
he says:
Il had to wait until the panther was
within few feet of me, and then put
my rifle down to his head, expecting to
roll him over like a rabbit Gas had sue
ceeded in doing on other occasions),
and then place my second bullet pretty
much where pleased. To my horror,
there was no report when the hammer
fell. The next moment the panther,
with an angry roar, sprang upon me.
Hanging on with the claws of one fore
paw driven into my right shoulder and
the other round me, he tried to get at
my head and neck, but fortunately pre-
vented this by raising my left arm,
which he instantly seized in his huge
mouth. shall never forget his sharp,
angry roar, the wicked look of his green
ish yellow eyes within six inches of
mine, the turned-back ears, his fetid
breath upon my cheek, and the feeling
of his huge fangs closing to the bone
through my arm above the elbow.
II endeavored, by giving him my
knee in the stomach, to make him let
go. Those who have ever kicked cat
can imagine what little effect this had.
1t was more like using ones knee to a
football than anything else. The pam
ther. with a roar, gave tremendous
wrench to my arm, hurled me some five
PAGES down the side of the hill prone on
my face, bringing my head in contact
with tree. Stunned and insensible,
lay some seconds on the ground, and
the brute, thinking me dead, Fortunate
ly did not worry me, but, passing over
me, went for the retreating police con-
stable who had brought me into the diff
ficulty. remember, when | came to,
raising my head from the ground, lean
ing my head against the tree, and
smiling with certain feeling of grim
satisfaction, when my eye caught the
retreating form of the constable and the
pursuing panther down the hill, and
thought the policeman's turn had come.
1.-The civil surgeon of the station
probed the teeth-wounds in the arm, and
found that the one at the back of the
arm ran right to the bone and was an
inch and half deep. The two wounds
on the inner side, in or close to the BIZ
ceps, were one an inch and quarter,
and the other an inch deep. The claw
wounds on the right shoulder were not
serious, and had fortunately just missed
the laf ge artery near the collar-bone,
injury to which would have resulted in
my bleeding to death in a very few min
utes.-, Times of India.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13

J..
Suppose that every wind and breeze
That lightly blows and rustles by
Should only whisper through the trees:
1.
Suppose the sea, the flashing sea,
One sound alone should carry nigh
The shore, and 1t should ever be:
/.
Suppose the happy, fitting birds,
That MARBLE meath the sunny sky,
Should sing could they indulge in words
j.
Suppose the fragrant, lovely flowers
Should wear a line of beauteous dye,
And on each petal we could read:
|.
Suppose the silvery, summer rain,
Feeding the springs and streamlets dry,
Should have this musical % refrain:
Suppose the cricket by the hearth,
Whose chirpings wintry storms DEFY,
One note of cheer should give the earth :
/.
Suppose the thunders hollow roar
And crash, in empyrean high,
Should have this echo, and no more:
/.
Suppose Niagara, clothed in mist
And pride of glorious majesty,
Should utter always, as we list:
/.
The brilliant stars pursue their way, =
The sun it's beams does not deny,
They fill their role, but never say:
/.
At her appointed hour the June
Brings roses; yet there is no cry
OF, Look, who walks in blossom shoon2
l..
Yet man, the egotist, will not learn
From Nature, bounteous though shy
OF speech. Good works will honor earn
Need not so often be the great
Colossal pronoun, If we try
In proper bounds to regulate:
/.
Laura Rosamond White, in Cleveland Leoder
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13

I'VE are all in the same boat, !"
aid Amy to Mildred. EYES," assented
he High School girl, 1--WE have all en-
parked in one marine vehicle ~ Oh
CIV Derrick
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13

The Oxford Press, it is claimed,
uses paper enough each year in printing
Bibles to form band nearly nine inches
wide around the earth
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13

The number of patents for veloci-
pedes of all sorts, including saddles, is
about 900. OF these, tricycles consti-
tute the great mojority. or nearly two
thirds Of the whole.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-13

"A Connecticut woman sent a feather
cushion to endow chair at Princeton
College
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-05
Slight Odds.
A Little Story with Large Moral,-One
Man who Knew his own Business.

mo, my DEAR" said the venerable keeper OF
country store to timid little girl whose head
scarcely came up to the counter, mo, my dear,
haven't any red flannel. but we have some first
rate New Orleans molasses - Softly limiting that
she didn't think that would answer the purpose
quite as well, the child went away in search of the
article she wanted.
Have you BEFSoN,S CAPCINE PLASTERS,'
asked gentleman Of certain drcggist whose
name could be given were it desired. Il am trou-
bled just now with touch of my old friend, the
lumbago, and the Benson's Plaster seems to go
the spot almost as soon as 1t touches the skim
Not at present" replied the druggist. genally,
''but We have lots of plasters just as good, There
is Allcock's. the Capsicum and others-won't one
Of them do just as wells
MY dear sir" retoTted the gentleman with
slight show of temper. Il say nothing against
those articles, but am business man, and al
ways ask for precisely what l want and for moth
ing else. ] may enlighten you, however, when
say that sOmetiWe ago. for another disease,
which the Capcine has since cured me, | tried all
those you mention, with no Apr; cable benefit.
Theyare inefficient every one of them, the mean
est act Of the proprietors Of some of them being
this: that they make plasters with similar sound
ing names to deceive the urwary into believing
they're the same thing Experience taught me
the difference III go 10 the next man in your line
Good day.
Be on your guard against limitations The gen
uine has the word C.APCINE cut clearly in the
middle of the plaster. All others are impositions.
Seabnry & Johusor, Chemists New York.