The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-11-21

take charge OF the rink and open II
up with fiourish?"
Il don't know yet. A good many
people want us to do so. The owner
of the rink will be here soon and I'll
tell you more about it then. If we
do get control of it you may expect
various entertainments besides roller
skating"
Thanks"
A society for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals would be good
organization for Monongalia county.
Nearly every week there are cases of
teamsters and Others undertaking
and mercilessly beating their horses.
The first thing in order is to enforce
the law already in existence. The
code of West Virginia, Chap. CXLlX,
Sec. IA says: If any person shall
cruelty, unnecessarily or needlessly
beat, torture, mutilate, or kill or
overload, overdrive, or willfully de-
prive of sustenance any horse or
other domestic animal. or cause the
same to be done by another, whether
such horse or other animal be his
own or that of another, he shall be
guilty of misdemeanor, and fined
not less than fifty dollars and at the
discretion of the court be imprisoned
in the county jail not exceeding six
months.
Morgantown is badly in need of a
good, cheap restaurant, Especially
will this be true when the railroad is
completed. Nearly every town of
our pretensions in the whole country
has one or more such restaurants,
where a palatable lunch and cup of
coffee can be had at any hour. Who
will establish one here? Our hotels
are first-class and have very wide
reputation for their good tables, but
a hotel cannot take the place of a
neat and cheap restaurant. We
must have one; we must have it
soon.
Mr.. Henry German, one of the
best school teachers in the county,
said some very sensible things to the
New DOMINION Saturday.
Are we ever to have more than a
four months school term in this
county, Mr.. Gorman?"
Not very soon, | fear. Men who
have large families and little or no
property generally vote against an
extension of the school term. won
der our schools are doing as well as
they are; too many children are try
ing to teach. They lack experience.
Any business enterprise put into the
hands of boys and girls could not
live two years. "
"What remedy would you sug-
gest2'
'Pay teachers more and increase
the standard of scholarship, then the
older teachers can afford to stick tc
the profession.
Mr.. German is teaching the Chest
nut Ridge school.
Thursday of next week will be
Thanksgiving Day according to Mr..
Cleveland's almanac. Several years
ago five or six children, boys and
girls under the age of ten, we're asked
what they thought Thanksgiving
Day means. Here are the answers as
nearly as can be remembered. Bear
in mind they were children of some
what intelligent parents.
First answer: God was born
that day"
Second answer: Don't know"
Third answer: washington wrote
the Declaration of Independence
that day."
Fourth answer: at means that
we're to have turkey for dinner
Fifth answer: columbus dis
covered the United States"
If any teacher cares to ask the
same question of his pupils we
would like to have list of the an
swers given.
On Thanksgiving Day everybody
is supposed to be duly thankful ;
the comfortable man for his comfort
and the miserable man for his mis-
cry. In some cases it is a little
like hanging up God bless our
home" in houses where the jug is
the only object of worship and where
the only recreation is the daily
brawl. A newspaper correspondent
says he saw this very motto on the
walls of one of the lowest dives in
New York city. A western miner
some years since, becoming tired of
his claim, left the following telling
inscription on the door of his log
cabin:
ts9k0 foot fo uator