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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11
coLORlNG PIPES.

An Expert Explains that the Oil OF the
Tobacco Doesn't Do the Work.
Fine pipes are going out Of fashion,
The speaker was m elderly German, in
whose countenance beer and benevo-
lence were equally blended. The place
was room in an east-side tenement
house that reeked with tobacco smoke.
years ago had more business than !
could attend to. Nowadays l have to
call from store to store to get enough
jobs to keep me alive. color about
twenty articles week-meerschaums
cigar holders, French clays, cigarette
holders and fancy goods. The last
named are chiefly small carved articles,
such as scarf pins, sleeve buttons and
the like. They are made from meer-
schaum. clay. ivory, bone and celluloid
They all take color, more or less, and,
if you know how, you can produce very
handsome effects. Here is horse s
head, for instance. 1t comes from
Vienna, and is cut from meerschaum.
When got it it was white; now the
head is almost brown-black, and the
name is q rich chestnut. How is it
donep BY tobacco smoke, although
almost any other smoke would do as
well. Most people think pipes are col
ored by the oil. But they are not in the
least. 1t is the smoke that does all the
work. just look at the fingers of 2.
cigarette smoker. They are sometimes
completely bronzed.
"When l get an article to be colored
first clean it carefully, and then pol
ish it with chamois or fine flannel. /
then suspend it by wire or thread in /.
box that's full of tobacco smoke. If
you put it near the burning tobacco it s
apt to become gray or grayish brown.
II you put it too far away, it gets waxy.
I hang it from two to five inches over
the bowl. That's good smokc-box
there. It's only large cigar box with
small hole in the top and in the side.
put large pipe inside, with the stem
running through the sile. l then hang
from the little hooks on the inside the
things to be colored, fill the pipe, light
it, and draw on it with this rubber tube
| which l put on the stem. In half a
minute the box is full of smoke. 1t goes
out of the hole very slowly and depos-
its its coloring matter as it moves. Four
or five whiffs will make enough smoke
for half an hour. The best tobaccos for
the work are the cheap, wet ones. Navy
plug and niggerhead are my favortes,
as they make thick wet smoke which
colors rapidly. What's the charge?
Anywhere from twenty-five cents up,
according to the size of the article.
I've received as high as twenty-five dol
lars for large pipe.
but, as l said, pipes are going Out
of fashion. used to receive French
and Irish clays, but haven't had one
of these for two years now. Meer-
schaums are still in demand, but are
not very popular. Cigar holders are
also falling behind. Cigarette holders
are getting very common. Most are
cheap, and SO never get them. Those
do get come chiefly from dudes and
young ladies. They pretend to do their
own coloring, and so want nice job
done for them. ~ Y San.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11
PuNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

If advertisements were allowed on
the Washington monument every
body, for a wonder, would not want
their cards "at the top Of the column
Philadelphia Call.
Josh Billings: When was q
Young man l wus alwas in hurry to
hold the big end Of the log and do all
the lifting. Now am older seize the
small end and do all the grunting."
-"Shall l take your love to your
mother?' said lady visitor who was
going to see the mother in question to
little child OF three years. ''She has
my love-" was the quaint reply.
--Brown-"Yes, I'm going to take
short trip through the South. don't
care SO much about it myself l only
90 to please my wife. yon know
Fogg-"Ah! / see. You leave Mrs.
Brown at home, then. "-Bosson Trans
cript.
I'D you say that your wife never
gave you curtain lecture after you
came home late at nightp" "She never
did" How is that?" ''Shc always
goes along with me when | 60 out. -
Texas SJtings.
Those persistent purists who claim
that one should invariably say: THE
lamp was lighted" will of course make
no definite or vigorous kick against say
ing ''the young man chased out Of the
garden gate by the Infatuated mastif
was bited. y Chicago Telegram.
The brain OF an adult man weighs
on an average forty-eght ounces while
that of the average adult woman
weighs forty-four oanccs, and yet wo-
man is far superior to man mentally.
have obtained this information from
lady friend who is entirely trustworthy.
Bill Nye.
1t is said that bees will never sting
a person whose head is smeared with
molasses. The bother OF it is, when q
man has Incurred the animosity of =
colony of bees, he doesn't have much
time to 90 home, get molasscs and
spread it on his epidermis The old
fashioned way is the best-just rum
Burlington Free Press.
Now, Johnnie" said the teacher
..if your father borrows 800 and
promises to pay $40 a week, how much
will he owe in seven wecks?' ..One
hundred dollars, said Johnnie. I'm
afraid you don't know your lesson very
we'll" remarked the teacher. II may
not know my lesson very well, Johnny
frankly acknowledged, ''but l know my
father.'-N y. Sun.
Too sad to be continued:
There was a little man,
And he had a little can,
And q quart or more of kerosene WAS In u:
And upon the kitchen fire,
To make II burn still higher
He poured the oil, and In much less thaa
quarter of minute
There was no little can,
There was no little man
The tales too sad can't 20 ono vhv
did begin it, -
Margaret EtttnJe, IN Detroit Free Pr
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11

At seventeen years Of age he left the
shoemaker's seat and supported him
self by teaching farmers soma. Ks
success tempted him 70 opsn . village
school. B0sg very fond of the study
Of optics, he determined to make tele-
scope. He was too poor to purchase
lenses, so he made an object-glass out
of thick tumbler bottom. He ground
the glass by hand. made a tube out OF
tin plate, and mounted the glass in it,
An astronomer saw the homemade
telescope, and was so much pleased with
the object-glass as to spread the news
of Cookies skill far and near. Orders
came in for telescopes, and the village
teacher set up little shop. which his
wife attended, for the sale of optical in
struments. He made pumps, clocks.
spectacles and telescopes in little room
back of the shop.
One day, he determined to attempt
the con struction of rejecting telescope
of six inches diameter. He cast the
speculum, polished it by hand, and just
rs his hard labor was about to be re-
warded, the brittle metal broke. He
persevered. grinding the largest piece.
until he had a three and -a-half inch
spectrum, which he worked into good
rejecting telescope.
Annoyed by the treacherous metal, he
set to work to make an achromatic
glass lens. His ignorance of the optical
laws Of refraction had to be overcome
before he could give the right curve to
the lens. He studied the mathematic;
u u II
escope. Orders came in, and he in.
vented special tools to execute his work
Becoming dissatisfied with the method
of polishing le~,es by hand, he invent
ed machine, operated by steam, tc
polish object-glasses. His business in
creased to such an extent that he bull
the works in York, and when he died
it was found that he had left his mari
on nearly every astronomical instru
ment. Youths Companion.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11
LEARNED coeeLERs.
Some shoemakers Who Have Made Their
Mark in the World.

Some Sh0emakerB VINO Have Made Their
Mark in the World.
In the olden time the shoemaker's
seat was a lonely one. He who sat on
it was thrown upon his own resources
his loneliness made him think. The
A'old cobbler'' was often shrewd and
intelligent, and even the parson re-
spected his skill in argument. The list
Of illustrious shoemakers is such long
one that the "Sons of Crispin" have no
cause to be ashamed of their gentle
craft.
Some cObblers have taken vast strides.
William Carey stopped mending shoes
in order to become a missionary and
translator Of the Bible. William Gif-
ford jumped from his shoemaker's stool
into the editorial chair of the Quarterly
Revsew The German Cobbler, Hans
Sachs, became 1.-THE nightingale of the
Reformation, and George Fox, founder
of the Society Of Friends, used to pound
the lapstone as earnestly as he subse-
quently pounded ''the worlds people,"
1t i a long step from pegging the
shoes Of English clodhoppers to man
aging one Of the largest optical and
clock works in Great Britain. but q
shoemaker, the son of cobbler, took
that step. The founder of the Bucking-
ham Street Works, York, where are
manufactured theodolites, compasses,
turret clocks, telescopes and other
astronomical instruments, was Thomas
Cooke. cobbler.
His father, q shoemaker and very
poor, managed to send Thomas to
school for two years. He was then
seated on the cobbler's stool, but he
liked the sun. the sky and the open air
and disliked shoemaking Captain
Cooks voyages gave him longing for
the sea, and he was eager to become .
sailor. That he might be q good sea-
man and rise in the profession, he spent
his spare time in studying navigation.
When he was ready to ship before the
mast, the tears of his mother persuaded
him to give up the project
He stayed at home and continued his
studies. He learned mathematics from
m old book purchased ct stall for
shilling. Then he borrowed books on
geometry and optics, and mastered
1eir contents.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11

"Sweet things are very bad for yon,
dear" said fond mother to her little
six-year-old boy. who had the end Of !
fast waning stick Of candy in his mouth.
"And is sweet things bad for papa.
too?' asked the innocent child. releas-
ing the stick from bis mouth for only
an instant.
Yes, said the mother.
II thought so, replied the boy, =
the last end of the stick disappeared. 4
'sWhy did You think so. my boyP''
because lac always goes out when
you begin To sing Sweet violcts -
If that boy lives he may manipulate
the bones some night. = Ionksrs &tofee.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11
THE GIRL LEFT BEHIND ME.

The girl left behind me
Was pretty and all that;
Bright golden ringlets glistened
Beneath her airy hat.
She had dainty figure,
Her hands were small and white,
Her mouth was like rosebud.
Her eyes were warm and bright.
Her way was light and graceful
She was rOguish elf
A sweet bewitching fairy,
And well supplied with pelf.
She sang like any wild bird,
She danced with wondrous art,
And looked just like an angel
In her red village-cart.
Full often In the moonlight
We took little stroll,
And sat beneath tho hemlock
Upon the lonely knoll.
This girl left behipi me
Was just q lovely airl;
She was q perfect daisy,
Likewise precious pearl.
Often think about her,
And the sweet long ago.
Why did go and leave her
Behind me, would you know
That girl left behind me,
And swiftly ceased to WOO,
Simply, oh, simply, simply
Because she asked me to.
Puck.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11
THE OUTSIDE or A BOOK.

Very Often More Substance and Character
on the Outside Than ON the Inside.
A well-bound book will open easily
and will close firmly. While reading it
will not be necessary 10 press the COW
ers back, and when laid down they will
not cape apart. 1t will be neither stiff
as cast iron and heavy, with bevcled
edges, nor limp. though fashion at
present requires it to be either one or
the other A good binding is elastic; it
will yield, but it will return to its place.
If covered with full crushed morocco,
which makes the finest and best cover
ing, the polishing of the leather will be
a great test of the binders care and
taste. Levant morocco comes with
large grain, and if left SO is easily dam
aged or torn. 1t should therefore be
crushed with a ''polisher, a large
Furnishing tool, and the whole appear
ance of the book depends on how this
crushing is done. 1t may be SO light as
to be of little service, and to look more
like the result of accident than of de-
sign, or it may be carried so far that
the desirable variety of texture is quite
lost, or it may be uneven, spotty and
slovenly. The gilt tooling and letter.
ing should, in modern books, be neat
and sharp The ornamental tooling.
which is done with small stamps, called
irons, though now universally engraved
in brass, may be so arranged as to form
very pretty patterns or the reverse. 1t
follows that book may have as much
character in it's outside appearance IS its
inside, and very often it has more sub
stance. Like everything that is done
by hand. it may be vulgar or quiet,
coarse or elegant, fiimsv or substantial.
There is noIsort Of hand work that does
not rise at times to the dignity of fine
art, and bookbinding is certainly no OK
ception.-N Y Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11

There was another Cincinnati riot the
other day. A young man who had lost
about $4,000 on wheat speculation
went for broker with:
.'See here, didn't you say that wheat
was as low as it could goP"
20, yes"
And that it was q good time to
buyr"
Certainly"
"And that you'd advise any one de-
sirous of specializing to invest in
wheat?"
II believe that was my advice.
"Well, sir. bought wheat on your
advice and am $4,000 out of pocket. as
you know"
EXACTLY"
"But what are you going to do about
tp'' howled the victim.
1.-THE same as l always do" was the
placid answer. Il always advise drop
ping wheat and going into oats!"-
Wall Street Ncscs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11

Three men rode from Boston to
Attleborough the other night while it
was showing, crouched under the bag
gage car on the brake beam. When
they were discovered at Attleborough
station, literally covered with snow from
head to foot, Conductor Ham said.
seeing they hal nerve enough to come
that Far. they could come through to
Providence in an upholstered seat
Providence Ne,Us.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11

Pope Leo XIII. thinks that the evil
Of Che working classes arise chiefly from
ths abandonment Of religious principles
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-04-11

-1lrs Southworth' numerous grand
children call her 'sGrandmA Emma"
St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
ANOTHER PROP COVE


From the Social Fabric at LincoIu, Illinois
a Prominent Business Man Whose
Crooked Transactions HaYe Thoroughly
shocked the Commuity-Arrcst OF the
Culprit.
LINCOLN, Ill, June 24.-0n the heels
of Tuesdays shooting comes greater
sensation for yesterday-the arrest OF
James H. Danley, heretofore considered
one of the most upright men in town, tor
forgery. A week ago DanIey failed IN
business, leaving some $4,000 OF deots'
with only $12,0 of assets to pay 1t with.
This event created much excitement III
the city, as he had been engaged in the
book and musical instrument business
here for years, and was regarded as
safe, careful business man. Wnen tnat
calamity overlook him Danley was owing
one A. B. Roberts, a wealthy old bacneloF,
considerable money which he had Sc
cured by transferring to him various
notes, and after begging Roberts to pre-"
serve secrecy on the condition OF their al
fairs he deposited some more notes with
him. Part of the security held by Roberts
was mortgage on Danley's fathers farm
in Bureau County. Roberts had received
an intimation that the mortgage had been
cancelled, and upon this point he ques-
tione Danley carefully, but was assured
that all was square. Not satisfied, how
ever, Roberts wrote to the Circuit Clerk
of Bureau County and was informed in
reply that it was Cancelled and the land
sold.
Thunderstruck at this news, Roberts
went to De Witt County, where many OF
the signers of the notes were presumed
to reside, and was further horritied to
learn that no less than twenty-five of the
names signed were fictitious, such par
ties having neither habitation nor name
there.
for Danley's arrest The names of four
parties mentioned in the warrants al
legged to be forgeries are:
S. T. Briggs, Jr., for a note of $297.5O,
dated at Parnell, ILL.,, June 2Ist, 1882.
w. A. Dement,, for 1895, dated at De
Witt, March 10Th, 1884.
E. f. Shannon for $780, dated at
Farmer City, February Is, 1884.
David Attic for $365, dated December
13, 1888, at Wapella.
Tuesday night Danley offered to give
Roberts $25,000 personal security. The
latter had advanced the former about
that much money during the past five or
six years and held about 900 in old
notes to secure it. But the compromise
failed because Danley would not name
who would become his sureties.
The arrest has surprised and shocked
the people as thoroughly as anything that
has occurred here for manE years. The
preliminary trial will be held on the 30th.
Danley insists that the papers are all
right, as far as he knows, but some of his
best friends shake their heads in doubt,
even those who went on his bond yester-
day
St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS

MISS SHAFFER, II years old, a school
teacher at Clarksville, Ia, was cruelty cow
hided on the 9th by Mrs. Forney and her
daughter. The mother caught Miss Shaffer
and held her while the daughter beat her
over the back and shoulders with raw
| hide.
JAMES HATFIELD, teacher 60 years old,
was arrested on the 9th charged with
! burning the school-house at Rossyille,
Tenn. Hatfield was discharged for ineffi-
cheney and few nights afterward the
school-house was burned.
CERTAIN police officers of Chattanooga,
Tenn, have been arresting innocent parties
on trumped-up charges, and the parties
sent to certain attorneys, who got them out
of trouble, and divided their fees with the
policeman who did the arresting.
JAMES D. FISH, the ex-nank president,
was sentenced on the 9th to ten years i'm
prisonment in the Auburn IN. " peniten-
tiary.
GREAT excitement prevails at Montour
Junction, Pa, over the discovery of silver
quartz near that place.
THE President on the 27th appointed Ed.
WdEu LIZ G1eOuSn 10 DS COllGCuOl VI CuStOAA1S
for the district of New York.
REBEcCA SAMUELs, 12 years old, was
convicted at Barnesville, s. c., on the 9th,
of the murder of Lucy Graham, a six
weeks-old infant she was nursing. She
soaked the child in pot of concentrated
lye.
BRIGHAM YOU'VE, JR., and Bishop Snow
are in the City of Mexico negotiating for
the purchase of large tracts of land in the
Mexican republic for the occupation Of
Mormon colonies.
JOHN McCULLoUGH's friends say he is
growing worse so rapidly that you can
notice day by day the increased weakness
of his mind.
THE old q. S. steamer Niagara was burn
ed at Apple Island, Mass, for her metal.
A LIFE full of mystery has just been re.
vealed to the public and to the wife and
children of the late Sergeant Alex. Henry,
of Vicksburg, Miss, whose death occurred
on the. 21st of April. His widow has dis
covered that he was wealthy Englishman,
and that his right name was Henry Hamil-
ton.
THE President on the 9th suspended
Horatio c. Burchard, of Illinois, as Direc-
tor of the Mints and appointed James B.
Kimba1l, of Pennsylvania, in his stead.
AT meeting of the new board Of direct.
ors of the North, Central and South Ameri-
can Exposition, held at New Orleans on the
9th, S. B. McConico was elected president
and Samuel a. Buck director general.
Az exodus of the Cinnamon from Cali.
fornia to the East has begun.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
Meeting Of Jersey cattle-Rreeders.

KANSAS CITY, Mos June PA meet,
ing of Jersey cattle-growers was held
here Yesterday for the purpose of organ
izing Jersey Breeders Association OF
Missouri and Kansas. A dozen or more
prominent Jersey cattIe-raisers were
present. j. S. Richardson Of the famous
Jersey cattle firm of Richardson Bros, OF
Davenport, Ia, is among those present.
Both morning and afternoon sessions
were held, and lastnight at the st. James
Hotel the merits of Jerseys was the prin.
cipal topic of conversation. The nlattet
of having annual sales st Kansas CITY.
such as already instituted by short-horn
breeders, was discussed. A great nnanw
JERSEYS are already bred in Kansas and
Missouri, and the number is steadily in.
creasing, owing to the Butter-makine
qualities OF the breed and the ease wfSS
which thez become acelimated.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
NOT WORTH DOG MEAT.

A United States NIarshais Opinion of the
Indians Generally and the Cheyennes In
Particular-Why They Put on the War
Paint.
DALLAS, TEX, June 24.-Your CORE,
spondent had an interview with Deputy
United States Marshal Caster, of the In.
dian Territory, now here, on the alleged
outbreak of Cheyennes, which is creating
so much alarm in War Department circles
at Washington. Caster said he came
through the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
reservations three days ago. He did not
know until he arrived in Dallas yesterday
morning and read the dispatches that the
Cheyennes were on the War-path. He
says that on the 18th inst. the Cheyennes
went to Fort Reno, where the school for
the Cheyennes and Arapahoes is located,
took all the Indian children from school,
broke up the institution and threatened to
massacre the agents and teachers if they
did not leave at once. The reason they
took this step was that some clothing
sent them by the Government was three
DAYS late in arriving. They became so
indignant at the delay that they refused
to accept the raiment and began to paint,
They expected number of neighbor-
ing tribes would join them in avenging
the wrong done them in making them
wait few days for their new clothes,
but find that they are mistaken, since
even the Arapahoes on the same reserya-
ton with them refuse to paint.
The Cheyennes are provided with Win.
chesters and six-shooters and have an
abundance of cartridges which they ca n
readily and cheaply procure in Texas.
Speaking of the Cheyennes aud Arapa.
hoes, Mr. Caster said ''They are not
worth their weight in dog meat They
neither SOW nor reap, yet ration day oc-
ours once week, when 168 beeves and
5000 pounds of -four are dished out to
them by the Government. The rest OF
the week the more industrious live on
prairie dogs, which they catch by turning
water into the dog towns and running the
inhabitants to the surface of the eartfg
where they kill them. And as there have
been heavy rains of late there is plenty
of water for the purpose. The moder-
ately industrious pick up precarioas
living by begging and stealing from the
whites'E Mr.. Caster does not fhinE
there is cause for apprehending serious
outbreak unless the Cheyennes are rein.
forced by renegade white rustlers and
the bulk of the Arapahoes.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.


Collision On the Wabash Railroad Near
st. Louis-An Engineer and Conductor
Killed.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 25.-A fatal acci-
dent occurred on the Wabash Railroad
at Woodstock, few miles this side of
Ferguson Station, and just outside the
city limits. The Ferguson accommoda-
ton due in st. Louis at 1925 collided
with freight train No. % at Woodstock.
Engineer Stewart, of the freight, was
caught under the wreck, being unable
to clear himself, and was killed. Con-
ductor Mann, of . the accommodation,
was also crushed so badly that he
survived only a short time after
being taken out These two, as far
as is known, are the only ones
killed, and the injuries to others on the
trains are only scratches and bruises. No
passengers, as far as could be ascer-
tanned, were either killed or severely
wounded. The freight conductors watch
was exactly six minutes behind time.
AS soon as the information was re-
ceiVed at the railroad Offices the Wrecking
outfit was at once dispatched to the scene
with surgeons, and left the Union Depot
at 1920. From that on physicians were
telephoned for from all over town, and at
2:30 another special was sent out bearing
another crew Of surgeons.
TIE FERGUSON AcCoMToDATIoN
carries usually large number OF people
into the city, as it is put on for the ben
eft of suburban residents entirely. The
resHlt if the meagre reports received
may be trusted. is very fortunate one.