The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

To listen to them talking one
would think that 100000 repre-
sents the number who will excurt to
Pittsburg on the first boat, but l
think that 0 will be about the repre-
sentive figure. And another thing,
are we going to celebrate that day in
grand and glorious shape and make
a good time for the memory to dwell
blissfully upons
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Most Morgantown folks impress
one as native to the manor born and
it seems they have the most compre-
hensive ideas as to fitness of things.
For instance, We have had water
works but few days comparatively,
but they speak of the water as if it
had always been here, though many
never saw water run from a spigot
before. And as to the gas, oh, it
seems as if the time when we didn't
have gas was only in the aboriginal
days. l call that smart.
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A stranger who halls from the
east was here for several days and he
said to me that the open immortality
in this place was something shock
ing to observe and what one would
not expect TO see here. He
tells the truth We who live here
are not so quick to perceive it, but
still the fact remains that immoral
ity, very thinly disguised, stalks
boldly and publicly here. 1t is a
pity and it can be helped.
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And this is the season when gilded
youth with gaudy notions of attire
saves up his small change with mind
intent upon the purchase of a new
overcoat. Well does he know that he
will have to save for long time and
well does he know that the coveted |
overcoat robs him of many small dis |
sipations that have become dear to
his heart. He curses long and loud |
such fate, oh, cruel fate. But it is
new overcoat or social entree lost
and gone and he accepts the direful
alternative and is a pretty good boy
till he has boarded up the amount
needful to the purchase. / think if
he would, after getting the overcoat,
at once begin to save for summer
suit he would be good boy all
winter.
/ am told that the coming winters
gayety is to be in nature and number
of events Unprecedented in the an
nails of the old town. 1t is also un.
derstood that full dress affairs will
surely call for full dress parapherna-
liza and the fashionable young men
have for the most part already given
their orders for spike tail coats and
will be prepared for anything, how
ever swell. OF course, the season
has hardly set in yet, but my worthy
informant declares that a perfect
revolution in the matter of dress is
to occur this season, and those who
can't or won't don the social uniform
will Jun the risk Of being ostracised,
and have to keep out of the swim.
Still there are those who sigh for the
good old times
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l am glad to see that the temper
ance people have gone to work in
such good earnest. If the young men
are appealed to in a proper manner
their sympathies can be enlisted in
the teetotaler's cause and thus be the
means of bringing more of them into
the fold. Don't tackle young man
beligerently with cold water princi-
Piles, as he will become rufiied and |
lost to you forever, but rub him the
smooth way of the fur and he's yours
| know; | was young once. Much
of reformatory character is needed |
needy badly here, and my Christian
friends, it is your plain and bounden
duty to exert yourselves to a refor- |
nation of the many youth of this
place who are travelling rapidly on
the road to the bad.
ToPIc ExPosTULAToR.