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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
A Political Sign Of the Times.

Time was when the intelligence
and conscience of the Northern
States were largely if not chiefly en-
listed in the ranks of the Republi-
can party. Preachers, teachers, col
lege presidents and professors were
very generally Republicans, and
nearly every pulpit, academy and
college was an educational centre
from which the youth of the land
were sent out trained and inspired
to make war against the institution
of slavary and in favor of maintain
ing the integrity of the national
Government. While this condition
of things lasted the supremacy of
the party was inevitable. The sneer
SO often aimed at preachers and
teachers as impracticable theorists
is a harmless one always, for the
simple truth about the matter is
that the preachers and teachers of
one generation mould and control
the political and social forces of the
next. These leaders of the thought
of a generation ago created the Re-
publican party and were primarily
the source of all its real achieve
ments. This being the case it would
naturally follow that if the party
continue to be led by it's intellect
and conscience its ascendancy would
be permanent.
But what is the present tendency?
Do the intellect and conscience of
the North continue to lead the party
and furnish its issues? Which way
are these elements gravitating now.
towards the party or away from it?
careful survey of the political
field leads to the conclusion that,
while the party still retains large
following of cultivated and thor
oughly upright citizens, the leaders
in thought and morals are gravita-
ting away from it, The recent dec
laration of President Eliot, of Har-
ward, in favor of the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Massachusetts,
is a conspicuous illustration of this
tendency. The election of Seth Low
as President of Columbia College is
another. The adhesion of so many
clcrgymen to the Prohibition cause
and the severe but just criticism OF
the Republican party by the leading
civil service reformers are all straws
that show that the intellectual and
moral currents are away from the
Republican party at this time.
There are various reasons for this.
The enriching Of the few at the ex-
pensc Of the many by the mainten-
ance Or custom duties higher than
are necessary to furnish tie revenue
u I.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
MoRGANTOwN, WEST SATURDAY NOVEMBER

required 10 support az economically
administered government, or even to
afford due protection to labor, has
doubtless influenced some to aban-
don the party responsible for this
unnecessary taxation. The insin-
certify of its profession on the sub
ject of an honest civil service and the
fact that it's present leaders are the
Platts, Dndleys, Clarksons and their
fellow spoilsmen are also leading
causes of this very apparent drift.
While the rank and file of the
party remain honest they accept the
leadership of these men without SER
ious protest. The spoilsmen make
platform promises to the ear that
are broken to the hope and select
candidates for the Offices from the
Presidency down who are silently If
not openly in accord with themselves.
Despairing, therefore, of reform
within the party the Eliots, Lows,
Curtises and other educators and
leaders of thought are drifting into
the Democratic party.
The present significance of these
prominent secessions from Republic
canism lies rather in their revelation
of a tendency than otherwise. They
reveal the fact that the men of this
type are dissatisfied with the pres
ent management and attitude of the
party. The few that have gone are
but the pioneers Of larger number
who will follow. There are thous-
ands Of Republicans who are Repub-
licans now under protest. They will
cease to protest much longer if the
present leadership of the party is
continued and follow the few bold
spirits in the other party. But the
future effect of this changed attitude
on the part of the leading educators
of the country is likely to be very
great. With Harvard, Yale, Colum-
bia and other educational centres
led and moulded by men who have
sadly arrived at its conclusion that
the Republican party has outlived
its usefulness the time is not far
distant when the young and aggres-
sive conscience and intellect of the
country will be arrayed in the OPP
posing ranks. If the Republican
party shall not depose its Platts,
Dudleys and Clark pretty soon
the coming generation of voters will
depose the party without fail.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
VOLUME XIV.
ssThe Grip Of Partisanshfp from the
Throat OF Patriotism"
National Democrat.

"Who would tear the grip of par
tisanship from the throat Of patriot
tismY' was the striking question
that the Hon. Will Cumback, of In
diana, asked New York audience
before which be was lecturing one
evening last week.
Is it possible that partisanship
can be base enough to grip the
throat Of patriotism2 1t is, and we
can show what partisanship it is
that is trying to choke the breath
of life out of the noblest of all hu-
man passions.
Twenty-Five years ago this coun-
try was involved in civil war. After
the end of the wal the defeated Sec
ton accepted the political and com
mercial results of the battle field
with more alacrity and good faith
than defeated party had ever be-
fore displayed. From that time to
the present day there has never been
a single incident TO justify the sus-
picion that the people of the South
were not as loyal to the Union as
the people Of the North The readi-
ness with which both parties after
the civil war laid aside their weap-
ons and returned to the arts of peace,
and so far as the masses of the peo-
pie are concerned, have ever since
co-operated for the common good of
a glorious country, is the most mag
nificent thing in human history.
Its contemplation is something to
make every American proud that he
is an American. And yet all the
politicians of the Republican party
deny the existence Of this browning
glory of American citizenship, and
for 25 years almost their entire stock
in trade has been the denunciation
of the people of the South as dis
loyal, and their favorite appeal has
been to the base and the baseless
suspicion and distrust of the South
entertained in the North Last year,
while the orators and editors of the
Democratic party were discussing
the best means of promoting the
common good, about which it is
inevitable that men of equal intelli-
gence and patriotism should judge
differently, the orators and editors
of the Republican party were appeal
ing to the people of the North to
"vote as they shot," to rally to the
defence of their country, as though
it were in any danger; to defeat the
people of the South; to rescue the
country from the control of REBELS
has not hepupilcan partlsanshlp
sunk its claws into the throat of
patriotism?
The Republican party as politi-
cal organization, and with due re-
gard to abundant individual excep-
tions, has forgotten all about coun-
try; it has lost all sense of Ameri-
can citizenship. To it the Southern
States are conquered territory; the
people of the South are to them
what the inhabitants of Alsace and
Lorraine are to the Germans; one
half the people of this country have
been brought up to believe that the
other half consist of public enemies
from whom the Government is to be
saved every four years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
Have an Eye to Business.

MAsoNTowN, Pa, October Pc
There is quite boom in coal land
in this section, with view of the
extension of the South West Penn
sylvania Railroad from Uniontown
TO the West Virginia line, which has
been surveyed from Uniontown to
West Virginia, via Masontown, to the
Monongahela river, and then up the
finest and wealthiest mineral valley
in the State. J. V. Thompson d Co,
of Uniontown, have been taking OPP
tions for coal at 80 days, at $50 per
acre, and now have nearly 5000 acres
which has a Monongahela frontage
of about A miles. The II. c. Prick
Company and Mcclure & Co. have
also been gathering up some valua-
pieces of coal land in this vicinity.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

lawn should be about every farm
house, and So will purchase a very
good mower to keep it trimmed.
One man who will practice neatness
and order about his home is worth
more than hundred lectures. 1t is
surprising how, when one farmer
fixes up, another and then another
will follow his example until whole
neighborhood will, within a very
short time, be so changed for the
better as to be scarcely recognizable
as the same place. Try it and you
will be surprised at the results.
Now as to the treatment of our
wives. We do not realize what a
burden are the household duties. 1t
is not that woman's work is heavy,
nor that more hours are necessary,
but it is the constant repetition of
the same thing for days, weeks,
months, and years, that breaks down
ones system. A drop of water fall
ing from the caves on ones head
does not disturb him; two or three
or a dozen drops would be scarcely
noticed. But let drop fall every
second or so with clockwork regular
ity, and but few days are required
to drive one to insanity. Is it any
wonder that our insane asylums are
filled with farmers wives? We
should do all in our power to relieve
the women of this drudgery. There
are hundreds of duties about the
house which the husband can and
ought to perform, but does not?
The farmer should go away more
from home with his family; take
more recreation, see more of the
world, and learn how others do. BY
taking one day week regularly ex-
cept in harvest or some such time,
as much could be accomplished in
the other five, and a great deal more
pleasure gotten out Of life. Don't
act as though you bcgrudged every
cent of money that you give your
wife, and make her feel that for
spending money she must make but
ter to sell and save every egg, and all
that sort of thing. Let your purse
strings be as open to her as yourself
W.S.D
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
Words Of Wisdom.

Life is -crucible; we are thrown
into it and tried.
Labor rids us of three evis-tc-
diousness, vice and poverty.
Quarrels would never last long if
the trouble was on one side.
The man who can support him
self is always on top Of his obliga-
tions.
Remember impertinence isn't wit,
any more than insolence is brilliancy.
Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but rising every time We fall.
That action is best which procures
the greatest happiness for the great
est numbers.
Our grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at distance, but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
We go and fancy that everybody
is thinking of US, but he is not; he
is, like us, thinking of himself
1t requires great talent to effect
extravagant manners, but the gem
of originality is simplicity, which no
talent can initiate.
Some one has well said that while
We can not control our circumstances.
yet we can control what we shall do
in the circumstances.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly
points to one object, self; but, unlike
the magnet, it has no attractive pole,
but at all points repels.
Men do things which their fathers
would have deprecated, and then
draw about themselves flimey cor
don Of sophistry, and talk about The
advance of humanity and liberal
thought, whom Il il nothing M al
but preference for individual d
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
Autumn Arbor Day.

As all will no doubt remember
next Friday, November s, has been
designated rs Arbor Day by Super
intcndent Morgan, for our public
schools. 1t is carefully observed in
several states and should be more so
than it is in West Virginia. In dis
GUESSING the day that is to be OBJ
served in Pennsylvania the Philadel-
phia Times says:
No greater bcnefaction could be
connected with our schools of every
grade than the practical cultivation
Of the love of the shades and flowers
which nature so generously offers on
every hand. Every school house
and grounds should receive the spe-
cial care of teachers, and their pupils
should be taught to surround their
school rooms with heartsome shades
and fragrant flowers. There is no
possible excuse for the many bleak,
forbidding school grounds to be seen
and Friday next should witness the
liberal planting of shades, vines,
flowers, etc, about every school
house in the State.
If children were encouraged to
beautify their school house and
grounds, it would speedily lead them
to heautify their homes in like man
ner; and in no way can the tastes
and habits of scholars be more re-
fined and ennobled than by making
them the authors of the improve
ment of their school houses and play
grounds. Every tree, shrub, flower
or vine planted by a school child
will be watched in its growth with
ceaseless interest, and even mature
manhood and womanhood will cher
ish the pride Of boyhood or girlhood
inspired by the planting Of these
generous gifts of nature. A beauti-
fuI school house and grounds made
SO By the hands Of the school chill
dren would make every child long
for these beauties about their homes,
however humble they may be; and
from the schools this benificcnt edu-
cation would rapidly assert itself in
the homes Of the State. Let Autumn
School Arbor Day be carefully OBJ
served in every school.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
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A. Novel Method of Advertising.

"The Chicago Shoe store will have
bona fide marriage in one of the
show windows tomorrow at s o'clock
The couple will be given supply of
shoes and started into the real life
of this troublesome world under fair
auspices. Long may they be happy"
The paragraph quoted above is
from a Leavenworth, Kansas, paper
The wedding was public to advertise
the business men who own the store
1t no doubt paid them very we'll.
The gentleman who sent the clipping
is connected with the house and he
writes us as follows:
The hour for the wedding was s
p. M, but the sidewalk became so
blockaded that the police were un-
able to keep passway even in the
middle of $50 foot street. 1t was
estimated that 5000 people were
crowded in the block from 1880 to
$3.50 when the wedding came off.
A bonfire was started in the next
street north; the fire bells were rung
and the engines rushed up 4th street
thinking they could move the crowd
but to no effect. The people had
come to see the wedding and were
not going away until after the cere-
mony. 1t was credited with drawing
five times the number of people that
ever answered an advertisement in
this city before.
We had full attendance of the
U. S. A. officers from the fort, miles
north of the city. had the pleas
ure of meeting Lieut.. Lewis, he was
born in Uniontown.
We gave the bride $25 in gold and
the groom the finest pair of shoes in
the city. They also received 500
silver set from one of the leading
jewellers, a fine bed room set from a
furniture dealer and many other
presents. This was done to induce
them to have the ceremony perform
ed publicly in the window.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

When fast young man goes
astray friends gather around him
in order to restore him to the path
of virtue. Gentlencss and kindness
are lavished upon him to bring him
to manly grace. No one would ever
suspect he had sinned. But when a
poor girl is betrayed, she receives
the brand of infamy and she is hence
forth driven from the ways of socie-
ty; the betrayer is honorably re-
ceiyed, but there is no place for her
this side of the grave. Society has
no loving or helping hand for her,
no smile of peace or voice of forgive
ness. There is deep wrong in this
and fearful consequences. And yet
to our shame it is said, in this Chris
tian land we boast of human kind
ness to woman.-Cameron Vindica-
tor.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
The Eifrel Tower an American idea.

The idea of the Eifel tower, &C
cording to the Engineering and
building Record, is acknowledged
by NJ. Eiffel to have originated in
this country at the time Of the Phil
adelphia Centennial in 1876. The
circular tower then proposed was to
have been 1000 feet high, $50 feet in
diameter at the base and 30 feet at
the top. 1t was designed by Clark,
Reeves & Co., of Phenixville, Pa,
and was expected to cost ST. 100000
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
Two Good Papers at a Bargain.

We have arrangements by which
we can furnish the Ohio Farmer.
the leading weekly agricultural, live
stock and family journal of this
country, and the New DOMINION,
both one year, postage paid. for only
S2.40. This is bargain that every
farmer should accent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

A man residing in Doddridge
county, sold his farm some three
years ago and went west to grow up
with the country. A few days ago
he returned, having come by wagon,
with the following inscription in its
canvass cover: Chintz bugged in
Illinois, Cycloned in Nebraska, White
Capped in Indiana, Bald Knobbed
in Missouri, Prohibited in Kansas,
Starved for water in Colorado
West Virginia or bust"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
JEFF DAVIS ROMANCE.
How He Eloped With Colonel Zachary
Taylor's Daughter.

The first marriage of Jefferson
Davis was of somewhat romantic
character Aftec graduating at West
Point, he was ordered to Fort Craw-
ford, at Prairie du Chen, Wis. the
post then commanded by Col. Zach
airy Taylor. The daughter of the
latter, Miss Sallie Knox Taylor, at
once fell desperately in love with
the handsome and intellectual young
lieutenant. The rash pair cloped
one night and were married. Col.
Taylor was enraged, and declared
with an oath as strong as ever used
that under no circumstances would
he ever forgive Davis or become rec
onciled to his daughters disobe-
dience
But sixteen years passed. "Old
Zach" was in command of the Uni
ted States Army in Mexico, and
serving under him was Colonel JEFF
ferson Davis as the head of the IA
nous First Mississippi rifles. At
the battle of Buena Vista this regi-
ment covered itself with glory, Davis,
while leading one of its charges at a
critical moment, fell severely, and it
was supposed mortally wounded.
He was borne from the field That
evening General Taylor, mounted
"Old Whitney" and paid him Wis
it. Dismounting, he stepped to the
Colonel's cot and extended his hand.
"Jef," he said, you have saved
the day with your glorious rifles.
Let by,gones be by gonesl Knox
(the name by which he always called
his daughter) knew your worth and
mettle better than / did,
They shook hands. From that
moment, through the war, and in
deed until the death of President
Taylor, the warmest friendship ex-
listed between them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

Indistinct But Reliable.

Borrowit Tin Chinese laundry)-
Why do you say Friday John, when
You mean Friday?
Chinaman-I say Fli-day cause l
mean Fli-day; not like Mclean man,
who slay Fli-day and come to pay
me week after nextl-1'ends SIT
ir0s
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

WASHINGTON, d. c.. October 25.-
Talk of COTS being declared Gov
ernor despite the report of the Leg
islative Committee is freely indul-
ged in by Republicans here, and
enough leaks out to make it certain
they base their hopes on the use of
mnnnu
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

The sheriff of Marion county Ohio,
offers 81, 900 reward for the arrest
and conviction of Jacob Napier, a
murderer. His parents live in Vim
ton county, Ohio, and it is thought
that he is travelling uuder an assum-
ed name, in this state. He is light
mulatto.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

1t was once supposed that scrofula
could not be eradicated from the
system; but the marvellous results
produced by the use of Ayers Sarsa-
parilla disproves this theory. The
reason is, this medicine is the most
powerful blood purifier ever discov-
cred.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
A Visit to Texas.
From the Austin Statesman.

from Tue Austln Statesman.
When distinguished visitor goes
to Galveston he is taken out to the
beach and treated to surf bath !;
when he goes to Houston he is given
turtle soup; when he goes to Dallas
he is filled with boom hash: when he
goes to Fort Worth he is treated to
a plate of panther steak; when he
stops at Waco he is filled up with
artesian water; at San Antonio he
is Toasted on tamales, and when
he reaches Austin he is banqueted
on the elixir of life and the fat Of the
land.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

Gout has various names according
to the parts affected, as podagra,
when in the feet; chiragra, when in
the hands, &C.; but whether the at
tack is first felt in the feet or the
hands,. rub with Salvation Oil at
once. It annihilates pain. Price
rs cents.
Popular trial shows the worth of
every article, and 43 years constant
use has proven the great efficacy of
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup; it has no
superior.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

What was thought to be an In
dian summer haze in Washington
turns out to have been smoke from
the cigars of office seekers who still
haunt the streets and corridors of
that city.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02

IT WoN'T BAKE BRAED. In other
words Hoods Sarsaparilla will not
do impossibilities. Its proprietors
tell plainly what it has done, sub
nit proofs from sources of unques-
toned reliability, and ask you frank
ly if you are suffering from any dis
ease or affection caused or promoted
by impure blood or low state of the
system, to try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The experience of others is sufficient
assurance that you will not be dis
appointed in the result.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
Pretty Black.

Malone always works best in the
dark and among the darkics.-Kan-
sos City Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-02
To the Man Who Won't Pay the Printer

May he be. shod with lightning
and compelled to wander over gun
powder.
May every day of his life be more
despotic than the Dey of Algiers.
May he never be permitted to kiss
a pretty woman,
May he be bored to death by
boarding school misses practicing
their first lesson in music, without
the privilege of seeing his tormen-
tors.
May 240 Nightmares trot quarter
races over his stomach every night.
May his boots leak, his gun hang
fire, and his fishing line break.
May troop of printers devils,
lean, lank, and hungry, dog his foot
steps every day.
May regiment of cats caterwaui
under his window each night.
May his COW give sour milk and
his churn make rancid butter.
In short, may his business go to
ruin and lie himself to the devil
Some fashionable ladies are not
satisfied with ready-made fans, but
must have them made to order; they
are, however, satisfied with DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup at rs cents and take it
regularly.
Zone fire burns out another's burn
ing" and most pain suffers more to
be cured, but Salvation Oil Is pain
less and certain. 1t costs oily Is
cents.