The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-11-30
Observations on Topics Of the Day.

f Observations on Topics Of the Day.
! Nellie BLY, who is always doing
J what few women undertake ant
, fewer accomplish, left last week TO
} a tour around the world in seventy
: five days.
William Sprague, exwar Cover
nor and ex-senator of Rhode Island
who was worth at one time $4,000,
900, is now a pauper. His son also il
compelled to work like any othe
poor mans son.
THE road of by and by leads t
the house OF never" says the Spanish
Proverb. More have fallen despon
dent and ruined on this road, thar
ever into drunkard's graves, or ever
we're ruined in haunts of vice.
Murat Halstead, the proprietor
and hot headed and vigorous writer
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gag
zette, has openly and honestly ex
planned in detail his connection with
the .'ballot box fraud" While he is
greatly to blame for not investiga-
ting thoroughly the whole matter
much sooner, yet the moral cour-
age shown in his public explania-
tions and apologies is greatly to be
admired and should be more general
ly initiated.
Two more foolish victims laid
their lives on the alter of Kentucky
honor. Men who in society occu-
pied high place, who had been
honored and rewarded by their State
and nation, almost as soon as they
see each other, rush like bowling
tigers to shoot, cut and slash until
life was extinct. They may have
had the physical courage to face the
mouth of cannon, but they had not
the moral courage to endure the jeer
of man.
The question: "what is it to be a
christian? is being answered by
distinguished clergymen and layman
in lions Herald, of Boston. The
thirty responses in four columns
which it has thus far published may
be condensed into the following
words. To be christian we must
have a vivid, clear idea of Christ.
We must make Him our Ideal, and
zealously and persistently strive to
live and do as He did. We must
keep our eye upon Him and always
and faithfully follow Christ. Be
Christlike.
The last number of Puck repre-
sents the father of beautiful, young
American woman, with a large purse
of gold in his hand and offering
$4,000 per year to decrepit, shrivel-
ed, crippled, vitiated, foreign prince
to marry his daughter. The only
thing the prince seems to possess is
questionable title to petty,
poverty stricken, patch of land; and
cloak of many colors, ornamented
with vice, scandal, drunkenness,
gambling, poverty and other kindred
virtues; and a crown about four sizes
too small. Well the American peo-
pie like to be humbugged.
Allen o. Myers, Ohio's Democrat
ic Saint and Martyr, who has been
prosecuted, and has suffered for the
cause, spoke bombs in recent
meeting of the Y. NJ. D. C. in Gin
cinnati. He advised not to sell the
Senator'S ship, not to elect rich man
but poor man, DC, DC. Now his
advice not to sell is very good, but
he goes beyond the bounds of pro-
priety and fairness when he advises
members of the Legislature to vote
against men simply because they are
wealthy. The question is not SO
much are they rich, as how did they
get their riches, and especially how
are they using their wealth. Taking
men of equal integrity and ability
it is better for State to elect.a rich
man than one who is poor. For the
rich man, by virtue of his wealth,
will have influence that the other
will not possess. Besides riches
will point to desirable characteristics
in the one, that are lacking in the
other.
In 1874 Geo. W. Barnhart pros
porous merchant, of Rich county,
Michigan, was charged with a helm
Gus crime.
He was dragged to Jail from his
home in which he had been surround
ed by all the comforts and luxuries
that taste and wealth could furnish.
His life for years had been cheered
by the devoted love of a cultured
wife and beautiful children. He
was accused by the State, tried and
convicted by jury and sentenced
by the judge to prison for a crime
he never committed. His wife died
broken hearted, the children were
practically banished by the public
that believed their father guilty and
his property was sadly neglected.
After suffering innocently for fifteen
long years it is found that another
committed the crime. Today he is
free but ruined in heart and mind,
his children gone, his wife dead and
without property. The State might
restore his house, but it can not
give him back his wife, and children
as they once were, nor can it relieve
him OF the fifteen years suffering.
\
Last week Lingo, the colored man
who was arrested Immediately after
the murder of Annie LeConey in
New Jersey, was exonerated by the
grand jury and released from jail
Had it not been for the prompt
action of the authorities in appre-
hending and lodging him in dis
tant Jail, he would now be no more.
He had been in the employ of Lee
Coney, the uncle of the murdered
girl, and had been expected to report
for work ON the fateful morning.
He changed his mind, however, and
went to work on an adjoining
farm. AS was subsequently ascer-
tanned, the uncle was the murderer,
but taking advantage of the circum-
stances against Lingo he breathed