The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-01
TIMELY TOPICS


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The cholera has been boon t.
the newspapers. t has furnished
items that all the world wants t,
read. They have been sensational
vitality interesting, and easy to get
The Corbett- Sullivan fight, and tn,
previous training Of the fighters was
close rival to it for time, but il
could not be prolonged indefinitely
and then people always felt little
ashamed of showing pronounced
interest in the prize fght-at least,
the majority of people did. However,
no one has to disguise his anxiety to
hear the very latest announcements
from the infected districts, and there
is every reason why it should become
a sufficiently personal matter to
make each of us exercise care as to
our homes, their surroundings, and
what we eat and drink.
If it be true that cholera is com
municated only through the mouth,
by the eating of food not thoroughly
cooked, and the drinking of unboiled
liquids, surely the taking of reason
able precautions in these matters is
merely common sense.
One can scarcely understand why
the first ship that brought the dread
disease was allowed to leave Ham
burg. Yet it is not so very difficult,
either, if the physician on board the
Morayia is a sample of those of the
profession who had the passengers
in charge. When he reached New
York this physician knew that TWEEN
ty-two of his twenty four patients
sick with cholera" had died, but be
could give no information whatever
with reference to them. He knew
their temperatures had been low.
How low he could not say. He had
not used a thermometer He had
kept no record. He had absolutely
nothing to report save the fact OF
death, and indefinite temperature.
However, these are matters that it
does not help us to discuss now. The
cholera is here, and we must face the
fact, and prepare to meet it the best
we can. We may have to do so even
in such mountain-girt town as
Morgantown.
The entrance of cholera into New
York seems to have been through no
negligence on the part of the officials
in charge. In little station on Sta
ten Island DIR. jenkins and his as
sistant DR.. Tallmadge watch from
daylight to dark and from dark to
daylight for the appearance of yes
sells that may carry the plague, and
every means possible seems to have
been used to keep it at bay.
If a vessel were in the least sus-
pected she was ordered TO turn about
and take up her station in the lower
bay.
Here the enterprise of the news
paper man became apparent. Tugs
were sent out by various papers, and
the irrepressible reporters strove to
obtain interviews with those detain.
ed on board. Now and then they
succeeded, and then the rival col
umns were flied with the unprinei.
pied actions of those papers who did
not respect the laws of the land in
their over-powering eagerness to OBJ
tain news; aud all the world that
read knew that sour grape culture
was still fiourishing.
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Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge
desires to enter the Senate, in the
place of Senator Dawes of Massa-
chusetts. Mr.. Lodge has become ia.
nous in political life by several
things, not the least among these be
ing his authorship of the Force bill
He is also disposed toward whole
sale liberality to the able-bodied
American citizen who can vote He
once proposed a pension bill provid
ing a pension for every man who was
liable to be drafted into the Union
army during the late war, even if he
never had been, and had never seer
the slightest military service.
Evidently he must desire TO re
munerate them for being badly scared
for that was the only discomfort one
can imagine them experiencing. His
ideas as to the rewards of merit due
to the North and the vigorous trese
ment to be bestowed on the South
are fittingly illustrated in his pen
sion and his force bills. He thinks
the Southern people are bad children
and the only way they can be brought
into line is for the North to stand ar
with whip in its hand and make
them come. However, he encounters
opposition in his own house, among
the men who believe that all Amer
leans are brothers, have equal rights
and the Southern man as much right
to settle his social problems as TIL.
Northern manufacturer to manage
his own strikes.
The different sections of the coun
try have to meet different problems
and perhaps Mr.. Lodge may know
more about the management of those
nearer to him. They are just as diff
ficult, and 1t is just as important
that they be solved, and one cam
but wonder that he doesn't expend
his oyerweening desire to force some
thing or somebody, on the people
with whom he is most closely con
nected, and whom he understands.
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No one but busy person can APP
preciate the value of method in work
1t is frequently the case that we have
so much leisure we accomplish moth
ing. Having little that is obligatory
to be done, the time slips away on
one thing and another until the nee
essary doings are neglected. 1t is
said that those women who have
done the best literary work have beer
house keepers as well as writers, but
by reason Of methodical use of theil
time have not found varied duties a