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UddisDuted Merit.

The great success of the Royal Bak-
ing Powder is due to the extreme care
exercised by its manufacturers. to
make it entirely pure, uniform in
quantity, and of the highest leaven-
ing power. All the scientific knowl-
edge, care and skill, attained by twen-
ty years practical experience are con-
tributed toward this end, and no
pharmaceutical preparation can be
dispensed with a greater accuracy,
precision and exactness. Every arti-
Gle used is absolutely pure. A num-
Der of chemists are employed to test
the strength of each ingredient, so
that its exact power and effect in COM
bination with its co-ingredients is
definitely known. Nothing is trust
ed to chance, and no person is employ
ed in the preparation of the materials
used for manufacture of the powder,
who is not an expert in his particular
branch OF the business. As a conse-
quence, the Royal Baking Powder is
of the highest grade of excellence al
ways pure, wholesome and uniform
in quality. Each box is exactly like
every other, and will retain its pow
ers and produce the same and the
highest leavening effect in any CHM
ate, at any time. The Government
Chemists after having analysed all
the principal brands in the market,
in their reports placed the Royal
Baking Powder at the head of the
list for strength, purity and whole
someness, and thousands of tests all
over the country have further demon
strated inc fact that its qualities are,
in every respect, unrivaled.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
Table Etiquitte.

A lost should not stand while
carving.
Gloves are not to be worn ut the
table, under any circumstances
The napkin is not folded, but sim
p Y crushed and laid beside the plate
on rising.
No argumentatiye or in any way
unpleasant topic should be breach
ed at the table
Do not overload the plate of a
guest, or press upon any that which
they have once declined.
Coffee may be served at any time
during breakfast, but should come
ut the end of dinner.
Remember the maxim Of Confu-
cius: Eat at you own table as YOU
would eat at the table of the king"
Never say or do, or countenance
in others the saying or doing of any
thing rude or impoite at the table.
Never notice or comment upon
any accident, but render unobtru-
sively any assistance which may be
necessary and possible.
The side of the spoon is to be
placed to the mouth, except in the
case Of man wearing a mustache,
when the point of the spoon leads
the way.
Teach the children to eat at table
with their elders, and to do it in dig
nified manner. 1t is impossible to
fortell what moment may require
them to exemplify their home train
ing.
Letters, newspapers, or books
should never be brought to the ia
Bile; though very important mes
sage may be received and attended
to, permission being asked of the
hostess.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
The Public Schools of West Virginia.
Wheeling Intelligencer.

The statistics of the school census
of 1890 are finally published in book
form, and we acknowledge the receipt
of copy of the important compila-
tion from the interior department at
Washington. One of the broad pages
Of the work is devoted to the returns
from the 81 counties of West Virgin
ia, by which we learn that in the de-
cade between 1880 and 1890 the en-
rollment of pupils in the public
schools increased 3442 per cent,
viz, from 1876 in the former year
to 1928 in the latter. This per
cent of increase is materially ahead
of the increase in the general popu-
lation of the State, which was only
23.34 or from 6lS,457 in 1880 up to
1872 94 in 1890.
Kanawha county leads all the
counties of the State In the extent of
enrolled pupils, viz. 1868 as against
1927 10 this county and ITS in
Wood. She also leads all the other
counties in the number of teachers
employed, viz. 253 as against $50 in
Harrison (the next highest) and 172
in Mason, 165 in Preston, 1853 in
Wood and 162 in this county. OF the
pupils enrolled in Kanawha, 9,716
are white and 942 colored. There
are 22S white teachers and 25 color
ed in that county, showing good
proportion of accommodation for
the colored people, which fact is Ger
tainly creditable to the county.
Jefferson comes next to Kanawha
in the pumher of colored pupils. She
has 9l7 and employs seventeen col
ored teachers to instruct them. Ohio
county only has lS6 colored pupils
and only five colored teachers, of
whom four are females,and one male.
In the matter of female teachers Ohio
county leads all other counties, hav-
ing l34 of that sex as against %
males. Generally the counties run
the other way, the notable exceptions
being Cabell, Wood, Brooke, Hancock
and Mineral. Preston is heavy
NioSi lCuudlt ltdCu-
ers, employing only Sc out of her to-
tai of 165. We should have expect
ed better things of the banner Re
publican county of the State. The
State as a whole discriminates very
decidedly in favor of male teachers,
employing 3,4S3 as against zoos fe-
males. What is the explanation of
this? Do our girls get less of a
chance than our boys in this respect,
or are they less qualified?
The number of colored pupils in
the State is 6,55S, viz: 3,144 males
and 3,414 females, and they have a
total of IT'S colored teachers, viz. lO3
males and rs females. The number
of white pupils in the State is 1885,
1855, viz: 9S,246 males and SS,489 fe-
males, and the teachers employed
are $3.50 males and 1888 females.
This does not look like fair show
for those who, as mothers and daugh-
tiers, are the real teachers in the
home circle.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
The Tariff ana the Crops.

The present extraordinarily mild
winter has caused dissatisfaction
among the farmers. 1t is said to be
bad for the wheat and to presage
the customary failure Of the peach
crop.
No doubt the farmers will under
stand the real cause of their trouble.
The failure of their crops will he en-
tirely due to the Democratic admin
istration and the agitation of the
Wilson bill. There can be no doubt
of this, says the Philadelphia Times.
We have the assurance not only of
Mr. Reed, but of all the tariff or
gans. that the low price of wheat is
the direct result of the election of
Mr. Cleveland
1t is true that the price of wheat
is not governed by the demand at
nome, Dut by the price at whlch the
surplus can be exported, and that
the rates at Philadelphia or Chicago
depend upon the rates at Paris and
London. 1t Is also true that these
rates are governed mainly By the
supply of wheat from Russia and
India and South America, in none of
which regions is the Wilson bill yet
in operation. But considerations of
this kind do not hamper the tariff
orator.
He is so accustomed to seeking
prosperity through taxation that he
has come to look upon the tariff as
essential not only to seed time and
harvest, but to sunshine and rain.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS
Think the Senate Should Act Quickly on
The Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, D. G. February 10
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Association of Democratic
Clubs, of which the Hon. w. l.. Will
son, of West Virginia, is chairman,
met at the Ebbitt House to day. The
officers of the Association are mem
bers of the Executive Committee ex-
officio and met with the committee
to day. The morning session was
consumed in hearing reports from
State organizations and in a discus
sion of the work Of the clubs IN the
future. Reports received by Mr..
Lawrance Gardner, the secretary of
the association from nearly all the
State organizations express the un
animous opinion that if the Senate
will act promptly ON the tariff bill
the result will be of great beneficial
effect on the business of the country.
The resignation of Roswell p Flower
the treasurer of the association. was
accepted, and C. j. Cauda, of New
York, was chosen to succeed him.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
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A Business View.
Wheeling News.

B. F. Jones and d. B. Oliver, two
of the leading iron and steel manu-
facturers, are quoted as in favor of
the early passage of the Wilson bill.
Both are Republicans and staunch
protectionists. They believe that
the Wilson bill is bad, but that the
condition of uncertainty that has
prevailed for eight months or more
is far worse. In the words of Mr..
Oliver they believe that 1.-THE passage
of the Wilson bill will see an imme-
date revival in trade of every de
scription." The thoughtful utter
ances of men like these are entitled
to enormous weight. They are re-
specially commended to the bare
Drained partisans of the senate who
have been boasting of their ability
to delay the passage of the Wilson
bill indefinitely.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
THE WOOL INDUSTRY.
Statistics Showing that the Depression
Extends to All Countries.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12--In answer
to a resolution to Congress, Worth
ington c. Ford, chief of the bureau
of statistics, Treasury Department,
has sent to that body an elaborate
report upon Wool and manufactures
of wool" Although based upon the
specisl report issued by the bureau
in 1888, Mr.. Ford has practically
made new compilation, going into
the question of the production and
commercial importance of wool in
the markets of the world.
There are abont thirty diagrams
and illustrations, showing the impor-
tant export movement Of raw wool in
each of the important wool produc-
ing or wool consuming countries of
the world, and giving the relative
position of each. Much attention
has been paid 10 the wool interests
of the United States.
The domestic wool clip in 1884
was estimated by Mr.. Ford to have
been 337, 100000 pounds. The i'm
ports in that year were 7S,350,651
pounds. In 1898 the domestic clip
had increased to 1854, 152. 666 pounds
and the imports had increased to
175,636,04l pounds. In that period
population increased about 20 per
cent. and the consumption of wool
nearly 30 per cent.
The increase in production in for
eign countries, especially in Aus'ra-
liza, South America and Africa, has
been far greater: so much greater as
to overshadow with their product
the worlds market, while the Amer
lean clip has trebled since 1860, the
Australian clip has increased ten
fold, that Of South America ninefold
and that of South Africa fivefold.
The report shows that the year
1892 gave the wool producing inter
ests of even the most favored eoun-
tries, as Australasia, setback. 1t
says:
THAT the sheep raising interests
of the world are passing through
period of depression is not to be de-
MED. The low prices of woods have
reacted upon the production by re.
ducing profits derived from woods
and diminishing the temptation to
extend the production. Were this
depression local, local remedies would
apply; but it is general and affects
those countries where the advanta.
ges for sheep raising excel as well as
those where wool growing is a sec
ondary matter and even hy.product
rather than an industry"
Mr.. Ford quotes figures from the
census returns in support of this po-
sition
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24

Mr.. Bland of Missouri has con-
sented to modify his bill for the
coinage of the seigniorage of the sill
yer bullion in the United States
treasury so as TO allow the issue of
silver certificates against it only as
the bullion is coined 1t is estimat-
ed that the seignorage amounts to
some $50,000,000, and Mr.. Bland 8
original proposition was to cause
the immediate issuance of $4,000
900 of silver certificates against
this. His new proposition permits
the issuance of only 100000 per
month. as that is the rate at which
IL is probable the silver can be coin.
ed. 1t was not many months sincc
when Mr.. Bland and others who
kept the country waiting would sub
nit to no such compromise. The
country is ready to applaud any de-
cent sort Of silver Legislation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
Pass The Bill.

In speaking of the duty of Sena-
tors in regard to the Wilson tariff
bill, the Richmond Dispatch says:
''If Senators, one and all, could
but realize what great stumbling
block to the renewal of business &C
tivity this tariff question is, they
would work night and day to hurry
the bill through. None Of us will
ever live to see perfect rariff bill.
The most we can do is to aim in the
right direction and do what we are
going to do promptly This is the
sense of the whole country. The
suspense of waiting for conditions
under which buying and selling can
go forward freely cannot be borne
forever. Let us have an end of it..
The Senate should quicken it's slow
gait
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
Peculiar TO Itself

So eminenilv successful has Hood S
Sarsaparilla been that many leading
citizens from all over the United
States furnish testimonials of cures
which seem almost miraculous.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is not an acct
dent, bat the ripe fruit Of industry
and study. 1t possesses merit ''pe-
culiar to itself"
HooD's Pills cure Nausea, Sick
Headache. Indigestion, Biliousness.
Sold by all druggists
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
Childs and His Maxim.

The late George William Childs
was once asked to give rules for
achieving success in life, and he
answered with number of maxims
in the style of Poor Richard. Chief
among them was do your best and
leave the rest"
That is very hard say ing for a
great many people who do not have
Philadelphia environment. Phil
adelphia is one ofthe very few places
in the country-at least in the
country north of the Ohio River
where they have time, and it takes
time To do your best. In the rest of
the country there is more work to do
than there is time to do it IN, aud
consequently we often approximate
thoroughness only by method
which is known to some as a dick
and promise"
That is why the rails spread so
often on the new ten million dollar
railroad we rushed through to give
our boom towns an outlet. That is
why the walls of the fifty thousand
dollar schoolhouse and sixty thous
and dollar Courthouse begin crack
ing almost before the contractors get
their bills allowed That is why
when any great question is up for
consideration we so often make mat.
tiers worse instead of better. That
is why, when we think we are doing
our Best, we are really doing our
worst or something very like it.
Along in the sos we were seized
politically with consuming desire
to do everything at once; TO settle
everything at once and not ito leave
our responsibilities to be borne by
future generations. AS result,
the country was SOON doing its very
worst and it is as yet by no means
free from the habits it then contract
ed. Its besetting sin in politics and
in business is the disposition to at.
tempt everything at once; TO force
all issues to Immediate settlement;
to trust nothing to evolution; to take
everything on revolution; to try to
do this year the work that more prop
erly belongs to the corresponding
year in the next century.
As long as we are unwilling to
leave the rest-to be content 10 al
low something to go undone, conf
dent that the future will develop
those who will know bow to do it
better then we; us long as we try to
crowd the achievements of 10 years
Into one, of century into 10 years,
we are necessarily subject as individ
uals and as people IL those disas
treus reactions from winch those
who can do their best because they
are willing to leave the rest are al.
most entirely free.
In politics or in business there is
no safer rule than this which the
Philadelphia journalist illustrated,
not only IN his teaching as public
instructor, but in his life as nan
in business and politics.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24

Architects Of ruin.

Republicans who are horror strick-
en- at the thought of taxing large in
comes would be logical if they di-
rected their curses toward the au-
thors of the National Governments
bankruptcy.
For any scale of expenditures ever
proposed by Democrat the reve-
nues of the past four years would
have been more than sufficient the
st. Louis Republic argues. Any
revenue system proposed by Dem
ocratic convention or caucus would
provide the Government with means
to sustain the credit of every obi
CATION.
Harrison, Reed and Mckinley led
the wolfish pack which reduced the
revenues and piled up the appropri
atoms. They invented the system
of tariff for deficit. 1t was they
who shamelessly scorncd finance,
and made both tariff and expendi-
lures fit the desires OF banded cor
ruplionists.
If there is a doubt of the ability
Of the Treasury to guarantee its cur
rencv debts, charge the doubt TO
Harrison, Reed and Mckinley, for
they are guilty. The painful re-
sponsibility thrown upon Secretary
Carlisle was wrought before Foster
retired, and Fosters confession is in
the archives.
The necessity for an Income tax
was fashioned by Republican hands.
The currency is Republican and the
coin behind it was reduced by Re-
publican acts.
Whatever is rotten is Republican.
Whatever is remedial is Democratic.
The Democratic party is compelled
to deal with a condition which is
hone of its making. The trouble
was pending when it was elected.
The Republican trouble is upon us.
The Democratic remedies are about
to be applied 1t will be time to
denounce them when they have fail
ed after trial. The Republican poll
cy has had its trial and has produc-
ed effects which are known.
Curse the prisoners and give the
remedies an opportunity.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24

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Blasts From the Rams Horn.

A shiftless man loves to talk
about his bad luck.
Nobody looks for fruit on tree
that is covered with thorns.
Joy that isn't shared with some
body else soon becomes mouldv.
Grateful content is the best sauce
that was ever served with any din
ner.
Ii grumbling could be exchanged
for gold, how many of us would soon
be rich?
Every man will die disappointed
who does nothing to make the world
brighter and better.
When parents spoil their children
by over Indulgence, the DEVILS work
in that home is made much easier.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
California Excursions.

The well known Phillips Company
have arranged to run weekly excur-
sions to all principal California and
other Pacific Coast cities from all
points on the Baltimore & Ohio r. r..
The parties will leave the East on
Wednesday of each week, commencing
January 18th, and passengers will be
booked through to destination. There
are no Pacific Coast tours offering as
good accommodation at less expense.
For full information address A. Phil
lips & Co., No. III South Street,
Philadelphia, or call on nearest ticket
agent b. & O. r, r. Co.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
The Gentleman From West Virginia.

When order was restored, how
ever, the resonant voice of Temporal
~ Speaker Hatch announced "The
gentleman from West Virginia" and
the eyes of the vast multitude were
turned on Chairman Wilson of the
Ways and Means Committee, and
there was an old fashioned Ameri-
can cheer. Not alone hand clapping
or feet stamping or desk rapping,
but the sweet, resounding, enthusi-
astic music of the lungs was sent
forth in cheers. Wilson was greeted
with an outburst of applause, and
be blushed like girl. 1t was evil
dent that the hard work of the past
three months had told on him. His
face was white as his hair. Never
robust, lie looked to-day tired and
even feeble. But his voice had the
old ring. and before be had been
speaking five minutes he was the
master of everybody within the
sound of his voice. Never was he so
eloquent. He was full of fight. He
was aggressive, sarcastic. witty, ar
eumentative and oratiorcal in turn
He bad his subject at his fingers
ends. He hit Republicans hard. He
hit the theory of protection harder.
He had great audience. a great
cause, a great opportunity, and with
The magnitude of all, his genius was
commensurate.
1t was scheduled that Mr.. Wilson
should finish his speech at 3 o'clock
and the voting begin at that hour,
but neither the occupant of the
chair, the time clerk nor any man
or woman on the floor or in the gal
leries kept track Of time while he
was speaking. He recalled the time
himself. however, five minutes after
3. and in a final glorious burst Of ell
oqueuce and God given flow of
speech ended his argument AID took
L..
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
ssMore Facts"

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Every farmer, and in fact any one
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-02-24
SHOT HIMSELF.
Henry Dryden Prominent Young Man
of Chaslest0n Commits
Suicide.
Charleston Gazette.

Henry Dryden, teller in the City
liens National Bank committed
enicide, about $50 o'clock last night
by shooting himself through the
heart
About 9 o'clock Mrs. Dryden went
into her sons room at their home
246 Donnally street, and found him
stretched across the bed dead. The
household was at once alarmed and
Drs. Barber and Thomas were sum-
moned. The physicians arrived
about 10 o'clock and made an ex-
animation.
1t was undoubtedly case of sui
eide. Young Dryden, it seems, had
taken his seat upon the side of the
bed, placed his left hand over his
heart and with the right, placed the
muzzle of the revolver between his
fingers, and fired, burning his fingers
with the power. Death was instan-
taneous. The bullet entered the
heart and came out at the spine
about the middle of the back. The
body fell back upon the bed aud the
right arm was stretched at full length
and the 3S caiibre pistol dropped
from the hand that was growing
cold. In the crate lay the ashes Of
all his letters and a photograph,
whose it was no one knows. His
mother says he received letter last
evening and must have just finished
reading it. This letter, whose con
tents are unknown, was burned with
the rest. The lamp was burning and
the fire in the CRATE was low. The
do not think he could
have been dead much over an hour
before they arrived as his body was
still warm when they came.