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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Bright Spring Days.

The spring should be pre-eminently
a season of contentment, happiness
and hope. In these bright and pleas
ant months the country should enjoy
its highest degree of tranquility and
prosperity. But spring, it is well
known, is often period of discomfort
and disturbance in the physical system.
Important organs of the body become
torpid or irregular in their action, and
the fact is instantly reflected in the
mental condition Of the individual.
A disordered liver means disordered
nerves and dull and unsteady brain.
Anything which will bring the physi-
cal system into harmony with bud
ding Nature confers an enormous ben
eft upon the nation, besides the mere
allaying of physical discomfort.
Hoods Sarsaparilla does this. as
thousands of grateful and happy men
and women can testify, and increased
use of this standard spring medicine
is of more real practical importance
in promoting health and quiet in the
business world than reams of abstract
theorizing.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
The Valuable Citizen.

The citizen who is of the most
value to community, town or city
is not always the man who possesses
the most wealth, the highest intelli-
gence or the most aristocratic lineage
Ofcourse the two former will increase
a mans usefulness if he will but ex
ert them in the proper direction. But
the valuable citizen par excellence
is the man who believes thoroughly
in his town, its people and its bust
ness and professional men. He does
not make 1t his business to decry
the honesty of bis local banker OF
merchant or the ability of the resi-
dent lawyer or physician. But in
stead he is an enthusiastic advocate
of all things that pertain to the vel
fare of his own locality. He has the
interest Of it's schools, churches, So
cieties and people at heart and ex-
ploits their excellence abroad. We
need more of this class of citizens
and have the material in our midst
to construct them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14

An Important Case Decided.

The decision rendered by the Su-
preme Court last week in the case oil
Lewis Wilson VS.. The Town oil
Philippi, settles the much mooted
question whether the Council of a
municipality can force lot owners to
pave or lay sidewalks in front OF
their property. The opinion of the
Court in this case is given in the
syllabus as follows
l. A court of equity will not en-
join the collection of a tax assess
ment on a town lot to pay for the
construction of a sidewalk in front
of the same ordained by the Council
of an Incorporated city or town on
the sole ground that such tax or as
sessment is illegal. Some addition
al circumstance bringing the case
under some recognized principle of
equity Jurisprudence must also APP
pear.
2. The fact that the statute de,
clares that such assessment made
for constructing sidewalk shall be
a lien on the lot in front of which
the same is constructed does not ere
ate such cloud upon the title as to
confer equitable jurisdiction
3. Section "a of chapter AT of the
Code authorizing the Council of a
city or town where the owner of
property adjacentto a sidewalk fails
or refuses to pave such sidewalk, to
cause the same to- be done at the ex-
pense of the city, town or village,
and to assess the amount of such
expense upon such owner provided
for the collection of the city, town
or village taxes, held not repugnant
to tho ron stitution
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
JOE BLACKBURN.
The Kentucky Senator Converted BY the
Eloquence Of Evangelist Moody.
His Tracts

! Every United States senator found
in his mail recently neat little
package of religious tracts, eneircled
by rubber band and bearing on its
face the words, compliments of j.
S. c. Blackburn" This was the
popular Kentucky senator's device
for announcing to bis associates
that he had abandoned forever his
old life and entered upon new and
nntried existence as the result of
the convicting eloquence of Evan
gelist Moody, who has been holding
revival meetings in Washington for
a month. Very early in the course
of the Moody meetings the Kentuck-
ian began to exhibit remarkable in
terest in them. He became regu-
lar attendant, and sat on the plat.
form night after night, within few
feet of the evangelist, and it was no-
ticed that the two had frequent con
versations together.
Then Mr. Blackburn began to in
vite some of his friends TO the meet
ings, and everybody understood that
he was very much impressed, but the
idea that jovial "Joe" Blackburn,
who had for his whole life led the
gay existence which is peculiarly
adapted to the Kentucky tempera-
ment should really become converted
by Moody s teaching and enter on the
work of evangelization himself even
in a small way, never entered any
body's head. The tracts with which
Joe favored his friends to day were
four in number. One is a brilliant
little affair in red, entitled 'Strong
Drink"or the Temperance Song in
Gods Word,o which is filled with
pertinent biblical quotations against
the evils of intemperance
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Serves Them Right.

A house owner needs a lightning
rod. Instead of calling on a per-
manently located dealer in lightning
rods and employing him to do the
work, he enters into contract with
the first shark that comes along and
signs an agreement, which eventual
ly turns up as a note in the hands of
an ssinnoeent" party and mulcts him
to the tune Of several hundred dol
lars, and the popular verdict is,
Served him right"
A prediction for strangers and
the mania for buying goods in other
than the regular channels of trade
seem to be peculiar to certain class
of mercenary people of the commun-
ity. They doubt the honesty and
good intentions of their home artisan
or merchant, whom they have known
for years, and refuse to believe his
assurances of fair treatment, but turn
a willing ear to the first smooth
tongued swindler that comes along.
This trait of human character is well
known to the smooth worker, and the
amounts realized each year through
the gullibility of their victims is
greater than is generally known.
The farm implement and musical
instrument agent comes from no man
knows whittier, makes sale at a low
price and levants. In a few days a
man with chattel mortgage on the
same article arrives and wrests it
from the buyer, and he has no re-
course unless he can find the agent.
A dealer in this mans own locality
stood ready and anxious to sell him
the same goods at fair price, but
he preferred patronizing a stranger
with the vain hope of getting some
thing for nothing. He got duped,
and his happiness is not increased
when his neighbors declare that it
SERVED him right"
Farming communities are now be-
ing visited by agents for grocery con-
Germs and shoddy dry goods houses
located in one of the large cities.
The bargains they offer have the eff
feet of gathering in scores of victims.
In one locality visited, sugar by the
barrel was offered at price lower
than it could be obtained from the
refinery. There was, however, a con-
dition to the sale-that the buyer
was also to buy a certain amount of
spices and fancy groceries in order
to make bill large enough to justi-
fy the house in making a shipment.
The goods came c. 0. d., and much
to the disgust of the consignee ev-
erything but the sugar was utterly
unfit for use.
Let these bargain seekers take the
hard cash which they always seem to
have ready and waiting for the shark
and go to your home merchant and
plank it down. and you will find that,
taking into consideration the quality
of the merchandise, he sells much
cheaper than the travelling yender
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Jolly Didn't Think it Jolly.

j. X. jolly, the big contractor who
built the piers fer both the bridges
across the Kanawha has a magnifi-
cent home elegantly furnished near
Pittsburg. Mr. Jolly and his family
left for New Orleans several months
ago. They left the place in charge
of their colored man. He invited
several white friends to come and
have pleasant time with him, and
they did. They stole brio a. brac
from the house and sold it for whis-
ky. They had dog fights in the par
lor, tore the strings out of the grand
piano and used the piano for coop
for their game chickens. They tore
down the lace curtains and made a
bed of them for their dogs. They
slept in every bed in the house with
out removing their shoes; sat on the
backs Of the parlor chairs to watch
the dog fight, tapped a half barrel
of beer on a 5000 tete-a- tete in the
parlor; tore up carpet; sold $50 sets
of harness for $40 and cut up high
jinks generally. Their last act got
them into trouble.
They found lot Of powder and
went out TO the stable to have some
fire works, but set the stable on fire
and were too drunk to put il out,
Neighhors extinguished the blaze
and had the fellows arrested and
telegraphed for Mr.. jolly, who arriv-
ed home several days ago. and found
everything in the house totally
ruined.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14

The millionaire manufacturers are
endeavoring to assemble 10000 men,
bers of tariff leagues at Washington
from adjacent states to march in
procession to the capitol and present
protest TO the senate against the
reform tariff bill. All the trusts
will of course contribute. The sugar
trust, even under the senate amend
ment, has three fourths of its profits
cut off, and will invest literally to
save the Mckinley law, which gives
it twenty millions year. But sup
posing this scheme a success, where
in will it differ in principle from the
demonstration the great Coxey is
making? Both will seek to dom
mate congress and dictate its pro
ceedings by the personal and threat
ening presence around the capitol
building of few thousand people
II Coxey's army and the trust army
is to be accepted as the nle of legis-
lation, pray what of the 100000
of American voters who remain at
their homes, attending to their avo-
cations and illustrating the qualities
of good citizenship? The Coxey
army, ridiculous as it lie, has fewer
axes to grind than the protectionist
and trust army. = Pittsburgh Post
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Costly Things!

The State Capitol at Albany, n.
T., is the costliest building Of mod
ern times. Nineteen million six
hundred thousand dollars have been
expended on it to date. The Capt
toll at Washington from 1898, when
its corner stone was laid, to 1878, had
cost including its expensive furni-
ture its almost annual alterations
and repairs, less than $4,000, 900.
The most expensive municipal hall
in world, and the largest in the Unit
ed States is the Public Building Of
Philadelphia The largest clock in
the world is to be in its tower.
The nest expensive Legislature in
the world is that of France, which
costs annually $3,600,000 The Ital-
ian Parliament costs, $430,000 year.
The next TO the highest price ever
paid for horse in the world was
$4,000 for which Axtel, the trotter
was sold in Indiana at the age of
three years. On January IL. 1892,
Arion was sold by Senator Stanford
to |. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston for
$4,000. That beats all prices.
Charles Reed, of the Fairview Farm.
Tennessee, give 100000 for the
great stallion st. Blaise, at sale in
New York in October 1891.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14

There is no town or city bat that
has an ambition to develop into q
manufacturing center. There are
but few that realize their ambition.
In this day of sharp competition that
cheap commodity called "chin mu-
sic" goes but short distance in at
tracing capital and inducing the
location of manufacturing indus
tries. A location must possess ex-
traordinary natural advantages in
the way of power, fuel supply, trans
portation facilities or supply of raw
material TO induce manufacturing
concern to seek it without some eff
fort on the part of its citizens. In
most cases cash bonus, subscrip
ton of stock or donation of site is
required TO secure this end, and gem
orally the most liberal offer secures
the enterprise.
The demands of the promoters of
these enterprises are often SO exor.
bitant that they cannot be proftably
met. Thousands have been donated
TO corporations by towns throughout
the west, AMI in a great many cases
the benefit has been iniinitesimal.
The remedy for this is in co-opera
tive manufacturing investment.
Every community has sufficient idle
capital among its people to equip
and maintain manufactures which
will be both profitable to the enyest-
or and advantageous to the com
For instance, the people determine
that a paper mill, cannery, starch
factory or any of the hundreds Of
different branches of manufacture
now carried on in the United States
could be successfully maintained in
their town. A meeting should be
called, an incorporation formed, the
cost of the plant ascertained and
books for the subscription of stock
opened, The price of shares should
be placed sufficiently low to allow
persons of moderate means 10 be-
come stockholders, as often this
class of persons are the most pro-
gressive citizens a community af
fords. Only those in whom the com.
munity has the fullest confidence
should be put at the head of the
When all the stock is
sold and the venture established, it
will only require good business
methods to make it success-finan-
cially and otherwise. After one in
dustry is established and made a
success others will follow. The on
~ matter to be decided is the nature
Of the industry that is adapted to
The locality, and when this is done
90 to work and establish it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
GEN. WATTS ENERGY
Puts an End to Bad Gang of Post
0f1iep RAhhariaS

The Parkersburg Sentinel has the
following concerning the work OF
District Attorney Watts in the con
duct of the case of Zeke Shamblin, a
notorious character.
General Watts made the closing
argument in the trial of Zeke Sham
bin at U. s. Court yesterday even
ing. 1t was one of the finest efforts
heard there for some time. At the
opening of his argument he paid his
respects to the opposing counsel who
has assailed the governments meth
cd of conducting the case, inlimat-
ing that it was unprofessional They
had also assailed Mr. Hooten, the
postoffice inspector, and belittled the
character of the governments wit
nesses.
The keen thrusts and biting sar
casm INDUCED in by Gen. Watts in
defending his course and that of his
associates in the case left sting and
counsel for defense were glad when
be concluded. His summing up of
the evidence and bis discussion of
the various important points were
very effective
The: case was given to the jury
about $3.50 and in less than twenty
minutes afterward they returned
with verdict of guilty. Despite
the conflicting testimony they had
NO difficulty in arriving at verdict,
and the verdict gave general salts
faction.
This case has cost the government
a large sum of money, but it is a
desperate gang that is being dealt
with and the money is well spent.
The other persons indicted for the
same offense are no doubt as guilty
as Zeke Shamblin.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
THE TITAN OF CHASMS.
A Mile Deep, ID Miles Wide, 217 Miles
Long, and Painted Like Flower.

The Grand Canon of the Colorado
River, in Arizona, is now for the first
time easily accessible to tourists. A
regular stage line has been establish
ed from Flagstaff, Arizona, on the
Atlantic s. Pacific Railroad, making
the trip from Flagstaff to the most
imposing part of the Canon in less
than II hours. The stage fare for the
round trip is only $1,000, and meals
and comfortable lodgings are provid
ed throughout the trip at reasona-
Bile price. The view of the Grand
Canon afforded at the terminus of the
stage route is the most stupendous
panorama known in nature. There
is also trail at this point leading
down the Canon wall, more than 6, 900
feet vertically, to the river below.
The descent of the trail is grander
experience than climbing the Alps,
for in the bottom of this terrific and
sublime chasm are hundreds of noun
tains greater than any of the Alpine
range.
A book decribing the trip to the
Grand Canon, illustrated by many
full-page photographs, from especial
engravings and furnishing all needful
information, may be obtained free
upon application to Jno. J. Byrne,
1913 Monadnock Block, Chicago, Ill.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Such Is Life.
st. Louis Christian Advocate.

ot. iSOul5 NinTl6tidu AQNOCdI0.
Years ago we stood behind the
counter as merchant in a western
town; we often looked into the
thoughtful face of bright eyed,
brown haired little boy, lifting his
chin above the counter with an or
der from his widowed mother, or
from some of her neighbors residing
in an adjoining block. The mother
Of this little boy with her three chill
dren, lived in very humble, rented
cottage in limited circumstances.
Within stones throw of this OBJ
scure cottage, in a palatial home,
were children of fortune. The moth
er of the little boy in the cottage,
while limited in the material things
of this world, was rich in intellectual
and heart culture In early life she
was lowered with fine education, a
kind of property which moth doth
not corrupt, thieves do not break
through and steal, and of which mis-
fortune cannot rob. She transmitted
this intellectual dowry and culture
to her children and to day that bright
eyed, brown haired little boy is Gov
ernor of the State of West Virginia !;
while the highest position to which
the sons of the palatial home of for
tune has risen, is that of road over
seer of the township in which they
ltual slC,oI i:ca
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Our taxes for State purposes. in

Our taxes for State purposes, in
Guiding State school taxes, aggre-
gate 80 cents on the 800 valuation.
The State is out of debt, and, in
fact, cannot create a debt under her
Constitution, except to meet cas-
ual or temporary deficiency in the
revenues, and such debt must be
provided for by the Legislature next
after it's creation. The financial de-
preston of last year was scarcely
noticeable in West Virginia. Only
two concerns of commercial impor-
lance failed; but one bank was com
PEELED to close its doors, and that on
~ for few weeks. The last report
of the State Bank Examiner shows
all our banks to be in good condition.
We had invested in State and Ma.
tional Banks in 1892 $5,017,4 S6 cap.
ital, while the aggregate deposits
therein amounted to $l5.161. 541,
showing an increase OF $1,563, 4S6
over the deposits of the previous
year AS yet we have no report for
the year 1893 Extract from the
Speech of Er Coz. Fleming before
the Pittsburgh Chamber of Com
merce.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
For sale byJ NJ. REED d Co.
THIRTY CUBIC FEET OF DOLLARS.
Sent by X. +. Wilson & Co. to the sub
Treasury TO Pay for the
Cherokee Bonds.

In the Sub Treasury yesterday
afternoon group Of admiring off.
Gals surrounded a pile of paper cur
rency, the dimensions of which were
about thirty cubic feet 1t present
ed S6.740,000 and was the money
paid in by r. T. Wilson & Co, the
Wall street bankers, for the bonds OF
the Cherokee Nation. which were
awarded to them after a long fight.
1t wasn't an easy matter to get
this amount of currency, but the
Union Trust Company fnall, sup
piled it. and about p. NJ. yesterday
it was put into acab aud taken To the
Sub Treasury. Eight messengers
were on hand to carry it from the
cab into the building, aud the Sab
Treasury officials began counting it
yesterday after T. NJ. IL is expect.
ed that they will, be through with
the count by to night. The money
is in all denomination from ~ 900
bills to tens. 1t will remain in the
Sub Treasury until the Cherokee
Nation demands the whole or any
part of it, and as the nation is not
very large, its division will bring a
comfortable sum per capita.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Wages at Home.

The census bulletin giving the
statistics of manufactures by States
explodes completely the protection
theory that tariffs regulate wages.
If this contention were true, wa
ges in the same industries ought to
be substantially uniform throughout
the States subject to the same tariff
law. That this is not the case the
tables published in the Tribune con.
clusively prove. The variation is
greater between different States of
our Union than it is between the av-
erage of wages in this country and
the average in England
1t is shown by this bulletin that the
mean average wages paid in the en-
tire country in all manufacturing
industries except mining and quar-
rying, for 1890, was $4S4 per hand.
Amoug the States falling below
this average were these: Alabama,
by $40; Georgia, SIT; South Car
DINA, $217; Maine, $l34; New
Hampshire, SOL; Wisconsin, $92.
Among the States exceeding this
average were Colorado, 1896; Mon
tana, $23S; Massachusetts, $40;
New York, sos; Pennsylvania, IS;
Wyoming, 1884.
The obvious lesson of these figures
and of the rest of the table is that
wages depend upon the productivity
Of the acorkmen, the demand for la
Dor, he efficiency of labor orgdniza-
tons and the cost of lioing, not up
on a tariff law which may permit
but never constrains protected en-
ployers to pay more than the mar
ket rate for wages.
Wages in manufacturing indus
tiles are higher in some States than
in others, and are higher in this
country than in Europe, because the
workmen produce more-that is, are
more intelligent, have better ma
chinery or work longer hours-or
because there is greater demand
for their labor or higher cost of
living and stronger union of la
borers to maintain their just de-
mands.
Intelligent workingmen know this.
The census bulletins prove it,
World.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-04-14
Through To MorgantoWn, W.
Va, by Water.

Pittsburgh, Brownsville & Geneva
Packet Co., comprising three fine side
wheel steamers are now Offering extra
inducements to parties desiring to
making a delightful trip by water.
Steamers:
Adam Jacobs, Nj. A. Cox, Master;
Germania, ID. BUGHER, Master; Jas.
G. Blaine, ADAM JACOBS, Master.
Time Of departure from Company
Wharf Boat, foot of Smithfeld street,
going through to Morgantown: Daily
3 p. NJ, except Sunday, at $50 A. NJ.
Fare for the round trip, including
meals, $500. Time Of departure from
Morgantown, daily s 30 A. NJ. Round
trip tickets sold to all points.
All boats leaving Pittsburgh go
through to Morgantown. For further
information concerning the line apply
OH board of steamers or to
s. $. GRAHAM, Gen'l Agt.,
Brownsville, Pa
T. w. CARMACK, Agent,
Pittsburgh, Pa.