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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
The Texas Honor.

Not one word can be said in de-
tense of the Texas mob that tortured
the negro brute to death by so min
utes burning at Tyler, in that state
on Tuesday. The crime of the ne
gro crazed the people-aroused all
the savageness and fierce hunger for
retribution-with the fearful result
that followed This is no defense,
but simply an explanation. The
people were crazy. The crime made
them so. 1t is no defense for the
mob Speedy and summary ven
geance in death, regardless of the
forms of law, might be looked for.
The torturing and burning was a
blistering disgrace 1t recalls the
savageness of the American Indian,
and has nothing in common with
Christianity and civilization in their
crudest states. The provocation was
fearful. The crime stirred to their
utmost depths all the savage in
stincts OF white humanity. 1t crazed
men, women and children. 1t was
worse than the mysterious White
chapel murders in London, which
thrilled the greatest city of the world
with horror and the craze for retri-
button. Yet those murders were the
outcome of devlish insanity, and
their perpetrator hardly a RESPONSE
BILE being. He is said to be the in
mate of an asylum for the incurable
insane. He passes ont of life in that
way, without the revo3ting dis@'os.
ures of a public trial. 1t is the bet
ter way. But this way was not to
be expected from maddened from
tier mob, inhamed by the most re-
voting crime possible to the white
race Yet the terrible vengeance
takes us away back to primeval
times and humanity but one grade
above brute creation. A feeling OF
sympathy is natural for communities
exposed to such crimes and>the saw
age results that follow in the way OF
vengeance.
At the north we have a faint con-
ception only of the ever present
dread of such crimes that prevails in
the isolated regions of the south.
Still, the crazed and lecherous brutes
who in their madness supplement
the inducing crime with murder, are
in no sense typical Of the southern
negro. AS rule, they are affection.
ate, generous and loyal, but among
them are found the rare animal ex-
ceptions, ready for outrage that pas
SEES the limits of the most depraved
imagination. 1t is these exceptions
that the whites have to deal with as
regards this particular crime. There
is no telling when or where they may
appear Life in the isolated regions
Of the south cannot be a happy one
under such conditions.-PittSburS
Post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
Corn and Oats.

The final estimate of the corn crop
just published by Mr.. Thomans,is q
400, 100000 bushels. This exceeds
by l34 per cent, or about 1920, 000,-
600 bushels, the largest crop (1sS9)
heretofore harvested, is almost doub-
lie the size of last years crop, and is
larger than the crop of 1898 or that
of 1892, by nearly fifty per cent. The
quality appears to be very good and
the average yield per acre was con
siderably in excess of the WELD in
either of the two years (1SS9 and
1891 when the crop was more than
1000, 100000 bushels.
1t is noticeable says the New
Times that the exports of corn are
unusually large, the quantity shipp
ed abroad since June 80 having been
100000 bushels as against only
3,074, SOB in the corresponding period
of last year. II this rate should be
northumberland we presume it will
be increased-the exports for the en-
tire twelve months will exceed those
of any previous year.
The crop of oats is the second of
our cereal crops in size and the
yield this year has been extraordi-
narily large Mr.. Thoman's estimate
is 950,000,000 bushels or about 200,-
100000 bushels more than was ever
harvested before, the largeat crop
up to this year having been Isl, 000,-
900, in 1889, while the average for
the three years Immediately pleced-
ing the phenomenal harvest now re.
ported was about 653. 000. 600.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
A New Motive Power.

The thermic carbonaceous motor
is the resounding name of an engine
which, it is claimed, will revolution
ize the science of power making, and
displace steam and electricity to
some extent. 1t is not brand new
Invention, but is about two years
old. Now it is nearly perfected, and
found to be practicable. A company
has been formed to put it on the
market. If all that is claimed for it
is true, it is indeed a wonder. Any
apparatus that can evoke one horse
from pound of coal must make its
own way speedily
The boiler is abolished; soft coal
is used and completely consumed,
except the smallest quantity of ash.
In word, the new machine converts
the heat making elements of coal di
rectly into power. The secret lies in
the production of gas from the coal,
the gas being consumed as fast as it
is made, without intermediate stor-
age. 1t is remarkably clean, and
goes straight to the cylinders.
The great value of the invention
can be understood when it is stated
that all but II per cent of the heat
value of coal used is turned into
power, less a small allowance for
friction. This surpasses the best
steam engine about so per cent To
show the resultant economy, it is
computed that operation of the Man
haitian elevated road. New York re.
quires 100000 tons of anthracite
coal year, costing 100000. Using
the new engine, only 10000 tons will
be necessary, at cost of, say, $780,
600.
The application of the new engine
to ocean going is still more interest
ing, for, in addition to the saving OF
cost, is the reduced weight of en-
gines and amount of space occupied,
which is 25 or 35 per cent. just
think what it will mean in the con-
struction of war vessels! Cutting
down of the weight of fuel to be car
ried, and also Of the weight of the
engines themselves, will permit OF
speed scarcely dreamed of now.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
VAST ESTATE
Involved in a West Virginia
Land Suit on Trial in the
United States Circuit Court In Parkers.
burg-History Of the Case.

PARKERsBURe, Nov 4.-The most
important lawsuit ever tried in the
United States District Court OF
West Virginia is now on trial here
before Judge John jackson. This
suit involves 100000 acres of land
in Mingo, Logan, Wyoming and Me
Dowell counties, West Virginia, and
Buckhaunon and Tazewell counties,
Virginia. The title of the case is
Henry c. King VS.. Altizer, ct al VS.
johnson, Mullen, Mounts, Hilton,
the Commissioner of School Lands
of Logan county, the famous Hatfield
family, several hundred owners OF
timber land, lumber dealers and
farmers.
The origin of the suit dates back
to the war for Independence. AT
that time James Swami, "a wealthy
land owner and merchant of Boston,
sold his entire property and gave
every dollar to his country. AT the
close of the war Swami purchased
for trihe an immense tract of will
derness across the mountains to
which the House of Burgesses grant
ed him an additional amount, max
ing him the owner of 2, 100000 acres.
Swami cherished an idea of convert
ing the wilderness into Utopia, and
went to France to enlist assistance.
He was received into the highest
circles Before long, under the fnan-
cial condition of things in France
and the existence of wal, Swami
scheme bankrupted him. He refused
to secure his creditors, and was i'm
prisoned for ten years Soon after
his release he died. The Legislature
of Virginia appointed John Dumus,
trustee, for his French creditors. In
1888 Dumus died, leaving the estate
in debt 100000 The estate had
become forfeited to the State, but
had been reconveyed because of
SWANS gifts to the Revolutionary
war. Various trustees have been APP
pointed from time to time, and have
died, with nothing accomplished.
Squatters settled upon the terri
tory and litigation of all kinds fol-
lowed until now, in addition to the
suit now on trial are others for 800
600 acres, for 100000 acres and
smaller amounts, all of the entire
tract being once the property of
Swami. Counsel are here from Bos-
ton, from Virginia and from many
points In the State No official sur.
vey of the land is offered, each side
claiming the land is by right. The
land is now occupied by farms, lum.
Der camps and towns.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
OUR NATIONAL DIETS.
Food Has an Important Bearing Upon
characteristics of People.

From Demorests Magazine
1t is well known fact that GER
tain kinds of food affect man men
tally, morally and physically. Scotch
men aver that their oatmeal "par-
ritch" makes their men brave and
brawny, their women blithesome and
bonny and their whole nation pious.
A professor of physiology declares
that the inferiority of the Celts is
owing to the universal use of the pc
tatoe as staple article of food. mo
man." he atfirms, "can live on pota
toes and amount to anything" If
the Irish are deficient in some things
no one can deny that they are warm
hearted, generous and proverbially
witty; and if to the inherent virtue
of the potatoe is due these qualities,
then the potatoe is not to be despis-
ed as an article of diet.
The Englishman, through genera
tions of roast beef eating has absorb
ed many of the qualities of the Wand
he loves SO well. He is stubborn,
opinionateG. self assertive, and a
good fighter. His intellect, like his
beer, is both strong and heavy; some
times, perhaps, little bitter, and
sometimes little vapid, like a long
kept sample of his favorite beverage
The Chinese diet has been change
less for centuries, and so has their
civilization. Not alone has tae Chi
nese mind become stagnant through
monotonous diet, but possibly We
may attribute the beady eyes and
the peculiar growth of the Chinese
hair and its arrangement to a pro
longed subsistence on the rodent
The French are noted for their MIN.
BILE legs and their long tongues; car
it be the result of much feasting or
the agile frogP
The Americans, having access tc
all the good things of the earth
ought to produce the most perfec,
people of any country; but even here
the favorite dish leaves it's trace or
its devotees. Fish is a popular dish
with New Workers; and does not the
stream of humanity which flows az
and down Broadway remind one Of
the restless dwellers in the ocean
that dart here and there, alert, &C
tive, ready to seize at anything that
promises gain? The Philadelphia
is tranquil, sober, mild; and so i;
the terrapin that he dotes upon. Csc
much long communion tends tt
make US what we are,'' that ever
brown bread and baked beans have
had decided influence on the in
habitants of the Hub.
1t is rather humiliating to admit
that not only ones mental and NOR
al state depends on the state of tn,
stomach and what it feeds upon, blu
that the immortal spark of life itsel
is kept alive by the gross elements
of food. To illustrate one of tn,
most powerful fables Aesop, tn,
Greek fabulist, makes use of the fac
that al! the functions of the bod,
are dependent on the digestive or
gans. The shrewd observer of man
kind may not have been the first t.
discover that the stomach is, in on
sense, the controlling organ of th
body. but he was the first to put i
| into words.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09

Worlds New Power.
Pittsburg Post.

Japan appears on the maps as a
new power of frst-class importance
according to the report recently sent
to our state department by the
American consul at Kanagawa. The
population of the empire in 1894 was
$4,000, 900, and including Formosa is
estimated at 100000, which is
some 100000 in excess of the Brit
ish islands, while its territorial area
is about one fourth larger than Great
Britain and Ireland Excluding
China as an unknown quantity,
japan ranks as the fifth power of
the world, if we include with Britain
her colonial possessions. The Brit
ish empire in that case stands at the
head, with population of 3S1 ,000,-
600. Russia comes next with 1I3,
100000, then the United States with
100000 and the German empire
with 100000. Japan has the ad-
vantage of being homogeneous ma
ton, nearly as numerous as the Ger
man empire, with population quick
witted, brave, hardy in the face of
hardship, thrifty and industrious. 1t
is a power that must be taken
into account by Great Britain and
Russia in their operations in the
far east. 1t may be said that En-
glands policy toward Japan invites
closer relations, while Russia looks
to the acquisition of territory in
Corea for railroad purposes. IfRus
STA gets a foothold in Corea it will
be a threat toward Japan, and event
ually will be sure to create bad
blood, and no doubt war, when the
expedient time for either nation
comes.
The United States is fortunate in
having no territorial schemes in Asia
to bring her into conflict with either
China or Japan, and can go along
developing her commerce with those
countries for the exigencies of peace
or war. There is a possibility that
Japan may look with longing eyes
on the Sandwich islands, as she nat
urally would desire them for her sur
plus population, but there is not
likely to be any conflict with the
United States in regard to them. We
need care little what becomes of
these islands so long as they do not
fall under the control of European
powers We don't want them as
part of the American Union.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09

There is false pride about our
people that is the cause of much real
distress and that results in no good
whatever. Because Mrs. Smith has
piano, Mrs. Jones will not have an
organ, though Smith is worth dollars
where Jones is cents. The reason
for this is that too many people try
to put ON an appearance of wealth
and have not the courage TO say that
they cannot afford the things that
their neighbors have and can well
afford to have. This false pretense
does not raise the pretender in the
estimation of his or her neighbors
single degree, and the chances are
that the neighbors know very we'll
whether the buying Of this or that
thing is an extravaganza or not.
"He who goes borrowing goes sor-
rowing" says the old proverb and
more than one time we have known
of instances where debts contracted
for things that could easily have
been dispensed with, have led to ser
ious results. There is only one true
system of doing business and that
is on the spot cash system, and If all
our people could be persuaded to
adopt it, there would be less of wor-
ny and much more of real happiness.
The false pride that leads one to go
into debt for unnecessary things is
the kind that often leads to bank
ruptey. There are those who claim
that going into debt is often taking
the road that leads to competence
and no doubt there are many cases
where it is good business policy to
take up burden of debt, as in buy
ing home, but there is no other
place where debt is a safe way of
making a start
False pride buys silks and jewels,
and worries about the WAYS and
means to pay for them, while Hon
esty says 81 can't afford it," and
dresses comfortably in palmer
clothes, and lives placidly and hap
PLY.
This sort of false pride is one of
the curses OF the country, and many
a man is driven to the end of his
resources to put on false appear.
ance of wealth, sacrificing to this
silly ambition all the happiness that
be might have had, if he had frank
ly confessed his poverty, and gone
on his way in content, enjoying the
good things of life that he could af-
ford.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
BURNED AT THE STAKE.
The Victim Had Waylaid a Woman and
Cut Her Threat and Disemboweled
Her.

TYLER, TEX, Oct. 29.-New,
reached this city at 6o'clock las
night of the murder of the nineteen
year old wife of Leonard Bell, far
mer living four miles north of here
Mrs. Bell had been visiting hel
mother, short distance away, anC
after leaving there she was not seer
again alive, Shortly afterwards hel
mutilated body was found beside tn,
public road, with her throat cut, ant
disemboweled.
There was evidence of hard
struggle for honor and life, as hel
clothing was almost torn from hel
body, and the ground was covered
with blood for many feet around.
Bloodhounds were put upon the
trail of the murderer, and about A
o'clock this morning he was sur
prised in a cotton pen, asleep, nearly
twenty miles from the scene of his
crime. He was Henry billiard, a
mulatto. His eaptors started on the
return and were met at the scene OF
the murder by posse of 1000 armed
men.
The prisoner was taken from the
officers, and committee of seven
prominent men of this county were
appointed to establish his identity.
Witnesses were called, and a stenog
rapher was on hand to take testi-
mony. The evidence was full and
conclusive. The man then confessed
the crime.
A vote was taken as to the mode
of punishment. 1t was unanimous
ly decided to burn him, and it was
agreed that he should suffer his pen
atty on the public square in this
city.
The line of march was taken up
towards Tyler, and at o'clock the
head of the line, which was two
miles long, entered the main plaza,
where $4,000 people had assembled.
At 400 o'clock seaffold was
erected in the centre of the square
Wagons loaded with kindling wood,
coal oil and straw were driven to
the scene and placed in position
The negro was then given an oppor-
tunity to speak. His words were at
first inaudible. but when be offered
up his last prayer he could be heard
for several blocks.
billiard was then dashed to the
iron rail that extended through the
platform, and Mr.. Bell, the hus
band OF the murdered woman, ap
piled the match. The flames shot
upward, enveloping the brute in
sheets of fire.
The wretch begged for mercy. but
was reminded that the same mercy
was melted out to him that he gave
to his victim.
He was net permitted to burn
quickly. The fire was frequently
quenebed, and after the lapse of a
few moments started again. 1t was
exactly fifty minutes from the time
the IN atch was applied until his tor
ture was ended by death,
Hundreds of negroes witnessed
the execution, and representative
negroes expressed their approval of
the punishment.
At late hour to night the negro's
body is still burning.
Tyler is the home of United States
Senator Horace Chiffon and of ex
Gov James 5. Hogg.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09

The Vanderbilt wedding break
fast is to cost $4,000, or $50 plate,
and the church decorations will cost
$4,000 Meanwhile thousands and
thousands of better people are toll
ing their lives away to earn bread
and clothing for themselves and
families, and many more are not
even able to find work to do, although
honestly and earnestly hunting for
it. There is something out of joint
when one family can spend Sl5, 000
for breakfast while hundreds and
hundreds of other families have nc
breakfast at all" = ParkerSburg
State Journal Rep
While the above article is true, it
is equally true that the Republican
legislation Of this country, in the
interest of the few, like the Wander
bilts, against the many, has brought
about the deplorable condition OF
affairs which the Journal portrays
and not until the people assert theil
power and their rights by electing
men to Congress who are not under
the influence of, and cannot be cor
rupted by the money of the few who
have grown rich under class legisla
ton, will there be change in the
present condition of affairs-Charles
ton Gazette.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
When the Chill Mists Of the Morning

Hang like a pail over the surface Of
the earth, it will be well for you be-
fore venturing into the raw vigorous,
air, charged, perhaps, with the seeds
of malaria or provocative of rheumat-
ie twinges, to take a wineglass OF Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, and thus
shield yourself from atmospheric in
fuences threatening to health. If
you happen TO get showed, sleeted or
rained upon, use the same preventive,
and avoid the rheumatism or dan,
gerous cold. The agreeable warmth
infused into the circulation by this
genial stomachic, its invigorating and
regulating properties commend 1t to
all appreciative of the fact that pre-
yention is better than cure. Use the
Bitters for dyspepsia, biliousness,
nervousness and kidney trouble, sick
headache and debility.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
GOOD FOR EVERYBODY

Almost everybody takes some laxative
medicine to cleanse the system and keep the
blood pure. Those who take SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR liquid or POWDER
get all the benefits of mild and pleasant
Laxative and tonic that purihes the blood
and strengthens the whole system. And
more than this: SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR regulates the Liver, keeps it active
and healthy, and when the Liver is in
good condition you find yourself free from
Malaria, Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick
Headache and Constipation, and rid Of
that worn out and debilitated feeling.
These are all caused by sluggish Liver.
Good digestion and freedom from stomach
troubles will only be had when the liver
is properly at work. If troubled with any
of these complaints, try SIMMONS LIVER
REGULATOR. The King of Liver Medl-
cines, and Better than Pills.
@s-EVERY PACKAGES
Has the " Stamp in red on wrapper.
j. II. Zeilin &c Sso.- PhiIa.. Pa
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
An important Office.

To properly fill its Office and func-
tions, it is important that the blood
be pure. When it is in such condi-
ton, the body is almost certain to be
healthy. A complaint at this time is
catarrh in some of its various forms,
A slight cold develops the disease in
the head. Dropping of corruption
passing into the lungs brings on con-
sumption. The only way to cure this
disease is to purify the blood. The
most obstinate cases of catarrh yield
to the medicinal powers of Hoods
Sarsaparilla as if by magic, simply be-
cause it reaches the seat of the dis
ease, and by purifying and vitalizine
the blood removes the cause, Not
only does Hoods Sarsaparilla do this
tat it gives renewed vigor to tbs
whole system, making it possible for
good health to reign supreme.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
gern-1ife

The doctors tell us, nowadays that disease germs
are everywhere in the air, in the in food,
clothes, money; that they get into bodies live
Consumption is the destruction of lung tissue by
germs where the lung is too weak to conquer them.
The remedy is strength-vital force.
SCOTS Emulsion, with hypophosphites, means the
adjustment of lung strength to germ-life.
1t is fighting the germ with the odds in favor.
These tiny little drops of fat-food make their way
into the system and refresh and re-invigorae it.
Whether you succeed with it not depends on how
good start the germs had and how carefully you
live The shortest way health is the patient
The gain is often slow.
50 cents and $500 SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09

Lots of worse things for this coun
try, and for continental Europe,
could happen than fight 20 q finish
with England. That conntry has
played the bully so long that it
stands in need of a good thrashing.
There are several countries in hu-
rope either of which could do this
thrashing, but for reasons, largely
financial, they are afraid to. The
United States isn't.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09
The Pittshurg Times saws:

The earthquake was felt in diff
ferent near about sections, notably
Bellevue. where the house of DR.. w.
c. Shaw was very yisibly shaken.
1t was noticed also at Sewickly and
Riverview park, Allegheny, but the
trembling of the earth was ascribed
to other causes until the reports of
the seismic disturbance in the West
and South were made known.
The shock was felt at Wheeling,
Youngstown, Massillon, Beaver
Falls, Huntington, Parkersburg,
Akron, GAINESVILLE, Sistersville and
New Brighton. At Beaver Falls
windows ratified. pictures were shak-
en- from the walls and dishes were
broken. Fright caused many of the
guests of the Seventh Avenue hotel
to run from their rooms. AZ Zanes
vile residences trembled and people
were aroused from their sleep. AT
Sistersville there were two shocks
Many people arose and rushed into
the streets.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-11-09

Lafayette Atkins, Of White Creek
near Huntington, was shot and
killed near his home by his wife's
brother, Virgil Staley, simply De
cause the murderer had opposed the
marriage of his sis.e: and Atkins.