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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02

In speaking of the danger of de-
stroying the trees, incident To our
street paving, gentleman who is
well informed, says that the only way
to have trees with paved streets is to
reserve a strip of lawn between the
sidewalk and street.
This plan, he says, is the modern
and sensible plan. 1t not only pre-
serves the trees but it is ornamental,
and relieves the glare and baroness of
continuous brick pavement.
This is the plan of the most beauti-
full and aristocratic streets and ave-
nues of Chicago. A strip of beauti-
full green lawn, about three feet wide
lines the sidewalk. 1t helps to fresh
en- the appearance in the hot season.
1t relieves the eye in thenoon-day glare
of the sun on the pavement. 1t abates
the heat of the street takes in the rain
and carries it to the roots Of the trees
while otherwise it would run off and
the trees will die for lack of moisture.
We commend this suggestion to our
city fathers. There is now an oppor-
tunity to consider it before paving be-
gins. 1t will very materially lessen
the cost Of paving in the aggregate,
and we believe 1t is altogether a
reasonable and practical suggestion.
A strip of unpaved ground, three feet
wide, on each side of the street,
that would be saved in the cost of
paving would amount to a consider
able sum in the whole job And if it
adds to the appearance of the streets,
saves the trees, and saves money too,
why not?
We desire to say to our discreet
Town Council, who have given this
matter of street paving "a good deal
of careful consideration, that this
latest suggestion is, in our view, one
of the most important in its bearing
upon this enterprise, and ought to
have due attention. There is a good
deal of anxiety among property hold
ers lin regard to the effect of paving
upon the trees. If the paving is to
be made at the expense of our shade
trees, it will cost more than our peo-
pie have contemplated, and more
than they are willing to grant.
A strip of lawn solves the problem
and will make everybody happy.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
THE WAR PROGRESS.
A Few of the Things that have
been done in the last
twenty-four hours.

A fierce bate has been in
progress since yesterday
morning before Santiago. La
test reports say that the
American forces had carried
the out posts of the enemy and
they rapidly were closing in on
the city.
Up to yesterday evening
nearly five hundred American
soldiers had been killed and
wounded. There is no way
to arrive at the loss of the
Spaniards.
The heat is terrible and has
told heavily on our men
though they have stood it
wonderfully.
The Spaniards are heavily
entrenched on the hills around
the city. Inside the entrench-
ments are five courses of won
derfully constructed barbed
wire fence that must be torn
down. Still inside of this are
a system of rifle pits that
Spanish sharp shooters intend
to use with deadly effect
while our men are getting
over the breastworks.
Cuban spies report to Gen
eral Skater that the Span
lards are arranging to eyacu-
ate the city rather than sur
render but will hardly be able
to get away.
The country is waiting in
breathless suspense to learn
the result. Some definite &C
count of the battle should
reach us tomorrow.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
4 Curiosity.

We have received from DR.. Harti-
gan, the able professor of Biology at
W. Va. University, an Xray photo
graph of something which we take to
be a hydrocephalic or rachic child.
1t is curiosity indeed. The articu-
lations of the skeleton, or rather the
Jennings where the articulations
would be found later in life, are shown
to be only cartilage. We are under
obligations to DR.. Hartigan for his
kindness. -Keyser Echo.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
Professor Neil's Lee ture.

The series of free public lectures
that will be given at the University
throughout the summer quarter was
opened last night at Commencement
Hall by Prof G. Edmund Neil, of the
Ohio Wesleyan University, Della
ware, Ohio who gave an impersona
ton of Charles Dickens David
Copperfield.a 1t was most auspic-
ious opening of the series. A large
audience was present, consisting APP
parently OF nearly all the students
who have entered for the summer
quarter, and large number of
townspeople. Professor Neil held
his audience spellbound from the
beginning to the end, and the recital
last night was thoroughly appreeia-
ted and enjoyed by everyone in his
audience.
Professor Neil's arrangement OF the
story was in four acts. He imperson-
ated during the evening Ii different
characters, including Uriah Heep,
Peggoty, David Copperfeld, Little
Emily, Steerforth, Betsy Trotwood,
and the irrepressible "ruins of fallen
tower wilkins Micawber. Professor
Neil showed wonderful versatility in
portraying the pathos and humor
with which the story abounds. 1t
would be difficult to say which char
acter Professor Neil portrayed best.
Certainly nothing could be more Luz
|dicrous than his representation of
Micawber, yet he made the character
of Uriah Heep live before his audience
with equal power, and he passed from
Micawber to Heep, and from Heep to
Betsy Trotwood so completely that
one would hardly believe it to be the
same person who had moment be-
fore been impersonating Peggoty and
Little Emily.
In place Of the lecture on the
cart of Oratory,o which was to be
given tonight, Professor Charles
w. Pearson, Professor of English
Literature in Northwestern Univer-
sitv, Evanston, Illinois, will lee
ture tonight at o'clock in Com
Ahth1EiaNiU Oll Chilly sui. 10
fessor Pearson is one of the leading
scholars of the middle west, and has
made an especial study of Tenny-
sons life and work, and his lecture
tonight will be another treat. Pro
fessor Pearson was not on the regular
program of lecturers for the sum
mer, because it was not thought
possible earlier to secure him. He
was one of DR.. and Mrs. Raymond's
teachers at Evanston, and is now on
his way East, and stopped off last
night in Morgantown to visit his
former students for few days, aud
DIR. Raymond persuaded him to give
this lecture, and perhaps a few
others while he is here. The lecture
tonight by Professor Pearson on
Tennyson, like all the other public
lectures, will be free, and all the
students and the public generally
are invited.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
Notice for Bids.
MAYOR S OFFICE.

MA 1UIf , OFFIIE.
MoRGANTowN. w. Va, July l , 1898.
Notice is hereby given that / will re-
ceive bids at my Office in the Court
House in Morgantown. until Thursday.
July z, 1898, at 7 O'Clock P. NJ, for the
hauling of brick from the cars at or near
the depot in said town to and along
High street, the same to be piled by the
hauler ON the sidewalks of said street
under the direction of John G. Samsel.
City Engineer. Bids should state the
price per thousand brick for such load
ing, hauling and piling.
VIM. E. GLAsscocK, Mayor
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
COUNCIL MEETS.
A Special Session is held and
the bond matter Considered.


the bond matter Considered.
Everything in that Direction is now
Finished and Nothing is in the way
Of the Paying-The Brick is with
Holding Operations now-It will be-
gin to come in next Week -As soon
as the First Installments of ii comes
in the Contractor will begin his Part
of the Work-Water and Gas mains
c0nsidered-B Bids for Hauling Brick
Wanted.
Council held special meeting
yesterday afternoon and settled the
bond matter as far as the town is
concerned and nothing now remains
in the way of the beginning of the
improvement. An ordinance in re
lation to the matter was passed and
its transmission to the firm in Gin
cinnati who are to take the bonds is
all that is required before the men
ey for the paving will be available.
Seasongood and Mayer are the peo-
pie who take the bonds They are
to have twenty eight thousand dol
lars worth which is to be used for
street paving purposes exclusively.
This is two thousand dollars more
than was at first expected to put on
them.
Prof. Lorentz now has the bonds
and the ordinance in relation to
them will be sent to the firm at
once. They have said that as soon
as it was received that they would
be ready to turn over the money and
take the bonds.
Mr.. Kidder of the firm of Berry &
Kidder who is to do the paving tele-
phoned the mayor from Warrington
recently that he was ready to begin
and would be here with his force as
soon as the first of the brick was
placed in position. He works from
thirty Five to forty men and eight to
ten teams.
Nothing can be done in the way of
tearing UP the streets until the brick
is in position and the company with
whom the contract was made to sup
ply it promised it within two weeks
of last Monday night. They will
send down twenty thousand in the
first installment. This will be hauled
from the depot and placed on the
street as fast as it can be done The
mayor was instructed by the council
to advertise for and receive bids for
this hauling and an advertisement
will be found in another column Of
this paper to that effect.
The paving of the street which is
to be done first, High street, will take
about month. This will be done
of course in hurry and the con
tractor will push it. He says that
he will have no trouble at all in get
ting it all done by the fifteenth of
November as required by the con
tract. He has the contract for the
paving in Warrington which was let
a day or SO ago.
An ordinance was passed by the
council directing the Union Improve
ment company to make any and all
in their gas and water
mains which run along the streets
to be paved before the work of paw
ing begins They will consequently
attend to this.
At the same time it might be well
for all who have not made the proper
connections with the sewers 10 do
So And all lots which front on the
streets which are to be bricked ought
to have the proper connections run
up to them so that in no case will
street pavement have to be torn up
after being laid.
There being no further business
council adjourned
The Sheriff Dead
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
BIG FIRE
In Uniontown-Three Bloc ks
Destroyed.

A Serious Fire in Uniontown-- Reports
Are Meagre But Enough is Known to
Say it is Very Serious Thought now
To BE Under Control.
About , O'Clock it was reported
here that a serious fire was raging
in Uniontown. The confusion OF
telegraph and telephone wires made
it difficult to get accurate reports,
but at $40 we received the following
telephone message:
The worst of the fire seems to be
over though it is still raging. 1t
broke out in the Wilson Block and
continued with such fury that three
blocks were destroyed.
The Connellsyille Fire Company
was summoned but has not yet ar
rived.
The fire is abating and evidently
the worst is over.
Can as yet give no estimate of the
losses.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
HOURS OF THE SOLDIER BOY.
Early Rising Carried to an Extreme
In Army and Navy.

There is fetch that is worshiped
in the army and navy, and that is
early rising. In the piping times OF
peace it is very difficult for the Of
tlcers to find enough work for the men
to do To keep them out Of mischief.
The forts and ships are all SO pain
fully clean that even a Dutch house
wife could not unearth a speck OF
dust, but the men are required to
wash and scrub and polish as II chol-
era were coming. With all that
there are many hours in the life Of
soldier or sailor when he il put to
it to kill time.
He must get UP early, with the sun
If possible, unless the sun rises after
6, and then he gets up earlier, says
the Chicago Times Herald or the
hundred Thousand volunteers there
are hardly hundred that have ever
got out of bed before 6, that is will
lingly and they are going to have a
time getting used TO being routed out
before daylight.
In addition to Systematically get
ting up at beastly hour, the soldier
will soon notice that when the regi-
ment goes anywhere it always starts
at about or o'clock in the morning
just when man would give a leg for
a snooZe.
Sailors can be chased to bed at 8 p.
m. but soldiers will skip the guard
and make a night of it, with no
chance to sleep it off. Then will
come the time when they will ask
each other what in the mischief is
the sense in starting off al 3 to march
somewhere and then stand around for
two or three hours waiting for the
wagons to come up.
1t is an established fact that very
few soldiers fear battle, but many
feel like DESERVING after campaign
of early rising The days Of surpris-
ing and ambuscades are over, and the
only effort OF depriving men Of sleep
is To make them discontinued. No
body can explain this mania, except
that it dates from England or Russia,
where the sun rises In summer at
a. m.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
The Sheriff Dead.

Sheriff John Kennedy, Of Washing
ton county, Pa, died at his home in
Washington yesterday morning. AS
required by law Coroner Fitzpatrick
was telegraphed to take charge of the
Office until successor could be ap-
pointed and commissioned by the Gov
ernor.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
For Cheat Canyon.

Mr.. T.. r. Evans will run a hack
this evening to the CHEAT Canyon Club
House to accommodate all who desire
to visit that pleasant resort. Nice
entertainment may be had there and
trip to the place is very enjoyable.
Fare for the round trip will be 80 cts.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02

Joe Sigwart went to Fostoria, O..
this morning to spend the Fourth.
A pleasant trip to Joe.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Orr, of
Pittsburg, arrived on the noon boat
to visit their sister, Miss S. p Orr,
in South Nor gantown.
EVERY one wants to see the dirt
on the street paving job begin to
move and from indications they will
soon have that pleasure. The con
tractor is going to waste no time.
THE boys who are to serve the
cannon at Kingwood will leave here
for that place in time to whoop her
up for the people over there on the
reat day. They had trouble in getting
primers for the gun but they skirm-
ished around until they were sup
piled and they were corresponding
" happy.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
Notice..

The subscriber having resigned as su-
perintendent of the Peoples Telephone
Company would direct all persons hold
ing claims against said company to pre-
sent them to r. B. Price, Secretary,
Mooresville, w. Va, for settlement
RUFUS WEST.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
No Paper ON Monday.

Every attache of this officer is anx-
ious to celebrate the Glorious SO no
paper will be issued on MONDAY.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02

WHAT might have been very SER
ious accident occurred this morning.
A stone setter Mr.. William Trenton
in placing a large stone at the school
building allowed it to slip, it caught
him in the calf of the left leg infiict-
ing a wound No bones were broken
but he will be confined to his room
for couple of weeks. DIR. Jas. p.
Fitch dressed the wound.
Capt. j. r. Miller, James Barth-
low and L. w. Joseph have gone to
New York where they will be for sew
eral days taking part in the great
Schutzenfest which is being given
there by one of the largest German
societies in the United States. A
great many fine shooters from all
over the country will compete for
some very fine prizes and we shall
expect the Morgantown men as US
ual to come back with number Of
the prizes which they have won by
their skill. At the other event which
they attended last year they were
very successful and hope to be even
more so this time. The best wishes
of everyone goes with them.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02

WATERS d Wilmington are agents
for Jas. A. Bannister's high grade
shoes.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
For Rent

A room suitable for paint or
plumbers shop. Apply to S. A..
Poster.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02
Take No Chances on the Fourth.

Don't talk politics on the Fourth.
Don't go on crowded excursion.
Don't be ashamed to be patriotic
Don't get overheated early in the
day.
Don't carry loose powder in your
pocket.
Don't laugh at the drum major
pity him.
Don't put all your fire crackers in
one heap.
Don't drive a nervous horse on the
Fourth.
Don't think powder is IA respecter
Of persons.
Don't encourage small boys to fire
large cannons.
Don't take any chances with a
cracked cannon
Don't blow down the mouth of a
loaded cannon.
Don't put your nose to rocket af-
ter lighting it.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-07-02

TRUNKS and Bags at
Hirschman's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05

Roses must have u rather heavy soil
Make up your compost of loan, having
considerable clay in 1t, and some DID, thor
oughly rotted cow manure Drain the pot
we'll, for the roses will not thrive with
stagnant water at its roots. In pottlng
your plant be sure to have the soil firmly
packed about the roots. A loosely potted
rose will not grow until the soil becomes
compact, and often 1t will die before this
takes place Do not use largo pots Tor
young plants. A or inch pot Is quite
large enough for year old plant. AS the
roots fill the soil shift to pots of larger
size. being careful not to injure young and
tender roots in doing 1t.
Cleanliness Is Of great Importance IN
rose culture If neglected, plants will
soon become infested with aphis, and this
insect, IL unmolested, will soon ruin q
plant. The remedy for this pest Is fumi
CATION with tobacco, or the frequent nppll
cation Of an infusion of sulpho tobacco
soap, which should be applied at least once
a week, and so thoroughly that not q lea
escapes O bath In 1t.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
Testimony of tho photograph.

at Is remarkable what an Important
part the kodak plays In maritime transao-
tions, as we'll as others, these days" OBJ
served Captain Tanvers, an old whaler.
"You may not know 1t, but no big ship
ever leaves port now without kodak and
a supply of Photographic materials. This
is especially the case with whalers ana
other ships that go out on long cruises.
The day of listening to yarns OF whalers
has passed. Today the whaler must show
the photograph for everything.
LAS whale is worth from $4,000 to
S5, 600, and as 1t costs from $50, 1000 to
s75. 600 to send out and maintain whaier
and her crew for her catch, yarns, inter
esting as they may be, are not regarded by
the men who furnish the money for the
enterprise as q sufficient remuneration.
They want the facts, or photo OF them II
they lost the facts; nothing else Will do
1t won't do any more for party to go on
to sea on loaflng cruise and return II
nine or ten months, empty, after having
eaten up several carloads of provisions ane
run up the wage bill into tho higher thou
sands Every place the ship touches hai
to be photographed, and Photographic
transcript has to be shown of every impor
tant incident of the cruise. '-WashingtoI
Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
A Fable For Authors.

An author once sailed around the world
and ransackcd every land for material.
His notebooks were laden with good
things. He only waited the proper mo-
ment for fusing them into shape. dc lit
orally said to himself "Soul, thou hast
much goods laid up for many years. Yet
he could not find himself ready to labor
with them. They were not his by actual
living. The strange sights lost their novel
ty as he remembered them, and ne
thought "No one would care for this, or
this" But there was an old woman who
lived up an alley near him, unioreign,
unpicturesquc, who seized upon his imagi-
nation with vital human force. Constrain-
ed to express her life, he forgot his readers
in the zest of his work. And to his aston
ishment they laughed and wept with him
and declared that the woman in the alley,
within stones throw of his own house,
was the best thing he had ever invented.
Chicago Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
.obey- In the Marriage Service.

In Blunt's Annotated Book of Com
mon Prayer" tho priests address to the
woman, according to the Salisbury use, Is
given as "Vis habere hume virum in spon-
sum, ct eli obediro ct servire," etc. Tho
words Of betrothal in the present marriage
service are said by the same authority TO
be substantially identical with those which
have been used in England from ancient
times. Examples of variations are given
to illustrate the language in which the
betrothal promises were made from about
the thirteenth to the sixteenth century
In the Salisbury use the woman Is d.
rected to say, "In sykenesse and hin elthe
to DO honour and buxum. Bonour Is ex'
planned by the learned annotator to DC
equivalent to bonnaire, gentle; buxom, to
be a form of boughsome-i. O., plant OF
obedient. The expression found In the
Hereford use is, "Yn sekenes and helthe
to be buxom to the tyl deth us departe.'
The Salisbury use, it Is perhaps hardly
necessary to say, was compiled about lose
by Osmond, bishop of Salisbury and chan
cellor of England. and Queries.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-05
"LET HER GET DIRTY"
Too Mach Care and Batting Nay Sst no
Good For q Baby.

Too Mach Care and Batting Nay sst no
Good For % Baby.
when my first child was born, said
little Mrs A., Il had the usual young
mcthers craze for daintily kept baby.
The li.yette Was one Of those gorgeous Gift
affairs. with frucks which Nictori.s, AL
sure, would have thought much too hno
for the royal children-besides every con-
ceiyable fantasy in which the most lux
urious minded infant could by any posi-
bility be attired.
III had one OF those fussy French nurses,
immaculate rs new pin; anu between US
we scrubbed and polished up that poor
boby until it's q marvel 1t didn't fade
away before our eyes.
After bath In almond meal softened
water she did look darling In her sheer,
beribboned draperies, and i, foolish moth
or. neyor noticed her lapguur and waxen
skin. l did take note that her hair
! wouldn't grow that worried me, SO finally
| I called in the doctor He was grumpy
person. very curt and not overcivil at
| times. 'Bathed too much, he said briefly.
| Look at her skin-all the life washed out
| of IT Let her get dirty and stay dirty.
\ Nothing better for children than judicious
livery soon we went TO our country
place, and l noticed the farmers babies
| who ate pic and pickles for breakfast, hot
| biscuit and pork for supper, sat In puddles
and went bareheaded whether the rain iei
or the sun scorched. They were inevitable
4 victims of future dyspepsia, but as babies
they were sturdy and rosy, and mine
wasn't.
II invested in bingham pinafores ant
stout shoes, dumped a load Of clean san'
at the side door, and inaugurated "a per
petual feast of mud pies. Pauline was In
structed not to say Don't save In extrein
moments, and baby began to live the III
of q Young animal left to the beneficen
care of sunshine and fresh air, undisturbe
save at regular intervals for food and sleep
81 never had my wax dolly again; bu
in the autumn l carried home blooming
sturdy little maid whose splendid spirit
and perfect health more than compensate
for occasional mud stains and torn pima
. fores. New York Tribune.