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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-18
v. c. /. U.
For God and Home and Native
Land.

Land.
EDITED BY MoRGAsTows w. G. T. L
THERE ARE PLENTY LEFT.
The annual report of city collector
Brandecker, Of Chicago. shows that
Zone thousand saloons have gone out
of business during the past year At
present there are 4, 500 licensed saloons
in the city.
SALOONS CLOSED ON SUNDAY.
The supreme court Of Iowa has decid-
ed. that saloons must not be opened on
Sunday for purposes Of cleaning them
preparatory to business Monday. The
court says: 1.-THE statute does not say
the place shall not be opened for bus
mess. 1t says it shall not be opened
at all. "
CIGARETTE SMOKERS INEFFICIENT
The general freight agent of a large
railroad employing two hundred men.
attributes eighty-6ve per cent of the
mistakes made in his Office TO his
thirty-two cigarette smokers. He re-
fuses to employ any man addicted to
| the habit.
ma ,,
-
Two eastern fdilr9aa companies,
the Erie and the Susquehannd, have
announced that after the first of the
new year all card tables will be re-
,no'cu 'Ioni piR'i iafHSt onu aug VIZ
lation of the prohibition against card
oauas will ha puhIipIx rspriuia da1
Nv tbo' conductor IN. action is
taken because Of the fart that prpfes-
slonal gamblers make practjce OF
travelling ON the New York suburban
trains. teaching speeial games and
winning TIN, MONEY ri Tho reonlar
natrous of the road
,,,o,r,y,,e poe, ,,ts,r,,
$40
nirly- ehfee i'q'of u'dlers are ieRi-
yves ~ we" YIN seatn ifoii fetlhoue
where they were III aahget oi ,'ial anu
imprisonment lor pursuing tnat tfaf-
NC Governor Back refuses 10 hohor
rPqu'sioioh from '1e Ver'none gov
efhof' on the Rfouhd thab liquor SELL
ing Is il1o crime ~ view fork.
NDHnlnnf hniGfnf
Rutland county mas arranged TO keep
the court In continuous session until
next March. The effect of TINS Will
be to keep the fugitlyes from return
ing to their homes unless they are
prepared 10 take the FISK OF iinpflson-
ment.
A WORD FROM DEPEw.
Chauneey Den.w savs. ..ryeotv. ve
wears AGO I knew everv man wI,man
and child in peorskill N " and n
has been sandy with mo to MARI
hoys who started in eve,v Grade NJ life
with mvself to see what became az
them went nm last fan and began
IN count fha,, oyar and n US a, n.
structive exhibit. Some of them be-
oanle 9ielhs' nieieiii'it>' "'auuiao-
oureIs' lawyers anu ooo'ois ~ Is ,e-
inaihapie o''aO c'eiSoie u .''ose "no
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-18
]. B. LiDpinratt Company, Pubs,
InnadeIphia, Pa.
A. L. WADE, General Agent,
Morgantown, w. Va
Cure Cold In Head,
Wants Supplied

Kermott's Chocolates Laxative Quinine seasy
to take and quick to cure cold in head and sore
throat
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-18

The ono Day Cold cure.

Fer cold in the head and sore throat use Ker-
Day Cold Cure"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-18

Cold in head and sore throat cured by Kei
to take as candy. "Children cry for them"
Evening star., 1899-09-30

moment to describe the fashions of the mo-
ment and which consequently never have
time to assume classical FORM
A Kind That is Inevitable.
Slang of this last kind. from the nature
of the case. Is inevitable. Slang OF the
other kinds mentioned Is to those who use
1t satisfactory and convenient, and may
often give conversation an ease, without
giving it vulgarity, which helps 1t to MT
closely to the facts of life and character.
But however used we venture to say this,
that 1t is always sign of some mental
weakness or defect; and the thoroughly ac-
complished man and woman of the most
fastidious class will achieve all the grace
and lightness which slang can give with
when some of its phrases are used. as it
were, in inverted commas, or are, even
while they are being used, held up to a
mild contempt Whether the use OF slang
is increasing in English society or not we
are not prepared to say. 1t was certainly
never, or hardly ever, employed by the
more brilliant takers of the generation
that is all but dead. 1t forms no part or
the brillianCy of THE School ror Scahoai.
1t is entirely absent from those comedies
of the restoration. whose authors belonged
to the world of fashion which they repre-
sented. No kind of language Is so truly
delicate and flexible as the English Ian
guage In it's most perfect and legitimate
form. Many people are ashamed or using
it because they think it unpedantic. Those
who think this bear witness merely to their
own imbecility in using it and in seeking to
achieve ease by degrading 1t; by the use of
slang they often achieve something which
is pedantry upside down. Good takers,
however. who disapprove OF slang ana
avoid it, will console themselves for its
prevalence among others by the unchris-
tian reflection that nothing assists us so
much III thinking well of ourselves as our
ability to contrast our own qualities with
the marked inferiority of our friends.
Evening star., 1899-09-30
coLoRADo's BURNING MOUNTAIN.
1t Has Been on Fire for Over a Hum
dred Years.

Newcastle Correspondence Kansas City World.
A mountain, which has been on fire for
more than one hundred years. is situated
lust west of here. So close is it that Its
shadow envelops the town at pm. at
this time of the year, and yet the people
hereabouts think no more of it than of
the beautiful Grand river which washes
the feet Of the huge pile where the fire
has burned so long To the tenderfoot,
however, the glittering patches Of deep
red fire, where it breaks out the side
of the mountain, and is exposed to view,
there is nothing in all this state quite it's
equal.
The fire is fed by a big vein of coal which
the mountain contains. Just how the coal
became ignited is not known. The oldest
resident says it was on fire when he came
here, and the Ute Indians. who once lived
in this section, say 1T was burning many
years before the first white man crossed
the continental divide. The suppostion is
that the coal was ignited by forest fire
at an early date in the present century.
1t has smoldered and steadily burned
until this day. At night. when the moon
is dark, is the best time to the fire.
Then 1T Is that it resembles the regions of
of Dante. The earth covering the coal Is
loosened by the heat and falls away, ex-
posing the sheet of fire.
The escaping gas probably assists in
stripping off the rocks and dirt, and wher-
ever the vein of coal approaches the sur
face the fire can be seen. The first fire 1
saw was fully fifty feet square. 1t had a
peculiar red tint, while the burning gas
coming up at the base Of the coal vein
auued bright blue coloring to the scene.
In many places the surface of the noun
tain has sunken, showing where the fire
has burned out it's course.
Efforts have been made to extinguish
the fire. Some time ago a company
which owns a large amount Of coal land
here constructed ,itch from a point sew
eral miles above the mountain into which
it succeeded in turning the water which
goes to form Elk creek.
Previously shaft had been sunken in
the mountain, and into this shaft the
was soon filled. but the fire was above the
level of the water. and the effort was a
failure.
Evening star., 1899-09-30
Fight with n BIacksnake.
From the Philadelphia Times.


Henry Gedder, a lad In the employ of
Henry 8. Renninger. farmer living in
Chester county. several miles south of
Pottstown, had a lively encounter with
hve-foot blacksnake recently.
A commotion among some briars caused
him to investigate, and he found the snake
helping itself to young blackbirds in
nest. 1t was in the act of swallowing one
when he came upon the scene.
1t took the lad but an instant to seize
a fence rail and attack the reptile. He
managed to pinion it to the ground by clap
ping the end OF his weapon down on the
reptiles tail, but then he was in a predica-
ment. The snake swung its head around
as far as it could to strike him and he
feared to let go his pole. for then the snake
could reach him. So he shouted for help
and neighboring woman hurried down to
see what was the matter. She was badly
scared by the sight Of the snake and
wanted to flee. but Henry persuaded her to
hold the fence rail that pinioned the snake
while he grAsped his hoe and proceeded to
chop of the reptiles head.
When the snake was held up to get an
idea Of its length garter snake several
feet long and several birds dropped out Of
1t,
Evening star., 1899-09-30

dark and raining, too. The walking was
not good. as you may be sure with all the
rain, and l was picking my way along as
best could. All at once saw shadowy
ing, either. could see that it was man.
and felt, rather than saw, that he was
boloman."
Mrs. Reeves here said something and the
lieutenant smiled.
"You see," he said, turning on his pillow
so that he could look at me without effort.
''she is getting to be a regular fire eater.
but l don't believe she is half as blood
thirsty as she talks. do think hit the
fellow. but there is no way to prove 1t.
We'll, l was on the defensive in an In
volver before he made lunge at me and
was within arms length. / believed that
he had knife in one hand. 1 was sure
he had a revolver, for he fired point blank
me. I felt the charge pass my face. But
they say that a miss Is as good as mile.
At any rate, things were happening at such
pace that didn't think much about 1t
then. What l did realize was that 1 must
get hold of his hands. and quick. too.
He cut me little the face"-the lieu
tenant jerked his thumb toward the plaster
on his cheek-"and then l caught his arm.
He struck me on the wrist with the hand
which held the revolver and with my left
hand l caught his right L was holding his
hands. but he had the revolver and knife.
1 was holding his knife above my head,
TO throw him over backward.
1--WE were whirling around and around
like madmen at a waltz when he began
to fire. He was trying to hit me in the
Stomach-and it would have been all day
with me If he had-but / kept his hand
where he would have to shoot toward the
ground. l felt a bullet go into my foot
and then felt another strike almost in
the same place. That was three shots
from his revolver, counting the one he fired
at me when we first came together. l was
counting those shots. and when he had
spent two more, one of which cut through
my bootleg and nipped my shin. 1 was
pretty sure that he could not shoot again.
Then 1t was that he cut me on the hand.
He could not stab, and so he worked the
blade of the knife across the back of my
wrist. l can assure you that 1t was any
thing but pleasant, that little performance,
and presently L thought he would cut him
self loose. Then l began to force the fight
ing. l could not stand on my wounded foot,
but l could use the knee. / proceeded to
punch him in the stomach with it, and
pretty soon 1 felt him falling away from
hands, both at once, and he was bowled
over into a bunch of banana plants.
pulled my revolver quick as l could and
began TO fire, but my aim was not good.
for as soon as the fellow was thrown and
l attempted to stand on my foot / fell.
Just about that time one of the outposts
came running up. He had heard the firing
and was coming to my rescue. But he
came too late. He said he was but a min
ute on the way. but he was more than that.
1t seemed to me that we were fighting for
ten minutes. Perhaps 1t was not as long
as that. but it seemed an interminable time.
"Oh, he got away. We thrashed around
there. but the fellow was hidden by the
darkness and had crawled to his lines.
wish knew, for sure, whether hit him.
Evening star., 1899-09-30
SNORING.
Traveller Says the DisaEreenbie Noise
is n Mark of Civilization.

Traveller Says the DisaEreenbie Noise
is n Mark of Civilization.
From the New York Sun.
Snoring may be inconveniently obtrusive
in sleeping car" said the experienced
traveller "but it Is just much mark
of a high stage of civilization as is the
sleeping car itself You may take it for a
fact that all the wild and inferior races
do not snore The doctrine Of the survival
81 the fittest gets in it's work right there.
and the savage person who vocalizes his
sleep stands very good chance Of learn
ing that snoring is not good for the health.
Suppose you are a very savage person out
on the warpath in a country full Of your
enemies. You take every precaution against
discovery, covering up your trail and Sc
lecting your camp so as to battle ordinary
search That's all right, but II you snore
it's all wrong: an enemy who hears the
sound will make Investigations and the re-
suit is fatal always and frequently uncom-
Portable.
II have been a great deal among wild
people, both in this country and else
where, and / know that they do not Snore.
Once 1 had one of these government pro-
fessors with me; he was very wise man,
and knew more about the savages than
they did themselves, but he would snore
slumbers are orchestrated, he denied the
fact and we should never have convinced
him of what the rest of us had every rea-
son to know IL 1t had not been for one lit
tie circumstance. One night we made our
camp right in a village of the savages.
They We're peaceful enough. and we were
in no particular danger. Still, as they were
wild people, 1t was just as well to keep
some sort of a watch on their movements.
well. the professor rolled himself up in
his blanket and soon was snoring like a
good fellow. After while l felt that there
were people about, and / lifted myself up
on my elbow to see what was up. I'm
blest if pretty near the whole outfit of the
sav2ges hadn't left their own houses and
squatteG down on the grass where they
could look into our camp and see what was
going on. 1t was the first time in all their
lives they had ever heard man snore, and
they did not know what to make of 1t. Or
rather they thought they did, for they
sized 1t up that some one of the gods was
communicating with the white men.
It's never very safe to monkey with the
religious opinions of the savages, SO l got
up and woke the professor When he saw
the crowd sitting around our camp he was
scared for fair. But when / told him that
the savages had gathered just to hear him
snore it made him mad l don't see why
it should. If the savages don't snore and
the civilized people do, then the snore
should De taken as one of the badges of
civilization.
Evening star., 1899-09-30
THE BOLOMAN.
A Filipino Assassin in Uniform Who
Kills In the Dark.

-
Kills In the Dark.
Manila Correspondence Chicago Record.
Lieutenant Ara L. Reeves lies in the hos
pital now and his wife sits beside him.
His foot is done up in bandages, one hand
Is bandaged also, and he has strip of
adhesive plaster on his face The lieuten-
ant is a victim of the boloman, and is about
the first one who has lived to tell the tale.
And he can best tell that tale.
'Our company Of the 18th Infantry has
the hardest station there is at San Fer
nando." he said to me. I'VE have shoot
ing there almost every night. Not firing to
be replied to. but enough to keep us sure
of the fact that the insurgents are there
and that they would come at US il they
We're not watched like hawk. So, you see,
we have to be very careful about the dis
position Of our outposts and we have to
know that all is well.
suppose that every man in charge of q
company-mine Is D company-visits his
outposts every night. I have been in
charge OF that company for some time
and assure you there never has q night
passed that have not been fully informed
by observation as to the situation. This
thing hao0sned night before last e was
Evening star., 1899-09-30
SOME QUEER PRISONS.
All the Comforts of Home and Club
Are, ~PrSyided.

ARC = OtAOeu
From the Gle Gland PIain Dealer
That portion of the new prison on the
Port Royal boulevard. Paris, reserved for
political offenders will be a delightful
abode. Oak tables surmounted by mirrors.
supplied with electric lights, ornamented
with green shades. are more suggestive of
the boudoir than the prison; nevertheless,
they will be found there. The conversa-
ton room, exclusively reserved for the
prisoners and well supplied with books,
newspapers and easy chairs, will certain
ly tend to make the Sante prison more
popular than the clubs, especially as, in
addition to a splendid bath room. the
prison boasts Of a garden planted with
beautiful shrubs. which will be illumi-
mated during the summer months by cleo
tricity. and perhaps the French govern
ment will provide military band as well.
The prisoners on the occasion of the
riots last year in Italy did not have an
altogether bad time, on the whole. They
occupied the same large chamber, and.
when not discussing various questions of
the day, or reading and writing letters,
each took turns at composing novel, the
length of each separate contribution being
one paragraph.
The Finnish prison for debtors at Hell
singfors was cheap and pleasant board
ing house until the last day OF 1895 when it
was closed, it having occurred to the rate
payers who did not habitually use it that 1T
was an expensive luxury. Most of the in
mates who were committed for three years
preferred to stay there rent free, and devote
their funds to having good time rather
than pay their debts and go free. Re
cherche dinners were brought inf the
debtor could pay, for them-with wines.
spirits and tobacco; and, If they wished to
return any hospitality, their friends out
side the jail could come in for the purpose
Of enjoying the same OF course, in this
ideal prison. the inmates could go out of its
precincts when they wished, but by a cruel
legal enactment they had to be accompa-
MED by a warden, who had. however, to
don plain clothes on these occasions, so
that the prisoners social standing should
not be imperiled by being seen in the COM
pany of an odious jailer.
Evening star., 1899-09-30
TEACHING A SOLDIER TO SHOOT.
Instruction Impaired IA to Gravity
Air Resistance and Other Points.


Air Remittance and Other Points.
From Pearson's Magazine.
He is taught that the bullet travels
through the air in a curved line. called
the trajectory, and that three forces act
upon 1t; first. the exploded charge. tending
to drive 1t forward in a straight line along
the line of fire; second, the force of grav-
ity, and third. the air resistance. At 200
yards. owing to these forces. the bullet,
travelling at the rate of 1000 feet second.
will have fallen about two feet. In the ex-
citement of firing at close quarters the aim
will invariably be too high. 1t has been
calculated that when the enemy ap-
proaches within $50 yards the soldiers will
instinctlvely fire as much as two feet or
three feet above their heads. Now, 1t has
been found by experiment that the fact of
fixing bayonets will cause the bullet to
drop a distance of about two and half
feet in $50 yards. and therefore, when
about this distance from the enemy SOL
Giers are instructed to fix bayonets. in or
der to counteract the excessive elevation
of their aim.
The recruit learns that the mean extreme
range of the bullet is $500 yards, and that
the longest shot ever observed was 3 76o
yards. He is taught the penetrating power
of his weapon, a subject full of interest.
To take one or two examples, rammed earth
gives less protection than loose; bullets
easily find their way through joints Of
walls. while a concentrated fire of about
$50 rounds at 200 yards will breach nine
inch brick wall. Only experience can
teach a soldier how much he must aim to
the right or left of his mark to- counteract
the force of the wind. A side wind has
more effect on the flight of the bullet than
a wind blowing directly toward the firer
The soldier must learn the habits of his
rifle. since some shoot higher or lower
than others. Every rifle. like every marks
man, has its own individuality
Evening star., 1899-09-30
The One Sure Thing.

Written for The Evening Star by w. T. Talbot
There are sounds Of laughter and singing
And sounds that of make part,
As the earth to its fate goes swinging;
But love is lord Of the heart,
And cloudy or fair the weather,
Some souls will be drifting together,
And souls be drifting apart
Dark evil may lurk In the byways
Still blinking In wrath at the dawn.
And the terror leap forth on the highways
OF the sword from its scabbard withdrawn:
But cloudy or fair the weather
Some souls will be drifting together.
And souls be drifting apart.
Though unmoved by the poets dreaming,
Men tsrry too long in the mart,
And grew cold in the pride of their schemine.
Yet love is lord Of the heart;
And cloudy or fair the weather
Some souls will be drifting together,
And some be drifting apart.
Evening star., 1899-09-30

Japan. not to be behind European states
In civilization, is going to send out an arc
tic expedition. The reason given is that If
Japan Is ever to compete with England
on the seas it must develop in the Japanese
the spirit of adventure and of discovery
which has made the English powerful The
only places left to be discovered are the
ncrth and south poles.
A correspondent in New Zealand reports
n strange dislike to the medical profession
among the working classes there They
never apply to a doctor until all other
means have failed, and then assume a
hostile attitude, refusing to give their
symptoms and expecting the doctor to find
out what is the matter with them by SIM
ply looking at them.
Tween. the little Danish island in the
sound half way between Seeland and the
Swedish coast and only fifteen miles from
Copenhagen, is being bargained for by a
German syndicate which wishes to turn the
Island into a gambling resort like Monte
Carlo
Evening star., 1899-09-30
Vale, O, Lobster.

Vale, o, Lobster.
Holman F. Day in the Lewiston Journal.
We've gazed with resignation the passing Of
Nor care a continental for the Legendary rok;
And the dodo and the bison and the ornith-o-rhyn-
May go and yet the passing brings shade of
Ts sad s.se: ss sss ass
But s,, woe that hovers o'sr us brings keen and
As we weep to see tie lobster vanish of the
Oh. dear crust.cean dainty Of the dodge-hoes of
! tune my Lutte in minor ii, thernody for thee.
1oo We been been the nations martyr and twas wrong
And you may not think We love you; yet We hate
We've given you the, blsses and hot-potted you.
and yet - =
We've sd;y loved ygs n, eet than when living
You , have no ears 70 listen. so. alas We can't
The sorrow that youe bring us as you leave tho
coast Of Maine.fe5y
Do you fail to mari our feelings as we bitterly
depore
All, what's the use Of living If you also can't
Until die to furnish us the JOY of one 'broiled
And what can e'er supplant you a cold dish
Or what assuage our longngs when to salads you're
denied?
Or what can furnish thunder to the legislative
brain
When ruthless Fate has swept you from the rocky
coast Of Maine?
I see. and sigh in seeing in some Distant future
age
Your vanishing shell reposing under glass upon
stage,
The while some pundit lectures on the eurios Of
the past
And dainty ladies shudder AZ they gaze on you
aghast.
And all the folks that listen will wonder vaguely at
The fact that once lived heather who could eat =
Thing like that
All. that's the fate you're faeing-but laments are
all in vain
-Tsn the dodo that ysa saw 10 whsa ~ hvsa
Evening star., 1899-09-30
queen of the Arkan.aw.

From the Denver Evening Post.
Maid Mary Of the Arkansaw Of beauty cannot
boast,
No gallant knight in sparkling wine her eyes would
to toast,
Her figure not connoisseur would call Of perfect
mold,
And in her hair there's many silver thread
among the gold
And yet admirers BY the score are seeking for her
hand,
From cowboys: rough in speech and dress, to ma
bobs Of the land;
They see in her without a doubt most enticing
prize
Ghe owns a thousand head o. steers, and beef IL
the yisol