The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-04-05

regularly in the future. His bOyhoo6
vas spent here and number OF the
older residents are his friends.
THE fellow who is so sshard up
and has had SO many misfortunes hi
can't possibly pay a dollar he owes
generally has a front seat at the show
Our opinion is that the man who
will scatter poison about promiscu
ously for dogs would not hesitate tt
axe human life, were it not for feal
If the law.
The town clock was stopped for q
1hile on Wednesday but it is doing
business at the old stand again.
However when 1t saw the Elk's parade
it had hard time to keep going.
The top notch of enterprise seems
to have been reached by western
undertaken who displays in his win.
dow this notice: "Why walk about
in misery, when you can be decently
buried for $6Y"
A SOUTHERN paper is authority fol
the statement that skunk broke W
a Christian Science meeting in Geor-
gia. The leader was unable 10 con-
vince his followers that they only i'm
agined they smelt something.
NOTHING could more loudly attest
the good work done by the students
in the University than the readiness
with which they secure positions up
on leaving the school. Seven Of those
who will graduate in June already
have work to take up as soon as they
secure their diplomas.
AN advertiser to day wanted us to
be sure and put his advertisement
on the 'slocal page" When shown
that every page Of the NEW DoMIN-
ION was local page be was perfect
ly satisfied and said he thought it
would do any place as the paper was
read all over.
MERCHANTS here never sold goods
at so narrow profit as now. They
all hustle for business and do compar-
atively little on credit but with all
their Care few losses are met Their
humber has increased beyond the
needs of the population and for some
of them it is struggle to exist.
A LADY does not wish to be looked
upon as a shopping fiend," she does
not care to have merchant show her
all his stock 10 order to find out wheth-
er he keeps what she wishes to pur-
chase, and whether the article is sold
at price she can afford. 1t is much
easier and plcasanter to look through
the advertisements Of paper than it
is to bore clerks and waste her own
time.
The excursion season on the river
will soon open and thousands of peo-
pie may be expected to come up the
valley to Morgantown. We should be
ready to make the most favorable in-
preston possible on them and the
town and everything in it should be
cleaned up at once. 1t costs but very
little to have an attractive town and
there is nothing that will pay great
&C per cent on the investment
PRESIDENT r. c. Atkeson, of the
State board of Agriculture, and DR..
William Petrie. of Wheeling, consult
ing veterinary surgeon of the State
loard, have been at Grantsville, exam
iling a peculiar disease which has at
tackled the horses of that locality.
The disease had been incorrectly
bought to be CHAMBERS, and had been
transmitted toa number of men who
had been caring for the horses, in the
form of very ugly sores on their hands.
The physicians who have been doctor
ing the infected men say that they
will be able to drive the disease away
and it is believed that it will also be
cured on the infected animals. 1t
was not decided by DIR. Petrie what
the infection was.
The germ theorists seem to be
working the fad for all it is worth
and one Of it's victims has introduced
a bill in the New York Legislature
to require all the school books used
in the public schools to be burned
once in six moaths to destroy all
germs to prevent the spread of dis
eases. Some school book combine
must have captured germ lunatic
who has broken into the Legislature
and is working him for sucker
To carry out his idea all public IL
braries, all money passing from hand
to hand, all vehicles used by the
public and everything of the kind
would have to be burned Better
burn the germ lunatic to start on.
EVERY editor has received them.
The postmaster sends them to the
editor. The postmaster is not to
blame. For instance, there was a
man by the name of-well, say Tim
Short, who sent US three notices to
stop his paper, he did not want it any
longer. We wondered what was the
matter Upon investigating the sub
scription book we found that Tim was
short $40. He never had paid cent,
and yet he stopped his paper as mat
ter of economy to us. He didn't want
us to lose any more by him. A few
days afterward Short was at church
and his melodious tenor rang out clear
in that old soul stirring song, "Jesus
paid it ALL" He might have been
mistaken but his earnestness impress
ed us. So the next day we sent him
receipt in full begging his pardon
for not knowing that he had made an
assignment of his liabilities to the
Lord.
The Clarksburg savings bank has
recently been receiving deposits of
money that had not been in circula
ton for long time A deposit was
made few days ago of can of gold
coin that had been buried in the
sround number of the coins being
covered with rust from the can. An
other deposit was made of $4,000
IN paper money that looks like new
money but was the old government
sreenbacks of 1862 and 1864. One
note was a curiosity to nearly every
one who saw it. 1t was twenty
lollar, six er-cent, compound inter
st note, of the series of August 18th,
1874 Across the face, in large green
letters, half an inch long are the
words, "this note bears compound
interest. Upon the back of the
note is engraved compound inter
est table with the following expla
nation: "By Act of Congress this
note is legal tender for $40, but
bears interest of six percent, com
pounded every six months, payable
only at maturity. The sum of $23.-
So will be paid the holder for princi-
pal and interest at maturity of note
three years from date