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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-17
An Open Letter.

To Every Person IN Morgantoaen acho
Uses Type,criter and Office Supplies:
GENTLEMEN:-We beg TO call your
attention to the fact that we have
just received the largest shipment of
Typewriter Paper and Office Supplies
ever brought to this city. A few
prices may interest you.
Good Quality Typewriter Paper, S5c ream
Manifold Typewriter Paper.-.S5 a. ST.. 10
Bond No. ii Paper $1.0O and 81 40 ream
Typewriter Toe for 2 OF.
typewriter Erase sc and loo
Brushes for Cleaning Typewriter......25c
1SEdf " fdppeF 10 anu DC
Inks by the quart gallon at less than
1T can be had elsewhere.
The Acme Book Store,
Dering Building on Walnut St,
III. l.. SwIsHER, Prop'r.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-17
ABOUT OUR FRIENDS.
Personal Mention OF Prominent People
Where they are and How they are.

Where they are and How they are.
Mrs. F. X. O'Kelley has about re-
covered her usual health.
Miss Chloe Miller has returned from
weeks outing with some friends on
Cheat
Deputy Sheriff Jno. B. Wallace has
been in Battelle serving papers in the
Weaver Akin case.
Mr.. A. NJ. Voigt, the genial pro-
prietor of the famous Mt Chateau
hotel on Cheat was here to-day.
Miss Maud Harner, compositor in
this office has been quite i'll for two
days rast but her friends think she
will be out soon.
Hon. Jno. j. Brown has been quite
seriously i'll for some time past but
we are pleased to say is now on the
road to recovery.
Rev. d. L. Jamison preached his
farewell sermon in the Baptist church
Sunday night which was an excellent
one. Rev. Jamison has made many
friends in Philippi being very pleas
ant and earnest man.-Philippi Re
publican.
Mr.. j. G. Barr, the government in
spector at the lock fell a day or two
ago and hurt himself seriously. His
injuries are internal and may require
treatment in a hospital. Mr., Barr
resides in the A. L. Wade property on
Chancery.
DoN'T forget the festival on Green
mont this evening.
SOME of the lawyers have dead
sure thing on oil in the Weaver
Akin case. 1t is surer than to bore
wells
WHITTINGToN makes a very inter-
esting announcement on our fourth
page to-day. He has some extraor-
binary inducements to buyers in cloth
ing, shoes etc. Read what he says.
REAL estate transactions are not
as brisk as earlier in the summer
and not SO much SO as they will be
later. Real estate grows in value
steadily and every transaction shows
larger figure.
THREE months more will see the
close of series of one of the most
successful of our phenomenally sue
Fcessful building associations. The
stock amounts to about S164, 900 and
there will not be loss of a single
dollar. A most remarkable record.
THE road leading to the new ferry
at Mt Chateau has been further inn
proved and a strong fence built on the
lower side to prevent the possibility of
teams going over the hill. Mr.. Voigt
does not neglect any detail that will
add to the comfort or pleasure of
guests at that place.
AN arrangement has been made be-
tween the B. g. O. and the M. & K.
for track connection at the present
depot where the present driveway now
is. Though the contract has not
been signed this will most likely be
the arrangement and an extra track
will also be put down on the lower
side.
A NUMBER OF men who work at
the lock and dam had narrow es
cape from most horrible accident
this morning. A box of cement
weighing $500 pounds was being
moved by a crane and was suspend
ed twenty feet in the air when the
wire cable snapped allowing it to
drop to the ground like dart. For
tunately not man was standing
Immediately under it or the conse-
quences would have been appalling.
AS it was the box fell right among a
gang of workmen.
JESSE l.. TURNER,
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-17
Prosperity is On
OUR BANNER:

We are making nicer pictures and
more of them and at less prices
than any Gallery in this part of
the world.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-17

WALK over has come to town.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16

A fool. in spite Of natures bent,
May shine for once-by accident
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16

What the Hieroglyphics on the Checks
Mean.

Mean.
Most people suppose said an ex-
| Californian, talking of the Chinese
| !aundrymen. that TIE vertical row of
hleroglyphics on a Chinese laundry
check are merely SO many numerals.
As a matter Of fact. they are nothing
of the kind, but constitute a brief and
spicy description Of the individual who
left the bundle. If you will take the
trouble to notice it you will see that
| the laundryman always goes through
exactly the same programme. He takes
the package. gives you swift, compre-
hensiye glance, and then proceeds to
decorate slip of rice-paper with from
| two to five India ink chicken tracks.
What he has really written is probably
something like this:
Fat foreign devil. who resembles
q pig; squinty eyes. and wart on the
left side of his nose.
| You carry round this nattering pen
| portrait, innocently imagining that it
reads. No 411-44, and when you call
| for your wash you will find the China
man who receives the ticket will in
yariably look you over, making mental
comparison before he reaches for the
| bundle. A Monaghan friend of mine
out in Frisco put me on to the scheme
and [ took the trouble to ascertain
whether he was telling me the truth.
got laundry slip. copied ii with
microscopic fidelity, and submitted it
to several expert native translators.
They all agreed that it ran something
like this: ..-, tstI.I
Ridiculous old man very pompous;
bald head, like a speckled egg
You will observe that my hairs grow
rather high on my forehead, and /
have few freckles, although nothing
| to justify such an insulting description.
| However, it proved the point. The next
ticket | got declared | was an elderly
gentleman, resembling YunTai, the
wind god which pleased me immense
| ly until | persuaded a native curio
! dealer to show me statuette of the
deity. Then | wanted to murder the
| laundryman."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16
ThOS. g. Thrum.

THAT TIRED FEELING so common
in this enervating climate, can be re-
lieved at once by rubbing the head
thoroughly with a small quantity of
the Pacheco Dandruff Killer. While
this preparation is unequalled for the
eradication Of dandruff, it also pos
sesses remarkable stimulating proper
ties which not only affect the scalp but
through that medium the whole sys-
tenn. Try one application of
PACHECO'S DANDRUFF KILLER.
For sale by all druggists and at the
Union Barber Shop. Telephone 696.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16
AN UNNATURAL BOY.

The gentleman with the red. red
nose got aboard the trolley car which
by some mischance, had stopped for a
moment.
The silence was intense
The little boy looked at the man
with the nose
And the little boy didn't ask his
father anything.
''Merciful heaven," muttered the
fond sparent, Il am the father of a
freak.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16

The above Company will buy, lease,
or sell lands In all parts OF the Ha-
waiian Islands; and also has houses In
the City of Honolulu for rent.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16
A FULL CHAPTER
ON STRANGE DOWNPOURS.

Colored snowstorms were recorded
as long ago as the sixth century. A
shower of red hail, according to Hum
boldt, once fell in Palermo. In Tus-
cany, on March II, 1913, hail OF an or
ange red cofor descended
In 1908 red snow fell, to a depth Of
over five feet, at Carniola, Germany
The storm was Immediately followed
by one of the orthodox color. Layers
Of white and red were perfectly dis
tinct, and a most remarkable effect
they produced. Out of curiosity some
of the scarlet snow was melted in a
vessel and the water evaporated.
There then remained a fine rose-col-
0red, earthly sediment. ...a.~
Italy experienced snow of a brick
red hue in 1916, and some Of a similar
color came to earth in the Tyrol in
1S47. Kane states in his "Arctic Elk
ploration" that when the ship passed
the crimson cliffs of Sir John Ross, F"
the red snow, from which they obtain
,heir name. could be distinguished at
a distance of fully ten miles.
A few years ago a shower of black
snow fell in the neighborhood of Dick
en- Peterzell, in the canton of Geneva
This quaint coloring is attributable
to the presence Of a fungus in the
snow.
Once upon a time it was looked
upon as a forerunner OF all sorts of
public disasters. A very popular and
widespread belief was that it was the
herald Of the plague, and at least on
two occasions it did precede such
visitation.
A tremendous hailstorm which took
place at Pretoria, in the Transyaal, in
1893, must have contained some big
gish hailstones, Judging from the fact
that on one farm alone no fewer than
$50 sheep were battered 10 death by
them.
In the year of 1903 a perfect shower
of ordinary stones fell in the farming
country adjacent to L'Aigle, France.
More than three thousand stones de-
scended upon Wedge-shaped section
of country eight miles long by about
four miles wide.
A storm Of mud happened few sea-
sons ago at Simla. A column of dust
seems to have been carried up into the
higher atmosphere of the plains where
it was caught, transformed into
mud, and then forced down by the
heavy rain then falling.
In the transactions of one of the
learned societies a detailed account is
given of a shower of fishes which fell
in 1866 in a two-acre field at Gran
stead, Kent, which is far from the sea
and possesses no fish ponds.
After a great tempest of thunder
and rain, the whole surface of the pas
ture was thickly.. covered with little |
fishes, judged by all who saw them to
be young whiting. .,:uA.
These happy islands are compare
lively free from thunderstorms as
compared with some parts Of the
globe Thundersterms are more fire.
quent in Java than. elsewhere, as they
occur, on an average on 81 days in
each year. Then comes Sumatra with
S. thunder days every twelvemonth.
Next follow Hindostan with Sc, Bor-
neo "a, the African Gold Coast 50, and
.he Rio Janeiro region 81.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16

Only the highest grade Of RED RUB
Der is used in the Stamps made by
tn, HAWAIIAN GAZETTE co.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-16

From the Spanish Of Tomas Yre-
arte by R. Rockliff., ,.# ..-.
The fable which I now present
Occurrd to me by accident:
And whether bad or excellent.
Is merely so by accident.
\ stupid Ass this morning went
Into a field by accident
And cropp'd his food and was content,
Until he spied by accident
\ flute, which some Oblivious gent
Had left behind by accident;
When, shifting it with eager scent,
He breathed on it by accident
And made the hollow instrument
Emit a sound by accident.
"Hurrah, hurrah," exclaimed the brute
How cleverly played the hute'"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
WHERE CONAN DOYLE LIVES
Home and Workshop of the Creator o
Sherlock Holmes"
STORIES OF HIS PRoweSS IN ATHLETICS
where the Noted writer obtained Ills
Impressions and Literary MAJ
tcrinl-A Great Believer
in Fair Play.
CCopyrirht. 1897

The presentation of sherlock Holmes" as
a play has revived the interest In DR.. Conan
Doyle to a remarkable degree. Sherlock
Holmes Is, unquest!cnably, the greatest de-
tectivo in fiction, and his impersonation by
Mr.. Gillett has set the critics to thinking
again about Or. Doyle's newer work and his
work ways. l had the pleasure of visiting
Or. Doyle recently in his English home.
He is as far removed from civilization as is
Klpling in his home at rockingham. He
lives fully four miles from the nearest rail-
road-at Hindhead. 1t is one of the charm
ing English residence towns free from most
of the unpleasant features of city life, yet
with urban advantages. a person of means
and tastes who desires both country and
city existence should feel satisfied in this
part of the queens domain unless over fas-
tidious. Along the range OF hills can be found
the homes of some of England's most noted
writer's and scientists, past and present.
Tennyson lived here. Prof. Tyndall was
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

the year the business has been the best OUT
house has ever had. Last year was a big
year. but the one just closing will exceed
II. Our holiday trade has been excellent.
but 1t would have been better had there
been more cold and sloppy weather. Still,
we are perfectly satisfied.
Schneider q Mueller, Pianos and Musical
lnstruments-Last year was most prosper
Gus, but this one has been ever so much
better. Trade has kept right up with the
times and at no period has there been a
slump. Holiday trade has been far better
than ever before since we have been in
business.
Howe Shoe Company-During the last
year a tendency to buy better goods than
ever before has been manifested. City peo-
pie have been good buyers and the country
trade has been the best we have ever had.
We did a big business during the year of
the Transmississippi Exposition, but this
year will show % per cent better.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
NEW YORK LABOR STATISTICS.
Present Condition of Organized Labor
in the Emnirc Stntr.

ia III EtsAtf
The December bulletin issued by the
bureau of labor statistics Of New York state,
comprising returns for the months Of july
August and September, show a marked in
crease in membership of labor organization
and a reduced percentage of idleneSs. There
were 1920 trade unions in the state on Sep
tCmber 80, 1899, as compared with LOST on
the same day of 1898; and the membership
increased from l71,O67 to 209, 100, which IS
the largest number yet recorder by the
bureau. During the quarter the number Of
members idle was 1888, or 2.3 per cent Of the
membership, . compared with 1874, or 81
per cent in 1898, and 6.5 per cent in 1897.
A still larger decrease was manifest in The
number unemployed at the end OF the quar-
ter, the aggregate number being only $3.50,
or Al per cent Of the membership, as com
pared with 1913 per cent at the end of Sep
TENDER in 1898, and 1873 per cent at the end
of September in 1897. Even SO late as June
80 Of the present year the PERCENTAGE OF
idleness was 1917. The diminished idleness
Is accompanied with increased earnings in
most of the trades.
The movement for shortening the hours of
labor in that state has OF late made Consid-
cradle progress. The effect Of the eight
hour law of 1899 upon public employment,
either direct or through the medium of the
contract system, was described in the Sep
TENDER bulletin. In the present issue APP
pears an article on the movement for IA
Saturday half holiday in New York city,
where nearly 20, 900 members Of labor organ
~izatiCns have obtained the half holiday since
last spring without a reduction OF the weekly
wages. The trades thus successful were pTin-
cipally the carpenters and allied trades peo-
ple-stair builders, cabinet workers, tile lay
ers, etc. The federal eight-hour law, en-
acted in 1892, has remained more or less Of
q dead letter. so far as contract work was
concerned, until this year. On the 2lst OF
November in the United States district court
at Baltimore a firm of contractors on the
new naval academy buildings at Annapolis
was fined $500 for permitting one Of their
employees to work more than the statutory
eight hours on July 3, 1899, The sam firm
was fined the nominal sun OF $40 for "A
technical violation Of the law on another
OCCASION. The precedent established in the
decision of the Baltimore court promises -
be Of such Importance as TO warrant the
publication OF the federal eight-hour law
in the Bulletin, along with a summary Of
the courts proceedings In the Carlin case.
The Bulletin also contains an account OF
the new movement initiated IN Broome
county to bring the farmers within the ranks
OF trade unionism. Ten local unions had
been formed up 10 the 10th OF December, with
an aggregate membership Of about 300, a
union label adopted and an International
union organized, which sent delegates to the
Detroit convention of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor To seek utilization with that
body.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

found about the house. Even his library
is made the receptacle for cricket and tennis
kits, and guns and trout tackle are spread all
over the place; for while the family at Hind
head is small, excluding the six servants,
friends from London or nearby are generally
being entertained. The doctor is a member OF
one Of the best amateur cricket teams in the
country, and during the week OF play every
year as host Haslemere is an open house to
all lovers Of the sport. Nothing is reserved
from them. The players generally have a
contest daily and are driven to it in the
brake, a vehicle very essential to English
country life, which will carry the en-
tire eleven with room to spare.
on the return TO evening tea the
table is illuminated by n banquet lamp
shaded by a design in salmon silk, This is
called the Victory shade, as It is considered
a sign of good luck and is always brought
out by Mrs. Doyle during Cricket Week. 8"
Through it's influence several trophies are
supposed to have been won. The hostess is
as enthusiastic as her husband over the
sport, and if necessary to afford room. will
bundle the children off to some relatives
to remain until the guests have departed. As
the cricket season occupies nearly two
months, it may be surmised that very little
literary work is done about "Undershaw"
until its close or between spring and autumn.
In addition to cricket, however. a spring
trap and the fragments of numerous clay
pigeons scattered about the grounds attest
his fondness for shooting. The six horses
in the stable include two fine saddle mares.
one of which has a record as a jumper. At
the side of the house is n grass tennis court
bearing the indications of frequent usage,
while one of the largest rooms-in fact
that apartment opposite the drawing room
is given up TO billiard and pool tables for
indoor sport in inclement weather, although
the rain must fall fast or the snow be deep
to keep the author-sportsman from enjoy
ing some outdoor pastime If he feels thus
inclined.
A Modern Home.
"Undershaw" is very much of today
like its hest. 1t cannot boast of anything
historical, as it was built two years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
GENERAL wALLACE's STUDIO.
\ Beautiful Big Workshop, Furnished
in Oriental SiNIc.

The most beautiful authors studio in the
world has just been completed by General
Wallace, author of Ben Hur," at Craw-
fordsville, Ind, reports the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. For the past three
years General Wallace has found
his recreation in experimenting the
erection of his p~alatial workshop. Its style
of architecture is a combination. The por-
tica, pure Greek; the body of the building,
Byzantine, with copper roof; the towers, of
Romanesque design. Rose-colored vitrifed
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE.

In Japan there is a proverb among the
medical fraternity that when the twin en-
emies, disease and poverty, invade a home,
that he who takes aught from that home,
even though it be given him, is a robber."
Accordingly no doctor ever thinks of asking
"A poor patient for a fee.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

A young lady from interior Kansas, who
was taking the examination for the position
of teacher, answered. the question: what
is your position upon whipping children"
as follows: My usual position is on a
chair with the school child held firmly
across my knees, face down" She lost the
school but was married last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

by a misplaced comma" says the Kan
sas City Journal, "a paper in Greeley
county raised a dickens of a row. 1t said
Two young men from Leoti went with
their girls to Tribune to attend the teach
ers' institute, and as soon as they left, the
girls got drunk The comma belonged after
the girls"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

Drink Old Quaker Rye. Soft and mellow,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

Miss Saber Rouse of Cherokee county,
Kansas, was run over by a railroad train
fifteen years ago, when she was only . years
old, and thereby lost a leg. Now her father
has just brought suit for $50, 900. 1t may
be that the plaintiff is at last convinced
that the leg will not grow again, but the
hardness in bringing action would seem to
circumvent the recent ruling Of a court that
damages in any large amount for injury to
a child of tender years are not collectible
because of the uncertainty attending the ma
turing of the injured.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

John Bale, a recent arrival in New York
from Europe, comes with his mother in-law,
with whom he eloped after quickly firing of
his l4-ycar-old wife. Nj. Bale has thus
furnished a situation as yet untried by the
dramatists, besides confounding the humor-
lists, and still he is not happy. When the
mother-in-law was put in the detention
pen for women immigrants, and thus sepa-
rated from Bale. she said, with an ominous
wagging Of the head "Nait till | get at
him" Bale is 81 years old and the woman
so, and they will be sent back to Posen,
where they viii have to fight it out with
the child wife and daughter.
A curious lawsuit which grew out of the
purchase of a piano has just been ddjudi-
Gated in Providence, r. !, The buyer OF
the instrument ordered II delivered at her
residence, but when it arrived there 1t could
not be carried through the door. The win
dow sashe9 were then taken out, but in
vain, and it was next decided to remoye
the window frame. The piano dealers were
unwilling to bear the expense Of that opera
ton, and so was the purchaser, and as a
result the instrument was taken back 10
the piano rooms, and The woman demanded
the return Of her money. Upon the refusal
Of the dealers 10 comply with her requeet
She entered suit and the case has been de-
cided against her,
nTfnI ola nruLyav De COZ - -
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

Fred Paneurath, Manager for Nicoll the
railor-Not only the holiday trade, but that
OF the entire year, has been surprisingly
good, On the whole, business has been 20
per cent better than last year. There was a
little lull during October, but since then
We have been on the jump. December has
been the best month | have ever seen. Men
are buying better suits than ever before
and few haggle over prices.
Robert Dempster. Photographic Goods
Business In both departments, wholesale
aud retail, has been all hat could be de-
sired. During the last year we have done
more business than during the same period
o. any former year, while the holiday trade
has heeu what might be Considered phe-
nomonal Tho amcra people have bought
LITERALLY People seem TO have confidence
in business conditions and are showing their
ntth by spending money freely
7. a. Cartright shoe CompAny-During
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24

"Undershaw" is very much of today
like its hest. 1t cannot boast of anything
historical, as it was built two years ago.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-01
W. {. T. L.

An interesting and instructive
illustrated lecture will be given
by Mrs. Maud Lorane Greene Of
Colorado, in the Baptist church
at 3. p. M, Thursday and Friday
afternoon. Also at T:30 p. m. Of
the same dates in the Methodist
church. Mrs. Greene, the cele-
brated "Chalk Talker" and her
associate, Miss Hattie Hender-
son come to us highly recon-
mended. Mrs. Greene's skill
with the chalk is marvellous; she
is as sklllful with the left hand as
with the right in producing her
pictures, often drawing with
both hands at the same time
while talking.
ALL are cordially invited to at
tend these lectures, which we are
sure will be profitable and inter-
esting. All who stay at home
will miss a treat. No admission
fee, but a free will offering will
be taken. Mothers and children
especially invited in the afternoon.
Gentleman expected in the
evening.