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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
TO BE MUSTERED OUT.
First Volunteer Regiment Expected to
Embark Jan. Women and Sick
Soldiers to Sail Saturday.

Manila, Dee. 19.-The volunteer
regiments will proceed to the United
States, to be musterd out, in practi-
cally the same order as they arrived
in the Philippine Islands. They will
be replaced by regulars, provided by
the army bill, The Thirty seventh
volunteer regiment is to begin the
homeward movement by embarking
on New Years day on the trasport
Sheridan. The women and sick sol
diers who were to sail on the Sheri-
dan will leave on the Warren Satur-
day.
The officers in the regular army
holding commissions in volunteer
regiments will be retained in the
Philippines and volunteer officers on
special duty will be relieved only on
the authority of headquarters.
Volunteers desiring to leave the SER
vice and remain in the Philippines
will be allowed to do so. Enlisted
natives will be discharged.
1t was believed that the temporary
depletion of many posts and the
checking of operations will result in
renewed insurgent activity.
The announcement of the early
commencement of transportation
home of the volunteers caused sur
prise.
General Hughes reported that 81
600 persons in the island of Panay
have sworn allegiance to the United
States.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
ACTRESS MURDERED.
Nilled by Man. Her Reputed Husband,
Who Had q Wife Murderer
Then Suicided.

Bedford, Pa, Dec. fD.-Arthur
Spear Metzgar, stained glass man
ufacturer of Newark n. J., shot and
almost instantly killed his reputed
wife, Elsie Dinsmore Metzgar. at
Hopewell Bedford county. and then
shot himself, dying in a few minutes
The woman was leading lady with
the Frank Davidson Farmer Hop
kins" company, which was showing
In Hopewell
When the company left Bedford for
HopeweH MetZgar left on the same
train for his home in Newark, he hav-
ing visited the woman here. On
reaching Huntingdon, however, he re-
turned to Hopewell. and in some way
succeeded in getting into the wo-
mans room in the hotel while she
was at the theater. The actress re-
tired to her room about II O'Clock
About 2 O'Clock the people in the hotel
were awakened by the woman's
screams followed by two shots.
While the door of the room was be-
ing forced another shot was heard.
Metzgar's body was lying against
the door and that of the woman was
lying near the bed No reason is
known Tor the tragedy, as the couple
had no trouble that any members of
the company knew of, other than on
Monday Metzgar tried to persuade
the woman to quit the stage and go
home with him, but this she refused
to do. Metzgar was 20 years old
Newark. y. j., Dec.-Spear has
wife living here and was very much
surprised at the news.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
Union Improvement 60,
SuppHerS Of Natural Gas & Water.
PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING

All VINO contemplate having plumb
ine or gas fitting doneshould consider
that little saving in first cost is not
always economy. We buy our goods
at first hands, strictly for cash. We
have expert plumbers and will guar
antee all work, at prices as low as
consistent with first-class material
and workmanship, We will be here
TO protect our work as long as gas
lasts and people use water
This is a point worth considering.
Remember everything first class and
work guaranteed to be according to
the most approved sanitary regula-
finng
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
CHARGE DEATH TO HAZING.
Altoona Boy Died of Typhoid Pneumonia.
Abuse at West Point, Likely
Urinary Cause.

Altoona. Pa. Dec. 19.-John Breth.
who was referred to at Bristol dur
ing the meeting of the military board
inquiring into the hazing to his death
Of Oscar Booz as having been hazed
while at West Point, is a son of ex-
Mayor Samuel ]. Breth, of this city.
He was appointed to West Point by
former Congressman J. ID. Hicks,
also of this city, in 1897, and after
a seven-months' stay at the academy
came home and died of typhoid pneu-
monia.
Young Breth's family firmly be-
lieyes that the severe treatment he
received from the other students at
West Point was the primary cause of
his death, but no fuss was or will be
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
For Inspection Of Pennsylvania Guard.

Harrisburg, Dec. 10. Adjutant
General Stewart issued general or
ders announcing that the several or
Plantations of the National Guard Of
Pennsylvania and naval force, exr
eepting the brigade bands, will be
ihspeced at such dates between Feb.
Is and May Is. 1901, as may be des-
egnated by brigade commuters.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19

made about 1t now. Even Breth, like
Booz, never complained of the haz-
ing any more than to refer to it
guardedly.
There Is no doubt that John
lost his life through the weakened
condition he was in after being
hazed," said member of the fam
iiy.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
PITTSBURG DIVISION
Ladies
Gold Watches.

They are beauties for the
price, and we have con-
fidence in them. We
warrant them in all di-
rections for one full year
from date of purchase.
Open faces, Gold filled
cases, American move
ments, seven jewels and
clear, bright dials. We
welcome comparison,
knowing that the identi-
cal watch will cost you
more money anywhere
else.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
ATTACKED lNTRENcHED REBELS.
Americans Had Three Wounded-Rebel
Twelve Killed.

Twelve Killed.
Manila, Dec. 19.-Lieutenant Her
bert L. Evans, of the Forty fourth
volunteer infantry regiment, with 80
men, attacked, Dec. II. several hun
dred Bolomen and about so insur-
gents armed With rifles, occupying an
intrenched position at Tonozigan, Isl
and of Cebu. The Americans had
three men wounded and the enemy
lost II men killed and many wounded.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
RThTIIQoRE Z OBIO +. I.

IL Passenger trains will leave fair
mont as follows, on and after Sun
day, May 20, 1900.
WEST BOUND.
No. Through Passenger. ............. sos A N
No. Limited Mail ............... 7:06 ="
No 55-Through Express. 1926 p. NJ
No. 47-Wheeling and Cumberland Ac-
commodation.. ....... ......... 2:20 Pm
EAST BOUND.
No sThrougn Passenger. 319 A.
No. 72--Wheeling and Cumberland Ac-
commodation. ....... 1918 4. N.
No. 46--Through Express...-................l 22
No. 4-Mail and Express. ............... s1s P.
All trains stou at Fairmont.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-19
MOROCCO HAS SETTLED.
Paid $1,000 Indemnity ON Account of
Killing of Naturalized

Washington, Dec ia message
from United States Consul Gummery
at Tangiers informed the state de-
partment that the Moorish govern
ment had settled the claim of the
United States for 5000 indemnity
on account of the murder of Marcus
Eszagui, naturalized American
citizen, in Morocco last spring.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
MARRIAGE is TOO EASY.
Adjust the Laws Governing III. amI
in That Way Correct the rre-
vaiIing Divorce Abuses.

eThe present open-dool policy for
marriage in Inerica can NOT exist
much longer. The question must be
met, and it should be met sqllarely.
Any discussion of divorce is nlltinnly;
il is futile at the moment. IL il grap-
ping with the question 1T the wrong
end. Whether divorce is RIGHT ar
wrong; whether there should be di-
yorce at all, and on what grounds ii
decree of divorce should be graalted--.
these. are. not the pressing questions
OF the hour. The whole matter of di-
yorce does not begin to stand in such
urgent need of discussion as does the
question of the laws Of narriage.
When we adjust marriage as we should
adjst It, then we car give our attention
to divorce. And then we shall find
that in adjusting the one we shall
have come pretty close ii the svisest
and best adjustment of the other. The
practical solution Of both, I'm short, lies
in the proper adjustment and rigid en-
fercement of laws which shall make
marriage more difficult Of accomplish
ment. Edward Box. in Ladies' Home
Journal.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
SUSPICIOUS EGGS.
in Very Great Hurry
to Sample.

The New York Journal finds in the
Porto Rico business, a whole nest of
republican eggs, which it says the peo-
pie are not likely to sample until they
find out how long they will keep fresh.
These eggs are catalogued as follows:
1. SIT is our plain duty to give Porto
Rico free trade. Fresh, December Z;
spoiled, January 8.
2. The tobacco and beet sugar trusts
demanding protection against Porto
Rican competition, Chairman Payne
withdrew plain duty bill, substitute
ing one leyying duties both ways
Fresh, January s; spoiled, January 27.
8. The president is the real author of
the new tariff bill. The sugar and
tobacco trust didn't worry him, but
the constitution had to be kept out of
Porto Rico lest it sneak into the Phil
ippines.-Fresh, January 27; spoiled,
February IS.
4. The actual author of the tariff bill
is Secretary Root, who got It up when
Mark Hanna wasn't looking. Neither
the trusts nor the constitution Wor-
ried him; he did what the president
told him to. do.--Fresh, February 49,
spoiled, April 2.
5. The genuine, only author and dis
eoyerer of the tariff bill is Governor
General Davis. The Porto Ricans were
unhappy, he said, and he was asked to
get up something to make them happy.
He Immediately did SO with a is per
cent. tariff and Dingley rates. Fresh
April 2; just beginning to turn now.
There are several other eggs to be
ADDED to this batch to make up a good
setting. They are not the very choicest.
delicatessen, but the administration
hopes they will go down easily when |.
taste for them has been acquired.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
Cronje, the Typical Dutchman.

Cronje was sixty-fve years old when
he surrendered. He has been promi-
nent in all the history of the South AZ.
rlcan republic as statesman and sol
der. He refused, like Joubert, to take
Office under the British annexation of
1877. He was prominent in the war OF
1sso-81. Since then he had become q
farmer on large scale. owning over
twelve thousand acres near. Pretoria,
which he ruled with military simplicity
and with marked success He kept a
hosplta BILE house, and with his quiet
little wife entertained his friends He
was member of the Transvaal execu-
i've government, and when the war
broke out was second only to Joubert
ln military position. All the foreign
ers who saw him speak of his pleasant
manners, his courage and his indepen-
denee The English writer's have given
numerous descriptions of him since the
war began. Mr.. j. B. Robinson said of
hlm that he has in him the best blood
OF Europe. When the edict of Nantes
drove the finest subjects of France into
exile, many of them went to Holland
and from there ON to Africa. Picture
70 yourself little man, quiet-looling.
al nrst glance almost insignificant.
When You first come in contact with
him You might, for moment or two
De inclined to dismiss him as a very or
dlnary man, but few words from
him show you, by their grasp, their de-
clslveness, that first impressions are
wrong l'or As you look longer at him the
type OF the face seems familiar, and in
a nash 1t comes to you that thissis the
Kind OF head that is seen in the paint
lngs OF the old Dutch masters. From
"ihe Military Leaders of the Beers,
IN the American Monthly Review of
Reviews for May.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
FOOD FOR POT PLANTS.
Substances Quite as Good as Those
Sold in Stores Can BE Prepared
Easily at Home.

The great demand for plant food
which is in convenient form for use and
is also cleanly has caused many such
articles to be placed on the market.
Most of these are very good, but one
can prepare them at home, making the
cost less while they produce the same
results. The following are both used
in the water given the plants, though
they can be used dry by digging small
quantity into the soil around the roots.
The former method is safer, however,
as one can more easily tell what guam
tity is being used. M
Take a gallon jar and fill it with
bones, packing them in closely; then
add one cup of potash which will fill
in among the spaces. Cover with water
and set away for a time. Before long
the bones will all be dissolved and the
substance in the jar will resemble soft
soap A tablespoon of this dissolved
in the water given each large plant.
will be suitable dose: other plants
being given quantity suitable to their
size. The following formula will also
be found good: To one gallon hot water
add four ounces white sugar, is ounces
sulphate of ammonia and eight ounces
nitrate of potash. When dissolved.
place in bottles, cork tightly and use a
tablespoon and half in each gallon Of
water used on the plants. Water only
the soil, as many of these fertilizers are
too strong for the foliage, leaving un-
slightly spots on it.--Marion Meade, in
Farm and Home. ts
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
The Duck.

The best esteemed of syll flesh foods
is duck, and yet there are a hundred
chickens marketed to one duck. It
may be that most people have not had
an opportunity of experiencing the
superb delectation of roast duck, or
consider the diet too high-toned for
ordinary morta1s and calculated to
make them forget matters that bind
them to earth and fcrego the ordinary
duties and privileges of humanity. Be
this as it may. there is far less duck
consumed than there ought to be, and
lar less than there would be, if the
dressed carcasses were more numerous
iii market stalls, or the undressed on
the farms. Ducks are easily grown,
cat enormously, grow rapidly and sell
readily. Why not grow more of them?
Farm and Ranch.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
The Cotton Question.

1t is probably ture that the world
ws nts more cotton for next years con-
sumption than ever before. 1t also
wants it as cheap as possible. Cotton
growers are aboard different boat.
They don tleare how much the world
wants, but they do care how much it
is willing to pay for it. From papers
throughout the cotton growing re-
gion we learn that the acreage put in
cotton will be the largest ever known.
l. this be true, and the season favor
able, it is certain that prices will go
down, down, until the farmers under
lip will almost drag the ground. This
is contingency that can not be
avoided, for no successful method for
regulating the output of raw cotton
has been invented, and the same old
programme will continue; high prices
followed by large acreage; large acre
age followed by low prices; low prices
followed by small acreage, and small
acreage followed by high prices again.
Thus the never-ceasing see-saw swings
the farmer up and down. AS this can
not be avoided, let us make the most
OF 1t by increasing the yield per acre,
decreasing the cost of production, and
growing as much as possible of those
things we would otherwise have to
buy.--Texas Farm and Ranch.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
A DOUBLE PRESIDENT.
The Difference Between McKinIey'A
Personal and OmciaI senti-
tfEItsl slBs uents.

There is something revolving to the
human conscience, after all, in the ap-
peals that are being made by certain
newspapers, urging the republican
senator's to stand by the official presi-
dent in his recommendation of .'plain
duty" in the matter of free trade with
Porto Rico, to the utter exclusion of
the personal factor of the president
pleading with members of the house
opposition to his own advice. While
a leophcle of escape is offered him,
in his official capacity, one which it is
to be hoped, for the honor of the coun-t
try, will be taken advantage of, there is
a suggestion Of meanness, of base be-
trayal about il, of men who resigned
their own convictions, and violated the
wishes of their constituents, at his au-
gust intercession. Not that they are
entitled to any special sympathy Men
capable of betraying the public trust,
of violating their oath of Office, in def
erence to the wishes of any potentate
or power, are consigned to ignominy
y hliNS1edl fSiulCt. Uu0 t1lSIG Has al
ways been recognized such a virtue to
exist as honor among thieves. Is the
president of the United States willing
to take shelter behind such fimsy
differentiation between himself in his
official utterances and himself in per-
sonal, pleading colloquies? Is he capa-
bic of such a lightning transforma-
ton from the clearsighted head of a
nation to the farsighted head of
party providing against contingencies
Of individual peril? The presidential
office has been sullied by acts of usur-
patton of power or dereliction of duty
before, beyond doubt, but has ever
such spectacle of paltry meanness
been presented by the chief Of a g4
Governments ?
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
POINTS AND OPINIONS.


s 1t is too much for Senator Han
ma to load the elephant with Porto
Riean tariff and a subsidy bill ali in the
same year.-Indianapolis News.
Why all this fuss for the vice
presidency with Mr.. Mckinley when
the question is SO simple? Show your
barrel; the biggest wins!-N. Y. World.
With the signing of the Porto
Rican tariff bill by the president, ma
tives of Porto Rico VIII not be citizens
of the United States, but will officially
be citizens of Porto Rico They
ought, then, to clamor for independ-
enee.AI Indianapolis News.
THE speeches of President Me-
Kinley since. his election IN 1896 are to
be printed by Mr.. Hannass committee
as arepublican campaign document.
The plain duty manifesto, it is safe
TO say, viii not be included in the col
lection.-Chicago Chronicle.
THAT politics dictated the pas
sage of the Porto Rican bill there seems
to be no reason to doubt after. a careful
study of the situation. But it was the
worst politics played by the repub-
Icans for many a day, and makes the
republican leaders Of this house dis
tinguished for its capacity for stupid
and inexeusable blundering Mime
apolis Journal (Rep.)
BY its multitude of misdeeds the
party of Imperialism, of trusts, of
martial law, of violated pledges and
broken faith. had already dug its
grave. The Porto Rican iniquity has
only added depth to the hole in which
it will be buried by q betrayed and in
dignant people. Nothing remains for
the g. @. p. except to go through the
formalities of the funeral ceremony.
kansas City Times.
LII the people are true TO them.
selves all the millions at the disposa.
of Hanna and the trusts will not win
the campaign of 1900 for Mr.. McKin. /
ley. The voter at the polls holds the
deciding power in this great contest.
He should cast an American vote
against the party of trustism, of i'm.
perialism. of militarism and of tory
ism. His duty to his country demands
this. His own safety depends upon 1t
st. Louis Republic.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
AFTER THE FIGHT.

He went away to fight his country's foes,
Because he thought his countrys cause
was fair:
No clanking sword hung at his side, he
chose
To march back in the ranks and battle
there.
The orders that were given he obeyed,
Wherever he was told to go he went;
He waded through the sWamps there were
to wade,
A unit in loyal regiment
But they haven't put his name
On the shining scroll of fame,
He is working as he had to work before;
All he did was bravely fight
For the cause he thought was right,
And the honor of the uniform he wore.
He suffered in the rain and in the sun,
He plunged into the thickets with the
rest;
In the fiercest of the fighting that was
done
He shouted and he shot and did his
best.
The man who gave him orders from the
rear
Is applauded for the noble part he
played;
When he lifts his hat the frantic people
cheer
o for the reputation he has made!
They have proudly put his name
On the shining scroll of fame,
He is honored where they knew him not
before,
For he bade them go and fight
For the cause they thought was right,
And the glory of the noble flag they bore!
The man who wears the shoulder straps
returns
To glory and to office, but the one
Who charges and who loads and fires
learns
That the private's nothing when he
drops the guni
The man who swings the sword deserves
his praise
And earns the fair reward they give him
when
He settles down again to peaceful ways,
But how about his brave and battered
men?
They partake not of his fame,
They must toll again the same
As they toiled and as they struggled on
before
Still, they had the chance to fight Il
For the cause they thought was right, |
And the glory of the uniforms they wore! |
IS. e. Kiser, in Chicago Times Herald.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26

many farmers were complaining that
hogs We're not paying for the food
they ate at the prices then being paid.
How many Of them are groani1g be-
cause they dispose of the bulk of their
stock as light wights"--15o !. to 175
pounds-bafore the rise in prices. IF
they had held on until their stock had
reached 23o to ESQ pounds, the most
profitable weight to market hogs,
they would have come III on the rising
tide. When a farmer is short of feed
it is better to sell the stock light than
to buy feed and risk great loss. But
when he has The feed it is best to hold
stock until ripe" before he sells, un-
less there is danger of loss from dis
ease or he is not situated TO keep hogs
comfortable when cold weather comes
on. The rise in prices seems to have
been caused bya somewhat short crop
OF hogs and the extraordinary demand
for pork produe1s both at home and
abroad. Every soldier knows how goad
nice slice of bacon fried on shovel
is to hungry man in the 1ieId Thou-
sands on thousands of pounds have
gore that route ard the demand is in
creasing. Little wonder that .shogs are
on the boom.
As everything in the hog line that
can be spared, and much that ought
not to be spared, will go to market, it
will be a good idea to look sharply
after the coming crop. Nothing is
easier than to lose a whole litter of
pigs by little neglect. It is generally
well understood that a farrowing sow
should be iRelosed in pen by her
self, and most farmers have the neces-
sary arrangements made. She should
have just a little clean straw to make
a nest from; not enough to make "a
high bank around her, but low ridge
that little pigs can easily climb over.
Her food should be somewhat laxative
and cooling, no corn or corn-meaI be-
ing in it, for at least two weeks before
narrowing, and she should have con-
stantly at hand all the pure water she ]
desires. The object in feeding cooling
and laxative foods is TO reduce the heat
IN her system, make her rest quietly
and faIroW easily. Most farmers rely
ON thick slop or mush made of equal
parts of Wheat-bran, mnddlings and
oatmeal, With finely chopped roots
Fred Grundy, in Farm and Fireside.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-05-26
HERE AND THERE.

% T
Queen Victoria has ordered that
no more oob-tail&d horses shall be Kept
in the royal stables. This is good for
the queen and better for the horses.
No state ia the Union contains q
greater variety of soils than Tennes-
see suitable for the successful prodnc-
ton of fruits, vegetable and crops Of
all kinds.
-Dairying is the highest of al the
agricultural branches, because it re-
quires the practice OF ali the agricnl-
tural senses, and agricultural virtues.
A nunslSull can grow corn and cotton,
but he car t run successful dairy.
The farmer who says hens are a.
nuisance generally speaks the truth
as far as his individual experience
goes. His method, or rather lack of
method, makes them veritable nui-
sance.
Isape seed can be soWn for swine
any time from the opening of spring
until the middle of July. Sow about
five pounds of seed to the acre. The
rape plant is one Of the best for swine
that can be grown.
The occupation of the farmer is.
the noblest of ali the professions.
When the farmers prosper all other
classes are benefited. No one is in
jured by their successes. but their fall
Ire brings general calamity.
How to make butter keep in good
condition for any length OF time has
taxed the ingenuity Of butter makers
for years. The fact is, TO have butter
at its best it should not be kept longer
that the shortest time necessary to
reach the consumer.