Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-02-15
HE VAMOSED.
Or in Other Words Skedaddled
Out of Town.
A Festive Vendor From Pittsburg Con-
eludes That Morgantown is Not a
Good Place to Ply His Deprayed Traf-
ilc-Tried to Sell Obscene Pictures
And Literature To Students.

Tuesday evening an ordinary sized
man with a black mustache accosted
two University students on Main
street and after introducing himself
as ssbook agent from Pittsburg,
asked to see them privately. The
students, thinking that he was none
other but the ubiquitous tbook-agentn
and that he intended to poster them
with propositions, gave some flimsy
excuse for the purpose of evading him.
But the mercurial little nomad was
not to be side tracked by trifes, or de-
feated by hints, and insisted very
strongly for an audience. Finally one
Of the boys told him they were going
down town on business and could not
hear his propositions, whereupon the
stranger said "You fellows have been
recommended to me as men of nerve;
and / see from the way you are trying
to evade a supposed "book-agent, "
you are on To your job. Now ! have
a money-making scheme to lay before
you; can you keep secret?'
The three went to the students
room where the business of the Pitts
burger was made known He told the
students that they would have to keep
what he was about to tell them dead
secret or they would all go to the pen
itentiary. He then opened large
valise filled with pamphlets and other
small packages. Taking sample and
tossing it on the table he said, "that's
the richest thing you ever stuck your
eyes on He also took from a small
portmanteau a bundle of booklets and
pictures which he fairly rhapsodized
over as containing matter of marvel
Gus worth and delectable taste.
Both the books and the pictures
were villainously obscene and lewd.
1t would simply be revolving to 90
into detail, or to give the reader the
least idea of the depravity of human
nature as exemplified by this debased
wretch.
From the price of the tract and
ehTomos, one would conclude that
they were as precious as the pearls OF
Ind. In addition to the titles, which
were rosy in every particular, the re-
tail price $3.50 was printed on the
back. The pictures were valued at
$l.5 each.
He stated that stacks of money
could be made out of the business,
and offered to give the students high
commission if they would become sub
agents to sell his Internal wares to
the University boys. But he was
greatly surprised when told that he
did not know to whom he was talking,
and that his propositions were an in
suit to the sense of decency of every
self respecting person, This gentle
set-down made him halfway angry
and he fairly bloyiated in espousing
the noble crusade of which be was an
exponent. He said he had sold thous-
ands of dollars worth to students in
different colleges of the United States,
that they were his most affluent
patrons, that he had made a barrel
of money out of the business, and
that for the first time in his life he
had run across couple of gentlemen
were too nice to make money that
way"
Becoming tired Of his audacious
harangues. one of the students inform
ed the enthusiastic missionary that
he was violator of the state penal
code, subject to severe punative in
fictions, and that if he did not get
out Of the room they would report
him to the town authorities.
Without saying a word he bundled
up his goods and chattles and hied
himself to Fairmont on the 1850 train
which was then about due.
MR.. FRED p. HIGH