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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21
E. w. Thomas Takes Better Half, In
deed.

FAIRMoNT, March 2l-The largest
woman IN West Virginia was united
in marriage to e. W Thomas of this
city. Her name before marriage was
Mary A. Craig. She weighs $50
pounds and is 6 feet / inches in
height. She is 35 years of age and
heretofore resided on a farm. AT one
time she was employed in Pittsburg.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21
CITY Taxes-Last Notice.

All persons who have not paid their
city taxes will please call at City Hall
on Saturday and settle.
T. BENNETT,
Collector.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21
For Sale.

For sale new house on Spruce
street Fine rooms heated by iurn-
ace. Suitable for fraternity house.
Cali at this office for particulars.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21
Hagans Restaurant.

At Uniontown is receiving many
comments 1t is said to be the most
modern outside the largest cities.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21
Girl Wanted.

Wanted girl TO do general house
work for small family. Apply at $50
North Chestnut street. Frank Caples.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21

Take Ru ter ba for a spring tonic.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21
BLANKS DID NOT CONE
And the Inspection and Muster of the
Local X. of p. Company Did net take
Place.

The inspection and muster of the
local company uniform rank X. OF Z.
did not take place as expected on
account of the necessary blanks not
arriving in time. Col. S. A. Posten
was detailed to make the inspection
by General Lancaster after the death
of Major John H. Cummins, of Wells
burg, who had been detailed to
make the visit Whenever the blanks
come the ceremony will be carried
ont and the new officers installed.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21

Try our want ads.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21

SEE Poster 8 window.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-21

Things are Beginning ito Hum Along
the NJ. A. Knew Glass Factory
Hunting Location-Lime Kiln aud
sand Plant Started TRADING Begun.
Building Notes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
A Marvellous Traffic Diversion.

Figures published elsewhere to-day
show how successful J. J. Hill has been
in carrying out his far-seeing plan of
cultivating trade with the orient and di-
verting it to his railway: systems. Mr.
Hill has often told us that his roads were
already getting the bulk of the export
cotton traffic in the oriental trade, but,
somehow, his personal statement of tho
situation has not been so persuasive as
the figures
Not only in the cotton traffic, but in the
total foreign trade that finds issue by way
of the Pacific coast, the northern roads
and the northern ports are winning. AL
ready the northern ports have passed San
Francisco, and the Puget Sound ports
alone almost equal her in the volume OF
their export trade. San Francisco still
has big lead in imports but it is wan
ing rapidly. San Diego is rapidly getting
into ancient history. - s
OF the northern ports, those on Puget
Sound are badly. beating those in Oregon,
both on the coast and the Willamette.
These tendencies illuminate the future
The day is coming when the trade Of the
Pacific will equal that Of the Atlantic
and what the Bay Of New York IS to the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

When the Youngers were paroled we
were told by their friends that what they
particularly wanted was to get the old
men out of prison SO that their lives might
be prolonged and that they might not die
in jail. They have been out about a year
and now an effort is to be made to secure
a pardon for them SO that they @cansleave
the state and go to their friends in Mis-
souri,. Til J ourna l predicted when
the parole was granted that this would
be the next move. It is to be hoped that
the board of pardons will make nc. further
concessions to these, men. They have be-
haved themselves well as prisoners and in
view Of their age it was perhaps all right
to grant them a parole ana their liberty
within the state, but pardon is not nee
essary to the enjoyment Of all the liberty
they need. Let them stay as they are,
The ,offense which they committed will
justify no further exercise of clemency to-
ward them. Minnesota. has dealt gently
with these men from the first. Life i'm
prisonment was mild penalty for theft
crime and a parole is generous consldera-
ton for their age and good behavior
That's enough.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

it was decided, in behalf Of Gold
smith, that If there was any virtue in the
art of the claquer, it should be tested on
the night of the play.
~ On that occasion, the venerable DR..
Johnson took a conspicuous position in the
first: row, and, at every passage which
could possibly be construed into wit and
at some that were absolutely barren of
wit, burst into resonant haw-haws, which
were prolonged by the other friends of the
author In strenuous cachination. Cum
berland very humorously describes john
son in the role Of first claquer and
through him, the comedy was roaring
success, much to Goldsmith's comfort
The "sesquipdalian dictator,'' who
has, through Boswell, been immortalized,
was always helpful to other struggling
authors and invited them to share pot
luck with him. In Johnson's encourage
were conspicuous Burke and Garrick,
Cumberland, Boswell, Reynolds, Savage
and Goldsmith. Edward Gosse2 charac-
terizes Boswell as a vain and shallow cox
comb of mediocre abilities, but he was the
only man in the johnson encourage who
was capable of writing what has turned
out to be one of the best-read books in the
world. Johnson was vain, too, for that
matter. So was Sir Richard Cumberland,
oppressively conceited, notably about his
comedy, 1.-THE West Indian; but both
Johnson and Cumberland were helpful to
needy authors. Cumberland laid himself
out, so to speak, to make GoIdsnith's last
comedy a success. There was not SO
much jealousy among authors then as
there is to-day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

quotations when the sheet was almost
torn from his hand Some one lurched
heavily against him.
He looked up in surprise not unmiXed
with anger, but the aggressor was already
part way up the aisle. 1t was a woman
who staggered blindly up the car. Now
she turned uncertainty so that he could
see her face.
She was no pleasant sight. She was
black haired, black browed, middle aged
and drunk. Dirt and CRIME had taken all
the vestige of responsibility from her
shabby clothes. A rusty black bonnet was
perched rakishly on the back of her head.
From beneath this gray black locks strag-
gled. On one cheek was the mark of a
,bruise. AS she again lurched past, evil
IDENTIFY cropping for the door, her eyes were
fixed in a CLASSY stare. Her lips muttered
unintelligibly.
Alston's ear caught a sigh that was half
a sob. The girl opposite was gazing at
the woman with fascinated, fear dilated
eyes. Others in the car were watching
and smiling. Now, as lurch of the train
flung her into an empty seat, there was an
| audible litter. Not hand was raised to
help her.
| In a minute she was on her feet again,
but the shock had turned her round, and
she began a second labored passage up the
car.
| The girl had sunk into miserable little
heap. Aston watched her half pityingly,
half anxiously. "She was just the kind
of girl to faint away" he told himself.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
IN A NUTSHELI....
~ Against co-Educaton in Universities

OF appeared United States a form
Of reaction against President
Northwestern university spokesman
this movement President Harper of Chicago has
yielded favor segregation sexes
within the university Chicago
the change arisen not because of prejudice against
higher education for butt their
prefer mems universities thus
preventing Chicago accomplishing fullest
which, Harper young
Simultaneous with this reaction in the United States,
which not amount anything in the end there
has been setback coeducation in Germany just when
appeared to be getting good Six months the total
attendance German universities had reached
registration the
decline SS7, of whom $40 in Berlin university.
Franlfurer Zeitung
there is feeling developing in university
circles against making the admission Of women to these
Only Baden, where Heidelberg
burg freely opened women a
tendency At all the universities outside Baden
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
Alaska's Future.

Governor Brady's recent speech at Sc
attic does not sound much like the talk
Of such corrupt tool Of special, interests
him to be, in paper read before the
Trans-Mississippi congress. Neither does
the governor swerve from his recommen-
dations as to the future government of
Alaska because of the criticisms that have
been made Of his course.
He stands firmly by his contention that
Alaska is not yet ready for territorial
government. He can see no good in it
for the people of Alaska and much incon-
venience and annoyance. The principal
grievance of the people, in his opinion, Is
the failure of congress to enact suitable
laws for the disposition Of the public do
main. The present etghty-acre act is I'M
satisfactory and useless. The, general
land laws of the United States are what
Alaska wants, says Governor Brady. In
this he will be supported by most I'M
prejudiced persons, though there may be
something worthy of consideration In the
plea for lots Of 800 instead Of 100 acres, on
the ground that such size claim is more
adapted to the circumstances in Alaska
than a smaller one.
The reports Of declining gold produc-
ton will cause some to think that Alaska
may soon be little moreJ than deserted
mining camp. But such a conclusion is
premature. Gold production, so long as it
comes chiefly: from placer or hydraulic
mining, will have its ups and downs with
| the exhaustion Of old fields and the dis
covery Of new. But quartz mining has
scarcely begun in Alaska, even for the
precious minerals, with one or two nota-
BILE exceptions, while the immense wealth
Of the territory in copper, tin and coal
has only been glanced at. The copper
mines Of Alaska alone will furnish the
basis Of considerable population for cen
! turtles. Much Of this mineral wealth II
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

The plea Of the strikers at Thurmond
West Virginia, that the troops be kept
there calls attention:to the fact that the
presence Of troops during a time of strike
is not a menace to the strikers or help
to the employers. The troops are there to
preserve order. That may be disturbed
quite as much by .truculent special police
men and deputy sheriffs, heavily armed.
as. by. armed strikers. The presence of
troops restraints the one class as much
as the other. It tends to prevent clashes
between them and to maintain order
against all Corners. f.. 80, .>s -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
Palma and Cuba,

President Palma, Of the republic, of
Cuba, is already experiencing the Gin
gratitude of republics" He finds himself
blamed for everything that happens of an
unpleasant nature by the Cubans. who
have been sneering at him as "the Amer
lean president"
President Palma needs the support of
evcry really patriotic Cuban. He has
held his important office less than four
months. He has had to face difficulties
originating at Washington and In Cuba
which would have discouraged man Of
less patriotism and strength Of character.
Starting with the new republic at its or
ganization, Palma was. In a short time,
confronted with the formidable difficulty
embodied in the refusal Of the senate Of
the United States to approve q moderate
reduction Of duties on Cuban raw sugar,
that the, new government, through the
betterment Of industrial and commercial
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
The NonpareiI Man
Casually Observed.

The grand jury modestly tells what it
has done and retires to it's library. The
jury proved itself a gorgeous, all around
success.
The Duchess of Marlborough had the
navy department by the ears without say
ing a word. If the duchess desires to
hear things rip and tear: in Mr. Moody's
shop let her give out an interview on the
Sampson Schley controversy.
= A gang Of rowdies tried to break up an
Epworth League meeting at Evanston
Instead Of turning thes$other cheek, the
league pitched in and gave the rowdies d
hot fight, finally putting them to flight.
Bully for the league! Muscular christian
ity is all right at times ,~.,-.- .-~
The mock war blew up three soldiers
yesterday, showing, it to be much more
dangerous thansa5 South American revo-
lutiop. ~@F TTf4 @zasaa5F= ~ > &,'E
Miss Stone is going to resume her ef-
forts in the Balkans. If they are as sue
cessful as they were last year, the United
States will have to issue more bonds
A cross Lincolnite, full Of war and fire.
water, attacked Mr.. Bryan on Labor Day,
but was shunted off. This is analogous
W oil oCLIeSS having ner diamonds stolen
and is an indication that the Comm one1
desires to offset the Tommeljohnson boom
Dear Pap-Me an me pals, the railroad
sharps, who own the train, side tracked
her at some place on the prairie out here
an we went shootin'. Your son Teddy
| that's me, carried a howwtsir about as
big as he could lug an KEEP sharp look.
out for 1njuns, bears or squirrel, any ole
thing, as the tramp remarked to the queer
| OF the kitchen, would be grateful to Teddy
that's me again, provided it wore fur anG
run on four legs witch bars Injuns be
cause it is said to be agenst the law tt
shoot them only when they borrows your
| traps at night; at least that is what thu
railroad president with the bay window
told me an he ought to know cause HI
owns the road
Well, to make a long story shorter, W.
scared up no end of chicken an T pune
tured a jack rabbit and came near scoring
| the general manager of the road; at leas
he said he. heard the bullet whiz an :
noticed that he quit an went back to tn,
dining car talking about people that wer.
careless with firearms. I told him timit
people were no good an they all laughed.
KEEP one eye out for antelope an bfso1
but nothin' showed up More mex tim,
from your <affecshunate sun.
- 8 r a.<<- Teddy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
NEW BOOKS

CAVALIER POETS. BY Clarence NJ Lindsay.
New York: The Abbey Press, No. ia
Fifth avenue.
Mr.. Lindsay has grouped the more con-
spicuous poets who, through the i'll
starred days of Charles l. and the COM.
monweaath, adhered to the cause of the
Stuarts faithfully, some of them enjoying
the comforts of the Restoration and one
or two living until the reign of Queen
Anne. There are fourteen of tho cavalier
poets sketched in this volume, of whom
the most generally familiar are Sir John
Denhan, Sir John Sucking, Sir Roger
L'Estrange, Colonel Richard Lovelace,
Sidney Godolphin, Thomas Carew, Sir
Richard Farnshawe. Sir William Daven-
ant. England In the time Of Charles I.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
MORGAN,S LITTLE COAL JOKE.
New York Times.

New York Times.
One morning several weeks after the
coal strike began Russell Sage and J.
Pierpont Morgan were riding down to
business on an elevated train. The con-
yersation naturally turned to the coal
strike, chances Of the output, prices coal
would bring, etc.
Mr.. Sage was telling Of their good luck
in procuring lot at moderate cost per
ton. Mr.. Morgan bantered him about
the quality, claiming he did not get
the real article at the price he men
toned. -
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Sage, that coal is
all right; the real article I know it, for
each piece is stamped 'Lehigh.' =
"That's a good one" answered the ar
bitter of finance; "but I'm thinking, Uncle
RUSSELL as he slapped the sage of Law
renee Beach good-naturedly on the Shout;
der; I'm thinking that the next lot you
or any one else will get instead Of being
stamped Lehigh,' the chances are that
it will be stamped D high"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

admitted only hearers allowed to
graduate only by special Berlin university
Gently declined entertain petition it's stu
dents asking for equal rights with the ?. = -
A given for the reaction in Germany Is that
German professors like failure most Of the
to tothe of study. Out of
1000 during the two terms of 1901 only fourteen took
degrees whereas Is the of
take degrees. =. -... II. = ~12z ~ ~ >-s -
An interesting contribution the European discussion
OF coeducation Is that Ijed Of the Uni
versity Of esingfor which has been to for
thirty Only 70 per cent OF the managed to
while the Is 40
the the trouble
with is that their zeal after AS
far ability is concerned Rector Heidi says there
practical agreement distinctions made be-
tween AS to the effect the of
university the IIjedl strongly
differs Presidents Harper. says
be faithful persistent
predicted appeared
IIelsingfors sin general the Experiment.
80, "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
A Weighty Measure.

About the only thing of any Importance
done at the recent conference Of the
premiers Of the British colonies, was the
passage Of a resolution favoring the prac
teal introduction of the French metric
system throughout the British empire.
This is important because If it is carried
out by parliament. colonies and imperial
government, it will compel our own gov
eminent, for business reasons, to abandon
the standard Of weights and measures
adopted in 1884.
Our standard unit of measures Of ex-
tension is the yard of three feet or thirty
six inches, exactly the same as the i'm
perial yard Of Great Britain. Our stand
ard unit of liquid measure Is the old
English wine gallon of 231 cubic inches.
Our standard unit Of dry measure Is the
British Winchester bushel, 1874 inches in
diameter and inches deep, containing
2,150.42 cubic inches, and our standard
unit Of weight is the Troy pound, the
same as the imperial standard pound of
Great Britain, Of $500 grains, and our
avoirdupois pound of 1000 grains is the
same. Our business relations with Great
Britain and her colony Canada are very
close and the adoption of the French
metric system by Great Britain. who
authorized it In 1864, will compel it's use
in this country, where it was authorized
by congress in 1866.
The French system is based on the
decimal scale, the meter being the base
of the system, it being one ten-millionth
part of the distance on the earth's sur
| face from the equator to either pole, or
| 39.37079 inches. The primary units are
the gram for weight, liter for capacity,
cubic meter, wood or cubic measure,
square meter for land measure; multiple
units are derived by prefxing to the
primary unit name the Greek numerals
deca C0), hectic (100>, kilo G,000), an6
myria 100000. 1t is natural to say 1--WE
| have used our own measures so long it is
impossible to think and figure in kilo-
meters, hectares, hectolitres, kilogrames. y
Had congress passed the Hurley bill II
1915 the meter system, now permiss1ve
would have been in use by the government
In the transaction of all business requir
ing the use Of weight and measurement
and the people would probably be talking
in hectares, kiometers, Ntres and MILL
meters instead Of acres, miles, quarts ant
inches. Thousands of pupils at the schools
know what the metric system is and cal
say the tables. Scientists all over thi
country use it, In our custom houses tn
litre is encountered in invoices and i
: translated.
Changes like this cannot be made in
day or week. 1t takes time. ALL tn
government apparatus Of weights AM
measures would have to be changed. Fo
a time people would swear some at John
ny Crapeau for devising the metric sys
tenn, but 1t would give US uniformit
| In weights and measures which we hav
: not now. a bushel of salt In differen
states for instances, not having the sam
official weight. Nearly all Europe use
the French system, and a dozen Spanish
American republics use it. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

conditions on the island, might have
reasonable accretion of revenue. The re-
fusal to give Cuba even such moderate ad-
Palma and his people.
It was necessary for the Cubans to take
some steps to secure revenue, and for
revenue they found they must resort to
increased tariff duties. They found they
required a loan to meet certain urgent de-
capped by the Plat amendment, which
permitted loan to be negotiated only to
the extent that surplus revenue covers in
terest and sinking fund requirements on
account of the debt. To effect loan, the
custom receipts only could be hypothe-
Gated and they were not found adequate.
Then were proposed Increased tariff du-
tes, and an internal tax, like the war tax
collected by our government during the
Spanish war, the latter being figured out
to make an additional revenue Of $780,
900, which the finance minister thought
would be sufficient to poy the interest on
sinking fund to pay off the Indebtedness
In a few years.
The secretary of finance reports that the
funds collected during August aggregated
$1.01S,3 17, which, with the balance car
ried over from the month of July, made
s2,074,473. and expenditures in August
having been s1,240, LAS. the balance on
hand Sept. 1 was $s34,o27. Cuba is really
better off, on this somewhat meager
showing, than was our own country when
it started into the war for independence.
Meantime, between now and December.
1t is possible that our senators will per-
ceive the gross inconsistency of claiming
to be loyal to the Dingley tariff law and,
at the same time, refusing to permit the
application Of one of its neutrality-suspicious.
provisions in order to: keep, faith with
Cuba and to promote close and profitable
commercial relations with the island.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03
WHO Is IMPERTINENTf
New York Tribune.

We are glad to see that President
Truesdale. by the grace of God, lord of
the Lackawanna coal mines, stands firm
ly for the doctrine Of divine right enun-
ciated by President Baer, and abates not
one jot or title Of the claim that he and
his fellow rulers are responsible to God
alone for their conduct. Speaking Of the
possibilities Of settling the coal strike by
arbitration, Truesdale, die gratia praeses,
Enthusiastically declares: ."Just, fancy such
men as Senator Hanna and Bishop Pot
ter, who know nothing about mining, try
ing to settle differences which concern
us and our employees and nobody else.'" y!
There is true Bourbonism in it's glory.
BY divine right the coal operators rule,
and it is an impertinence for Senator
Hanna or Bishop Potter, to suggest that
the body Of the people are being ground
between the. upper. and neither milestone.
It is no concern Of the people if they are
ground. That is what they exist for, to
furnish market for coal when the oper-
ator chooses to mine it, and loyalty keep
still and go without it when he doesn't.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-03

Copyright. 1902, by ,McClure's Newspaper
+ ~ - = Syndicate. -.
Sudden starting Of the elevated train
fairly jerked Aston Davis into seat. Ills
armful Of papers slid to the floor.
AS he stopped to recover them his glance
fell upon the face Of the girl opposite.
1t was delicate and sensitive, framed IN
a Soft mass of hair. There was some
thing attractive In the clear pallor OF her
cheeks and the appealing droop OF the
mouth. Yet Aston smiled grimly.
"One of the olingng type that de-
spise," he said to himself. 1.-The kind that
scream at a mouse, and all women are
more or less Of that variety. 1T only shows
how stubborn Ursula is when she argues
that they have courage. Courage!'
/ But the girl must have become conscious
of his contemptuous scrutiny, for a flush
rose to her cheek and she turned toward
the window. Thus admonished, Aston be-
took himself to his paper.
He had just buried himself in the stock