Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-04-07

a boarding house or has the muscle
70 run a laundry, and it seems that
provide ntially the lazy man nearly al.
ways has that kind of wife. |
have encountered some specimens
OF physical indifference, too indolent
10 she'll beans, who are getting along
fine because they have wives who will
and do keep the pct boiling Il haven't
any wife) | suppose there may be men
that the devil likes better than the
able bodied loafer who gets his bread
by the sweat Of his brow, but
haven't been introduced TO them yet.
To man who has not been in the
habit Of handling anything In the
shape of money much larger than
would naturally find its way into
church collection IL is almost dazing
to see how the people here throw out
the gold. In fact gold is SO common
that, having little Of It in your
pocket soon makes you stop pulling
| the furniture against your door at
hight. Gold is IN such free circuia.
tion that you seldom see any paper
money unless you go to the bank after
it. There is nothing that will so in
crease mans self respect as having
few so. gold pieces in his pocket q
/ speak from obserYationl there's music
about it you can't get out of silver
even il you are Bryan man. People
are liberal hera-they give freely to
worthy purpose-they hold that the
dollar was made round that it might
roll, not only in the ways of charity
but in public Improvements, and
there's plenty Of room TO extend our
boundaries as the Irishman said of
the new country there is yet "a virgin
forest on which the hand of man has
never set foot, aud it is only waiting
for devil-np-ment.
The Eucalyptus tree is everywhere
here, and is great Illustration OF how
good will go and grow when it has
fair chance, for it is said that these
trees have all come from slip Bishop
Taylor brought here from Australia.
The Eucalyptus is said to be The only
! thing yet discovered that will grow
faster than campaign lie
This tree will grow from slip the
size OF your finger to be fifty or sixty
| feet high and fifteen inches through
In i've years & have seen pumpkins on
which the weight was marked 300
lbs.) lam reminded Gin speaking of
the Eucalyptus that paradoxically1
wood for fuel is very scarce here and
so hard to get that roots are dug cut
of the ground for that purpose Even
matches are not over quarter the size
they are in the East Oil is largely
used for cooking and heating and In
nearly all the locomotives on the rail-
roads and steam ships coal being so
high as TO be almost prohibitive.
Oil is also largely used for making
roads Crude petroleum is mixed
with sand and clay and makes road
equal to paved street. We have
miles Of oil road here as hard and
smooth as asphalt and entirely free
from DUST very durable, lasting for
several years and is then re-oiled. /
think our streets will be sprinkled
with oil exclusively in the near flu
ture. Job speaks of the good time
''when | washed my steps with butter
and the rock poured me out rivers OF
OIL perhaps his prophetic eye saw
the streets Of Los Angeles as they will
appear. But this will not help the
crookedness of some of them, though
there is an advantage even in crooked
ness sometimes, as the Irishman said
after a long journey on winding road
being asked if he didn't get lonesome:
Lonesome is it, he replied not bit
OF it," How could OF get lonesome
when the road was SO crooked that OF
was meeting myself livery once in
while"
Yes, we live in the most wonderful
period of the worlds history, in the
greatest country on the face OF the
earth and this the most blessed spot
the sun shines on, and I feel more
and more like repeating it, as the
good priest did, in his sermon. Hav-
ing delivered what seemed to him an
excellent, striking sermon was anxious
to ascertain It's effect on his flock.
"Was the sermon today TO your lik-
ing Pat?" he inquired. "Troth y'r
reverence, it was grand sermon en-
toirely'' said Pat, with such genuine
admiration that his reverence felt
moved TO investigate further.
WAS there anyone part Of it that
seemed to take. hold of We more than
another" he inquired. "Well, now
as We are for akin me what impressed
me most, it was y'r riyerences par
severance, the way We whit over the
same thing agin and agin and agin. .
Perseverance is great virtue, even
when exercised in booming your own
town. J. n. MARSH.
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