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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15
MoMAN,s REALTY.

There is a great deal said about our
beauty, great deal done TO make us
beautiful. How? 10 spiri,? Not at all,
To be physically beautiful is our aim,
For this We don the costly bonnet, the
dainty boot, friz our hair, paint our
faces. To this end we devote our lives,
sscrifce health, mind, heart aud
strength.
From the cradle we ara taught that
we must be beautiful, We are shut up
10 the house, away from the glad sun
shine and pure cir to protect our fair
complexion; dressed in corsels and erin
oline to improve our forms; CATERED and
thinly hosed in the dead of winter that
our feet may be petite and ottraclivo;-
Oar brothers run laugh loud, whistle get
tanned, wear stout boots and warm
clothes-but we don't-it isn't 'lady-
like They grow sIrong in the gym.
nasium or al the wood-pile, while we
crochet, practice the last song, behave
with proprio,y, aud sometimes make a
cake They go TO college grow inde.
pendent, 90 out into the world, make
their mark; while we who are attractive,
get married aud we, who are not teach.
ing school, make dresses, and fade out,
Some oil US live in the country. In that
case, we milk cows, make butter and
cheese, help send our brothers TO school,
learn how to cook, and get husband
Sometimes we are ambitious to acquire
strength Of mind 10 study and investigate
for ourselves. The majority OF men ad.
miro US for our physical beauty alone,
and then wonder why we aim at moth
ing else.
Many an intelligent m'n, utterly igno-
ring priceless soul, bid by o homey
exterior. has unconsciOusly welded a
virago, because the odornment was pink
and white. Many a vile and mother sits
by her bearth-stone tonight bewailing
the lost charms which once held him
who promised to love and CHERISH and
there are husbands end fathers plodding
their weary way from the solitary couu
ting room withou, sympathy. early and
late, because their wives aud deughtsB
will have the admiration which fashiona-
bic beauty demands.
Our beauty lifts US up and drags us
down. lifts rs up bysecuriog veal
thy and Influential huSband-iL drsgs US
down by this rule, Ihe greater beauty
the higher prize, the greater suare''
When we fall there is none but God
to pity, Our brothers glory 10 like sins,
and stand upon high places Of earth,
while We are trOd upon, spit upon, hissed
at. No repentance can remnve the stain;
i, is scarlet always. We that are pure
and sinless tread upon our fallen SIS
tera. We cannot so much as think Of
them in their degradation. We forget
that money and station bought many oil
US; forget that God secs behind the mar.
risge vow; forget that hundreds of street
girls and raviatdS, who al this hour are
selling their virtue, were once as pure as
the snow; forget Christ's voice, Do unto
others as you would that they should do
unto you. .'-Pdekards Monthly,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

How TO REAp,-A great many boys
and girls read a good deal without gain
ing much knowledge or good from their
pains. This ia b9conso they do mol
know how. When John Elmuns was
six years old he asked bis father for a
new book. His father asked him if tho
last book he had given him was worn
out. % no sir, said John but have
read all the sense out Of H. He meant
to say he had read II thoroughly, and
hod made himself master Of all the ideas
il contained,
sNow that is the right way 10 read, in
order to profit by reading, By reading
in that way, John made great improve
mcnt, and became ono Of the wisoil and
m oct useful meu our country has prodb,
crd. He never took up a book and nl'
lowed bis Oye to rest on the page, while
his thoughts we're wandering from Que
thing 10 another, MS only now and then
TO got nm idea OF what was written. HO
never took up book Tor tho sake ol
passing OwOy time. He took The ud'
vice Of those who were wiser than no,
and read only good books. and no read
all tho sense out OF thom.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

An old gentleman who rides almost
daily 10 Boston from Lowell on the cars,
has card with slip Gu, from u, lpaI
TO tho width ofa line In the newspaper.
which hS uses TO read through, Whether
Il assists tho ayes or not. We cannel say,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Stroke tho back Of cat with one
hand. and al tho same timo touch the
top Of your head with the Corehnger OF
the other hand and you will receive an
electric shock equal to ihsl from the
batteries ofa telegraph office. The CS-
pertinent Is worth tying.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

What folly is 10 drcOd tho thought
Of throwing away our lives oil at once.
by single act, and yet, have no regard
10 throwing them away by piecemeal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

The printer who kissed his sweetheart,
saying please exchange is bslieved not
to have exceeded the proper liberty Of
The press
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Molesty is MIRO bocoming, and
always es'eemsd mora valuable lhsn
beauty. Beauty pcrshos, bat mOdesiy
never decays.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Josh Billings says: "WhOu a man,
dorg deserts him on account Of his pov.
erIy he cant get any lower 10 this
world mot by land
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

A private soldlor In California has IL.
venIOd.s new method loT bklmmlng milk,
Ito cts a fno guasa a'ova ioA hoop Of
tho Slas Of the pan, The milk 10 lhtn
poured into tho pan 40 M 10 a lhtla
more than cover tho ,tOvs, When lhN
rplm has risen, lhO hoop Il ln'd, and
tAecEeam 10 thu, tcmpletslYI'noyVl,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

There is young lady in Terra HSutS
Ind, only eighteen years Of age, who
boast that within The last two years she
has.con'rartol and broken ten mslrimou-
engagements.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

1t was an apt answer of Young lady.
who, being asked whore was her native
place. replied. 1 have mona: am The
daughter Of Methodist minister
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Newman Hill says tho matter Of Biblo
societies and missions TO tho heathons
are Of less Importance than the settle
ment OF tho Alabama claims.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

ItisA pleasant thing TO SEQ lilies grow.
ing upon young ladies cheek. hut a
bad sign to see q young mans face
break out in blossoms.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

There are mulliludes Of people Who
destroy themselves through irresolulionS.
They are e,crnallylelling about what ihey
are going 10 do, but they never do It.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

An Trshmnn went to live in Scotland
for short time, but dilnl like the
country. III was sick all the time 7
was there" saFI he and IL / had IiWd
there I'LL this time I'd been dead loug
ago.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

A horse dcslcr was asked if an an.
imal which he offered for palo was tims
id Not at all. said bs. 'be often pass
many nights by himself in the stable.'
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Summer has come at White Pine, and
moro than one thousand men arc employ.
ed in taking on, ore, 10 addition TO the
other thousands who continue to PROS
pect.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

A Western paper snys; "WontOd, st
this oflico an editor who oan please
everybody. Also foreman who can ar
range the paper so as 10 allow every
mans advertisement 10 head the column.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Water is not fashionable beverage for
drinking your friends health, but Il Ia
capital one for drinking your own.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

One step back ward Is equal to two
steps forward; honoo relrcating from
duty is compound loss,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Love ia the golden thread that ruus
through the Gospel, Gods love to US,
to him. and one to another,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15
Gentlemen engaged tc be married ara
now politely termed husbands by brevot.

It take, much grace and discipline to
keep US u truly tcacbAblo frame OF
soul.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Il bate to hear people talking behind
ones bOck' as tho rObber said when tho
constable wOs chasing him, and crying
stop tbieip
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Men without religion is The creature Of
circumstances, Ond will lin him up
above them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

A wife full of truth. love and inno-
conco is the prOtliesl flower man can
wear next his heart.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

The moments a man is satisfied with
hims,lf every body else Is dissatisfied
with him,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

No ocrealnres ore so necessary und inns
poranl to God. as 10 be secure from hlS
anger when they sin against him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

The man who is loud of pies and
puddiugs places himself fo,rfully in tho
power Of his wife.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Domestic commerce., In Chicago.
means the lawyers fees for procuring
divorces,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Why is hat made Of beaver like land
that always yields fine crops? Because it
may bO called fertile (furIile)
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

Il isngren, pity that a woman's potG
ore SO frequently uuSances to everybody
olue.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15
JOB WORK.

We are prepared to do job Work OF every
description in as good style as any Office in
this part of the State, and nj lower prices
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15
BlAsoN'o.

M MAsoNlo.
The regular communication of Minlurn
Lodge No. 10. A. F. and A. NJ, are held
monthly, on the night of the full moon, The
slms being Tuesday, or the Tuesday night
i'm n,diately preceding.
W Il. RuFNER, Secretary.
sart 10 lg6s-ly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15
NOTICE.

A LII persops desiring to obtain authority
Il certificate To teach school in Mason county,
will hereby take notice that my public exam.
ination of reachars. will from this date. be
held at Mason City, on the THIRD SATUR-
DAY Of each month, Nopriyate examinations
will be given, except in cases Of emergency
JACOB BIRD.
Srpt Pub. S;hoals Mason County,
Oci. 9g-s
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15

'Horeh TO informal improvcmeuts a.
Dlbbs said when he lWpIlowod j9se Of
salts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-07-15
nrnMA az SunsCRIrTION:
yrRMs OF ADVERTISING,

TERMS OF ADVERTISING
One square n irch) insertion 81 90
Each additional insertion, 0U
0mo 0nu sHna'e sI months, 100
S Smo sdnare 10 months. 10 90
One fourth of column, 3 months, ~ U0
One fourth of column, & months 10 w
One fourth ofa column, ~ months, gu w
One half of a column, 3 months, IL U0
Ope half of n column, 6 months, 20 w
One half of column, IL months, 80 w
One column, 3 months, 20 00
One column, months. 80 w
One column, IL months, OO VV
All advertisements not having The number
ol Insertions marked on the copy, will be in
serted until ordered out, and charged for ac
cordiugly.
ly in advance.
Transient advertisements must be paid for
in adVlnce.
Free advertising positively discontinued -
Advertisements for charitable institutions, in.
serted for half price.
Marriages nnl deaths published free. 0bit
rary Notices aud Tributes Of Respect, charged
haifthe above rates,
Announcing candidates for county Offices
g o.; for State and Federal Offices, $40 90;
payment required in advance.
Communications solicited, but every article
must be accompanied with the name OF the
writer.
All legal Advertisements must he paid for
before the i'roolof Publication can be obtained.
Plaintiffs are required by law to pay the cost
or Orders Of Publication before the Proof Of
Publication is issu!d.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
The Grant Monument.

To use no harsher term, the managers Of the
proposed equestrian Grant Monument have
been guilty of the folly of determining to mould
it Of cannon captured from the South during
the late war. AS the Dispatch truly says ''the
fact that it was moulded with that material will
be remembered as long as the statue endures.
It will be considered monument to triumph
on one side and humiliation on the other, and
this indiscreet partisanry will have cast into en-
during metal the recollections which ought to
be buried.
We do not object to the monument to Gen
eral Grant. Nobody objects to that; but we
do object to the continuation Of policy which
is calculated to perpetuate the recollection of
strife, and therefore the fostering Of sectional
rancor in appropriations fom money collected
from taxes imposed upon US equally with ell
the ether citizens of the United States. 1t is
an unwse use Of power, and cannot be produc-
tive of any good. The disposition of the ma
tional funds for purposes Of sectional self-com-
placency is barrier to intersectional good feel
ing, aud wrong. 1t is against the avowed
sentiments of General Grant, and he should
regret it as much as We do
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
A Bitter Dr0p.

The State of Virginia is soon to be admitted
The pressure of public opinion in the country is
too heavy for the extreme party in Congress-,
and they will acquiesce as gracefully as they can
in what they see is now inevitable. When the
State is restored, we trust that the most ford
pictures which have been painted for us may
prove cold and tame compared with the reality;
but, even then, they will be Swallowed by the
special and peculiar humiliation which has just
been incurred by Mr.. Turner and his colleagues.
We allude to the interview between these
gentlemen and Mr.. Butler. 1t was disgust
ing exhibition and all the more to be amented
because gratuitous. Butler has been denounc-
ed all over the civilized globe for his brutality.
He oppressed and outraged the people of the
South and 10 the State of Virginia showed
that he had respect neither for the rights of
property, the tender feelings of our women, nor
the sacred calling of our divines To the timidi-
ty of sheep he added the appetite of hyena,
and no possible amount of diplomatic graces,
diplomatic degradations would be better
phrase, can ever make the people Of the coun-
try forget the facts to which we allude, or gid
with decent apology the humiliating attitude
Of the committee of which we speak.
When the President penned his Message and
committed himself to the admission of the State
in compliance with his pledges, there was no
need for this abasement, which vas as unwise as
it was unbecoming. For Butler found himself
powerless to carry out the programme of ex-
clusion which he himself so recently favored,
and was too adroit to take issue with the Presi-
dent on question where defeat awaited him.
Under these circumstances the call on Mr.. But
Ter was gratuity and the demand made by
that person for new guarantees an insult to the
men whom he addressed. There is certain
pathetic rebuke to the great man ~ too, in the
reply Of Mr.. Turner, when he said that as they
were sworn to execute the law they had not
thought it necessary to fortify their oaths by a
the additional guarantee and gave it to Ben
jamin f. Butler On receiving this that per-
son graciously assured the committee that the
State should be admitted and condescended to
say that he was always ready ito accept the
pledge of Virginia gentleman"
Now, the committee has succeeded in two
things at least 1t has degraded itself by pc
titioning Butler to let Virginia in, and has
elevated him into a position which he never
could have occupied without this recognition Of
hisTpre- emincnce. The cup Of restoration, we
trust, may prove draught from the fountain
of perpetual youth, but this is bitter drop in
it which the people taste with infinite disgust,
the infusion was entirely Unnecessary Norfolk
Virgiaiian
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
Social CONFUSION Apprehended.

The Enquirer and Eraminer says that it can
not resist the conviction that society at the
North is profoundly agitated, and that there is
serious danger of one of those moral cata-
clysms which overfowed France during the rev.
oIution. In their wild career Of humanitarian
ism they seem to be breaking away from the
moorings of revealed religion, and to be launch
ing out on sea of socialistic theories The
most venerable and sacred opinions are assailed
and overhauled with the irreverence Of Ger
man speculation or the recklessness Of French
infdeity. ALI of this is done in specious terms
and with the observance of the externals Of de-
cency; but there is widespread social cor
ruption. All the signs betoken violent social
CONFUSION. The opinions of men are disturbed.
The foundations Of morals and religion are I'M
settled
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

4 tor of the will of Christian Michael, dec d.,
l will offer for SALE upon the premises, at public
auction. on Thursday, the 1871 day Of January,
1870, tract of land, containing about ONE
HUNDRED ACRES, "a small part arrabe and
cleared in part, the remainder very valuable for
its fine timber and cattle range.) Also, a tract of
80 Acres, upon which there is excellent spring,
and due proportion of wood land. Another
tract, containing about IS Acres 5 Of which are
cleared, with small tenement upon it.; the re-
mainder well cleared and timbered. Also,
small lot of wood land containing about 4 acres
The above lands are situated about midway be-
tween the Augusta Springs and Mt Scion, near
the public road connecting these two points and
convenient to churches, schools and mills. Per-
sons desiring to view these lands before the day
of sale, can do so by calling upon James or Den
mis- Michael, who live adjacent to them.
TERMS :-One-fourth cash in hand, and the
balance in one. two & three years, the purchaser
to execute bonds with good personal security, and
the title to be retained until the last installment
is paid. If not sold upon that day, they will be
for sale privately.
We again respectfully, but most earnestly ask
payment from those indebted to the estate-that
we may be saved the necessity of coercion.
dec2l-tds JAMES T. CLARKE
Spectator copy-Nlnd. Executor.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
Virginia Not Yet Admitted.

It is now very evident that Virginia will not
be admitted till after the Holiday recess Of Con
gress From the special telegram to the Rich
mond Dispatch we learn that the Reconstruc-
ton Committee met at noon on Saturday last.
There was barely quorum present. The va
rious documents ordered by the House to be
printed for the committee were laid on the
members desks. Congressman-elect Porter
and several other advocates Of the test-oath,
&C., we've present VIM. B. Downey made an
extended statement of the anti-republican man
ner in which civil justice had been administered
in Virginia. This was followed by similar
statement by several others
In reply, Isaac d. Budd, Republican mem
Der of the Legislature from Loudoun county,
made an able speech controverting many of the
statements Of those opposed to admission. He
declared that so far as Loudoun county was
concerned, civil justice had been administered
fairly, and that the elections were Free quiet,
and fairly carried out, and that he believed it
was equally so in the case of the entire State.
After the room was cleared, the committee
remained in session for some time, but came to
no final action.
1t is now claimed by the extreme Radicals
that Butler is with them, and that the State
will not be admitted without requiring the Leg
islature to take the test-oath.
Representative Farnsworth left the commit
tee room before the adjournment He has
openly avowed his views in favor of admitting
the State at once, and is accordingly much de-
nounced by those who are opposed to his views.
General Butler has received several letters,
in which it is stated that the legislative COM
mittee are playing him false. One of these
letters processes to detail conversation that
recently took place between members of the
committee and ex-rebel officers on board the
steamer en- route for Aqua Creek. 1t alleges
that sport was made of Buffers name, and
that his promises were not considered genuine,
&c. The opposition to the admission of the
State are making terrible fight, and it is now
conceded that nothing will be done before JAN
uary in the way of admitting the State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
CHRISTMAS!

Before another issue of this paper, our read
ers will have celebrated, in becoming manner
we hope, the anniversary of the most impor-
tant event which has occurred in the history o.
the world since the auroral dawn of creation
when the morning stars sang in unison togeth
er-''the coming of Christ in human form az
the babe of Bethlehem to save and redeem. y
Eighteen hundred and seventy years ago, whilst
the shepherds were attending their focks or
the hill-sides of Judea, on the darkness of the
night they saw near star arise, bathing the
landscape in mellow splendor, and pointing it,
steady beam to the babe just born in manger
and at the same time heard countless multltudes
of radiant beings, with heavenly-tuned voices,
singing the glorious anthem:
"Glory to God an the highest, and Oh earth
peace, good ayM to men. -
In the language of J. T. Headley: 'Fol
four thousand years. the world had summoned
its thoughts and energies, and exhausted it,
wisdom on the single question, 'Hoso man shall
be Just aoitA God?''
''Too high for the rapt prophet, too deep fol-
the sage, it still remained to sadden and excite
the heart Of man, till the Star of Bethlehem
arose on the plains of Judea. Then the prob
lem was solved and the mystery explained, by
a mystery and problem greater than all. y
1.-TWO great events mark the long history OF
the earth-one is the coming of Christ in a hu-
man form as the babe of Bethlehem, to save
and redeem-the other is to be his coming in
the plentitude of his power to Judge the world.
A single star arose and beamed on bis birth ::
at his second appearance, the stars Of heaven
shall all be quenched, the sun be turned into
darkness and the moon into blood
Christmas should be day of thanksgiving
and appropriate religious ceremonies. Itshould
not be desecrated by Bacchanalian orgies, as is
too often the case.
We sincerely hope that our readers will en-
joy happy, merry and thankful Christmas
that their enjoyments may be great, and that
they may be pure and innocent.
We hope that all the bright anticpations of
the little children, who are confidently expect
ing and impatiently awaiting the arrival Of
Santa Claus, will be more than realized-that
they will find him more generous than usual,
and that their 'hung-up' stockings will be
filled to repleton with candies, nuts, toys &c.
To old and young, rich and poor, single and
especially to our subscribers, and
mere especially to those who have paid in ad-
vance, we tender in advance, the cordial greet
ipgs of the season, hoping each and all may
enjoy merry and happy Christmas.