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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-16
AnOptIcaI IIIlSlon.

The colonel, a rigid martinez is
sitting at the window Of hisroOm,
when looking out he sees a captain
crossing the barrack-yard toward the
gate. Looking at him closely, he is
shocked to observe that, the rules
Ind regulations TO the contrary not
withstanding, the caption does not
carry a sword. ID
@Captainl7 he calls from the win
dow. Hi, Captain; step up to my
room for u moment, viii your"
The captain obeys promptly, Dor.
rows a sword of the officer Of the
guard, the guard room being at the
foot of the stairs, and presents him;
self to the colonel in irreproachable
tenue.
The colonel, somewhat surprised to
see the sword in its place, and hav.
ing to invent some pretext for CALI
ing his subordinate back, says, with
some confusion. II beg your par
don, captain, but really Pveforgot-
ten what it was l wanted to speak to
you about, However, it cant have
been anything Of Importance; it'll
keep. Good morning" 'l'''"
The captain salutes, departs, re-
turns the sword to the ownerand is
making of across the barrack.yardi
when he again comes within the
range of the colonel's vision, M
The colonel rubs his eyes, stares,
says softly to himself, "How in the
thunder is tliisP Dam it, he hasn't
sword to his waist" then he called
aloud, "Captain!-oh, captain! one
moment, please" ss
The captain returns, borrows the
sword again, mounts the stairs and
enters the .colonel's presence. His
commanding officer. stares at him in-
tensely; he has sword, he esees it, he
hears it clauk.
Captain" he stammers, growing
very hot, "it's deuced ridiculous,
you know, but-hal ha! I'd just re-
membered what 1 wanted to say to
you, and now-hal hal-its gone
out of my head againl Funny. isn't
it? Ha! hal hal Losing my memory!
Never mind. I'll think of it and
write you. Good morning. "
The captain salutes, departs, re-
turns tho sword to the owner and
makes for tile gate: AS he crosses
ithe barfack-yard the colonel calls
his wife to his side and says, aseo
that officer out there2"
ayes"
"Has he got sword on2"
The colonel's wife adjusts herglass
upon him, scans him keenly and
says, "He hasn'ta taste Of a sword"
The colonel-"that's just where
you fool yourself. He hasl"
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CITY DIRECTORY.

Mayor-H. J. FISHER, JR. -
Recorder-M. II. HALE. =.
Councilmen-T. stribling; @. Shrewsbury,
/, F. Campbell, A, Il, Darst, John W,
English.
Sergeant-s. G. BLAKE.
Assessor-W. ]. KENNY.
Street COMMISSIONER. R. DArsT.
0verseers OF Poor-Drs. S, G.. Shaw and
L, F. Campbell.
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4SkbSIllABf WV ~ , - otN NSe' b
twined together with fantastic scroll
and twists. For several moment
there was deepkilence, Theold maj
could notspeak, and the young mar
said that the child Mrs. WilletrfscueC
from poverty, and adopted for he
own, is my cousin, and your daugh
teri"
sAda Smith,
aSmith was the name her mothe
thought most probably would bes
conceal her identity, and Ada wa
the name Of Mrs. Willet's onl!
child, who died in infancy.
"Butihayeyou not brought her t
me9o asked Mr.. Hilton, with almos
"a sob in his voice: And as be spoke
the door Hilton had left ajar opened
and acrossthe threshold steppedatall
beautiful girl, with sunny brown
hair and large blue eyes, who wait
cd timidly until her father came
auicklysto meetRer.
@Anhalg hesaidi softly Scan this
be mybaBy my wee pdaughterl i
must be- e,Ifofitisniy Myra, who ha'
not grown old.and gray; rs I have
but. lives in perpetual youth. My
child, l once Srons sed your mother
but have soiSoSed' and repented fol
that wrong oan You forgive mes'
The tdhs were falling fast. from
Anna Hilton's sses, and her voice
was trembling with sobs as she said
.My dear fatherlp
That was all; as George Hilton
folded his child in hisarms, he knew
that he wss'forgiYen, and for, him at
last there might be happiness in
making others happy
Good Mrs. Willet mourned and re.
joiced at once over her loss and she
could not break in.upon, what ho fell
to be a sacred emotion. At last
lifting his head, George Hilton asked
"Does Myra liye2 Can she forgive
me?o
sit is years since she died." Hilton
answered, ;"but, surely, in heaven
she has forgiven you. She never
spoke,of you to your child but in
words of respect and affection
though she always spoke of you a:
dead"
@My child You know my child2'
II know and love her. Do you moi
guess, Uncle George, where | saw
That brneeles whose dupiieata ree
ognized at once, whose face is liy
ing copy of the one in your locket'
Must 1 tell your adopted daughters
good fortune, but consoled hersel
with the thought that Ada mus
have left her to be Hilton's' wife
and, after all, they would still BE-
neighbors.
But she would not give her up un
til after most brilliant wedding
and George Hilton only welcomed
his daughter to his home when he
also gave tender greeting to Hilton''
wife.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-16

The doctors say the whole cause Of
business depression lies in tho fact
that there islit consumption enough
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COUNTY DIREcToRY.

Judge Circuit court-HoS. Jos. sSlru.
Residence RaycnswOod, jackson County.
Clerk Circuit Court-G. B. WAadEXRR.
Deputy-JAMEs II. Holloway.
Clerk County Court-E. KIMBERLIS0.
Deputy-JosEPII II. HoLLowAY.
President County Court-D. S. VAN Ma
TIRE.
Prosecuting Attorney-G. P. SIMrsoy.
Sherih-DAvIp s. STEVENSON.
Deputies-J. PR. B. SMiTH, ]. JEwEIT,
S. w. SoMRRtILLE, HENRY FRY, JosEPA n.
DAIGH, w. ID. SoMERyiLLE.
Jailor-J. JRwErT.
Surveyor OF Lands-TMos. J. RoBRRTs.
Assessor Dist No.l--JAs. w. .WiSDoS. ;,
Assessor Dist. No.2-7E. Z. BAKER.
sup't Public Schoels-QnAs. e. Hoeo.
TERMS OF COURT.
CiRcuir CouRT-First Monday in April,
and first Monday in October. =
CouNTY CoURr-Third Monday in Janu-
ary; Third Monday in March; Third Mon
day in May; Third Monday in July; Third
Monday in November Third Monday in
December.
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The Weekly Register,
prnLsnED RyERN FnuRsDAY BY
nEoRGE wv. TIPPETT,
Eplron AND PRoPRIEroR.

osee upstairs, stOrtfs Block. Entrance
a, Main Street
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Magic oflIlc Sea.


There are days in mid-ocean-and
one need not go to the doldrums or
horselatitudes to find them-when
day after day, week after week, the
breezes are asleep, aud the spirits Of
the storms have gone below to sport
with the nereids, and Neptune and
Amphitrite holding festal times in
the sea-green caves of ocean, it seems
as if there was nothing left but sea
and sky, and insphered between
them one solitary ship gazing at its
own shadow, and held motionless as
if paralyzed there forever on an en-
chanted sea, while the sun rises and
sets in a cloudloss sky, reelected on
TIA oil j sasfasca of tlle sea is On q
mirorof .bGfnisned goTd. at night
the moon, yellow and full, rises in
the eastas the sun goes down in the
west, like an image of the sun, but
throws no reflections from the hori.
zon on the water, SO absolutely
smooth and CLASSY is the sea. Only,
as one looks over the side Of the ship
in that appalling and seemingly
eternal silence of the illimitable
ocean, he sees three oriour round
balls of silver eerily quivering by
the ship, when the moon is ut the
zenith, which look as if they were
magic balls tossed up from the depths
below by unseen tricky sprites Of the
sea. Perchance there is another
ship floating in company miles away,
and gradually, by en- agency that
seems supernatural, she draws gradu'
ally nearer, although there is never
breath of air stirring. But this is
explained from the simple fact that
there are always unseen currents
moving, and one ship win be more
or less affected than another by them
according to its draught or weight
1t is at such a time that objects float
by Which one would never have
suspected to exist in the sCa-ont on
ly nautili and lovely Portuguese
men.of.war and jelly,fish fringed
with long crimson and purple hair
but alg@ of u fairy.like grace that
almost exceed belief, and serpents
six to eight feet long, transparent as
if made of elastic glass, of deli
cately modulated pcarly gray, stri
ped and spotted with gem.like point:
of green, scarlet and blue. " il
like revelation Of an unseen
world; and so it is, for the sea, mucl
as it has been explored, is yet, like
the human brain, full of wonders
and mysteries yet unrevealed, hid
den far, far down where no human
eye has yet penetrated. From time
to time a fresh discovery is made, al
in the case of the fish brought up by
the Challenger exploring expedition
off the coast of Portugal--a fish liv
ing at the bottom Of the sea and KEEP
together BY tho pressure Of the wa
ter; when brought to the surface i
exploded to atoms, -AWIctOm'8 Jour
nal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-16

"Has he got sword on9"
The cOlonel's wife adjusts herglass
upon him, scans him keenly and
says, "He hasn'ta taste Of sword"
The colonel-"that's just where
you fool yourself. He has!"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-16

The stories started and printed By
newspapers about the domestic UNI
happiness Of General Sherman are
unlouuded and malicious inventions.
No man loves aud enjoys his home
more than the General. The unwar-
anted and basolAss publications
should coasc,-Cin Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
Intellectual Test Of Nations.

SO far as the general ability of the
people of nation to read and write is
a proof of their superior enlightenment,
the Americans have no rivals in the
world. As readers we lead all nations.
We are 42,000,000. The population of
England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
is $4,000, 900; of France, 100000 of
Germany, 45,000,000. In 1870 there
were published in the United States pa
daily, 1926 weekly and LOOP other pa
pers and periodicals. In 1877 the fig
ures were-dailies, 700, weeklies, 6, 22l ;
all others, LOLA; total 1914. England
has but ., 252; Germany but l 1886; France
but l ,559, and Italy but S35. The total
for the four nations, embracing an ag-
gregate population of 137, 100000, is
but 6,731, or 1,213 less than supplies
the American population of 100000
The distribution of our daily and
weekly papers among the several States
is instructive. They are not by any
means apportioned according to popu-
latiOn, though New York is always first
1t appears that New York has 81 dali
lies; Pennsylvania comes next with 70;
Illinois third, with 47;curiously enough
California fourth. with 43. In that
State of less than $4,000 of the Euro
pean race, they have four more daily
papers than Ohio, with her 5000. 900,
10 more than Massachusetts, or Indiana,
II more than Missouri, 20 more than
Iowa, as many, lacking one, as Wis
consin, Virginia and Georgia, combined,
and more than eight times as many as
either Minnesota, Delaware or Oregon.
If, then, the reading of current publ
cations is an irrefragable test of the
superior instruction of community
generally, the population of California
stands at the very summit of modern
civilization-so says California ex-
change.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
Growing Old.

How true it is that we all grow old
unconsciously! Times footsteps are
not always very heavy. The currents
of our lives flow on uniformly. Months
and years are, after all, so very much
alike that they pass away without spe-
cial observation, and we begin to get
old before we think of it. And when
we sit down to a simple sum in arith-
metic--the subtraction of the year of
our birth from the current year-we are
aStoniShed at the answer. and are so
doubtful OF its correctness that we 90
over it second time, but ALWAYS with
the same result. Children grow up
around us, but we get used to that and
are so busy that we seldom stop to COM
pute their ages and realize the swift
flight of the years. In fact, our chill
dren never get old to us. The wife who
has stood lovingly and faithfully at our
side so long never changes, and is al
ways the fair young bride of the old
and happy days. Though his hair may
have grown gray in some way which
we don't exactly understand, and his
step may seem a little less elastic and
III III tlloth II NStSs JllC HuSDdIlu uOtSH L
seem to have changed much after all.
He is, to us, the same strong, manly
one whom we loved so much and to
whom we contided so much Just little
while ago. To be sure, the few friends
of our youth that remain are all grey
headed, but we don't think much of
that, for we all seem to be using the
same fashionable hair-dye. There isn't
anything in that to attract special at
tention. Some one-he may have been
a philosopher-has said that if we
doubt whether we are really growing
old we should look in the face of
friend whom we have not seen for
twenty years. The preacher tried that
a few days ago. He did more--he
looked in the face of friend whom he
had not seen for nearly forty years.
What his friend thought of him he
doesn't know We We're both too polite
to express our thoughts. He knows
that he kept wondering, and wonders
yet, what had happened to his friend
that he should look so very old. illus
tmted Christian Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
The Dead-POint in Mind Tension.


1t is a common subject of marvel
that criminals in presence of immediate
execution are usually self-possessed.
and often exhibit singular compesure.
The doomed creature sleeps through the
night before his violent death, and rises
composed to pass through the ordeal.
The exceptions to this rule are few, and
there IS no reason to suppose that the
individuals who display greater emo
ton, or who are Frustrated by the ago
nizing prospect of death, feel their DO
sition more acutely than those who pre-
serve control of their demeanor. 1t is
prevalent but groundless error to sup
pose that the state of mind in which
most capital offenders meet their doom
is one of scarce or paralyzing amaze
ment. They retain every faculty, taste,
consideration, and even fancy They
frequently give tokens of especial
thoughtfulness, and are punctillious in
the observance of rules and the adop-
ton OF measures to minimize their own
pain, and the trouble and sympathetic
suffering of those by whom they are
surrounded, or who will be left bur-
dened with their memories. Mentally
and physically the criminal, during the
last few hours of his life, in the imme-
diate presence of a cruel death, is self
possessed and tranquil, His pulse is
even less disturbed than those of the
officials who are compelled to take part
in his execution. Why is this? The
answer will be obvious on reflection.
The mind has reached what may be
InSinnafnI a HanI ,NAintfi
sion. The excitement is over, the agony
of anticipation, the trembling doubt be-
tween hope and fear of escape has eX-
hausted the irritability of the mind, and
there Is, us 1t were, a pause, an inter-
val of passive endurance between the
end of the struggle for life and the bit
terness of remorse and agony of disap-
pointment which may begin at death.
In this interval the mind is released
from the tension of its effort for self
preservation, and almost rebounds with
the sense of relief that comes with GER
talnty, even though the assurance be
that impending death. In the pause
there is time and opportunity for the
recognition of surrounding circum-
stances which have been, as it were.
O'Nii"OhOu III ellC OcdILluS lOF Ire. ne
clearness of mental vision, the cogni-
zance of detail displayed at such a mo-
ment, are remarkable, not only on ac-
count of the strange circumstances I'M
der which they occur, but in degree.
Men and women who have for some
time previously exhibited no trace of
delicacy or refinement exhibit charac-
teristic traits of thoughtfulness. They
are, so to say, lifted out of themselves
and placed in new conditions calculated
to awaken feelings of courtesy, which
seldom fail to respond. The mental
state of a criminal during the hours
preceding execution presents features
OF intense interest to the psychologist.
and, rightly comprehended, it is to be
feared they would throw new light on
the supposed preparation these unfortu-
nate persons evince for fate which.
being inevitable, they at the final mo-
ment are able to meet with q compos-
ure in which hypocrisy or self-decep-
ton finds the amplest scope.-Lona0'a
Lancet.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17

When at last the cage stopped and no
signal came up the suspense of all at
the surface was terrible. What to make
OF all this silence of the bell no one
knew. At last the bell began to strike
and all present began to count. No
death signal was sounded, but instead,
clear and unmistakable, the signal to
hoist.
As the cage came to the surface five
men were seen on 1.-THE three who
went down and two others, one of
whom was supported by his comrades.
The JOY of all was great when it was
announced that the two men on the
cage were the only ones hurt-that all
left below were sound and we'll
1t was soon ascertained from the men
that the lucky escape was owing to the
fact that all the men in the bottom of the
shaft were in the north compartment,
out of the way of harm, except Fault
and O'Mara. They were in the tank
compartment, and must have been in
stantly killed had they not heard the
tank coming down the shaft. They
dashed into the middle compartment,
in which was the cage with car on it..
They tumbled into and over the car and
cage just in time to escape the falling
tank Virginia city Enterprise.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17

Sleep.

Man is creature of habits. BY an
eminent writer he is termed /" bundle
of habits" He is superior to the brutes,
anG so adapted to live in higher
sphere. He has the teaching of his own
experience and of the world for his adj
monition, and these relate as much to
the physical nature as to the mental.
Regularity is found to be the secret of
strength of body and mind Proper
habits are based upon regularity. Peo-
pie who live the longest are those who
follow a kind of routine from day to
day, in which the process of physical
recuperation largely enters. When
tired, a man should rest-that is law
of nature. Habit, however, governs the
animal feeling. If a man be given to
exercising body and brain at certain
hours of the day, and to resting, sleep
ing, recreating at certain other hours
of the day, he finds in time that his
powers and faculties adapt themselves
to the order. The men who are given
to following a certain order from day
to day, if they permit it to be infringed,
experience more or less discomfort and
unrest. For instance, if busy man,
accustomed to retire to bed at ten
o'clock p. m, attend party or place
of amusement, so that his hour of re-
tirement is deferred until twelve or one
O'Clock, he finds the next morning that
six o'clock a. M, his hour for rising,
has come too soon. He is not suffi-
GENTLY restored, and in the course of
the day he will work with inconven-
fence. There will be a sense of more
than usual friction, lack of spirit and
vim in the action of his faculties. We
believe that a man should have mar
gin of inactivity after eating heartily;
that he should not 90 from the dinner
table straight to the intense work of
the desk or to the hard, manual labor
of the field. If one eat properly, that
margin need not be great. A half
hours repose, we think, would be sufli-
cient in most cases. People who gorge
themselves, as animals are disposed to,
may require hours to get rid of the
heaviness and dullness which follow
their meals. Chronological Journal for
august.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
The Calendar Stone.

a matter OF interest to students of
American archaeology was recently dis
cussed in a lecture delivered before the
German Scientific Association of this
city by Prof. Phi. Valentino. The So
called Calendar Stone, one of the most
striking monuments of Aztec civiliza-
ton, was affirmed to be wrongfully in
terpreted in the popular histories, and
a new translation Of the hieroolyphics
inscribed on the disk of the relic was
proposed. The commonly accepted ex-
PLANTATION, which, however, was con-
fessedly defective, and is now affirmed
to be wholly erroneous, made this cir
cular stone an astronomical instrument,
and from the supposed meaning of its
inscriptions the AztecS have been cred
tied with considerable advance in as
Economical discovery. According to
Prof. Valentino, who has undertaken
for the first time to translate the whole
mass of anaglyphs sculptured in eight
concentric circles, the Calendar Stone
had no connection whatever with as
tronomy, but was an altar slab con-
structed for the sacrifice of human vic
TINS, and bearing on its disk, whose
diameter, by the way, is some twelve
feet, the date of its erection. But it
would seem to be of singular value as
chronological record, illustrating the
mode of reckoning time employed by
the Aztecs, but probably invented by
their predecessors in the arts of civili-
cation on the plateau of Anahuac. The
date inscribed upon the stone, accord
ing to the new version, is A. d. 1873,
or just before the completion of one of
the secular periods (ifty-two years. up
on which the ancient Mexicans expected
the destruction of the world "a calam-
ity they strove to avert, by the most
elaborate and sanguinary sacrifices. 1t
is known that the pyramid of which
this soul ptured tablet formed part
was erected in the year named. An
other curious fact is the relation of his
tory or legend to the epoch which Prof.
Valentini's reading of the stone would
make the starting point of the Mexican
era. This he finds to have beer A. ID.
81. Now the traditions collected by
the Spanish conquerers referred to the
third century, the arrival of white men
at three of the gulf ports, and the grad
ual civllizing of Anahuac from that
quarter. There seems to be no incon-
sistency between this legend and the
apparently authentic account of Mexi-
can arts and manners left by the Budd-
hist Monks who visited the country by
way of the Aleutian Islands in the fifth
century. At all events, the coinci-
dences noted between the dates said to
be engraved on the monument and other
quasi-historical data will be likely to
direct attention to Prof. Valentini's new
version of a remarkable relic. A re-
port Of his lecture has been published
in this city under the title of . Vortraq
0berden MeGjc0niSchen Calender Stei1a.''
N T. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
Mechanics Wages for Eighteen Years.

In the course of recent lawsuit in
New Haven, Conn, some interesting
and important facts were disclosed
bearing upon wages in general, and
upon carpenters wages in particular,
during the last eighteen years. The
suit was brought by carpenter to re-
cover the balance due on an unpaid
wages account extending from the year
1859 to the fall of 1876. The agree
ment was that his employer should pay
for his work at the prevailing prices,
and, as the payments were made piece
meal, without any settlement during
the whole time, the account naturally
became long and confused one. 1t
was submitted to the consideration of a
committee OF carpenters, who prepared
the following table of carpenters
wages, which was put in evidence on
the trial:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-17
Eddystone Lighthouse.

EDDYsToNE LIGHTHOUSE is one of
the most famous structures in the
world, but despite the perfection of its
construction it has been known for
some years that the sea was making
steady encroachment on its foundations,
and that its once boosted security was
imperiled. The building is, in fact,
doomed and a new lighthouse, con-
structed on the same principle as
Smeaton built the present one, is to be
erected on another point of the rock
called the South Reef. On the tower,
A feet in diameter and q feet in height,
will rise the lighthouse proper, which
has diameter at the base of 35 feet
inches, A landing stage about feet