The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-11-19
Good Suggestion.

lOI an sAtellueu thlej UuI we nave
evolved an idea for one, which idea
we are too unseliish to withhold from
a waiting public because we cannot
getall the glory lit Ifsome skillful
pen will but Gil in this bare outline
with rich rhetoric and vivid imagi.
nation, not only will some "iaterest.
ing reading" be produced, but a great
moral engine will be sent the world
toaccomplish greatgood. We should,
perhaps, entitle our romance:
"a BRAND FROM THE BURNING"
We would introduce the first chap.
ter with a picture Of the heretofore
honest and prosperous farmers hap.
Ply home. The angel Of peace dwell.
eth there, and the country papers
comes to his postofice box every
week.
Having been supporting his coun-
ty paper for some four years without
paying for it, he is surprised one day
to get polite note from the publish
er 10 cash up. Indignant at being
dunned, he resolves to punish the
base insulter of his dignity by beat
ing him out of the whole bill. All,
rash resolve! "This, this, the source
of all thy ills!"
AS delay makes his fatal purpose
manifest, direful consequences fol-
low; his friends fall away and recog-
nize him no more; the wife of his
bosom deserts him and files an appli.
cation in Chicago police court for
divorce; his daughter elopes with q
lightning-rod peddler and his best
horse and buggy; his son, loosing all
self.respect in his fathers degreda.
tion, goes to the city and enters poll
tics; his cattle start on 50 journey to
the centre Of the EARTH" through a
neighboring quagmire; his hogs die
of cholera; his corn yields only tass.
els-all mankind and nature seem to
conspire his ruin. Job had his COM
forters, spiritual and human; but
"what charm shall soothe the melan.
choly of the wretch who bears upon
his soul the purpose of defrauding
the trustful editor!"
CHAPTER AT last, deserted by
all but his faithful dog (who has been
kept in ignorance of the facts of the
case), out delinquent resolves to end
his bitter existence by suicide. eve
suggest to the previously mentioned
skilltul pen that the scene here
should be very gloomy-dark cliffs,
stormy sea, blood-red sun, etc.) Just
as he is about to drain the fatal
draught Cor shoot the fatal shot or
:, stab the fatal stab-we also leave
this to the taste Of the tillerIin) the
spirit Of mercy, willing to give the
old man another chance, inspires
within him the thought Suppose
Ipay the printer, and all may yet be
WE'LL" Selling the idea with avidi-
ty, and the dog by the collar, he HES
him him to the neighboring town.
Realizing there thirteen dollars from
the sale of this faithful animal, he
repairs to the editorial sanctum, pays
his arrears for a year in advance,
and has enough left to "set 'em up all
around" His atonement is COM
plete, and he walks forth once more
"A man among his fellow-men."-
CHE editors establishment and ioy
III Delng possesser OF eleven dollars
at one time should be artistically
pictured)
Chapter 3 shows the inevitably
happy result of this Christian action.
Fortune smiles broadly upon him
once more-his wife withdraws her
divorce suit and returns to him; the
clipping lightning-rod peddler turns
out a Russian count in disguise and
restores to our farmer the lost broad
acres; the son abandons political life
and becomes once more respectable
citizen; the kline wax fat, and his
wheat fields yield some sixty and
some hundred-fold. The scene
closes with a bright picture of the
prompt-paying subscribers happy
freside.
If the above sketch, graphically de-
llneated and broadly published, does
not rouse many q delinquent con-
science into action, then is all moral
suaslon vain, and the butt end of
tho law onr npl,, .,no,,.s n.