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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-01
ANIDEALGIRL.

Her eyes as bright as the ambient light
OF the moon in harvest time;
Her teeth Is white as hereyes are bright;
Het movements liEe arhyme.
Her heart as true as her eyes are blue,
Her cheek like a ripening peach;
Her mind as free as mind can be,
otthat which worldings teach.
But / fear, alas, that Of this class
OF girls there Is d dsatthl
'TiS an ideal girl drawn out BY d ehuti,
who'd'tain make heaven Of earth.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-01

An Austin boy kept on throwing
his cap into the dir and catching
It, after his father told him TO keep
it on his head. Finally his father
lost patience. After a brief but
painful interview the parent threw
away the strap aud asked; "Now
do you know where your cap should
have beenH" ayes, sir" sobbed
the boy, rubbing himself; "itshould
have been in the scat Of my pants."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-01

fastening to his betrolheds side.
eApd why should | care for you
lessfo she answered, as with q liz.
tie cry Of cuntentment she crept
into his arms,
sAnd you will forgive my faith,
err be pleaded.
"a woman viii do much for the
man she loves, andiI love you,
Paul,p was I.illian,s shy whisper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-01


Isn't Collar Button rather an
odd nickname to give your boy2"
asked a gentlemen Of a friend, who
had just addressed his son by that
title. "Well, ! don't know, replied
the father, laughingly. "It may
sound a little curious; but 1t suits
the boy tirst-ra,e." "why do you
think the nickname Collar But.
tom suits the bOy2p Because"
was the reply, when he slips out
IN the evening | am never able to
end him"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-01

II wish | had an eye in the back
Of my head" said a young lady the
other evening. "whyG" asked a
devoted admirer, bteathlessly. $50
that | could see what was going on
without the trouble Of turning my
bead" "You can turn my head
without any trouble,1 responded
the youth with gloomy sieh,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
EDITED BY Mrs. L. V. MILES.
The Evils Of Beer Drinking.

The Pacific Medical journal says:
a whlskey drinker will commit
murder only under the direct excite
ment OF liquor; a beer-drinker is capa-
bic Of doing it in cold blood. Long OBJ
seryation has assured us that a large
proportion Of murders, deliberately
planned and executed without passion
OF malice, with no other motive than
the acquisition OF property or money,
often Of trifling value, are perpetrated
by beer drinkers.
We believe, further, that the heredit-
itary evilsof beer-drinking exceed those
proceeding from ardent spirits; first
because the habit is constant and With
ont paroXysmal Interruptions, which
admit of some recnperati0n; secondly
because beer-drinking is practised by
both sexes more generally than the
spirit-drinking; and, thirdly, because
the animaliEing tendency OF the habit
is more uniformly developed, thus au.
thoriZing the presumption that the vi.
cious results are more generally trans.
mitted."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Temperance and the Children.

Hon. Thomas NJ. Bicknell, of Boston.
President OF the National Educational
Association. in an address at the Madi-
son Convention, is reported as saying:
THE giant eyi1-yea, crime-of our
day is intemperance. Compared with
it all other vices and crimes are but its
infant children. The great reform OF
our day is temperance. Compared with
it all other reforms are born OF its
healthful and omnipotent generation,
Two persons stand at the threshold to
protect the incoming generation from
becoming an easy p-ey TO the deyoure1
OF health, happiness, hope, life and
heaven. The natural protectors Of oul
youth are the parent and the teacher
and the home and the school are the
citadcls for their defense. Formation
not reformation, is now the educational
WatchWord which woman has proclaim,
ed as the signal to be sent to all her al
lies in the world, and the two words
Women and Temperance-each The
symbol Of the true and the good, shall
| be forever united, It is a marvel tC
many that this new gospel OF teaching
! the children the Iawsof health, Of chaS.
tity, Of purity, Of hope, and Of temper
ance, Should have such a remarkable
spread, and meet with so general ac
ceptance: that legislators i'll town, city
country, state, and nation should listen
hear, and legislate to protect CHILDHOOD
from the rayages Of rum, and that {
literature should spring UP as II by
magic from q hitherto sterile intellect
uaI Soil
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
ATATEIER'S ITTTTp.


A sew Suggestions to q Son at School.
blll Nye, in the san Francisco Ingle-
side:-AY DEAR Son; Your letter of
last week reached us yesterday, and |
enclose $l3, which is all have bv me
at the present time. may sell the
other Shote next week and makeup the
balance that you wanted. i will prob
ably nave to wear the old buffalo V
coat to meetings again this winter, but
that doesn't matter SO long as you are
getting an education.
] hope iou will get your education as
cheap as you can, for it cramps YOUR
mother and me like sam Hill to put up
the money. Mind you, [ don't conn
plain, T! knew education came high,
but | didn't know the clothes cost so
like sixty,
/ Want you to be SO you can go any
where and spell the hardest word. l
want you to be able to go among the
Romans Or the Modes and Persians and
talk to any Of them in their own native
tongue.
! never had any advantages when l
was a boy, but yourmuther and I decid-
ed that we would sock you yull of
knowledge if your liver held out regard
less Of expense. We callate to do it.
only we want you to so as slow on swal-
iow-tail coats as possible TIL we can
sell our hay.
Now, regarding that boat-paddling
suit, and that baseball suit. and that
bathing suit, and that roller rinktum
suit, and that lawn tennis suit, mind, I
don't care about the expense, because
yousay ayoung man cant really educate
himself thoroughly without them, but
| wish you would send home what you
get through with Install, and Ill wear
them through the winter under my
other clothes. We have severer Win
ters here than we used TO, or else I am
failing in bodily health. Last winter
| tried to GO through without under
clothes, the WAY l did when l was q
boy, but a Manitoba wave came down
our way and picked me out Of d crowd
with It's eyes shet.
IN your last letter YOU alluded to get.
ting injured a little in a "hazing scufle
Wlth.a pelican from the rural district
don't want any harm to come to YOU
my son, but il | went from q rural dis
trict, and another young @osling from
the rural districts undertook to haze me
| would meet him when the sun goes
down, and | would swat him across tn,
back OF the neck with a fence-boaTd
and then l would meandcr across thu
pit ofhis stomach and put a blue forget
me-not under his eye.
Your father amt much on Greciar
mythology and how to get the square
root Of q barrel OF pork, but he wouldn'
allow any educational institutions t.
haze him with impunity. Perhaps yol
remember once when you tried to haZ
Your father q little, just to kin time
and how long it took you to recover
Anybody that goes at it right can hay
a good deal OF fun with your father, bu
those who have sought tomonkey witt
{ him, Just to break up The m%onotony o
life, have most always succeeded il
finding Whist he sogght.
| amt much Of 9 pensman, so yot
will have to excuse this letter. Wear
all quite Wen, except Old Fan. who ha
a galded shoulder, and hope this vii
find you enjoying the same great bless
ing. Yours, FATIER.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

but the good habits Of his youth had
given place to intemperance. His thirst
Tor alcohol had become uncomfortable.
IN a little time his intellect was in ru-
ms. The man was a sot. Ills friends
sought to save him, and sent him for q
TIM to q hospital for the insane, to be
treated for chronic alcoholism. lie was
discharged thence as a patient who had
recovered; but us is usually the case.
Inc hablt returned as soon as the re-
Stralnt was removed. and in his drunk
en- resentment the poor fellow shot and
Killed his brother Who had placed him
in the hospital,
for this murder he was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life, and a few days
ago he committed suicide in his cell.
the sad story Of his downfall seems one
worth telling in this plain way for pur-
poses OF admonition.'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

Just two hundred and City dollars to
loan On an improved farm, on five years
time. No commission. Apply to Bank
Of washington Springs
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
R
w. G. t. U.

liils column is devoted to the interests of an,
!? e'lleu by the Ladies of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance uMion.) o'N
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

imprisonment for life, and q few days
ago he committed suicide in his cell.
the sad story Of his downfall seems one
worth telling in this plain way for pur-
poses OF admonition,'
Inc School House to Decide the Tenn
perance Question.
Mrs. M. IL. Hunt:-In the temperance
movement now agitating IL country.
threatening to disrupt if not destroy
Old landmarks in party politics, sweep
ing great States like Maine, Kansas and
iowa with majorities of tens of thou
sands OF popular votes in its favor, the
whole question rests upon the charac-
ter OF u certain chemical substance
called alcohol. II moderately used it
is a good creature, q safe luxury: then
ali this agitation is fanatical. and this
prohlbitory legislation partisan. But
II III truth it is y poison, and the evils
resulting from intemperance are only
natural sequence from thenature of al
cohol when used as a beverage, then as
such it is bad-bad per se-and it is
WI ng to use it, wrong to sell it, and SUI
icldal Tor the state to legali2e its traffic:
and the fanatics are the people who
cling to it, who drink 1t, or vote for it.
Is alcohol, many quantity asa human
beverage, good or bad: is the. pivotal
question On which the entire argument
IN this Whole matter rests. Given that.
and the logic for Or against is as inyin-
chile us a Mimic pail.
The Authorization about this sub
stance, ascribing tot properties it new
er possessed, is dispellcd by the 10Th
century touch of science.
The American Medical Association,
our national society Of Allopathists.
the Oldest and most conservative body
OF physicians in this country, at their
annual meeting in st. Paul. Minnesota,
in June last. re3tated in series of reso-
luti0ns their conviction, that "Alcohol
should be classed with other powerful
drugs; that when prescribed medically
it should be done with conscientious
caution and a sense Of great RESPONSE
bility. That used as & beverage it is
productive of a large amount of phys
iCal and mental disease; that it entails
diseased and enfeeb'ed constitutions
upon offspring, and is the cause Of Z
large percentage OF the crime and pau
perism Of our large cities and country
This testimony Of eminent men in
the healing art in our land smore than
aorroborated by that Of equally pro.
found scientists on the other side OF
the Atlantic.
These CONVICTIONS, comparatively
new, have fought their way step by
step against the combined forces OF
Iong-established habits, appetites, ant
prejudices, and to-day are being formu.
lated into prohibitory legislation. The
success Of such legislation depends up
on the knowledge OF ignorance Of tht
masses OF the read truth about their fa
yorite beverage. IN no reform can wt
go far in advance Of the peGple. NS
must convince them before we car de
pend on their aid.
The false idea 10Y so prevalent thai
the abuse and not the use OF alcohol is
the cause Of the trouble" must be dis
- IA
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

'less before the United States Land Office
notify attended to. l.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
Remember the Place.
no1To1 or E1r.A. PROOF.

Washington Springs, Oak. s2t
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14

All kinds of job Work promptly attended to
III a W~orkinanliie manner and ut lowest rates.
Give US a trial and convince yourselves tllat
we mean business.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04

of engineers, to be lioutenant-colonel Of enrin-
GERS; ChaunCey B. Sabin, of Texas, United
States district judge, eastern district of Texas.
AT a prolonged caucus of the Democratic
congressman resolution was passed that the
Morrison tariff bill should be taken up for
consideration at the earliest practicable day
and reasonable time for debate allowed and
after such debate a bill should be passed for
the reduction of duties and war tariff
taxes The resolution was declared not
to bind the individual action of Democrats
Out of the 1911 Democratic members of the
House III were present, and the caucus lasted
until midnight
THE Senate confirmed the nominations of
William NJ. Bum. of Philadelphia. to be
governor of Idaho Territory. and Sumner
Howard, of Michigan TO be chief justice of
the supreme court of the Territory of Ari-
iona.
Born houses of Congress passed the joint
resolution, reappropriating for the aid of
sufferers 10y the Mississippi river floods the
Sl25, 400 not expended on the sufferers by the
floods of the Ohio.
THE supervising inspector-general of steam
vessels reports that 5,44l steamers were in
spectcd during the calendar wear ended De
ccmber 81. 1888. being an increase of 255
over the number inspected the previous year
The number of officers licensed was ii 25S
an increase Of 1897. The loss of property low
accidents amounted to $3,99S.3lS, an increase
of Sl,322. sos The number of lives lost was
III, which was 1874 less than were lost the
previous year
y GREAT surprise was given to the Senate
III the shape of Il message from President
Arthur nominating a. 4. Sargent, United
States envoy extraordinary aud minister
plenipotentiary to Germany, to fill the
same position in Russia a. success
sOr of the late Minister Hunt
The nomination was not sent in with the mes
sage containing names of nominees for
number of small positions. but was made the
subject of a special communication: hence.
some of the Senators did not know
of the proposed transfer of Minister
Sargent until the message was laid
before them. In the executive session,
late in the afternoon, with only brief dis
cu,sion. the nomination was confirmed with
out referring it to committee to consider
and report. Mr. Sargent had been savagely
attacked recently by the German govern
ment organs. and his relations with that GOV
erllnent had become strained and untriendly
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has sent TO Congress a
message recommending appropriations for
the construction of naval vessels He sue
gcst' that provision he made for the building
of three new steel cruisers four gunboats,
and the completion of the four double
turretcd monitors. He suggests such action
as will enable the government to construct its
ordnance ON its own territory.
DURING the first eight months of the pres
cnt fiscal year the United States internal
revenue receipts were SIS .000,32O. "a decrease
of SlS,45l POO as compared with the CORE
spending period of 1883
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04
LATER NEWS,

SIX men were instantly killed by an explo-
sion IN the nitro glycerine house of the Re
pauno Chemical works at Thompson's Point
N. j. The building was torn to pieces. and
the men killed were frightfully mangled
liner names are as follows: Lamott Dupont,
Nce-prcsidcnt of the company: w. n. Hill.
superintendent of the works. Edward Nor
cross, compounder of nitro-glycerine; George
norton, an emplOyc, and a. $. Ackclson. n
visiting chemist from ST Louis.
IDA MORRILL,, daughter of a wcll-lSnown
citizen of Jamestown, Penn, had for the past
year and a half been afIianccd to Henry
smelly, a farm laborer. The parents of the
young lady objected to their daughters init
macy with Shelly, but notwithstanding their
opposition the two went off a few DAYS aro
ana got married, going TO Shclly's home after
the ceremony. A few hours after the mar
rage the two brothers of the bride went to
SheHy's house, an alteration cnsucd. and re
volvers were drawn. The firing which fol
lowed resulted in the killing of the two
brothers and the woundmg of Shelly who
was taken into custody.
A GREAT many disasters took place along
the Atlantic coast during the heavy gale of Il
lew days ago. From various points came re
ports OF vessels being wrecked, accompanied
in some instances by loss of life The schooner
Rlvcrdalc went ashore near the Delaware
Bleakwater, and the captain and four men
were drowned. Several vessels were also
wrecked on the Hudson, and two or three
lives lost The gale was the most furious re
corded in a long time.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN received Il
telegram from Mr.. Sargent, our minister to
Germany, expressing his gratitude for the
complimentary action of the President and
Senate, but declining the Russian mission and
resigning that at Berlin because of his health
and other reasons to be explained by letter.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04
Foreign.

The whole country surrounding Khartoum
was reported to be in the hands of the False
Prophets followers.
TIE imperial tribunal at Leipzig has So
qucStIated the property of the Polish poet
hraszewski until the charges OF high treason
against him have boon tried.
UNITED STATES MINISTER SARGENT. inpro-
posing the toast 10 Emperor William at the
dinner given on the occasion OF the opening of
the american Exchange in Berlin. a few days
a-osaid: Emperor William is entitled to the
Vcneration of all foreigners who live around
him. lie will continue immortal in history.
lie is already admired bv mankind ilresr,cc-
tive OF territorial boundaries
\ GAMBLING house for women has been nm
earthcd in Paris by the police. Twcnty-six
women were discovered in the place gam
bling.
ANARCHY prevails in Crete and numerous
murders of CHRISTIANS by Aloslems and of
Moslens by Christians are reported from
various ports of the country.
\ PRINCE Of the royal family of AMMAN
has been hanged for promoting the massacre
of Christians
THE Canadian government has been in.
formed that extreme dcstitution exists among
the Indians in the northwest territory, and
that twenty deaths from starvation have &C.
CURED there since February /.
Shocks OF earthquake have occurred at Ag-
ram, Austria. and throughout Sclavonia. \
number OF buildings in Deakovar were dam
aged.
IT is officially stated that last year at
Ermsleben, n small town of fillssian Saxony.
4E' persons were seriously i'll and sixty-siX
died from trchinoss. The disease was caused
by eating raw pork, which all came from one
hog.
GENERAL GRAHAM'S force advanced on
Iananeb near Which the recent battle with
Osmln DiGnas Arabs tool! place. The Arabs
offered a brief resistance firing upon the
british squares from behind rocks and
then tieein% u the open country. General
Graham moved into Iamanieb aud burned it,
After exploring the neighhorl.ood it was
stated he would return with his troops to
Suakim. The campaign was declared at an
end.
PRINCE LEOPOLD Duke OF Albany, fourth
and youngest son OF Queen Victoria. died
suddenly in fit at Cannes. France. as he
was about starting for Darn~tadt, Germany,
to attend the wedding of his niece, the Prin-
cess Victoria Of Hesse He was born in 1858.
was married and had one child The prince
was the most studious of the queens children,
hnt had always been in delicate health. He
visited this country in 1850.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04

IlanS for the protection of life and property
nlatured on Sunday. In the morning the
mayor issued a formal call for meeting of
citizens to devise means of protecting the city
from the rayages of the mob \ list of 100
prominent names was selected and most of
them were informed at once OF these the
greater numter responded to the call immc-
ulat"lN, meeting at the mayors office
PROCLAMATION was then issued by the mayor
calling upon "all good citizens to rally for the
protection of the peace Members of the
ltland Army posts were requested to report
Tor duty, and 1t was further stated in the
proclamation that ak persons found on the
streets after O'Clock would be required to
snow good cause for being abroad. The fol-
lowing was issued by the mayor and directed
to Adjutant-General Finley:
i hereby request that the governor con
centrate in this city Immediately all tho
available force of the Ohio militia believing
llat the presence of strong body of troops
VIII save the necessity of their actual use.
More than 200 of the most prominent bust
ness men of the city met at o'clock p. ". in the
council chamber at the city building. Mayor
stephens presided. lie stated what had been
done to protect the city, and asked if the ac-
ton taken was approved. Ex-GovcinorJ. ID
COX and General Andrew ilickcnloopcr wee
among the speakers, The gen, raj sentiment
was IN favor of uphoding the mayor and adj
jutant-gencral in their action Meanwhile
Governor Hoadley, at Columbus, ordered
every military organization in the State,
numbering seventeen regiments, and five
batteries to report for duty at Cincinnati.
The railroad officials had been called u,on To
run special trains for the transportation of
the troops that had been run into Columbus
during the day ON orlegs To rendezvous there.
and IN the evening they were dispatched to
Cincinnati The governors Office was crowded
ali day with counselors and those
helping to ISSUE orders ana answer
the hundreds of dispatches coming in. 1t
was the first general appearance of war times
ut Columbus since lN,1. The governor also
ordered all the state ammunition To the scene
OF the riot and borrowed supplies and equip
ment from the United States barracks, hav-
ing exhausted his military chest on the forces
IN the field. Deep feeling against the militia
was manifested by the mob all the time dur
ing Sunday. Every now and then stones
we're thrown at them whenever opportunity
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04
& MOTHERS CRIME,
killing One Child, Fatally yvouniiny
Another, and Committing suicide.

The wife Of Orrin Farrell, who lives in
Wellsville, n. Y, had four children by him.
two boys r-l two girls, aged respectively
eight, ten, twelve and fourteen. The other
morning at 10 o'clock, Farrell being absent at
work, the woman sent the eldest boy TO the
store for gunpowder telling him she wanted
nm to shoot some birds for her. On his re
Turn she loaded an old rife and then calling
the four children together told them to stand
III line or single file. The children obeved
supposinS their mother to be in fun and the
gun unloaded.
Placing the muzzle of the weapon to the
forehead of the first boy, aged eight wears
she fired, intending that the bullet should 20
through each of their heads and kill them ;t
one shot. The ball passed through the brain
OF the boy and lodged in the head of the sis
ter immediately behind him. The two other
children ran away and gave the alarm. The
woman then reloaded the rifle, put the muzzle
to her own head, after bracing it against a
door, and pulled the trigger with her toe,
The nelghbors ran in TO find the little boy
dead the girl, aged twelve wears, diving. and
the mother ON the floor, and the brains 0oZinor
out of a big hole in her forehead The latter
died in two hours. The domestic relations of
the FaITellS had always been pleasant. and
the only explanation of the woman's conduct
Is that she must have suddenly became in
sane