The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-09-25

zen who casts an honest ballot will
have at least some degree of assur-
ance that he is participating in an
actual expression of the popular
will, and not taking a useless part
in useless ceremony.
j. G. CARLISLE.
The Way TO Succeed-Get ON
the Right Track and Then
DOn'l spare the Steam.
The customer was prudent mat
ron from the country, careful in her
shopping.
at is a pretty piece of goods,
she said, "and just the color 1 want;
but am afraid it will not wash"
One of the shop-girls behind the
counter bowed indifferently, and
turned away. The other said, ca
gerly: care you going to another
part of the store, madam2 For it is
my lunch hour. and 1 will take a
sample to the basement and wash
and dry it for you before you come
back2"
The colors of the fabric proved to
be fast, and the customer bought it,
and asked the name of the obliging
shop-girl. A year afterward she
was again in the same store, and on
inquiry learned that the girl was at
the head of the department.
"Shc put as much life into her
work as-tensother women,' said the
manager.
One of the most prominent bust
men of New York said once: "I have
always kept a close watch on my
employees, and availcd myself of any
hint which would show me which
of them possessed the qualities req
uisitc for success for themselves and
usefulness to me. One day, when
/ was passing the window of the
counting-room, 1 observed that the
moment the clock struck six all of
the clerks, with but one exception,
laid down their pens, though in the
middle of IL sentence, and took up
their hats. One ,man alone con-
tinued writing. The others soon
passed out of the door.
"Pettit," said one, 4has waited to
finish his paper, as usual"
eyes called to him to come
on, but he said that if this was his
own business he would finish the
paper before he stopped work"
"The more fool hel would not
work for company as for myself" I"
"The men caught sight of me and
stopped talking, but after that /
kept my eye on Petit, who worked
after hours on my business because
he would have done it on his own,
and he is now my junior partner"
The success of young man or
woman in any work or profession
depends largely on the spirit which
he or she puts into it. Many good
workmen who are faithful to the
letter of their contra 1t with their
employers remain statesmen and
book keepers until they are gray
headed, while others pass over them
and become heads of establishments
of their own. To the first class
their employment is only SO much
work for so much wages; they "have
no heart in it, to the second, ac-
cording to the old significant phrase,
it is outlet for all of their own en-
ergy and ambition. An engine, per-
fectly finished and competent for its
work, with no fire in it, is u fit type
of the first class; the sane engine
with its steam up, rushing along the
track, of the second. Be sure, boys,
that you are able for your work and
are on the right Track. Ihcn uon I
spare the steaml- Youths Companion.
If you want to take the conceit
out of the arrogant and self-import-
ant tyrant and aristocrat of cross
roads village, just take him to the
city and set him down on crowded
thoroughfare where nobody knows
him. In less than two minutes he
realizes that he isn't such a great
big man after all.
The man who shoots his girl to
make her love him and the girl who
throws vitriol in her lovers face for
the same purpose, should marry aud