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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05
CONNECTIONS.

Train No 4lS connects at Harpers Ferry with
Fast Limited Express Train leaving at 1855 p,
m, arriving at Pittsburg at So p, m. Column
bus at % p. M, and Chicago at 10 s. m next
day.
With train leaving at 4:2S p. NJ, arriving at
Cincinnati at 1870 a. m. Also with train leaving
at 1880 p. M, arriving at Cincinnati at 5:30 p.
m, ST. Louis at $50 p, m. and Chicago at $40 a
m.
Connects at Weverton with train arriving at
HagerstoWn at $3.50 p. m. and at Washington
Junction with train arriving at Frederick at
80 p. m.
B. & o. Palace Sleeping Cars are run through
to Pittsburg, Cincinnati. st. Louis, Column
pus and Chicago, All fast trains run through
to above points without change of cars.
For tickets and further Information apply to
B. 4 o. Agents, or to
C.E. DUDROW, Travelling Pass. Agt..
Staunton, Va,
CHAs o. CULL.Gen'l PASSENGER A gent
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

Tommy Mamma, what did they put
Sunday next to Monday for?"
Mamma Don't trouble me now, dear;
Pm sure I don't know.
Tommy (after pause): Was it because
cleanliness is next to godliness.-Boston
BHlletiH.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

"If 'twere down, when tits down, it were
well 'twere down quickly '' is what g per-
son thinks when he is contemplating taking
a dose of old-fashioned pills. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgatiye Pellets are tiny, surgsr-
coated granules, scarcely larger than mus
ments of the stomach, liver and bowels,
they are unequaled.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

DRooKLYN, May 26.-The Rev. T. De
DWitt Talmage, DID,, preached at the
Tabernacle to day to an overhowing
congregation. He selected as the opening
hymn that one beginnipg-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

M. 5. Leaves Richmond, daily,73 80 m ; ar
rives Clifton Forge, % p M.
No. IL. Portsmouth Accommodation daily
except Sunday) Leaves South P 0rtsmouth Oh
a M, Maysvilie 8 90 m; arrives Cincinnati
10 30 a m.
Through tickets and baggage checked to any
destination. Apply to any c. G o. Ticket Agt
for full Information and tickets.
]. T. HARAHAN, H. W. FULLER.
Gen. Manager. Gen'l Pass'r Agent
BAHFlnohE q ONO RAILROAD
THE ONLY LINE RUNNING SOLID
TRAINS TO BALTIMORE VIA
WASHINGTON.
Connecting at Harper's Ferry for all points
West, Northwest and Southwest
Schedule in effect May 18th. 1889.
4l8 No. 444. 42.
NORTHWARD. Pass. ex.: mixed mixed
sunday. ;ex. Sun. ex. Sun.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05
OUR NEED CT CLEANSING.

OUR NEED CT CLEANSING.
o.
SNOW WATER OF FINE APOLOGIES
WHERE 10 WE STAND?
THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE
GRAVES.
THE BIBLE NOT COMPLIMENTARY.
DIR. TALMAGE's SERMON SUNDAY, MAY 26TH.
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No.2.
NOD WASH,
:Vestb'le Rich'd
EASTWARD SPECIAL u Old PIT: No. 80.
Daily Express
Daily.

No. Leaves Clifton Forge daily, s a. M ar
rives Richmond l5 p m.
No. II. Portsmouth Accommodation daily
except Sunday) Leaves Cincinnati 90 p. M,
arrives Maysvile $40 p. m., South Portsmouth
80 p. m.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

q .. SIZE CZER,
y. ATTORN NEY-AT-LAW,
STAUNToN, VA
Office in Stout Building, Courthouse Alley
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

Salvation; o the joyful sound,
'Tis pleasure to our ears;
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial 10 oIir fears.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

THE BIBLE NOT COMPLIMENTARY
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DIR. rALMAeE's SERMON SUNDAY, MAY 26TH
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GUNNER SCHEDULE OF THE SHEN
y ANDOAH VALLEY RAILROAD.

SJaunJOn, va,
CHAs. o. SCULL, ,Gen'l Passenger Agent
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-06-05

Francs Ridley II ,vergal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
The Curse of tile (lity.

When we behold one of our great
cities, with its thousand golden
domes and spires blazing in the sun,
it seems to be scarcely less than ~
miracle that such a glory should
have risen from the depths of an
American wilderness. Then per-
haps we are reminded that God
made the country and man made
the town. But we should not for
get that in making the great town
man received some valuable assis-
tance from the devil The claim of
Satan ON the mountain that he
owned the gorgeous palaces below
him was not altogether pretended,
for he had mechanics lien onevery
one of them.
Railroads, which claim to be the
greatest agents of modern civiliza-
ton, are but the iron tenacles of a
monsteroctopus AS they reach out
further and further they seize in
their remorselcss grasp all the
treasures of the country, and bear
them back to the iron nav of the
city, which receives and holds
everything digcstible and under the
sun.
Hence the great cities are increas-
ing at an accelerated rate of speed,
in wealth, in population and in pow
erty, while the country is decreasing
in like manner in everything except
poverty, which always grows with
out an effort
The sound of the saw and the
hammer is seldom heard in our viii
lages, but the clang and clatter of
building in the city goes on forever.
The farm and the village yield
their annual surplus to build and
make the granite monuments, the
stately edifices, the marble capitols,
the magnificent drives and parks of
the city, and yet cannot scrape
enough together to keep in repair
the country roads.
And the main question with the
youth of the rural districts is, how
they shall escape the solitude OF
country life and fee to Babylon.
They have had enough of the scent
of the new mown hay, enough of the
odorous primrose by the rivers
brim; they long for the aroma of
of stale beer, the altar of the city
sewer.
vain the admonition that vice
and immoraIity are spreading their
nets for them in the city, and may
gather them us spiders gather flies.
they don't mind spiders Tell them
- pi:,gfs spots whore hunger and
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

morning IN lond-v voiced conversa-
tion with a rapid young woman of
her own type
sShe did not seem at all anxious
to have me see her. but stopped
and spoke to her kindly, as /
though it could do me no harm and
might do her some good ] asked
her 70 come to see me. She replied
in a short, incoherent manner, and
got away from me as soon as she
could. 4 felt as if / had been snub-
bed mos decidedly, and called my
self a fool for my pains every time
] recalled the meeting, but in the
afternoon Mrs Andrews, one of our
church people, dropped in, and, by
a remarkable coincidence, mention
ed most narrowing interview
which she had just had witlfa poor,
unfortunate young creature whom
she was trying to reclaim.
Sic sd this gill had just met
an old school mate on the street
whom she had not seen for years
(by this time i knew what was com
ing, but did not interrupt herr, and
the lady had spoken to her so gem
ltly and kindly that, as she looked in
the restful, calm face of this woman,
an honored wife and a happy, useful
member of society, her own dark
blighted life seemed to nnroll before
her as scroll until, as she express
ed it, she could have dropped dead
before her with the shame and
wretchednesso of the bitter contrast
"She cried aloud as she told Mrs.
Andrews this and much more, be-
tween passionate outbursts of weep
ing and sobs of despair,
"Too Iatel too lateI the tree has
fallen and there it must lie, was all
that she would say to every promise
of comfort and hope, and thus my
friend had left her.
"Of course / now hastened to
make my explanation, and at the
earnest entreaty of Mrs. A., l gladly
consented to call upon Jessie in the
morning. l might succeed where
she had failed, at any rate 1 would
try, so early this morning / hasten
ed TO keep my word, but it was in
deed too late She had slipped
quietly away the night before and
had gone no one knew WHITTIER
There was nothing to indicate that
she meditated reform; she had sim
ply smoyed5on. -
"Any thing for style" Like a
wall of the lostit sounds through my
spirit and | sliiver as it passes by.
Anything, yes, anything, even to
the sacrifice of an immortal soul 1
know not, nor shall / ever know
where the wayward feet have stray
ed. l only know that they are lost
in the sunless night.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
TI.e KentucIsy nIesI.od.

: H IA N7lAA ANAet - ~ lFllAAlNNs
/ had been asleep in my sent IN
the passengers coael. as the train
was rolling through Kentucky, and
was aroused by a couple taking the
seat in front ofme. did not raise
my head, but made out that he was
a young fellow of %, or thereabouts,
and she a young girl of Is or 20
Reckon he's asleep3 queried
the girl, referring to me.
I'M shore of it. he replied, af
ter taking look at the back of my
head.
There was an interval of silence,
cut on the bias and warranted fast
color, and then the young man
queried:
acilad ye come, Mary2
sSorter, Bill.
yves friends. han't wei"
Shore. .
! never did keer for noother gal :
ssheel Now you is fnnning me =
aShore as / live, Mary, | wouldn't
marry no girl in our hull section, no
how
aHonesR9
eTrue as cucumber. Pap likes
ye, Mary
"Glad ont.
eAnd mann likes ye."
"Glad ont.
"And pap was saying to me that
if l got mar1d | could bring my
wife right home
Your pap is good.
"But can't git mar'd, Mary"
"'Deed, but why not?"
Cause nobody loves me"
"Shool Reckon somebody docs2'
'No' they don't. If they did
they'd show it."
There was another interval of 81
lence, bordered with forget me nots
and ornamentated with orange bios
SONS, and during this minute /
think he seized her unresisting
hand. 1 think she was ready to be
seized. He probably squeezed it as
he said:
$50 you reckon somebody does9''
ssYep."
.sThen why don't they say so2"
"Waitin', mebbe."
aWaitin fur what2'
ITO be axed to say So
He was trembling with excite
ment, and he could not control his
voice as ne said:
'.If they loved me they'd squeeze
my hand, wouldn't they2"
Reckon they would
(sqeeze-zip-gasp. Hello, Cen.
tralD
sAnd-and, Mary, If they'd mar
ry me they'd squeeze agin, wouldn't
thcy2'
(@squeeze -whoop-call up the
parsonD
Then he leaned over and kissed
her, and Cupid danced a hornpipe
up and down the aisle.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
Carnegle and I.rolec.lo...

Carnegie and Profession.
The strike at Mr. Carnegic,s mills
has been settled by compromise,
to which We invite the attention of
workingmen everywhere
Mr. Carnegie insists on a reduc-
ton in wages, Notwithstanding the
failure of the Mills bill, of thirtysfive
per cent That is, men getting one
dollar a day were asked to take
sixty fivc cents, and those getting
50 were offered sI.3O
Strange as it may appear to men
who think laborers should be salts
fed because the tariff is unaltered,
Carnegie worlzingmenstruck Sc
rions trouble was threatened and
Pinkcrton detectives were put in
possession of the works
After some days a compromise
was reached, and peace was decIar.
ed Instcad of reduction of 30 per
cent, the workingmen agreed on n
reduction of 25 per cent. That Is.
men working for one dollar a day
accept seventy five cents; men earn
ing 50 get sl5O.
This, too, in spite of the fact that
laborer gets less for making u tom
of iron or steel at Carnegie's works
than he gets in England. His in
dustry and application, intelligence
and skill are greater, and no turns
out more iron per man than in Eng
land, and so at the end of the week
more is due him, but wages per ton
of iron are less in America than IN
England. Yet, when times are good,
when the demand in America for
iron is greater than ever, when the
tariff is higher than ever, Carnegie
cuts down wages 25 per cent
Under the existing tariff the duty
on structural iron, such as MIR. Car
ncgie's homestead mill produces, is
s2s per ton. The cost abroad is
about s26 or s2s; the price in tho
American market is s44, and wc
hear OF no reduction since the COM
promise.
This is an iron age. Iron is re-
qnired on railroads, in ship building,
in house-building. Necessary ev-
erywhere, it is especially necessary
in new country. A tax on struc-
tural iron is tax on every industry.
Carnegie compels us to pay sI4
for iron which we could buy
abroad at s2s, and though he thus
exacts SIG a ton from every pur-
chaser he reduces the wages paid on
every ton from s5 to S3.75.
The Mills bill proposed TO reduce
this tax s2s ton ON structural iron
to s14 ton. This would, with tho
cost of freight and commission, fully
sustain the present price.
Mr.. Carnegie and other manufact-
urers declared that if tho Mills bill
should pass, limiting their. exnctions
to s14 ton, they would be com.
pclled to reduce wages, and when
they could they forced their mon 10
vote against Cleveland, for @Clcre-
lands election meant a reduction ot
wages.
The Mills bill perished in the
Senate; Mr.. Harrison was elected;
structural iron brings s44 a ton, bnt
wages per ton arc reduced from s.
to 1913 by compromise.
Let workingmen Hurrlh for Har-
rison and the TarifK-couier-.Jour.
nal
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
Give American Labor y

First-class American work is not
only the best of it's kind la lilo
world, but the output for a given
plant is much greater 1t is not tIie
machines or the methods alone that
accomplish this last, but the social
status of the workman also. This
is an inexplicable position to for
eigners, who do not accord working
men any social standing Whatever.
but it is mighty fact here. Amer
ican workmen do more work be-
cause they arc more intelligent, AMI
are a part of all they undertake;
they have more ut stake. They
care little about the quality of their
beer, but very much about flIs,
houses they lire in and the clothing
they wear. Their great soIicitude
and anxiety is that their children
shall be well brought up and haze
all the advantages that a free conn
try can give them. This is why the
arts flourish here, and why Ameri-
can engineers and American ma
cl,inists arc leading the world.
The Engineer
And this, also, is why American
industry and American workmc,
should not be taxed 10 death, bur
allowed a fair chance ut the markets
of the world, which are now Ia the
clutches of nations which could not
compete with America on an equal
footing.
But the hands of the American
workman are fettered a high tar
iff wall compeIs American industry
TO prey upon itself, by keeping It's
products ont of foreign markets,
thus overstocking the home market,
the result, consequently, being de-
preston. reduction of wages, strikes,
lockouts and all the ills that affiict
American labor.
Give the American workman but
half a chance, and he viii beat tho
world
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

The commission appointed to
choose site for the State Reform
School Will convene at Parkersburg
on the 18th of August Ifthere are
any new applicants it is time for
them to make their claims known
Mcdowell and Pocahontas are about
the only counties that have not been
heard from yet
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

want and crime continually abide
and they reply that " her. they get to
town they mean to go stunning
And while the old mother is sing
ing Whore is my wandering boy
to=night2n the wandering boy slides
down the green mountain side and
takes the train for Octopus He
leaves the old father where Sambo
was left when his master died, sshil-
ling up corn.
And so it has become the glory
and the shame of America that
while we have the goodliest land
upon which the sun ever shone, we
are proud of nothing and boast of
nothing but our great cities and the
big nillionaires who own them.
And though class legislation and
high tariff are destroying the ag-
ricultuial portions of the country,
we must go on with them lest the
mills and factories of our cities shut
down and our millionaires leave us
and HE to Europe.
Also, it would seem that code of
morals that suits the country will.
not do for the city We are told
that the sale of Intoxicating drinks
is wicked and immoral in the small
towns, but that it would be wrong
10 close the beer mills and dram
shops in the city, for it would ruin
the city's business. This idiotic
gabble is INDUCED in by men who
claim to have half sense The re-
suit is, that trade is continually
pouring into the city and that coun-
try merchants are continually
dangling on the ragged edge of
bankruptcy. A private citizens can
buy an article in the city as cheap
as the country merchant can buy it
at wholesale, and it will not be
thousand years before we must all
buy in the city if we buy at all. This
is why town property outsideof the
cities is going down in price and
farm lands can not be sold at all
Railroads do not benefit the village
except to afford the villager. an op-
portunity to get away from his
home, and once away he would
sooner have an eye tooth pulled
than go back to it. We are under
the spell-cursc of the city. Let
us all see Naples and then die.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

Wool started at a less price this
season than it sold for last-though
at the beginning of last season sew
eraI of the farmers were swindIed
into sacrificing their wool. AT the
opening of the wool season, in many
places, they sold their wool from
three to five cents less than the fair
market value. which they would
have gotten had they not listened
TO the misrepresentation of low,
partisan Republican journals.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

There is grim humor aboutsome
of Judge Lynch's executions A
bank president in Southwest Texas
made way with all the funds under
his charge and then posted on the
door of his institution, Bank Sun
pended That night he was inter
viewed by a number of depositors,
who left him hanging to tree with
this notice pinned to his breast:
Bank President Suspended. /"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
THE WEST VIRGINIA
Real Estate Agency.
POINT PLEASANT, W. VA.

DUYs AND SELLS REAL ESTATE
ID in Mason and other Counties III
West Virginia. Has on hand large and
small tracts in good locality, in quantity
and upon terms to suit buyer. All per
sons desiring homes in Wost Nirgi mia
are invited to call and see us, or cores
pond with MS by letter addressed to the
General Manager. Timber, Coal,
and Farm Lands for sale. We also So
licit correspondence from all persons de-
string to make sale of lands
CIIAS. E. HOGG,
General Manager and Agency's Atty.
Point Pleasant. w Va. [june 26-w.-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

Tho Democrats are going 70 try 10
gather at least u couple OF the new
States into the fold and there is !.
good chow of success Well assure
en- il they come they lncver regret
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He that savcth his dinner will
have the more supper
Never haggIe about the basket if
you get the fruit
There is winter enough for the
snipe and woodcock too.
Squeeze not the orange too hard,
lest you have bitter juice.
They who have little butter must
be content to spread thin their
bread.
Many a good dish is spoiled by
an i'll sauce.
The biggest calf makes not the
sweetest veal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
The Mother 10 Her Daughter.

Beautiful child that launchest out
on the great sea of life.
Soon l, thy mother. must leave
thee; soon the dark must close me in,
and leave thee alone in the bright
sunshine.
And thy lovers shall come and
make love to thee; they shall lay
their fortunes at yuur feet, and their
strength and the glory of their
manhood
They shall desire thee, for thou
art beautiful as the silver sickle
moon arising in heaven before the
dawn.
Yet, when they come forget not
me, o my childl be not deceived by
their words.
For none ever again shall love thee
as love thee, none ever again shall
know, as l know, thy hidden
thoughts-none shall read the light
that plays upon thy face as L can
read it.
These shall love thee for them
selves; they shall seek thee in order
TO possess thee; but l have given all
that have to thee.
All the years that we have been
together since thou first pressed thy
tiny palm upon my breast to look
into my face, until now;
have given myself to thee.
Before thy feet, or even thou
could'st walk, my love has walked,
my thoughts have circled thee, my
desire has made thee very beautiful.
If might pray, pray that when
thou hast known the love of man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

THE REGISTER is the best adyerti-
i sing medium in this section.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07

It's lucky to be an inventor. The
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Of
Sunday has the following concern-
ing brother of Mr.. George t. Bro
sius, of this city:
John NJ Brosius landed in Atlanta
four years ago with s1.50 in his
pocket and chest of tools which
were made in 1913. Tho same man
to-day is worth over $500, 600. The
fortune was made on two patents
an axle for u wagon and a sewing
machine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-08-07
Even UnderGakers Have Their
kMn

Undertaken J. w. Brasure, of
Hudson avenue, gets shaved like
other men with whislkers, and when
he gets in the chair he gives his
usual solemnity short vacation
and jokes like the rest of mankind.
He told two pretty good short
stories about himself yesterday
morning as professor Wilkie was
winding his keen razor over the
left upper hand corner of the under
takers right jaw.
"You see,' he said, ''even under
takers will get sold. 1 was com
ing down the street the other day
when l met an old friend. He
looked so solemn that asked:
what is the matter, Ned2'
Mother is dead, he replied, 'and
1 was looking for you
Too bad-but when did she die2''
1 asked with sympathy
Obi about twenty years agol'
replied Ned, as he hurried of.
"Then again" confined Mr.. Bra
sure, "twice | was sent to a house
on Arbor Hill to bury lady, and
twice did she open the door to find
out what 1 wanted Finally she did
die and"
"Well, what noxt2'' asked the
the newspaper man in the next
chair"
aAnother undertaken got the job
That's alll''-AL6dny Argus.