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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

If Mr.. Blaine is not a free trader,
he should explain the treaty recent
ly made with Brazil. According to
the terms of that bargain Brazilian
products are to come into this coun-
try free of duty, and the duty here
tofore imposed by Brazil on Ameri.
can products is to be reduced %
per cent. That looks a little bit
like one-sided reciprocity.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

The democrats have about 5000
majority in Connecticut, and vet
they stood right by and allowed the
republican banditti TO steal the State.
Not only did they steal it but added
insult to injury and justified them
selves by saying that the democrats
are an ignorant and degraded mass
and should not be permitted to con-
troll the government. A little moro
democratic sand would help things
In the Nutmeg State WefzeI De11-
Ocrdt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

Think of a woman who with a
nod could sell $4,000 cattlel Yet
that is what Mrs. King did at Cor
pus Christi, Texas, the other day.
They were 2-year-old steers and
brought $50, 900, W. HaIselI, of Vi
nita, I. T., being the purchaser.
Mrs. K is described as ga million
airess." One of her ranchesis tram
pied by 10000 horses and cattle,
and she owns several other great
grazing grounds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

: The new reapportionment pro-
vides fora membership of 356 in the
House instead 1872 the number in
the present Congress. This leaves
two Democratic states and one ALI
ance state with large fractions of
unrepresented population. New
York city alone has zoo, 900 unrep-
resented citizens.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

Hon. E. Boyd Faulkner, of Mar
tinsburg, is already fayorably men,
toned in many quarters as the next
democratic candidate for Governor
of West Virginia. He is a brother
of Senator Faulkner, and one Of the
ablest lawyers and most popular
public speakers in the State.-BaL-
timore SIM.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

A flirting woman can cause more
trouble to mankind than a deyast-
ating army, but she is very much
nicer than the devastating army.
after all.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

When the green man comes to
town and drops his yellow metal he
departs very blue.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-25

All things come to him who
waits; so he shouldn't kick if bad
luck comes amongst them.
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Years passed by, and by all his
anxious friends and relatives he
was given up for dead.
But he was not dead.
In far-away and foreign country
he lived, and by well directed encr-
gy amassed vast wealth-a common
thing, by the way, with sailors.
The other day he returned.
Hc stood again in his native vii.
lage.
He found the can where he had
hid it.
He procured a pint of milk.
He went to his old familiar boy.
hoods homo, entered, and in a hesi.
tating and trembling voice, said.
"Father and mother, here's your
milk.
He was given warm welcome
hut he noticed there was a change
in his parents appearance; they
had not the old familiar look.
He cushioned them; explanations
followed.
The young man discovered thai
though tho good people were still
his parents, the change in their per
sonal appearance was readily ac
counted for.
Shortly after his sudden and mys
terious departure from his home hi,
father died, and his mother married
again. Then his mother died, anC
the new father married again.
Thus on his return the wander
ing boy found the dear old home 81
he had left it, the only difference
being that he had new father and
a new mother.
Verify, truth is stranger than
fiction.
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Here's a Tough Ono.

Twenty-Five years ago a boy Iiv-
ing in a Now England town was
sent for pint of milk.
He hid
The can
Beneath
A stone,
Directed
His course
To the
Nearest wharf,
ShiPpep as
Cabin boy,
Al .,,o.. A.. -.
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of one ship pass current for pictures of the
other, excepting, naturally, among naval
men, who have certain little mannerisms
of rig to help them in the identification.
The twin ships, beautiful in their sym.
metrical perfection, were made ready at
about the same time, the Bennington hav-
ing some slight after delay in securing q
complete crew.
Getting crews has not been a serious diff
hculty, but it has been a matter requiring
some activity on the part of the recruiting
officers.
Over near the repair shops floats that
bantam monitor, the Miantonomoh, upon
whose surface hammers have been clatter-
ing at a lively rate. The Miantonomoh
represents the latest stage of our evolution
in battle ships. Her turrets are plated
with eleven and half inches of COM
pound armor. In the after turret are
mounted two 10-inch hign-power rifles,
and two more are being placed in the for
ward turret. The military mast is being
prepared for the mounting of two guns
aloft. When all the weights are on board,
as they will be in a week or two, the mon
itor deck will not be more than twenty
four inches above the water line. Sea and
shell may play as they like over her decks.
She Is probably an able defense ship, but
she is slow, and would be q long time get
ting to Valparaiso.
The Terror, sister monitor, is in a less
advanced state. She could not be made
ready for sea in less than two months.
The rebuilding of such a vessel of war i'm
pies an immense amount of expensive
labor.
The Puritan, which will draw only eigh-
teen feet OF water, will have in place of
turrets two barrettes over which the
shielded guns will fire. The shells thrown
by these guns will weigh 800 pounds. In
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saries have not hesitated to appeal for ad-
mission to the presence of the commandant
of the yard.
The commandant of the yard considers
himself long suffering creature. He is
in vigorous health. but the reporters have
worn his nerves down to minimum of
vitality.
"My dear boys" he gasps, II don't
know any more than you dol"
Sometimes this is not strictly true, of
course. The commandant has generally
known good deal more than he had au-
thority to tell. And then again the re-
porters have brought him news he would
not officially receive until many hours
later. His official hours for seeing report
ers are between 10 and 4. But he does not
live up to them. He HES him away in a
cab at $3.50, and buries himself in the re-
cesses of the vehicle that he may not be
waylaid by an emissary at the gate.
Within the past few days the executive
force has brought the answering of inauir-
les down to a science. The man who
knows the most about the orders from
Washington City is the dock Iaborer.
I'VE are coaling the Atlanta" he said,
$50 that she can sail on Tuesday. She
sails at in the morning, and Tracy has
ordered her to Havana" When the At
lanta does not sail at on Tuesday, the
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he richly deserved his fate Possibly he
put pants button on the plate.
Newriggle is not far from Wingert's
Corners, where Nasty first got his idea of
the Contedrit X Roads. 1t was there he
heard sermon over the body of a soldier,
it is claimed, which gave him the idea
which he afterward carried out.
Newriggle is q strong Democratic strong
hold, and acc ording to law must have
three members of the successful party in
the preceding election as election Judges,
etc. Three Republicans had to be i'm
ported this year into Newriggle before the
election could be held according to law.
Newriggle reminds me in this respect of
Erin Prairie, town in my old state where
there was only one Republican in eighteen
years, and he was last seen crossing the
line at a fox trot, and picking large pieces
of rock salt out of his legs as he ran.
My brother spoke at Erin Prairie once
on the living issues of the time. He was a
young man, fred with ambition and will
ing to speak almost anywhere that the
committee sent him. He had q good voice.
and 1t was no trick at all for him to have
an entire petit jury bathed in tears. He
spoke feelingly always, and scaIding tears
chased one another down the furrowed
cheek OF the juror who had not formed or
expressed an opinion for or against the &C
cused.
So my brother went out to Erin Prairie
by order Of the committee to make a Re-
publican speech. He noticed when he got
there that the band was not there to meet
him, but he got some tea and inquired for
the hall. 1t was aplain hall with frayed
Autograph of forgotten one night ven
trilequist hanging from the walls and per-
chance three-sheet poster of the Goldie-
McCracken Legitimate Hippy-te-hop
Company.
He went in among the voters. but he
saw no kindly look of recognition. Erin
Prairie was always noted for its smoking
tobacco. 1t was grown on the place. and
said to be cured by the farmers there. but
l always claimed that it was not a radical
cure by any means. 1t was called the In
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with fine luster. The rified cannon visi-
bic through the white ports were Jet black.
The deck rope was coiied in circles. in
ovais and in artistic IS. The seamen were
impatiently striding the deck when they
were not occupied in giving finishing
touches TO little details. The hits of the
sabers in the port racks seemed to invite
valorous hand. The bulwark gatlings con-
trasted with the black noses of the cannon.
The Chicago was ready a day or two be-
fore the Atlanta. which is a cruiser of the
scond class. The Atlanta has a bristling
and plucky appearance. Some of the new
tangled guns. long and threatening. but
not much bigger around than an old
fashioned musket have q toy-like effect.
When | visited the little shorter she was
taking on powder. Her coal and other
supplies were already on board and all
hands were either on duty or within easy
call. Some of the officers who were not
engaged in directing matters between
decks were receiving a visit from party
of ladies on the forward deck. Naval off,
GERS are notorious for their habit of marry
ing pretty women, and the bevy of visiting
wives, and presumable cousins and
aunts, on the forward deck of the Atlanta
was quite in conformity with the interest
ing traditions.
The Concord and the Bennington have
only just been cleared. Exactly where
they are going is, of course, as much
mystery-or was at the time of my last
inquiries-as the destination of their sister
ships The Concord and Bennington are
sister ships in a special sense, for they are
of the one design, being built from
the same specifications. In fact, pictures
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THE INKsTASD BATTLE.

We are making smokeless powder
And big bombs 20 throw a mile,
That viii blow the foe 20 chowdsr
In the true dynamic style.
Talk not Of ihe bloody red man,
Aud the foe his arrow drops
Every ball, II means dead man,
Every bullet means eorpsel
We've whirling gun; YOU spin 10
And The myriad bullets fy,
Aud hundred men q minute
Roll their stony eyes and die.
make your swaths Of dead men deeper"
Thus the modern Spirit saith.
''start NE up this rafting reaper
On the harvest hslds of DEATH"
Let Us stop tAis wild deaths revel:
Martin Luther. so is said,
Threw his inkstsnd 81 the devil,
And the eisck hsnd turned and fed.
eraite your worid-wraux; don't com bat N
with = iUsilsae o; lead:
Simply throw your inkStand st It;
CoIae tomorrow: IL Is dead
When tas world upon the brink stands
o. s0Ias crisis steep and dread,
Like brave soldiers sleZs your inkstands,
Hni them at the devils head.
Pour your fnk-pots in = torrent
III the stFsngitrg demon sinks,
1flI the struggling tends abhorrent
Drown IN oceans OF black ink.
70, tie man who's born fighter,
Eor the brain that's learned TO think,
There Is dynamite and nitro
IN q bottle Of black ink
Though IL makes 70 weeping nations,
And = leaves no gaping scars,
Placed 'nea,h Errors strong foundations.
Twill explode them u the stars.
--SdaGs, Wasss Fasa
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teTnationai smoking tobacco, because YOU
could smoke it IN this country and smell il
in Europe
NY brother went back TO the emf of the
hal and took out some notes he had made
which went on to show that there had
been less scab and h0llow-horn among
sheep and cattle since the adoption of the
war tarlit, and that PIP among poultry had
decreased u OF per cent. since the pro-
tective tariff had become settled matter
in this country.
While he was writing a line or two for
an introduction. es If 70 refute his argu-
rnent on the spot, typhoid hen egg hit
the chimney of his lamp and popped
Then suddenly it made few Offensive re-
marks and became q disagreeable omeIet
on the side OF the lamp.
Ny brother Is calm man, with a light
blue eye and stiff upper lip on which
there IS vigorous growth of mustacha
Tossing back his mustache and ALLOWING
the hot, malarial breath of the egg 10
grapple with the fumes Of the Interna-
lonal smoking tobacco Of Erin Prairie. he
began his speech in clarion tones.
Now and then the parent of an orphaD
kitten would come whistling through the
air, and cries Of ''Shut upm and eco
homel" might have been heard bv ono
who happened TO have his ear To the
ground at that time.
Ny brother looked little pale. for his
health was not very good aud the room
was very close indeed. but he smoke on
bravely till. like the Clover Club. Erin
Prairie had made all the remarks II had
20 make, and then II simmered down
When be closed he got hand or two. and
one Old man with thick red fur down the
outside of his throat and a medicated
flannel lining 10 his mouth said as he
shook hands with the young speaker.
Mr.. Noye, We done dom well wild a dom
poor chance, and be CORY We must not
judge the town by the dom hoodlums and
root skoof and Hoon We Hoons and rartag
ana oootaiI that was here tonight, for be
CORY 1t was not what We rnoight call a
1priNnatlYs a0disRcs sS ali. livery mon
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.. O. wARsRIP ATLANTA.

dock laborer Is nothing daunted His
tone of authority is quite as emphatic on
the day following.
The sergeant of the marines does not
know as much rs the dock laborer, but he
knows good deal. His gossip has the
flavor of coming direct from the navy de-
partment and not by the vulgar channels
of the public telegraph. One of the clerks
in the executive building also has informa-
ton; not so definite. indeed, as that of the
sergeant, but still authentic, as he will
claim with an air Of self-possessed knowl-
edge. BY the time you get TO the COM
mandant's secretary information begins to
get scarce. And the commandant himself
is the most genially uniformed being on
the continent. The higher your office the
less you know.
But by the aid Of certain statements
which the commsndant agrees not to deny
and certain diluted intelligence cleaned
from officials less completely incrusted by
official reserve, the press and the public do
get considerable information from the
busting New York yard. And then the
yard does good deal of talking for itself
Since the launching Of the Maine work has
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GRAND OLD PRELATE.
Cardinal Manning Compelled to
Give Up Labor.
HIS WORK AMONG LONDON POOR
The Last Of me English Cardinals-Hs
WIN Probably Have No succse
sor-Ho Likes AmeyfcsnA

LONDON. Nov. 16.-rHpecial Correspond.
ence. Sad news for the Catholic world
has Just leaked out from the Archiepis-
copal palace of Henry Edward Cardinal
Manning at Westminster. 1t is to the
effect that the physicians Of the aged pre-
late, who is now past So years, have or
dered him to give up work, and that the
cardinal archbishop would, as a conse-
quence, ask the pope to appoint coad-
tutor to assist him in the labor of govern
ing his great see.
This news is significant. Cardinal Man
ming is not the man to give up work or to
share his responsibilities with another I'M
less compelled by necessity to do so. If
he has done so, and it is not entirely GER
tain that he has, it means that Cardinal
Manning feels assured that his end is
near.
Up to very recently the cardinal has
been seen in London looking about as
usual. Indeed, the writer saw him in one
of the most squalid spots in London only
short time ago, pursuing his work among
the London poor. He was clad in simple
clerical garb. His figure, though thin,
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been going along At pretty healthy pace
The new cruiser IS beginning 10 aSe form.
IL will &c ready for launching before many
months. These enterprises kept the yard
in active shape. But AT the time OF the
news from Chile everything took on diff
ferent cast. The force Was increased, and
3 picturesque hustle began 10 characterize
this arena of naval progress. On the
cruisers that were being prepared
for immediate departure men worked
night and dav. Workers in iron and
steel were followed by men with paint
pots, who lost no time in coating the com
pleted surfaces. Coaling squads scUrFied
here ami there. and the c,Atter OF ton after
ton o. fuel ss il glided down the iron
chGtes became familiar sound. Powder
and ammunition, requiring q more deli
cate handling. was packed into the re-
ceSseS Of eager wArSh'pS.
The subsistence Of the more threatening
signs OF war has not diminished the ensr-
grtie preparation. Ii seems - have been
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CHORES.

Jed Dorkum always used to say
When we asked him to come and play
With us boys down to Harry Moore's,
1--WE gotter stay and do the chores."
No recreation would he take;
For ali his wealth in jelly cake,
No glad fun in or ont OF doors,
He had to stay and do the chores.
We drove q woodchuck In the wall,
But Jed he paid no heed at all;
A circus passed through Lower Town
But busy Jed could Mt 20 down.
The elephant went tramping by
And shook the earth and touched the sky:
The tiger howls, the hon roars
Jed stays at home and does the chores.
Much like Jed Dorkum are we all
Who long for great things and do small,
We moil among the trivial sods
Within the garden OF the gods,
While the dark clusters hang above
Rich with the juice of life ami love.
We cannot reach aud pluck them down,
These fair pomegranates OF Tenown,
Whose juice HES early hops restores
For we must work and do the chores
Above us sternlv loom forever
The mighty Mountains OF Endeavor,
And whose on their summit stands
Looks on the sun-kissed table ianda
We grasp our mountain staff 70 climb
Their sky-enshrouded peaks sublime,
Up where the crystal torrent pours-
And then we pause 20 do our chores.
We start with courage in the heart
To try the eudlessness OF art,
In hope that We may speak some day
The word the Spirit bids Us say
But e'er We speak the word arigh.
The shadows come and il is night
Put out the light aud close the doors,
For good or Ill, we've done our chores.
Samuel Waiter Foss
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Sunday suited them as a sightseeing day.
Ever since the war scare began the New
York navy yard has been besieged with
visitors curious to inspect the warships
and to watch the energetic preparations
for the possible crisis of war. All day
long they have fled through the narrow
cutting in the yellow stone wall. When
they have come too early they have been
willing to wait When they have come
too late they have hung around in the
hope of inventing some pretext for passing
the vigilant guard.
When the stream of general visitors has
fallen off at dusk, the hurrying figures OF
reporters have become visible to the jaded
corporal. At / a. m. the newspaper ennis
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the theory that every available ship should
be fully equipped, and one by one the yes
sells in New York waters have been pro-
pared, have dropped down the bay ready
for more specific sailing orders, or being
supplied with such sailing orders have
steamed away through Sandy Hook.
Within tina past four or five days four
cruisers have been cleared.
At the head of the list is the elegant and
popular Chicago, a ship of the first class.
examined her from stem to stern before she
left the dock, and very trim and warlike
she looked Everything that carried paint
was cleaning white. The brass shone
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the superstructure between the two bar
rettes there will be two four-inch guns.
But the Terror and Puritan are not TO he
counted upon for any war that might be-
Gin now. The available force on the At
lantic coast now consists of the Chicago.
Newark. Atlanta, Bennington, Concord,
Kearsarge and Miantonomoh. This is a
pretty snug list. And we have now at or
near Valparaiso the Baltimore, Boston
and Yorktown.
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THE COMING OF DEATH.

/ have not told my garden vet,
Lest that should conquer me;
! have not quite the strength now
To break 1t 20 the bee.
I viii not name il in the street.
For shops would stare. that I,
SO shy, go very ignorant,
should have the face "a die.
The hil.sides must not know 10,
Where | have ram BLEED 50,
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that / shall go,
Nor lisp il at the table,
Nor heed ets by the way
Hint that within the riddle
oae Will walk today
Emily Dictiason
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Peace on Earth

Is not the boon voGchsaied TO the chronic.
nervous invalid. Slight noises startle him.
odd and unexpected sensations perplex him
He neither sleeps soundiy nor eats heartily, he
is almost Invariably troubled with dyspepsia
What should he do2 Begin and parsae system.
stically q course of H1stetter's stomach Bltters.
With digestion fortified and food assimilsted
strength returns, the nerves grow tranquil and
the zesi OF lie returns. A blessed eonsurma-
ton indeed, and not only efsctuslly, but pleas.
antly wrought by the Bittsrs Biliousness
malaria, rheumatism, kidney complaint are
regulating medicine. Try il at once il your
nerves are out or order, aud II their weakness IL
perpetuated by the existence OF disease A
superb appetizer and promoter OF sound repose
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NYE'S OHIO RAMBLE.
Playing Pool for Cigars While
Waiting for Train.
BILLS BROTHERS. FINE SPEECH.
Cigars OF the saleratus Blonde Type.
With Real Jute Filier-The Tough
and tho Clerical Man.
Copyright, 1891. by Edgar w. Nye.
EN- PEASANT IN THE MEPRYl
2

NUN T OF NON In 3 Eh+ J
We are in Michigan at this writing. and
scooting across the peninsula by the judi
cious use of the bounding train. "Au-
tumn has indeed come" said sad man
yesterday, who seemed TO be on his third
bridal tour, accompanied by a kippered
widow with a green veil. She nodded
when he said that, and put her cold and
puiseless nose against the window of the
car.
They had a very large two-handled
compromise trunk, which the groom used
in knocking out peoples brains as he
started up wildly at each station. think
it was his own destination. He said he
was from Newriggle, o., where it is said
man was killed in church. | did not
learn what his otlense was, but no doubt