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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
INGENIOUS Mr.. DECKER.
Didn't Propose to Have His Wife Consid
cred the Abused Member of the Family.

Didn't Propose to Have His Wife Consid-
cred the Abused Member of the Family.
Joseph" she said severely, as he re-
turned, leading one child by the hand
and wheeling another in the baby car
riage, where have you been with those
children?"
"All around the neighborhood," he
responded quietly.
Don't you know that don't like to
have you take both children out at
once?"
YES, my DEAR but thought might
as well do the whole thing at once?'
And what do you think the neigh
bors will say? They must have seen
me go away with Mrs. Billings early in
the afternoon"
81 presume they did, my dear"
"Why. they'll begin to think I'm a
woman's rights woman or something of
that sort, and that you're an abused
husband. How did the children behave?"
"First-rate, except when / pinched
them
"Pinched them! What did you do
that for?"
ITO make them cry and attract
attention and then I'd tell them, loud
enough for anyone to hear, to be quiet
that mamma had gone to the conven-
ton or was busy at the sewing circle"
80, you brute! You knew it wasn't
true"
''Of course did. But want to tell
you, Mrs. Decker, that I'm tired of hav-
ing people talk about poor Mrs. Decker,
and how her husband. stays out nights
and neglects her, and / made up my
mind Id have them talking about poor
hen-pecked Mr.. Decker and how he
has to take care of the children while
his wife goes gadding about Now,
Mrs. Decker. I'm going out tonight
and won't be back till late, and if you
say word when come in I'll take the
children to a dry goods store tomorrow
and pretend I'm buying clothes for
them. Chicago Tribune. o', ..
"A Fourth of July.sham battle on
the Pacific coast was made realistic be-
yond intention by the conduct. of a
cadet who became panic stricken, ran
home and told the folks that one of the
opposing forces had wiped but the-other
and was coming into town to massacre
the women and children. s.sW e. S,.rt
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

Mckinley, in his speeches, says
that manufactured articles never
were as cheap as they now are
Every dry goods merchant knows
this statement to be lie.
He says farmers get the benefit
of the increased tariff. Every wool
grower knows this to be lie.
1t was promised that a higher
tariff would make wages higher.
Every working man knows this to
be lie.
1t was promised that. under the
Mckinley bill, the American laborer
would be protecte The armies of
Italians, Poles, and what-not from
the pauper labor fields of Europe
coming to this country at the rate
of thirty to fifty thousand month
prove this statement lie.
1t is said that already there are
monster tin plate mills in this coun-
try capable of making all the tin
needed. Every dealer will tell you
this is lie.
1t was promised that the McKin-
ley bill would make times good and
business prosperous. The daily
record OF failures and assignments
and suspensions prove that more
disasters are overtaking the mer-
camille interest than We're ever be-
fore known.
In fact it is practically impossible
to take up a single one of their
statements relating to the existing
condition of affairs and not disprove
what they say by the actual facts
within the knowledge of nearly
every one.
Their argument is the rosy one OF
what will be. They tell the readers
and hearers of the beauties of the
glorious good times that are coming
to pass in the future. But they
avoid facts and truth as they would
a pestilence.-SentineI
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
Another Ohiecf Lesson.

The German Ministers, desiring
to increase the food supply of their
people and to cheaper its cost, con-
template suspending the duties on
grain.
1t is the same way everywhere.
When a republican Congress decid-
ed, as necessity of party policy,
to give the American people cheap
er sugar, it removed the duty-in
other words, the tax.
When the commercial needs of
this country required a wider
market, and undue Protection was
in danger of being smashed, Mr..
Blaine seized upon the policy of in
ducing South American States and
Spanish dependencies to take the
duty off American products and
goods in order to render them
cheaper to these people and thus
increase their sales.
These practical object lessons will
not be lost on the American voters.
They have learned that the tariff is
a tax, and they will improvethe in
struction by still further untaxing
themselves.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

An interesting investigation into
the cost of labor and materials in
manufactured products hasjust been
completed by the bureau of labor
statistics of Massachusetts. 1t COM
pletely refutes the doctrine of the
McKinleyites that the cost of labor
is the chief item in the cost of man
ufactured goods and that the tariff
is levied solely to equaIize labor cost
here and abroad. This report
shows that the cost of labor repre-
sents only &c per cent. of the cost
of the product, while the cost of the
protected materials is 81 per cent,
or over twice as much. The aver
age rate of duty under the McKin-
ley tariff is go per cent. and is
largely added to the price of the
goods made. Tariff reformers aim
to decrease the cost of materials by
making them free, thus not only
increasing the wage of labor, but
decreasing at the same time the
total cost of production. Wokmen
will thereby be benefited in two
ways, by getting more money for
their work and more goods for their
money. 1t is for the workmen to
decide which they want.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

No girl can afford to fiirt, no mat
ter where she is or who she is. 1t
is blow to her own selfrespect; it
is an acknowledgement ofignorance,
and argues the absence of dignity
woman's greatest charm. Any girl
that makes the acquaintance of a
man in an irregular manner should
know that in doing SO she gives
him the right to insult her. A rep
rebate will avail himself of this
privilege, and the merest apology
of a man will have absolutely no
respect for her. Men hate common
women, and firts belong to this
class.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
THE rIN ~.
How If Operates TO Prevent the Saving
Of Great Surplus Fruit Crop.
Immense crops OF al ki


Immense crops of all kinds are
promised this year, and it is safe to
say that thousands of bushels Of
peaches, pears, apples and other
fruits viii go to waste this fall that
millions of people would be glad to
purchase next winter at fair prices.
But perishable fru can be market
ed in winter only when preserved,
and sugar and tin or glass are need
ed to do the preserving. In Eng
land and Scotland, where these sup
plies have for years sold at from
one-half to three -fourths of the
American prices, large canning fac
tories haxe become numerous and
the growing Of all kinds of fruits
much more profitable; since, when
the yield is large, a market is al
ways guaranteed for the surplus at
fair prices. In the county of Kent
alone $4,000 persons are interested
as growers, pickers and packers, in
the production fruits for jams, etc
Cheap sugar, tin and glass have
built England's canning factories
and given her the markets of the
world for preserved fruits, jams,
etc, to such an extent that she now
exports large quantities of these
goods to the United States-the
greatest fruit growing country in
the world.
This year the United States pays
but little more for sugar than Eng
land. This might in time cause
canning factories TO spring up here
in every fruit and vegetable section
but for -.he fact that Mckinley
guarded against any such tendency
by doubling the duties on tin plate
and glassware. This so raises their
prices that for some purposes farm
ers will have to return to the use of
crockery and wooden vessels.
Abolish the entire duties on SUI
gar, timed plate and glass, and
thousands of farms, now worthless,
will become valuable and millions
of people, now hungry, will be pro
vided with cheap food Protection
that protects farmers and Iaborers
is what the country needs, and will
some day have.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
Mrs. Amelia Johnson was struck

1h1S- Aihctld Johnson Was blfutk
and instantly killed by express
train No. AZ, at Rowlesburg. The
train was running at the rate of
about 80 miles per hour, with En-
gineer Turner at the throttle of en-
gine 1905. The unfortunate old la
dy was crossing the track with some
bread and -four. One of the rail
road men saw her and screamed at
her, but, she being very deaf, made
nc lat, nd in one second more
would have been clear of the track,
when the train struck her. 1t
threw her and her bundles up in
the air about Is feet. She never
knew what hurt her, as she was
killed instantly. 1t is said that En-
gineer Turner has been so unfortu-
natoas TO kill eight people, SIX of
whom now lie in Rowlesburg ceme-
terry. The old lady was about 20
years of age.-King,eoOd Argus.
The old bones found Thursday
in the Court House lot were seen
yesterday by numbers of people and
a good deal ofinterest was manifest
ed in the find by nearly all of our
citizens. There was a good deal of
speculation as to whose remains
they were, but no solution was found
to the mystery. John j.. Cole says
that in the early history of the
county negro was hung for kill
ing his master and that he was
buried in the court house yard.
The murder occurred while the ne
gro and his master were going down
the Kanawha river on a boat and
the negro was brought here for :rial
and execution, but it is not known
positively where his remains were
buried. That hanging was the
first execution after the organization
of the county. He thinks probably
the remains are those of the negro.
John w. Slack, of Elk, City, has
another theory about the bones.
he says that in 1852 or 3, while he
was page at the court house and
while Judge Geo. W. Summers was
on the bench, this skeleton was
found in the Flat Woods by a man
by the name of Skidmore, while
hunting cattle, and was brought
here by Skidmore. Then man
by the name of William Patton was
arrested, and convicted for the
murder of this man. His sentence
was thirteen years in the peniten
tiary at Richmond. = Charleston
(f,,-,ff,,r
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
OUR WILD LANDS.
An Instance OF How They Increase in
Value.


Few of our readers have an ade-
quate idea of the appreciation of
West Virginia wild lands within the
past five years. and more partieu-
larly within the past two years.
Wherever there have been new lines
of railroad either contemplated or
projected prices have jumped from
one hundred to ten hundred per
cent.
This wonderful increase in values
was exempliiied last week in lit
tie deal that was consumated at the
Office of the Underwriters Insur-
auce Company, on Main street,
Wheeling, in which a number of
gentlemen of that city wore the
parties of the first part, and ex-Sen-
ator Camden, Hon. C. P. Door, of
Webster, and Hon. Andy Edmins-
ton. of Weston, were the parties of
the second part.
The transaction was in this way:
About fifteen months ago Mr.. Dorr,
acting for himself and others, sold
to syndicate of Wheeling gentle
men, comprising the Messrs. Paul,
StifeI, Vance, Reyman and others,
tract of timber land in Webster
county, near the Gauley, of 5,s31
acres for $4,000. Last week the
gentlemen named above in the Sec
ond part took the tract off their
hands for $4,000, or nearly ss per
acre, clean profit of % per cent,
less interest on investment. Even
at the figures sold, some of the SYM
dicate were 10th TO part with it on
the ground that it must go higher
as the State developed.
This tract was offered to one of
the purchasers of last week seven
years ago for so cents an acre. He
thought it too high then, and there
he was paying So for it. Not longer
than 4 years ago the same tract was
sold to the parties who sold it to the
Wheeling syndicate for $4,000, so
that in the several changes since it
got into market every one who
bought it made a snug.profit from
the transaction. 1t predicted that
inside of two years, or when the
Camden system of railroads is COM
pleted, it will have nearly doubled
what it sold for a few days ago.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23


1t seems that after all the blow
and buster about the manufacture
of tin plate in America and the ex-
hibitions of the domestic product at
Republican conventions and ban
quets, these specimens are nothing
more nor less than importations
from Wales, stamped with the
names of American Manufacturers.
Since it was reported that Ameri-
{ t, ste was being actually
made the wholesale merchants have
been beset by orders for American
tin plate and they have been com
pelled 10 issue circulars informing
their customers that there is no
American tin plate in the market,
and that they can not furnish it till
it is made. The so-called TN plate
manufacturers are only engaged in
dipping the imported plates and
stamping their names upon it. In
circular sent out by Merchant x
Co., of Philadelphia, they say:
eve wish it understood that our
idea of manufacturing tin plates is
not that of dipping a plate made
elsewhere and the use and abuse OF
a stamping machine"
The Republicans who have been
engaged in misleading the people in
regard to the manufacture of tin
plate are about to have their little
game blocked. They can not prac-
tice this fraud upon the people any
longer. Tin plate is % per cent
higher now than it was prior to the
passage of the Mckinley bill. The
consumers have been made to pay
many millions of dollars on account
of the increase of the import tax
and yet the American people have
not been benefited to the amount ol
a dollar.-Kdndtchd Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

IF the President should appoint
Clarkson to be Secretary of the In
terror he would have a skiIlful
manipulation of vast patronage that
can be made powerful agency in
the struggle for Harrison's renomi-
nation. For partisan purposes
CIarkson could serve the President
for better than Secretary Noble.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

When the next Democratic Con-
gress sets about investigating the
rottenness of the present adminis-
tration, great deal of valuable
testimony may be obtained from
the discharged census clerks on Mr..
Porters's methods of helping the
Republican party by falsifying
statistics in his department.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
Democratic Orators on the Northwest

Democratic Orators OnfOr the Northwest
Senator Faulkner Of West vir-
ginia, General Black, President of
the National Association of Demo-
cratic Clubs, Representative By
mum, Ex-Representative McAdoo,
Mr.. James NJ. Beck, of Philadel-
phia, and Mr. Lawrence Gardner,
Secretary of National Association of
Democratic Clubs, departed last
week on a Northwestern tour. The
tour is new departure in the way
of campaigning. The nominal OBJ
ject of the journey is to attend the
Second Annual Convention of the
Democratic Societies of the State of
Washington, which will be held at
Spokane Falls. 1t is their purpose,
however, to do active work all
along the route, which will include
large part of the Northwest and
far West, finally closing with a
weeks participation in the cam
paign in Iowa. The first stop is at
st. Paul. Mimi.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

The prosecuting attorney, Had
den, who stands charged with aid
ing the escape of burglars from the
Cincinnati Jail, for which he was
richly paid, was one of Foraker's
aids in the balIot-bsx forgery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

More pork and less prophecy,
Secretary Rusk- We have heard
before this siren song that inside of
a week our meat products viii have
entrance to Europe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
For Sale.

The property known as the "Virginia
House." in Point Pleasant, situated on Front
Street, near the Ohio River Wharf This Is
n desirable property, and VIII be sold cheap,
and on terms TO suit purchaser. Il is in fair
repair, and Is n rare bargain Also the large
brick store house, known as "Beale's HAIL.
situated on corner of Main and First Streets.
VIII be sold at a bargain, and on terms to
suit purchaser. Address, ]. B. MORGAN
(irimm's Landing, w. Va; or JOHN X
THOMPSON, Raymond City, w. Va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

A 000 ACRES of Brown Stone land
4,OOU in Summers County, West
Virginia; miles west of HinfOn. and
ON the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad:
the finest grade of Brown Stone vet QUAR-
ried. and supply unlimited; can be load
ed on board cars from quarry; three der
ricks; superior for paving and building
purposes to any other stone; can be
quarried any size desired; an excellent
investment for capitalists.
TIPPETT s. HUTCHINSON.
febIl-tf.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

INK Acres, lying II miles from the
i iO Kanawha River; partly improv-
ed; new dwelling house buii, lass fall;
80 acres good timber; about 10 acres now
under cultivation. Will be sold at
bargain.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

O07 Acres lying on the Kanawha
% River, miles above Point Pleas.
ant, and close to X. & o. Railroad. One
of the best farms in the Great Kanawha
Valley Very easy terms.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

JoI.l ACRES; 50 acres bottom and 5GI
i ZO2 hill land: on Great Kanawha rIveT: !:
) miles above Point Pleasant Price $500;
terms easy
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

900 ACRES; half-miIe from Kerr's Sta
SNO tion, Gailia county, Ohio. Price,
$i,OO; One-lIalf cash; balance and years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23
CITY LOTS.

NIRGINIA HOUSE; situated corner
v Front and LIST streets; near Ohio River
Wharf, and kanawha River; i'm good repair;
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-09-23

7H ACRES; 30 acres cleared and in grass
Z - n vein OF coal; ON county road: "a
lIiles from kanaMha RiHer.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-11-27

Each feminine member OF the Vanderbilt
family has her own private fortune. Not
only did each son in marrying settle a
handsome amount on his wife, but when
the late William II. Vanderbilt died be
made large and specified provision for
each daughter, granddaughter and daugh-
ter-in-law. Among the latter the largest
amount went TO Mrs Frederick w. Van
derbilt, who was his favorite, and among
the former Mrs. Seward Webb, who was
his youngest daughter. received the most
generous sum. To none even Of the grand
daughters was less than $l0O, 900 given, snd
In some cases ten times that much
Even the wee little women, like tiny
Frederika Vanderbilt Webb and little
Gladys Vanderbilt, the youngest daughter
OF Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt, have their
stated allowances, small Of course, but a
sense Of responsibility Is given the little
folks, and they are allowed to follow their
own baby Judgments and desires as to
spending, Upon each one Of the children
Is impressed the necessity Of giving part
Of their money each month In charity, and
very funny little stories are current among
friends Of the family as to their selections
Of their benehciaries. Oddly enough they
do not make many more mistakes than a
good many grown up people and profess
sional philanthropists.- New York Star.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-11-27

So many marvellous tales have been
told of the Norwegian maelstrom that.
several writers, even Of geograr
works, have pronounced it entirely
mythical. But the whirlpool is 3 reality.
and from surveys has become well
known. It is on the Norway coast to
the south Of the Loifoder isles, and runs
between small island called Maskepes
and rocky islet. The depth Of the wa
ter in the straits is about 1870 feet, while
Just outside 200 foot line will scarce
ly touch bottom, and the strong currents
rushing in and out Of the fiords create
not only the maelstrom, or mill stream,
but numbers Of other whirlpools that
render navigation exceedingly danger
ous.
The strait Of the maelstrom is perfect
ly calm at ebb or at flood tide, but with
the rising or the falling Of the tide, Or
when high wind is blowing or q storm
raging, the 1lters driven in from the
ocean find their way out again through
the strait with such mighty violence that
no ship can pass through the eddies.
There is little downward suction, as is
commonly supposed, the danger being
that the vessel will become unmanage-
able and be driven on the rocks. 1t is
said that whales have been found in tho
vicinity with their heads completely
crushed in, having been caught in the
current and dashed against the cliffs.
The Norwegian government has sur
veyed the maelstrom and warned all
nayigators against its dangers, - St,
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-11-27
A Perfect Baking Powder.

The consiap growing demand for Dr. Prices
Cream Baking Power the standard tartar powder
for forty years. is due 10
FIRST.-Thc extreme care exercised by the
facturers make perfectly pure uniform in quality and
Of highest raising power.
sECoND:--The recent Investigations exposing the
fact that certain other brands of baking powder contain
ammonia and still others that found to contain alum
These unscrupuous manufacturers being found out
and the consumers giving them wide birth.
Nothing is left to chance in the manufacture Of Dr.
Prices Cream Baking Powder Chemists employed to
every ingredient purity and strength Hence;
its marvellous purity and uniformity Each is like
every other. 1t dissapoints. BEST is ALWAYS
the CHEAPEST
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder is
ported by all authorities free from Ammonia,
Alum, or any other adulterant In fact the
purity Of this ideal powder has never been ques
toned.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-11-27

A dentist Of Moscow Is reported to
have discovered a method Of supplying
the human mouth with false teeth
which will grow into the gums as firmly
as natural ones DR.. znanensky has
performed several successful operations
on dogs as well as human beings The
teeth are made Of gutta perchar por-
celain Or metal. Holes are made at
the root Of the false tooth and also up
ward into the jaw. The tooth 70 then
pleced into ths cavity In a short time
eaoft granulatad growth hnds its way
from The patients jaw into the holes u
tho tooth. This growth gradually
hardens and holds the toesh IN position.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-11-27

ntlOntta Vfttt| thoht0 hBt1t asIIIfFl
supposed Uncle John and seized hi
white beard. 1t, his venerable W AZ
hairy face, his tapped cap and bis g.
spectacles came away in my hand and |
saw a fat, red faced woman, perfectly
bald, and with huge gsham eyebrows q
white hair.
"Ain't you ashamed Of yourself, "
young rapscallion, to treat your great
aunt in this way, and me lone widow
Oh, Mr.. Joseph" cried tile woman, ~
she bounced out Of bed and flung herself
upon her knees, "Worleybone's been
dead these three months, and we ain t
provided for, and / wss doing my best
for Polly, which i n daughter, being
my bounden dv1y Oh, Mr.. Joseph,
spare the widow and her orphan childY
Down on your marrow boneslp cried
the frightened woman to her daughter;
"if it hadn't been for You, you hussy,
he'd never, never have found me OUT
and Miss Polly, the high stopper, drop
ped on her knees at her mothers side.
or course l forgave them; of course |
came into the $4,000; Of course mar
ried Sophia, and equally Of course
have never said word to her Of the
fearful day at the Crystal Palace with
the high stepping Polly, or my subse-
quent terrific adventure at Araminth
terrace, Hoxton. st. James Budget.