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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
a child.a virid nronn,.

Children, perhaps oftener than their
elders, are brought into relation with
the unseen world by dreams. A curl
GUS one was that told of Mrs. Taylor.
of Ongar, whose father died when size
was six years old son the night OF
his death, writes her daughter Ann,
she dreamed that she was in a desc
late and shattered building, through
the rents of which she could see the
stars. Suddenly ameng them her
fathers form appeared. departing
upward In achariot, by gestures tax
ing leave of her and encouraging her
to follow. On waking, .fs:e was told
that he was dead. Her childish heart
could have derived but little comfort
from the dream, for we are told tina
to the excess of her grief her life was
nearly sacrificed. -Argosy.
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TURNED BACK.
A Train Carrying Additional Guards 10,
Trnncsxee Mines.

Tenncs<ee Mines
NASHVILLE. Aug. 15.-The Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad company re-
cciyed telegram Monday morning stated
thatthe train carrying additional guards
to Jn.nan was captured BY the miners at
the bridge below Victoria aud TUNED
back. Trouble at Inman IS expected.
The wires north of Whitwen have been
cut and no communication can be had
with Ininan.
A telegram from Victoria received at
10 O'Clock Moaday stated that the miners
captured the 30 conviets at Iililsan at {
O'Clock. and brought them to Victoria
for shipment to Nashville. No property
WIS injured. The miners are IN fun
control in Tracey City and are well
armed.
The Governors Promises.
The latest news from Tracy City is to
the effect that everything Is quiet, but
the miners are rather anxious TO know
what the authorities intend doing. Gov
ernor Buchanan declared TO a United
Press reporter that lie would do all IN
his power 10 maintain the law and order
when proper application was made tc
him by the civil authorities
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Authors at tho tircat A..Izo.

Probably when the Great Assize is
held ono of the questions asked will be.
Did you in America ever write stories
for childreng' What qualxine of
knees there will bel For there viii
stand the victims of this sort of litera-
ture, who began in their tender years
to enfccblc their minds with the wislly-
washy food of commonplace prepared
for them by dull writer's and CONNER
cial publishers, and continued ON in
those so called domestic stories Gas if
domestic meant idiotic) until their
minds were diluted to that degree that
they could not act upon anything that
offered the least resistance. Beginning
with the pcpsinized books, they must
continue with them. and the dull an
petite by and by must be stimulated
with spice of vulgarity or a little pep
ger of impropriety And fortunately
for their rourishment in this kind the
duliest writer's can be indecent
Charles Dudley Warner in Harper,s.
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NO. 70.
PROFITS OF EIse INSURANCE.
Doing Business ON Ten to Twelve Ter
Cent aud Making No Money

Doing Business ON Ten to Twelve Ter
Cent aud Making No Money
We have it on the authority of a
Hartford expert that there is today not
4 single Gre insurance company in the
country earning any money out of its
business This is rather an astonishing
assertion. but the assertion is made that
1t is based on facts il it were not for
the surplus. consisting of invested funds.
there is not a company in America that
could probably pay its stockholders
dollar today.
Ten years ago it was considered per
fectly Legitimate to mako a profit of
from p to 30 per cent. on the whole
business. Today the most successful
companies are doing business on 10 to
II per cent, and taking into account
the contingencies mono is making money.
Since 1873, 206 insurance companies
have failed, gone out OF business. or re-
insured their risks in other companies.
70 be sure, some of these were honor
abIe rctirements from n business IN
which they saw no money, and the sew
eral companies paid back handsomely;
but many were bad failures Nor were
they petty corporations either.
The fact of the matter IS. the day for
large profits in tie insurance business
has gone by Composition is 80 great
rllat existing companies must contcnt
themselves with n very. small margin OF
profit. The present state of affairs is
that the profits being made are not
large enough. considering the contin-
gencies of the business, to add to the
surplus. In 1890 every company doing
business on tine Pacific coast lost money
through the five unprecedented confia-
grations tsiat occurred there.
Hartford has a vital interest in the
outlook. ManifesilSsi hese great loss
cannot be prevented. and apparerll
the contingency can be met only by
cutting down cxpensess 1t is a fact
worth noting that the difference in the
expense account Of some of our big
Hartford companies and certain of
their New York rivals amounts to
very handsome sum yearly
OF course all this competition innures
to the pecuniary advantage, within
certain limits to the insured, giving him
much more favorable terms than were
conceded when insurance was young;
but in the present article the matter Is
viewed from the standpoint of the i'm
suranec men and not of tho insured.
What has been said of insurance Is
also true of nearly every other Iesiti-
mate undertaking. Old established
mercantile houses that did business
of 81, 600, 600 a year ten years ago now
find they have to 90 double that to
make like amount of money.
Tho saino 5 true of every kind of oc-
cupation outside the realm of specnla
ton Four or per cent. must satisfy
investors who decade ago Thought
nothing short of z per cent. worth hav-
ing. Even western farm mortgages.
except in the far west, have felt this
leveling influence, and the 10 per cent.
loans OF yesterday arc being rapidly re-
placed today by those of 6 per cent.
Much as investors may regret it. rates
in this country arc coming down to the
English basic, with its and 8 per cent.
and there seems to be no help for it,
Hartford Post
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
NATHANIEL HAwTHoRNE.
Personal Recoiiections of the Author o
"a ScslrIcf Letter.,

Personal Reeoileetions of the Author of
"a Scarlet Letter.
Hawthorne was slender lad, hav
ing a massive head, with dark, bril-
liant and most expressive eyes, heavy
eyebrows and profusion of dark
hair. For his appearance at that
time the inquirer must rely wholly
upon the testimony of friends, for
think no portrait of him as a lad is
extant. On one occasion, in our
senior year, the class wished to have
their profiles cut in silhouette by a
wandering artist of the scissors, and
interchanged by all the thirty-eight.
Hawthorne disapproved the proposed
plan, and steadily refused to go into
the class Golgotha, as he styled the
dismal collection. I joined him in
this freak, and so our places were
left vacant. now regret the whiIn.
since even a moderately correct out
line of his features as lad would at
this day be interesting.
Hawthorne's figure was somewhat
singular, owing to his carrying his
head little on one side, but his walk
was square and firm, and his manner
self respecting and reserved. A fash
ionable boy of the present day might
have seen something to amuse him
in the new students appearance, but
had he indicated this he would have
rued it, for Hawthorne's clear ap-
probation of the social properties
and his great physical courage would
have made it as unsafe to treat him
with disrespect then as at any later
time.
Though quiet and most amiable he
had great pluck and determination.
remembel. that in one of our con-
vivial meetings we had the laugh
upon him for some cause, an occur
renee SO rare that the bantering was
carried too far. After bearing il
awhile Hawthorne singled out the
one among US who had the reputa-
ton of being the best pugilist, and Ia
few words quietly told him that he
would not permit the rallying to go
further. His bearing was so resolute.
and there was so much of danger In
his eye, that no one afterward allud.
ed to the offensive subjectin his pres.
ence.
This characteristic was notably dis.
played several years later, when a
lady incited him to quarrel with one
of his best friends ON account of a
groundless pique of hers. He went
to Washington for the purpose Of
challenging the gentleman, and
though ample explanations were
made, showing that his friend had
behaved with entire honor. it was
with difficulty that Pierce and CiIley.
who were his advisers, could persuade
him to be satisfied without fight.
The lady had appealed to him to re-
dress her faneied wrongs and he was
too chivalrous to decline the service
Hawthorne, with rare strength Of
character, had yet a gentleness and
unselfshness which endeared him
greatly to his friends. He was a gen
tleman in the best sense of the word.
and he was always manly, cool. self
poised and brave. He was neither
morose nor sentimental, and though
tacituIn, was invariably cheerful
with his chosen friends, and there
was much more of fun and frolic IN
his disposition than his published
writings indicate. -Horatio Brideeif
Haper's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
Tarin Truste.

The June supplement- of the New York
World. edited by Hon. John De Witt
Warner. is made up of zone hundred
samples of tariff trusts, under the head
ing. -Conspiracies to Crush Competition.
Restrict Product. Raise Prices aud Low
er Wages" These trusts embrace most
OF the articles on which we have effective
tariff duties. Among the officers of these
trusts viii be found hundreds of names
published in the New York Tribune's list
OF mlliionaires, thus in part, at least, an
swerlng The Tribune's question as to
whether or not the tariff makes million
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
Proteeting AmerIcan I.ahor.

Scarcely an immigrant ship comes
from Europe that does not contain her
quota of imported laborers, and il Is
this system of importation that causes
so much Decentralization of labor and
distress at times IN the mining regions
of Pennsylvania. As soon as the inn
ported laborers understand their rights
and threaten to strike in defense Of
them, southern Europe is drawn upon
for fresh importation, and thus the
supply is kept constantly in excess Of
the demand. Philadelphia Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
cnrneci..s rwn castles.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has two castles
now, one in Scotland and one in Penn
sylvania. The former is palace of
pleasure where he spends in luxury the
money earned for him by American
workmen in his protected steel industry.
The latter is fort where, with Pinker-
tons and gunboats and hot water tanks
and deadly electric wires, he keeps out
the workmen who think they ought to
share with him few of the benefits of
projections st. Louis Republic.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
Va Led a. VIII MEXICO.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. - Minister
Ryan, in transmitting to the state de-
rartment recently, published statistical
tables Of Mexican. foreign and domestic
Shipping movements for 1891, calls at
tention to the highly gratifying condi-
ton of our ocean commerce with the
neighboring republic. He says:
IT VIII be seen that more American
steamers entered the Mexican ports
than those of all the other nations of tie
world combined: that American sailing
vessels entering were infinitely in ex-
cess of those of any otlier country; and
that Mexico's domestic or internal COM
merce was carried by more American
steamships and sailing vessels than
those of all other nations combined.
with the single exception of Mexico it
self. Another table Inanifests the great
increase III Mexico's maritime move
ment during the said fiscal year over
the preceding. How large q part the
United States contributed thereto is in
dicated above.-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23

Tobacco Worth IT'S weight In snver.
In England the first pipes used an
pear to have been made of clay. with
narrow BOWLS and contracted mouths.
Then, as the habit grew stronger and
tobacco became cheaper. something
more capacious would be required
These are the pipes which, under the
name of fairy pipes, are some
times dug up and preserved as inter
esting relics of the past. Aubrey.
writing about 1850, says: The Eng
ish people first had silver pipes. hut
the ordinary sort made use of walnut
shell and strawe. I have heard my
grandfather say that one pipe was
handed from man to man round the
table. Within these thirty-five years
twas scandalous for divine to take
tobacco. 1t was then sold for its
wayte in silver. have heard some
Of our old yeoman neighbours say
that when they went TO market they
culled out their biggest shillings to
lay IN the scales against tobacco; now
the customers of it are the greatest
his majesty hath. All tho Year
Round
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
WHOLESALE BUYERS AND DEALERS !

We still selling the popular reliable WO0NSoCKET
and CANDEE RTBBER BOOTS SHOES and TENNIS HOES
There better goods made in this world than she
Boots and Candee Rubbers That's achy are
bnt send for discounts and catalogues appca
on by card in If you looking out your
own and customers interests will buy from Special
ces to buyers of and Send
the FALL RUSH Wewant send samples quote you
Gossamer Rubber and Macintosh Clothing boys
and Misses Prices LOW terms GOOD and qualities
We illustrate of shapes
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
Fatally Gored nun.

.SpRISeFIELp. o.. Aug. 8. = Word
comes to the city that Mrs. Robert
Stone. of near Alcony. Miami county.
was fatally gored by bull. The lacer-
alton extends across the lower portion of
the abdomen distance of fifteen inches.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
rho srsten, ta nIn,ne.

Why talk of Carnegie-s grasping
avarices What would it amount to If
the high tariff did not make it easy for
him to grasps-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23

: MILLERsBURG, o.. Aug. 4.-Drillers
at the Northcrow gas well. four miles
west of here. struck good flow of oil
Yesterday at depth of 600 feet. This
is the second we'll drilled in that section.
and there is considerable excitement
over the find.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
hut rhey Don.t Do r..

The tariff .senables'' manufacturers of
the Carnegie kidney to pay their en-
ployees higher wages. But Carnegie
does not seem disposed to take advantage
of the enabling act.-C Chicago Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
The Democrats Arc Amend.

Mr.. Stevenson, we are aware, was an
athletic headsman during the adminis-
tTaiion of Mr.. Cleveland. Moreover,
Mr.. Adlai e. Stevenson is a man of
brains. On a show down of vice presi-
DENTAL candidates, the Democrats, it
strikes us, are ahead.-New York
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23


How Carlyle blade Ills Wants known.
When CARLYLE was travelling in
Norway, one day ina wild out-of-the-
way place he reached am inn, very
hungry, but unable to make the host
ess understand his wants by any
thing he could say. He was consid-
erably pcrplexed. till he happily
thought of his pencil. He then care
fully drew dish in perspective, wit,
steam rising from it; beside this he
drew plate with knife and fork,
and ON the other side of the dish a
bottle and wine glass. When he
had completed this diagram of hi:-
wants, the face of his hostess bright
ened, and she at once left him to ex-
ecute his design.
He then went for a stroll, and on
returning found the picture com
plete. There was the bottle with
wine glass beside it; the plate, knife
and fork. and the dish covered. So
soon as he sat down mine hostess
lifted the cover. displaying a fine
hot fowl that sent forth cloud of
steam, and this was the finishing
touch given to the Norwegian design
of the great Nas1nyth. Boston Tran
script.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23

Taken together. Cleveland and Steven
son represent tariff reform and ..turn
the rascals outr-a splendid PLATFORM
Little Rock Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23

And yet it is said that Andrew Carne-
gle believes in the protection of the
American worlingman. Chicago Even
ing Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
CONTRACT LAaoR.
If rorei=ner Return. to HI. own ooun-

try He Can Not Come Back.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-The treasury
Department. has decided that 4 fore;sr7,e,-
who makes contract in this country to
work here, and then returns to his own
country. can not come back to the
United States for the purpose of fulfill
ing his contract without violating the
provision of the alien contract labor
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
Any kind or wages.

Even free trade wages would suit
the locked out employees Of the protect
ed iron and steel mills.-C Chicego Her
alA -
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23

There May Bo n Job for quay.
Harrison may yet be forced to start
Quay out in Pennsylvania with barrel.
Kansas City Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-23
A Dog who rsilz the hours.

Colonel F. n. Barksdale. of the
Passenger department of the Penn
tylvania railroad, has dog that can
tell the time of the day. Colonel
Barksdale has Il very fine clock that
strikes only on the hour and then
very slowly. The colonel got into
the way of making the dog tap with
his foot at each stroke of the clock.
Finally he got so he would do SO
without being told. just before the
clock strikes it gives a little cluck.
and whenever the dog heaHl this he
would prick UP his ears, faise his
paw and gently tap his paw at each
stroke without being told. After
awhile he got so that when any one
cluclzed Ike the clock he would get
into position AMI wait for the strokes.
He was for Il long time confused at
not hearing the clock, but after
awhile began tapping his paw any
way. The remarkable point is that
after awhile he remembered how
many strokes were due at each sue
ceeding hour, so that now whenever
the colonel cluclzs he gets into posi-
ton and thps the number of strokes
tho clock should make next time.
Thus at any time after 10 O'Clock he
taps eleven times; after 4 o'clock Eve
times, etc -Bellcfonte (Pa.) News.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-04-15
Legal Notice.
STAT8 or KANSAS. 90
EDWARDS COUNTY, -

NOTICE is hereby given that the foIIozvins-
y described IA nds and town lots gffIfaff,i n
;, 56s Souaty OF EdTaEtis State OF Kansas were
SOLO IoE tftfed OF 1888 the ID dav rgf sseufsy1.-
Der, 1853, and that unless the same - -
SiSSLned on OK before the ID day of seDtsrg.f,,s
I1a- By the payment Of Ene SUN set f-T,--5itg
SseA tract OF land or town lot che Sauss 5ein
tasst charges. interest and cCs~rs seei-rsie4-5
10 the ID day OF September j = 49, I'm -
conveyed by decd TO the pU- cha sSv - ,.,sg : ~ 70
GCO II EEAEMAE
County Treasurer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01

ARMOUR has broken ground a:
Kansas City for his big packing
house. 1t will employ three thousand
hands, devour three thousand beeves,
an equal number OF hogs, and four
thousand sheep every day. This
means the transfer of the Armour
packing business root and branch to
Kansas City from Chicago, and will
he big thing TOR the capital of the
Ksw The addition of three Thousand
laborers represents an added popula.
ton of at least twelve thousand, not
a small city in itself.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01
Prosperity i'm the South.

From the ST. Globe Democrat.
1.-THE most encouraging evidence of
the prosperity of the New South is
given by the FORCES and factories one
sees being operated and Quilt in that,
section" said Major s. NJ. Whiteside
Seventh Cavalry, United States
Army, at the Southern Hotel. ,"I
have just returned from a delightful
visit to my old home at Nashville,
Tenn. / hadn't been there for a
number of years, and I tell you the
wonderful Improvements I saw were
revelation to me. But the most
pleasing feature OF this new era OF
development in the South is that /,
proceeds from within and not from
without. What L mean by that is
that the Southern people are them.
selves building factories and FORCES
and opening new iron fields, and
quarrying into the. sides of their
mountains. Comparatively little
foreign or Northern capital is invested
in the great Industries around Nash.
vile, perhaps the most prosperous
city of the South, and the people have
gone TO work with a determination tC
work out their own salvation"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01

WATTERsoN prevented the Ken
lucky convention from instructing for
Cleveland, but he could not prevent
the enthusiasm from uncorking itself
at the mention of the ex presidents
name. nor from expressing itself in
the speeches that were made. Ken
lucky is as sure for Cleveland at Chi.
cago as if her delegates had been in.
structed. No one who read the pro-
ceedings of the state democratic con.
vention can doubt this.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01

THE democracy do not take kindly
to the idea of government ownership
OF the railway and telegraph but il
these were owned by the government
and the officers and employees de.
barred from taking active part In poll
otics, on account of being in the pub
lie service, then there would be little
desire on the part of the governors to
intervene in the manipulation of rail.
ways. This government of the
traffic of the country by the govern.
ment would do away with "a great
deal OF the professional agitater and
the candidature of men who play the
demagogue on the tiimsy pretence of
protecting the masses from the en-.
croachments of the corporations.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01

CASTLE GARDEN, New York, is to
be turned into vast aquarium, for
the benefit of the good people OF
Gotham. 1t will be the spot of all
Others for such q fish and marine ami
NAL exhibit, and the commissioners
having the thing in hand will see to
it that it is made such an institution
as will be creditable to the city. The
plans are about complete, and they
include large central pool 10 which
q living whale of no small potatoes
will disport himself and teach ad-
mirlng Gothamites all that they do
not know about spouting.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01

THIS is the day in which the anti
Hill cohorts meet in Syracuse to
widen the Oreech between the Cleve-
land and Hill factions of the New
York democracy, lest by any special
com binstion of circumstance an agree.
ment should be effected, and the
state stand as unit for the democra.
cy this campaign. All things work
together, as they should, for the ben
eft of the republican party.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-01

THE free siverites are to man un
altersbly opposed to submitting the
question 70 national con ference.
There Is something radically wron q
with these men when they fear to
put their policy to such test. Itap.
pears upon the surface OF it as though
their anxiety was not for the remou-
itization OF silver, but for such special
legislation in the interest of silver a.
would operate for the benefit OF the
silver mines at the expense Of the
country Their opposition, however,
Will not prevent the holding OF that,
bl metallic conference. France and
Germany have both siguified their
Willingness to participate, and the
friends of sound American finance
are hopeful that out of the delibera.
tons OF this conference some solution
to the question OF q bi-metallic cur.
rency may be afforded