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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
Golden TrntIls.

These are golden truths of De-
mocracy from the second inaugural
of Hon. Horace Boies, of Iowa;
/ cannot avoid the conclusion that
we legislate too much.
There are certain natural rights
which every man possesses, and ccr-
tain obligations which he as men,
Der of society owes to the public.
1t is clearly within the province
of the Legislature to enact laws for
the protection of the former and
the enforcement of the latter.
Beyond this in statutes that are
designed to regulate the conduct of
men it is, l believe, generally nn-
wise to go.
II is safe to say the wisdom of
man has never yet been sufficient
to enable him to devise practicable
means for the enforcement of strict
ly moral obligations.
So long as the conduct of men is
restrained within the limits that ad
init of no encroachment upon the
rights of others it should be left to
the regulation of their own consci-
ence and to the control of laws that
emanate from a Wisdom superior to
our own.
But under such definition the
field of legitimate legislative action
is not restricted within narrow
bounds.
TO be able to guard with jealous
care the rights of one class with
out encroaching upon those Of
another requires the exercise of
wisdom not vouchsafed to man.
To judge correctly between the
natural rights of the citizen and his
obligations as such to that organ
lied society that protects him in
these demands comprehension of
each more accurate than mortals
always possess.
Get these really eby heart and
You will never 60 far wrong in poll
tics unless you do it deliberately
and with malice aforethought.
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cincinnati Nessen>|r noys Have Lots Of
Scientific Fun with Rodents
Hurry up ana say whatch yer
want; wnntef t<1l back to TIL Office
an see der elee|Ii4rtion This was
the half shoute1 half gasped excla-
nation of tinF messenger boy the
other morning as he ANSWERED the
ring from a Restaurant. where a party
of sons of Bell we're holding forth.
He was wanted b call "a hack. and
upon receiving |is Zee dashed out
into the rain. Followed TO the Office
on Vine street fellow night hawk
intruded upon lho company that had
gathered to witness the solemn event.
The long legg d night clerk. stu
dent of applied Electricity. was the
warden Of the nuke believe peniten-
tiary where the legal murder. was to
take place
In due tima which was after
.'Smittie" had returned after steer
ing the hacl1aon, the condemned
criminals were I's'aughf out and the
live wires X a 9 ready The doom
ed were two in number, and were
fine. well fed rats that had been en-
shared into an old rusty trap by
using a part of the midnight lunch as
bait. Taking the two flexible wires
that ran from the dozen or more cells
of the battery. the executioner began
his work without ceremony.
The minute the wires touched the
cage bell set up an internal ringing.
The amateur electrician was not
aware that his wires were short cir
cuited, and as he plunged the end of
one of them against the nearest
squealSing rodent he was somewhat
surprised to see the little pest make
savage effort to bite the sharp
pointed gad. making no pretense at
all toward keeling over and dying.
This jabbing was kept up for some
moments with the same i'll success.
SO far as the staying of the rats was
concerned.
AT last the warden tu1nbled. Wet
ting the cage. he was careful to see
that the wires did not come into CON
tact with the same strand on the
netting over it, Selecting the big
gest of the doomed twain, he quickly
thrust the wire against its sleek coat.
a scream of tiny volume followed and
Sir Rat dropped on its side. The cur
rent was kept on, causing it to shud-
der and twitch convulsively. When
it was removed the first victim was
dead. The other. suspecting the
deadly nature of the wire, kept to
the opposite corner of the death cell.
The ends of the Office scissors applied
suddenly from the rear made him
leap forward quickly, and before he
could jump back again the life de-
stroying wire was upon him. Like
his i'll fated comrade, he went down
in heap. kicked, twitched and at
last lay still
The work of the executioner being
done he started to wrap up his wires,
and turning to the group remarked:
Say, No. 10, trow dem rats into
de barrel and fix de trap again. We
might ketch another before day
light. ~ Cincinnati Enquirer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09

Accepting reported measurements.
the largest erratic block, or bowlder.
as yet recognized in the United States,
and probably in the world, IS in the
town of Madison, N. H, and accord
ing to Professor Crosby, of the Bos-
ton Institute of Technology, has the
following maximum dimensions
Length, SO feet; width, in excess of
40 feet; height, 30 to 81 feet; con-
tents. 80, 600 cubic feet, and probable
weight 15,3oo,ooO pounds. or 1850
tons.
Next to this in size is undoubtedly
the great rock in the town of Mont
vile, New London county. Conn,
generally known by its Indian desig-
nation as "Sheegan, Z" and also as
Mohegan. l." In the opinion of some
this rock is an isolated granite pro
tuberance and not true s.erratic'' or
bowlder, but recent examinations
have seemed to completely negative
the first supposition. David A. Wells
in Popular Science Monthly.
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a lecturer who prides himself on
faultless pronunciation. and whose
sentences are SO constructed that they
measure like the rhythm of a poem,
said the other evening to the writer:
Il have just received from a friend
little book entitled Ten Thousand
mispronounced Words. Khave de-
voted a great portion of my life to
proper pronunciation of words. am
so sensitive on that that / am un-
happy l thought had about the
proper accent and so on, certainly in
the vocabulary use but l am CON
nonted every day with something
new If not that, with a pronuncia-
ton different from that to which 1
am accustomed What's a fellow to
doa Webster says one thing. Along
come Worcester. the Century and
other authorities and knock it all
over. am told that Webster Is au-
thority in this country. Who made
him authorityl The schools, the
writer's, the pressl But the schools,
the writers, the press do not agree.
meet scholarly men every day of
my life, Americans who differ In their
pronunciations. And these differences
are not in words seldom used, but in
those which are of everyday use. 1
am told, for example, that l must
say 'acowstics' instead of 'acoostics.
! refuse to do it. The first pronun-
citation would knock the best con-
structed sentence into disorder. And
yet Webster says 'acowstics. Ihave
been pronoiIncing paresis as if it were
spelled 'pareesis. Here is an excel
lent authority before me which tells
me the proper pronunciation is pare
sis, accent ON the first. And so the
changes keep in motion. What a
babel we shall some day have. ''-C Chi
cago Tribune.
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Does This Law promote suicide.

If it is true that figures do not lie.
the penal canon in this state against
self slaughter promotes instead of
preventing suicide. In 1881 there
were 166 cases reported in New York
city, while in 1890 the number was
239. Each year during the interval
shows an increase over the previous
one. The only advantage of the law
is that it reduces the risk of failure.
Suicide is the rapid transit route to
eternity, with no return tickets, and
the statute simply makes every pas
senger particular to see that he gets
on through train. Brooklyn Eagle.
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american. srustache. IN Enr,ana.

Isuppose it is not generally men,
toned when American gentlemen
are by, but there is a mustache known
in England as the sAmerican. This
| take to be one which extends itself
down ON either side of the lower jaw,
whence it is combed or brushed or
twisted out into prolonged tufts, in
close resemblance to the tail of a
goat. / confess l have seen several
American gentlemen so embeIlished.
1t Is safe to say when they have been
in London few days. and have
walked about the west end, these pro
longations promptly vanish.
! know just one Englishman with
this sort of mustache-yes, there
are two, and one is southern coun-
try baronet- But they furnish rare
exceptions to an overwhelming rule,
London Cor San Francisco Argo-
naut.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
Hannibal to scipio.

Even the stern business of war has
not prevented the exchange of com
pliments between military men, and
of these none better deserves quota
ton than the one paid by Hannibal
to Scipio While discoursing with
Scipio on the subject of great mill
tary commanders he said that Alex
ander was first, Pyrrhus the second
and himself the third. .sAnd where
would you have placed yourself if
you had yanquished meap asked
Scipio, smiling. Before them all, -
replied Hannibal. London Standard.
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NY AssIe.

Ahi wad ye ken wha my heart hnuds dear.
Whose bonny eyne ere bring me cheer7
No ither lover doth como anear
My dainty lassiei
My lassie an read the self same book.
As togither we sit in the ingle nook:
She gies me mony a loving look
My bonny lassici
My iassfe Is little an am tall
Lies tale she's beginning. while ken it
all.
But togither we bark to the Masters call
an my lassiei
My lassie is winsome tan sonsy as welD.
An love her more than my tongue car
tell:
/ pray that we lang may toEither dwell
an my lassiei
For she's my ain wee dautie. ye see,
An that is why she's sac dear TO me;
Dear Lord, may we bath thy glory see
an my lassiel
Helen Percy in Good Housekeeping
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
SENATOR cHAs- J. FAULKNER


On National and State Politics.
Parkersburg Sentinel
The correspondent met the Sena-
tor and interviewed him on the sub
ject of politics with the following
result:
"What is the condition Of the
Democratic party, To- day, Senator2
"Thc experience of 1890 so solid
fled the organization that if it pre-
serves the same unity and maintains
the methods conducted in 1891,
there will be no doubt whatever
that there will will be gratifying
Democratic majority along the
whole line No State ever did so
well in an off year as West Virginia
did in 1890. The State came within
l34 votes of casting as large a vote
as she did in the Presidential elec.
ton of 1883. This was somsthing
unprecedented in political history
where there was no Presidential or
State ticket in the field.
The cause which lead to the en-
thusiasm and outpouring of the
Democratic party were the McKin-
ley bill and the autoeratic rulings.
of Reed and the an. American at
tempt to throttle the voice of tile
people by ingeniously contrived de-
vices found in the provisions of the
Force Bill, and the fact that in the
election of that Legislature devolv-
ed under the Constitution, the right
to re district our State, and these
causes, with the absolute harmony
in the organization, produced that
phenomenal result in the vote.
Those causes still exist, and IN ad-
dition, the clear results of til Bill
lion Dollar Congress in its unpar-
alleled extravaganza make the po-
litical results to be accomplished in
'92 far greater than those of 80, and
especially in our Federal relations.
On the vote of West Virginia may
hang the election or defeat of the
democratic candidate for President
and control OF all the institutions of
our State under Democratic infiu-
ences-
Hardly political cyclone could
prevent a Democratic majority in
the Legislature, or the election, as
my successor, of a Democrat.
The position of State in its reIa-
tisn to the Democracy, both State
and Federal, is fully appreciated by
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
hotels witb ForeIgn Names.

The cosmopolitan character of New
York is signally illustrated by the
names of its hotels and the business
signs ON the business streets. Out of
ninety three hotels in this city, thir-
ty-nine have distinctively foreign
names, the remainder being named
after the localities in which they are
situated, or the men who own or
lease them, and in a few instances
after some American historical per-
sonage. One of the great hosteiries
is named after the Holland House, in
London. There is an "Imperial' ho-
tel and Royal hotel. The ssvic-
toria,n the ALBERT, the "Albe-
marie, the Bristol" /" the ssBuclzing-
ham," the Windsor" the Cam
bridge, the 'Deyonshire, y the ''Met-
ropole," the 'eNo11nandie,n the
Brunswick. the sBartholdi," the
"St. Marc, +" the sSt. James" and the
Westminster are all suggestive of
foreign localities and names.-New
York Cor. Philadelphia Ledger.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09

John James Heidegger, manager of
the opera house in the Haymarket in
the times when George was king, one
day laid a wager with the Earl of
Chesterfield that he would not find
IN all London an uglier face than his.
After long search the earl pro
duced a woman of st. Giles who at
first seemed to outvie the manager.
but when the latter put on the wom-
ans cap he was allowed to retain the
palm of ugliness. s.-AIl the Year
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
A Sew Artincial nonrr.

An artificial honey, which is said
to be likely to become formidable
rival of the natural product, is being
made in Germany 1t consists of
water. sugar. small quantity of
mineral salts and free acid. The
resemblance is increased by incor-
porating into the product the scent of
flowers. = Pittsburg Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
Too Soon for That.

is Mrs. Withers engageda" asked
the caller as he handed his card to
the maid.
Indade she isn't, sorr, replied the
girl with some indignation; s.sure an
Mr.. Withers do be dead only three
months. New York Epoch.
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"a Jernsale1n Ho.t.Irr

In Jerusalem the finest and in
fact the only hotel is kept and owned
by Philadelphian Several years
ago he visited the ancient city and
saw that good hotel would pay,
and he at once erected a first class
hostelry. Pilgrims from every land
bound to Jerusalem We're only too
glad to find clean, comfortable ho-
tel so far away from home, and it is
now royalty patronized by travellers.
Biblical history, end who pilot Guests
to all points of interest. The discus
siens around the hotel tables-in
which Moses, Jacob, Pharoah, Paul.
John and other figures of sacred his
tory form the chief staples of CONVEX
sation-are said to resemble very
much those of a ministers weekly
meeting. Philadelphia Record.
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The Narrow.nI.deane.s or Naerlnr.

The NarroW1niDsiedness OF Nagging.
The dictator is often the last person
IN the house who realizes the dis
comfort that his system of nagg1ng
produces, as such person in the
necessities of the case is a pre- emf
nently selfish individual, whose
horizon is limited to himself and who
only takes in the rest of the world as
they are his and form part in that
way of his selfish interests. New
York Tribune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09
LoOkias Tor Songs

A woman who in her extensive
travels has endeavored to listen to
and secure, if possible, the folk songs
of the various peoples she has visited
encountered surprise while IN New
Zealand. Some Maori were ON a boat
which she boarded, and she tried to
convey to them her desire that they
should sing for her one of their ma
tive songs For long time she was
unsuccessful in making herself un-
derstood, but suddenly they betrayed
comprehension and began singing
Justify, Hold the Fort There had
evidently been missionary In New
Zealand New York Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09

A little girl on hearing of the rails
ing to life of the widows son thought
1t over quietly and eventually re-
marked, II presume they had to pay
for the grave all the same2"-London
Truth.
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AFRAID of water.

Very good IS the story of the scotch
boatman who. while crossing loch,
was asked if he would take some
water with his whisky, and replied,
Ma, there was horse drooned at
the heed o the lock twa years ago. .
The head of the lock was twenty-four
miles distant London Spectator.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09

The Democrats in Congress are
at last preparing to attack the pro-
visions of the Mckinley bill. Tho
attitude of the party on the tariff
question is too well known to re-
quire any further demonstration in
that line and now that an opportun-
ity is offerered the majority party
in the House is going to put its
principles into action and pass
bill repeating the most Objectionable
portions of the Mckinley act. That
it is almost useless work is certain
for the Republican Senate viii
never permit the passage Of a DEM
ocratic measure which will give
relief to the people though it may
reduce the size of the purses of the
manufacturers who have contribut-
ed SO largely to see the monopoly
fostering Mckinley act framed and
passed. Should such measure by
any hook or crook get through the
Senate the President could not
forego the principles of his party to
such an extent as to approve the
bill. He would have to stick by
Mckinley and veto the bill. So it
is that no sweeping changes will
probably be made in the present
tariff law by the present Compress.
yet the Democrats should not hesi-
tate to go ahead and do their duty.
They chouId show their colors and
let the people know that the Demo-
cratic party is as willing and anxi-
Gus to help them as it has always
professed to be.
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Fanines In England

There were famines in England in
1851, 1915, 1886, 1s4s and 1865, and a
general distress prevailed also In both
England and Francein 1898, 174s, 1879
and 1795. The great Irish fanines of
1914, 1916, 1922, 1881 and 1876 were IN
consequence of the failure of the
potato crop, and no doubt In each
thousands of persons starved to death.
Providence Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09

An old we'll in California which
for a number of years has furnished
excellent water has suddenly turned
into an oil well.
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A Preacher recently said that
newspaper which told the truth,
and the whole truth, couldn't be
pecuniary success. The minister
who will at all times and under any
circumstances tell the truth about
his members alive or dead, might
not occupy the pulpit more than
one Sunday, and in some cases
might find it convenient to leave
town. The press and the pulpit
always go hand in hand with the
whitewash brush and pleasant
words, magnifying little virtues in
to big ones. The pulpit. the press
and the gravestone are the great
saint-making triumvirate.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-02-09

How would Matt Quay do for the
head of the National Republican
ticket. and Tom Reed, of Maine, for
the second placer This arrange
ment would have one point in its
favor, at least-it would tend to
sharply define the Republican posi-
ton. Quay, Reed and Mckinley
are the best representative Repub-
licans in the country, and to place
any two of these men on the ticket
would obviate the necessity of q
Republican platform. Everybody
would know at once what princi.
pies the party stood for.
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NO. 36.


Mr.. Springer is evidently alive to
the needs of the times and the wishes
of the people. In recent inter-
view concerning his free wool bill
he says that the committee will be-
gin the work of tariff reform "with-
out delay" and that "one of the
first measures taken up will be the
bill placing wool on the free list
and repeating the compensatory
duties on woolen goods now in
force
These compensatory duties are
in themselves a confession of the
necessity Of free raw material to the
success of wooden manufacturers.
When Mckinley raised the tax on
wool, the raw material of the woolen
goods manufacture, he found that
in order to enable the manufacturers
to pay the wool duty he must give
them higher duty on wooden goods.
This took care of the producers Of
woolen goods so far as protective
tax can take care OF anybody, but it
imposed upon the unfortunate con-
sumer of wooden goods double tax,
one for the alleged benefit of the
wool grower and another for the
woolen- goods manufacturer. Mr..
Springer says that under this double
tax the average duty on all kinds of
woolens reaches the enormous rate
of ninety.one per cent. This almost
doubles the cost to the peapIe of the
woolens which in this climate are a
prime necessity Mr.. Springer is
confident that his bill would save
the people not less than $40, 600, 600
a year. This is an exceedingly
moderate estimate, for the duty has
not only nearly doubled the price
of imported wooIens, but it has in
almost the same ratio increased the
price of the s344, 100000 worth of
domestic woolens that were manu-
factured during the census year.
The removal of the "compensa-
tory duties should reduce the tax
alton on woolen goods fully one
half, which would give the people
an aggregate saving of much more
than s75,OOO,0OO year, while at
the same time, for reasons which
the Register has time and again
pointed out at length, and which
long experience fully upholds, both
wool growing and wool manufac-
turing would be largely benefited.
= Wheeling Register.
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Tomlinson is the acknt
Stoves, Reapers, Mowers, sd
Ghurns, Glass, Doors, Sash,
&c. Tin Roofing a speciality.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-02-11
A PYTHIAN BLOCK.

A stock company has been formed
within the ST. Johnsbury Knights of
Pythias organization, for the purpose
of erecting a business block on East
ern avenue and at the same time
furnishing central and commodious
headquarters for Apollo lodge. The
incorpOratOrs are twelve in number,
al will be seen by a formal notice
published elsewhere, and the site of
the new building will be the premises
now occupied by Chas. P. Carpenters
hardware establishment The plans
of the structure are not yet COM
pleted, but it will be three-story
brick building, rs by so feet, the
lot on which it is to stand being rs
by 112 feet. The first floor will be
devoted to stores; on the second
floor there will be offices and posi-
bly, one tenement; while the third
will be used for Apollo lodge hall.
Work on the building will be COM
menced as soon the coming spring as
the ground is in condition for such
operations.
There will be three stores on the
first floor, one of which will be occu-
pied by Charles P. Carpenter, who
will also use the present building
which will be moved to the rear Of
the lot. The building and lot were
bought of Col. T. C. Fletcher for
$4,000. The building was built
about 1850 and until 1869 stood
where the CALEDoNIAN block now
stands.
The Knights of Pythias are to be
congra tulated on their enterprise in
thus pushing for building of their
own, as well as on securing so des1r-
able site for the same. The struc-
ture they erect will be an ornament
to the village, and more-it will
prove, we believe, an excellent thing
for Eastern avenue, leading, in the
near future doubtless, to the further
Improvement of the architectural
aspect of that thoroughfare. The
Knights do well for themselves and
for the community in this their latest