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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
EpeiisI, Parsons.

The fox hunting parson, as much
sportsman as parson, has somewhat
died out, while his place is taken by
the muscular Christian who plays
with the village eleven and heads all
the local sports and games. This
kind has seldom much spiritual hold
over his people, but what he wants in
spiritual influence he supplies by hui
man love and respect. "a right good
sort" he is called by the men, who osee
in him only themselves, educated.
elevated, enlarged, but who do not
view him in any way as an inspired
messenger.
He is man like themselves, is the
parson, and they mind him when he
speaks to them, as privates might
their colonel, but not as devout
Catholic would his director. The diff
ference is subtle, but it is real and
significant. Queen.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
He 1yanted a sudden pen.h.

at brilliant dinner party at the
house of the secretary of state in 1876,
the talk turned upon the sensation of
death. 81 do not know" said Mr.. Fish,
In the hush that involuntarily followed
the introduction of such a serious SUBJ
ject, 'why we should pray against sud
den death; it seems to me very desir-
able way of shuffiing off this mortal coil.
think the compilers of our book of
Common Prayer must have intended vio-
lent death in their petition-at least that
is the way read it-and every Sunday
at church, when that part of the litany
is read, ] make that distinction in my
mind.
'sIt seems to me, " he continued, look
ing abstractedly before him, with his
thoughts evidently far away from the
gay scene by which he was surrounded,
''to die suddenly, without the painful
struggles of disease, is what would
rather pray for" When one day one of
the guests of that occasion picked up a
morning paper and read in large type,
Suddenly, at his home at Garrisons-on-
the-Hudson, Hamilton Fish," the long
forgotten conversation came yividly to
mind.-New York Tribune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
IHREATENINe eEsIuREs.
1he origin Of Shaking the clInehed Han,
In an opponent,s Faee.


In an Opponents Face.
would observe that the shaking
of the clinched hand as demonstra-
ton of hostility has apparently no
relation in its origin with the Gus
tom of using the fists after the man.
ner of the pugilist. The gesture is
IN use all the world over, but the Gus
tom of fighting with the naked fists
is strictly local and does not appear
to have any very great antiquity. a
Frenchman or an Italian VIII shake
his fist much more readily than an
Englishman, yet neither of these
peoples has attained to that pitch of
civilization marked by the custom
of arriving at an agreement by the
disputants pounding one another's
features.
In every case, except where the
demonstration has some familiarity
with the art of boxing and has not
lost all self control, the fist is not dis
played in manner which suggests
its use as a punching organ, but is
held as high as the head, with the
line of the knuckles vertical, in ex-
actiy the position 10 fact as though
the fingers grasped weapon. 10
shake spear or club at foe
is a common way of conveying a
threat among all primitive savages,
and if no weapon is within reach an
expressive pantomime of the action
is performed with the hand only.
It is noteworthy that women and
girls (who are less specialized than
men as regards such matters, and
whose instructive actions are there
fore much more valuable to the nat
uralist) not only shake the fist in
this, but generally persist in holding
the hand in some unscientific posi-
ton when they endeavor to emulate
the pugnacious sex.
If the gesture of shaking the fist
should prove to be instinctive-an
this point must at present be held to
be somewhat deubtful-it will be of
peculiar interest to anthropologists,
since it appears to be derived from
the habit of using some sort of weap-
on in striking at an enemy, and the
great majority of instructive acts un-
doubtedly date back to stage of ex-
istence when no such artificial aids
were invented Nineteenth Century
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
HOW the liberty noys pId n.

twill be remembered that dozen
or more of the collisions between the
British and the Liberty Boys of New
York just prior to the active out
break of the Revolution grew out of
the posting of incendiary bills and
broadsides.i
The manner in which these bills
were posted is curious. According to
the diary of John Parks, written in
1775, the work was accomplished in
the following manner:
The method lately used in New
York to post up infiammatory hand
bills was the same used in England
at the time of the Pretender It was
done by man who carried little
boy in box like magic lantern,
and while he leaned against the wall,
as if to rest himself, the boy drew
back the slide, pasted on the paper
and shutting himself up again the
man took the proper occasion to walk
off to another resting place New
York Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
AnimaI curIo.Itr.

A cow viii approach a new object
with fascinated but timorous suspi-
cion, and a horse is even more timid,
gazing at distance for awhile, ready
to fee in moment. The monkey
will snatch at everything that is new
and deliberately examine it. till, find
ing that he cannot eat it or mock
mankind with it, he will drop 1t and
let it pass from his shallow memory.
There is a pathos In the sIenderness
of animal curiosity 1T is SO easily sat
isfied. The thought, if thought it
be, usually ends with the first flush
of surprise and the impression of
safety.-Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
Doctors. Bills In China.


We occidentals only pay our doc.
tors when we are sick, and some
times not even then. The Celestial
method, as shown by the example of
the emperor of China, is pay the doc
tor only when one is well. AS soon
as the emperor is sick, it is notifca-
ton to his physicians that their sal
airy is cut off till he is perfectly well
again. The passionate zeal with
which the regulars go to work to get
his majesty back where their salaries
will begin again is said to be some
thing astounding. The result is that
the emperor is about the healthiest
man standing on the planet, and his
physicians seldom lose days salary.
Ashton Reporter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
The LONG srEMMED PIPE.
1t Has No Place In the Rash and yYhlrI
Modern I.ife.

1t Has No Place In the Rush and IFhirI OF
Modern Life.
If you viii consider what large
part smoking and eating play In the
best of Dickens writings, and how
utterly impossible it would have
been for Washington Irving to paint
the staid gravity of the early Dutch
settlers on Manhattan island with
out their pipes, one can see what
pity it is that pipe smoking is so fast
of our modern life You cannot smoke
a long stem pipe in a hurry. 1t re-
quires calm and leisure and a good
conscience if you would get the full
aroma of the new ground tobacco.
Let me give you touching bit of
pathos that heard when boy at
Hampden Sidney college In lecture
given by Oliver P. Baldwin, then
editor of The Dispatch. 1t was a de-
scription of the death of an old Vir-
GINA farmer:
The old man, with flowing white
locks, sat in an armchair under an
apple tree loaded with blushing
fruit The tree, like himself, was
old, for he had planted It with his
own hands, and together they had
seen many summers come and 70.
The mellow sunlight of an October
afternoon fell in slanting rays about
his head and tinged with deeper red
the apples above him. In one hand
he held the long stem of his pipe,
while above him circled the wreaths
of gray smoke, which fingered low
ingly for moment and then foated
away in infinite space. At his feet
on the greensward lay his dog, deaf
and nearly blind with old age. Some
autumn insect was lazily chirping
and droning in the grass. The
lengthening shadows were falling
far toward the east. Some one of
the household passing noticed that
the whiffs of smoke came at longer
and longer intervals from his pipe,
and at length ceased altogether.
''They thought the old man had fall
en- asleep, and so he had, but it was
the sleep that comes at the end of
life, for his gentle spirit had hoated
upward to the realms of light as
quietly and peacefully as the wreaths
of smoke that circled above his
head. "-Richmond Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
How Did the Turtle Find m. yyay9

The rocks at the west coast of the
island of st. Helena abound with sea
turtles, some of them as heavy as man,
and an English steamer once took aboard
several dozen of those sea monsters, In
tending to deliver them alive to q pro-
vision dealer in Liverpool.
But before they reached English wa
ters one of the turtles was taken sick
and was flung overheard, after having
been branded with the name of the ship.
Next year the same steamer came across
the same tortoise on the coast of st.
Helena, more than 1000 miles from the
point where the homesick creature had
been flung back overheard. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
REELECTION AND eRgsAee.

REFLECTION.
You have a tongue of honey and gall:
You can trip up truth with the deftest fan.
Your wit is as bright as your heart is true
And how does that sentence read TO your
You have seen my soul in the clearest light,
And would not read its riddle Alright.
The heart you think of, the mind you see,
Are but your trappings transferred 70 me.
PREsAGE.
You bird Of ocean, Ger the tossing wave
You fit prey seeking-I am not your prey;
Though can ne'er forget the gift you gave,
Until all time dissolves in the last day.
Pause in your flight Look on this wretch OF
Who fearless fears your presaee. 1sitwen
Your brilliant wings should bring a flash OF
To one whose vows and hopes you ne'er can
Wing on your flight, work out your destined
story,
Work to the prize that waits sou at the end.
And when your wings shall burn with heavens
Think not of me-you cannot make or mend.
Watching your fight. still shall wait in won-
der
To see you dauntlessi in the lightning's blaze,
And while hear and tremble at the thunder
May know you restful after restless days
w. II. Pollock In Long1nan's Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

have my own ambition. It Is not
To mount on eagle wings and soar away
Beyond the palings of the common lot,
Scorning the griefs and joys of every day;
1would be human-toiling, like the rest,
With tender human heartbeats in my breast.
Not on cold, lonely heights above the ken
OF common mortnls would build my fame
But in the kindly hearts of living men
There, II permitted, would write my name.
Who builds above the clouds must dwell alone:
count good fellowship above throne.
And SO beside my door sit and sing
My simple strains-now sad, now light and
gay;
Happy il this or that but wake one string
Whose low, sweet echoes give me back the
lay.
And happier still If. girted by my song,
Some strained and tempted soul stands firm
and strong.
Humanity is much the same; i'll
Can give my neighbor's pent up thought a
tongue,
And can give voice to his unspoken cry
OF bitter pain when my own heart iswrung-
Then We two meet upon common land.
And henceforth stand together, hand in hand.
send my thought its kindred thought to greet,
Out to the far frontier, through crowded
town.
Friendship is precious. sympathy is sweet:
So these be mine, ask no laurel crown.
Such my ambition which here unfold;
So II be granted-mine is wealth untold
Ellen p. Allerton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
Natban HaI... sw..tb..r.

The story that Nathan Hale's sweet
heart died unmarried is not correct.
Her name was Alice Adams, and she
married Eleazer Ripley, and after his
death William Lawrence. She died
in Hartford in 1915 at the age of IS.
Her granddaughter, who was with
her when she died, testified to the
truth of the story that in her last
hours her mind reverted to the love
of her youth, and she family uttered
the words, Write to Nathan" 1t
was her last utterance. Buffalo Cou-
rier.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
Nothing Like Being Sure.

"The next train for Chestnut Hill
leaves at 5:17-17 minutes after .. Train
now ready ON track No. 5. Track No. 8
for 5:17 train to Chestnut HiIlr'
Those were the words of the guard,
and they rang through the waiting room
In Boston with penetrating distinctness.
As soon as he had uttered them a fair
young woman rushed up to him and said:
rs the train for Chestnut Hill ready
yet? And what time does it Ieayes's-
Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
A Tale WIN n Morn

A dog. who had lost his tail. one day
Sat signing under tree:
The pleasure of living had passed away;
' 'Tis weary world" said he.
''rhe loss of my caudal appendage dear
Has wrought me much annoy;
have naught to droop to exhibit fear
Or to wag to show my joy.'
lust then another dog rushed past
Down the road with the speedtof the wind.
With an old tin can TO his tail tied fast
And a dozen boys behind.
Said the tailless dog. There's a lesson here
That is worth considerations;
There is no evil in life, tits clear,
Without its compensation"
New York Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

A table is a queer thing. It is said
to groan under the good things that
are piled on it, while the stale jokes
that are driveled out after the gooe
things are eaten are supposed to sci
the table in a roar.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
Another Mean Man.

Another mean man has been heard
from. A gulf storm blew an editor
into the top of a tall pine, where he
remained three days and nights.
When the owner of the land discoy-
cred him. he presented bill for
three days rent and then had him
arrested for trespass.-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
The Renson.


Grandma GruR said curious thing,
"Boys may whistle. but girls must sing;''
That's the very thing heard her say
To Kate. no longer than yesterday.
"Boys may whistle" OF course they may,
II they pucker their lips the proper way:
But, for the life of me. can't see
Why Kate can't whistle as well as me.
"Boys may whistle, but girls must sing;n
Now call that curious thing.
II boys can whistle, why can't girls too7
It's the easiest thing in the world to do.
So If the boys can whistle and do it well,
Why cannot girls, will somebody tell?
Why can't they do what boy can do?
That is the thing Ishould like to know.
went to father and asked him why
Girls couldn't whistle as well as /,
And he said. "The reason that girls must sing
Is because girls a singular thing"
And grandma laughed till knew she'd ache
When said thought it all mistake
Never mind. little man." heard her say,
They will make you whistle enough some
New Orleans Picayune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

There are now over 25O, 600 words
in the English language acknowi-
edged by the best authorities, or about
20, 600 more than in the German.
French, Spanish and Italian Ian
guages combined.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

Next to Westminster abbey there isno
place of sculpture of such historic inter-
est In the British isles as BunhiII fields.
the last resting place of John Bunyan,
Daniel Defoe and Isaac Watts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

The fur trade in New York is largely
IN the hands of German Hebrews, and It
Is carried on in all sorts of places, from
tiny shops employing three or four work.
men to great buildings where goods to
the value of many thousand dollars are
disnlayed
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

Much of the comfort of this life con-
sists in acquaintance, friendship and cor
respondence with those that are prudent
and yirtuous.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
At Parting.


II thou dost bid thy friend farewell,
But for one night though that farewell may
Press thou his palm with thine. How canst
thou tell
How far from thee
Fate or caprice may lead his feet
Ere the tomorrow Gomez Men have been
To lightly turn the corner of the street,
And days have grown
To months, and months to tagging years
Before they looked in loving eyes again,
Parting ut best is underlaid with tears,
With tears and pain.
Therefore. lest sudden death should come be-
tween,
Or time or distance, clasp with pressure true
The hand of him that goeth forth unseen.
Fate goeth too!
Yea, find then always time TO say
Some earnest word between the idle talk.
Lest with thee, henceforth. night and day,
Regret should walk.
Coventry Patmore.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

The Atlanta Constitution is of the
opinion that the south has iustabout
recuperated In wealth what the war
cost her.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
Notice to Trespassers.

All persons are hereby warned not to
trespass upon my lands (either enclosed
or unenclosed) in Union District, by
hunting, nutting, cutting hoop poles,
lumber, or removing rocks, logs OF bark,
under penalty of the law, as 1 will arrest
dec 20. 1sas.4w pd. =. =. 0oans.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

Wheat that is grown in northern lati-
tudes produces much more seed than.
grain grows farther south.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

What is the boosted good
That wealth, that power can own
oh, better Ia '1e loved slave
Than hated ON n thronel
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

A little girl startled her mother the
other day by abruptly asking what
bars,ers did with all their shayings.
Philadelphia Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
DEPARTMENTS:
NORMAL.
ACADEMIC AND CLASSICAL.
MUSIC.
BUSINESS.
SPECIAL FEATUREs.

Healthful and Pleasant Location
Lowest Expenses-Free Library and
Reading Room-Abundant Supply of
Modern Hell ful Apparatus-Builiings
Supplied With Pure Water-Heated by
the Best Hot Air Ventilating system
and Lighted Throughout by Gas.Bath
Rooms and all Toilet Conveniences in
the Buildings.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24

There is no school in this section Of
the State offering equal advantages at
such a low cost.
For catalogue or further information,
address the Principal.
THos. E. HODGES.
aug3Otf Huntington, w. Va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-01-24
MY Ambition.

New Orleans Picayune.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-02-17
Better Late Than Never

1t is not an uncommon thing to hear
young men complain that their early school
ing was deficient in quantity, poor in quail
ity, OFF neither of these-was wasted
through boyish indifference and folly.
They would get on better in life if they
knew more, they are free to admit; but
they do not see that they are daily wasting
opportunities which if improved, would in
few years give them fairly good eduea-
ton They think themselves too old to
learn, and spend more time regretting their
lack Of knowledge than would suffice to
give them the knowledge they need. 1t
is said that the father of Professor Sum
ner, of Yale College, could neither write
nor read when he came to this country.
young mechanic. Within twenty Years
thereafter he was known as one Of tho
best read men in Hartford. one of the
most cultivated communities in the country.
Instead Of wasting his time in idle re-
grets for his deficient schooling, he learned
to read, and read to good purpose. III
similar way many of the hest, most hon
ored and most successful men our country
has known have begun their acquaintance
with letters after reaching manhood and
there is no reason why the most illiterate
mechanic in our land, if possessed Of nat
ural ability and sincere purpose, may not
increase his enjoyment in life. his oppor-.
funities for improving his social and fiuan-
cial condition, aud the chances Of his family
for the highest success in life, by an honest
effort to retrive by study the disadvantages
by which early poverty or lack Of educa-
tional opportunities have surrounded him.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-02-17
MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
OF CARROLL COUNTY.
OFFICE, WESTMINSTER, MD.

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY:
j. W. Herring, President, Westminster. Car
roll county.
Richard Manning Secretary and Treasurer,
Westminster. Carroll county.
DIRECTORS.
j. W. Herring, Westminster, Carroll county.
Granville s. Haines, Union Bridge, Carroll
county.
David Prugh, Freedom, Carroll county.
Granville I. Herring, Sandyville, Carroll
Charles B. Roberts, Westminster, Carroll
county.
Edwd. Lynch, Westminster, Carroll county.
David Fowble, Westminster, Carroll county.
X. Manning, Westminster, Carroll county.
DR.. j j. Weaver, Jr., Uniontown, Carroll co.
f. L. Reindolar, Taneytown, Carroll county.
AGENTS.
John I. Difenbaugh, Westminster, Carroll
county.
j. Oliver Wadlow, Freedom, Carroll county.
Z. NJ. Anderson, Mt. Airy. Carroll county.
Louis Dielman, New Windsor, Carroll co.
John S. Repp, Union Bridge, Carroll county.
VIM. X. Zollickoffer, Uniontown, Carroll co.
E. +. Reindollar, Taneytown, Carroll county.
j. w. Weant, Double Pipe Creek, Carroll
county.
William H. Shower, Manchester, Carroll
county.
Granville T. Herring, Sandyville, Carroll
county.
W. U. Marker, Tyrone, Carroll county.
William A. Abbott, Hampstead, Carroll
county
John Jones, Mechanicstown, Frederick Co.
o. A. Horner, Emmitsburg, Frederick
county. jan9 II