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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14
How do you Treat Your sisteri

1t is the easiest thing in the
world for boy to be polite to some
other fellows sister; then, why is it
some of them find it SO hard to re-
member to be equally courteous to
their own sisters2 Many a boy is
rude to his sister without realizing
it; in other words, he forgets to be
polite. Then again, he is afraid OF
being dubbed "sissy" if he should be
caught paying some attention to his
sister. 1t is a bad habit for any
body to get into, that of saving ones
polite ways for outsiders.
If you meet your sister in the
street take your hat off when you
speak TO her, you would do it for
some other boy's sister.
If she asks you question don't
answer it in a rude or carless man
ner, as if you thought she didn't
know what she was talking about,
and wasn't worth listening to.
Don't guy her OF make fun of her
in any way to hurt her feelings.
You wouldn't do that to some
other girl.
You can just bank all you've got
on the boy who is kind and thought
full to his sister, foryou may be sure
he will develope into the right sort
of man that is bound to win the
respect and affection of everyone.
-Neso Orleans Picayune.
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Honor Thy Mother.

Read, ponder, and cut this out
and put it in your Bible:
Honor thy dear old mother
Time has scattered the snowy fakes
on her brow, Plowed deep burrows
on her cheeks-is she not sweet and
beautiful now2 The lips are shrunk-
en- thin, but those are the lips that
have kissed many a hot tear from
the childish cheek. They are the
sweetest lips in all the world. The
eye is dim, yet it glows with the
soft radiance of holy love which can
never, never fade. AbI yes, she is
a dear old mother. The sands of
life are nearly run out, but feeble as
she is she will go further, and reach
down lower for you than any other
person on earth; You cannot walk
into the midnight where she can't
see you; can't enter a prison whose
bars will keep her out; you can new
er mount a scaffold too high for her
to reach-that she may kiss and
bless you is evidence of her death
less love.
When the world shall despise and
forsake you, when it leaves you by
the wayside to die unnoticed, the
dear old mother will gather you in
her feeble arms and carry you home
and tell you of your virtues, until.
you almost feel that your soul is
disfgured by hypocrisy. Love her
tenderly and cheer her closing
years with holy devotion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14
What is the Attraction.

One of the curious oonundrums
of human nature is the attraction
that hardened ruffians and scound-
rels possess for women. Its exist
ence is unquestionable. Mover a
burglar, murder, or villain of any
stripe is brought to justice, but he
at once becomes an object of admir-
alton for some women, and those
often refined and lady-like women.
A striking incident occurred at Du-
buque, Iowa, the other day. Hugh
Robbard had been convicted of rob-
berry and murder and sentenced 10
life imprisonment. AS he left the
court room Mrs. May Tanning, a
widow, who is employed as clerk in
the sheriff Office, rushed up to him,
handed him a bank note and bas-
ket of fruit, and kissed him tender
ly. In the basket was note, tell
ing him that he had a friend who
would never forsake him, signed,
"Your loving May She had never
seen him until he was brought to
trial. What is the charm?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14
Gazing EoR The PIANO.
How 30 Keep tho Instrume1ss.tn Good Con
dition All the Year Round

How 20 Keep the InstrumelsSSfn Good Con-
dition All the Year Round.
Owners often let their pianos go
month after month simply from neg
lect to give orders for tuning. This
is mistake, as your piano may be-
come seriously injured. Have your
piano regularly tuned, and if reli-
able make it will last for years. Itis
impossible to specify any number of
times per year that the instrument
must be tuned. Generally speaking,
most pianos require attention three
or four times annually. So much de-
pends, however, upon the tempera-
ture as well as the make of the in
strument, use and kind of use, its
condition, ETC., that where one piano
needs five or six tunings yearly an.
other might do equally well with but
two tunings during the same time.
A competent tuner will attend to the
regulating of the action and voicing,
which is quite as important as the
tuning.
Keep the piano during the winter
in the coolest part of the room and
the temperature as even as possible.
Never set it close to a register, as
too much heat is liable to shrink and
crack the sounding board. Damp
ness is one of the greatest enemies to
the piano; therefore the instrument
should be closed in damp weather
when not in use. In dry, pleasant
weather leave the piano open, SO the
dry air can get to the action and key
board. This will keep out the damp
ness from the action, keep the keys
from sticking, the ivories from turn
ing yellow and the strings from rust
ing. ALI of these troubles are liable
to occur if the piano is kept closed
too much.
Never let the sun shine on the pi-
ano, as it will surely blister and turn
the color of the varnish, which can
never be remedied unless the piano is
scraped and revarnished, and this ne
cessitates a heavy expense. Watch
the piano carefully that the moths
do not get into it, as they VIII do the
piano serious injury.
Every first class piano undergoes a
process of vanishing that requires
from G to 10 weeks time and receives
half a dozen coats of fine varnish,
which are in turn rubbed and pol
ished until the surface is smooth as
glass. Every one has observed after
purchasing new piano, especially
in damp weather, that it soon takes
on dull, smoky appearance. This
is the effect of the dampness upon the
surface of the yarnish.
To remove this use fine sponge
and tepid water. A chamois skin as
dry as it can be wrung out of water
should be used to dry the surface
after using the sponge. This will
usually be sufficient. Should you
wish higher polish, oil the case
with piano oil and remove the oil
thoroughly from the varnish with a
piece of cotton flannel moistened
with little alcohol. Never allow
the alcohol cloth to be leftany length
of time on the varnish, as the alcohol
would burn it.-Philadelphia Times.
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NO. III
Young Mans ..WiId Oats. ,


So far as a young man Sowing
his wild oats is concerned, writes
Edward w. Box in some editorials
for young men in the March La
dies Home Journal, it has always
seemed pity to me that the man
who framed that sentence didn't die
before he constructed it. From the
way some people talk one would
imagine that every man had in
stalled into him at his birth a GER
tain amount of devfltry which he
must get rid of before he can become
man of honor. Now what is call
ed sowing wild oats" is nothing
more nor less than self-degradation
to any young man. Il doesn't
make man one particle more of a
man because he has passed through
a siege of riotons living and indis-
erection when ne was nineteen or
twenty; It makes him just so much
less of man. 1t dwarfs his views
of life far moro than it broadens
them. And he realizes this after
ward. And he doesn't know one
iota more of aliEe," except certain
phase of it, which, if it has glitter
for him in youth, becomes repell-
ent remembrance to him when he is
matured. There is no such thing
as an investigating period in a mans
life; at one period it is as important
to him to be honorable and true to
the teachings of his mother as at
another.
No young man need seek the
darker side of life." The Lord
knows that it forces itself upon our
attention good enough. 1t does not
wait to be sought. a young man
need not be afraid that he will fail
to see it. He will see plenty of it,
and without any seeking on his
part either. And even if he does
fail he is the gamer. There are a
great many things which we can ac-
cept by inference as existing in this
world. 1t is not liberal education
to see them. Two many young
men have a burning itch to see
wickedness-to indulge in it, as
they are quick to explain, but simp-
ly to see it. But the thousands of
men who have never seen it have
never felt themselves the losers. If
anything, they are glad of it. It
does not raise a mans ideal to come
into contact with certain types of
manhood or womanhood which are
only removed from the lowest types
of the animal kingdom by virtue of
the fact that the Creator chose to
have them get through the world
on two legs instead of four. The
loftiest ideal of womanhood that a
young man can form in his inn
pressionable days will prove mono
too high for him in his years of ma
turity. To be true to the best that
is within a man means, above all, to
be an earnest believer in the best
qualities of womanhood.
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two years, and one member for one
year, annually thereafter one for two
years. Thus it will be seen that the
members of the board, are with the
exception of the one appointed for
ono year at the next July meeting,
TO serve for two years.
Section 2s, which formerly pro-
vided that no teachers certificate
should be of force more than one
year, is amended so as not to con-
fiict with the provision of section 90,
which provides for two and four
years certificates.
Section 2O,is amended so as to pro-
vide that all grades of county certif-
Gates shall be isued at the same ex-
animation.
Section 40, as amended, provides
that the people by their vote, shall
fix the number of months to be
taught by voting power to levy for
the same but this cannot be less than
fanr monfha
Section Al, is by this act repealed.
Section 45 now requires that all
boards of education of districts and
independent school districts whose
expenditures for all school purposes
in any one year shall equal or ex-
ceed $4,000, shall publish an itimiz-
ed statement of its receipts and ex-
penditures, in some newspaper of
the county having general cir
cnlation in said district.
Section 46 provides that the sheriff
shall receive no pay for receiving
and-disbursing the State School
Fund, and not more than two per
cent. for receiving and disbursing
railroad taxes; and no pay for tho
of any school money
arising from the sale of school prop
erty or received from any other
source than levies.
Chapter 65 of the Acts of 1883,
is repealed"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14
Strange but True.

1t may seem strange, but it is
nevertheless true, that alcohol
regularly applied to the thrifty
farmers stomach will remove the
boards from the fences, let the cat
tie into his crops, kill his fruit trees,
mortgage his farm and SOW his
fields with wild oats and thistIes.
1t will take the paint off his build
ings break the glass out of the win
dows and fill them with rags. 1t
will take the gloss from his man
ners, subdue his reason, arouse his
passions, bring sorrow and disgrace
upon his family, and topple him in
to drunkard's grave. 1t will do
this to the artisan and the capitalist,
the matron and maiden, as well as
to the farmer, for in its deadly en-
nifty to the human race alcohol is
no respecter of persons.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

WHAT one Boy Did in One Year.

He begged the Office of sexton in
the little Western church, and earn
ed seventy Eve cents a week.
He picked one hundred quarts of
fruit for a neighbor.
BE bought and sold eleven dozen
chickens and cleared five dollars on
them
When he could get Lo other
work. q neighbor's wood pile was
always ready, at dollar cord for
Saving and splitting. He earned
sI3 % ON his wood-piles.
For doing chores, cleaning yards.
doing errands, etc, he received ten
dollars.
For milking cows, taking care OF
horses, etc, for neighbors, twenty
dollars.
at the end of the year this four
teen year. old boy had earned a little
more than one hundred dollars and
neve niassd a day at school. tt
was q busy year, yet play hours
were scattered all along winning,
fishing, hunting, skating and coast
ing each found its place. The old
adage proved true in his case:
aWhere there'sa will there'sa way"
He never missed a job; when
other boys were idle he was busy,
and the best of all that 1 can tell
you about him is this, he was a
Kings Son."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14
a SUMMER MoRNINe seENE.


The mists Of night have gently risen from the
And morning once again her banner has un-s
creeping from the hills the glorious sun aD-
And The ,lews upon the leaves sparkle IKE an
gels, tears.
Ehrtis begin TO waken now and sing thefrsonss
And In faroG wonderland the lark begins to.
Theeastern hills are tipped in gold. and all the
earth is green.
And azure skies look down upon this lovely.
morning scene.
The flowers raise their dropping heads. respon-
siye 10 the call.
= smile Of Joy and welcome the morning gives
And s,vseilY smellins perfumes rise far above
the trees
and are waited over hill and dalo upon the
morning breeze.
And. see. adown yon NOISY slope the glisteninR
waters rush;
And then by bower and arbor. through bram-
BILE and through bush
The silver streamlet wends its way, and water
lilies smile.
AS If 70 call US from the world and rest with
them awhile.
oh. beauteous morning. calm and peace nre
written on thy brow.
jestlc bow.
She bids thee welcome with a song that rises
on the air.
And echoes take the praises up from woodland
far and near,
And we. who work and toll all day. and with
our troubles cope,
We gladly welcome thee. because thou bring
est us sweet hope
Hope that the day will brighter be than the
gloomy yesterday,
And that the sim hat all, ,,fII AZ.
our tears away.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

All. who can teli2 Ny life is nearly run,
And DER its trodden path grim shadows
lower.
Inow can see many a rare. sweet flower
OF opportunity might have won,
But left ungathered. My early manhood's s sun
Is dark eclipsed. Where'er turn see
No beacon; no star of rest shines out for me
To light the past and do the things undone.
No hopel But oh, Nepenthe's sweetest rest
Somewhere. or near or far, shall come to me
In great obliviOn's moveless, deepest sea,
When l. with hands EMBODIED on my breast,
Shall sleep the dreamless sleep that knows
no morrow,
That knows no hope. no fear. NO pain. no
sorrow.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14
The Beauty oft.

Some men never grow tired of
admiring their wives, and one of
these whose wife was a bandsomef
girl was recently showing a friend
of his a new house they had just
moved into.
81 can't say 1 admire the house, .
said the friend, candidly, as they
looked at it from the front gate.
"WelI, there's one beauty about
ii, ," said the owner.
"Where2''
sOn the inside"
aWhat is it2''
"My wife" And after that it
seemed to the friend that the whole
place was beautiful.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

Houses are built to live in, more
than look on; therefore let use be
preferred before uniformity, except
whore both may 'be had.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

Gold can be beaten 200 times
thinner than printing paper. One
ounce win cover 146 square feet.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

An lands are fair to him who knows content,
An skies are sunny and all fields are green;
In dreamy mists with softest azure blent
Lie distant cloudlands tipped with silver
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

The wayside violet sheds her fragrance sweet,
For him the wild rose bushes all are spent:
Lies fullest gifts are poured about the feet
OF him within whose heart is found content.
Boston woman's Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

aWhat kind Of an insect is the
Presidential bee that sometimes
buzzes in a statesman's bonnet2"
at is q hnmhng..
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-14

Times swfftest fight is said to be
taken on the wings Of promissory
note.
The Washington times., 1894-11-16
ALEXANDRIA HAPPENINGS.

Mr.. D. w. Holden, superintendent of the
Mount Vernon Railway. said last night that
the track to the st. Asaph Race Course,
would be finished by Saturday evening next
and that night cars would be run over the
new line. II Is understood that the electric
railway authorities have in view the building
of belt line about the city.
1t looks now as If Alexandria was TO be one
of the eight cities in the baseball league of
Virginia next season. Mr.. Frank McClarin,
manager OF the Old Dominion Baseball Club,
of this city, has received a letter from Camden
Sommers, president of the Virginia State
League OF Baseball Clubs. inviting the Old
Dominion to form one OF the clubs of the
League.
Robert Posey and Lewis Hart, white, had a
difficulty with a crowd Of negroes on North
Pill street yesterday evening. Posey and
Hart were arrested and locked up, but the
negroes got away.
A portion OF the wall OF one OF the brick
kilns at the Alexandria brick works fell on
the back of John Banks, a negro. who was
working In the KIN, badly straining it.
The National Capital Brewing Company, of
7 Washington, held its annual meeting in this
city yesterday and elected Messrs. E. F. Alb
ner, John d. Bartlett, Albert Carey, and Sc
bastian Aman, of Washington, and Robert
Portner directors for the coming year. The
directors afterwRrd elected Mr.. Albert Carey
president.
Yesterday evening the mayor supplied the
police with a list of all persons who have
taken out dog licenses and instructed them to
arrest all persons owning dogs for which no
license tax has been paid.
The Young Peoples Union of the Second
Presbyterian Church held their first meeting
of the season last night with Capt. X. Kemper
In the chair.
Mr. Frank A. Byrely, for some years a
teacher in old ST. Johns Academy, is visiting
friends in this city.
City Treasurer NJ. B. Harlow. with his wife
and daughter, left here to-day for Ashville,
n. c., for the benefit of his health.
Mr. William Carlin has been elected presi-
dent, Miss Lula Watkins, secretary, and Mr.
Thomas Rowe, treasurer, of the Southern
Assembly.
The libel case of Walter Brown against the
tug G. W. Ridley came up before United
States Commissioner Fowler yesterday, and
was referred to commission for examination
and report.
The Washington times., 1894-11-16
Pointers from the Paddock.

Tom Flynn was present yesterday, and
thinks the Island course the best three-quar-
ter mile track in the country.
Frank Weir has purchased Hume from
Green B. Morris, paying $1,000 for him.
George Taylor made his debut in the pig
skin to-day at the Island.
Billy Beckett and all his friends fell very
heavily on Beautiful Bells. She was in a
pocket the most OF the way
Detroit ran quite different race from the
last time out
There was a lot Of humping in the second
event.
Mask won hRndily at the finish.
By Jove was one of those good things that
didn't go through.
Bessemer should have been second.
Old man Gray had good bet on Con Lucy
third.
Frank Weir bet on May f. playing her
from Is to /, down TO s to /.
Prince klamath was played heavily at s
20 5.
Dare DEVILS weight told the tale, and he
simply walked in.
Telephone sulked all the way.
All ths talent bet on Finnwater. and the re-
suit was never in doubt
siberias race was not a true one.
pinch.
The Washington times., 1894-11-16
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Fast steamers between New York and
Azores, Gibraltar, AIgiers Naples, and Genoa
Werra, Nov. "a, 2 p. m, for Alg., Nap, Gen.
Kaiser w. IL Dec. l, 10 a. m. for Genoa.
F. Bismarck, Dec. S, 1:S0 p m, for AIg., Nap, Gen.
Fulda, Dec. 13, 10 a. m, for Genoa.
Normannia, Jan. D. m, Alg., Gen. Alexandria.
Kaiser W. II, Jan 10. p. m, for Alg., Nap, Gen.
Werra, Feb. 2, 10 a m, Alg., Nap, Gen, Azores.
Normannia, Feb. l6, II a. m, Alg, Nap, Gen
Kaiser w ii, Feb. %, a. m, for Alg., Nap, Gen
Werra, Mch 9, 9 a. M, for Alg, Nap, Gen
All steamers stop at Gibraltar
Return tickets available for the steamers of
either line from Naples, Genoa, Gibraltar, Ham
burg, Bremen, London, and Southampton. Di-
rect connection from Genoa, Naples, to Egypt by
N. G. Lloyd s S. Co g Imp Mail Strs.
North German Lloyd, Hamburg-American
Oelrich s. Co., G. Agts. Line.
3 Bowling Green, n Y. 81 Broadway n. Y.
( Droop, 925 Pennsylvania avenue, agent
for Washington, d. c.
The Washington times., 1894-11-16
Notes from the Departments.

NoIeS 1TOm the departments
Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller has
returned from West Virginia.
Postmaster Carr, of Philadelphia. was in
Washington yesterday transacting business
at the Post-office Department.
Owing to the press of public business Sec
retary Carlisle has been compelled to decline
an invitation to attend the annual banquet OF
the New York Chamber of Commerce.
Postmaster General Bissell was at the de-
partment yesterday for the first time In two
weeks. He attended to matters connected
with his annual report, which viii be sub
mitted to the President in few days.
E. /. Renick, chief clerk of the State De-
partment; F. w. Clarke. of the Interior De-
partment, and W. /. Adams secretary, con-
sisting the government board of managers of
the Atlanta Exposition, have gone to Atlanta
to lock over the ground and consult with the
local managers of the exposition regarding
the government exhibit.
Twenty-nine clerks of the Census Office
were dismissed yesterday. This will pe fol-
lowed in a few days by the dismissal of 200
more. The cause is the completion of the
work of the eleventh census.
The Washington times., 1894-11-16
Miscellaneous Sporting Notes.

-IIsNIUuHIUuS SEUI IIES -NUIGS-
The projected match at Chicago between
Danny Needham and Tom Tracey has fallen
through.
Harvard defeated Brown at Cambridge yes
terday Is to 0.
Georgetown and Richmond College teams
will play tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 on the
Georgetown campus.
At the League baseball meeting yesterday
the 10 per ceut. assessment clause was
abolished.
B. Z. McKeever, manager of the third
GonZaga College football team, wants chai-
lenges from teams, members of which do no t
average over eighty pounds.
Gov. Matthews, OF Indiana, declares his in
tention to prevent the running of winter
race meeting at the Robey track.
The Washington times., 1894-11-16
COSSACK AN EASY WINNER
Carter Halls Crack Carried the Money
Safely Home TO Victory.
FINNNATER HAD ONLY AGALLOP
Two Favorites Were All to Land First at the
Island Track-Detroit Ran Different
Race Than the Previous Time Out and
Won in Very Easy Manner.

Carter Halls fast gelding. Cossaek, picked
up ll9 pounds and easily beat good field in
the third race yesterday at the Alexander
Island course. Cossack gave away weight 10
every horse in the race, being entered not TO
be sold. and proved TO be far superior to the
Others
Finnwater nal only to gallop TO win thet two
year-old event, and was q z to choice, all
the talent being down on the Underwood
hlly. Detroit was a very different animal
yesterday than the previous time out and had
but little trouble in beating the lot opposed to
him Mask also showed up in better form
than usual and pulled of the second event.
fhe attendance was good and the betting ac-
tive. Summaries:
The Washington times., 1894-11-16

OK, Jakey Josephs, Virginia Carroll Johnny
Getty, and Peter Worth.
Fred Cowan could not land on winner.
Corbett, Stalley. and Wheelock plunged on
Elise Morrison flly.
Robusta was heavily played for the placeby
Pittsburg Phil and other good judges.
Bobby Smith yesterday bought Old Domin-
ion and Curious for $500.
Bookmaker John Duffy was called to Phila-
delphia by the serious illness of his brother.
Jack Bennett burned up $500 trying to win
81 500 on Copyright straight.
Jake Shipsey led the plunge on Speculation,
but Doc Shipsey cashed his bets on Setauket