The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-03-28
The evils of cigarette smoking

The evils of cigarette smoking
are thus set forth by DR.. C. a.
Clinton, of San Francisco board of
education, who has been making a
special study of the effect Of cigar
rette smoking among the public
school childreh, and expresses him
self in the following forcible Ian
guage.
"a good deal has been said about
the evils of cigarette smoking, but
one-half the truth has never been
told. / have watched this thing for
a long time, and 1 say calmly and
deliberately that cigarette smoking
Is as bad a habit as opium smoking.
l am talking now of boys, remem-
Der. The effect upon grown men,
is, of course, not so marked.
"A cigarette fiend will lie and
steal just as q morphine or opium
fiend will lie or steal. Cigarette
smoking bIunts the whole moral
nature. 1t has an appalling effect.
1t first stimulates and then Supplies
the nerves. 1t sends boys into con-
sumption. = It gives them enlarge
ment of the heart, and it sends them
into the asylum. l am a physician to
several boy schools, and l am often
called in to prescribe for palpitation
of the heart In nine cases out of
ten it is caused by the cigarette. :"
There is every indication that a
prosperous season is approaching
for Point Pleasant. Let us meet it
with open arms. Put motion and
life into every business, trade and
avocation. Work for the good of
each other and the city in particular
Lot no petty jealousies enter into
the plans for general prosperity and
happiness. Harmony for the good
of the city. Friendliness for the
good of one another. Talk about
the city. Praise its beauty, its
heaIthfuIes, its hospitality, its bust
ness, its railroads, its rivers, its re-
sources, its churches and its schools.
Those who can't speak well of the
town in whichthey reside and make
q living, should move away. To
SANDER your town is worse than
sIandering your neighbor, for then
you Islander everybody. 1t is the
people who make the town.
The death of W. W. Harper,
which occurred at 1872 Winchester
Avenue, in Chicago on Monday
evening, March 9th, 1894, at the
age of "a, removes from earth one
who was formerly one of Mason
county's most honored and well
known citizens, and man who, in
his time of mental and physical
activity, was esteemed and highly
respected among the people of
Hartford City and Mason City,
Clifton, Point Pleasant and the
neighboring vicinity, on both sides
of the Ohio river. He was Chap
lain in a West Virginia Regi-
ment, the 18th we believe, during
the late war. After the war he was
elected Clerk of the Circuit Court
of this county, which position he
held for four years.
City Marshal P. C. McDade, took
up to Charleston Saturday evening,
Rev. Charles Stein, for many years
pastor of the Union Church at Elk
City. He is charged with sending
obscene matter through the mails.
Stein posed as a straight-laced, un-
deviating man of God, but all the
while he was keeping up an intima-
ey with another mans wife and ran
of with her finally to this city, from
which place he wrote a defiant and
insulting letter to T. v. Cremeans,
the injured husband, and this led to
STEMS arrest. He will probably
wind up in the penitentiary.
Rev. c. H. Williams, of Columbus,
O., died at the residence of his son,
C. L. Williams, superintendent of
the Ohio River Railroad, in Park
ersburg, last Friday morning. Mr..
Williams was called at Parkersburg
by the critical illness of Mrs. @. l..
Williams few days since. While
there he contracted cold which
developed into the disease which
carried him off. The remains were
taken to Mount Washington, o.,
for burial
We find the following sorrowful
item in the Charleston Gazette OF
Sunday:
ACCORDION, the four year old son
of DIR. J. II. McConihay, died yes
terday morning at3 o'clock at the
family residence on State street.
The remains will be laid to rest at
2.30 O'clock, P. NJ to-day, Sunday"