davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-29
GAME DOESN'T WORK.
REFORM CLUB OF NEW YORK
DELUCED WITH NAYS.
Country Publishers Do Not Want Free
Stereotype Plates - sample of the
Hundreds OF Letters Being Received
by the Britlshers Daily.

In reply to liberal offers of free plate
service the Reform Club is being de-
luged with hundreds of letters, like the
following from editor of the Press,
Adrian, Mich;
A few days since we received letter
from the sound currency annex of the
Reform Club" of New York, a sort of
mugwump combine, with more money
than principle, offering us plate matter
and supplements free, containing gold
standard arguments. We have sent
the following reply:
Calvin Tompkins, Esq,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
SpeciaI Com missioners Sale.

Under and by virtue Of a de-
u cree of the Circuit Court of Ma
son County, State of West Virgin
ia, made on the 23d day of Sep
chancery therein pending, in which
j. H. Markham, administrator of ID.
II. Lewis, deceased, Is plaintiff and
Elvirn Lewis and Others are defend
ants, the undersigned Special Com
missioner will on the
4th day of January, 1897,
at o'clock p. IN, sell ut puclic auct-
ion, to the highest bidder, ut the front
door of the Court House of said Ma
son county, the following described
real estnt e situate on the waters of the
Kannwha Big Sixteen Mile creek, In
the district of Arbuckle, in the county
and State aforesaid, being the real es-
tate of which the said ID. III. Lewis
died seized and possessed infee, CON
sisting of three tracts, one tract con-
tanning ten acres more or lesR, and
upon which said Elvira Lewis now
y. II. Lewis by L.. G. Wallace and
Emily Wallace, his wife, by deed bear
ing date on the 9th day of January,
1888, and which is recorded In the Of
flee of the Clerk of the County Court
of said county, in Deed Book No. 42,
pages $50, &c. One other tract con
tanning thirty-siX and two-third acres
more or less, conveyed to said ID. II.
Lewis by Hilary Bird and Jane A.
Bird, his wife, by deed bearing date
the 18th day of March, 1885, and re-
corded in said Clerks Office in Deed
Book No. AZ pages $40, &c, and one
other tract containing thirty-three
acres and 1870 poles, more or less, con
veyed to said ID. III. Lewis by John NJ.
Wallace and Cordelia Wallace, his
wife, by deed dated January 9TH, 1881.
recorded in said Clerks office In Deed
Book No. 42. pages 84S, &c. The said
ten acre tract having been set apart
to the defendant. Elvfra Lewis, asand
for her dover in the real estate will be
sold subject to said dower's interest
thereon. $40. 5yt
TERMS OF SALE.-Cash ms to costs
of said suit and expense of sale and
upon IA credit as to the residue in two
equal payments of one and two years
from day of sale, taking from the pur-
chaser notes with good security with
interest from the day of sale and re-
tanning the legal title as n further Sc
curity. w. II. GUM,
Special Commissioner.
/ hereby certify that the above
named Special Commissioner has Civ
en- bond with good security before me
in the penalty of $500 as required by
the above decree
II. f.. MITCHELL, Clerk.
dee Oh a-w
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Children's China Sets.
Children's Furniture Sets.
Children's Cupboards.
Children's Wash Stands.
Children's Dressers.
.Children's Beds.
Children's Cradles.
Children's Doll Buggies.
Children's Chairs.
Children's Drums.
Children's Swords.
Children's Guns.
Children's Horns.
Children's Whips.
Children's Violins.
Children's Express Wagons.
Children's Hobby Horses.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
DECEMBER 2, 1896.
The Democratic record.

On the fourth of March next
the State government will be
turned over to the Republican
party. For quarter of a century
it has been under Democratic con-
troll. During that time the State
has made it's most wonderful prog
ress. The government has been
conducted uniformly with ability,
honesty and economy, and when
the books are turned over to the
Republican successor of the pres
ent administration Mt Charleston
they will show credit balance to
the State of over million dollars.
The West Virginia Democracy
can show a clean balance sheet
and give good account of their
stewardship. They will leave the
State prosperous and its treasury
rich where they found both poor.
1t is a record that every honest
citizen can point to with pride
and one of which Dame Democ-
racy has abundant reason to be
especially proud.-Wheeling Reg
lister.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
A P1ea tor coon TImes.

Hard tunes! nara Times! cOlllo
again no mcre!"
We all sing it, we all hope it,
but do we know what hard times
are2 We sing it while we eat
be6fsteak at twenty cents a pound,
oysters at fifty cents dozen, and
three kinds of bread at the same
meal; we shout it while we smoke
cigars, two for quarter; we think
it while we stretch our comfortable
legs on Brussels carpet, before a
blazing CRATE, with well-groomed
boys and expensively-clad girls
around us; we shout it to our
neighbors across our smooth lawns,
or through our plate-glass windows,
we groan it as We read our morn
ing and evening papers, our plen-
tiful magazines and our costly
Libraries; we dream of it in our
soft and springy beds, while our
coal fetIe1uSnaces keep the whole
house warm; we 1naunder about it
in our well-equipped Offices, shout
it through our telephones, ring the
changes on it as we send kilograms
and take expensive summer out
ings. We meet in our political,
social literary, and business con-
ventions, and ring the changes on
it while we are spending fortunes
with railroads, hotels, restaurants
and places of amusement.
And yet in these days we do not
know what hard times are; we
think we do, but we do not.
The writer knows of time with
in his remembrance and he is no
Decentralization, in one of the
richest parts of one of the most ia
vored States in the Union, the
whole town of some 1000 inhabi-
tants possessed altogether not over
$500 in money; all exchange was
by barter; there was no cash pay
mont, because there was nothing to
pay with. Among the best and
richest families (and there were
many who thought themselves we'll
to-do,) beefsteak was once-a-
week visitor; round beef was lux
ury, oysters were an unheard-of
dainty, corn bread was the usual,
wheat the rare food; tho cheapest
pipe tobacco was dissipation;
cold bedrooms, scanty wood fires,
woolsey and calico were in the
house; 6xS window-panes were
helped out by hats, old papers and
rags; weekly paper was an eX-
travagance, and served several fam
lilies. Ten books made good, fair
library; beds were Slated or cord
ed; rag carpets were occasional, in
grain scarce, and Bussels tradi-
ton; the sole vacation was ride
to the annual picnic in the ono
horse shay; nobody had time, mon
ely or heart for conventions or
amusements. Won worked from
5 n. m. to p. m, (the aristocrats
shortened the time by two hours),
and the women worked at all hours.
And yet it is doubtful if there
was i'll those times such n univer-
sal spirit of unrest and discomfort,
such concert of growing, as to-
day.
Is it fair? Are VIC just? Can
we afford to waste time in bewail-
ing hard times, when times arc
easy on us, and treat us far better
than we deserve?
Let us put aside these ugly
tempers of ours; look toward the
sun; smile at the shadow; all sun
shine makes the desert; cts n
pretty world, senor;" enjoy its
beauties; let us borrow no trouble;
shed light on our neighbors; quit
us like mon, and times will seem
(us they are) good.-Ex.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
Fidncfary STATEMENTS.

The following fiduciary accounts
are before me for settlement:
G. G.. Love, administrator of Jas. l..
Love, deceased, final.
w. s. Reece, administrator of Jas.
G. Woods, deceased, final.
of Nov. 1896.
JOHN f.. BELLER,
Commissioner of Accounts for Mason
county, w. Va. nov. 242-w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
18th day of December, 1906,

at the front door OF the. Court 1Iouse Of Ma
son County, West Virginia, at II o'clock "a.
IN. OF that day, tho following described
tracts of land:
onc-hall acre OF land which was conveyed
dated September 10, 1881; "a tract containing
% ncrcs, which was conveyed to said Henry
Weaver by Adam Weaver by deed dated
February 2, 1858; also "a tract OF $50 ncres
which was conveyed to said Henry Weaver
by o. II. p. Porter and wife by deed dated
February d, 1853; also n tract containing
~ acres, con veyed to said Henry Weaver by
said Porter and wife by deed dated February
25, 1885; also II 10 acres conveyed to sud
Henry Weaver by said Adam Weaver by
deed d9ted February 2, 1868. making a total
of 2Jl 1910 acres of land of which The said
Henry Weaver died. seized and possessed,
bis death, situate in Robinson and Cooper
acres and 100 poles or the said lands, said
sale Will be made subject t. the dover
Interest of Lucinda Weaver therein as ascer-
taIned and set apart to her In this suit
TERMS OF SALE-Cash as to onc-third of
the purchase money on day OF sale, and
upon a credit of one and two years as to the
residue, taking from the purchaser bond
with good security with Interest from date
for the deferred payments and retaining the
legal title to said land as further security
FRANK a. STORTZ,
Special Conn Is Toner.
JAMES b. MENAGER, Solicitor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
the goth day of December,
1900
Special Commissioners Sale of
Land.

DY virtue of authority vested in me by
d decree OF tho Circuit Court of Mnson
West Virginia, O. tered on the Both
day Of May, 1896, In n chnnceTy cause therein
traitor OF the personal estate Of Henry
Weaver, deceased, Is pnintiT aud John w.
Weaver, John McCulloch, and others, are
defendants, shall proceed to sell by way of
mn III lie Il tho
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Col. Geo. w. Beekman, rich
Baltimore man, will have the body
of George w. Harding, who was
killed by train near Kanawha
Station last week, taken to Balti-
more. Hardin's family is we'll to
do. He was out of money and try
ing to make his way home on
freight trains when ,her met his
death. ia
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

As an evidence Of returning
prosperity" certain farmer of this
county, took Thanksgiving dinner
in town with friends, when he
returned home that evening he
found that he was the owner of
thirty-two pigs, half a dozen hens
had Matched, and one of his COWS
had twin calves. This farmer is a
Republican and voted for McKin-
ley.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
JAMES b. MENAa 9fsfR!ass oHsft
OF WEST VIRGISIA,
MASON COUNTY COURT

1, II, f.. Mitchell, Clerk OF the. Circuit
Court aforesaid, do certify that said Frank
a. Storiz, Special missioner ms afore-
said: has given bond before me In ne h.,
u novis.iw II. e. MITCHELL, Clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

And now Col. McLeanTif IF Win
field, is mentioned as a suitable
Republican to fill the Office IF Sec
rotary of State. Coy. Atkinson
could not find purer or better
man for the position, in his whole
party.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Never criticise man who does
wrong that's anarchy; never say
anything when robbed-that's re-
pudiation; never howl when kicked
that's socialism; never help the
needy and Observation-Disclosures dis
honesty.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

About the only way this govern
ment will get any redress from
Spain for the property of Ameri.
cans destroyed in Cuba will be to
use force.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
Holiday GRE TINGSH
ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL,

and most complete stock OF Holiday Sooa
the largest handlers
thelo money
NOTIONS LADIES'
ANDCAPEs DRESS WAISTS, SACSUES'
ArpERS, BOOTS AND Shoes
WARE SMALL II AND CUTLERY ETC. ETC We carry
Dolls richly dressed anu
undr essed
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
NOTIGE.

All persons are hereby forbidden
from trespassiDg upon my landsi in Glen
denim District, in any manner whatever,
as will prosecute all who do 30.
nova j. NJ. CALHOUN.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

There were $4,000 polling places
in the United States at the recent
election. Texas had a larger num-
Der than any other State, 4,O22,
Delaware had the fewest.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
THE BILL P6sTBR
Failed to Advertise All His Fea-
lures. Some of the Things
Not OH the Bills.


XEN1A, o. Nov, 26.-F Frank Paw
kett, Gveryman, and wife have
each filed deeds of assignment in
the Probate court.
Another failure which startled
the business world was that of
Horace Sabin, lawyer and heavy
land owner of this city, who filed
his deed of assignment.
CINCINNATI, o., Nov. 26.-Judge
Smith of the Superior court late
Monday afternoon appointed j. f.
Kinney receiver of the Smith
Implement and Buggy Co., at
Third and Hammond streets
Their assets are estimated at
$50, 600, but are of a character which
would shrink under forced sale.
The liabilities are in the neighbor-
hood of S35, 900.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.-The
Continental Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company to-day made an
assignment to John Allen. No
statement of the affairs of the con-
Germ could be obtained.
Joseph Schwartz, a clothing
dealer, also made an assignment.
BALTIMoRE, Nov. 26.-Receiv-
ers were appointed for tho Camp
bell a. Zell Company. The firm
conducted a large business as en-
gineers and contractors, and was
also proprietors of the Enterprise
Marine and Boiler Works and
the Enterprise Iron Works.
PORTER, w. VA. Nov. 26.-The
wages of the employees of the Clay
Lumber Company, of this place,
and w. S. Lewis, of Carlos and
Laurel, have been cut from 10 to
20 per cent. These works employ
about 125 men.
YoUNGsTowN, o., Nov ga
hundred employees of the Hannah
iron furnace have been notified of
cut of 20 per cent. in wages.
The beauties of tho single gold
standard have begun to manifest
themselves since the election de-
cided for the maintenance of that
pernicious system. Newspapers
that preached the duty of passive
obedience to English financiers
during the campaign now fill their
columns with statements of mills
resuming, and booming business.
1t would be we'll for the people of
Mason county to wait till they re-
ceive some material evidence of
this revival of business occasioned
by the result of the November cleo
ton. Since that event, and the re-
storation of confidence corn has de-
clined to 23c. per bushel on the
Board of Trade at Chicago, and
oats to ITS cts. per bushel. In the
past four days both corn and oats
have gone down more than 2 cents
per bushel and both will go lower.
Cotton declined l ct. per pound on
last Thursday. Hogs and cattle al
so went down. Now these declin-
ing prices of course result from the
restoration of confidence in Eng
land that country can dominate
and control the financial policy of
America. While the gold stand
ard papers publish these facts in
their market reports, they do not
point them out as evidences of
prosperity. They do not dilote up
on their singular beauties, and tell
the farmers of tho blessings which
they bring to them. OF course
they only refrain from doing SO
from excessive modesty.
To inaugurato an era of prosper
ity by opening the mills and clos
inc thc mintS is nS Duerile rs to at
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Children's Wheelbarrows.
Children's Tool Chests.
Children's Foot Balls.
Children's Writing Desks with Black
boards.
Children's Writing Tables.
Children's Tricycles.
Chldren's Velocipedes.
Children's Sleds.
Children's Magic Lanterns.
Children's Billiard Tables.
Children's Picture Books.
Children's Money Banks.
Children's Railroad Trains.
Children's Fire Engines.
Childrens Hook and Ladder Trucks.
Children's Musical Toys.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

To inaugurate an era of prosper
ity by opening the mills and clos
ing the minis is as puerile as to at
tempt to make tho world drunk by
pouring whiskey in a crawfish hole.
People must either steal or buy
before they can consume. The
first means an introduction to Il
chain gang, the last necessitates
the use of money, and to maintain
stability of prices the total amount
of actual money must keep even
with the increase of population.
Give n nation whose inhabitants
consume all they produce and pro-
duce all they consume and the de
mand for money is obliterated.
Cheap goods and cheap dollars do
not go together. Whenever the
American people find out that few
dollars mean dear dollars and low
prices, then we will return to tho
unparalleled prosperity enjoyed by
all classes alike prior to the de-
monetization of the standard sill
yer dollar and the destruction oe n
double standard of values.
A Jealous West Virginia farmer
has presented President elect Nc
Kinley with ten pounds of butter
stamped "The gold Standard" He
should have kept it. He may need
it to grease rusty mortgage before
the end Of McKinleyism. The re-
publican good times (which are
coming" will turn to froth as quick
as that butter would melt with a
red hot iron wedge in it.-Clarks-
burg Tribune.
The U. S. Government owns
400 tons of uncoined silver bull
lion. 1t is now coming this silver
at tho rate of about two and half
million dollars month.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
A Ii kinds of Deeds and Justice
n Blanks Tor sale at the Office.

The Conjuror- Willsomeg gentle
man let me have silver dollar2
Uncle Josh Tin disgust Ooh,
He's goin' to explain the
money question.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02


No doubt the next administra-
ton will do it's utmost to settle the
financial question, as a matter of
sound politics, and in this endeavor
it will have the hearty co-opera-
ton of all silver men, SO long as
the original ratio is adhered to.
But at the first symptom of a
change to anything smaller than
16 to 1, for the purpose of COM
promise, look out for trouble.
It will never be necessary to
make another personal campaign
in tho interest of silver. The
practical lesson which will be
taught the people during the next
four years will suffice.
The colored brother is getting
uneasy about the part he is to play
in the Mckinley administration
We hazard the prediction that it
will be very small part.
One negro was elected to Cong
ress this election, and curiously
enough his name is White. He is
open to the charge of sailing under
false colors.
We are still hopeful that better
days will dawn. We know that
there is such a thing as better days
for we have seen them.
Prosperity has set in with Ven
gence. Thousands of working
men are being thrown out of en-
ployment.
William jennings Bryan has en-
tered into IL contract to deliver fifty
lectures for which he is to receive
$4,000. The lectures are to be
non-political.
Congress convenes on the first
Monday in December.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

SAL $ :, ISL 3: si.: g. sS :s $3.50
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Some of our people are dis
contented, and talk of looking
out homes elsewhere. 1t is the
old, old story: "The good place
is just beyond" 1t is true times
are hard and money scarce. But
there is not farmer in Mason
county, who has used any degree
of energy, but what has his hogs
to make his meat; has yearling
to kill for beef; has all kinds of
poultry; has butter, milk and eggs;
has something to sell to buy gro
ceries, clothes and tobacco. There
is no question but what they are
hard up; but they are rich in com
parson to the farmers in many of
the western States. Better stay
where you are, and put your ener-
gies into your farm, instead of
standing around complaining.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02
Sale of ~ House and
Lot in Point Pleasant, West
Virginia.

Ply virtue of the authority vested . In me by
J. Allen and William j: Alien, her hus69! q, /
day of May, 1887. and of record IN the CLERKS
office OF the County Court OF Mason county
West Virginia, In Trust Decd hook No. 10,
pnges ii and is, to secure n certain note to
George w. Sctszer therein fully set out and
described, and default having been made ~
the payment OF said debt, nHd being required
by tho snld SetsZcr, the creditor secured In
s6id trust deed, Will on
Saturday, the 2Gth day of December,
1896,
at one o'clock M sell ut Pn6iie nmeti1G Mn at
son county, to the highest bidder, the follow
Ing real estate, conveyed by Sntu deed OF
trtist, situate in the town of Point Pleasant,
county and state aforesaid, described as fol
lows: Being lot No. 2jJ as ind of and desig.
mated on the plat of the Point Pleasant
corded in Deed Book No: 81 indhe Clerks Clerks
county, and being The same lot Of Land ,; con:
ant Manufacturing aud Extension Company
by deed dated the iGih dny of February, 1886,
and OF record In snid Clerks oilcc in Decd
Book No. 40, folio 30i, SC.
dec. 4-w. RANKIN WILEY, trustee.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Miss Birdie Baird, sister Of Mrs.
John j. Jacob, wife of the ex-Gov-
ernor, died at Wheeling and was
buried at Cumberland, Md. She.
was known all over West Virginia.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

pa4ra EeG fhat o 2Sid 2oP $3.50 I'll Q8
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Nine-tenths of the people of this
county arc in excellent circum-
stances. True, they don't have
much money, but they hove plenty
of everything else.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Charles Wcrninger, on Blenner-
hassott Island, found petrified
pine knot SO perfect that the grain
is still to be seen. He found n
stone chisel, perfect in form, evil
IDENTIFY dating back to the days of
tho mound builders. III.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

"Your teacher tells me you were
not at school yesterday. Now,
young man, you know what you
are going to get"
Bob (firmly)-"I do, pop, and /
am willing to be licked any day for
circus parade like that"
First Prisoner SO the detect
ives found you out did they2
Second prisoner-No; they
found me in.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

ob A Sqo s S1esh t f"s s sSIi ST. Or
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

Old Weatherwise has inspected
tho corn husks and says there will
be some very cold weather between
this and Easter, if he has made no
mistake. The old gentleman grows
more cautious as time creeps on.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

On and after the Inauguration
of Mckinley all debts public and
private must be paid in gold if the
creditor sees fit to demand pay
ment in gold. The gold dollar
always has been coward and the
friend of avarice and greed. Its
works are by night. 1t is not
adapted for general circulation,
and is best fitted for misers to
hoard; however, after the fourth of
March everybody will have chunk
of confidence" to keep on ice.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-12-02

The Hanna prices for horses in
this county now is about $25 a
head, and they have got TO be good
ones to bring that, How the
farmer is being paid for being
fooled into voting for athesigold
standard, that he might get better,
prices for his products. "a, d,