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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
PRICE of Whcnt.

Wheat is now SO cents per bush
ell. The silver in silver dollar is
worth 53 cents Wheat and silver
march together in downward and
upward tendencies. If the silver
men elect their ticket silver dol
lar will be worth 100 cents and
wheat will be worth 100 cents per
bushel. This is fact that every
farmer should remember and it
should decide his vote in Novem-
Der. A man is very foolish to vote
against his own interest for the
sake of any party ON earth.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
JOHN THoRNBURG
a StaIwart Republican Declares
For Bryan and Sewall, and
Free silver.

Free silver.
ESlitor Registers
have been approached by a
great many citizens of this county
to know how'll stand on the fnan-
cial. question. I1claim to be, and
/ dare any one to contradict it,
that / am as good a Republican as
any man that walks; 1 am Jas. G.
Blaine Republican. The Hon.
VIM. Mckinley voted for free sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to 1, in 1877.
L claim the Republican party has
left me. and not me them; they have
allowed themselves to be captured
by the English syndicates and
Wall street millionaires. l am no
Boss Hanna Republican, who
would today, if he had it i'll his
power, cut the wages of every la
borer down to pauper wages, but
the people are not going to be cap
tured by such a tyrant; they will
bury him SO deep in November,
that he never will be heard of
again. / am sorry that L have Re
publican friends who have gone
with the millionaires. Men that we
have given office; men that / like
to meet and shake hands with. /
feel confident that before one or
two years roll round, they will be
seen with us, claiming, as do to-
day, 16 to 1 is what the people of
this great nation wanted. John
Sherman and great many other
prominent Republicans admit that
free coinage is what would help the
farmer. Some of them go so far as
to say from 30 to 80 per cent. i'll the
price of our products, but they say
we would have to pay more for our
farming implements. / would like
for them to mention one single
thing. We are not compelled to
buy their Binders, &c, &c. They
charge us $145 for Binder to-
day, the same Binder they are sell
ing in the West for 500 and in
London for $50. III was the only
Republican that was in favor of
free and unlimited coinage of both
gold and silver at the ratio Is to l,
| might think [ was wrong, but L
cannot pick up paper but what L
see some very prominent Republi-
cans advocating the same doctrine.
When you see such great men as
Henry M. Teller and John. A.
Bringham advocating such doc
trine, it is time for all persons that
don't want to be reduced down to
paupers to cast their votes in No
vember for Bryan and Sewall.
There is no politics i'll this Presi-
Dental election. 1t is whether the
people shall rule and run this great
nation, or whether the Wall Street
millionaires and Englih syndicates
shall run it.
JOHN THORNBURG.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
Whnt tic Gnzcttc SAYS.

"The Democratic plan is to al
most double the prices OF what the
laboring man and his family eats
and wears. State Gazette.
How does this quotation from the
Gazette, suit you, farmers? you,
who produce almost everything in
its raw state that all the people eat
and lCe0r.
Yes, we say frankly that silver
restored to the position it occupied
prior to 1878, will benefit the farm
ers of our land by increasing the
value of their products and their
farm lands, and that within a few
years they will be out of debt, and
happy, contented, prosperous
people
The Democratic aud silver peo-
pfertlon' propose to do this, either,
at the sacrifice of single labor
ing man. Prosperity for the farm
er, means better wages and double
the amount of laborers hired upon
the farms.
Free silver means stimulus to
trade; employment to the idle, and
more money in circulation; and
the money changers of Great
Britain and Wall street, the only
ones left to complain.
We stand fatty for America
American farmers, American work
ingmen, and all American classes
and interests.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
Trustees Sale of Real Estate.

DY virtue OF deed of trust executed
ID to the undersigned trustee by Emily
Fadelcy and Moses Fadeley, her hns-
band, dated the 10th day of May, 1898,
to secure to Rachel German the pay
ment of certain note therein mention
ed with interest thereon, which said
deed OF trust is of record in the County
Court Clerks office, of Mason county,
West Virginia., in Trust Deed Book No.
10, pages 25O and POL; and default hay
ing been made in the payment of said
note, and being requested by said Rachel
German, to make sale of the real estate
in said trust deed mentioned, l shall on
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
THEY WANT GEN. WATTS.

More Petitions Coming in From
WorIkingmen and FarmeI's-
His Nomination Expected by
AcclamatfOn.
Special to the Wheeling Register.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, July 3d.
Although it is generally conceded
now that there will be but little
opposition to the nomination of
Gen. Watts for Governor by the
Democratic State convention, and
the general belief prevails that he
will be nominated by reclamation,
Notwithstanding the fact that he is
now an avowed candidate, petitions
continue to come in from the work
ingmen, farmers and the masses of
the people generally throughout
the State, regardless of former
party affiliations, asking for his
nomination ami pledging him sup
port. There has probably never
been more spontaneous demand
for the nomination of any man
for an office in West Virginia than
there is now for General Watts.
Many things have contributed to
this universal sentiment in Gener-
al Watts's favor. First, he is es-
sentially man of the people, and
one in whom the masses hayeLim-
plicit confidence. He has proved
himself to be sincere friend of
the plain people. Second, he be-
longs to no clique or faction. He
has made no promises and no com
bination with any man or set of
men. He will not makeNny, be-
cause it is not necessary for him to
do so. He is entered Independent
and untrameled as far as his candi-
dacy is concerned. Third, he is
the right kind of a man to become
the standard bearer of a great par
ty, and when elected, to become
the chief magistrate of progress
i've and patriotic people, such as
compose the State of West Virgin
in. While he is a vigorous cam
paigner, brilliant speaker, earnest
in his advocacy of what he believes
to be just and right and for the in
forest of the people at large. he is,
at the same time, conciliatory in
his speeches and just and generous
to his opponents. These are some
of the qualities in General Watts
that Will make him invincible be-
for the people.
Among the latest candidates an
nounced for the nomination for the
Supreme bench is Hon. S. S.
Green of this city. AS the nomi-
nation for that position will likely
come from this Congressional dis
trict (each of the other districts
being already represented on the
Supreme Bench) the DemoGiatic
convention could not dc letter than
to nominate Mr.. Green. He is
deeply learned in the law and has
had long and varied experience
as practitioner.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
Ia Not NIOrtgngcd,

The silver mon puts forth can
didate who is neither mortgaged to
n syndicate nor has been living off
his friends. There has been no
bluff surrender of his property
with string to tin Bryan's his
tory.
Country above party" is the
keynote of patriotic voters this
year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
22nd dnv of August, 1896.

at O'Clock y. m, proceed osell by way
OF public action at the front door OF the
court house of said county, Fon CASH,
the following described rea! estate, SIT
uated in Mason county, West Virginia,
and district of Clendennin, bounded and
described as follows, to-wit: Beginning
hill near the top; thence $. IS w. 80
chains to stake and stone, on the line
OF lot of 4034 acres; thcuce s. 30, f.
passing an ash and ironwood, corner TO
said 1879 acres at chains in all 50 chains
to small hickory on the south side OF
the hill; thence N: $50, d. 50 Chains to
man lot OF 334 acres; thence with the
same N. 81, Il. passing his corner 30
chains to the place of beginning, esti-
mated to contain 105 acres, more or less.
j. y. X. Ii. SMITH,
July % 4-w. Trustee.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05

Seven hundred and fifty Repub-
licans enrolled themselves as mem
bers of the Bryan and Sewall Club
at Spencer, Roone county, last Sat
urday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
How III Should Kend.

One or two slight changes in the
Republican financial plank makes
it read as follows, says the Coming
Nation: eve are unalterably OPP
posed to every measure calculated
to curtail the power of foreign
money lords by improving the cur
rency of our country. We are
therefore opposed to this nation,
with it's 7O,OOO,OOO of free people,
managing it's own financial affairs
without permit from the leading
commercial nations of the world,
under an international agreement
We unhesitatingly declare that our
silver and paper currency must be
maintained on an equality with
gold, and the only way to do this
is to destroy both, to the end the
European shylock may understand
that we favor anything that will
maintain their opportunities and
our national honor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
18th day OF Augugt, 1806,
To the Creditors or David II. Lewis,
Deceased,

In pursuance of a decree Of the Cir
cult Court of the county OF Mason, made
in cause therein pending, to subject
is, to the payment of his debts. You
are required to present your claims
against the estate of the said David III.
Lewis for adjudication to III. II. How
ard, Commissioner; at his Office in the
said county, on or before the 18th day
of August, 1896.
Witness-R L. Mitchell, Clerk of the
said court, this 2nd day of of July, 1895.
july II. f.. MITCHELL, Clerk.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
FldnclarY Settlement.

The following fiduciary account is be.
fore me for settlement, viz: Chas IIar-
ris, administrator of n. l.. Harris, de-
ceased. JOHN Il. BELLER,
Commissioner of Accounts for Mason
county,. w. Va. July 30 Wv
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
Is SDrcndinr.

The enthusiasm that nominated
Bryan has spread over the entire
country, and is visible in every To-
cality.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05

No man can be excused who
knowingly tells the farmer, laborer
and business man, n lie, in order
to get his vote.-State Gazette,
Tuesday.
Then, why don't you stop it?
The Gazette editor is continually
at that business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05
Something For Farmers tOThink
About.

When silver was demonetized in
1868 wheat was selling at over
$3.50 bushel. Forty bushels
would then pay the interest on a
thousand dollars. Now, with wheat
but little over 50 cents bushel, it
takes about 100 bushels to do the
same thing. Interest is still 8
per cent, while wheat is worth
only about one-third the price it
brought in 1873. If restoring sill
yer to money value will restore
the times of 1878, by all means let
us have it. A farmer in 1873 who
owed $50 for taxes could pay the
bill with 2Obushels of wheat. Now
it will take about 60 bushels to pay
the bill. 1t is this sort of bust
ness that not only makes farmers
poor, but makes them feel like re-
sorting to something else.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05

The Republicans know that they
have hold of the wrong end of the
money question, and are doing
everything in their power to dis
tract the attention of the people
from the main issue. The Repub-
lican papers have already begun to
publish those old chesnuts "Why
/ am a Protectionists." Nobody
wants to hear them. The average
voter does not care what reasons
my man has for being n protection
lists. Protection is not i'll it this
year. Even so strong Ropubli-
can paper as the New York Adver-
tisef admits that the tariff will not
Is materially changed and Nc
IN yley bill, or any bill embodying
itSprinciples will never be passed
in this country again. When the
people demand that the financial
system of this government be
,&aken out of the hands of the Lon
don gold sharks, and the foot of
the money power be taken from
the throat of the American people,
they do not want to be answered
a. few old mouldy chestnuts
ut why some monopolist is a
tectionist. Wayne News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-05

Capt. Thornburg's letter in this
paper is we'll worth the perusal of
every man, and more particularly
the farmer. He has always been,
and is now Republican, but
claims that his party has left him
upon the financial question. and
not he the party. He declares
openly for free silver and for Bryan
and Sewnll. Capt. Thornburg is
one of the largest farmers in this
county, and for many years he fol-
lowed the river and was one of the
most popular steamboat Captains
on the Ohio, Mississippi and Kama
wha rivers. He is n gentleman of
education, fine business man and
what he says in his letter should
have weight with his follow farmers.
Nearly 1900 Democrats in at
tendance upon county convention,
was something to alarm and amaze
the gold bug bosses. They stood
around with blnnched faces, for
they seen that it meant certain
defeat to them i'll November.
Mr. Whitney wants the Republi-
cans to lay aside protection and
make the money question the only
issue. He says "sound money"
Democrats cannot vote for McKin-
leyism in addition to Mckinley.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
The Climate of Africa

Henry NJ. Stanley, the explorer of
Africa, says this, in che Century Maya
zine, about its climate.
AS for the climate, it Is no worse than
that found elsewhere in tropic lands,
The neat is not so great as in India,
Or as it is sometimes in New York in
summer. Fortunately, the coast belt
on both sides of Africa, where the heat
is greatest, and where the climate is
most unhealthy, is narrow. In four
hours railway train at ordinary speed
would enable us to cross it, and so
avoid the facilitating temperature. As
cending the sides Of the coast range
by the same means OF conveyance. we
should In two hours reach a rolling
plain, which gradually rises in height
from $500 to $500 feet above the sea.
Here the climate is sensibly cooler.
and the white man may safely work
SIX hours day in the open without fear
OF sunstroke, though he must not count
on immunity from fever In from ten
TO twelve hours, the traveller by train
would meet another steep rise, and
would find himself from 5000 to 5000
feet above the sea, on the broad CEN
tral plateau of the continent, which
varies from coo tc 1000 miles across.
It is in this section that the great lakes.
snowy mountains and tallest hills are
found. Here We have cold nights and
hot sun when the skies are not cloud
cd, though the air in the shade is fire.
quently cool enough for IN overcoat;
and it is on this immense upland that
the white man, when compelled by cir
cumstances, may find home.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
Tales of Hoary Old Eeypt.

Many years before recorded history
begins the old Egyptians had devel-
oped a religion, an architecture and a
mode OF life of which imperishable
traces are found to-day Before
Herodotus wrote or Homer sung. before
the sacred songs of Hindostan were
dreamed Of, before the first books of
the bible were put into writing, the
Egyptian heiroglyphics recorded on
the walls Of their temples and tombs
or on the scrolls of their papyri the
mysteries of their religion, the doines
of their kings or the stories of their
chief reciters.
MaSpeIo, the great French Egypto-
logist, first gave these stories to the
modern world, but to the skill and
scholarship of Flinders PeIie the
world owes the first useful and enter
tanning form in which the earliest
rOmances of the childhood of the world
appear in English.
There are many of these stories In
them appear the prototypes of charact-
erS in fiction that have been used nv
writers in all ages and all languages.
In one story told by King Khufu's re-
citer at command Of that monarch
who even in his early days was aweary
OF the hollow splendor and tedious
CeremOnials Of his court, appears the
original of 'Sinbad. - Ne-s Yorl,
World.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
Queer Reader.

"Of course we have some peculiar
experiences" said an attache of the
Congressional library, for We have
rather a peculiar lot of people to deal
with, but they are by no means of a
sensational character, or Of enough in
terest to build newspaper article on
| think the most amusing happening
Is that Of an old gentleman, who comes
in regularly every morning and draws
up list of from six to eight books he
wants. They are given TO him and
he retires to one OF the far corn
ers in the wings. He then de-
votes some time to polishing up
his glasses and seemingly prepares
himself for a long read but he
invariably falls asleep before he gets
over ten pages of the first book he
handles. He sleeps nicely until 9
o'clock, when he goes out for lunch.
He never returns after lunch And
now for the strange part of it. He
says he actually absorbs information
from the books while he is asleep, and
in some cases he has shown us that he
has. New York Tribune.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
Seed for Sewers.

That man will be remembered who
forgets himself for the good of others.
The wound made by a knife may
heal but that made by an unkind word
will Motive remember what kind of
4 man the preacher was. long after we
have forgotten all his sermons.-"Our
Father" IS all the prayer we need 10
save the world, if we make it a heart
prayer.-Religion pure and undefiled
is love at work.-Nothing speaks with
a louder voice than a godly life.-To
be strong in adversely, don't forget to
pray when you are prosperous.-Th
world still needs men who have the
courage TO do right when they have to
suffer for (which does the devils
work best the man who rents his prop
erty for a saloon, or the man who
stands behind the bar?-God has prom
ised TO forget our sins. but he will
never forget the smallest thing we do
TO please him.-Rams Horn.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
when the Hair Is Growing Thin

Here is a recipe for a pomade to
check the falling out of hair: Five
parts of tincture of japorandi. three
parts of lanoline. twenty parts of gly-
cerine; mixed with the help of a little
soft soap; the scalp to be rubbed every
night with a little of this pOmada on
the end of your finger
Another simple lotion is composed of
a teaspoonful Of salt and one scruple
of quinine. added to pint of brandy;
shake the mixture well and apply every
night for a few weeks.
Ammonia takes the color out of the
hair. Therefore if you use it in your
bath take care not to wet the hair
For cleaning hair brushes, however,
ammonia is inyaluable-far better than
soda or soap. A teaspoonfu. TO quart
of warm water will be sufficient; dip
the bristles into this. but not the han
dies of the brushes. Dry the brushes
in the open air, but not in the sun.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18

Steel coated rife bullets for the new
magazine guns cause very little pain,
says DR.. Delorme, surgeon in chief OF
the French army. During tho riots at
Fourmies one man was wounded so
badly as to be paraiyz2d. but did not
suspect that he had been shot through
until he saw bloodatains on A.a cloth
ing. One, Shot throuah the LEG. onl,
felt a slight shiv,r; another. shot
through the arm, felt his cIbo" witch
and closed his fist mechanically. At
short range the bullets, like the new
bullets of our own army. arc AFT 10 ex-
plode and do serious mischief
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
Hard Petroleum for Iuel.

\ process for converting Datroleum
INTO hard mass, and thus render il
suitable for employment for fuel on
board large ocean going craft has been
brought forward by NJ. D'Humv, a
French naval engineer. The published
statements relating to the invention
show, among other things. that the
prepared material is affected neither
BY heat nor cold, and is absolutely
smokeless and OdOrless. The cakes.
when set on fire, burn only on the sur
face, and give an intense heat: they re-
quir" very little draft, and make not
more than from 2 to 3 per cent of ashes.
they can be made in any size or shape
and can be stored away anywhere with
out danger, as they cannot eyaporate
or cause an explosion. Further repre-
sensations show that a man-of-war
having 1000 tons of this solidified oil
on board could sail around the world
or remain at sea for successive months
One ton OF this material is estimated as
as the same of thirty tons of coal. and
the amount of cost is calculated in
French scientific journal as not more
than $40 per ton, and it is considered
therefore, by the promoters of this pro-
cess that in the manufacture Of steel
800 pounds of the solidified petroleum,
costing but 81 would melt a ton of
metal
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
A Man Who Never Knew Pain

DR.. Paul Eve, a Georgian physician,
records peculiar case of a man who
never knew pain. DR.. Eve knew the
man personally. The man, who was
about fffty-siX years of age at the time
OF mis- death, was q lawyer strong both
in mind and body. During political
campaign, not liking the appearance of
a finger whict, had been injured in an
ARRAY. he at once ampu a ed it by biting
1t off. He had at one time an ulcer on
a toe which resisted treatment for three
years, he told his physician that
from first to last ii never gave him any
pain. At another time he had an alb
cess in his hand, involving the whole
forearm and arm. which became
enormously swollen and threatened
his life: the lancet had to be freely
used, yet he suffered no pain. He said
he felt no pain when his eyes were
operated on for cataract: and DR.. Eve
vouches for his statue-like immobility
during the second operation.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-06-18
The Two-RelI Signal for Starring

An explanation of the practice of
ringing two bells to start a street car
was made by an old street car man,
and. if not trustworthy, 1t is ingenious
He declared that when horse cars were
first used here one bell was used TO start
the car and one bell to stop it. The
horses soon broke down. They foun-
dered at the knees or their shoulders
gave way Every device that could be
thought of was tried to ease up the
strain of starting. Spiral springs were
put on all the traces, but no good re-
suited. Finally a countryman who had
been employed week as a driver sug-
gested that two bells be used to start
the car and he averred that when the
horses got used to it they would set
themselves at the first ring and be ready
to pull at the second. The Plan was
tried and was so successful that it has
been in use ever since.-PhiladelDhia
Record