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The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03
aForrv up the creek.s

Now then. The primary election come
to pass as usual one day last week. The
weather was clear as a bell on election
day, but as the returns came in and be-
fore the sun went down it Was loolsin
tremendous foggy up the creek for old
man Tobe. And when finally at last
they swung down under the wire twas
plain to man on the grand stand that
the candidate from Panther Creek was
the hindmost horse in the race.
Old man Tobe he got left. He likewise
also got foamin mad. But the other fell
low got the votes.
The very next day old man Tobe lit
out for the Panther Creek settlement.
He wouldn't take meal of victuals nor
hit a lick of sleep till be rued the trade
and got holt of his farm and farmin fix
ments oncst more. He is now ready to
give up his town house and return back
to the old lick log, where he belongs.
Il am plum satisfied with the way in
which the democrats run, and am more
than willin to quit the game as it now
stands" says old man Tobe to me right
after the storm. "But it really hurts
me, Rufe, when l think about how many
OF my horny-handed fellow citizens are
silver-tongued liars. Dad blame EN-,
the woods are full Of 'em!"
And that's what makes me say to my
self, says 1:
Fool politics makes fool people.
Never count your chickens till the old
hen comes of.
The mainest thing is the votes.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

'We have forever shook the sands Of
Panther creek from our unhallowed
feet. Rufe, and we are now moyin up TO
town." old man Tobe come back at
me. II have sold out in the old set
tlement, lock, stock and barrel. Ihave
rented a fine house in town with green
bay windows and lightnin rods on it,
and henceforwards from now on Old
man Murray and his folks will keep
company with the highristocracy.
''You must recolleot, Rufe, that am
the next high sheriff of the county" I"
old man Tobe went on, waxin warm and
joyful as he went, "and / thought l
mought as well to move up to town and
sit ready for the busincss-git famil-
ious with the documents before 60 up
agin the game, as it were.
"Of course the election aint come of
as yet, Rufe, but Tobe Murray aint no
body's natural-born blame fool, and l
don't have to wait forever to see which
way the cat will jump. Ihave done been
the rounds and counted the noses, and
the people are most all for me. In all
the rounds didn't meet up with but a
few scatterin votes that aint fiat-footed
for Tobe Murray for high sheriff. By
gollys, Rufe, ! have got the thing in a
sack and gone with it. All have got
to do is to wait till the returns come in
and then proceed with the procecdins." Z"
With that old man Tobe laughed and
laughed till he laughed all over himself,
so to speak, and then him and his folks
driv on towards town.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

from his love Of the fafheriand and wa
q good. loving citizen Of both countries.
what q beautiful trait Is patriotism.
An unreconstructed rebel friend told
nae IN Florida that nothing had har-
monized him since the war until be
visited Europe last summer and saw
the stars aud stripes flying to the
breeze IN every foreign port, and then
his old love for that banner came back
arain and be felt Ike he could shake
hsuas and be at peace with the whole
Yankee nation. wish that ] and my
wife could travel abroad.-Bnl ARP. In
Atlanta Consultation.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

Prof. sully, in an article in the Popu-
lar Science Monthly. commenting on
the jealous regard for ceremony and the
proprietles of behavior as seen in the en-
forcement Of rules Of politeness by chill
dren. cites a delightful instance that fell
under his own observation as be was
walking on Hampstead Heath. "It was
a spring day and the fat buds Of the
chestnut were bursting into magnif-
cent green plumes. Two well-dressed
misses aged, should say, about nine
and eleven, were taking their correct
morning walk. The elder called the at
tention Of the younger to one Of the
trees pointing to it. The younger ex-
claimed in a highly shocked tone; on.
Maud, you know you shouldn't pointl'
The notion Of perpetrating a rudeness
on the chestnut tree was funny enough.
But the incident is instructive as Illus
trating the childish tendency to stretch
and generalize rules to the utmost -
Golden Days.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03
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There is another thing. Rufe. for mo
and you to shake hands over and be glad
about, says to myself. We are movin
along smooth and easy without kclin
up any big dust to speak Of with the
general government. If the shebang
amt agin us we arenotagln theshebang.
All we want is an open field and fair
fight-then let the best man win.
Blessed be God, we are sprung from the
aristocracy Of simple homes and honest
hearts and hard lnuckles. and il we
can't swim without a full set of govern
ment gouris around us. by iinga we can
stay out Of the water.
No doubts you have heard tell Of the
big scheme some Of the candidates are
fixin up 50 a man can borrow all the
money he wants by putin his farm
producements in soak with the general
government. We win be agln that move
on general principles. They say Dunk
Strickland has got a little one-eyed.
siab-sided, wobbledy-legged, razor-baclz
steer, which he wants to put in soak
for $50. He maintains II other people
can soak their lands and their crops he
can soak his steer, cause he amt gos
nothin else. and every man Is free and
equal in this great country. Thatwould
be a big thing for Dunk, you under
stand, but if we start the soalEin busi-
ness with the governmentnobody knows
for certain where It would stop. As for
us, we couldn't soak our corn and cot
ton and seed potatoes II we had done
been and run heels over appetite in
debt, and 50 long as we don't owe moth
IN we can keep the stuff here at home.
or sell it and put the money away in the
family chist
Consequentially, says to myself. IL
II ever comes to that pass where we can't
make tongue and buckle meet without
soalxin somethin with the government,
then viii move that we 60 and put our
blame fool head in soak.
RuFUs SASDERs.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

on. He had one COW end three dogs and
all the restof his family along with him.
After passin the reglar compliments in
regards to the weather and the crops,
I wanted to know If they were runnin
away, or movin out west, or trayelin
around or jest naturally goin some
where's.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03


Vow, what would it cost the old man
to spile out and swap places with the
boys? You would then have a home
with the old folks, but you wouldn't
have foot Of land, nor a horse, nor
COW, nor a pig-nothin which you
could call your own in your full and
proper name. You could play little
around the edges. as it were, but you
would have to work a whole tremen-
dius big lot. You would have to take
holt and turn Oft ell the various and
sundry odds and ends and jobs that
mought naturally fall to a peart and
handy boy. And that wouldn't be so
very Internal nice and pleasant, would
it? Blamed if the very thoughts don't
make me tired and hungry and sleepy.
But that aint all, by a whole lot. If
we was to take and spile out for a new
deal you wouldn't have mother and the
babies. How in the round created world
could you put up with that, you blasted
old idiot2 You mought maybe come
over the old trail and fall in love with
the same girl and git married to tho
same. But there amt no tellin. Men
amt quite altogether as slSeerce around
Rocky Creek as they use to be. Some
other youngster mought pull in ahead
and turn up Jack and block your game
next time. Then you mought have to
wiggle and worry through without
mother and the babies. Nobody to
smooth down the wrinkles, and pull out
the silver threads, and let in the sun
shine, and brush away the tears, and
sew on the buttons, and darn the socks,
and patch your Sunday breeches. No
body to pout and cry for dolls, and pic
ture books, and new shoes. and bear
stories, and swings and playhouses and
rocky horses, and the good Lord knows
what not.
No more of that, Rufe, says to my
self. The spile out don't go. It would
cost too outrageous much.
You are a bloomin, beautiful old
rooster to be raisin a rumpus with fate
anyhow, went on with myself. This
world has been monstrous kind and
good with you, Rufus Sanders. You
have been young oncst, and now you are
old, but we have never yet seen the
righteous man around at the kitchen
window beggin cold grub. You raley
ought to spend half of your time readin
the Scriptures and sayin Amazin Grace.
We have been wild and wayward in our
generation, and in spite Of all that could
be said or done our wanderin feet have
sometimes struggled ont of the good and
narrow way. But SO far as the record
runs we have never run up the white
feather in a fight or took up with any
thing that didn't belong to US, We
have met the enemy at the dead line,
and no man ever come around by our
house spilin for fight but what he got
accommodations. We have helt up the
good name and standin of the Sanders
generation, and we have never yet got
called when we couldn't show down.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

to myself, ioM
politics makes
fool people.
Down there on
the old jackson
Trail road the
other side Of
Panther Creek
bridge I met up
with old man
4 ODE Murray.
He was drivin q
yoke Of oxen to
a covered wag-
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03
Nanoleon.a Chnnrs nf nTnnner.

There was something seriously amiss
with the central figure. He was often
sullen and mOrose, often violent and
even hysterical. To calm his nervous
agitation the court physician ordered
warm baths, which he spent hours IN
taking. Then again he was irregular
in his habits, being often somnolent
during the daytime, but as frequently
breaking his rest at midnight to set the
pens Of his secretaries scampering 20
keep pace with the flow Of his speech.
With old friends he was coarse and Sc
we're; even the brutal Vandamme con
fessed that he trembled before tho
"devil Of a man" while Lannes was the
only human being who still dared to
use the familiar ''thou" in addressing
lis old comrade. To the face Of his
generals the emperor was merely cold;
behind their backs he sneered, saying
for instance, Of Davout that he might
give him never 50 much renown. be
would not be able TO carry It; Of Ney
that he was disposed to ingratitude and
turbulence; of Bessieres, Oudinot and
Victor that they were mere mediocri-
ties.-Prof. Sloane, in Century.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

Waldoboro. BE, disputes with Belfast
and Palermo the honor Of having as
residents the oldest twins in Maine.
Mrs Mary Wood and Mrs. Almira Bel
den, who reached the age Of SO years
a few weeks ago. were said to be the
Oldest twins IN the state, but Waldo
boro's twins, brothers, are 81 years
old.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03
Looking Backward.

I do reckon about the most lone
soonest thing in this world is a rale lone
some man. And as for me, when 1 git
one these big lonesome spells on me
viii stoop mighty low down for com
pany. / have seen the time when
was 50 hard run for company till l
would talk in my sleep. Sometimes
60 out and talk to the horses and the
dogs. And then sometimes. when 1
cant do no better, pitch in and tslls 10
myself
So the other day was down in the
orchard sunnin my old clothes, and
watchin the bees hum and hustle, and
listcnin at the birds, and smellin Of the
apple blossoms, when presently I got to
talkin and argifyin with myself at a
scandalous rate. When I got back to
the house mother lowed I must be
prac9cin for a stump speech OF goin
crazy. But was neither.
Rufus Sanders. says I to myself,
these fine spring moFnins are pleasant
TO look upon, but they have got a
mighty fetchin way ~ startin a mans
thinkin machinery of on the back trail,
now amt that 50? We can swell up
and talk big about bein man amongst
men and havin a hsnd as big as a ham
per basket and the like OF that. But
By jingo, when the apple blossoms
bloom, and the birds sing sweet and
constant. and It seems like everything
IS breakin out in q fresh place-then
ycur mind TURNS backwards u-d goes
plungin of towards the old home down
there in the old settlement. You
couldn't catch By the tail with q steel
trap big enough for bear and hold It
back. Say, Rufe, how would you like
it if we could call back these many
years and be boy oncst more7 How
would it suit you to dig some grub
worms this mornin and 20 hshin over
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

lin 1850 occurred the great fire"
at Seattle, in Washington, in which
property TO the value of s2o, ,0O0, 900 was
destroyed.
The Columbus commercial., 1896-05-03

Vices are as well contrary to them.
selves as to virtue.-FulIer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08
CHAMP crARKs STORY.
How 1t Impressed "a Youngster Who Hen
If In "a Sneecli.

How 1t Impressed "A XounEster Who Heard
1t In Speech.
In the Garfield Hancock campaign
there was big Democratic meeting at
II certain place in st. Charles county, i'll
this state. a number of distinguished
Democratic speakers We're there, and
wo had day of it. The writer was then
II small child, but one of the speakers
made very profound impression upon
his mind. Tho speaker was no other
than Champ Clark.
No one asks now, "Who was Champ
Clarke but then lie was new star i'll
the ARMAMENT.
Wohad number of speeches, and the
children were very tired. can't speak
for the grown people, because the good
Democrats there would not have owned
to being tired, know, after such a dis
play of eloquenCe from their great party
leaders, AT any rate was tired, but my
mother whispered:
There is only ono moro speech, +"
and was much relieved. A blond young
man was introduced as Champ Clark of
Pike county. Ho came forward with %
pleasant faCo and manner that mt once
attracted my attention. Ho began in
this way:
81 am reminded of the boy who kill
ed pOSsum and expected TO enjoy n
possnm dinner tho next day. Tho fam
lily was about to sit down TO tho dinner
table when wagon drove up and II
noighbors family came i'll, Tho head
of the house announced that tile visitors
had como to dinner. There was 10 room
at tho table for our Young friend, the
sportmun, and lie waited with his eyos
anxionsly fixed on tho dish of postum
The guests had good appetites. Finally
there was only ono piece of possum
left. and. one of his own family took
that. Then the possum lover busted
right out a-crying, Tho disappointment
was too much for him.
"My friends, +" continued Mr.. Clark,
al am III that same condition. When /
heard tho first speech, L thought, well-
that is pretty bad, but still have some
thing left to say. Then there came the
next speech, and the next, and when the
last speaker finished just busted right
out a-crying, because there was not an
other thing left for me to shy.
Eut thoro was, and no said it too.
He awakened that audience till you
could hear it's applause II milo away.
think that that was probably the
first time Champ Clark ever spoke in ST.
Charles county. He carried back homo
with him tho thanks and appreciation
of good many of his hearers that day
st. Louis Republic.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08

London's lord mayor has to put on
three suits of clothes ON taking Office.
He wears wide sleeYed velvet faced,
fur trimmed robe of purple silk rep on
presenting himself to the lord chancel-
Tor mt Westminster; this he uses after
ward as police magistrate. For his
show lie wears n robe of superime scar
let broadcloth, faced with sable fur and
lined with pearl satin; this he must
wear when greeting tho judges at the
Old Bailey and OH All Saints days.
The dress for evening and formal recep-
lions is black damask satin robe, en-
broidercd with silver gilt. Under these
he wears velvet coat and knee breech-
es. The robes are perquisites of tho office
and cost 1000. The chain of the Office
has on it diamonds worth 5000, 600, and
each lord mayor must give bonds for it's
safe return on receiving it. When the
queen passes through the city, fourth
robe is necessary; but, as that seldom
happens, it Is bought only when tho oc
rnSiOu arises
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08
Ilost Know The Mani

Dost love a man who always kicks, no
matter what you do,
Who kicks with most prodigious ease
thethe whole long seasonthrough,
Who kicks ifanything goes wrong and
kicks If all goes right,
Who Kicks because he likes to kick,
and kicks with all his might
We know some awful kickers on this
wicked, mundane sphere,
Who came on earth by accident, and
kick because they're here
no make themselves uncomfortable,
and other people sick;
They drive their friends to suicide,
and still they always kick.
We know man who kicks and kicks
the blessed livelong day,
And il there's naught to kick about
he's kicking anyway
Yes, times when things are going
right, and other men would smile,
He kicks on general principles, yea,
kicketh all the while.
Polly Pry, in Now York Recorder.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08

One Minute Cough Cure touches the
right spot. 1t also touches it at the
right time il you take it when you nave
n cough or cold. See the pointP Then
don't cough. a. G. Van Glider and O..
w. Petty IL Co., Hartford.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08

An unusal number of tramps
have been lowering about town for
n few days past.
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ONO RIVER RAILROAD NOTES.
Train Connections to and from Charles.
ton. w. Va, via thcO 10 River Rail
road Eastern Standard Time.

Train No Cparlor car att ched be-
tween Wheeling, Kenova and interme-
diate points, leaves Wheeling ZOO a n.
Parkersburg IL a. M; arrives Charles
ton 5:O5 p. III. via *. Il Nj. Ry.; 1929 p.
M via @. e o. Ry.
Pittsburg 9:lO n. M, Wheeling ll;i5 a,
M, Parkersburg 1925 p. m; arrives
Charleston 1885 u. IN. via X. q Nj. Ry;
3:45 a. IN. via @. u o. Ry.
Train No. leaves Parkersburg 7:l5 n.
M; arrives Charleston 4:27 r. IN. via q.
& o. ny.
Connection for train No. . (parlor car
attached between Kcnova, Wheeling
and intermediate points,: Leaves Charl-
eston 2:5G a. III. via @. q o. Ry.; arrives
Parkersburg l0:l5 q. m, Wheeling 2:05
u. IN, Pittsburg G:l5 n. IN.
Connections for train No. 4 leave
Charleston 7:l0 IN. vim Is. y Nj; Ry.;
1855 n. IN. via @. Il o. r.; arrives Park
ersburg 800 p. M, Wheeling G:Io p IN.
Charleston 1886 p. M. via @. " o. Ry.;
I:30 p. IN. via X. Il NJ. Ry.; arrives
Petersburg lO:1Sp. IN.
Tho Ohio Rivor Railroad Co. has
erected commodiOus eating house
ut X. a. NJ. Junction., Point Pleas.
ant, and all trains stop twenty min
utes for meals, except train No z,
which stops five minutes for lunch.
Elegant parlor cars on Ohio River
Railroad through trains and 2; en-
tire train heated by the latest i'm
proved steam heating apparatus.
Through trains Nos and 2 on
he Ohio River Railroad are worry
popular with the travelling public,
entiro train heated by tho Iatcstim
proved steam heating apparatus
Parlor cars between Wheeling,
Kenova and principal intermediate
points.
Ono of tho many improvements
lately inauguratcd by the manage
mont of tho Ohio River Railroad
Co. was tho placing of elegant par
lor cars on through trains Nos. !
and 2, between Wheeling, Kenova
and principal Intermediate points
These cars are modern in all their
appointments and are from the
shops of tho Pullman Palace Car
Co., which is guarantee of their
excellence Trains and 2 are
heated with tho latest improved
steam heating apparatus The
charge for seat in the parlor car is
%, so and rs cents, according to the
distance travelled Mileage tickets
are accepted for parlor car charge
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08
FouNDlNa TAg KoNao sTATE.
Explorer Stanley Tells In Brief the story
of tho Great Enterprise.

Explorer Stanley Tells In Brief tho Story
of tho Great Enterprise.
During my descent of the Kongo 1
had rovolved over and over in my mind
tho question of tho destiny of the river.
Seated at the PROV of my boat, which
led our flotilla, and daily watching tho
river developing itself, was preoccu-
pied with these thoughts every leisure
moment. There was, it seemed to me,
no other power but England that could
interest itself with this part of Africa,
and, as L said, there was not single
white man i'll possession of any portion
of tho equatorial belt except at the
mouth of tho Kongo, where few trad
ors had gathered. But despite the nu-
merous addresses in England upon this
subject L failed to awaken more than Il
geographical interest i'll equatorial At
RIGA. The terror of the African climate
i'll general was too strong upon every
body.
Elsewhere, however, tho reports of
my addresses i'll the English newspapers
were taking effect. After nearly nine
months busy lifo in England the king
of the Belginns invited mo to visit him,
and was then informed of his strong
inclination TO undertake for, Africa what
had been so stE re- pWs Sireaady president
'sn aillG HH4ificim International association,
- =. --'ich Wns ahcTt to set on foot hu-
mnnitariau oM:ctpriso from the east
coast. un3 Eo led mo 10 understand that
IL we've f:oe from oihcr engagements
10 would like to employ me i'll opening
the kongo basin to European influence
aud civilization.
it was my opinion that tie best way
of setting about the work was to CON
struct light surface railway which
should skirt the catnrncts of the lower
EOngo and then to launch steamers ON
the upper waters, which 1 estimated
would furnish about Il, 900 miles of nav
igntion. Wo argued about this matter
from August 10 December, 1878. The
best Belgian engineers were consulted,
but after the most elaborate calcula-
tions as To cost it was finally decided
that as the eXpeuGe would he great we
shonld content ourselves with making
wagon roads past thocaiarncts and build
u series of military stations for the pro-
lection Of caravans, and hat the annual
expenditure should not exceed $50, 900.
Henry NJ. Stanley i'll Century.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08
ETsctive wenpons.

During the sieges of medieval
times it was very common for the
besiegors 10 throw from their cnta-
pulls and other military engines
dead bodies of dogs. swine, together
with pieces OF horsehcsh and SINH
lar carrion, into tho city or cGstle
bcsieped, i'll order that the defend
ers might, by tho stencil of this pu-.
tridity, be forced toa surrender.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08
Tic Gate Where "Poor joe" Died.

"Tom All Alono's," tue dismal
graveyard i'll Russell court, Drury lane,
immurtulizcd by Dickens i'll tho Poor
Joe episode of "Bleall House., is now
almost All open space, owi"T@,;;iI.pnbor-
extensive demolitioHf passage and steps
hood. ,ThG rlGd tho yard is paved and
laid out as II poor children's gymnasi-
um, but the sullen looking gate with
tho rust eaten bars still remains, and is.
like tho space, in the custody of the
London common council. = London
News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08

There arc seven saw mills with
in hearing distance of Grimms'
Landing, the shrill shrek of
whose whistles and the music of
whose humming wheels make
glad the song of many laboring
men, who receive good wages for
their daily toll.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08

The Register gets weary some
times in telling the people, of the
outcome there is to this town, if
we only all pull together, because
there seems to be no responsive
sentiment to what we tell them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-08

Those owing taxes for 1898, had
better settle them at once, and save
costs and trouble. The bondsmen
of p. G. McDade. give you timely
notice in to-day's paper.