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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

From Thursdays Daily.
Mr.. Jas. Brown, of Morcer's
Bottom, is in town.
Mr.. Andrew Sehon, of Hartford,
is the guest of Mr.. John Sehon.
Mr.. Robt. Armstrong, of Ar
buckle, was here last night.
Mr.. Bert Hoyt, of Huntington,
was here last night.
Mr.. w. A. Harpold, of Ravens
wood, is here attending the Fair.
RMcssrs. Earl G. Bowyor and
Frank Middleton, of Winfield, are
here attending the Fair.
Mr.. II. f. Munford, of Niagara
Falls, is visiting Col. Thos. Mum
ford and family, at Lock II.
Misses Mary and Nell Couch, of
Charlestom, are the guests of Miss
Annie Schon, near town.
Master George Couch and sister
Mary, of Charleston, are the guests
of Miss Alice Capohart, near town
Capt. w. II. Flanagan, of Park
ersburg, and Col. n. II. Wallis, of
Clorksburg, are here attending the
Fair.
Mrs. Henry Burns and son,
Homer, and Miss Erney Wells, Of
Huntington, arc the guests of Mr.
Elmer Nutter and family.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

AS presented by Mr., Hanna's or
gans the Mexican dollar argument
lacks both pith and point. Every
one knows that Mexico is on free
silver basis and that the United
States is on gold basis, but at the
same time every man of intelli-
gence also knows that Mexico's
products bring as much in gold
standard countries as the products
of the United States. In other
words, Mexico is not getting the
worst of it in any way, shape or
form, but is really getting quite
the best of it, since she is financi-
ally independent of the gold sharks
and is free from all financial dis
turbances, which cannot be said of
any gold standard country
Wheeling Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Attention is called to the letter
of Hon. John 3. Beller, candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney, in this
issue of the Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Why not the youth of this town
be made stay at home after eight
O'Clock at night2 There are too
many temptations for evil doing
about, to have them running
around at late hours as many of
them do. Some towns forbid it by
ordinances successfully. If caught
out after the specified hours they
are picked up and lodged in Jail.
Many young man and woman's
life and character would be saved
from ruin if more strict attention
would be given this matter. We
call public attention to this, hop
ing that if parents will not do their
duty, the town authorities will.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

The editor of this paper togeth-
er with his family, desire in this
way to return their thanks and
express their appreciation for the
visit and serenade by the members
of that most excellent Graham Sta
ton Cornet Band, last night. The
Band is composed of splendid gen
tlemen, and has only been organi-
zed about six months, and it's de-
velopment and proficiency in mu-
sic is wonderful, and is now consid-
cred among the best bands in the
Ohio Valley. We wish every mem
Der of the band, health, long life
and prosperity. This Band is fur
nishing the music at the Fair.
james A. Garfield said when in
the House:
Every man who is opposed to
the use of silver coin as a part of
the legal currency of the Country L
disagree with. Every man who is
opposed to the actual legal use of
both metals 1 disagree with. 1
would endow the two metals with
equality and make the coinage
free"
That was the position of Abra-
ham Lincoln and General Grant.
That was the position of the Re
publican party from it's formation
down until the ST Louis Conven-
ltion,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Democratic victory is assured al
ready-on 16-to-1 basis.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

The bolter who bolts and brags
over it will probably be sorry for
it next year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Oilspeculators are at Letart get
ting ready to put down more wells.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Put out your hags tOdhy and
give some life, beauty and patriotic
appearance to your residences and
business places. The Fair only
comes once year, SO blow your
bazoo, let the hew-gag fly and the
cymbols sound.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Capt Ira Huntington, of the
Ruth, said Tuesday that the new
$4,000 packet Knnawha will re-
place tho Ruth in the trade two
weeks from Tuesday. Capt. Geo.
Bay, of Bay Bros, the owners, was
in the city purchasing equipments.
The Knnawha, which is now re-
ceiving the finishing touches at
Marietta, is one of the most COM
plete packets which will traverse
the river. She is 1876 feet long and
36 feet beam and will draw barely
20 inches. Her engines are com
pound, 10 inch cylinder and six
foot stroke. Her passenger equip
ments are most sumptuous and 36
staterooms are fitted up as the
larger lower river packets. Elec-
tricity will furnish the light
throughout. Capt. Huntington
will command. Pittsburg Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

A personal letter from a friend
in the West states that the corn
crop out there will be tremendous.
That all vegetation is luxurious
and bountiful.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

What the people cannot under
stand is how the silver mine owners
would be made rich by the coinage
of 80 cent dollar.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Yesterday a woman named
Bowles, of Huntington, informed
the police that she was looking for
her daughter, whom her husband
had kidnapped from her home
about four months ago. Mrs.
Bowles and her husband have been
parted for some time. The police
soon located the husband and
daughter whom they found living
on shanty boat with two prosti-
tutes. The daughter was turned
over to the mother and both left
for Huntington at once.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

An attempt is being made by the
friends of John Craig to secure
a pardon for him. He was SEN
fenced two years and his first will
be up this coming February.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

DIED.-At Winfield, Oath inst,
an infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Il.
S. Cartmill. The remains were
brought down here yesterday, and
inferred in the Lewis burying
ground.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

The contractors building the
government ice piers at Hartford
City, are taking every advantage of
the low water to push rapidly on
with their work The piers are To-
Gated just above the Hartford Salt
Works, and the stone are being
gotten out just back of and n little
above the works, about three hund-
red yards distant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-02

Campaign preparations are being
made by the bands including the
big drum. The latter is quite eff
cient in working up boom, but
it's folly to say it can't be beat.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20

duce antagonism, rebellious mOrtilica
nately, it is largely thing of the past.
But as long as parents are afflicted
with temper, children are doomed to
suffer the penalty of corporal punish
ment. 1t would be well if it were
made as much legal offense for par
ents to raise their hands against their
children as against their neighbors. The
state ought to be able to control pa
rental assault and battery.
The whole idea of discipline is put
upon wrong plane. Parents assume
an authority over their children such
as master might over a slave. They
assume the right of absolute direction
of conviction without trial, of anything
caprice may suggest. With all the prog
ress in educational ideas. it is rare to
find a family where the government is
republican, and the children are re-
garded as independent individuals,
with rights and opinions to be respect
ed. The home is too often despotic
monarchy. There is great need of the
doctrine that parents do not own their
children, and have no rightful authority
over them, save what they acquire from
superior wisdom and the children's need
of guidance.
All punishment is wrong, in the sense
of artificial penalties, vengeance and
requital. 1t is tyrannical injustice to
the child, and puts the parent upon the
plane Of quarreling with him, and en-
forcing his own wishes by means of
superior strength. The only wise and
Just course is to allow child to suffer
the natural consequences of every act,
neither tightening nor intensifying the
ills of ng-doing. This not only dis
penses with police measures and estab-
fishes the relations of parent and child
upon an amicable basis, but it teaches
the child cause and effect, the work
ings of natural law, and the necessity
of self-control. 1t is long step in adj
vance of the home-training Of the pres
ent day, but it is step that must come
to the position where punishment will
be absolutely dispensed with. Until
that millennium, when all parents shall
have been trained for the duties OF
, parenthood, it would be we'll if there
were retreats for incorrigible parents
} Minneapolis Times.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
Tepme.} SLIGO per year. in advance
Six Months 80 cents.

by adopting the air of a scamp; and
that woman who appears to regard
work as insufferably boring is one Of
the quickest and most persistent work
ers you can find.
An affectatiOn of laziness by specially
Industrious people is one of the COM
monest forms of deception; but these
self -depreciators are soon found out.
Better undue modesty than pert, self
sufficient, completely-equipped smart
ness. 1t is the golden mean that is
wanted, the unObtrusive good taste by
which each of us may make the best of
himself.
Have you quick temper? A quick
temper and warm heart often go TO-
gether. Perhaps, however, you are ir-
ritable. Irritabilty, in many cases, is
the result of ill-health, especially Of a
deranged condition Of the nervous sys-
tenn. Improve your health, and you
will improve your disposition. Besides
this, there are some very simple rules
by the adoption of which you may con-
troll or prevent the manifestations Of
your irritability. One ofthese is, when
ever you are greatly disturbed and ex-
cited, to speak slowly, and in a low
voice. AS soon as you shall have con-
trolled yourself, under circumstances
of provocation, sufficiently to speak
several words without raising your
voice above it's ordinary pitch, you
will find that you have obtained a
surprising mastery over your feelings
also.--PhiladeIphia pa Saturday Eve
Post.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
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ENDURANCE.

Cow much the heart may bear. and yet not
break
How much the flesh may suffer, yet not die!
question much if any pain or ache
Or soul or body brings our end more nigh:
Death chooses his own time; Till That is sworn,
All evils may be borne.
We shrink and Shudder at the surgeons knife.
Each nerve recOing from the cruel STEEL
Whose edge seems searching for the Qulvering
life,
Yet to our sense the bitter pangs reveal,
That still, although the trembling flesh be torn,
This also can be borne.
We see a sorrow rising in our way
And try to flee from the approaching i'll;
We seek some small escape, we weep ana pray;
But when the blow falls then our hearts are
still,
Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn.
But that it can he borne.
We wind our life about another life,
We hold it closer. dearer than our own;
Anon it faintS and falls in dPathy strife.
Leaving us stunned and stricken and alone.
But ali! we do not die with those we mourn;
This, also. can be borne.
Behold, we live through all things-famne
thirst.
Bereavement. pain. all grief and misery,
All w,e and sorrow; life intlicts its worst
On soul and body. but we cannot die
Through we be sick and tired and FAINT ana
worn.
10! all things can be borne.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20

physiology of the mind that uncontrOl-
liable vanity is sure symptom of the
onset of insanity. All great men are
brave in initiative, but the courage
which enables them to succeed where
others dare not even attempt is never
so potent as when it leads to entire
self-forgetfulness. When Napoleon
concluded himself demigod, when
lie began to stuff his stomach in
stead of exercising his brain, as he
had done, he became unable to keep
awake when he most needed to be
wary, and having reached this stage he
was already far along on the road to
Waterloo. And both RuSkin and Swift
were far along toward the mad-house
when it was no longer possible for them
to master their vanity and hold it in
the same subsection in which they were
holding it while they were doing the
work which made them celebrated.
Great intellectual effort requires high
nervous tension. 1t is ability to stand
this tension which makes greatness,
and the vanity of greatness is merely
the symptom of reaction-of breaking
down, of the insanity which is the re-
suit of nervous tension uncontrolled
by will. The lunatic asylums are full
of people whose symptoms are identi-
cal with what some have mistaken for
indications of greatness.-St Louis Re.
public.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
THE VANITY OF GREAT MEN.

1t is unquestionable that many of
the celebrated men have been absurdly
and foolishly vain, but before any one
concludes that vanity is either part
or an incident of greatness it ought to
be remembered that no man, great or
small, is fixed quantity, to be counted
upon at all times as the same. No
man is the same from year to year,
from month to month, or from day to
day. The processes of thought, the
moods of the mind, are as swift as the
flash OF light, and doubtless one man
who lives through long life, expert
ences all the moods of which any man
of his level of cultivation has ever
been capable. Instead of being true
that the vanity of great men makes
them great, or that they do their best
in the mood of vanity, is is probably
true that in doing their really great
work they are not vain at all, or even
self-conscious at all. 1t is only as they
look back upon it that it initiates some
of them with pride, which often shows
itself in vanity. "Godsl" said Dean
Swift, shifting his hand on the table as
he read over one of his own produc
tions, "what genius 1 had when
wrote that!" This was vanity, nc
doubt. And it was vanity in Ruskir
which made him say: "With Carlyle
l stand, we two alone now in E gland
for God and the Queen" But does
this justify any one in saying, as M. dl
Clos does in concluding series of in
teresting anecdotes on the vanity o
great men, that Gas people are usual.
taken at their own estimate, self-ap
probation should not be condemned :?
L 1t seems rather true as fact of tn
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
CHILDREN OF INCORRIGIBLE
PARENTS.

Scattered over the country are insti-
buttons known as retreats for incorrigl-
BILE children. There is profound error
i'm their very name. They should be
called retreats for the children of in
corrigible parents. There is no such
thing as an incorrigible child. The
term is as false and contradictory as
dark sunlight or discordant harmony.
There are, undoubtedly, children who
have inherited evil tendencies, and
children who have been contaminated
by bad surroundings and hardened by
bad management. But an irreclaimable
child does not exist.
The institutions themselves are
proof of this fact. Why should they
be established at such an outlay Of time
and thought and money, if the children
are, as they are called, hopelessly bad?
Philanthropists recognize in fact, if not
in word, that it is the parents who are
irreclaimable and that any child may
be saved. 1t is an axiom that in child
hood the mind is so plastic, so easily
formed and reformed, that it may be
cast in any mold the educator wills.
Rudely handled, the spiritual wax may
seem to lose it's divine impress, but it
needs only proper conditions to re-
store it.
The children who are inmates of these
institutions come usually from houses
of degradation, where the only disci-
pline is brutal whippings, and the only
moral restraint is physical fear. The
evil ideas with which they are sur
rounded are quickly and faithfully re.
produced in the unfolding characters
and behold! the children are "incorrigi
ble.'
The first step toward reform is tC
take them from their evil surroundings
and the second is to abolish the regime
of punishment, and begin rational edu
cation, that draws out the best there i:
in the children.
Ideas on the subject of punishment
have changed rapidly in the past few
years. 1t is hard to believe that thu
last generation was brought up in thu
fear of the rod. Yet it is true that tn
scriptural aphorism, "Spare the rod ant
spoil the child" was not long ago tn
keynote of government in every well
regulated family. 1t was barbarou
custom, this wreaking of the vengeanc
of angry parent on defenseIess chill
dren. 1t had no justification in reaso
or result. Its only effect was to pre-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
FALSE TRAINING.

We are trained too much in ruts.
The boy who is trained by his father
to be Republican will look upon all
other parties as utterly wrong. If ho
is trained to be Democrat he is
equally sure that others are on a false
basis, and if he has been reared Pop
uist or Prohibitionist he is sure that
both the old organizations are COM
posed of men who care not fig for
the good of government but are solely
bent on plumber. In the theological
field if he has been trained Presby-
terian he looks upon all other churches
as bodies that are mistaken. If his
rearing has been Baptist he is sure
that all the others are throwing away
their time. If he is Catholic he will
consider all other organizations of the
world as simply sects, more or less he
retical, and mistaken in their views.
In social life, if he comes of we'll
to do family, he will look upon all per-
sons having less property than him
self as inferior beings. If educated,
he will incline to look down upon those
less educated. II a poor man, he has
imbibed ideas of jealousy toward all
who have amassed considerable
amount Of worldly goods. The fault
in all these instances is in the training.
The young are not taught to look out
and beyond their own rut. They are
rather restrained from giving patient
hearing to anOther's ideas. A turn
coat" is held up as man too weak to
have opinions of his own and stick to
them. They are taught to try to con-
vince others of the error of their ways,
but never admit the possibility of mis-
take on their own part. They are not
taught that every man is entitled to
his own opinion, and just as likely to
be correct. That any mans belief is
the result of his training and his sur
roundings, and is not sufficient cause
for you to despise him or his thought.
The assumption that we alone are
right, and all others wrong, has carried
with it the consequent hindrance to
the worlds progress. No wonder that
sometimes progression has seemed to
be entirely blocked, or retrogression to
, have set in. There seems, now, to be
strong tide of common sense coming
on. People are listening more to what
/ their neighbors think. The result is a
| vast changing about, and with each
) change comes somewhat of advance
) ment.-New Paynesyille Press.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
OF APPEARANCES.

We are not using the word appear
ances" in quite the sense that it carries
in the phrase keeping up appearances"
for there it signifies trying to be finer
than circumstances warrant. We wish
to illustrate the Importance of making
the best of ones self in little things
such as dress and bearing of caring for
the impression made on others by the
many surface indications of character
which are read more quickly than the
graver essential qualities of nature.
Young men and young women who
are described by their acquaintance as
"having something in them"-which
generally means displaying traces of
originality or force of characterize
often curiously careless of appearances
nay, they are sometimes contemptu-
Gus of the show of things.
What matters it, they think, if the
hair is unkempt so long as the brain is
active? Why should they trouble
about baggy unbrushed clothes so long
as the heart is warm? They seek reali-
ties. not shows, and they imagine it is
rather fine and girtuous to despise con-
ventionalities.
Our task is homely and humdrum; it
is an attempt to convince any of our
readers who may despise appearances
that they are mistaken, and that they
are foolishly handicapping themselves
by their affectation of carelessness.
| Some part os the foolish disregard
for appearances shown by certain men
and women of more than average
strength of character is a revulsion
from the ridiculous excess of over
} dressed or particular men anG
; women.
The vast majority of us look on the
7 "masher," the dapper man and thu
snowy woman, with secret contempt
J We may not like the word "contempt'
7 applied to anybody, and may try to ex
. cuse ourselves from the feeling, but can
5 dor must admit that traces of it Turk il
1 us when we see man who has surren
s dered himself to the thought of how hi
: garments fit, who is content to be la.
l figure for the exhibition of the lates
0 style.
n The fussy little dapper person, al
Q new, clean, spick and-span, without
|, crease or spec,-, is almost equally irri
S tating and Objectionable; and we sen
u him in our mind to bear the woma
l. company who flounces, rustles, an
f shines obtrusively in way that insist
y on the spectator making out the dress
J. makers bill. 1t is not costliness c
=" stylishness or showiness that we are az
e vocating, but an attention to appear
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