The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-05-05
A ImnoTtanf AInendlnent.


An important Amendment.
Mr.. Hanen. Of the Constitutions
al COMMITTEES, has offered the fol-
lowing resolution, as an ameud
ment to the State Constitution. It
is the most important amendment
proposed during the session of the.
Committee, as it affects more par
ticularly the farmers of the State,
who have to bear the burden of
taxation:
All taxes shall be equal and
uniform upon the same class OF
subjects within the territorial linn
it's of authority levying the tax, and
shall be levied and collected under
general law; but the legislature
may, by general laws, except from
taxation the following classes OF
subjects: Public property used
exclusively for public purposes;
property used solely for education-
al literary and scientific purposes:
actual places of religious worship; ).
Institutions of purely public char
acter; cemeteries and places OF bur-
islI not used or held for private or
corporate profit; and such proper
tion of the assessed value OF real
estate as any debt for purchase
money existing by lien of record
against the same may bear to the
actual cash value of such real es-
tate. The legislature shall have
power to tax by uniform and equal
laws, all privileges and franchises
of persons and corporations.
The subject of the education of
children too young to send to
school is very neglected matter.
A child of such age can best learn
by object teaching; and such teach
ing comes best through the system
known as ssThe kindergarten. /"
Here is statement of the progress
of "The kindergarten" school for
children under school age:
Boston, 81 schools, Chicago, 4u,
Milwaukee, 40, New York City, %,
st. Louis, SO, Philadelphia, LIS,
with other localities falling into
line. Point Pleasant is good
field for kindergarten" Women
toned this matter about one year
ago; but no one has seen fit as yet
to take up this very important mat
ter. lie we look carefully after our
infants and youth, orr manhood
and womanhood will be such as we
will admire.
The invention of the purse was
doubtless contemporaneous with
that of money. The purse is mem
toned in Old Testament history as
a part of a travellers outfit. When
the disciples, spoken in the Cos
pels, were sent forth to preach,
they were commanded to take
neither gold nor silver nor brass in
their purses.
We recently had mothers con-
gress, and now Brooklyn proposes
to have a parents congress in
which both fathers and mothers
can participate. The women will
find that it is going to be some
what difficult to handle the mother
problem in its entirety without
some understanding with the "old
man.
1t is now given out that Hon. A
L. Martin, of Charleston, viii be
appointed United States District
Attorney. It is claimed that he is
backed by Senator Elkins. Well,
he is a nice man and learned
lawyer, and would make good
officer
It is said that cycling has caused
a marked falling off in the sale of
tail coats, stiff hats. collars and to-
bacco. But think what a COM
pensating demand it has created
for bloomers. leggings, sticking
plaster and chewing gumI
Ifa woman would select hus-
band suited to her disposition as
carefully as she matches her gowns
to her complexion, there might
not be such a short path from the
marriage alter to the divorce Court.
The Cuban revolution is slowly
but steadily solving itself. just
when it's people shall be free is not
yet revealed, but the ultimate issue
of the struggle is read in Spain's
senile and declining spirit.
Phoebe Cousins, who has been al
lifelong supporter of woman suf-