Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-01-20
RANDOM NOTES.


The scoundrels who desecrated the
cemetery at Williamsport last week by
overthrowing nearly hundred mon
uments and tombstones in the cemetery
are yet UNPUBLISHED. The people of
Williamsport have strong suspicious az
to who the guilty parties are, but they
are afraid to give in any evidence.
The respectable people Of the town APP
pear to be terrorized, and the "whooly-
COOLIES" know it and keep them IN
that condition. Some of the citizens
who have been rather free in their ex-
pressions have received anonymous
notes warning them to keep quiet or
they would suffer. The citizens there
upon subside. This is the greatest sort
of mistake. The people ought to
make the law breakers afraid. If the
good men of the town would fearlessly
do their duty and act with the officers
who are trying to ferret out the Grim
inals they would soon have the rascals
on the run-and they would not suffer
for doing their duty. Make the scoun-
drels afraid. 1t is said, however, that
one reason why some of the people are
not pushing the matter is because they
may involve some person they would
much prefer to shield. One man gave
it as his opinion that if the names of
all the culprits were made known there
would be considerable surprise in Will
Transport.
An esteemed friend at Harper's Fer
ry writes US as follows:
DEAR SNYDER-Whatis the proper way
to discontinue paper that do not wish
to take any longer?
We hope it is not the REGISTER that
our friend wishes to quit, but we will
tell him the right way to discontinue
his subscription to some other paper.
First, pay whatever your Indebtedness
is. Then send a polite note to the pub
Usher that you do not wish the paper
any longer. If he continues to send it
after this, simply tell the postmaster
that you do not desire the paper, and
he is then required by the postofice
regulations to send a card to the pub
Usher that it is not taken from the Of
fee. If the publisher does not stop it
then it is his own lookout, and he is
entitled to no further consideration.
1t used to be the fashion with country
publishers, and is yet in some few in
stances, to force their newspapers upon
unwilling subscribers by sending their
publications when they had never been
ordered, OF by absolutely refusing to
stop when once name had been Sc
cured. This is an imposition for which
there is no excuse, and the man who
has this game played upon him is not
under any obligation to pay for a pa
per sent him under such circumstances.
There is nothing in the postal laws, or
any other law, that can make him pay
for it. Fortunately this sort of thing
is dying out among legitimate news
papers. We wish that country pub
fishers could get down to the system
adopted by the city papers, namely,
to promptly stop the subscription as
soon as the time is up. This would be
more satisfactory to the publishers of
the right sort, and from conversations
we have had with our patrons we be-
lieve it would be most agreeable to the
better class of subscribers. If we are
not right in our views on this subject
we will be glad to hear arguments
from our brethren of the press on the
other side of the question.
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