The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-17
Wood county Correspondence.

DEAR REeIsTER You can't i'm
agine the satisfaction. there is in
the receipt and perusal of the
prompt and bright little Daily
Register. Once day I drop my
professional cares and learn from
it that the Hog Combine rules the
two angles formed by the intersec-
ton of the rivers Ohio and Great
Kanawha; that you and John
Beller and General McCausland
are vigorously Directing TO the
robbery of the tax-payers by the
old rule that TO the victors be-
long the spoils.' The work of
Commodore Schley in destroying
Cervera's wooden tubs don't hold q
candle to the hot shot you are
pouring into the enemy ESQ to
speak. I also learn that New
Haven citizen still receives benefit
from Miles Restorative Nervine
and that you esteem General
Wheeler above Blanco. By the
way, don't forget, in the heat of
contest that Fitz Lee and your
brother scribe Murat Halstead told
us that Sig. Blanco was courteous
gentleman and that our soldiers
have found out that the Cuban
insurgents are a hard lot, who will
neither work nor fight.
Reading further, L perceive that
my fellow professionals are directed
by Col. Smith and Mr.. Hambrick
to get their pencils out and figure
on the best offers they can make
to heal the wounds and ease the
pains of those under the care of
the Sheriff. I know your physi-
clans well and at the hands of any
one of them the unfortunate will
receive sympathy and humane care.
The people of Waggener Dis
trict will do the act of wisdom
when they put the ''Stock Law"
into full force. I can recollect,
years ago, when Robinson District
was compelled to keep up twenty
five miles of fences to acommo-
date Jesse Kearns' and Frank
Stewards half dozen of cattle and
what sigh of relief went up when
the voters of the district took
step forward and voted stock off
the public highway.
Our friends in Arbuckle will
like the alternate road system and
will join lots of US in wishing that
the millions that have been wasted
in burning powder for the Cubans
who will neither fight nor work
had been expended for our own
benefit, in good roads, and, don't
you think we will have to answer
for the lives of 1000 Spaniards
killed to please these worthless
Cubans.
In still further perusing the
Register gospel I discover the
foundation cause of the cursed
gossip you complain of; and we
are troubled great deal here in
Slate district, also with the idle
gabber. This cause is the two
full moons in this month. I have
never failed to observe that two
or three full moons in an August
preceded and accompanied by
such extreme temperature as we
have had this summer will bring
to the surface all the devilish in
humanity of the scolding, gossip
ing, idle gabber. The scripture is
not fulfilled as yet, for it says in
Titus, that "There are many I'M
ruly and vain takers and deceiv-
ers whose mouths must be stop
ped Those who stop to listen to
idle takers are as much the crimi-
nal as the takers. But what is
the use of firing scripture at the
Devil or any of-his agents?
In regard to a market for your
wool, if your shepherds will raise
the energy to write Mr.. Carl Mack,
of Cheshire, Ohio, when and where
he can see their wool, he will make
a trip to Mason county and pay
more than any of your home buy
ers ever paid L dealt with him
for years and found him o. K. in
every respect.
The Register re cords the death
of several old citizens lately and
keeps me we'll posted in everything
Transporting in the county in which
L lived for nearly a quarter CEN
tury.
L hope to be able to give you