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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15
Pointed Paragraphs.

The average woman's firm be-
lever in home rule.
Frankness may ruin man but
duplicity always dishoners him.
The bigot is always dead sure of
something he knows nothing about.
A cranky old bachelor says the
most tiresome thing about man
is woman.
The problem of life seems to be
how to make one dollar do the
work of two.
Lots of writer's who pursue lit
ernry career are unable to catch up
with it.
The loafer's idea of happiness is
nothing to do and lots of time to
do in.
If man is particular friendiof
yours he may not be SO very par
ticular after all
Occasionally a woman manages
husband successfully by letting
him think he is doing it himself.
The bible tells us God created
man in His own image near
ly every man thinks he is the one
referred to.
You can't procure contentment
with money; but the fact that the
converse is equally true arrests the
force of the proposition Chicago
News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

Campaign Against The Trusts.
There has been saturnalia in
the formation of trusts since Nc
Kinley and Hanna came to power.
The world has seen nothing like it
heretofore. The point has been
reached where we have combina-
tions ruling everything from coal,
sugar and meat to brooms, soap
and collins. The only fortunes are
those that are made by multi-mil-
lionaires who control trusts. The
man of small capital, the firms of
limited means, composed generally
of young mon whose friends, be-
lieving in their energy, enterprise
and honesty, have advanced the
money that they may go into bust
ness, are being rapidly crushed out.
All trade is passing into the hands
of trusts, and all opportunity for
independent energy and competi-
ton, or for that rise of young men
of which we have boosted as one of
the great opportunities of this coun-
try, is stified. 1t is startling fact
that the number of business estab-
lishments in the United States has
not increased during the time the
wealth of the nation has doubled.
The next national political cam
paign should bea strong and de-
termined fight against these unlaw-
full combinations Charleston Ga.
zette.
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HoNoKED NAMES.
Borne by the Counties of West
Virginia.

Borne by the Counties of West
Virginia.
The counties of West Virginia
bear honored names. Six are nam
ed for Presidents, Monroe, Jeffer-
son, jackson, Taylor, Grant and
Lincoln. Two for fathers of Presi-
dents, Harrison and Tyler. Seven
for Governors of Virginia, Wood,
Cabell, Nicholas. Preston, Barbour,
Peasants and Mcdowell. Six are
Indian names, Monongalia, Ohio,
Kanawha, Pocahontas, Logan, Wy
oming and Mingo. Two are for
early coIonizers, Berkeley and
Raleigh. Five are for great states
men, Randolph, Hancock, Calhoun,
Clay and Webster. Three are for
great jurists, Marshall, Writ and
Roane. Eight are for soldiers,
Lewis, Morgan, Wayne Fayette,
Mason, Mercer, Marion and
Putnam. Three for members of
Congress, Hardy, Pendleton and
Doddridge. Two for scouts, Wet
eel and Boone. Gilmer and Up
shur were both members of Presi-
dent Tyler's cabinet and killed by
tho explosion of gun on the
Princeton. Hampshire was named
from shire in England. Green
brier for the river. Robert Brooke
commanded the Bon Homme
Richard Braxton signed the Declar-
alton of Independence. Richie
was journalist. Tucker was clerk
of the House of Delegates and
Summers a member from Kunawha
Mineral gets her name from the
natural resources.
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unInish,s Road RiII.

The bill authorizes the issuance
of bonds for the permanent i'm
provement of country roads. The
bonds shall be issued upon the wish
of three-fifths majority of county
residents expressed at the polls.
An amendment offered to the bill
and accepted Mr.. Harnish provides
that the bonds may be purchased
with the irreducible school, thus
making safe Investment for the
fund and distributing it among the
people of the State. This bill also
indirectly enables counties to erect
new court houses without much
trouble. Experience has shown
that country people will not vote
for bonds to build court houses
while they will vote for bonds TO
improve roads. With the proposed
law in effect court houses can be
erected out of tho funds raised by
the regular levy whereas now it
takes all that money for the main
tenance of roads-W Wheeling News
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Trustees Sale.

BY virtue of the authority vested in me by
- n certain deed of trust, execute Il by Mary
J.. JeffeIs and James LETTERS her husband, to
the undersigned trustee. dated on the 18TH
u the Clerk of the County Court, OF Mason
county, West Virginia, In trust deed book
no. ~, pages $50, &c, to secure the payment
OF the debt therein mentioned end described,
therein set forth, and default having been
made In the payment of said debt according
TO the terms and provisions thereof, and be-
and Loan Association, tho creditor secured
In said deed of trust, Will on
Saturday, the 25th day of March,
1889, at o'clock p. M.
sell Mt public auction at the front door Of the
CouTt House of said Mason County, to the
highest bidder, the following real estate,
conveyed 10y said deed oftrust, Situated In the
being pdTt of lot No. 4, In block II. Begin.
ming at corner of school house lot, on Chest.
nut street and running thence North with
longing II Elizabeth AllIs, thence 81 with
line OF said Ais lot l5O feet to Chestnut
street, thence East with Chestnut street to
the place of beginning, md being the Same
lot conveyed to Mary j. JefEers by -. ID.
HendeTson by his deed dated the End day of
November. 1895. and of record In said Clerks
Office In decd book No 10, page liz. Also an
other lot in said village OF Henderson, adj
Joining the above described lot, and known
igihai plat OF said Village OF Hende son, and
being the same lot of land conveyed TO Mary
j. Jeffers, by s. B. HcndeTson, by his deed
dated the 2lst day of October, 1892, and of
record in sald Clerks ofIice In decd book No.
90, page So, &c.
Terms OF sale;-CASII:
feb % wks.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

The expansionists yell that we
must hold onto all the territory
that we have conquered. Yes, but
how about the territory we are
clawing after which we have not
conquered?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

The horse owned by P. @, Nc
Dade which fell over the river bank
some time ago and was badly hurt.
and which he tried to save, and
getting no better, was shot last
night. Mr.. McDade had spent
about $50 trying to save the animal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15
SAM JONES ON KISSING.
RevivaIist in HIS Sermon EX,
presses His Sympathy for
Lieut.. HObSOn.

Rov. Sam Jones, the evangelist,
preached in the First Baptist
church at Atlanta, Georgia, the
other night TO great crowd from
the toxt: "Be Not Overcome With
Evil, But Overcome Evil With
Coed" He referred to Dewey's
victory at Manila, Schley's at San
tiago, tho heroism of Wheeler,
Roosevelt and othors, and to Hob
son sinking the Merrimac, he said:
"The newspapers may deory Hob
son and speak evil of him, but he
has the profound sympathy of my
heart. Why, to kiss everything
that comes along, from tho old maid
with moss on her lip to the gay
widow: to kiss the old sister whose
nose and chin are meeting; to kiss
the good, bad and indifferent!
Gentleman, 1 like kissing, but L
want to pick the time, place and
case. Poor Hobson! He needs
tho prayers of the church and the
sympathy of his comrades"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

War taxes are still being collect
ed and will be as long as the Re-
publican party controls congress
and continues to spend money at
the rate of almost billion dollars
a year.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

Wall street money sharks will
try very hard to capture the ma
tional Democratic convention next
year They failed in '96 and will
fail again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

The merchants are now trim
ming up their windows with spring
novelties.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

John Sherman says McKinley's
policy is "sad mistake" Well,
if the president ever had fixed
policy he never used it much
Some of the other fellows are max
ing the plans. Mckinley is work
ing to them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

Tin plate has gone up 50 cents a
box, little over thirty per cent ,
since the trust was formed, and the
man who wants oput tin roof on
his house will have to foot the
bill. And yet there are few peo-
pie in this country who still insist
that trusts are our greatest bless
ing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

The issues are now Joined be-
tween the Democrats and Republi-
cans in tho coming municipal bat.
tie. The Democratic ticket stands
for good town government and
economy in the expenditure of the
public money.
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Beech Grove.

Correspondence, 18th.
Beech Grove school closed Sat
urday, March 18th, under the sue
oessful management of Prof. q. @.
Musgrave.
Mrs. Frank Rainey and children
are the guests of Mr.. Tom Rice and
family, at Old Town.
Mr.. Q. II. Hall was the guest OF
friends in Pleasant Flats, Sunday
Misses Edith and Elsie Rifle, of
Pleasant Flats, are the pleasant
guests of Misses Bette and Gipsey
Hall, at Violet Lawn"
Mr., Ernest Caldwell, of your
city, spent Sunday with his parents
at Old Town. GAY.
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NOTICE.

TIE following fiduciary account is be.
fore me for settlement, viz: Allen Hart,
ct ais, Executors of the last will and
testament of Christian Hart. deceased.
Given under my hand this the 9TH
day of January, 1890.
JOHN r BELLER,
Commissioner of Accounts for Mason
County, West Virginia. Tjani oct.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

Eighteen ont of every thousand
recruits for tho English army are
utterly illiteratc, and only Ia out
of eyory thousand are we'll edu-
Gated.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-15

Michigan Democrats in State
Convention assembled have rein
dorsed the Chicago platform and
Bryan. All the other States will
do the same thing as soon as the
opportunity presents itself.
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Spring seems to have come to
stay.
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Jericho.

Correspondence, 18th.
Mr. Ed. Powers is making some
improvements on his property,
Mr.. John Euds, we are sorry TO
say, is no better.
In trimming his grape vines,
Hon. j. Capehart, finds a great
many killed.
Mr.. j. w. Folden has been on
the sick list for the past week.
Mr.. e. j. Cartmill, of Heights,
was the pleasant guest of friends
in this place Sunday.
A revival meeting was begun at
at Sand Hill Monday night.
Rev, Burdette will preach al
Miller's school house, next Sunday
evening at 3 O'Clock. M.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CHAPTER III.

Though there was naturally much to
arrange, there was never any real doubt
about Decima's plan being adopted and
adopted it was.
Within week, Aunt Mary" a widowed
sister of their mothers, of whom they were
all very fond, had come to live for at least
time with them, and in a month they had
received five, what their aunt called, paying
guests
OF these, an American widow and her
daughter were the chief, if the weight of the
money-bag be any criterion.
They had, they said come to Europe on a
sightseeing visit; but it soon became evident
that their idea was to get into society in
which case they would take up their abode in
London and wed their banking account with
as good name as it's size would buy.
At least this was the mothers idea: the
daughter seemed to have changed hers so
far as marrying money went, as soon as she
met Griffith Roberts
If they were a trife vulgar, their silks and
satins, and jewels were very imposing. and
certainly they were very amusing, and kept
things going.
A maiden lady wealthy aunt sent to the
sisters, an inoffensve, easily pleased woman
and Griffiths and his friend, Gordon, made
UP the five.
Gordon had been accepted more for
Griffith's sake than his own.
He would prevent their cousin from feeling
his solitary manhood in house so full Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07

on, Miss Russell Miss Russell" cried
servants voice as, all startled by the TOO
abrupt break in on her meditations, Mary
rose hastily from the piano, "a man has come
10 say the master has met with an accident,
and you are to go at once
An accident? My father? What do you
mean?"
They've taken him to Charing Cross
'Orspital, and the man says
Where is the man." Mary interrupted,
quietly.
Her face had grown white, her eyes had
dilated, but her voice was not raised, and she
barely waited to hear the messenger was
downstairs before she fastened to the nall
Il am one of the porters from Charlng
Cross Hospital" he saba decent-looklng
man, with his hat in his hand 1.-The doctors
to see a gentleman who was run over TINS
afternoon? They found a lot OF letters IN
his pocket addressed to Mr.. John Russell, at
this address, and
"A thick cloak with a hat, Sampson" Mary
said hurriedly to the servant. Quick! Is
he much hurt?"
She turned her blanched face to the man.
Il don't know, miss. I know nothing ex-
cept that was told to bring Mrs. Russell as
fast / could
my mother is dead. I am the eldest
daughter. No, thank you; we can get one"
he had suggested bringing a cab-"at the
bottom of the square. There's stand there
We shall save few seconds So.
1ney sd1u there was ITO t1Ille ~ NC 49,
miss" the man said, in a sympathetic way,
that contrasted oddly with the giving OF
such information at all under the crcum-
stances, a piece of information that made
every second seem an hour to poor Mary,
and filed her with an almost irresistible de-
sire to get out of the numbering cab, and
trust to her own flying feet for quicker
transfer to the side of her father.
mo time to be lost
1t proved. alas, that a few seconds, few
minutes, or hours, or days, or years. more or
less, made no matter in this instance
A fit of giddiness must have seized John
Russell as he crossed the crowded Strand
and he had fallen beneath wheels that had
inflicted terrible internal injuries
And while his two youngest daughters
were dreaming their love-dreams among
music and lights, he had passed beyond Time
into the silent darkness of the sleep called
Death, and had left the children he loved so
dearly to face life alone
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CHAPTER II.

up with the blinds and windows In with
the sunshine Out with our tears and means!
Look at the buds in the garden! Listen TO
the birds! And I declare there's scent of
violets in the air; some must be out I'll
have run and see presently.
1t was the day after the funeral, and it
was Decima who gave vent to these ex-
carnations. r
AS she spoke, she threw open, one after
another, the three windows Of the room In
which she and her sisters had found them
selves together minute ago, and the bright
light and fresh air of a spring morning
streamed in on her.
She was very pale, and there was more
than a suspicion Of dark circles round her
eyes; but those eyes were full Of life, and
her very movement radiated purpose and
resolve.
"Ccme, come, this will never dol" she said,
with sharp decision, as, at the sound of
sob from Rose she turned, to see that both
of her sisters were crying.
Mary had let fall a tear as she busted the
piano that would never again be touched by
the fingers that had loved it so we'll, and
Rose who had been lying back in chair
in an attitude of utter dispirited wretched-
ness had found a companionable shower
ready.
Gene come, Rosie. What's the good of
CRYING? And you Mary, I'm astonished at
YOU" Descima said, briskly. why, where's
your philosophy? Where, indeed, is your
love? Do you mean to tell me that, under
the circumstances, you would nave MIN pack
if YOU could? Think what it would all have
meant to him; then perhaps, you will agree
with me that tears Of regret for his loss are
quite out of place"
Mary wiped her eyes.
Perhaps you are right" she said, pur
suing her busting again with energy.
From an unselfsh point of view Decima
certainly was right
When affairs had come to be looked into
It appeared that, had not death, in the shape
of the fit of giddiness the doctors blamed
for the accident, come to his rescue, John
Russell might have had to endure the shame
of the Bankruptcy Court. Anyhow, bad
speculations had changed the sufficiently
wealthy stock broker from rich man to
one whose sole legacy to the daughters, was
his house, its contents, ana hundred
pounds
Tn the future the girls would have to earn
their own livings
.eNor need we cry for ourselves" Decima
went on, "for 1 have thought of a plan which
seems to arrange matters very comfort
ohIv for us Why not keep the house up as it
aiways has been kept up, and receive people
an pension to defray the expense? In other
words. why not take boarders? Not that
Io6gine-house keeping appeals in any way
-. w. she added, with something a little
a. bitterness while her sisters, electrified
Nv the newness Of the idea, stared voorhees,
=, OF her: but it is better to live together
~ TO give up our home, and take separate
1aIa+ions. and boarders are preferable to the
nbool-keeping that IS the only other alter
native.
of the plan, and they at once began to u g.
o,,s. it's pros and cons
They were still doing so couple of hours
later when their cousin Griffith came in
Griffith Roberts was a man of four-and-
thirty.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-07
CHAPTER ".

1t was natural enough, too, though not in
the way Rose looked at it,
John FanshaWe had returned to England
only couple of days ago, and had this
morning come up from home to see his lister
Elizabeth was just the point of going to
the Guildhall for music lesson when he ar
rived at Redwall Square
Declma, who was obliged to go in that
direction to see the solicitor who had ar
ranged affairs for them, was going with her.
ana, OF course, he went with them.
10 Decima however, there was but little
natural mess in the proximity, and still
less desrability
Indeed, as she had resolved to put him out
OF ner mind, out of her lift altogether, and
nattered herself that she had done so she
would have preferred never to see him again
II her pride had been hurt by the inequality
in their social position-not to mention that
question of only f1irtation"-before it now
rose in arms against all idea of continu
ance Of their old relationship whatever that
relationship may have been.
He could do as his mother wished-narrv
loud-volced Harriet Yamm, and her half
million of money
Even if he were foolish enough m bova 49,,
fancy left for Decima-very improbable She
told herself, bitterly-she would never Owe
people the power of saying that if he had
not married her, she would be lodeino bo-'Sa
Keeping, as her sisters were
Elizabeth was, # anything moro da
friend now than she had been in their do1s
of well-to-do-ness, but that was quite DIFF
ferent matter. I'll
Decima had schooled herself well 70 her
new part, and the calmness with which She
greeted John, and listened to what he bod
to say about his movements since he bod 60 go
seen his sister, was unfeigned
No, indeed" she said, brightly, when thew
had seen Elizabeth into the school, and he
asked if he might be her escort at am
woman of business now, and quite capabIa
of taking care of myself"
''Then l must alter the form of nv reouast
and put it in more truthful way Nav 7
have the pleasure of your society"
She had no reason for refusing and COR
tainly found none for regretting her COM
plaisance.
He quite effaced himself while she did her
business, and it was not until they had left
the city behind them, and were nearing Red
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-23
STRANGE LAKES IN PERU.
Instead OF Surface Outlets They Have
MaeIstroms That Speedily
swallow Boats.

From Crucerc Alto, the highest towr
in the world, the Southern railroad OF
Peru drops down into the LaguniIlas, or
lake region of the Cordilleras, where,
1880 feet above the sea, is a group OF
large lakes of very cold, pure water,
without inlet or outlet. They receive
the drainage of the surrounding hills
and conceal il somewhere, but there is
no visible means of its escape. A fringe
Of ice forms around the edges of the
lakes every night the year round, yet
they contain an excellent variety of fish,
called the pejerray, which is caught
near the shore. and sold at Puma and in
other neighboring towns. The two larg-
est lakes, Saracocha aid Cachipascana,
with several smaller ones in the same
neighborhood, are owned by the family
of Mr.. Romano of Arequipa, who has
just been elected president of Peru. He
owns immense tracts of land in this To-
cality, with thousands of sheep, cattle,
llamas, alpacas and vicunas, which are
herded upon it.
curious phenomenon about the
lakes is that they keep at the same level
all the time, regardless OF the dry and
rainy seasons. No amount of rain will
make any difference with their depth,
which. however, in the center is UNI
known. And this adds to the awe and
mystery with which they are regarded
by the Indians. There are no boats
upon the lakes, except few small
balsas, or RATS, made of bundles OF
straw, which keep very close to the
shore, for fear OF being drawn into
whirlpools that are said to exist in the
center. There is some foundation for
this fear, for only two or three years
ago balsa containing five men disap-
peared in the darkness, and was never
heard of again. OF course, it may have
tipped over and its occupants have been
paralSzed by the cold water in an ordin-
airy way. But their bodies were never
discovered, nor did the balsa ever float
to shore. Therefore the people think
the whole party was lured into mael-
strom and swallowed up by the mysteri-
Gus waters.
The whirlpool near the center of Lake
Popo which receives the waters of Lake
Titicaea, is well known, and hundreds
of men have lost their lives by ventur-
ing too near it. Boats that are drawn
into the current are whirled swiftly
around few times and then disappear.
For the protection of navigators the
government of Bolivia has anchored a
lot of buoys in Lake Popo, and boatmen
who observe them are in no danger.
There is supposed to be an underground
outflow from all of these lakes. 1t is
claimed that articles which have been
thrown into their waters have after
ward been picked up on the seacoast
near Africa, and careful observers say
that on the beach in that locality are
frequently found cornstalks, reeds and
other debris which do not grow on the
coast, but are found in great abundance
among the interior lakes. - Chicago
Record