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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-01-12
GRAIN. HAY AND RICE

CoRN-white corn. from store. 4sc.:
mixed corn. from store. 45c: white oats.
from etore. 3Sc.; mixed oats, 33c.
MILL FEED-hfarket steady; bran. per
ton, $500: middling. $1,000 per ton.
OATS-Steady; mixed. &c.; white. $50.
HAY-No. l Timothy hay, car lots SIS. so:
ton lots. SIC 90; mixed hay. car lots. $40:
;, AiILI.fsD RICE-As to erAdes-sn to
ROUGH RIcE-Nono on the market
PEANUTS AND PEAS.
PEANUTS-Afarket. new fancy. 2Nc.:
strictly prime, Pie; prime, 2hc.; common.
1lsft2c: Spanish, zoe. per bushel.
PEAS-Blackeyc. $50 per bag; black
peas. G0@iI0c. per bushel.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PoULTRY-Iive. STEADY; chickens old
fat, 25GNc.; spring chickens small, steady
at 12GlGc-; large. l5q20c.: ducks. mud.
zoe.
F:CiCiS-Markct quiet at Ice. per dozen.
BUTSrElt-Good country, l3fiiSc.
COUNTRY HAMS : Steady; Sm!thf1eld
fancy. 13Q15c.: Virginia country, 1o4l2lLc.
good North Carolina. l0pl2hc.
OTATOES-Northcrn white. 81. 5OG1 IL
per lag; new sweets llayman, SIPS per
barrel; yellow. $l.50.
CABBAG E-si; 5oQl.75 per sugar barrel
ONIONS-Sl 5oQ1.75 peg bag.
BERMUDA-Nonc.
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GROCERIES.


FLOUR-Markct steady; spring wheat
patent, SEQ; winter wheat. patent si25.
winter wheat. half patent. sSS5; win.
ter wheat. choice straight, s3.G5: winter
wheat family, $3.50: winter wheat fair I n
good grades OF extra. s3.25; winter wheat
super. s2.7543.lo
MEAI.-Pcr bag 100 lbs. 97c.: 30 lb. rnss,
coTFE1s-AInch higher; lava. 2cd27c.
1li5c. prime. do, 9516i1OE,c. fair. do. ga
9!ac.; common, do. Si2MSMc.
CHEESE = Large full cream, 1SIkc.
small full cream, I3A@l4c.
SUGAR-Market steady. The plan OF
selling sugar at delivery prices has been
will be mado T. o. b. Norfolk. Cut Loaf
s31: Patent Cubes $50: Powdered. 525:
Fine Granulatcd. 5.15; Standard Granu-
i.Jo; No. II, i.45; No. u. 40. Granulated
put UP In = and h. sacks. in barrels g. Is
IN cases. and III. cartoons. 525. Sugar
SYRUPS AND MoAsSES Narke.
hrmee n, the advcace: syrup. good "a
choice, el@2$c.: lower grade syrup, 12GllGc.
molasscs. Porto Rico, 9o92Sc.
PROVISIONS.
BULK MEATS-Market firm: rib sides,
6Ac:; bellies. eastern. lightweight GGc.
bellies: western, heavy, 6l4c.
IlAMS--Sugar cured. lll2c
DRY PLATED JOWI Size.
PORK PI4ATES-5Fsc.
MESS PORI[-1SaS and 1890, SLIGO
HAM PORK-Ncw, Sl225.
LARD-Pure butchers. In tierces. ne:
compound tierccs. as to brnnd 5MGf6c.
So:lb. tubs and 50-lb tins. &c more.
WOOL-unvaahed. lsc.: bulky. te 7c
less: wS,hcd wool 2sc.: black. l2,sc. to isc
lilDES-G. s.. ~; green. Ga; dry flint,
"a; drv salt ny: damaged 7.
SALT FISH
IIERRING-Ncw North Carolina cut.
none: Eastern, barrels. SS.75Gi4 rs: Potomac
gross, $50; mullets. l0o-lb kegs. S.51;
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GA STo IA.
Besrs thu >1Tha Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature Il le(u1AzIzz9

Marriage licenses issued since
our last reports:
February 10th, John w. Farms
worth and Amanda @. Green; Ar
thur Austin and Maud Rhoads.
February 18th, Camden Q. Barnett
and BERTHE V. Pickens; George w.
Patton and Annie Ball; Robert
Wears and Emma L. Pierce. Feb
ruary 18th, Charles V. Long and
Mand NJ. Connolly.
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star Routes.

The mail contractors who are
known as "Star Reuters" bid in at
good figures, large number of
mail routes, covering the territory
of several States. After they are
secure in their contracts, they be-
gin to sub-let the carrying of the
mail by horseback or stages and
"squeeze" the bidders down to the
lowest notch, and force upon them
contracts to deliver mail between
certain points, prices ranging from
$50 to $500 per year, After the sub
contractor has carried the mail
awhile, he finds he is losing money,
and that instead of getting what he
does he should have from double
to four timees as much for his work,
therefore, he has to throw up his
contract, and the "Star Reuter-"
fines him anywhere from $50 to
5000, for his failure to carry out
his contract. The "Star Reuter-"
then looks out for another sucker
to take the contract, and this one
fails as did the other, and 80 it
keeps on to the end of the contract
time. We advise our people to let
these mail contracts alone unless
they can get sum sufficient to do
the work. This practice of letting
mail routes to bidders who mako q
business using it as means to de-
fraud should be looked after by the
government. No man, no matter
where he lives, should be given a
contract who does not personally
engage in the service of carrying
the mails
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a Verdict for S07O.75.

The case of j. p. Grover vs..
Ohio River Railroad, in assumpsit.
came up for trial Monday noon,
and occupied the attention of the
court until Tuesday noon, when
the attorneys made their arguments
before tho jury and the case was
submitted to the jury about 2 p
M, and after being out for short
time they returned a verdict fol
the plaintiff for the sum of $679 rs
The railroad company gave notice
that they would ask for the verdict
to be set aside and new trial
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Abraham Llneoln,s record.

New York News.
Lincoln was a Republican when
the Republican party was at it's
best. Not Republican of the
Mark Hanna stamp. Nota Repub,
loan who would win fame and
honor from his party of today,
The following language used by
him only a little while before his
assassination proves that he fore
saw the present status of the polit-
ical organization which he had
helped to create:
al see in the near future crisis
approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country, As result of the
war, corporations have been en-
throned, and an era of corruption
in high places will follow, and the
money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudices of the
people until all tho wealth is aggre-
gated in few hands and the Re-
public destroyed feel Mt tl,is
moment more anxiety for the safe
ty of my country than ever before
even in the midst of war Goo
grant that my suspicious may
prove groundless p"
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Earns Eor Sale.

have number of farms, both
improved and unimproved, in Ar
Some of them are well timbered, and
ali well watered, located in good neigh:
borhoods and close to schools and
churches. These farms will be sold on
easy terms and in quantities to suit
purchaser. For further information
call on or address
@, w. MAUPIN,
apr7tf ArbuCkle P. o., w. Va
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Abraham Lincoln,s work.

New York Daily News.
When Abraham Lincoln was
born, ninety-one years ago, Thorn
as Jefferson was still President;
the population of the Union was
seven and quarter millions, or
about one-tenth of what it is now.
New York State had less than
million of inhabitants and it was
still days journey to get from
this CITY to Philadelphia, To be
sure, Fulton had experimental with
his improvised steamboat on the
Hudson River, but ocean grey
hounds had not been so much as
dreamed of, and the same may be
said about fast express trains. The
telegraph had scarcely been
thought of, and as for the tele
phone, had anybody asserted the
one possibility of man standing at
end of IA wire and listening to the
voice of another a thousand miles
away lie would have been looked
upon MS luuatio.
Lincoln was native of Ken
lucky, which was then already
quite II populous State, from which
people began to emigrate, SO that
Def IRE he was fairly started in life
he found himself newcomer in
Illinois, in the politics of which
he took an active part and from
which he was sent to Congress just
before the outbreak of the Mexican
war, which he naturally opposed
With the rise of the slavery ques
ton into the front rank of public
sues he came conspiciously to the
front, although his nomination for
the Presidency in 1860 was some
thing of surprise to the voters of
the East
Lincoln was essentially pro.
duct of the western frontier and
made his way to the White House
by the hardest kind of work and
striot devotion to a principle which
he believed to be right and which
he therefore expected to win, as it
eventually did.
It is we'll to remember the cir
cumstances under which Lincoln
grew up and amid which he acted,
for only by taking them into &C.
count can the lesson of his life be
properly learned. The nation was
still in it's infancy when he was
born, and it was struggling to man
hood while he was doing his bost
to earn living.
It is because he understood the
people among whom he lived, saw
the direction in which they were
moving, and had the courage to
keep a little ahead of them that he
was intrusted with enormous power
in the greatest crisis of the nations
history, wherein he succeeded in
achieving an influence for good
which is still felt now-35 years
after HE death-for it is not to be
denied that his words and the spirit
which they breathed laid the fonn-
dation for that reconciliation be-
tween the North and the South for
which we are all 80 thankful to day
and of which we all feel 80 proud.
We are nation of over 100000
of people instead of only 100000,
as at the time of Lincoln's birth,
and we have made giant strides in
scien ific invention, but we have no
more courageous, no more self-sac-
ritioing, no more devoted and no
more sincerely upright citizens
than was the man whom we now
justly call the martyr President
Mistakes he undoubtedly did make,
but they were the result ofan hon
est desire to perform thoroughly
the mighty duties intrusted to him
and from no petty spirit of self
seeking.
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FiducinrY Settlement.

The following fiduciary account
is before me for settlement, viz:
l.. G. Somerville, administrator of
Mary G.. Love, deceased.
Given under my hand this, Novem-
Der 25th, 1899.
JOHN E. BELLER,
Commissioner of accounts for Mason
County, w, Va
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The British are sanguine peo-
Pile. They confidently expect the
downfall of Ladysmith, notwith-
standing Gen, Butler has agreed to
occupy that city within q week.
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Around the OnrYe.

AROUND inc OufVOS
Ravenswood is the COOLEST point
on the. o. r, R between Point
Pleasant and Parkersburg.
Merchants in some of our towns
hesitate to lay in any material
stock of goods for fear of high water
this spring.
Pomeroy. is securing public
library and in many ways becoming
quite cosmopolitan. Much credit
is due Miss Cadie Whaley for her
endeavors in securing the library
Mason City people are greatly
enthusiastic in pushing the claims
of their townsman, Mr.. Ruttencut-
ter, for the Democratic nomination
for sheriff
There is no daylight to be seen
through the Syracuse mines strike
as yet. Many are leaving for bet
ter fields.
1t is said that altar of roses is a
favorite beverage among the peo,
Pile at Ravenswood, and that some
of them are becoming very sweet
scented thereby.
A paying investment for some
man of enterprise would be the
building of telephone line from
Wildwood to Point Pleasant, thus
connecting the latter place with
jackson @. H Cottageville, Ray
enswood, Spencer, Chenille and
Mt Alto.
Oke Owens and wife, nee Miss
Bertha Hurlough, recently welded,
will remove to and go to house
keeping, on Mr.. Ovens farm, near
Mt. Alto. May their bush of life
bear all roses and no thorns. Oke
is the only son of Rev. w. S.
Ovens, the we'll known and able
Baptist preacher, at Letart.
The Graham band is keeping in
regular practice, and when the next
county fair comes around on the
whirligig of time, it will be up tc
the hour, in all late music.
Mrs. Fl. j. Brinker will leave
Apple Grove to join her husband
at New Orleans, in few days.
Tip Powell employed by the o
r. r. at Parkersburg, for some
time past, has returned, dropping
from town to town with his shanty
boat, mother and family, visiting
their relatives for week or so.
Diogenes, being asked, the biting
of what beast was the most danger
GUS, answered thus: If you near
wild beasts, it is the slandorers
if tame ones the fatterers. There
are a good many busy gossiping
tongues here and there and some
of them will get in trouble, more
than they are, if they don't lool
out. Not all women, either,
Dan p. Gist, oIerking in store
at ST. Mary's, will be home to LIE
tart, Saturday, for few days visi
with his family.
The small boy is already count
ing the days, whom school will b.
out.
A great many farmers on The
bottoms are busy turning the sod
for spring planting.
| Many farmers are turning thei
attention to the matter of raising
fine breeds of hogs and going int
the business as speciality. Th'
Polin China seems to be the favor
lite, and they are buying from Ok
ford, Ohio.
1t will be a long time before frui
growers will be encouraged to pu
out peach orchards in this section
They are giving thought altogethe
to tho apple now, with the Crime
Golden, the surest shot, then Bald
win. SNAPPER,
oA8ToREA.
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Malicious stories never do any
one any good and least of any do
they help the contemplate source
of them People should always be
extremely careful about the cirou-
Iation of stories of this kind that
are 10 be seen n their face are lies
out of old cloth.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Few of us properly appreciate our
own noble-hearted boys. A moro
clever set of boys never lived in any
country than we have in this town,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

While the alarm of fire Sunday
was false one, it showed how
quickly our hose companies could
get out. From time of the alarm
until they were on rapid march, was
not over five minutes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

AS the winter wanes the length
of the day is becoming moro and
more apparent. At seven o'clock
these mornings it is now light
enough to see to work in the offices
while but a short time ago it was
still dark at that time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

The wisdom of all men is great
or than the wisdom of any individ.
ual.-W. j. Bryan.
Don't know about that. There
once lived man who was wiser
than all men," according to holy
writ. But he is dead. And there
is Mark Hanna wiser than all his
party. and they all acknowledge
his receipt in full without any pro-
test whatever.
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OAsT01EA.
Bears tho ~ The Kind You Haze Always Bought
''s; e l1zA&zzW

I hardly know, says a oynic,
whether it be better for man to
disappoint several women for a
time, or to marry and disappoint
one woman fer life.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

John Q. Barry, who has held the
position of passenger engineer on
the Ohio River r. r., has been
promoted to travelling engineer of
that line, a new position that has
recently been established
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Perfect Health.

Perfect Health.
Keep the systemin perfect or
der by the occasional use of
TUFTS Liver Pills. They reg
ulate the bowels and produce
AZ Vigorous Body.
For sick headache, malaria, bill
iousness, constipation and kin
dred diseases, anabsolute cure
TUFTS Liver PILLS
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

When the Beers appear to retire
from strong works in the face of
the enemy it is almost certain they
are laying trap to catch some
thing.
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lion. Jas. ID. Nlenager.

Parkersburg Sentlnel, TUESDAY
Hon. j. B. Menager, of Mason
county, who was here attending to
some business at Federal court On
Monday, had few minutes to spare
in which to discuss politics.
Mr.. Menager is sanguine of dem
ooratio success in his state this fall,
as the party is united and in better
working order than for several
years. He expressed himself as
we'll pleased with the sele ction 1t
Parkersburg as the place for hold
ing the state convention. He says
that Mason county is in favor of 81.
S. Wilson of this city, for congress.
Mr.. Wilson, he believes, will get a
big delegation from the lower end
of the district and his chances fer
securing the nomination are very
good Touching on the guberna-
torial nomination Mr.. Menager says
he is in the fight and is workir e
for thatend. The other candidat, 8
will know he is in the race when
the ballots are counted
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

All of the British retreats have
been due to tactical reasons accord
ing to the British reports but the
real tactical reasons have probably
been that the Boers have licked
them.
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n..,+bo The Kind You Haze Always Bougl
s &C.: 4 ''' :, 4 Z Z Il

In nearly all the counties in the
State men are beginning to an
nounce themselves as candidates
for county offices. Mason county
candidates should also be letting
the people know they are candi-
dates.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Il takes but few minutes to get
our hose companies out, when the
fire alarm is sounded.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Sometimes churches get them
selves in a mess by trying to white
wash oily sinners. The whitewash
won't stick But when they get g
poor woman who wants salvation
they won't take her in because she
is fallen. A woman should not be
rejected by churchmen, because
there are examples in scripture in
which fallen women were honored
When the Savior said "let him that
is guilty of no sin cast the first
stone," is one, and several others
might be mentioned, but it is not
prudent. When woman falls she
never falls alone. There must be
another in the stumble. She can
not trip herself. A man does the
tripping.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Few people living in the coun-
try at this time of the year are OPP
ponents to system of good roads
and at some stage in the game the
county court ought to take some
action to get the system started.
All that is required is to build q
short distance on scientific princi-
Piles and the clamor will then be
for it all over the county.
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PIcnsnnt Xnlc.

Correspondence, Feb. 18th.
Mr.. James Lanier, of Arlee, was
visiting his mother, Mrs. Nancy
Lanier, of Beech Hill.
The Harmony church has called
Bro. Diokerson for pastor.
Mrs. Emma Gardner, who has
been very sick is improving.
Mr.. Wesley Dalton was visiting
friends at Pliny, last week.
We are sorry to say that Uncle
William Slack is suffering from a
wound, caused by his COW kicking
him.
Success to the Register is the
wishes of \. Y.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

A woman who paints may not
have the face to admit it, but it
speaks for itself
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

One of the queerest corners OF
the earth is Chatham Island, off
the coast of Ecuador. The islands
abounds in cats every one of which
is black. They live in the orevices
of the lava near the coast, and get
living by catching fish and crabs
instead Of rats
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

The war news from the Philip
pines is not as favorable as one
could wish. There have been
several minor disasters during the
week, whereby we have lost several
men and some supplies. No regu-
lar battles have boon fought.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

A visitor in town yesterday said
to a Register Reporter:
81 am very much taken with the
place and don't know of a moro de-
liRhtful place to live. AT the same
time you have more business and
push than any other town that 1
have visited on the present trip"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Spring is not very far off whom
the boys begin to play marbles.
Right pow, marble playing is be-
coming fad among the boys.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Noah was the first man to learn
that there are better things than
being "in the swim"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

It seems to require many Eng
lish men to capture one Ladysmith,
but here in America one young
man can capture lady Smith.
This has been proven.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Representative Sibley of Penn
sylvania has Officially" informed
the world that hehas gone over to
the Republicans. Yet there was
no preceptible terrestrial jar. 1t
takes pretty good quality of De-
mooracy to flourish and live in the
uncongenial soil of Pennsylvania,
the paradise of tariff fettened mill
ionaires. The Democratic party is
sorry to lose Brother Sibley, but it
lived some little time before he
came and it will contrive somehow
to stagger along now he has gone.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

1t isn't near SO strange that
young men leave the farm as it
would be if they liked hard work,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Now is the time for the merchant
and professional man to stock up
on printed stationery, and the Reg
lister office is the place to have it
d me.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

What Great Britain needs is the
services of some of those captains
of Polar explorations who have ex-
perienoe in leading relief expedi,
tions.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Pretty School Teacher-Thomas,
state some of the beauties of edu-
cation.
Thomas (oldest boy in the CLASSY
School mistresses.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

A new Government prison is to
be erected Immediately on Alcatraz
Island, in San Francisco harbor.
Before the outbreak of the Span
ish war there was room to spare on
Alcatraz for all the military prison
ers from California, Oregon and
Nevada, but the last lot of $50
from Manila filled the quarters to
OVERLOOKING. Another consign-
ment of $50 is daily expected, and
in order to accommodate them the
new prison has to be erected. The
prisoners have sentences of from
one to five years to serve, nearly all
the punishments being for breach
es of military discipline
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

The population of Cuba, by the
preliminary figures of the census
just taken is 1,5T2,s45, against L.
681, 697 in 1897
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-21

Utah will elect successor to b.
ii. Roberts on April 2. 1t is safe
to predict that they will not elect a
polygamist this time. Polygamy
will be eliminated from the contest,
and the two parties viii line up on
the questions which at present di-
vide them. Utah gave Mr.. Bryan
for President $4,000 majority. Two
years later she gave Roberts, Dem
oorat, for Congress, 5000 majority.
Since then at some municipal and
county elections the Republicans
have triumphed. SO that there
would appear to be room now for a
lively contest worth watching.