The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-06-20
Bryan,s Homo L1fe.


days ago, and see the greatest lead
or and statesman of the Western
Hemisphere living the life that he
loves best, CLOSE to the soil, CLOSE to
the plain people, close to the great
problems of honest toll and its just
rewards, which lie behind the
smoke and flame of party warfare
in the great money centers of the
country.
AS he goes about his barn or
walks through his fields he gives
one an impression of almost i'm
measurable physical strength and
endurance. His muscles are hard,
and his eyes and complexion are
clear, the inheritance of temper
ate life. Notwithstanding the tre-
menduous draughts which have
been made upon his vitality during
the last fouryears, he is still young.
er in physical strength than most
men are at 40.
When on his farm he has the
jocose spirit of man out for hoI-
iday. There is nothing in his
manner to indicate that the great
est responsibilities of political lead
ership in the present generation
are resting upon him.
It is doubtful whether any other
great leader can so easily dismiss
from his mind the customary bur.
den of care and annoyance as Mr..
Bryan when he wants to sleep or
play. This is due to his evenly
balanced mental qualities and per-
fect physical health, to intelligent
self-control and to conscience
void of offense.
He seems to breathe in the very
breath of the farm, and to be a part
of it; he is SO simple, SO natural, SO
unconscious of himself, so inter
ested in everything that grows-in
the horses, the chickens, the red
COW and it's calf, the well, the wind
mill, the farm over.seer, and the
rolling landscape. l have rarely
seen man With SO great capacity
for enjoying he simple beauties OF
nature. His tastes have not been
irritated by the excitements of city
life or the stock sticker.
Those who have only seen Mr.
Bryan in the heat of a campaign
laundering against the wrongs
which press upon the plain people
can have no idea of the quaint
delicate, Linooln-like humor that
runs through his conversation when
he is off duty. He has good
sense of proportion, and enjoys
telling a story, even when the joke
is on himself. He can even joke
about his military record, thing
that few men can do. The other
day, in Lincoln, he showed me his
bluck "war charger" and in tone
of mock gravity said: 81 rode that
horse all through the Spanish
American war. II was in every
battle 1 was in. Do you wonder
that l am attached to him?"
On rising slope of the farm,
which commands view of miles
in every direction, stands the little
Bryan farm house, and on this spot
he intends to build his permanent
home.
"Some day." he said, "if I am
ever able to, will put up com
Portable stone house here, where l
hope to spend my declining years
in peace"
That modest ambition of a man
who, by abandoning the cause to
which he has devoted his life
might acquire great wealth, gives
a better idea of the real Bryan than
could be conveyed in a volume of
words.
Neutral.
AS between the candidates for
the nomination for Congress in the
Fourth District, tho Register is
neutral, and SO will remain until
the nomination is made at Hunt.
ington next month. This has al
ways been the rule of the Register,
except when Mason county had a
candidate of her own. Then we