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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Time is occasionally grasped by
the forelook, but the majority of
US are lucky if we succeed in grab
bling him by the back hair.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Many a man will whoop up poll,
tics next year knowing that unless
partisanism runs high he will run
a slow race. The less fit for office
he is the more he will howl.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The Charleston Oil Company
struck a thirty barrel gusher,
at Racine in Logan county Thurs
day, and the Charleston papers are
wild over it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Republicans want to keep the
tariff question down in order to
keep the taxes up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

To make woman sure that you
are doing all you ought to do whom
you are engaged to her you have
got to act silly in public with her
once in 80 often,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

If you listen you can hear the
rustic of the angels wings when
you. look at little children asleep in
their beds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

a woman will nearly always:for.
give you for thinking her husband
is ugly if you will admit that he is
distinguished looking.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

A Sunday School Convention of
the Episcopal church of West
Virginia will be held in Parkers-
burg during the month of January
the exact date not having been de-
oided as yet. Rev, DIR. ii. l.. Dur
ing, of Philadelphia, will be pres
ent and preside at the convention.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

One of the most noticeable fea-
lures connected withNthe present
session of congress lie, there is not
a negro member in that body
This is the first instance the "ool.
ored Republican brother" has moi
graoed the halls of congress fol
fiftY-seYen years.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

An adequate and highly trained
navy is the best guarantee against
war, the cheapest aud most effeo.
tive peace insurance.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The growth of organization
among the laboring men is shown
by the fact that the custom cutters
of Chicago began an organization
about six months ago, and now
their organization includes four
fifths of the men in that trade in
the city. One of the objects of the
organization is to avoid strikes by
promoting arbitration.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Tho trusts have increased the
the cost of living twenty-five per
cent. and stuff the profits in their
pockets. They call this prosperity.
What consumer has had his
chances for earning money in
creased twenty-five per oent.R Is
there any genuine prosperity ex-
Dept for the truste, and does not
their prosperity tend to burden and
impoverish the masses?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The New York Weekly Tribune
will be an agricultural paper in the
future, save when it negleots agri-
cultural topics to wave the bloody
shirt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18
To iStop n Cold.

After exposure or when you feel cold
coming on, take a dose of Foley's Hon:
cold If taken in time. a. q. Van Glider
Congress will recess from De-
oember 10th until January 9th.
Chas. Reploglo. Atwater, Ohio, was
in very bad shape. He says: 81 suf-
fered great deal with my kidneys and
Cure. did SO and in four days | was
able to go to work again and am now
entirely well. a. O.. Van Glider.
I'll would the fat SOW fare on the
primroses of the wood.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18
General Patrick A. Calline, elect.

General Patrick a. CALLING, elect
ed mayor of Boston by such an
overwhelming majority on Tues
day, we'll merited the honor. His
life has been varied one, and is a
shining example of what poor but
gifted boys can do with American
opportunities. at fourteen years
of age he was working in the coal
mines of Ohio. at twenty he was
Boston cabinet maker by day and
an enthusiastic law student at
night. Before he was thirty he
was eminent as alawyer and Ma
tional Democratic leader. AT forty
he was in Congress and chairman
of the judiciary committee. His
last post of public service was as
our consul general at London
Boston workingmen, from whose
ranks he graduated, arc naturally
proud of him, and this accounts
for his great majority as we'll at
his unswerving Democracy, fol
Boston is Democratic city.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Eighteen violent deaths from
foot ball in one season, is not very
encouraging to keep up tho game.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The name on an um brella doesn't
necessarily belong to the man who
has the umbrella.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

There is nothing better for the
farmers to always discuss than
good roads. Keep eternally at it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Difference of opinion is the
greatest common divisor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18
stockholders Meeting.

THERE will be meeting of the
i Stockholders of the - inU Pleas
ant National Bank, he'd at their
Banking House, in the Town of Point
Pleasant, West Virginia, Tuesday,
January 14th, 1902, for the election of
Il Board of Directors and for the
transaction of any other business
that may lawfully come before said
meeting. j. w. WINDOW,
Dec 1S4w. Cashier.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Emerson says "a man is re-
lieved and gay when he has done
his best" The main thing in the
world is to know your work we'll.
There is so much slip. shod, care
less work, that it is a great relief to
find a man who is honest, thorough
and careful in his work. The
world does not owe us living, we
owe the world our best.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18
holiday Rates

One and j fare for the round
trip on B. & o. Railroad between
Pittsburg, Petersburg, Kenova
and intermediate stations, Deoem.
Der "a, 25, 81. 1901, and January
let, 1902, good returning.until Jan
uary End inclusive.
Kindness is the noblest weapon
to conquer with.
Hose and underwear, the best
and the cheapest, at Mrs l.. j
Williamson's
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

He is a good physician who ad
ministers medicine to the heart il
the shape of wit and humor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Anyway, poet who dwells in 6
garnet isn't troubled with book
agents.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18
Swallowed PeraI.

The famous Egyptian, Cleopat-
ra, was, like all ladies of wondrous
beauty, accorded the license of co.
centric performances Not sin
gle Point Pleasant beauty, and
there are many, could have been
80 foolish. Mol The pearl would
have lustred the eyes of the Point
Pleasant gallants. a Gallipolis
beau or Pomeroy candidate would
get an occasional glimpse. If the
pearl was bought of Claude M
Wall, the up-to. date Gallipolis jew
eler, it would be all right and Of
the proper lustre. One of the fine
opal rings bought of Wall would
be just the stylish thing to have
and Wall has fine line to select
from These beautiful adornments
add world of refinement to pref
ty face or hand and indicate the
culture of the possessor
WALL, The Jeweler, next door
to Opera House, Gallipolis Ohio
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

a theatrical angel is probably
so.caIled because his money has
wings and flies.
You never really know man
unless you allow yourself to owe
him money.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The rather novel aud unusual
eight of two turkeys perohed upon
the kitchen fue of an up town res.
idence, WAS witnessed by several
persons a few mornings since
They were probably inspecting the
orematory "where they must shortly
lie."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The Kind of reciprocity which
manufacturers want is that by
which they can get as much moro
as possible without surrendering
anything they have already. That's
business perhaps.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Some peple are like, straws on q
river; they do not go through the
world; they are carried.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

There are few women in the
world who couldn't be better, but
there are few men who could be
worse.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

When you hear girl lecturing
a young man on the evils of'smok-
ing it's dollars to doughnuts that
the youth is her brother
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Telephones are to be put on some
of the regular passenger trains of
the Pennsylvania railroad, to be
used when the trains are in motion,
which has been demonstrated TO be
perfectly practicable.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The western half of the United
States would sustain a population
greater than that of our whole
country today if the waters that
now run waste were saved and used
for irrigation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

The White Collar Line has pur-
chased the M. p. Wells and it is
said she will enter the Gallipolis
and Charleston trade in opposition
to the Columbia. A merry fight
is expected. The Columbia is not
getting pound of reshipping at
Gallipolis from the White Collar
Line boats
The pilots are still holding out
at Pittsburg and twenty or more
towboats will be unable to leave
with this rise, AS we understand
the situation of the combine is
willing to pay the wage scale but
will not recognize the pilots essoo-
iation. We think they had all bet
ter go to work. The scale is $500
per year for pilots and $4,000 per
year where a master stands watch
as pilot. The pilots think they
will win out.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Read the advertisements of our
merchants and then glance at their
show.windows. 1t will suggest
something nice for Christmas
present, we know.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

A man may be willing to admit
that his wife knows more than he
does, but just the same he objects
to her running his business.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

AT thirty man is anxious fo1
fame; at fifty he is willing to, &C.
Dept money as substitute.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

Many woman who knows how
to dress herself knows very little
about dressing turkey.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18

It it pays to advertise during
holiday times, it will certainly pay
to advertise all the time.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-18


PRIoE-s1.OO A YEAR.
IN ADVANCE.
IoGNTPLBAsANT. WEST VIRGINIA
DECEMBER 1s, 1901.
The proposition to elect Sena-
tors by direct vote of the people is
again being agitated. 1t ought to
become law, of course, but it
will never pass the Senate as at
present constituted. Most Sena-
tors realize they could never be
where they are if they depended
upon the popular vote.
From all over the country comes
the complaint that the necessities
of life have advanced so heavily in
price that prosperity really means
but little to those who have to
work for a living, 1t still takes
all the average man can earn to
keep his family in anything like
comfort.
Our ICongressmen are wanting
$4,000 year. They cant sup
port their dig" on $1,000. We be-
lieve they ought to have it, but do
not need it half as bad as a COM
mon laborer needs 81 day.
By a recent arrangement of the
Weather Bureau, the postoAioes
in the country that receive mail
the same day that the report is re-
oeived can have the benefit of the
forecasts.
The Cedar Grove Goal Company
has joined the Combine, and has
passed into the hands of the Char
lesion and Hooking Company, who
took possession Thursday, 30 the
Charleston Gazette, says.
Tho trusts have increased the
the cost of living twenty-five per
cent. and stuff the profits in their
pockets. They call this prosperity.
What consumer has had his
chances for earning money in
creased twenty-five per cent.P Is
there any genuine prosperity ex-
Dept for the truste, and does not
their prosperity tend to burden and
impoverish the masses?
The growth of organization
among the laboring men is shown
by the fact that the custom cutters
of Chicago began an organization
about six months ago, and now
their organization includes four
fifths of the men in that trade in
the city. One of the objects of the
organization is to avoid strikes by
promoting arbitration.
The New York Weekly Tribune
will be an agricultural paper in the
future, save when it negleots agri-
cultural topics to wave the bloody
shirt.
Many man will whoop up poll.
tics next year knowing that unless
partisanism runs high he will run
a slow race. The less fit for office
he is the more he will howl.
The bill to construct the Nicar.
aguan canal has been introduced
in the Senate. 1t calls for the
modest sum of $18O,OOO,OOO. What
fat piokings there will be when this
scheme is fairly ahoat,.
John A. Hess, Circuit Clerk of
Upshur county, committed suicide
in New York hotel, last Wendes.
day, by inheling gas. He was a
prominent man i'll that part of the
State.
The Charleston Oil Company
struck a thirty barrel gusher,
at Racine in Logan county Thurs
day, and the Charleston papers are
wild over it.
Operators in wheat are predict
ing dollar wheat, before many days.
The trouble is, however, when
wheat is up in price, it is out of the
hands of the producer and in the
hands of the speoulator.
There are 30 many of the faith
full from this State hanging around
the Capitol these day 8 that every
day seems like regular West Vir-
c,inia dav
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
Russia,s Attitude Toward japan.

ST. Petersburg. July 22-( Correspond
ence Of the Associated Press)
has already been made of the advice Of
the Novoye vremya recently to Japan
to ofrget Corea and solace herself with
Chinese territory opposite Formosa and
various Islands of the Pacific, including
the Philippines and the Hawaiian is
lands. Russia would help Japan secure
these possessions with diplomatic advice
and other support. The Bourse Gazette,
which claims to represent the CONNER
cial,interests of Russia. subscribes to all
OF this. This journal observes:
As a matter Of fact, Russia asks
nothing from Japan except Pronunciation
OF her designs upon Corea. After Rus.
hta has employed colossal means in her
ciyilizing mission In east Asia, she 10
In duty bound to guard the independ-
encefof the peninsula which Hes in the
path between Port Arthur and vladi-
ostok. But in addition to Corea there
are large territories in southern China
and numerous island groups south of
Formosa and in Russia. Nobody has
ever denied the justification of Japan's
ambition for a territorial expansion
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
AL | germany kOURNS
Emperor williams Mother. EN-.
press Frederick, Dead at
cronbsrs.
Passes Away At 6:l5 This Morn.
Ing. Surrounded BY Royal
Personafes.
Family Hastily Summoned Be.
fore the End came..for-
eisn Gossip.

Cronberg, Aug. 5.-Empress Frederick
4. dead. The end came at s:15 this eve
ming.
Emperor William, the empress and
the crown prince reached Friedrichshof
at this morning. "A o'clock bulletin
SAID:
Weakness Of the Empress Frederick
is hourly increasing. Her strength of
heart Is still slight"
Relatives OF the dying empress have
been continually arriving here thruout
the day and detachment Of the One
Hundred Fifteenth infantry came from
the Hamburg sentinel for patrol duty
around the castle. BY special desire
of Dowager Empress Frederick, DR..
Waller, the. English chaplain at Ham
burg, was summoned.
Emperor William and her majesty's
other children, with the exception of
Prince Henry. together with the En-
press Augusta Victoria, were on the sick
room most OF the day. They all were at
the bedside when the dowager empress
passed away quietly. The flag on the
castle was Immediately half masted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05

We're Preparing Their 0rssssms
Meal When Rsscusd- --BsiA
Will Die.

Port Townsend. wash.. Aus. "a
story Of death from starvation in thes.
Asiapuk district is brought fro1s6tns
by passengers on the steamer Centenni-
81. and as a result of forty three days.
OF unparalleled hardship George Dean. W
miller formerly OF Canton. o.. u dead,
and his two companions. Jack Houston
and Joseph G. Thiery. Of Davsnpor4.
Iowa, are near deaths door. II IL said
that in their desperation Houston ana
Ehiery severed the thigh Of their desd
companion from the body and were
cooking It when help arrived. This saved
them from practicing cannibalism. The
rnen had been in the Good Hope country
prospecting. On June a they started for
Nome, but before reaching Teller City
their provisions gave out. Hunger COM
PEELED them to eat grass, birds eggs and.
anything they could find
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
An Illinois shootinc,l

Red Bud, ILL.,. Aug. 5-Jacob Thier-
wachter, a farmer living eight miles
west of here. was awakened early yes
terday morning by lot Of young men,
who were under the influence OF liquor,
and returning home from a neighboring
dance. They entered his yard and. 1t 10
said, made an attempt to enter his
house.
Thierwachter threatened to shoot if
they did not leave the premises. but, in
stead Of complying, they became 80
boisterous that he opened fire with q
shotgun, emptying one barrel OF the
gun into the crowd, killing William
Dwyer instantly and wounding several
of the other members
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
FAMILY KEEPS FARM.
Settlement Reached Between Mrs. Al.
lien and the Lorrilards.

q
lien and the Lorrilards.
New York, Aug. 5.-The press will
announce today what 1t calls "un-
impeachable authority" that a set
tlement has been reached between
Mrs Lillian B. Alien and the Lorri-
lards. Rancocas will remain in the
family and in return for her surrender
OF her rights to the famous breeding
farm Mrs. ALLEN will receive a large
sum in cash. The amount will be fixed
when the appraisers. who are now en-
gagged on the work of estimating the
value OF the horses and property here
and in England, which were left to
Mrs. Allen under the will of Pierre
Lorrillard, have completed their task.
The farm in New Jersey will be con-
trolled by Pierre Lorrillard, Jr., and
for the present the horses will be raced
by him under the name of the Rancocas
stable. Jack Boyne-. who trained for
the late Mr.. Lorrillard, already has re-
ceived orders to this effect and now
has the. Lorrillard horses in training
at Saratoga.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05

4 O'Clock today the plant of the Amerl-
can Sheet Steel Company at Hyde Park
is to be opened as nom union mill un.
less the strikers now gathering should
prevent It,"
The Chronicle Telegraph says this af-i
ternoon: "One OF yle of1iciaIs Of the La
Fayette lodge of nawrencevllle, CT the
Amalgamted Association, this morning
announced that he had been notified
there would be no general strike ord
cred. He is authority for the statement
that the directors Of the steel corpora
ton are dissatisfied with Morgan,s at-
Stitude and are making every effort to
open negotiations with the strikers. The
official is one OF the leading steel work.
sers OF the city and the inference is he
has received an inside tip from higher
officials Of the association
President Shaffer arrived at head.
quarters at n:45. Fifteen minutes later
he called a newspaper man to his pri-
vate Office. When asked II settle
ment could have been reached in New
York Saturday had the strikers waived
their rights at the Painter, Lindsay &
McCutcheon and Wellesville plants. he
said:
ne Amalgamated Association could
have settled in New York II they had
given up the mills. but we could not do
that. Just as long as we can fight we
are going to fight them. will issue a
call for a general strike within a week.
but don't know how many men the
strike order will affect
Will the board be called for any more
conferences 2,
No, the board has been dismissed and
will not be called unless the other side
wants peace. They have declared war;.
President Shaffer said the statement
in the papers concerning his stop-off at
Washington was true, but he did not
see President Gompers OF the American
Federation Of Labor, as he was not in
town. Secretary Morrison was seen,
however. and he assured Shaffer the
federation would give its financial sup
port. Shafter has requested Compers to
come to PIttsburg this week for a COM
ference. 1t is thought most OF the vice
presidents have left for their homes, as
only four or five Of them visited the as
ISOLATION rooms during the morning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
pakota sheriff., Now Duty.

Huron, s. D.. Aug. 5-A meeting of
the State Sheriffs' Association was held
here at which the matter of collecting
delinquent personal taxes was pretty
freely discussed. but no official plan was
agreed upon The new law takes the
collection Of this tax from the county
treasurer and makes it new duty of
the sheriff. he being provided with a list
of all delinquents. The association
elected these officers for the ensuing
year: President, George Kerr of
Readle; secretary and treasurer H. H.
Kirke, of Turner. Another meeting will
be held in DeSmet in January and the.
annual convention will be held in Parker
rext July
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
PLEASED WITH LAW.
Comptroller Dawes Shows the New
National Banking Act Has stimu-
+ lated the Business in This Line.

5; Washington, Aug. 5.-Comptroller of
the currency Dawes has issued the fol-
lowing statement regarding the results
of the passage OF the act of March 4,
1860:
80 The impetus given to the orgsntza-
Ition OF national banks blythe act which
became a law on March IA, 1900, still con-
tinues. During the sixteen ad one-half
months since the passage of the act
there has been organized in the United
states 665 national banking associations,
with an aggregate capital of 1874, ,267, 900,
accompanied by bond deposit aggre-
eating s1o,oO6,200. OF these banks 4o7
were organized with a capital of less
than $500000, the total amounting to
$11 49,, 900, and 20S with a capital of $780,
900 or over, the aggregate amounting to
s22,3S5 900. Included in the total num-
ber of organizations are ninety-two
banks with a capital of $500. 900, which
covers state Institutions; sixty-three
which are capitalized for less than $780,
900, and twenty-five for $4,000 or over"