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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19

Contentment should be measur.
ed by the number of things you are
willing to do without.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19

Mrs. Annie Carlyle, of Hender-
SON, who died last Friday at the
hospital in Spencer, had SSs o. life
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19
from Mondays Danny.

from Mondays Daily.
Miss Bertha Steinbach, was
quite sick Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. l.. N. Knight, of Maggie,
was in town Saturday.
We regret to announce that Mr..
John S. Miller is quite poorly.
Mr.. Waid Cross, of Racine, Ohio,
was a business visitor in town Sat
urday.
Capt. John Thornburg, from up
Kanawha, went to- Huntington
yesterday on business.
Mr.. Ed. M. Allen has gone to
Lexington. Ky, where he will
train some race horses.
Mr.. Stevens, of Langsville, Ohio,
is here visiting his son, Mr.. Jas.
Stevens and family.
Mr. Russell McCulloch, of Char
lestou, and Mr.. Archie Campbell,
of Huntington, spent yesterday
here with relatives.
Rudolph. little son of Hon. and
Mrs j. l. Written. sick with ty-
phoid fever, is very much better
this morning.
Mr.. VIM. Look. engineer on the
Point Pleasant and New Martins
vile Accommodation train, is quite
sick at his home in the extension,
Mr.. j. A. Beverage left this
morning for Athens, Ohio, where
he went to attend the funeral of
his grand mother, Mrs. W. r.
Beverage, who died Saturday night.
Mr.. 81 G. Porter, who will be a
candidate for the nomination for
the House of Delegates before the
Republican convention, was in
town Saturday looking after his
fences.
Little Hubert Miller, son of Rev.
and Mrs. s. j. Miller, was danger
ously ill yesterday and last night
with membraneous Group. He is
a little better this morning, and
we hope for his recovery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19

The Street Commissioner was
going around over town yesterday,
with a gang of men opening up the
frozen and icy street cutters. to
keep the water from OVERLOOKING
the sidewalks.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19
1000 Typewriters.

An order for nearly 1000 type
writer's will probably soon he given
by the Pennsylvania railroad. The
management of this company has
decided that all telegraph operators
must use typewriters, and that,
furthermore, these machines must
be of standard make and be the
property of the railroad.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-19

Christmas rush have time genera
novelties beautiful articles of
less than marked prices thought come al
of these bargains Reduction Prices Every Depa
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
sHair-snlttttnx Dtsttnctiou.

r,tor, bure 1ndex.Appea1: The conten-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
The {. B. TAYLOR [0.
No. lOll E. Main
and
No. 9 {. Broad St.

long after the Constitution was formed
Virginia for the last forty years, has
pursued Il quiet course as to it's natural
advantages. It contains a pecGlia-ir.
American population. the census ot
1900 reporting but 10. t61 inhabitants of for
eign birth in a total of f,S541S4 In Is2o
Virginia was one OF the three States
with a population of over 1000 900 r.
was second at that time. outnuznberins
Pennsylvania by a few thousands.
Virginia possesses. at the mouth OF thf
James and in Chesapeake Bay. which re-
ceives the waters OF other great rivers
one OF the finest harbors In the world
Foreign commerce there is growing but
not to the extent of ths advantage Of
fered. The State also contains. especial
iy in its long southwestern sweep. many
valuable mineral deposits ana large for
ests of the best timber. Virginia should
make these riches better known TO the
world. and has resolved 10 do it al this
Fair in an adequate manner. It's treas
ment and it's commercial facilities. main
~ uudeveloped as yet, together with tia
historical objects OF interest. viii in
sure it one of the pre-emtnently inter-
esting places In the State exhibits Many
OF the early builders of Missouri Who
came from Kentucky were or Virginia
descent ST Louis is delighted TO hear
OF the States decision 10 be properly rep
resented at the exposition. But for tho
high spirit shown by Virginia and the
otl.er colonies there wculd never Lave
been Louisiana purchase.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
GuatemsIa,s Bird Emblem.
New Orleans Picayune.


Hv far the most Int2rt S.lI:S bird en-
blem Of a modern State is that of the
republic Of Guatemala. says the New;
York Tribune. IT has been adopted for
the ma tional crest for so long that part
ly- through the taste for stanlp-collecting}
the existence of one of the rareSt and
most beautiful OF the bird creation has
been made far more widely known than
it otherwise would have been. There is q
race of birds called trogons. most Of
which have very fine feathers and re-
uarkablc coioring. They are found in
India and the AIalays. but are most
numerous in Central and Southern Amer
lea. It was from their plumage that the
MeXicans made their famous mosaics Of
feather work From the tail feathers
they made the lustrous green helmets of
their kings and mobiles. The most gor-
geous of all was the long tailed or re-
spendent trosor, which was kept as
sacred or roya! bird in the palace of
Montezuraa or in one OF the two houses
which formed the royal menageries. AIDE
uuate description of the bird is almost
impossible. 1t has a rounded plume op
the head cascades or feathers falling
from the back over the shoulders, plumes
falling over the tai! q yard long, and
most elegant contour. The color OF the
whole OF the upper surface and pIumes Is
a most Respondent golden green. that of
the breast and under parts crimson or
scarlet Such is the national emb!am OF
Guatemala.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION.

The Democrats in the House OF Repre-
sentatiTes could not have done otherwise
than vote for the Hepburn proposition to
appropriate 100000 to enable Attorney
General Knox TO proceed against the
trusts They were on the defensive, and
consistency demanded their support Of
the measure. All The same, we do not
look for any practical results from put
ting such a fund at the Attorney Gene
fal's disposal. Any proceedings he might
Institute would be under the Interstate
Commerce act, and would, as we under
s;and II, have to be in individual cases.
Moreover. II seems exceedingly doubtful
whether the act can be successfully in
folled TO deal with the evil in these cases
From all accounts the anthracite coal
trust exists in open and fragrant defiance
i the act. 1t has been repeatedly
charged, and never disproved, that the
roal-carrying roads were in a conspiracy
sith the barons. contrary 10 the Federal
law, and the statute and fundamental
law Of Pennsylvania. When the cla,nor
was raised for Federal interference of
some sort, in order to settle the strike,
the question of bringing The Interstate
Commerce act to bear was seriously moot
Cd at Washington, and it was acknowl-
edged by the Department of Justice that
4 could not be made TO cover the situa-
Son.
Admitting, however, that what with a
good expense fund and the proposed en-
iargemcnt Of the Interstate Commerce act.
the Attorney-General viii be able to reach
this or that trust, the policy OF fighting
Tho trusts through the Depart-
rnent of Justice will simply mean
tnterminable litigation and INTERIM
cable ''nibbling at a cherry.' The
'nrest, most direct way-the sweeping
"ay-to correct the evil is by overthrow
ne the robber tariff bulwa.k that pro-
iec,s IT. This the Democrats should never
DEC sight OF or allow the masses TO for
seI And whilo they cannot afford 10
.u'asohize any proposed Republican trus,
/ 1s'siaeion which promises partial and
s.l1porary relief. they should be ever on
sns sAsrt against such legislation b.,rr
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
A HAPPY ENDING.

A Washington telegram says that Pres
Powers that the Venezuelan dispute be
submitted to the arbitration Of The Hague
tribunal, and that the Powers have re-
turned a counter proposition that Mr.
Roosevelt arbitrate the issues himself.
Whether either of these propositions be!
acted upon, or, as has been suggested
the matter be left to Minister Bowen. 1t
would seem certain that the crisis Is
over-past. That Is the important point.
There appears no doubt that there
will be settlement in harmony with
the spirit of the season that is upon us.
Ard it were we'll that the country settle
down to that conviction.
There may be, and Doubtless Will De-
bitches and further friction, and none
need be surprised if the sensation mon
gers make the most of these. But, new
ertheless, the affair may be considered
happily ended. More than that, as things
have turned out. we cannot but regard the
incident as most fortunate one for this
country. AS we see it, the State Depart
ment is enabled to present to the Ameri-
can people Christmas gift IN tue shape
Of the assurance that our South Ame:l-
can wards will have q much clearer
understanding in future as to our ool1Sa-
tons under the Monroe doctrine. And
this means a vast deal. When our Span
ish-American brethren-not only the Ven
ezuelans, but those who sympathiz9 with
then-shall have cooled down, the lesson
the allies, with our sanction, have taught
Venezuela, will abide.
Our policy, which events have thorough
~ vindicated has forestalled the necessi-
ty which would have arisen soon or late
Of our adminIstering-and that, too, at
great expense, perhaps-a sound thrash
ing to some one of the South or Central
American republics What with the
broadening Of the scope of our foreign re-
lat.uns. this would. Guub:icss. in time.
nave become duty to inc European ma
tons. And in view Of the vogue of the
spirit of benevolent assimilation in this
country, there is no telling where and in
Ni1dl Tic lJtlitl vi Tilt uttS Houid
have ended. The net results Of the trou-
bic are that tho South and Central Amer
lean States Will likely behave themselves
very much better hereafter in dealing
with our European friends, that the
Monroe doctrine in its true Interpretation
has received another unqualified recogn-
ton from European Powers, and that We
perhaps, have been saved from a further
reach into imperialism.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
COAL IN BALTIMORE.

The people OF Baltimore have arranged
with the railroad and coal companies
carloads Of bituminous coal per day
about 1.500 tons. An official of the coal
company is quoted by the Sun as fol-
lows:
We have fixed our price at So a ION
for tho coal and $l.45 freight which We
pay, making the total s4.i5 a ton on the
track to the dealer. manufacturer, or
anybody who is willing to do the unload
ing or hauling. At this price dealers
ought not to charge consumers over $3.50
a ton delivered on the pavement at their
homes We have made this low price to
help Baltimore, as VIC could easily get
Sc ton from people who are clamoring
FOR coal to keep UP their contracts
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
TELEPHONES.
CHRISTMAS OBSERVANCE.

Throughout this land the tendency Of
The times is towards a more d.corous
observance of Christmas. Certainly that
Is true as to Richmond. Never exception
Sly bad. We have yet found that there
was-ana still ts-roon for Improvement
We pray that this Improvement may so
IN.
AT first little disposition was shown by
(rolicsomc young men 10 respect con-
Eervative opinion on this subject. They
went on with their fun. which was
title short of riotins. They marched
from bar TO bar in noisy procession. They
tlew big horns with deafenins violence.
They fired canDon-cracllcrs on the side
rralks near TO houses OF worship, or under
Che hoofs OF excitab1e horses. And this
tsturnalia, begun on Christnas-Eve. last
III, with more or less intensity. for TWEEN
ay-four hours at ieast,
We rejoice that in this direction there
has been noteworthy reform.
Step by step we hope 10 sec the evil
nbated altogether. There is range enough
for every one to enjoy Christmas without
interfering with the happiness or com
tort of others.
1t is right that children should have
some latitude for their sports, and there
never has been any objection raised TO
-heir firing their little 'pop-crackers in
The streets; the big ones are prohibited
by the police this year we believe. All
that is asked is that the boys and young
1ner shall respect the rights and feelings
Of others; not make themselves nuisances
TO white or black, young or old, sick or
well. Especially should those who are en-
gagged in public worship be undisturhed
by street noises.
Consideration for others is one of the
great lessons of the day. ana it can be
Exhibited in department as well as, II
cot better than. in making presents.
l. is Il season dedicated to peace and
goodwill, and we want to see our peo-
pie have a Jolly. good-humored Christmas.
IN which the prime aim OF every one is 10
,66 to-not tako aught from-the happi-
ness Of others.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
CONSOLIDATED DEBT.

Eirsinia's bonded debt consists of two
classes OF charlottesville Centuries" and
the "Riddleberge-s the former taking
their name from the fact that they have
a hundred years to run. unless called
in on conditions prescribed; the latter
named after the author OF the bill which
provided for issuing them. The bulk of
the debt is in the former. OF the latter.
little over four millions are outstanding
in the hands of the public.
IN the opinion of those State officers
most conversant with this subject it would
be we'll now for the State 10 consolidate
her debt by allowing the holders of Rid
dlebcrgers TO exchange, dollar for dollar,
for Centuries. Mr.. Wickhan has intro
duced 4 bill in the Senate to effect that
object, and his explanation of it. made
10 that body, convinces us that the ar
rangcment is advantageous to debtor and
creditor alike. The fact that he is the
chairman of the Finance Committee Of
the Senate and the watchdog of The
Treasury on that side of the Capitol,
gives emphasis to the views he holds.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL.

The association organized in Phladel-
pllia some time ago for the purpose of
erecting at Washington a suitable monu-
ment to Thomas Jefferson, has decided to
depend entirely upon voluntary contribu-
ton. No appropriation viii I've asked from
Congress or from the Legislature of any
State 1t is designed that the memorial
shall be 4 popular tribute" This is as
it should be. Jefferson was essentially re-
preventative of the masses and their in
terests. not only as respects government
but IN various other directions. A pop
pular tribute" and recognition Of Jeffcr-
sons services to his country would be
cminently in accordance with the fitness
OF things, and the people of Virginia
should not be behind those Of any other
State in contributing to the fund it is
proposed to raise.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
Pumpkin pies and Sunday.

(Written for The Dispatch)
l Amt denyin Sundays bring
No matter when they're comm.
A sense of comfort on their wing
4 sort Of care-benumbin'
Rut specially this time O year
They're soothin' to q sinner,
Because tho skies are dark or clear,
We've pun!lin pies for dinner.
Now YOU can laugh at this. an say
It Jars the sacred feeln'
That Sundays. in their proper way,
TO mankind are revealin',
But ] amt Of that sort of men
Whose Sunday faith is thinner
Nor travelled Oh the edges. when
There's punkin pie for dinner
Fer when I masticate SIGH pies
l sec the golden glory
That flashes III October skies
To tel! the olden story
Bout ways of Providence that make
OF labor's hand a winner.
Au stirs my thanks when 1 partake
OF punkn pies for dinner.
To 1.-Two to eat, don't. on the whole,
Contribute TO our savin,
But when we eat what warns the soul
AS well as Gains our cravin,
We're feathcrin' our future wings,
An he amt no beginner
At righteousness whose Sunday brings
Coed runkin pies for dinner
WADE WHIPPLE.
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ness, let us keep it up, and catch up.
When, our st. Louis exhibit shall have
been returned here, let US make 1t a
show" Of the Agricultural Department.
and increase it yearly by making for that
purpose small annual appropriations.
Thus we Will have an advertisement OF
our resources. which. while having
permanent home here, can be sent visit
ing as occasion and interest may demand.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21

Noble respect takes it in might, not
erit."-Shakespea
ITO give away the dearest things, he
had as tWere a careless tritie. Macbeth.
seem to have been born with beautiful
graces. Unlucki1y for our race, the large
majority of US seem not only to be born
without them, bnt twisted and perverted
in just the opposite direction.
Cordelia was born, an embodiment of
loveliness; Richard III. an incarnatc
devil Most children seem to be very sug-
gestive Of the kingdom of heaven: but
others are quite the reverse. The respon-
sibility OF the one sort is TO improve ali
their advantages. Of the other to turn
their disadvantages to a good account,
to distill the soul Of goodness from things
i'll. The most favored may have an easier
time and. maybe, greater loveliness;
but the ill-favored may show in the scars
left by the conflict a noble and more
splendid heroism: every one a record Of
some vice overcome. And the very grace
or virtue attained will be all the grander
for its costliness in endurance, self-de-
NAL, and faith.
If the Christmas season had nothing
moro to make 1t honorable and beautiful,
what it does for the world in cultivating
the grace OF giving would make it
glorious and mark and manifest its
divineness. It is hard not to believe
in it's Author for the very works
sake It is hard for an injured man to
forgive his enemy; it is hard for a selfish
one to part with what he has, and yet
this season is all full of forgiveness and
self-denial and liberaity and free-heartcd-
ness. With many one. no doubt. it
makes the beginning Of q real hearty
warm grace. Liberality and forgiveness
go together. We love those to whom we
do Il kindness, and dislike the company OF
those whom we iniure. And it is q good
way to learn the highest grace of loving
and forgiving our enemies to do them
courtesy or kindness. Indeed, the grace
Of giving is twice blest. 1t helps him that
gives as we'll as him that takes. 4 gift
destroys the heart on both sides: that is
softens its hardness
But gifts are language. And the
flavor of them and the meaning of them
comes from the heart or the Siver. The
secret motive and occasion of them are
like the ornament of the right hand,
and betray themselves. For the most
part, they are like jewels that glitter
from every point of view. But tho ex-
celence Of them varies from the divnest,
which is the widows mite whose modest
self-deniai touched the heart of God
to the very lowest, which is like great
Babylon. all pride and selfishncss ana
lowness.
The meaning and value OF the gift is
the love, the thoushtfulness. the self
denial, the desire to please that it shows
The formal, the DESTINATIONS, the conven-
tional, the unavoidable. have their place,
and, no doubt. like all conveutionalities,
help social intercourse and preserve good
will: but they are only the merchantable
machine-made, shop goods. compared
with the home and handmade, the lux
urlaHt fruits of the soul.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
Virginia Mt the Fair.
(st. Louis Globe-Democrae.)

EST. Louis Globe Democracy
The Legislature OF Virginia has appro-
priated $4,000 for an exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. and n State organization OF
citizens will raise $4,000 additional for the
purpose. This Is welcome news NO State
In the Union could surpass Virginia In his
torical features. and in resources and geo.
gra phical features, and In resources and
geographical position the State is one OF
the most favored. Virginia will spend
four times as much at the st. Louis
Worlds Fair as at the Chicago EXPOSE
ton. The investment Is q wise one and
VIII be- amply repaid. Though one Of the.
foremost Of Tbs otonial and Of the States
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
Jes' Fore Christmas.

tBy Eugene F'ieldD
Father calls me William. sister calls ma
Mother s5, calls al. R ne wii'e-0Hs the fsller'
Mighty glad l amt a girl-rather be
boy
that's worn by FauntIeroy,
Love TO cnaw green apples an so swim
min III the lake
Hate to take the castor-lle they give rr
beliy-achc.
Most ali the time the hull year roun'
there amt no flies on me.
But ies' fore Christmas I'm as good as
Got a yafler dog named sport-sic< i'm
on the cat,
FuSt thing she knows she don't know
where she's at,
Got clipper sled, an when US boys go
out TO slide.
Long comes the grocery cart an We all
But sometimes. when the grocery man
Is worried and cross,
He reaches at me. with his whip and
AN then Ian an; holIsr, ooh. you never
teched me-
But jes' fore Christmas I'm as good az
| kin be-
For Christmas, with it's lots an lots OF
candies. cakes. an toys,
Was made. they say. for proper Kids
an not for naughty boys:
So, wash yer face. an brush yer natr
an mind your p's and as.
And don't bust out yer paataioous. alo
don't wear out your shoes.
Say '.Yessum to the ladies. an "Iessur
to the men.
An when they.s company don't pass yer
plate for pie again.
But Ihinkin' of the things yer'd like to
see unon that tree.
Jest fore Christmas be as good as yer
kin be.
Il 4 i
Miss Mary Washington Pendleton. who
has been visiting friends here. latt yes
terday afternoon for her home =
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why My. Pearson Declines.
Baskerville Citizen.l

tAShGVlIIe -CltIZtf.l
Evidently Mr. Richmond Pearson
thinks it's time enough to go to Hades
when you have to, hence he declines to
go as Minister TO Teheran. post made
vacant by the transference of MIR. Girls
com to Japan. The salary is $4,000
much better than the sl,Go0 job Mr.. Pear
son now holds III Genoa-but Teheran is
not & great distance from Mashet which
Is generally proclaimed as the hottest
town this side OF an undesirable here
after, there are high mountains on one
side OF Teheran, and an impossible des-
sert on the other side. and the 100000
Of people inhabtating the vicinity are in
large part nonads. Hence Mr.. Pearson
declines
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
Well send you little 10 try If you Ike
SCOTT & BOVINE, 400 Pearl street. New York.

ton of the Womans Christian Temper
ancc Union that the famous Watts paint
ing, Love and Life" beautiful speci-
meE Of nude art, is not fit to hang on the
wall of the White House dining room,
though 1t may be displayed openly in the
Corcoran Art Gallery, is q sort of hair
splitting distinction between tweedle-dee
and tweedle-dum-a straining at q Grat
and swallowing a camel. President Roose-
welt is right to ignore the protests of those
off1cioEs and foolish fanatics, who have no
capacity for seeing in the highest crea-
tons Of art anything but the foul realism
of gross natures.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21

allowed 10 divorce public attention from
tho fact that only by tariff reform can
the s:.ionity be radically and permanently
wiped out To fail in this respect would
be 10 virtually abandon the issue on
which. above all others, rests the hope
of the party's return to power in 1904
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-21
observation-disclosures.

Court Habtue-I'm sorry you lost your
case, but between you and me, In IN
ciined to think YOU would have won it j.
your lawyer hadn't tired the jury by his
long summing up.
Iitisant-I'm inclined to that opinion
myself, and yet I don't know that can
blame him, for he is new in the business
and over-censcientious he actually told
me just now that had paid him such an
unusual fee that he felt he had to talk a
good while to earn the money.