The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-30

1OunS Jonn ". "A Aum0r1Bt-
A distinguished writer calls at
tention to the fact that We have
always prided ourselves as nation
on our sense of humor. Yet our
greatest humorist-one beside
whom Mark Twain would become
iugubrious and Chauncey Depew
a sobbing sign of sorrow-hss just
appeared on The horizon His
name is Rockefeller-Yo Dung John
D.-a name not associated in the
public mind with the levities of
life And yet thie young mau hiss
gifts of humor and of mirth amount
ing well nigh to iocose genius.
The New York World calls at.
tention to his admirably subtle
humor. the supreme kind that goes
with a grave vissge and inwards
gales of laughter; the kind that
trickles off the hides of the thick
skinned and literal souls; the kind
that is the master word in the
Freemasonary of humor.
Every Sabbath this ince mpara
bic wsg stands solemnly with seri-
GUS countenance masking the mad
merriment within, and breaches TO
mis- reverent Sunday school
As fret. till he was sure he had
himself. we'll in hand, he chose his
subjects with discreet caution
But when he found how rigidly
straight face he could keep, when
he discovered how perfectly i'm
pervious to hunor were the earnest
souls. in his scintillating cynicisms
and in his iridescent ;ronies.
Last Sunday he attained what
must be near the climax of his
efforts when he assured his rapt
hearers that I'VE are not here TO
get all we can but to give all we can
to make others happy"
We can only beseeoh Mr.. Rookie.
Teller not to presume further on
his marvellous self control. If he
does the fatal day will inevitably
come when he will either burst a
blood vessel or laugh out loud
1t must have been dizzying
sight-the Introduction to a
Washington audience on Tuesday
of Parson Wagner, author of 1.-THE
Simple Life" by President Roose.
welt, author of The Strenuous
Life" The President insists that
the two kinds of lives are only one
kind and that he and the German
pastor are it. Wagner not only
declares that his distinguished
host is the most sincere and artless
of men, but that the American
people on earth. This is to laugh
1t shows the delicious simplicity
of the parson. If there is on earth
people living more helte-skel-
ter, volatile. and complex life than
we do, that people has yet to be
discovered.
Mayor Powell. of Henderson,
XIV issued Thanksgiving proc
lsmation in which the following
sentence oocure:
Let us be thankful ii { our
colonels are not so full of corn as
our corn is full of kernel Though
the surrounding soil, tickled with
a hoe, is laughing with harvest,
poor folks are still with us. From
the coup and cold potatoes. good
Lord deliver them. Oh, Christian
men and women, astonish the
stomaohs of the starving sufferer
with oysters, turkey and mince
pie. Adorn the ragged pauper
with comfortable clothing. An
ounce of practice is worsh pound
of preaching
Some men believe they can win
success without advertising but
the number of merchants who
have succeeded in building a big
business without constant publici.
ty is so limited that you can count
it on the fingers of the hand. On
the contrary the number of men
who ha "a found it possible to reach
success through advertising is SO
large that it would be difficult to
count it at all. When the proper.
tions are so vastly different it is
astonishing that all men do not
appreciate the Importance of this
question of advertising
What is the object of the Presi.