The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-10-04

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painter. The setting fun glintine
through the fringe of trees OF
Gauley mountain; the CLEAN o,
the Crooked Fork of Elk; the rict
color of the grass; and the green
of the paper money against the
| purple of the overhalls. Why
did Maud Muller wish to leave
the farm?
Why does blue grass grow in
Pocahontas county? Itgrows be-
cause those Scotch Irish husbands
descended from a line of ancestry
which made monarehs tremble in
their places and which dYnamit-
ed the king of Scotland in the
House in the Kirk ofFields, keep
the brush cut down every year.
Starting in life with few rods
of grass, a Dutch oven and a wife,
many Pocahontas farmer has
lived to see his grass lands in
crease until he had herds upwards
of a thousand hills. He goes to
his rest under the sod that he low
ed SO well, and his estate has been
divided up and his sons spend
their time bossing a single hired
man.
Personally we cannot claim
great credit as a grass grower. A
desire to become suddenly rich
and powerful led us into the
newspaper business. We entered
journalism like a steer jumping
into a cornield and the longer
we stay in 1t, the more we find
that it units us for any other life,
either in this world or the next.
The only epitaph we can hope for
will be along the lines of Gray'a
Elegy:
perhaps some hoary headed tramp
may say,
Oft have seen him at the ear morn;
Sorting with hasty hand the way.
That came from tooling with loened
form"
Since we hung up the brush
hook in the barn we have been
buslIy engaged in trying to make
two copies of the Pocahontas
Times grow where but one grew
before. Our favorite method of
increasing our circulation this
time year. is the following adver.
tisement: THE days are shorten
ing and now is the time to sub.
scribe for the Pooahontas Times
SO that you can have something to
read in the long winter EVENING" .
We had not long exchanged our
birth right fer mess of pottage
in the shape of hand press and a
shirt tail full of type, until another
agriculturist, of the name of q. A
Monroe Meadows, came by, and
tried to make two papers grow
where one had grown before. Thus
the blue grass country had two
sensitive plants to nourish. 1,
takes much energy to run news
paper. To make it all in the
space of six days and all very good
1t takes the energy of a William
Saunders
1t was strange case of William
Saunders. born and raised in Poca
hontas county. At the age of fifty
he was known as a lazy worthless
man. He lived a dreamy useless
life and hardly knew he was living.
Once in long time he did a days
work, but that was an event to be
noised about the neighboring
neighborhood. He regarded the
busy throng hurrying up and down
the creek with istless eye. and
the world moved On without his
a sistance.
Then came time when he was
spending the night at a neighbor's
house where he was threatening to
do days work. The family were
sitting conxersing around the
kitchen fire place when the light.
ming struck the chimney, covering
everybody with dust and ashes.
When the damage was counted,
William Saunders was found
shocked and in an insensibIs oon.
dition. They kept the flies off of
nim for twenty-four hours and
just as they were thinking of send
ing for a doctor. William Saunders
batted1an eye and showed signs of
coming to. He was tenderly cared
for and given fried egg and other
restoratives. In few days he was
we'll and strange to say, his sloth
fell from him as garment He
had been chook full of the miorobe
which produces | ziness,. and the
terrible baptism of fire had burned