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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
LOCK SITE CHOSEN
DRILLING FOR FOUNDATION OF NEW
LOCK AT WOLFFS BAR.

The site of the new lock to be
built by the government on the Ohio
river above Pomeroy has practically
been decided upon. The lock will
be situated at wolfe's bar nine miles
above Pomeros, o., and the drilling
for the foundation has already been
started. The cost is fixed approx
mately at 81, 100000 though it is
conceded by several of the engineers
that it will run almost half again that
amount before the lock and dam are
finished and equipped.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
The DRIFT FROM DEMOCRACY.
Abraham Lincoln.s yenrly salal

Abraham Lincoln's yearly salary
was $1,000. William H. Taft wants
this amount for travelling expenses
alone. Theodore Roosevelt made
greater professions of devotion to the
people than any preceding President
and squeezed more out of them for
his personal use. Is the Roosevelt
policy to be pursued diligently at the
White House in this respect Is the
swing from Republican to autocratic
political methods, from the modest
public servant to the luxurious royal
family notions, to be made perma-
nent: ESQ, no wonder the Presi-
dent insists upon new and odious tax
es in order to raise revenues so as to
spend money tayishly in luxury. The
present tendencies gave any party a
great opportunity which would take
up seriously the economic doctrines
of Jefferson, Webster and Tilden,
and apply them vigorously ito COVER
mental administration and expendi-
ture.
The Rough Riding Presidential
theory of bossinS Congress, intimida-
ting the courts, and sporting an Ex-
ecutive establishment like that of a
royal palace is reversal of the great
Democratic principles for which the
Revolutionary War was fought and
won.
Since the modest Mckinley was
murdered, the drift from democracy,
with its inexpensive simplicities, to-
wards au:ocracy, with its costly elab-
orations, has been as decided as it is
deplorable.
Websterian vigilance is needed in
Congress to resist these aggressive
and persistent encroachments upon
the constitutions! safeguards of the
people.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,
To the Sheriff of Mason County,
Greeting:

We command you that you sum-
mon John Medley, if he be found in
your bailiwick, to appear before the
judge of our Circuit Court for the
County of Mason, at Rules to be held
in the Clerks Office of said Court on
the first Monday in May next to
answer a Bill in Chancery exhibited
against him in our said Court by
Julia B. Medley, and unless he shall
answer said bill within one month
thereafter, the Court win take the
same as confessed and decree accord
ingly. And have then there this
WITH.
Witness: chas. B. Buxton, Clerk
of our said Circuit Court, at the Court
House, this leth day of April, 1909,
and in the 4eth year of the State.
Teste: CHAS. BUXTON, Clerk.
Sept. NV.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
FOR SALE.
PAVING BRICK PLANT OF THE CAMDEN
CLAY CO., AT SPILMAN. VIVA

The entire plant of this Co.. fully
equipped for making s5, 900 paving
brick per day, a four mold Boyd DRY
Press and Murray clay roofing
shiningle machine, together with q
right to an abundance of shale closely
situated, fifteen employees houses.
two residences, thirty acres of ground
in fee on bank of Ohio Biyer. an
abundance ofcoal with incline from
mine to yard, six two-track FIRE proof
dryers, twelve thirty foot down draft
kilns. Entire ward paved.
Shipping facilities, Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad through property and
sunken switch through yard. and I'M
cline to Ohio River.
This plant is for sale at a very low
figure. For further information adj
dress,
NJ. c, TYLER, Trustee,
Spilman, W. va.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
BAN BY COURT
NEWSPAPERS FORBIDDEN TO PUBLISH
ACTIONS OF GRAND JURY.

Youngstown, o., August as.-
For the first time in the history Of
MahoninS county newspaper pup
fishers were ordered by court to-
day to refrain from publishing stories
regarding the actions of Grand
Jury.
Judge Robinson issued special
decree shortly after the Grand Jury,
which has the graft investigation in
hand, convened, saying that no news
should be printed about the investi-
cations unless indictments were re-
turned.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

The new highway law imposes up
on the new county highway engineer,
as his first duty, the making of a
complete map of road system of his
county This is to laugh when one
considers that the state allows coun-
ties to pay this new official as little
as $500 per year. The new law will
not result in better roads-on the
contrary it will result in another
burden of salary taxes to the taxpay.
er with no adequate return.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
KNIGHTS OF PYTHEAS.

The 10th annual conclave of the
Knights of Pythias of West Virginia
will convene at the Odd Fellows
Temple in Parkersburg September $.
The grand temple ofPythian Sisters
and the Uniform Rank will meet in
annual session at the same time and
place. Persons desiring any kind of
information should address W. E.
Price, chairman, Parkersburg, W. Va
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
In Exchange says

The head of Lincoln will prob.
ably appear on the new silver dollar.
A bust of Cleveland will be on the
ten dollar gold certificate and that Of
Grant on the fifty dollar one. We
viii get a sight of Lincoln now and
then and may occasionally scrape &C.
quaintance with Cleveland, but good
by. Grant and God bless you.''
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
PHIL WATERS LEFT IN CHARGE.

Don Blasg, of the supreme court
clerks Office, left today for POin,
Pleasant, where ne will spend Sun
day and then moge on to Charles
Town, where the sapreme court Of
appeals will go into regular session
next Wednesday. Phil Waters viii
be in charge of the nome Office dur
ins. the absence Of Tie court officials.
Charleston Mail, saturday, Aug.
sssh.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
THAW PROMOTED.

Matteawan, \. l., Aug. So.-In
their search for regular occupation
for Harry X. Thaw, recently recon-
mitted to the State Hospital for the
criminal Insane here the authorities
of the institution have appointed
him to the post OF librarian.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

Yeast-Has he got a good mem.
DRY?
Observation-Disclosures! Why, he's
telling US the same smart things
his six.year-old boy says that the boy
who is IL now said when he was six
years old!-Yonkers Statesman.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
ANOTHER HANGING AT MOUNDNHIE

Another hanging at Moundsyille
penitentiary is scheduled for scptem-
Der 9. Under the present state Of
affairs this is to be the penalty re-
CURED Of Columbus Belcher, white,
who was sent up from Mingo county
on two charges.
Beleher was out but eighteen days
on parole, after serving several years
for the murder of white man in
Mingo county, when he got into a
mixup which resulted in him adding
another murder to his list.
The time for his hanging has been
set for Thursday, September cat 5
p. m. 1t is said, however, that ar
effort to get him a new trial is now
being made by his attorneys. Pre-.
dictions have it that the prisoner
may be granted a respite until the
supreme court, to which the case has
been appealed, renders its decision
regarding the proposed new trial.
Many persons, however, owing to
I
the reputation Belcher has earned,
and from the fact that he was on pa
role but eighteen days when he com
mitted another brutal murder, be-
lieve he will sever his connections
with the state institution at the APP
pointed time.
Isaac Yates, who is condemned to
hang in December, may have his
sentence committed to life imprison-
ment, owing to the allegations that
he is insane. Yates, in converse
ton with Arthur Brown, the negro
hanged last Friday, says that he is
not bit afraid to go to the gal
lows, for he is an innocent man."
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

1t it's all a mistake to think that
any one is so big that the world
would be Topped sided if he should
drop of.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
Killing lime.

Musical Momedy Manager = How
long is the piece now?
Author-We've stretched it out as
much as We can. but it is still about
ar hour less than standard SAgth.
Manager-Well. dash OF topical
song about Broadway, with dozen or
so encores.-Puck.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. !, 1909

A meeting of the State board of
regents of the educational institu-
tions of the state has been called to
be held in clarksburg on Sept. 8.
All the normal school principals will
be present and the course of study
will be revised.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
The SEQUEL.

TOurist-what's going on around
here?
Chief Umbrella-Umph! Poor 10
have big meeting. After meeting have
dog feast.
Tourist-oh. see. After the pow.
WOW comes the bowwow.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
VIII She2

II she the PANTHEON gown dons,
I wonder will she. too.
Roll up the bottoms in the way
Our college students do?
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
Still Fighting.

Church-Did you have any relatives
In the revolutionary war?
Gotham-I don't know; but I've got
two cousins interested in the D. AR.
war!-Yonkers Statesman.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

The man who is selfish, pneurious,
misery and close-6sted succeeds only
by accident.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01


-. y. -
OLD HICKORY CHIPS.
SBy our associate editor.
foFtunately' they haven't put
nary Ihaw m the moving picture
SHOWS.
Washington IS now tali OF mighty
important n persons lhey are the,
acting secretaries
900
good many questions to find out why.
China got the hook and pulled him
of the American diplomatic stage.
go
$500 y 1850 ' ''
900
After being searched for every
night all over the country for f;ftv
been found by the anxious lady right
in Baltimore.
-, % enAt
A'u nave
900
t"p 'l"A " seep-
VI anu snf'"e' any oas
900
From the revised list Of President
the dig dig really is a dix dix. .
1t will be welcomed just the same by
a grateful and curious people.
900
better sail into the Moors Tn. A.
lant;c can wait
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

The young Shah, of Persia, would
rather have new top than a scep-
tor and throne, any day.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

orville Wright says he can sail his
aeroplane thousand miles. 1t is
pretty near time for orville to aban-
don theories and get down to con-
ditions.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

Even if they hadn't found that
pedestal. General Lee could have
stood on his record.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

sl.s5 now..,.................. roc
Lot mems pants worth s1.s5..... roc
Lot mems dress pants worth Sci ga
Lctmens suspenders worth SOC. CSC
Lot mems summer underwear worth
soc ....................... soc
Lot mems arrow brand linen collars
worth l5c now.................. &c
IS per cent off on all straw hats.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

Senatorial aspirants in Texas are
doubtless breathing easier since it
has been demonstrated that Mr..
Bryan will hold his residence in
Nebraska.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01
New nc. Airships must mot ram
through the parks at rate gilmore
than twelve miles an hour.

After being searched for every
night all over the country for fifty
years, the man-under-the-bed has
been found by the anxious lady right
in Baltimore.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

From the revised list of President
Roosevelt trophies, it appears that
the dig dig really is dix dix. .
1t will be welcomed just the same by
a grateful and curious people.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-01

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23

the traffic the tunnels will accommo-
date.
The tunnels Of the Pennsylvania
railroad are completed and will be put
into service al soon as the depot and
terminals in New York are finished,
enabling through trafic to enter and
leave the city without interruption.
The successful building of these tun-
nels leads to the prediction that the
time is not far distant when all
bridges over the Hudson and East
rivers will be dispensed with and the
traffic between New York n the
mainland and with Brooklyn all
pass through tunnels. The value of
such a colossal improvement is appar-
ent when it is considered they would
carry a freight tonnage greater than
the estimated use Of the Panama
canal, in addition to an almost UNI
limited passenger trafic.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
The Occunation Tax.

After giving the subject careful con
sideration and listening to the argu-
ments presented on both sides, the city
council has announced its agreement
upon an occupation tax equal to 3 per
cent Of the gross earnings Of the fran
chised corporations occupying the city
streets, with a progressive increase on
the excess of future earnings up to 5
per cent.
While the levy of an occupation tax
has been practically conceded since the
supreme court upheld the authority of
the council to impose such a tax, the
agreement now reached, as usually
happens, is a compromise between the
demand for a straight-out 5 per cent
tax and the pleas of the corporations
that the rate be kept down to 2 per
cent, The 8 per cent tax on the ex-
listing volume Of business should yield
upward of $125,OOO a year without
counting the tax on the water COM
pany which will doubtless be involved
in the pending litigation over the pur-
chase of the water works plant.
We think the councilmen who have
worked out this important problem
have shown wisdom in treating all the
franchised corporations alike and put
ting them all upon the same level of
taxation without playing favorites or
venting retaliation.
AS The Bee has said several times,
the people of Omaha, while insisting
upon a reasonable occupation tax as
compensation for the use of the streets
by the franchised corporations, want
to treat these corporations fairly, and
expect to be treated fairly by them.
There is no disposition to burden them
unduly in such a way as to obstruct
their growth or to interfere with them
giving the public the best possible
service, and at the same time the peo-
pie see no reason why these corpora
tons should not share with the city
the returns on a business dependent
entirely upon the use Of the pu1lic
thoroughfares and growing by the
mere momentum of the city's popula-
ton increase.
We believe that the corporations
will find that this method of taxation,
although they would, of course, like
to escape it altogether, will in the long
run make the people feel that they
have a partnership in these enter
prises, and that, because of this profit
sharing arrangement, they will evince
an interest in their prosperity and ex-
pansion and help them ward of hold
ups and raids.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
PERSONAL VOTES.

romantic career was ended In the
death Of william Fay, who died In MUS
kegon, Mich, aged sc. As a union scout
during the rebellion, he gave up a fortune
to serve the northern cause.
The opinion of young Mrs. Thaw con-
corning her husband and the opinion of
the husband concerning her are two things
that might nave been withheld without
creating a sense of public loss.
As the Roosevelt party was reported to
he somewhat in straits owing to their
being short Of water supply and having
nothing to drink, It must be surmised
that they struck some local option African
counties.
Uncle Shelby Cullom is a member oil
the tariff conference committee, but is
not attending the sessions. He escaped
from sultry Washington to Atlantic City
several lays ago. He did not wish to
serve" writes a special correspondent
''but circumstances arose which made 1t
inadvisable to substitute someone else for
him"
Besides being a probate Judge and a
writer of novels, Robert Grant Of Boston
ia treasurer Of the New England Gas
and Coke company, which owns coal mir
in West Virginia; and now Postmaster
General Hitchcock IA brother Harvard
mani, has paid him the compliment OF
naming a West Virginia postoffice Grant
City,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
Liability for Lost Mail.

A suit just brought against the At
lantic Coast Line railroad by the gov
eminent involves the liability for mail
destroyed in railroad wrecks. The
government gives a limited indemnity
for registered packages lost or de-
stroyed and heretofore has paid the
loss out of its postal revenues, but 1t
now seeks to apply the same rule of
law as obtains in all other shipments
over the railroads and hold the latter
responsible for damages, Viewed from
a legal standpoint it does not appear
that the mails differ from other ship
ments, the contract to transport pre-
supposing safe delivery or reimburse
ment in case Of failure. This is true
of every other article transported ex-
cept on so-called released" goods in
which a special rate is made by sur
render of the right to indemnity.
On no class of business do the rail-
as a rule receive higher COM
pensation than for mail transportation
and on top of hat the Postal depart
ment furnishes all the appliances and
performs all labor incident to handling
which makes mail contracts keenly
sought after, AS the postal service
is conducted at a net loss to the gov
eminent. no good reason exists why
the railroads should not be asked to
assume the same liability for loss or
damage to mails as 1t does in other
business.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
Cannon for Waterways.

The announcement that Speaker
improvements is an encouraging fea-
ture of the situation. Speaker Can
non, in fact, has never been opposed
to waterway improvements, but the
~extravagant demands Of some water
ways advocates had arrayed him
against the whole scheme. If the
speaker has decided to aid in securing
the needed legislation 1t probably in
dicates that the waterways boosters
have consented to modify their de-
mands. The report of the army en-
gineers, ever If approximately correct,
demonstrates that to ask congress to
appropriate the entire sum at once
would be futile, even IL the treasury
situation were not cramped and uncer-
tain.
In previous years Congressman Bur-
ton, as chairman Of the rivers and
harbors committee, was distinctly I'M
friendly to any adequate appropriation
for western rivers and with demands
beyond what the speaker was willing
to concede there was little chance to
get action by the house. With a new
chairman of the rivers and harbors
committee and Speaker Cannon more
friendly it should be possible to secure
a reasonable appropriation for a good
Ia-sn~ - AIEA %
waterway improvement. abs
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
THE CASH REGISTER.

Wex Jones in New York American.
Old Sandy McTosh was a businesslike
soul: hard headed and hearted as well;
He cared not for orchestra, piano, or band
but ~rejoiced in the sound OF a bell,
The tingle and Jingle delighted his soul,
TIL he jiggled and wiggled his ears,
And the clear, though monotonous note
would sometimes affect him to tears.
He would often declare as II rang In the
air that the bells OF shandon were
he'd say at such times that old Trim
ity's chimes la gained all their glory
Now this is no josh" said Sandy McTosh.
heres the music that never will fall
The ting Of the bell In the register when
it's making another sale"
Not a straw cared McTosh for aught but
his coin, nor needed the music OF life;
No wedding bells ever rang out to the
world that Sandy was taking a wife.
He scraped and he boarded and boarded
and scrsped and tight TO his money
His music and poetry. pleasure and love
summed up In the registers "Pingl"
No emotion was stirred in his coin-crusted
soul as the fire engines clangored along
And he missed not a heartbeat in pity at
the sound Of the ambulance gong.
For" said sandy McTosh, 1T so doesn't
hurt me II others are mAngled or fail,
So long as the bell OF the register goes
Ting! for another sale
Twas the music he heard for many a
year, the song that the register sang;
And II rang In his ear so sweetly that even
in dreams II rang.
And IL drOwned alike means and music,
till McTosh lost both smile and frown.
He had no heart for the heartsick, no
hand for o'eTburdened backs,
But paid his bills on the moment and never
So at last McTosh died listening to the old
And satan pressed his register and smiled
as his bell went ''Ting!'
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
Tariff Bill and Clothing Prices.

Without discussing the merits Of
the wool schedules in the pending tarin
bill IL may be well to correct some
misapprehensions generally enter
tanned rs to recent increases in the
price Of clothing wholly or in part
compose Of wool, which threaten to
go stii igher. To charge this in
crease the pending tariff bill is
erroneous, because with the exception
of waste and some Of the by-products
which do not enter into the manufac-
ture Of clothing the rates of duty in
the pending bill are the same as in the
Dingley bill, which has been the law
for years.
A comparison Of wool quotations
now and when the 1908 crop was mar
keted will furnish a clue to the NOV
ing cause. Last year the bulk of west
ern wool sold at from IL to IA cents
per pound, unsecured, or the ranges.
This year the same wool has sold
readily at from 23 to 26 cents per
pound and some even higher than that.
The doubling Of wool prices cannot
fail to nave an effect on the selling
price of the finished wooden garment.
Furthermore, changes in trade con-
ditions probably account for more
than the increase of wool prices. Last
year trade was in the doldrums and
manufacturers and dealers we're glad
to get orders on the smallest of profit
margins, while today orders are plen-
tiful and cloth and clothing manufac-
turers and dealers all ask and receive
a bigger margin than last year.
If the new tariff bill were in force
today 1t would afford no reason why
clothing, other than shoddy, should be
one penny higher han last year or for
any year since the Dingley law was
enacted during the Mckinley admins
t%ration. Reduction of the wool tariff
might possibly Offset the tendency to
raise prices, but to blame the tariff
for what has already happened is
clearly inappropriate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
Opening of New York Tubes.

Nothing accomplished in recent
years means so much to the nations
commerce as the opening TO trafhc of
the big tubes connecting New York
City with New Jersey and the pros
pective use for freight traffic OF the
new tunnels of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company, 1t is the beginning Of
the end OF the costly trade barrier
between the metropolis of the nation
and the immense territory whose
trafhc tunnels through the city.
All experts agree that the passen-
ger tubes, just placed in commission,
are engineering triumphs. They are
fifteen feet three inches in diameter
and are composed Of steel rings, the
trains fitting the tubes closely so that
the trains act as pistons. drawing in a
supply of fresh air behind them. The
trains cannot be started until the car
doors are closed and the doors canAot
be opened while the trains are in mo-
ton, guaranteeing the safety OF pas
sengers. There are two OF the tubes,
one eastbound and the other west
bound and as the trains run at high
AsDeed there is practically no limit TO