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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
PROFIT IN MULES.

Mules have been going straight up
as long as we can remember and a
Western railroad contractor paid
$4,000 for sixty head the other day.
These hybrids are being more ex-
tensively used right along. In the
grading camps and on the irrigation
work here in the West they have
almost entirely sapplanted the horse.
They stand much more wear and tear
and are good for three times the
amount of work of an ordinary horse
SO any one can see why they are
worth alot of money. a friend of
ours has made a considerable fortune
out of mules in ten years, beginning
with just enough to buy a jack and a
few footsore old mares ready for
market In two years and a half. A
good mule is worth 5000 any day and
will oftertimes bring twice that
much. No one can tell the age ola
mule by its teeth, either. The man
who SAYS he can is crazy. There is
no real way to tell a mules age.
Gen. Grant was right when he said
that it just lives and keeps on living
long after !;oTses that started out at
the same time have been used as glue.
Denver Field and Farm.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
NEW YEAR REFLECTIONS
Start right.
Continue right.
Wind up the year right.
Resolve, and stick to it.
Avoid past errors and mistakes.

ront by your follleS, and be
wiser,
Be stable in your ways, stronger
in the right.
Rebuke wrong, turn from sin,
cling to the good.
If you stumble, get up; if You fall
don't give up.
Attempt something, have a pur-
pose, persevere.
Speak kind words often, harsh
one very seldom.
If you blunder, let it be on the
side ofright rather than wrong.
Don't scowl, don't frown, but
wreathe your face in smiles.
Don't drown yourself in doubt,
but buoy up your life with hope.
Be good natured at home, good
natured abroad, and you'll live long
to enjoy it.
Be cautious in judging, great in
f0roearins, accuse little, forgive
much.
Accept our reflections, take this
paper, read it carefully, send it to
your friends, and may your New
Year be happy, and all the year
pleasant.
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Nezv Years Day
in the Long Ago

ESsyEsEgNoNG years ago the people
ssa MssSs who lived In a great many
ESlssY different places In the
pa EEs5 world we're very much
SszWESSi interested in New Years
~ day. Just as we are. and
they did many things In honor OF
the day. exactly as We do. They
toasted and decorated their houses
and churches. and at II o'clock they
very particular to show in some
way that they ere rejoicing that a
other year had begun.
Not all Of these people celebrated
New Years on the same day. The an
cient Romans used to have their New
Years day in March: then they
changed to January. and q large part
Of the rest OF the world followed
them. The Jewish people have an
other day and the Chinese and Japan
ese still another. but whenever the
day falls. according to their special
calendar. there is always Q very Inn
portant celebration Of It.
The Druids. who were the priests
Of England before the Christian relig-
ion was taken into Great Britain.
also celebrated New Years day.
They were very interesting and very
strange people. these Druids. and.
according to what one reads about
them in history. n always imagines
them as wearing beautiful white
robes and having tall. magnificent fig.
ures and flowing white boards and
hair. At any rate. they Away wore
white robes on New Years day, for
that was the day wher they cut down
the sacred mistletoe.
For the Druids didn't think that
mistletoe vas only g pretty green
vine. They believed 1t to be a mi.
raculous growth Which would pre-
vent people from being harmed by
poisonous food or drink.
On that day a particularly large.
handsome Druid. with g~listening
white beard and hair and rather cold
gray eyes-Druils always had cold
gray eyes We believe-and clothed
most beautifully in white, would
climb the oak tree on which the mis-.
tletoe grew and cut 1t down with a
golden sickle. He wouldn't take it in
his hand, because they didn't con-
slider that respectful enough to the
sacred mistletoe, which could do such
wonderful things. Instead he would
catch It in a pure white cloth and
climb carefully down the tree with
It. After this an altar would be erect
ed and white bulls sacrificed and
prayers offered. Then the Druidical
community felt that for the following
year they would have all the good
luck possible.
You see in those days New Years
celebrations were very serious things.
and all Of the ceremonies attending
them were religious.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
pupcs Still In Majority.

The Duke OF Wellington once ex
pressed to lsQuierdo his wonder at the
enormous number Of charlatans that
there we're in the world. Isquierdo
quietly said: Il beg your pardon: /
do not think there are enough-ln pro
portion to the dupes."
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28

The first time a man kisses a
woman other than his wife, he feels
as sneaking as a farmer when sending
his first order to Montgomery-Ward
But after a while, the husband and
farmer soon become hardened and
patronize not only Montgomery-Ward
but Sears Robuck, and others.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
The greatest DANGER from influen-

The greatest danger from influen-
"a is of its resulting in pneumonia.
This can be obviated by using Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy, as it not
only cures influenza, but counter
acts any tendency of the disease to-
wards pneumonia. Sold by all deal
ers.
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Globe.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
~Uneenerous Action.

There are many who excuse their
own life spent on a lower plane by ap-
plying the wrong epithet to those who
live on a higher one.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
True Economy.

Economy IS not economy IN the
spending Of money. bu. the spending
oft In such a mann as TO get the
best results.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
,Eess un,

Why are you so indignant because
people talk about matters that do not
concern them? You do it.-Atchison
Globe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
NEW YEARS. TRAGEDY
Er-SteeJ Man Kills Wife and
Self and Hounds Children.

Pittsburg, Jan. Winfield Gibson, aged
forty-eight years. a prominent resident Of
Munhall 2 suburb, shot and killed his wife
tonight, seriously wounded a son. fired
three shots at his fleeing daughter and then
killed himself.
Gibson, who was q former superintendent
Of the Carnegie Steel Company, came home
late this afternoon after a day of drinking
with friends. according to the police. Meet
ing his wife at the top of a, flight of stairs
Gibson shot her dead the body tunbling
down the stairway. Howard, q. fifteen-year-
old son, hearing the shot ran to the scene
and was seriously wounded by a second bull
let Grace. a fourteen-year -old daughter,
coming to the stairway, was shot at three
times. the bullets narrowly missing her.
Gibson then turned the weapon upon him
self. He died instantly.
A three-year-old child was playing within
ten feet of where the shooting took place,
but was unframed by the father
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
NEW YEARS DAY OPERAS.
The Daughter of the Regiment and
Trovatore'' the Offerings.

New Years Day brought no rest to the
opera singers. At the Manhattan the after
noon was dedicated TO the return of Nine.
Tetrazzini after her TWO weeks tour
through the West The opera was Doni-
zetti's THE Daughter of the Regiment,
and the popularity OF Nine Tetrazzint
brought forth one of the largest audiences
of the season. Yet quite as important as
the efforts of the prima donna was the ap-
pearance of Charles Gilbert in the role of
Sergeant Sulpice. Mr. Giliherts impersona-
tiOu ranks with the best Of the histrionic
creations of the French stage. II is an i'm
PRESERVATION never to be forgotten, at once
humorous and imaginative. charged with
the martial spirit of the Gaul. an imper-
sonation of which Coquelin himself would
not have been ashamed. The Tonic was
John Mccormack Donizettfs opera was
followed by "Pagliacci." In the evening
Massenet's ''Herodiade'' received it's first pro-
duction at popular prices, with Mr.. Remand
al Herod. Mr. Duffault as Jean and Mime.
Cavalieri as Salome There was a new
Herodias in Nine d Alvarez. who made on
the whole, an excellent impression.
Leo Slezak, Bohenl;a's giant tenor. gave
distinction TO ''Trovatore' in the afternoon
at the Metropolitan. He took the in ''Di
Ouella Pira" and brought forth the result
ant enthusiasm. Nine. Gadski sang Leo
nora. and Nine. Flahaut. Azucena. Both
singers were effective. as was the Di Luna
of Mr. Gillv. In the evening "Manon,
with Miss Aida in the title part and Mr.
CIhment as Des Grieux. interested audi
ence of fine proportions OF the two chief
singers the honors were easily with Mr..
Clement. the delicacy and refinement OF
whose vocal art might we'll have been pom
dered) on by other singers who might he
mentioned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02

Joining Nesc .4nti-Tlust
League Increment

washington. Jan Women of Washing
ton, together with number of wives of
congressman, will meet tomorrow to dis
cuss the scope and plans OF the proposed
national antitrust league which is IN he
organized for the purpose of attemptinp
TO keep down the prices of foodstuffs The
promoters of the league declare that the1,
have enlisted the cooperation of a number
of important members of the Senate and
House, and that through them immediate
steps viii be taken toward organizing state
leagues throughout the country.
There will be no clash with the law he
cause OF the boycotting of certain food
stuffs. the organizers insist. for the activity
of the leagues members will be devoted
TO the reduction in price of a commodity
and not be directed at individual firms
This reduction. IL is intended. wiz be ac-
complished in, every case by the falling off
in demand for the article which the league
will instruct its members to cease pur-
chasing until more equitable prices prevail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
COLOR OF ARMY HORSES.

The gray charger. long an inspira ton for
the poets Of cilivalry, is now paSse. So
say the high officials of the War Depart
nent who look after the purchase of horses
for the United States cavalry.
He may be just as vigorous, intelligent
and faithful as his brothers of another
color. but he's too conspicuous, they tell
us. too apt to get his 500 hide filled with
lead. So he has to CO. Horsemen of the
national stock yasds can no longer sell
grayS to the government, which they main
tain is bad business all round.
Uncle Sam formerly owned s240,OO0 worth
of horses of this. color One troop in
every regiment was known as the gray
troop" But on investigation the depart
ment decided that so much money I'm liv-
ing targets a bad investment, for in
these days of high power rifles the gray
troop would be a shining mark for the
infantry of the enemy before the bays and
blacks and browns and sorreIs could get
close enough to be distinguished from the
scenery.-St. Louis Republic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
WON'T HELP 4LLDS.
NezC York Republican Senator'S
Want Human for Leader.

Speaking for Senators Brough and New
comb, Senator Agnew last night declared
that the three Republican Senators from
New York County could not support the
candidacy of Senator Aids for Senate
leader The three Senators at present
think Senator Human the most available
candidate. Senator Agnew's statement oil
lows:
We believe that the Republicans generally
the policy in the Senate. particularly III
respect to legislation advocated by Gov
ernor Hughes. Therefore the new leader
should be Enthusiastically representative OF
the progressive sentiment in the party ana
capable of leading the Senate ma jorlty in
support of policies of Governor Hughes APP
proved by the people.
Sentiment has been slow in crystallizing
in the leadership proposition. because Sena-
tors Aids and hinman agreed not to solicit
the votes of their colleagues, and because
the organization leaders throughout the
state have wisely refrained from Interior
ing.
We cannot support the candidacy of
Senator Aids. We think his assumption
that he is entitled to the leadership I'M
justified. as three or four Republican Sena-
tors Outrank him in length of service. 1t
would be difficult for him TO bring about
party harmony. owing to his close asSo-
citation with the old regime. Moreover. as
Senators for New York County, we could
not expect the approval OF our constituents
in voting for the Senator who cast the de-
Gliding vote on the Eleventh avenue bill
after being summoned from the lobby by
Senator Grady.
seems the most available candidate for
leader.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
In MOATED GRANGE
PRETENDER At BAY.
Collins, Like FeudaI Knight,
Holds Park Roc Bmlding.

: James G. Collins, pretender to the High
ways throne. continues to spend the hol-
days IN what some have called the noun
talns OF Manhattan. Sixteen stories above
the level of the human sea which GIBBS and
flows in lower Park Row the view is in
spring. and in case Mr.. Collins thoroughly
ventilates the offices of the Superintendent
OF Highways every morning when he arises
the air must be health giving. 1t Is this
question of ventilation which most worries
President McAneny of che Borough of Man
haitian.
Il don't care whether he Steps there or
Scannell.' said the new Borough President
last night, las long hey air the rooms
in the morning. If sanitation goes hand
in hand with litigation they can fight 1t
out between themselves for the present"
After a, New Years Day of impressive
silence in the vast and empty Park Row
Building. Mr.. Collins and his faithful sen
try. Tom Mcnamara, composed them
selves for the fourth nights sleep in their
fastness. With doors locked and bolted
and telephone disconnected they were safe
from intrusion, and could rumnate and
dream the advantages and comforts
which the besieged have in modern times
Eary Yesterday morning, after good
nights sleep Mr.. Collins ventured out for
walk. leaving the trusty Tom in control
of the situation. He said the walk did him
good and he was ready TO receive John w.
Browne, his counsel, and other friends who
wished to call and exchange New Years
greetings. He was just as certain as he
ever that he would collect the s40,o
in back salary and counsel fees, which, he
said. the city owed him. and he intended
still TO hold the fort until Monday morn
ton Hahlo contends acts as stay of the
peremptory mandamus compelling the rein
statement of Collins Superintendent of
Highways the latter characterized as in
effective and Illegal on the word of his
lawyer.
II wouldn't have started this fight at
ALL" said the pretender. IF they had only
acted half way decently about my removal
When Ahearn came into Office he never
said word to me one way another, but
sent Scannell over here to take my place
I never got any notice of removal, nor were
any charges ever filed against me. / made
up my mind to fight, and I told Scannell
that I would. We are friends yet, notwith-
standing this litigation. and ne told me to
so ahead and win if I could
When reporter called again last night
to see If the siege was still in effect Tom
Mcnamara said through the door of the
private office of the superintendent that he
had explicit instructions not TO open the
door under any circumstances. His chief.
he said. was out comforting with his coun-
sci regarding the action he would take on
Monday.
President McAneny has not yet decided
whether he will abolish the office of Super
intendent of Highways. but he said the
tenure of office Of Collins or Scannell. who
ever held the job finally, would be subject
to his plans of reorganization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
SEARCH is FUTILE
MRS. COHEN MISSING.
Belief Strengthened That Mss
Dejanon Is Plot Victim.
TBy Telegraph to The tribune. |

Philadelphia, Jan. AT a conference
with detectives held tonight in his apart
meAts at the Bellevue Stratford Robert
Buist the millionaire seed merchant reit-
Grated his intention to spend his entire
fortune, il necessary, to recover his six
teen-year-old granddaughter, Roberta B.
Dejanon. VINO disappeared on Wednesday
in the company of Frederick Cohen mid
dle-aged waiter.
Developments to-day convinced the police
that the story OF the girls disappearance
when it is brought out. will reveal an ex-
tortion scheme in which the waiter will be
shown to have taken advantage of a girl
grieving over the recent death of her
mother and the loneliness of life in a hotel
apartment
TIE detectives and the police were unable
to account to-day for sshe sudden dropping
from sight of Mrs. Julius Cohen, wife of
the missing waiter. who was left, apparent
~. destitute. il the two furnished rooms
which she occupied with her husband at
No. LAB Christian street In support of the
theory that Cohen induced the girl to leave
home with e view to demanding a reward
for her return. 1t is suggested that the let
ters fodnd by Mrs. Cohen in her husbands
pockets after he left town, and which were
later presented to the police as love notes
written TO Cohen by the girl, may have
been forged.
Clues received by the local detectives took
Reading. One of the most plausible tips
them to-day on fruitTess search through
received by the police was given by Ber-
nard Campbell. conductor of the Pottsville
express, which left the Reading Terminal
here at 6:56 D. m. Wednesday. Campbell
and others of the train crew saw a couple,
answering the descriptions of Mss De-
janon and Cohen, leave the train at Read
ing Every fat and apartment house in
the town was visited to-day by the local
police and detectives from this city, but the
search was fruitless.
Cohen is believed TO have hidden the girl
in New York or Baltimore, and it is in
these two cities that the detectives are
working hardest and most hopefully 1t is
not believed that he can have gone fur
Their, and every outgoing boat and train in
these cities is being watched night and day
The close friends of Mr.. BUST who were
at the conference held tonight at the
Bellevue and who knew the girl we'll be-
heve that she will never be found alive,
and that she carried out the intention to
kill herself expressed in the two letters
which she wrote her father Those who
know her best are the most unwilling to
believe that she eloped with Cohen.
1t was after spending the day in great
anxiety an dsuspense and with evidences
of crushing disappointment at the lack of
news of Miss Dejanon that Mr. BUST asked
for conference with the detectives who
are working on the case. The aged mil
lionaire not only said that he would spend
his last cent to recover his grandchiId but
again expressed his belief in her innocence
of any wrong and his eagerness TO receive
her back as his ward in any case
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
NO OPERA MERGER
although HaHmerstein Thinks
1t WOuId Raise STANDARD.

Oscar Hammerstein said yesterday that
if arrangements could be perfected he was
willing to join hands with the management
of the Metropolitan Opera House in COM
Eination TO improve the condition of opera
i'm New York Mr.. Hammerstein said that
he knew nothing of any definite attempt
to bring such combination about, but that
he was in sympathy with the idea. The
present season, he said had already cost
him $50 600 a condition brought about large
" by the oversupply of opera caused by
the rivalry of the two opera companies
THE present operate war is suicide
said Mr.. Hammerstein. land I am willing
to join hands With the metropolitan to raise
the standard of productions by reducing
the number of performances and giving
more care to their staging. 1 would, of
course, go into such combination as an
equal partner and for no money-making
reason. My one aim is to Improve the ar
tistic standard of opera as now given IN
New York
cit is at present a throat-cutting game.
Operas are pitched on solely to get ahead
of the rival house. and singers are engaged
at exorbitant salaries TO prevent them from
being engaged elsewhere This season has
so far cost me s25O,OeN and it must have
cost the Metropolitan far more
IF the Metropolitan is unwilling 70 come
into the combination l shall, of course, con-
tinue as | have in the past. l shall know
next year how to avoid many of the evils
of the competition / have experienced this
season II the combination is carried into
effect we will be able TO reduce the number
of operas TO perhaps eight weekly. all TO
be sung at the Metropolitan L shall then
use the Manhattan as theatre for melo-
drama
The management of the Metropolitan OPP
era House gave out the following official
statement last night in regard to the re-
ported merger:
Concerning Mr.. Hammersteir's statement
that he has suggested a merger OF the
two opera cons 1anies. the Metropolitan
and the Manhattan. and that he will aban-
don the Manhattan Opera House and be
come director of the French operas at the
Metropolitan Opera House. the manage
ment of the Metropolitan Opera Company
states that Mr.. Hammerstein is within his
rights in making any suggestion he pleases.
These SUGGESTIONS. however, viii not inter
fere with nor change the policy OF the
management of the Metropolitan opera
COmOauV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02

before the passage OF a southooun1 pas
senger train
Detectives are looking for three othe,
men. whom they say they can connect WITH
the plot and can also show that they were
not only concerned IN blowing up the Gay
street bridge last night but that they
plotted to destroy the Mount Clare shops
and dynamited the Riverside roundhouss
on October Is. In their confessions. Ship
ley and Zimmerman inofved others
Captain Humphrey Is Of the opinion that
Zimmerman and Shipiey. and also Fl W.
Iightner. third striker. VINO was arrested
last night. are connected with COMMITTEES
of striking Baltimore & Ohio Railroad ma
ehinists formed for the purpose OF injurinz
the railroad property. basing his belief
upon the results of police investigation into
the attempt made some time ago to dyna-
mite the Riverside shops OF the Baltimors
& Ohio.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-01-02
HEIRS SEEK SPENT LEoAclEs.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court ordered the appointment Of referee
on Friday TO determine whether $4,000 Of
life insurance money left by William H
Taller, of No. IA East I'D street. to his
wife Maria c.. Taller, belonged to her or
had been used properly in payment of his
debts.
Mr.. Taller died in 1905, and Mrs. Taller
died in May last. The latter's executors
contended that the money belonged TO Mrs.
Taller under her husbands will. II ap-
pears, however, that after the payment OF
his debts the entire estate amounted 70
only $4,000. whereas gifts amounting TO
more than 100000 were made TO nephews.
nieces, servants and a godson. none Of
whom has received 2 beQuest. The lower
court had decided that Mrs. Taller was
not entitled 10 the money.