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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-25
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA.
COUNTY OF Mason, IS:
At Rules held in the Clerk S Office
ofthe Circuit Court of the said Coun-
ty, on Monday, the end Gay of May,
1910, the following order was enter
ed:
L. c. Somerville, Administrator of
the estate of Jennie Vickers, de-
ceased;
Allen Vickers and Charles yickers.
heirs at law of Jennie Vickers, de-
ceased, and The H. G. Ncase Co.,
a corporation; W. p. Neale, and
J. B. Tippett, creditors of Jennie
Nickers, deceased, and the un-
known creditors of Jennie yickers.
deceased.
The object of the above entitled
suit is to ascertain the Indebtedness
against the estate of Jennie Vickers,
deceased, and the real estate of
which said Jennie Vickers deceas-
ed died seized and possessed,
and to subject the said real estate to
the payment of the said indebted
ness.
And it appearing from affidavit fl
ed in the papers in said cause that
the defendant, Charles vickers, is a
nonresident of the State of West
Virginia, it is ordered that he do ap-
pear here within one month after the
first publication of this order and do
what is necessary TO protect his in
terest.
A Copy Teste:
cHAs, BUXTON, Clerk.
NAV ll-4w.
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Washington, D. c.
Address-HOn. Geo. C. Sturgiss,
Congressman Second District, West
Virginia.
There will be number of short
addresses by prominent West Vir-
ginians.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis has
signifed his intention of being pres
ent if possible.
All persons interested in West
Nirginia's agricultural or commercial
welfare are especially invited to be
present.
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CURE YOUR KIDNEYS.
Do Not Endanger Your Life
When a Point Pleasant Citi-
zen Shows You a Cure.

Why will people continue to suffer
the agonies of kidney complaint,
backache, urinary disorders, lameness
headaches, languor. why allow them
selves to become chronic inyalids.
when certain cure is offered thems
Doan's Kidney Pills is the remedy
to use, because it gives to the Kidneys
the help they need to perform their
work.
If you have any, even one, of the
symptoms of kidneys diseases, cure
yourself now, before diabetes, dropsy
or Bright's disease set in. Read
this Point Pleasant testimoney:
W. S. Knapp. Fifth Street, Point
Pleasant, W. Va, says; 81 have
always had weak Kidneys, but was
never seriously bothered until about
year ago. At that time my back
and kidneys panied me 50 intensely
that could hartley stand and to
make matters worse, l had trouble
from too frequent passages of the
kidney secrctions. My feet often
became swollen and my eyes bothered
me. ! finally procured Doan's
Kidneys Pills at Van elders drug
store and after using few boxes.
| was in much better health. | can
safely say that Doan's Kidney Pills
are the best kidney medicine have
ever taken.
For sale by all dealers: Prices 50
cents. Foster-Millburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan 5
and take no other. 90
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PROGRAM
STATE AGRICULTURAL RALLY CLARKS.
BURG, ". VA, MAY 2S, 1910.

10 A. M.-Call to Order. Cover
nor VIM. f. Glasscock. Invocation,
Rev. Jas. E. Bird.
Music.
Address Extention Work for
College and Station" Prin. F. R
Crane, Dunn County School of Agri-
culture and Domestic Economy,
Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Address" How to Make Horti-
culture Profitable" H. A. Colling-
wood, Editor the Rural New-Yorker,
New York City.
Noon.
1880 p. NJ.
Address Carrying Seize n tifc
Agriculture to the Farmer Dean
H. L. Russell, University of wiscon-
sin.
Adhesion. Joseph Holt
Gaines, Congressman Third District,
West Virginia.
Address-Dr. S. A. Knapp, United
States Department of Agriculture,
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NSTRUCTIONS
AFEW RULESFORT The GUIDANCE OF OUR
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENTS.

First of all, the Register is a news
paper designed to give the news of
the neighborhood, county, state and
nation, and no effort should be made
to make it the purveyor of mere Cos
sip or the instrument of personal re-
venge. In disseminating the news
it must be reliable and impartial to
the utmost degree. Once in great
while some one who has a grudge
against neighbor writes a letter to
the Register in which sly thrust is
made at the person he or she doesn't
like. Sometimes it is cleverly dis
guised and the editor is unable to
detects it. This should never be done,
and it is earnestly hoped that no
correspondent or occasional contribu-
tor will so abuse our trust. Personal
feeling should never dictate in giving
news. Never overlook the comings
and goings of neighbors whom you
may not like. Give all the news of
all the people, whether you like them
or not.
Avoid as much as possible chron-
icing the calls made by one neighbor
upon another who live on adjoining
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such items.
Do not note the calls made by the
beaus on the bellies of the neighbor-
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Do not forecast marriages, but re-
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mitted with accurate details.
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Date the letters and write with
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
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SCATTER THE FLOWERS.

Decoration Day! The inspiration
of the occasion is the inspiration of
flowers and peace and beauty. At a
time when the glory of the land is
most dOminent, clad in yerdure and
decorated with blooming roses, every
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The MODERN VERSION.

Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Never mind about my heart,
Give, oh, give me back the ring
And each fair, expensive thing
That l sent you, and each note
Which in those dead days l wrote
They are what the jury says
Indicate the damages!
-Trdro
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--A----ANO - Elll@zANSIAZ 1z1l
flag that autters above a haIlowed
grave mingling its colors with those
of buds and blossoms and is a monu-
ment of Gods past goodness and a
prophecy Of His continued mercy.
Scatter the flowers. o why should
Cherish the hate of the years gone
by!
Over the grave Of their enmity
Scatter the flowers:
Scatter the flowers, my child, today !;
Scatter the flowers where the sol
diers lie;
Scatter the flowers on blue and gray !;
Scatter the flowers.
Decoration day races, 'Decora-
ton day base ball, "a and g Decoration
day dances are announcements APP
pearing in some papers. AS the day
approaches for the revival of sacred
memories and paying of tribute to
the heroism of comrades dead, such
notices are not hailed with a feeling
of satisfaction by old soldiers. The
purposes for which the day was set
apart are too sacred for approval of
making the day one of jollifcation
and hilarity. The true patriotic heart
and mind never contemplated such
conditions when an annual memorial
service was first conceived.
No man ever lived a right life who
had not been chastened by woman 5
love strengthened by her courage,
guided by her discretion.
The place to take the true measure
of a man is not the market place or
the amen corner, not the forum or the
field, but at his own freside. There
he lays aside his mask and you may
learn whether he's imp or angel, king
or cur, hero or humbug. care not
what the world says ofhim-whether
it crown him with jewels or pelt him
with bad eggs, | care never a copper
what his reputation may be. If his
babies dread his coming home and
better half swallows her heart every
time she asks him for five dollar
bill, he's a fraud of the first water,
even though he prays night and morn
till he is black in the face and bowls
. hallelujah till he shakes the eternal
hills.
Avoid unkind criticism. If a life
be pure, let all oddities alone. Ifyou
are convinced that not over-brilliant
young man is trying to live a clean
life and make honest record in the
world, don't pick him to pieces in
your after-party talks, even if he is a
little bit of 4 bore or triAe close or
rather prosy. A pure man is better
than brilliant man any day, and
truth and honor make better crown
than cleverness and wit. Set your
aim in this world toward the making
of happy hearts and homes, as the
woman spoken of in the play OF
Clito, who made the grass lit
tie greener for her foot-passing over
it." Strive not SO much to be adj
mired as to be loved, and seek to
awaken that love in the little ones, =
whom the master especially COM
mended to our care.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

have a deeper reverence for the he
roes who gave the last full measure
of devotion, and does not dedicate
anew his life to the task of making
greater our common country. This
can only be done by inculcating
into the warp and woof of our lives
the noble aspirations and lofty SEN
timents set forth in his great life.
Our duty toward fellow man
and all humanity can be best ex-
hibited by living daily those lives
of honor and supreme usefulness
lives of service, the beneficent in
fluence of which shall never pass
away.
The emancipation proclamation
was a command in substance to the
effect that those who held the
slaves in living death should loose
and let them go. AT Lincoln s call
a million men came forth to save
nation. Many of them sleep in
unknown graves, and we, the bene-
ficiaries of all this sacrifice, must
daily prove it not to have been in
vain
The a 100000 freedmen are to-
day 100000 of American citi-
zens with over 10000 school teach
ers, men and women, engaged In
many professions, skilled in the
arts and trades, and paying taxes
on $500, 100000 worth of property ;
hopeful and aspiring, pressing for
ward to greater things.
For nearly 300 years we have
sung the sorrow songs. We shall
yet sing the songs of rejoicings
and triumph. There is no circum-
stance that can forever retard that
one who deserves to succeed. All
we ask and expect is that no op-
portunity to rise shall be denied
us, and that merit and worth alone
shall tell.
As the years shall pass the mem
ory of Lincoln will grow brighter,
and the influence of his work be
more uplifting throughout the
earth. We do well when we do our
best, for thus we prove our graft
tude to him and to those who, un-
der his leadership, by their sacrl-
fices, made this day possible.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26
Current Events.

With people, as in nature,
changes go on about us without at
tracting very serious attention un-
til the changed condition is upon
US Among our people great
change is gradually coming. And
it is coming so quietly and uncon-
sciously that we hardly note it. The
peculiar conditions existing, and
immediately following the emanci-
patton of the Negro thrust him into
politics. His ideal men were the
great statesmen who were pleading
his cause at the bar of public opin-
ion. Stories of their work and the
stirring incidents of reconstruction
developed the abnormal Negro poll
tieian. The Negro leader OF any
locality was the one who "lntlu-
enced" his people and convinced
the political leaders and candidates
that his vest pocket was bulging
with the suffrage of his people
ready for delivery at the appointed
time. But when a quiet, unassum-
ing Negro is hauled across the
country to tell a gathering OF Ne
groes on finance, it looks very
much as though a new leader was
being developed for our people
Charles Banks, cashier of a Negro
bank at Mound Bayou, Miss, and
one of the best posted men OF our
race on finance and banning, was re-
Gently the guest of the business
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

Red Bank, N. Jon account
of the increased cost of living, the
preachers of the African Baptist
church gathered here at the Attain
tic Coast Baptist Ministerial con-
ference, have agreed hereafter to
make fixed charge for sermons
or addresses delivered at funerals,
marriages and semi public func-
tions. The charge for a public
grafton or political address will
be $40, and the fee for funerals,
weddings and minor functions will
be So. Any pastor violating the
agreement is to be fined S1.OO and
deprived of the right to preach for
30 days.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

from our duty by false accusations
against us, nor frightened from it
by menaces of destruction to the
government; nor of dungeons to
ourselves. Let us have faith that
right makes might, and in that
faith let us to the end dare to do
our duty as we understand it. -.
These words became the shibbo-
leth of all the elements struggling
to make America truly free. There
came the Kansas and Nebraska bill,
the transference of the struggle to
the western prairie, where pioneer
lived in sod house and with his
trusty rifle battled with the forces
of the wilderness and contended
with those who would have the
clanking of slavery's chains heard
on the soil in which the pioneer
hoped to build free state for him
self and those who would come at
ter him.
There went west that forceful
crusader, and here John Brown,
who projected himself into the
struggle that attracted national at
tention, caught the spirit that
swept the air. John Brown be-
came Kansas incarnate, and at
Harper's Ferry did that which
ripened for the advent of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
The contending forces could no
longer remain apart, and the world
sees the greatest internecine strug-
gle man has ever known.
The powers contending for abso-
lutism, despotism and monarchy IN
every quarter of the globe, looked
on with satisfaction as they saw
apparently the doctrine OF self-gov-
eminent destined to failure. Then
it was as in all ages the one man
to make the triumph of righteous
ness come forth. This man was
Abraham Lincoln.
This wise, patient man was truly
ordained for the work. He came
unheralded, out of the night, and
in day pregnant with Titanic
things, changing and epoch-mak-
ing, was equal to every emergency.
AS the sun went down on his life
that day it closed on one the story
of whom is stranger than fiction.
Whether as lawmaker, states
man, emancipation or man, or all
combined, Mr.. Lincoln stands alone
the unapproachable. He stood
for that which was right and best.
He stood for equality before the
law. He stood for Liberty. He
stood for humanity.
His emancipation proclamation
means little to us unless we are
embracing every opportunity for
development and progress. In pro-
portion as we shall educate the
youth of the race, accumulate real
ty holdings, make ourselves worthy
and indispensable elements in the
body polite, will we prove that
Lincoln's emancipation was not
in vain, and give heart and cheer
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

Miss Hazel Harrison, of Laporte,
Ind. who is credited with phenom-
email talent as "a pianist. appeared
Sunday in a recital at Chicago.
Her playing won the unstinted
praise of the newspaper critics,
who suggested that some wealthy
persons make possible for her
worldwide reputation by contribu-
ting money. Two Chicago women
whose names were withheld, have
given the girl $4,000, and she plans
to 90 to the music centers of Eu-
rope.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

Springfield. Telling in his elo-
quent and simple way of the free
dom of two people and the great
good that has come to both. Over
in a Missouri City Lincoln Asso-
citation celebrated by raising
thousand dollars and then some to
drive the Negroes from their neigh
borhood. And this is but little
of what has come across the wire.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

The Supreme Court of the State
of Louisiana has solemnly declared
that in contemplation of the law
"a Negro is a person having a per-
ceptible mixture of Negro blood" "
The court makes the train conduc-
tor, the hotel keeper and most any
old lout the judge of what is a
"perceptible mixture" There are
liable to be many differences as to
what constitutes "a perceptible
mixture" as there are white peo-
ple in the South. AS we all know
there are many people who have
no mixture of Negro who are much
darker in complexion than others
who have. The railroads have to
be protected from suits arising
from the mistakes of conductors.
Hence this peculiar condition.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

to the friends of another genera
ton rapidly passing, and to those
who will be raised up in the days
that are to come, with each man do
ing his duty as best he can, the
work of Lincoln will not die. "
The influence of Lincoln s work
is felt in the great movement for
governmental reform and human
uplift, not alone in this country
but throughout the civilized world.
Freedom for all was the salvation
of this country and although new
pronouncement in the history of
the world, it stood the test success
fully, and human rights are more
sacred and will so remain through
out all time.
Liberty, fraternity, equality and
law, the four pillars OF the temple,
were rocking. 1t remained for Lin
coin to put his hand to the temple
and steady it, or, rather as the ship
of state rode the boisterous waves
that threatened destruction, this
great man, like some mighty mari
ner, stood on the bridge and, steer
ing past breakers as the world
cried out to know the fate OF its
fondest hope, free government, he
answered, "All is wei" "
Lincoln's great wisdom was al
ways in evidence. He could detect
the false and the true. This far,
seeing, shrewd, untutored an,who
by his own efforts had made him
self the wisest of his time, met ev-
cry issue, faced every crisis and
brought freedom to American
white men, as well as freedom to
the slave. The thongs that bound
the Negro were no more CALLING
than the fetters that bound the op-
pressor's soul, for truly:
"The law of changeless Justice bind
Oppressor aoith oppressed,
And close as sin and suffering
joined,
They march to Fate abreast. "
Among the problems he had to
solve were these: The failings and
chickering's of general officers IN
the field; the raising of moneys 60
ing out by millions daily; the fick
leness of public opinion, shifting
and changing with the varying
successes of the Union army. The
constant opposition of the anti-war
or "peace- at -any-price" party in
the North; holding the neutrality
of the border states and suppress
ing foreign war which frequently
threatened during the long, desper-
ate struggle for maintenance of the
Union.
These things demand just such
wisdom as only Lincoln possessed.
He was the burden-bearer OF the
Great Republic. Yet out of it all
he comes irradiated, standing alone
on a height unapproached and I'M
approachable.
Inc mercy OI IluColh Lbie"' -"
counterpart only in the divine.
Thus reads the closing appeal OF
his first inaugural, when he said;
''The mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battlefield
and patriots grave to every heart
and hearthstone, all over this broad
land, will yet swell the chorus OF
the union when again touched as
surely they will be by the better
angels of our nature. !"
Throughout his life he exhibited
the spirit of the divine Christ rath-
er than that of the "eye for an
eye" and ga tooth for tooth. -
This day and until remotest time
men will forever laud and under
take to explain whence came the
marvellous words of Lincoln's Get
tysburg address. Who can but
read it and not feel that he should
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26

Hon. w. 7. Vernon, Register OF
the United States Treasury, spoke
at Mount Olivet Baptist Chuch in
New York City on the evening OF
February 18th, his subject beng
kAbraham Lincoln" The meeting
was presided over by ex-Judge
Clinch of the Supreme Court.
There was an audience of about 2
600 people-one of the largest
ever gathered in New York City.
On the platform were seated Drs.
Brooks and Gilbert, leading pas
tors: Hon. Charles w. Anderson,
Counselors Wetmore, Curtis, e. A.
johnson, Cowen and other dlstln-
guished gentlemen.
Mr.. Vernon said in part:
"This most remarkable man,
Abraham Lincoln, whom the world
delights to honor as the embodl-
ment of true Americanism and the
principles for which America
stands. is one whose life can be ex-
planned as but one of the ways OF
an inscrutable Providence to do
His ordained work.
The poverty, the tragedy, the
suffering, the mighty silence OF
this good and just man, the story
of his life, strangely peculiar, are
an inspiration and teach us les
son of patience, of publication by
fire, of final triumph secure above
all storm.
What American youth today
what child of poverty in all the
world begins more humbly In
childhood? He did not have pa
per, pencil nor slate, but he
crawled to the fireplace at night,
sharpened the dead embers, wiped
off the back of a shovel with his
sleeve and with charcoal began
working out the sums that were
but the humble beginnings OF the
teachings of his afterwards most
remarkable mind.
Before Lincoln came the upward
struggle of the civilized world had
brought those characters, heroic
and noble, who won only a partial
victory because of mans enslave-
ment of his fellow man. This gov
ernment of ours, prophesied as the
salvator of human hopes, could not
fulfill it's mission while chained
alive to it's body of death-human
slavery.
The ultra conservative, timid and
non-progressive, the ultra-radical,
heroic but impractical, were each
alike failing to bring to America
the new birth of freedom for
which Lincoln struggled and died.
1t remained for this prophet, who
came from the wilderness, to go to
classic New England with the doc
-trine of America S redemption and,
in his Cooper Institute speech, to
give heart and cheer to the lovers
of liberty and free government
throughout the world, in these re-
markable words:
"Neither let us be slandered
The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Havana, Feb. 1.-The Cuban
Senate this afternoon approved the
Norma amendment to the election
law after a slight change in the
verbiage 1t excludes the recognl-
tion of any ticket based --on race
distinction.