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The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14
EVERYBODY CELEBRATES IT.

There IS a charm in Christmas.
We have all read of the old rniser
Scrooge, who was carried 5y three
spirits on Christians Day, as on the
wings of the wind, and IN all the
strange transit the Influence of the
day was e and heard. Not only
on the streets of pomp and pride,
but In the narrow huts on bleak
moorS, up and down in the mean.
tenement houses, there was a glow
and a heart of song. Among men
digging and de'vine in the pit, to
force from old mother earth her
riches, men transformed into the ac-
tive pick, IKE and spade, was a new
breathing, a day as the days of other
men.
On shipboard. as the bark aped on
the black and heaving sea, a Christ
mas tune was hummed, and every
man on board, good or bad, had a
kinder word and a kinder look for
his fellows, And even in solitary
lighthouse, built npon a dismal
reef of sunken rocks; some leagues
or so from shore, on which t4e
waters chafed and dashed the wild
year through" the solitary watch
ers, joining their horny hands over
the rough table, wished epn other a
merry Christmas.
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The life Of an editor is not all rose

The life OF an editor is not all roses.
His duties are many and varied.
He must write the editorials, read a
couple of hundred exchanges evert
week, grind out a column or two of
poetry occasionally, be cussed black
and blue if he sends delinquent sub.
scrlbers a statement once In five
years and Fl he happens to print a
piece Of reEl-knon neishborhood
talk as a matter Of news, over the
signatures of Critic or Constant
Reader he is Immediately consig-
ned to the place where zero weather
is an unknown quantity. If he
pleases n faction he displeases the
other. He is accused of saying too
much about someone and too little
about the other. If he suggests a
remedy tor any social evil a large
part of the community is profuse in
its expressions of disapproval.
In our last issue we printed an
article headed, ''penmanship VS..
Music written by a prominent
citizen of this place. with children
of his own attending the public
schools, a tax payer and a man with
the best interests of our town and
people at heart. We have been
critisized for permitting the article to
be published in the Register and in
this connection wish to say, that
while disclaiming the authorship of
the piece, We heartily endorse the
very evident facts brought out so
forcibly.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

H
The meat trust is probably the great
est merchant on earth. 1t feeds bill
lions. In all lands, in every army
commissariat and naval supply store
its products may be found. Battles
on land and sea cannot be fought
without first consulting it. This
colossal combination, unlike most
others, did not achieve its immense
proportions through the operation of
the tariff. 1t was built up by ruth
lessly,smothering domestic COMPETE
ton. It was able to introduce many
economies in production, but these
have all gone into dividends. as in 9th
monopolies. The consumer never
gets the benefit. In ten years, ac-
cording to the Bureau Of Labor, beef
has risen SO per cent, mutton IS per
cent, fresh pork IS per cent, salt
pork and bacon so per cent and veal
80 per cent. The trust controls the
cattle-growing industry of the world,
is able to meet competition abroad
and to fix and enforce prices at home.
When meats were sold at reasonable
prices we had no need to import them
and the tariff on them was something
ola joke. But now that the people
are being held up almost to the point
where prices are prohibitory We can
not send abroad for this essential food
because the tariff keeps it out. Thus
the trust, having controlled absolutely
the home market bv a process of
elimination and absorption, is made
safe from the competition of the entire
outside world by this b~enefcient
system of high protection. The
tariff on meat should be Immediately
repealed. 1t is an accessory to the
robbery of the people.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14
MUST DIE ON THE 2sRD OF DECEMBER.

As the JOY of the coming of the
Christmas season increases with the
near approach of that time, with the
great majority, che gloom of impend-
ing death upon the scaffold grow,
deeper for Thomas Raymond (Wavne)
the negro who is in the death cell at
Moundsville awaiting the time for
his execution for the murder and out
raging of Mrs. John Ailif, at Quin-
nimont last August. Wayne has no
hope. He must die on the eSrd day
of December usdess some miracle
takes place, for he has not made any
attempt to carry his case to n higher
court or take any legal steps which
might stay the execution Of the death
sentence, nor could he for he has
neither friends nor money. and
Christmas time holds forth for him
'Dot even the passing pleasure of a
good Christmas dinner-for two DAYS
before his life must pay the penalty
for the crime which a court has de-
cided that he committed.
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TnE number Of people who read

The number Of people who read a
presidents's message is comparatively
few. Some have to as a matter of
duty, and among this unfortunate
class are editors. They are then sup
posed to equal or exceed the pond
crosby of the official document in
editorial praise or dcnunciation. us
the case may be, of the outgiving.
We propose to set a precedent, in
that we are not going to 'dissect.'
the presidents message this year.
We are even going further in our
iconoclasm; we r going to confess
that we haven't read the document
in full. It's $500 words present to
our view a dreary waste of yerbiage
~unsuited to the festal atmosphere, of
the approaching holidays, and we re-
bel. We have skinned over it
enough to confirm our previous sus-
picion that it would contain nothing
sensational; that it is a truly Taftian
product, decorous and conservative.
and we propose to let it go at that.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

The merchants of our city are
showing a choice line of Holiday
goodsa at this time and the prices are
as low as anywhere in the country.
By patronizips them the money ex-
pended will be kept at home and
you: have the satisfaction of knowing
that iftthe article purchased is not
as represented it can be returned.
If you buy from the mail order houses
this privilege is denied yon. .
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TnE course of legislative events in

The course of legislative events in
New Jersey, where Woodrow Wilson,
Democrat, lawyer, legislator and
presidential possibility, has just been
elected governor, will be watched
with much interest throughout the
country. What influence he will have
thereon is a matter that will excite
universal interest. That state is the
mother of trusts. Half of the great
combinations of the country have
their legal residence there. Its in
corporation laws are so made that the
most exacting trust looking for uni
versal privilege to gluck the people
can be Accommodated there. During
the past. fourteen years of Republican
rule of the nation, when monopoly
has greatly multiplied, Jersey has
been the mecca of seekers of special
privilege. 1t is itself in the grasp of
one of the biggest pubic utilities
corporations in the country. The
defeat of the coporate interests there
at the recent election by DR.. Wilson
whom they bitterly opposed, will
center, the attention of the country
on The affairs of the state. (.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

The chief charm of Christmas is its
simplicity. 1t is a festival that sp-
peals to everyone, because everyone
can understand it. a genuine fell
lowship prevades our common life
"a fellowship whose source is our
common share in the gift of the
worlds greatest Life which was given
to the whole world.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

To many people Christmas is a
burden because it means a well nigh
rninous expense. 1t need not be and
at is a mistake to make it so. When
at s.denc it is really adeparture from
the spirit of the occasion, for Christ
: mas was never designed so put a
burden on anyone. Rather is it de-
signed to relieve people of burdens
anG fill their hearts and homes with
JOY and love.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

IT will be comforting to the fellow
starting out to buy his Christmas
turkey that he is IS cents richer
than he was last year, hal being
the per capita increase in the wealth
of the country, according to govern
-ment statistics.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14
Now is the time when in many

Now is the time when in many a
home, plots and ~counterplots, mys-
ferrous whisperings and glances show
that something is going to happen.
The happening takes place on Christ
mas morning in the loving gifts that
surprise and delight parents and
alike.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

If any impression ever existed
that the new rules we're going to
rob foot ball of its most striking fea-
'ture it has been fully dissipated.
Fourteen were killed and forty in
jured during the football season just
ended.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14
SOCIALIST ORGANIZE.

Recent election results have tend
ed to stimulate organization and acti-
witty, throughout the land, among
Socialists. The election of one Con-
gresham, a few State representa-
tiveS, a Mayor occasionally, together
with an unusually large popular vote,
accounts for it. Point Pleasant has
a newly organized Socialist local with
IA chester members. At a meeting
last Monday night they adopted the
following resolution:
Resolved, lst, that reform is net
Socialism.
end, That the various reforms
advocated By the Socialist party, and
put into effect by its representatives
whenever and wherever elected, are
but necessary peliminaries;a means
by which the working.class Is at once
aided In It's ,tragsic against capital
ism and prep":cd for the assumption
of political S=1 industrial control of
the nation lid Che ultimate establis-
hing of the cooperative common
wealth.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

Mary BAKER GLOVER EDDY, the
head of the Christian Science cult,
who is dead at the age of SO. was a
very remarkable woman-perhaps
the most extraordinary woman of her
century. She founded a religious
sect that has shaken the foundations
of every evangelical church in the
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

A London physician declares that
men should smoke less in winter.
Wise husbands will cut this out and
show it to their wives before the
Christmas cigars are bought.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14
The British House of Lords ap

The British House of Lords APP
pears to be on the verge of surrend-
-ering its power to the people. Be-
fore the universal and irresistible ad-
vance of the spirit Of democracy
many institutions are lettering.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

The glass trust, said to be earn
ing 400 per cent. on its investment,
has reduced the wages of employees
80 per cent. Wouldn't that give
GU a pane?
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14
CHESTNUT RIDGE

George Graham was visiting his SON.
in-law Jonas Canter Sunday.
George Cotrill and wife, of Mt.
Olive, spent Saturday with the
latter's brother Jerry Graham.
Mr.. C. Ray Wolfe moved to New
Haven this week where they will be
at home to their many friends.
Miss Ruby sayre was shopping at
Racine, Ohio, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gerlach's
little Lora, aged FIVE years, died at
their home, of asthma and sore
throat. Wednesday. Funeral Friday
afternoon. Burial at Mt. Hebrin.
Miss Maud Wilson is still unable
to continue her school.
The chicken pox is raging in this
vicinity.
Quite a number of our young folks
attended church at Mt. Alto, Sunday
night.
Homer Schwartz and sister Josie
and Berta Shirley were calling on
the formers uncle T. Schwartz, of
School house, Thursday.
Scott Devices who is on the sick list
is much improved.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
LconcIuded from page eight).

Ohio, spent a few days here last
week with relatives.
c. NJ. Roush, of letart, was in
town Monday and Tuesday.
Muryell Wolfe, came down from
Letart, Sunday to attend school un-
der the management of c. d. Ball.
Lodemia Roush, of West Columbia
and Goldia Hart, Of Clifton, spent
Sunday here with their parents.
DR.. Mcwhorter who has been on
the sick list is greatly improving.
Matte Miller, clerk on Str. Klon-
dixie, is spending a few days at home
this week on account of the boat be-
ing laid up for the ice.
Both the U. B. and Lutheran
Churches are preparing for Christmas
entertainments.
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The trouble with early Christmas
shopping is to get the wherewith to
begin the performance.

The consensus of opinion on the
presidents message seems to be that
1T is a very lengthy document.
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Subscribe for the Register, 81 a year
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-14

G. A. Meadows, of Ashton, was a
business visitor here yesterday.
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GU n pane?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29

in a similar proceeding by the govern
ment to hold that this company was
an illegal monopoly under the Sherman
law and the court has deprecated the
challenging of the justice of their well
considered and solemn judgments
THE company has no monopoly in
the sugar industry; it produces no raw
sugar and does not and cannot control
the price of the raw material; 1t has
no agreements direct or implied with
other sugar companies and is subject
daily to competition of the keenest char
acter; it has, including its beet sugar
interests, about 81 per cent of the coun-
trys sugar trade, and 1t requires a
liberal stretch of the Imagination to cali
this a monopoly.
DOESN'T STOP COMPETITION.
1T does not seek to stifie competi
ton or Cypress the consumer by adj
vancing the cost of a necessity of life.
Its refinery profits last year averaged
less than 10 of cent per pound. Dur
ing the last decade, when the prices of
nearly every necessity of life have ma
terially advanced and when the costs
of this company's labor and supplies
have very largely increased, 1t has con-
tinued to sell sugar at a lower margin
of profit than formerly. In 1870 the price
of granulated sugar in New York was
10 IL cents a pound; in 1880, SO; In 1890,
$50; in 1909, 4.76''
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29
URGES RELIEF CROWDED
POPULATION OF CITIES
There Are Now 226 Cities in
America of 100000
People
by Associated Press.l

NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-New York
city's committee on congestion of popu-
lation has addressed to the conference
of state governors to be held in Louis
vile, KY, beginning Wednesday, a re-
quest that methods of distributing pop
ulation be taken up for consideration.
In the opinion of the committee, no
question urgently requires simultaneous
action by the various states as much as
the problem of adopting means to stem
the cityward tide of population. Over
crowding, it is urged. exacts heavy toll
in disease and death, and private ini-
tiative is inadequate to stem the flood.
In pointing out that there is an I'M
economic drift to the cities. the commit
tee says in part:
Whereas in 1900 there were in the
country only 100 cities of a population of
100000 or more, there are this year at
least 226 cities in that class, their total
population being approximately &,OOo,-
900. The population of these cities has
increased since 1900 41.10 per cent, nearly
three and half times as rapidly as the
rural population.
1t is well known that immigrants
crowd into the cities where their death
rate is usually much higher than among
the same races in rural districts with or
binary health conditions and also higher
than the death rate In the same cities
of native-born Americans. This is in
large measure due to the poverty OF
immigrants and their inability for a long
time to earn sufficient to afford healthy
standard of living.
Most of the western states and even
some of the eastern have millions of
acres of land undeveloped and waiting
cultivation or clearing and retaining.
Despite the fact, however, scores of
thousands of able-bodied immigrants be-
come anchored in cities. On the land,
whether as independent farmers or per-
manent farm laborers. a large proper
ton could produce enough, to maintain
themselves, since their existence would
depend in large measure upon them
selves"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29
WOULD ADVANCE RATES
FROM COAST TO COAST
TranScontinentaI Officials Con
template Increase of Is to
SO Per Cent
(By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Nov. 2S.-Trans-continenta
railroad officials in session in Chicago
are planning an advance in freight rates
between Chicago, New York, Boston
and other eastern points and the Pa
cific coast. The advance contemplates
an increase amounting to % and 80 per
cent, according to a news dispatch in
the Tribune today.
A plan is contemplated which will in
crease the rate between Chicago and the
Pacific coast but also will cut down the
advantage over Chicago which New
York and Atlantic seaboard shippers
have enjoyed in the past. The rates
from Chicago and New York to the
coast heretofore have been the same.
The principal railroad systems In
volved in the plan for readjustment of
the western rates are the Hartman
lines, including the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific; the Hill lines, the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
the Gould lines, including the Western
Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande; the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul. al
though nearly every railroad in the
United States more or less directly will
be affected
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29
OFFICERS OPEN GRAVE
AND FIND LITTLE CUR

PENSACOLA, Fla, Nov. S.-No little
excitement was created mere today when
squad of deputy sheriffs and detec-
tives, following the receipt of a mys-
FERROUS telephone message, located a.
grave at a spot indicated in the resi-
dence section.
The tensity of the situation was in
creased when, about three feet from the
surface, a securely locked trunk was
found. Hurriedly the trunk was broken
open and the officers beheld what APP
peared to be small body, carefully
wrapped in sheet.
The shroud was removed and the as
tonished officers walked away determin-
ed to ascertain who buried the black
cur
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29
RECKLESS CHAUFFEURs
SCORED FROM PULPIT
DR.. John E. White Pleads for
Better Speed Laws; and
Against Pistol Toting

On the subject Thou Shalt Not KILL"
taken from the sixth commandment. DR..
Jonn E. White preached a strong sermon
Sunday night to a large congregation at
the Second Baptist church. Reckless
driving OF automobiles and pistol-toting
came in for most of his attention. He
appealed for better speed regulations to
stop the former, and legislation against
the manufacture and sale, as well as
carrying OF the pistol.
He pointed out that America stands be-
fore the world as the most murderous
of nations, that the south is the most
murderous section of America, and that
Georgias criminal record exceeds that
of Virginia and North Carolina put to-
gether. And Atlanta is in the position
OF rejecting, TO the outside world, the
character of the south. said he.
I'VE don't object TO joy-riding on prop
er roads," said DIR. White, nor to auto
mobile traffic and pleasure anywhere.
We all hope some day TO own an auto
mobile. But we do object to the dis
comfort and danger of the threatening
automobile at street crossings and street
car stops. We protest that automobil
lists are not considerable of men, women
and children. We object to any man who
is not as much of a courteous gentle
man with a steering gear in his hands
as he would be on the streets afoot.
We especially object to so many chauf
feurs who are not keenly sensitive of
human life. and severely instructed In
our speed regulations. 1t doesn't matter
whether he's a negro or a millionaire
IL he's willing to Brighten an old lady
from catching her car. as 1 saw one do
the other day, and then go sputtering
up the street with a smile on his face.
That sort of automobiling in Atlanta
has got to stop. The feeling among the
pedestrians of this city is growing in
tenser every day"
The narrow space between the street
car and the curb stone is the perilous
area said DIR. White, and il is the duty
of the city council to draw line around
il that will protect the pedestrians. The
present law requiring autoists only to
have their machines under control when
approaching a street car that is standing
still is not sufficient, he said. There
ought to be a law making them come TO
a dead stop. same as the street cars
do. He said the majority OF autoists
will be glad TO abide such law, and
those that won't can be made to.
In regard to pistol-toting, DR.. White
said the fathers ought to begin on the
future generation now. and inoculate into
them the idea that to carry a gun is
physical and moral cowardice and an
ungentlemanly act
And then let us go further and put
an embargo on the sale OF pistols" he
said. 1T is a poor business. No neces-
sity exists for IL that the law couldn't
provide for, with proper restraint. We
want a law that will go after the gum
seller as well as the gun-toter."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29
FURTHER TROUBLE IS
EXPECTED IN MEXICO
RevoIutionists Still Determined
and Not Composed of Ban
ditS---AmericanS Killed
tBy Associated Pr.ss.)

Ell PAsO. Tex, Nov. sS-According to
stan correspondents Of the FL Paso Her
aid who returned here last night. there
is every prospect of further trouble in
the affected districts OF Chihuahua and
Durango. They declared that 20 per
cent of the natives in that part OF Mex
leo are against the Disz government and
that those not openly supporting the
revoluti0nists are passive
The correspondents state that the rev.
olutionist army is not made up Of pris-
oners and bandits as has been reported.
but consists OF native railroad employees.
farmers. mechanics and others. The in
surrectos appear TO have plenty OF arms
and ammunition and seem TO have plen-
" OF money behind them.
Both correspondents agree that the in
surrectos have not been conquered. but
only driven into the mountains. Desul-
tory fighting Is expected to continue and
there have been several small fights
within the last few days
W. W. King. a resident OF Gomez Pala-
cio, declares he saw the bodies Of four
Mexican soldiers brought in from the
mountains near Gomez Palico last Fri
day.
Confirmation has been received of a
report that revolutionists tore up rail-
road tracks west Of Parral on Thursday
and prevented repairs being made Con-
frmation was also secured Of the re-
port Of a battle at Manaqulpa, near the
Mormon colonies on Wednesday.
Further news is to the effect that there
was lighting at FL Vale. between Mana
quipa and the Mormon settlement and
the colonists are said to be in great
fear OF an attack.
The American victims Of the rioting at
Parral Monday were:
Edward Lawuon. killed. and ]. H
Story. OF Hartford. Conn, and A B.
waIlender, wounded Lawton's throat
was cut BY bullet and Story was shot
In the right hand