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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
Tho Poor Of arexleo.


The peon laborer who earns 81
cents viii not grudge a third of his
pay TO some unfortunate comrade.
What rich man with an income of
300 a day will with equal readiness
hand out $33 10 a poor fellow mortaI7
IlInow case where poor serving
woman took her little bed and pave II
to a sick woman. and herself slept ON
the hard floor for weeks thereafter. A
poor paralytic comes to my door every
week aud gets aims; il is hard 10 keep
silver quarter in the pocket when a
deformed man crawls by on his hands
and knees How many of these poor
wrefches one sees on rainy afternoons
crawling along through the mud and
dirt of the streets Many say. care
lessly. that these poor people should
be In the hospitals, but they pre-
fer, when able to do so, to
get out into the world of
charity of the fortunate who have
legs to walk on. for few bits of
money to keep them from starvation.
/ know a poor woman. paralyzed from
the knees down, who. with her babe
in her arms. kneels in one of the pub
lie gardens and receives the charity
people bestow on her. IF she gets
twenty-five cents in a day, she lives
well and has little meat and possibly
a drop of coffee. If she gets but six
cents she lives on that, and thanks
heaven In the lottery of life some of
us draw prizes-sound limbs, good
lungs and clear heads, while others,
equally worthy, get the blanks. Lean
not help thinking. as walk the streets
OF Mexico, that it is good for the pros
porous, the comfortably off, to see
these poor cripples these blind men
and women, these strange beings, half
human, who crawl at your feet. Shut
that they exist. The charity which
one puts into plate at church goes
only indirectly to the afflicted Half
the pleasure of doing good is lost.
For years there WAS seen around the
streets here a dog faced lad, who
walked on his hands and feet like an
animal. have not seen him for
months. and perhaps he is dead. The
story went that this strange, fantastic
freak of nature YVES born the son of
well to do parents, who. Disguised at
his horrid shape turned him into the
streets. On chilly winter mornings he
went about in cotton. for he was de
Gently covered. but his expression of
sadness and hunger and WEAKNESS
went straight to the heart. To see
this poor fellow made one ashamed of
being able to walk upright. Those of
us who gave him small coins now and
then do not. l fancy. regret it, now
that he has gone from sight. For the
student of human development this
lad would have been treasure. lie
was human, but he was also british.
Sights such as these make the blood
run chill in the veins. but they also
prompt little acts of charity which
make giver and recipient feel their
common humanity.-City of Mexico
Cor Boston Herald.
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me Toilet in Confederate Day..


With the adjuncts of the female toilet
t:I. blockade made sad havoc. SiIken
Stockings became undreamed of luxuries;
and their accompanying articles of APP
IElreL- which, when first donned by a
bride, must always be composed of
Something cid and something new,
Something borrowed and something blue
fell far short of easy silk elastic. being
lIade Of Knit yarn or cotton. Stockings
d wool or cotton We're the best that the
most luxurious might aspire to- Shoe
strings were made in quantities by the
children on little bobbins. or by plating
or twisting threads together. Ladies'
tuition boots were things almost I'M
Known Shoes were sometimes made of
tiis. plant leather found in the flaps of
iisIlsssd cartridge boxes and of the
discarded belts of the soldiers.
OtteRer they were fashioned of cloth
cat on the pattern of old shoes and sewed
to Ieathern soIes. Crinoline and cOrsets
were constructed OF hickory splints in
let OF wllalebone and steel springs; and
tlse prepared bark of certain kinds of
trees or certain plants furnished the
Indies with a supply of brsids and
switches Then as now, however. the
sSyIe Of arranging the tresses OF the
A-AA4---1 AAG-AA CAlE4AAtSE1 GA4OCA
tie dictateSof fashion feeLly endeavor-
Eng to assert itseH wherever possible; and
at one time even small amount of nat
ural hair easily served the purpose of
covering the crescent shaped pillows on
which 1t was put up. the startling names
of which we've rats and mice
Buttons, pins, buckles, hook and eyes
disappeared by degrees from the face of
tiie southern Confederacy. Some wooden
buttons were turned upon lathes from
maple and similar wood. and there werc
horn buttons here and there; but both
species were for the most part clumsy
and i'll shapen- The whites of the Con-
feIleracy were content with them, while
the slaves skewered their '.gaIluses'' to
their trousers with wooden pins or the
thorns OF the locust.
Combs were made Of horn or wood;
and bristle tooth brushes were replaced
with twiSs OF the dogwood, the black
gum, the sweet gum and the althea.
Tho latter was especially valued as scrv-
ing the double purpose OF brush and
de1tifrice at once Turkey wing fans
and fans Of peacock feathers suppIanted
those Of a more or less artistic and
elaborate design and finish; and many
other articles of use or ornament, dear 10
the feminine heart and not easily attain
able, were In ;eniOusly simulated.-A. G.
Gordon IN TEe Century.
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Causes of Cancer.

DR.. Mackenzie in his little book
about the crown prince and his treat
ment has few pertinent words about
the causes of cancer. He says:
There can be no question that the
determining cause of its appearance is
in many cases an injury, such as a
blow, or condition resulting from an
injury, such as a scar, or the persist
ent application to particular spot of
something that keeps the tissue in
famed and angry, such as n jagged
tooth which chafes the tongue. Work
ers in paraffine and petroleum are pc
culiarly liable to cancer of the parts
which are habitually exposed to the
action of these substances. It is we'll
known that particular form of cancer
which formerly was common enough
in England is now almost extinct,
simply owing to the fact that the cause
which produced it has ceased to exist.
When SCOT commanded good price il
had to be sifted. This operation ma
turally involved much of friction
against the skin. whereby irritating
particles were rubbed into it, and
chimney sweeps cancer was a fire.
quent result. Nowadays it does not
pay TO sift the SCOT, and the disease to
which it gave rise has disappeared
Among the causes of local irrita-
ton heat is certainly ono of the most
active. By far the most common seat
of the malignant disease in men is the
mouth, which is more exposed than
any other part of the body to irritation
by hot substances Every surgeon is
familiar with this fact Whether it be
lower lip, on which, the hot stem of
q CLAW DiDe or the STnoI(lorinor rloDer of
a cigarette has rested day after day, or
u tongue exaspcrated by the frequent
contact of acrid tobacco smoke, or the
mouthpiece of a foul pipe, or made
raw by ardent liquors, or stung and
blistered by fiery condiments. the cause
is essentially the same-viz., the scar
ing of the superficial covering by pro
longed heat In some places. where
hot brasiers are often applied to the
abdomen and thigh, cancer of these
parts is not uncommon, though all but
unknown in either of these situations
elsewhere. M L. Holbrook, NJ. D.,
in Herald of Health.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
The Ewes OF Poets

It would seem, indeed, that it is by the
eye, the eloquent and radiant expression
of the eye, the poet may at once be
known. Everybody recalls the poet eye
of Robert Burns. '.It was large" says
Sir Walter Scott, ''and of cast which
glowed q say literally glowed) when he
spoke with feeling or interest. never
saw such another eve in a human head,
though 1 have seen the most distinguished
men of my time" And says Professor
Walker: '.In his large dark eye the most
striking index of his genius resided"
It was said of the eyes of Chattertcn, the
marvellous boy who persisted In his pride.
that fire rolled at tho bottom of them. ;"
And Moore tells us that Byron's, though
of light gray, were capable of all cx-
trcmcs of expression, from mirth to
melancholy, from benevolence to scorn
or rage.
As for Shelley, his blueeycs were very
large and prominent. They were at
times, when he was distracted, as he
often was in contemplation, dull, and, as
it were, insensible to external objects;
at others they flashed with the fire of
intelligence. In the face of Scott there
was not much. l think, to indicate tho
author of .tMarmion'' and t'Waverley, .
though it wore a general expression of
power and resolutions: but he had fine
eyes-syes so keen that, as his little son
said, Tit was commonly he who saw the
hare Eitting." To refer to Goldsmith,
his eyes were the reGeeming features Of
his face--Gentleman's Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
A Poaeher,s cunning Device.

Along the coast of France, where the
land line is formed by long stretches of
sand banks lying between the high cliff
uplandS, there used to be found innumer-
able rabbits, who made their burrows in
the dry sand above high water mark.
They ian one hole into another, so that
the labyrinth of underground passages
frequently extended for several hundred
feet, rendering it next to impossible to
dislodge the inmates in the usual man
ner by slipping ferret into one of the
holes. For, if this were done, the ferret
would simply drive tho rabbits from one
corner of the network to another, where
they would hide as soon as they evaded
him.
Tie continental poacher, ever prolific
IN devices, knowing that the instinct of
the crab will lead him always to descend
In search of water, elaborated system
of placing a bolt net at the mouth of
every hole he could locate, no matter how
many there might be. Then, taking
dozen OF so Of good sized crabs, he
fastened about half an inch of composite
wax candle to the center of each shell,
fixing them firmly enough for his pur-
Pose by slightly melting the wax at the
bottom, and then pressing it into the
shell. These pieces of wax candles he
obtained from the inn keepers and lodg-
ing house keepers in the adjacent coast
town. he then lighted the candles and
turned one crab into each Of the main
runs
The crab, just taken from a damp
place. Immediately sought the lowest
ground in the burrow, carrying his light
with him. where light had never pene-
trated before. The rabbits, frightened
= - Il
the runs to the mouths of the holes,
sprang out into the bolt nets and hope
lessly tangling themselves in the meshes,
lay painting until the poacher came and
put them out of their misery. More than
100 rabbits have been taken from n single
burrow at one haul, and the practice
proved so destructive to the rabbits that
the French government took the matter
in hand and subjected every offender to
o heavy fine and imprisonment.-The
Argonaut.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
Tho charge of Insult.

The laugh at the twelfth jurylnan who
alleged that he had eleven incor1igible
colleagues is laugh at Columbus and
Calico and Jenner. They all insulted
tho ignorance of their time, and ignor-
ance is generally In the majority The
charge of insult in such circumstances is
generally the cry of the wounded. It is
u confession that the shaft has struck
home. Am arrogant arraigner of other
men and of common courses. a man who
plainly assumes personal superiority aud
merit, is the true Pharisee. who is IN
stantly and instinctively repudiated by
honest men--Harper's Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
Worth Kno,cing.

Mr. W. II. Morgon, merchant, Lake
City, Fla, was taken with a severe Cold,
attended with distressing Cough and
running into Consumption in its first
stages He tried many so-called popu-
lar cough remedies and steadily grew
worse. Was reduced in flesh, had diff
Guilty in breathing and was unable to
sleep. Finally tried DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption and found
and has had no return of the disease.
No other remedy can show SO grand a
record of cures, as DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption Guaranteed to
do just what is claimed for it.-Trial
bottle free at A. G. Vangilder's Drug
Store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
RenewsH Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable
story, the truth of which is vouched for
by the residents of the town: 81 am az
years old, have been troubled with kid
ney complaint and lomeness for many
years; could not dress myself without
help Now am free from all pain and
soreness, and am able to do all my own
homework owe my thanks to Electric
Bitters for having renewed my youth,
and remoqed completely all disease and
PAIN" Try bottle, only 50c. at Van
elders Drug Store.
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Baking Soda and sa1srn.ns.

Bicarbonate of soda is very often put
mp in packages and labeled saleratus, but
this is an adulteration, or rather fraud,
rs real saleratus is the bicarbonate Of
potash and is obtained from entirely a
different source. There is, however. an
easy method of distinguishing between
the two. If some of the suspected sub
stance be sprinl1led pretty thickly over
some loose cotton and saturated with
alcohol and the alcohol set on fire, the
flame will be bright yellow if the SUBJ
stance is baking soda, and purplish If
1t IS real saleratus. -Anti-Adulteratio
journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-19
BuckIen,s Arnica saIve.

The Best Sdlre in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fee
yer Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re-
quired- 1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price,
% cts. per box. For sale by A. C. VAN.
GLIDER, Druggist lian4-ly.
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Our 1Tule Tnde.

Tbs largest market for the purchase
and sale OF mules Is ST. Louis. where the
trade reaches g, 600 006 a year. Atlanta
comes next with trade of 1900, 600
Chicago Herald
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Notice % Tresnassers.

A Ii persons are hereby warned not
"a to tFespass upon my lands in Lewis
and Robinson districts, either by hunt
ing, fishing, nuttipg. or in any other
way All violatoss OF this notice will
have the penalties of the-law enforced
against i. them G. sEHoE-
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Changed Hands.
PRINTING.

n Ii. Glasses and descriptions of CONNER
"A ciaI Printing executed at this ONCE. in
good style and at prices as low as Is done any
where. Poster work Speciality. Send your
orders to this office, and we viii guarantee
Satisfaction. No disappointnients-
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LAKE ICE

TyHB undersigned is prepared to fur
i nish the people of this town with
pure lake ice, delivered at their houses
in quantities to suit Ohio river ice fur
nished when desired. Your orders So
licited- FRANK STORTZ.
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"VanGILDER's DRUG STORE, "


the quality anything mucge
SPONGE TOP BOTTLES here Also bottles filed with
h same.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-09
Good Code for Growing Girls,

1t Is more important to train girls to
use the tooth brush five times day--at
night and morning, and after each meal
to give them crusty bread, that they may
learn to cat slowly and thoroughly, TO en-.
force the charcoal and safo dentifrices,
than to classify and dissect plants or in
sects for the microscope. The little indi-
gestions from eating fast, or from reading
while they eat. should be corrected by
doses of liquid magnesia, for acidity, or
the citrate of magnesia for bilious and
torpid conditions. Danish books and pa.
pers from tho table at meals, unless to
read out an item or two Of interest to give
zest to the general chat. Teach young
folks to be entertaining at the table, and
welcome joke and fun there and every
where out Of church.
Check nothing but Ill nature, and let
this relieve itself by smart, snappish fit,
rather than suppressed peevishness for a
day. There Iro sound medical reasons for
this advice, in allowing the nervous
charge to-pass off and healthy reaction
to take its place. 1t ought to be great
cause of gratitude to know that most Of
the i'll humor in the world is physical, and
that 1t passes off with rest, If over tired.
or by reaction from sudden shock or stir
ring up, when the nerves snffer from con.
hnement. This Is why children are SO an.
gelically better after an outbreak and
smart slippering, and why girls will get
up after hysteric crying spells, fresh as
June roses after showers. Change of in
terest and place might prevent tho
naughtiness and crying In both cases. We
are meant to be happy. satisfied and at
ease, and nature rises up for her rights
when the strain goes beyond safety
Shirley Dare.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-09
A Flea for Better Ventilation.

The Iowa state board Of health. In its
recent bulletin, concludes that few who
have heard of the BLACK Hole Of Cal
cutta" know the terrible facts that have
rendered the place famous and made II
the synonym Of all that Is to be dreaded
from foul air and overcrowding At
o'clock on tho evening of June 20. 1866,
Jag prisoners. officers and men, black and
white, and Of different naticnalitics, were
thrust into room eighteen feet square
with two windows on one of the foul sides
heavily barred with iren-giving to each
inmate forty cubic feet of space. In ten
hours l23 were found dead--only twenty
three being alivel
Another instance Is where, in 17i2, the
high constable of Westminster, London,
committed twenty eight persons to prison,
where they wero thrust by the keeper
into hole six feet square and five feet
ten inches high-the windows being close
shut. In very short time four Of the
inmates were suffocatedl
These facts show the poisonous effects
OF the human breath-or Of respired air.
Professor Brown -Sequard has recently
made somo experiments that are not only
highly interesting, but show why the OK
pired air of man and animals Is 80 deadly.
From the condensed vapor Of the expired
air he produced liquid so poisonous that
when injected beneath the skin of rabbits
1t produced almost instant death. This
poison he found to be not microbe but
IN alkaloid. His conclusions are that the
expired air Of all animals contains poi
son more fatal than carbonic acid. II Is
we'll for people to understand these facts.
They cry aloudtfor better ventilation and
purer air-for less crowding In home and
church and hall and school room.-Scien-
titic American.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-09

Tho Nina conceptions Of tho condition
after death arc confused. The bechoe 90
below into the city of tho dead, where
they have to die nine times, or according
to some, as many times as tho man has
lived years on the earth, and are supposed
to lead lives like the earthly lives. They
take with them their earthly utensils and
possessions In the form Of shadows, and
cannot expect to attain higher state o.
wealth than they did on the earth; there
fore living mon accumulate as much
wealth as possible, in order that they may
take the shadow of it with them The
bechoc OF wicked men return to the corpse
In the grave, and are crushed by the earth
Men who have no male issue are turned
after their manifold deaths into night
moths; those who are murdered, into
locusts. The boChOc Of murdered men and
suicides are assigned separate abodes from
the other bechoe.
At last the earth will die, or sink Into
the sea, and there will be new earth.
Then the bechOe of tho cats will let the
bechoe of the men go over the gulf into
the new earth, the edge of sword serv.
Ing as bridge. Any one who, In life, has
causelcssly tormented or killed cat will
be thrown by them into the abyss. There.
fore every person is afraid to go near cats
TO annoy them. Only those also who have
had issue can 60 over, while others be.
come butterflies or something of the kind.
The bechoo of children are carried over by
their mothers, and go to God. HI. SuEder.
mann In Popular Science Monthly.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-09
The SmalIpox in Mexico,

There is one popularity about the Mcx-
lean people which do not recollect ever
having seen In print, and that is their ut
ter disregard of tho disease so dreaded b.
hmericans--smallpox / have been in
Durango several years. md 1t Is quito
common there to sec children In IN ad-
vancod stage of the disease playing on the
streets with perfectly healthy children.
To say that was astounded but family
expresses my feelings when l first went
TO that country, but soon learned that
the disease was considered IN especial
dispensation of Providence for the clean
sing away of the wickedness Of humanity.
and those who pass through 1t arc consid-
cred as among the purified.
Smallpox Is not nearly so virIlent In
Mexico as we have II In this country, and
there Is no such thing rs vaccination
thought of by native Mexicans. could
never find any vaccine virus there, and
had to send TO tho States for 1t. Ameri.
cans take tho precaution Of vaccinating,
and can call to mind but ono fatal case
outside Of natives during my stay In Mex
ico-that one young English officer who
fell victim 20 tho disease short timo
after arriving in the country. II there Is
such place as pest house In Mexico
never heard of it.-Globe- Democrat
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-06-09
The Women OF CAPRI.

They have strange way in this littlo
place, found. Of bctrothing tho girls to
the young men before the latter leave tho
town. AS very few OF them arc able to
either read or write, long years pass by
without word from the lover or ''spoza"
reaching the patient girl ut homo. 1t is
not rare thing to meet here young cou-
pies who were engaged for ton, twelve or
even fifteen years before fortune was
sufficiently favorable to allow them to
marry. Ono cannot soon get rich on
thirty cents day, and that Is the wages
of n man In Capri. This Is. perhaps. tho
reason why so many men leave tho Island,
leaving the women at homo to tako caro-
Of tho vineyards and olive groves.
II Is very picturesque scene, these
women with their gay costumes, rich COM
plexions, bright, flashing eyes, at work in
the fields, or leading their flocks Of gonts
up the mountain side to pasture. Their
feet arc always bare, and become 80 hard
that 1t Is simply wonderful what they can
endure. They will walk over tho ronds
covered with sharp, flinty stones. climb
the rugged mountain sides. and be quite
Us comfortable ns II walking on the soft
est carpet. in fact, for hardness, their
feet resemble those Of tho western girl,
who, when told by her mother That there
was red hot coal under her foot, drawled
out, without moving an inch, (which
foot Is 1t under, mammyf" Yet tho feet
Of these women are by no means mis-
shapen. but, on the contrary nro perfect
models for an nrtist.--Woman.