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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-07-23
A MATTER OF BUSINESS.
A Clam State Man Kills n Robber for
Per Cent of the snvinP.

A Clam State Man Kills n Robber for 10
Per Cent of the Savings.
We were staging from Anton Chico
TO Sante fe, and there were six passen-
gers, all men. Every man was armed
and one might safely Judge that every
one would fight if driven to it. One of
the passengers was man from Rhode
Island, who said his name was Hast
ings, and after we were fairly started
he began:
Gentlemen, have a proposition TO
make. If you accept it ! hope il will
be to your benefit. If you do not.
then NO harm has been done. We are
quite likely TO meet with road agent
before we get through. If so, how
many of you will fightF'
ms was putting it pretty broad, but
seeing that no disrespect was meant.
one of the passengers looked over the
crowd and replied:
on" '''''- ''''' Nc ue Pehoeo
Yes, you think so, but when the
pinch comes, the case Will be differ
ent- I've been through the mill. and
I've seen man with two reyolyers o,o
right down into his boots and submit
TO be kicked" "
What is your proposition7n
Well, I'm about dead broke. I
want to engage to defend this crowd
1or lO per cent. of the money it is car
How do you meant"
Why. if stopped, I'll agree to kill
or run Off the chap who does it. fl do
you pay me 10 per cent. If don't Won
pay me nothing. I'll leave it 10 each
man TO size up his pile"
You must think yourself a very
brave and smart man, remarked one
of the others.
'.Oh. no, I'm not at all stuck on nv
self. This is a matter of business.
guarantee to do thus and so. / want
you to do the same"
We chatfed him for while. but see
ing how good 1atured he was. finally
agreed that if we were stopped and he
killed or drove the robber off we'd
come down with the per cent. de
manded. Stages had been robbed ON
that route, but we had no fear, and it
mad come along to 5 o'clock D. m. and
we were about to cross creek run
ming through a chaparral when a
voice cried 'sHaltr' and the driver
pulled up.
Egadi but here's the agent -,
chuckled Hastings, who had been doz-
ing for am hour. Remember the
terms, gentlenen-1O per cent. if /
save your boodler'
Throw down your gum" shouted
the voice, and we heard the driver
comply.
Now get down and unhitch your
horses from the stageI'
The driver was swinging himself
down when Hastings opened the rioht
hand door and jumped out. revolver
IN hand. As tough a looking chap as
YOU ever saw stood at the horses
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A ramou. Collection.

In Professor Edward S. Morse,s fa-
nous collection of Japanese pottery.
which has been shipped from Salem to
the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
there are more than 1000 different
specimens, embracing many of rare
beauty, and the collection Comprises
the largest and finest ceramic art In Ja-
pan-as far as it can be shown in fai-
ence and hard pottery-believed to ex-
lst IN the world. The accumulation is
the result of years of patient search,
ana nfty-two provinces in Japan are
represented in the various departments
OF the collection. In many cases the
development in the manufacture of
pottery in each province is shown
chronologically. This grand collec-
ton Is monument 10 that indefatiga-
bic industry of Professor Morse with
which hundreds of his friends in Maine
are so well acquainted. = Lewiston
Journal.
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heads, a double Darreied shotgun IN
his hands. and he yelled at Hastings
as he saw him drop. The latter fell on
his hands and knees. crept swiftly un-
der the vehicle, used one OF the wheel
horses TO cover him, and while the
robber was peering about to locate
him, and at the same time warming
us not TO leave the coach, the Clam
state man rose up and sent a bullet
plumb through the fellows head. BE
ran forward TO finish his work, but the
robber was as dead as herring.
Gents, 10 per cent, If you pleasel'
said Rhode Island, as we piled out of
the stage, ''and whatever find on the
body is mine"
He got two revolvers, ashotgun. two
gold witches and $40 in money, and
we paid him about 5000 more. We felt
fiat enough, too, can assure you, as
we had been given no show. Hastings
stripped the body, dragged it out of
the road, and took his place in the
coach with the remark;
Hope you gents are perfectly sat
istied with my work, and If you want
to contract for my services the rest of
the way, III put 'em in at per cent,
which is an nextremely low rate. New
York Sun.
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No shovr for n Thief.

Jack Sheppard, by the way. wa.
graduated from Harvard college TWEEN
tty-hve years ago, since which time h,
has been engaged necessarily in Grim,
or in eXpiation of it. He is a fin,
looking man, with well bred man
ner.
- ean,o from Boston a year ago.
he said in court, Ito try to make al
honest living. got work on the Bow
cry at $6. so a week, but the detective
found me out and l had to leave. Dur
ing the Centennial l bought som,
photographs to sell, but 1 was a ssus
picious character and had TO get ava,
frorl the city. could not do homes
w~iil unmolested. Do you blame u.
for being thievesa"
Tho judge said he was always will
ing to help man reform, but under
the law he was compelled to sentenc,
the speaker to five years in the peni
tentiary.-New York World.
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Journalist, seport.r. Eaitor.

AT the recent annual dinner of the
PIttsburg Press club, George S. We'll
shons (St; Geo.), one of the best known
and wittiest newspaper men of the
state, got off the following in response
to the toast ''The Reporter
There are three grand divisions, y
Mr. Welshons said, lin newspaper
work---journaEsts, reporters and edi-
tors. Speaking more accurately, there
are three stages of development. a
journalist Is a calf reporter. He is a
reporter, IN the miniature tadpole
stage, when his head is so big that il
takes all the rest of his person to shove
1t around II he is lucky, by and by
he becomes a areporter. After report
ers legs wear out they make an editor
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-07-23
In case of Fire.

The old saying, I'm time of peace
prepare for war" is as applicable in
regard to fires as to the movements of
armies. Every family who is living in
a house, from the sleeping rooms of
which there is but one way of egress.
and that near the chimney, is running
a terrible risk. Double windows are
a source of comfort in cold weather
but what if they are SO solidly nailed
on as to imprison the occupants in case
of fire! Often, however, the windows
are so far from the ground as to afford
no safe way of escape a fire escape
or ladder securely fastened should be
within reach of all rooms not acces-
sible in more than one way from the
inside, or at least something in the
nature of rope ladder or that could
be used for one should be kept inside,
with arrangements for securely fasten-
ing 1t at short notice. One may live
in house years without any need of
such precautions, or they NAV be
needed within a week. . Lewiston
journal.
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Dlnerenec In 81. Cord co,,on

When the sewing machine came
into the market as the great thread
consumer, unreasoning in its work
and ineNorable in its demands for me
chanical accuracy. six cord cotton
had to be made i'll place of the old and
rougher three cord, If being much
smoother. AS thread numbers were
already established, they were not aI.
tered for the new article, and No &C
six cord and No. GO three cord were
left identical in both size and number.
10 effect this the six cord has to be
made of yarn twice as fine as that de
manded in making the three cord va.
riety. The No. 60 six cord is made OF
SIN strands of No. 12O yarn. The three
cord spool cotton is tho same number
as tie yarn is made of. Six cord spool
cotton is always made from yarr
double its number Thread is a simple
thing, but, simple as it is, there are
1000 kinds of it and each kind goe.
through hundreds of different pro
cesscs.-St. Louis Republic.
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NT MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY JULY % 1890

-. s.-5 LIZ. -:sz -s=z- ---.-- - = 49,
YOU 'nowz-thc extreme removal from
the pdpole-is the bullfrog. too stiff
TO 1ftnp. too old and tough 10 eat.
whftflst sits on the bank and bellows.
Thatfs an editor.
~ tie old days the editor called a
maIift chicken thief; nowadays the re-
poiIF nnds the feathers in his back
yaipj Inc weapon of the old time edi-
tor vas the epithet; that of the modern
reporter IS the evidence. What the
editor used to assert the reporter now
proyes.
IT the people who complain of
VIII the reporter writes about them
wouA only consider what he does not
wl11e about them, they would shrine
hIil',l the friendliest corner of their
hear+& The waste baskets in daily
neMflaper Office of any town do more
TO See, ITS citizens in good repute than
any other. agency, excepting the fear
of TIE Las and the hereafter. Not all
that the reporter writes is truth. He
is not infallible himself, aud those
wlio4re the sources of his information
are tnuch less So There are very
mary men who cannot tell straight
stort There are Others who do not
try The man who tells the story
% Otsfc fe crested
party. BE has a purpose to serve in
metamorphosing this or suppressing
that. The reporter has no desire ex-
cept to get the truth accurately and
completely, and TO write it quickly and
entertainingly.
'.All men do not love the reporter.
and am glad of it. The fear and ha-
tired of bad men is as chaplet above
his brow. Ii is the assurance of his
honesty to his badge of honor as a SER
want of truth. If the time ever comes
when all men love the reporter. it will
be time to bury him. He will have
forgotten his mission, betrayed his trust
and shamed the noble fellowship of
men who have made the white cross of
the Pittsburg reporter the decoration
of a legion of honor. Exchange.
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An HeIre.s in Chicago.

Chicago has some mean men in her
directory. One of them is lawyer
who holds forth in an Office in the
Tacoma building. The other day one
OF the scrub women who polish the
floors over there received letter from
''the old country" In it was a money
order for $50, sent by her sweetheart.
She did not understand it exactly. and
she appealed to the lawyer in question
to interpret it for her. He told her
what it was, and then, through the
eXuberance of Chicago attorneys
imagination, he told the elevator bows
that she had been left a legacy Of
S3O, 600. During the rest of the day
the elevator men and janitors made
love to the scrub woman, much to her
amazement, and they are still under
the impression that she is an heiress
and and IS pretty good girl TO tie up to
Meanwhile the lawyer is chuckfine.
Chicago Herald.
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Giant Worms.

The work of earthworms, in the op-
erations of nature, is a very important
one. Darwin has shown us that they
are constantly occupied in making the
soil more mellow by perforating it
with their galleries, and that they en-
rich 1t by collecting in these subterra-
mean passages earth that has been sub
ject to change in their intestines, and
also leaves, which have fallen to the
ground and are dragged into
their retreats. But if these little
beings can accomplish such won
ders, it would be interesting to
know whether the Megascolides
Australis, an earthworm of Au-
stralia, has like mission. This crea-
ture is of the size of an ordinary adder.
and at least six feet long.
a writer in La Nature saws that it is
usually to be found on the banks of
small rivers. though it occasionally
seeks the open country, where one NAV
come upon it by pulling up a stump
or upturning the earth. 1t is not an
easy matter to drag this worm from
the winding galleries which form its
retreat. 1t glides about the sinuous
passages with great rapidity, initiating
its anterior and posterior extremities
at will, and thus bracing itself against
the walls, which it renders slimy bv n
secretion from its own body. Its moist
substance slips easily through the
-hesnfls .IVllinhl-rr would retain n and
when once fastened to the adhesive
walls of its homo, it can ONLY be re-
moved by breaking its length in two.
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THE STAMP CLERKS Lor.
Queer Orders He Is Required TO FIJI
While Serving Uncle Sam.
EsT OIn,,II @L...I- - 4,

Queer Orders He Is Required To FIJI
While Serving Uncle Sam.
Il should think you have pretty
easy time in here"
We'll, pretty easy"
You don't have much to do. Just
stand at the window, count out stamps
and take in the money"
That's all, save the little item of
making correct change every time"
much"
No, not much, though sometimes
half dozen people, al in a hurry.
want stamps at the same moment"
Yes, to be sure. You must be busy
at times, say early in the day, or at
Christmas and Easter But most peo-
pie could do the work with a little
practice"
''Yes, practice is a great thing. but
I've been a stamp clerk for ten years,
and yet yesterday made a mistake in
counting out small number of one
cent stamps. Still, practice is great
thing"
well, 1 should like to have your
place. that's all. 1t can't be very hard
TO sell postage stamps"
Il wish you had 1t, as you think it
is so easy. But, should you try it a
Nay. you HliSut Lulnk OluerenIly.
This conversation between two ac-
quaintances occurred in city postof-
flee some time ago. The change which
brought about a new administration
removed the old postoffice clerk and
installed another man in his place.
The new clerk entered upon his du-
ties with a feeling that selling stamps
was a diversion suited to his genial
temperament He hadn't been at the
window an hour before he was sadder
and a wiser man.
A woman came up and wanted
thirteen cents worth of twos and
ones, half and half, seven postal
cards and a package of two cent
wrappers She had nothing smaller
than s. bill.
When the clerk had recovered from
the temporary slow fever into which
this episode threw him there was a
crowd waiting outside, and all he
could hear was:
Twenty-Five cents worth of twos,
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Newspaper. In Innan.

Probably nothing better illustrates
the great progress which Japan has
made in the last quarter of a century
than the 475 newspapers which are
now published in the empire. Sixteen
of these are now issued daily in Toxic.
Each officer of the government Is
obliged to be subscriber 10 the gov
ernment organ ''Kwampo." In 1885
the 4O3 newspapers consisted of s2 po-
lltlcal, military, 116 scientific, sS
trade, 3S governmental, 81 court, %
religious, 26 medical and 5 literary
Journals.-New York Tribune.
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The Astor.. sevro. war..

There is great deal of sevres ware
owned III New York, though little is
now sold. One of the finest sevres
dinner sets in the country belongs to
the AstOr family. 1t contains 200
pieces and was bought by John Jacob
Astor many years ago. II cost 81, 600.
but connoisseurs say it would sell for
S25, 900 at the present time. The dec.
grafton IS simple but very effective. It
has a border of the rare turquois bIne
shade, edged with gold. Mrs. Hicks
Lord has some very valuable sevres
and so, seldom as lie entertains has
Jay Gould.-New York Letter.
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Ambldexterity.

The sword exercise in which 1he
roman soldier was practiced trained
MN TO use the weapon as skillfully in
the left hand as III the right, so that
IN case of injury to either arm he
could still defend himself. The pains
then taken to make AN efficient soldier
should now be taken to make of every
youth an efficient workman. This can
be done only by giving to the left
right.
There arc many kinds of work in
which the laborer finds a decided ad-
vantage from an occasional shifting of
hands. 1t rests him almost as much
as II would TO stop working. This is
the case where the strain comes mostly
ON one hand, as it does III using the
noe. 1t IS much the same with the use
OF the spade, the rake and the pitch
fork, the ak, the saw and the hammer.
Again, there are places where two
can work together more comfortably
and more effectively if one of them
can use the implement lefthanded.
by lefthanded use is understood the
putting the left hand forward upon
the handle of the AK, the hoe. the
shovel, and so ON.
In Telling a tree two choppers can
work together ii they stand on the
same side OF the tree. To stand to-
gsther they must chop one lefthand-
ea, the other righthanded. Were
they to stand ON opposite sides of the
Tree It would be difficult TO tell Just
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His Residence.

Sentiment and poetry are good in
their place, but the best of things are
sometimes misapplied. Good rhetoric
may be very poor history.
Where did George Washington
live, after he retired from public life1"
asked the teacher.
No one seemed to know.
WAS ii at Washington or Mount
Vermont" suggested she.
Still there was no reply.
Come children" she insisted,
L know, tteacher!" piped up the
smallest scholar. He lived in the
hearts of his countrymen. ."-Harper's
Young People.
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The Large.t RookInr s,nne.

Buenos Ayres seems 10 have the
largest rocking stone" yet discovered.
1t is situated on the slope of the noun
tain of Tandil, in the southern part of
the province, and measures 90 feet
long by is feet broad and 24 feet high.
It's bulk is 5000 cubic feet, and il
weighs at least 25 tons. Nevertheless,
1t is SO touchily poised that single
person can set it rocking. When the
wind blows from the southeast the
stone, which is pyramidal in form,
Hf'tf,eis to and fHo-nn- ite foundation
- the branches of a tree.-New
Yatk Telegram.
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where the tree would fail. 80. TOO. IN
shoveling pile OF dirt, two persons
can work together until the last shov-
elful IS taken up if they use the shovel
IN different hands; otherwise they
cannot
This training belongs to the home.
II IS most successfully given in the
early years of the cliad; but as each
tool and implement Is first put into
the hands of a boy he should be care
fully practiced IN the different WAYS of
handling it. Youths Companion.
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While worlmen were engaged in
telling a huge old hickory tree on the
property of Mrs. j. II. Ogden. in
Springfield, Pa, they came upon a
lock of hair deeply lmbedded in its
trunk. An auger hole had been bored
into the heart of the gigantic hickory
and the curly lock placed therein. The
hole had then been plugged up. This
strange find is considered a relic of s,l-
perstition. Old residents take il TO be
the last remnant of one of BLACK
Jake'sn spells, who employed this GU
rious remedy 10 cure Ats. The old ne
gro lived in Darby about seventy years
ago, and his numerous queer whims
have been often told. A series of
poems by Halliday Jackson some wears
|hgo pictured his mysterious heaiings.
washington Star.
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A TrIturator for GrinaInr D,r,.

The Electrical Engineer states that
atriturator for grinding drugs has been
ingeniously fitted up to work by an
electric motor, to save labor in chem
lists shops or for drug grinders. Tho
mortar or mortars to the number re-
quired are made to revolve by the
electric motor, and very heavy por-
celain pestle hangs inside, the neces-
sary grinding being assured by the re-
voiylDg OF the heavy pestle by friction
against the inside of the mortar.
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A Weather Pron,,.,

Scientist-So you have followed the
seas all your life7 / presume You are
a thorough meteorological proenosti-
Gator by this time.
Jack Tarre-A which7
Al mean you can easily foreteIl
a gale, can't you1"
Easy 'nough, sir. When Won see
the captain dancin' around am yeliin'
out forty orders at onct, you kin Jest
make n up y'r mind thet it's going ter
oiow-"-New York Weekly.
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Not the same P.r,v

Pastfg Ito hired boy)-So I have
caught you stealing apples out Of the
Hired Boy-Yes, parson, / own up.
Don't you know, Thomas. that when
you steal you commit a heiaous sin7
Moreover, there is a being who sees ali
we do, before whom even 1 bow NV
head with fear and trembling. Do vof,
know who meanF'
Your wife, 1 supposep.-Texas Sift-
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A GhastIy Necklace.

The wife of w. E. Curtis. of Wash
lngton, Is the possessor of a most un-i
canny ornament in the shape Of a
necklace made Of human eyes. The
eyes were taken from Peruvian mum,
mies, polished and placed in their
-a...esant sattin9S-C Chicago Herr
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please. @FacKage posIa carus. :
Dollars worth stamps, quick" tsHop9
muchll that takel Coin TO Canady. ~
sNuf stamps on that, heyan .sGimme
two twos and three ones, will you7 /
am in a hurry"
The young man nervouSly counted
out stamps, weighed packages. CON
suited the printed shcedule for rates
in foreign countries and perspired
freely. Cold ehills ran down his back.
for he had a vague idea of giving
somebody seventy-five-cents worth of
stamps for fifty cents, and of selling a
package of postal cards for half price
Ehe crowo at the window did not di-
minish, but grew.
A man finally came up in a great
hurry and threw down a handful of
loose silver and nickels and coppers
and asked for
'.Twenty-seven ones, sixteen cents
worth OF twos, two and a half pack
ages of postal cards, and the rest In
twos and one cent wrappers"
The new clerk choEed down a big
word or two, mopped his brow nerv-
ously with sheet of stamps, and be
gan counting out a package of stamp
ed envelopes, government official size.
How many did you say y9''y
How many what r.
Envelopes? / don't want any en-.
yelopes. Twenty-seven ones, sixteen
cents worth of twos, two and one-hali
packages of postal cards and the rest
IN twos and one cent wrappers. That's
what | want and in big hurry, too.
Got to catch train"
Sixteen cents worth of twos9''
Yes, l said so"
"Oh, well, all-all right There you
are. And-and how many onesG"
Twenty seven. Come, hurry up. -
Twenty-seven; twenty seven. Five
times five is twenty-five and two is
seven-twenty-seven. Twenty-seven.
And now, the rest in envelopes, did
you sayf'
"Envelopesl 1 don't want any en-
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A FLORAL cbaneleop.

!, A novel flower has been found at
the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. This
noral chameleon has a faculty of
changing its color during the day. In
the morning it is white, when the sun
Is at its zenith it is red and al nioht Il
IS blue. The red, white and blue
flower grows on tree about the size
9i a guava tree, and only at noon
does 1t give out any perfume Chica-.
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COmpOseu IN tiicle1-ll-g-llll, -l,rllllI
like appendages of the pitcher plant,
sundews, venus fly traps and various
insect eating plant than they are in
open air, there is body of scientists
who deny that the plants themselves
have any agency in the matter. or ex-
ercise any vital power in capturing the
Hrey that falls in their nets. DR.. Mo-
stedt is one of these skeptics. He ia
vors the idea that the decomposition
of the imprisoned insect is owing to
chemical action simply, and that the
effect is produced in almost exactly
the same way that person is poisoned
by coming III contact with a poisonous
plant.-St. Louis Republic.