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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04
Lamp Shade.

Ono of the large brass frames for n
piano lamp is covered with white net
gathered ut the top and bottom. The
same quantity of black net with large
polka spot is prepared for the outside
covering by outlining each circle with
red silk in Kens;ngton stitch, and fill
ing the inside OF the circle with French
knots in red on the upper half of each.
and small gold and silver spangles on
the lower This outside covering is
gathered and put ON over the white
and tied at the top with red ribbons
long enough to form rosette on one
side. Over the bottom put frilI of
Valencienncs lace, to support one made
by cutting plain black net into strips,
and running upon one side five or six
rows of red baby ribbon. The upper
edge is turned and gathered with n
narrow heading. New York Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

A high school teacher in Ken
nebec (Me.) town sits young ladies
of seSen teen on the floor as a pun
ishpept, and aids, them by tripping
when-rehictant TO take the assigned
posaien.5 fin stAs
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04
Always the Liver.

More men die, according to the dec.
inration of Boston physician, from
taking pills, pellets and tonics for their
Ever than would die If not a single
remedy of any sort Were known to-
medicine. Ninsty-fivo per cent. of the
patent cures are of no use whatever
Detroit free Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

wing woman in the West
: q cnltivates alarm of eighty
aefes; She does most of the work
nslSeit' and last year cleared over
. ~ .1903q Qs dollars besides paying
a a. eTnshses Of keeping and clothing
lor herself and Young woman ser,
want aud the cost of new stock and
machinery.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04
EsIsclsscn-s ArT,.c;, Smrye

The Best Sgsre in the world for Cats,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fee
yer Sores, letter, Chapped Hands. Chill
biaInS, Cor1s, and all Skin EruptiOns,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re-
qIIiredl It is guaranteed TO give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price,
% cts. per box. For sale by a. C. VAN
GLIDER, Druggist. [ian4-1Y.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04
What ia the Use

to ray S1OO when you can buy the
Scotch sarsaparilla for so cents per bot
tie, so doses. Scotch Little Liver Pills,
% cents For sale by A. C. VanGilder.
Why Pay SLIGO
when you can buy the SCorcH SAEsAPA-
nILLA for so cents PER bottle, 80 loses
at TanGilder's drug store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

The people of the United States
consume tYenty-eight out of every
100 ponds of sugar made in the
world, and thirty pounds of coffee
in every 100.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

The Pennsylvania Railroad has
dccided,to abandon all kinds of adj
vertising, except that in newspapers.
The passenger department has SEN
sibty reached this conclusion after
trying all methods for the past two
years
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

A savant estimates that the num-
beg, of persons drowned in the
various waters since the creation is
I56 600 .OOO.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

The semi-official press of Berlin
denies that Emperor William, of
Germany, is afflicted with cancer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

lie who loves to read and knows
how TO reflect, has laid by per-
petual feast for his old age.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

FcrMelerias LivecTrou-
Bic, or Indigestion, use
BROWN IRON BITTERS
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

Attention IS directed 20 the recently inaug-
urtted through train service between CoIuin-
bus, Ohio, aud Charleston, w. Va. Train
leaves Charleston. at 6:3O n M and runs
through solid to- Columbus. Train leaves
Columbus at II - n. ia. and runs through ss,I-
ID 70 Charleston. These trains run daily and
make good connections ut both Colunib bus
and Charleston. An other trains run eI,,IIy
except sunday. M0ULTON HOUK,
" ~ CENT Manager Gent Pasf sse Af,s-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

PRec Norfolk and Western rail
road Company has made an offer to
Tie city-of Baltimore for its stock
in the Western Maryland railroad.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

fall flesh is grass mummies must
be hay.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

An Attractive
Combined POCKET ALMANAC
and MEMORANDUM HOOK
Advertising BROWNS IRON BITTERS
the best Tonic, given away at Drug and
general stores Apply at once.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

II you feel weak
and al worn out take
EBRoEN's IRON BITTERs
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04
Scotch Little LIVER Pills

never nauseates, never grippe. Cure
headache, bi.iousncss, vertigo, and n
specific for constipation. p cents per
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

ScoIcu s4EsAR4RILIA, so cents per bot.
tie, so doses. For sale by A. c. Van
Glider. dec3-ly.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

Rough on the old man-Hii
wrinkles.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

A freak of fashion-The Dude:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04
Ohio River Railroad
Time Gard.

Taking efTeet1August ~. 1899. Passenger rr4ins
viii rs follows. Central lime
All trains daily except those marked thus 4 which
do not run Sunday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

NoTE-The arrival mt Louisville and South
for train y o. Is via. Cincinnati (Newporf)
Trains from I.ynchburg, Lexington, Va.
DanVilte, Va, etc., connect at Clifton Forge.
Central Standard Time: West of Clifton
Forge. Eastern Standard Time: East OF CLIFF
ton Forge.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

Nos. . and /, daily, +. +. V. Limited, run
solid between New York and Cincinnati with
Testlbuie Sleeper between Washington and
Nos. aud 2 have Pullman Sleepers he
tween Cincinnati and Washington. Solid
train between Cincinnati and Old Point
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-03-04

Through Tickets and Baggage Checked 20
all points: For rites or Information, address
W. J. ROBINSON, q. r. A, Parkcrsbur;s.
4: J. DANDY, a. q. p. A., Parkersburg.
w. III. OSBORN, s. T. A. Pomeroy, Ohio.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
A STORY OF THE DAY.
Robert E. Lees Reasons for Joining the Con-
federacy.

Robert f. Lee, who was born Jan.
10, 1907, did not go into the war with
any enthusiasm. He was, on the con-
trary, very much opposed to an appeal
might be settled without bloodshed.
When his state resolved to abandon
the union, he was placed in most
perplexipg situation, but he conceived
it his duty to stand by Virginia and
oppose the federal government. In a
letter to his sister, who was the wife
OF an officer in the national army, lac
expressed his opinions in these terms:
"We are now in a state OF war which
will yield to nothing. The whole south
is i'm a state of revolution into which
Virginia, after a long struggle, has been
drawn; and though 1 recognize no ne
cessity for this state OF things, and
would have forborne and pleaded to
the end for a redress of grievances, real
or supposed, yet in my own person |
have to meet the question whether l
should take part against my native
state. With all my devotion to the
union, and the feeling of loyalty and
duty of an American citizen, / have
not been able to make up my mind to
raise my hand against my relatives,
my children, my home. | have, there
fore resigned my commission in the
army, and save in defense fmy native
state-with the sincere hope that my
poor services may never be needed
hope | may never be called on to draw
I he sword ~
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
The Foolish Girl.

When will the American girl begin to
learn that an American husband is
worth a hundred miserable excuses
who wear sickening smile and cheap
brass-mounted, breech-loading title?
The latest victim to the craze to marry
anything which could afford lions and
tigers on a coat of arms and swear III
a high foreign key, is Cecil Watkins,
Kentucky heiress, who became infatu-
ated with one Jamando Herberto La
vero. Themusic of that name fell upon
her ear like the ravishing strains OF
band OF angels, and she married him.
OF course he had noble blood. 1t
fairly gushed through his veins. He
had SO much oft that he was compelled
to put on leeches to keep it from clog
ging on his delicate brain, Vast estates
had his father in Barcelona, with a
peanut orchard in Seville. Mr.. Lave
ro sold off what visible real estate
there was, pocketed the cash, lied in a
regular aristocratic way to his wife,
then kissing her rapturous goodbye.
left with another woman
| How much better it would have been
had Miss Watkins married a true
blooded American. She could havs
found plenty of these, and not anglo
maniacs or brainless cads, either
But Jamando Huberto Lavero could
call the turn, because he had "vasi
estates in Barcelona" and his pa was
a duke or a count, or something o
that sort. A man with as little sens,
GO Ward MacAllisrer would have beer
preferable.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
The Oldest Kissing Story.

The oldest kissing story is probably
that OF the Hindoo herdsman who
was walking along the road with an
iron kettle on his back, live goose in
one hand and in the other cane and
a rope by which he was leading a goat.
Presently "a woman Joined him and
they walked along together until they
reached dark ravine, when she
shrank back, declaring she was afraid
he might kiss her by force there in the
dark. The man explained that by
reason of his burdens he could not
possibly do so.
"Yes,' said the woman, "but what
is to hinder you from sticking the ecane
in the ground and tying the goat to it,
and then laying the goose on the
ground and coveringit with the kettle?
And then, how could 1 help myself il
you wickedly persisted in kissing me?''
"Many thanks" said the man. al
never should have thought OF all that.
You are an ingenius woman. May
your ingenuity always succeed"
So they went on until they reached
the darkest part of the ravine. Then
he stuck the cane in the ground and
tied the goat to it, and put the goose
under the kettle by the cane, and then
wickedly kissed the woman in spite of
her great resistance.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
A Clincher for Pope Bob"

One terribly snowy, sleety day in
Washington the late Washington Nc
Lean was sitting in the Riggs house
reading room looking out upon the
dreary scene upon Pennsylvania
avenue. Presently in came Col. Bob
Ingersoll, the great agnostic. As he
entered the apartment he held out his
hand saying; " Hello> Wash, how do
you do?" Mr.. Mclean took his hand
and as he did so said; Bob, 1 wish
you could have been herea little while
ago. ! saw a scene out there that
made me wish | was twenty years
younger. A poor old, crippled soldier
was limping across the avenue, when
a young ,lusty fellow ran by him and
as he did so kicked the crutch from
under him and tumbled him down into
the slush" "The william" said Inger-
soil; she should have been sent to the
penitentiary. "Do you really think
so?" said Mclean. "Why, certainly" !"
replied the colonel; "what else could
Think" "And yet, Bob, said Mclean,
"that is what you are doing every week
i'm the year. Here are poor, old, infirm
Christians, with nothing to aid or sup
port them but their belief in religion,
nothing to Keep them out OF the mire
OF despair bat faith; and yet you &C
about kicking the crutch from under
them worse than even this fictitio us
fellow did to this fictitious soldier"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
Growing Wages.

As showing the progress made in the
increase of the rate OF wages OF labor
ingmen since the beginning of the cen
tury, We give the following extract
from an article published in the Trades
man: On the Pennsylvania canals
the diggers ate the coarsest diet, were
housed in the rudest sheds, and paid
So a month from November to May.
Ho5 carriers and mortar mixers, dig
gers and choppers, who from 1893 to
$500 labored on the public buildings
and cut the streets and avenues of
Washington City, received $40 year,
or, if they wished, $50 for all the work
they could perform from March 1st to
December Goth. The hours of work
were einvariably from sunrise to sunset.
Wages at Albany and New York were
8 shillings, or, as money then went, 40
cents day; at Lancaster, SO to SO
a month; elsewhere in Pennsylvania
workmen were content with Sc. in sum-
mer and S5 in winter. At Baltimore
men were glad to be hired at pence
a day. None by the month asked
more than SO. At Fredericksburg the
price of labor was from S5 to So per
month. In Virginia white men en-
ployed by the year were given ZIG
currency; slaves, when hired, were
clothed and their masters paid f1 a
month. A pound Virginia money was
in Federal money, 1888. The aver
age rate of wages the land over was,
therefore, S65 year, with food and
perhaps lodging.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
Peculiar Punishments.

The letter s was burned upon man
at Boston in 1867 for stealing cop
per kettle.
A forger at Boston in 1863 had a
letter + branded upon the palm OF his
hand.
A counterfeiter of Walpole, Mass,
was in 1762 obliged to stand i'll the
pillory for two hours.
In 1857 a woman of Salem, Mass,
was bound and chained to a post for
beating her husband.
For passing counterfeit money at
Springfield, Mass, in 1867, a criminal
had his ears cropped.
For absence from the Salem, Mass,
court, Sir Richard Saltenstale was
fined four bushels of malt.
The assistants Of Salem, Mass, in
1888, ordered two men to sit in stocks
lecture day for travelling on the Sab
bath.
Mary Oliver of Salem, Mass, was
sentenced in 1916 to have a cleft stick
put on her tongue for half an honr for
slandering the elders.
All "scolds and railers" in Massa-
chusetts during l762 were gagged and
set in ducking-stool and dipped over
head and ears three times.
In 1868 at Ipswich, Mass, n noto-
rious thief was sentenced TO sit on the
gallows an hour with "a rope around
his neck, to be whipped thirty stripes
and pay triple damages.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
INGALLS, DEFEATED.
Pfeffer, Editor of the Alliance Organ, an
Easy Winner.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 27.-Pfeffer has
received the full Alliance vote for SEN
ater in the house.
The vote in the senate was also on
strict party lines, giving Pfeffer ma
jority of IL over all
The ballot resulted: House-Pfeffer,
SO; Ingalls,, %; Blair, .. Senate
Ingalls,, 35; Pfeffer, 20.
William Alfred Pfeffer was born in
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, in
1881, and is of Dutch parentage. In
1850 he caught the gold fever and
went to California, where he remained
two years. He made considerable
money and returned to Pennsylvania.
and soon after removed to Indiana
and later to Missouri. He served dur
ing the war with the Eighty-third Illi-
nois volunteers. At the close of the
war he settled at Clarksville, Tenn,
practicing law. In 1870 he moved to
Kansas, taking up a claim. At differ
eEt times he edited various papers.
He served in the state senate and was
n delegate to the national Republican
convention IN lSSO. In That year he
moved to Topeka and assumed the
editorial control of the Kansas Far
mer, and afterward bought the paper
He has been engaged in the publication
OF that paper ever since. The paper
has wide circulation among Kansas
farmers and much influence over them.
He Joined the Alliance movement a
year ago, and in the spring of last year
began a bitter and determined warfare
against Ingalls, reelection. Up to a
year ago Pfeffer was staunch Repub-
lican, when he joined the Farmers AL
lance.
He outlined his policy as senator to
the Associated Press representative
to-day He said he favored the abso-
lutte unlimited coinage of silver and
the servativeexpansion of currency
along other lines. He was in favor, he
said, of protection to home industries,
but believed the best protection did
not always result from the highest
tariff. Protection by tariff as gen.
eral principle, he said, was wrong.
High tariff should be called in to aid
only individual struggling industries.
He now favored the average advalorem
duty of 20 per cent. He was opposed
to the force bill.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
Something About Dogs.

Bozeman Chronicle: Tom Irvine was
talking about dogs the other day,
when he said: '"Talk about dogs, why,
| had a coon dog when / was boy
that never had an equal. He was
pretty good for wolves, too, but you
could never get him close to a wolf
Their teeth were too sharp for him.
Many a time I've seen him take q
VOLTS trail and in few seconds would
be so close to the wolf that he would
tear up the ground like a sod-cutter.
He was putting on the brakes. Then
ne would turn and run a hall mile on
the back track, just to give the wolf
time enough to get a little ways ahead
of him. But he got old and lost his
sense OF smell. Thelast time hunted
coons with him discovered this fact.
| heard him bark, and knew at once
that he had coon. I caught up to
him soon after, pulled down fence to
let him get by, and in a minute there
after concluded that he had indeed
| lost his power of scent and would not
hunt coons any longer with Tige. After
that encounter / used him solely for
skunks."
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
HEAVENLY MUSIC.
An Incident in Emma Abbott's Life-singing
in Coal Mine for Grimy, Horny
Handed Toilers.

The recent death of Emma Abbott
in Salt Lake recalls an incident in her
life worth mentioning. She was sing
ing one time in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The
town is in the heart of the anthracite
coal regions, and Miss Abbott was
eager to go down in one of the mines.
She went, accompanied by her hus-
band, down the shaft of one of the
deepest mines in the country. At one
point in the heading an immense de-
posit of coal had been removed, leav-
ing a vast chamber. the acoustic prop
critics OF which wore even more than
perfect. Abbott was attracted by the
echoes and sang a few lines from one
OF her favorites. The guide, an hon.
est-hearted Irishman, listened atten-
lively, and when she had finished, re-
marked: "An' if you place, lady,
would yez moind my bringing in a few
OF the byes till they hear that bit OF a
song again." Abbott replied that she
did not mind, and a score OF begrimsd
toilers filed in. She sang several little
songs, concluding with "Home, Sweet
Home" When she had finished, one
of the men remarked: "An' now |
wouldn't miss heaven for all the wealth
OF the world. Ii the music up there is
grander than anything on earth, and
is swater than that, then | want to
hear it," Miss Abbott is said to have
been greatly pleased with the remark
The miners sent her a present the next
day in the shape OF a toilet box carved
from what is known as peacock
coal, quality not unlike the camel
coal OF England, differing only in the
fact that the former is richly colored
in tints not unlike the feathers of the
fowl from which the name is de-
rived.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
Montana sapphires the Best.

besides its minerals, which annu-
ally exceed in value those of any other
State, Montana has got what no other
State or country possesses river
bar full of sapphires," remarked ex-
Governor Hauser, in a New York Press
interview. "The sapphire deposits are
in two or three bars of the Missouri
river, about thirteen miles from Hell
ena. The area of the bars is several
hundred acres, and was once dug over
for gold in the days when labor was
81 or SO per day. 1t has been bought
up and held for working over for gold
when labor gets cheaper, and IS said
to contain plenty OF gold for labor at
80 day. The sapphires are so thick
in some parts of it that simply by
working the dirt over with the hands
twenty or thirty large sized stones car
be found. The color is not deep blue
but of the greenish blue tint that has
hitherto been found only in fancy
sapphires, as the jewelers. call them
which have been rare and command
high prices. An English company hai
bought one tenth of the area for $2oO,
900, and intends TO work it over 10
! the sapphires on q large scale"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-02-05
Bernhardt's New Complexion.

Sarah Bernhardt has set all Paris
crazy by her African complexion, the
cosmetic for which is a concoction of
her own. The compound consists of
saffron, well kneaded with powdered
coffee, combined with a delicate mix
ture of musk and chicory, diluted with
rose water until sufficiently liquid to
be spread over the skin. Instead of
making up for the part she brushes up.
lit has been the dream of her life to
play Cleopatra, and for years she has
been collecting jewels, girdles. armlets,
bracelets, and necklaces Every dress
consists OF a diaphanous piece of ma
terial seven yards long. embellished
with metallic or silk embroidery. This
long strip OF gauze is wound and
draped about her hthesome form and
held in place at the hips, belt and
shoulders with magnificent fasteners,
brooches and girdles, incrusted with
stones OF every conceivable shade
Through the garment other Jewels
buckles and embroidsries, used tc
ornament and secure an undergar
ment, simmer and shine. In her hair
about her fingers, arms and ankles
bandeaus, bangles and bracelets blaze
and the sandals in which her feet are
slipped are finished with rainbow effect
Row after row and chain upon chair
OF Jewels encircle her chest and breast
and the unparalleled display OF opals
turquoises, topaz, scarabees, corals
sapphires, amethysts, rubies, sar
donyx, malachites and pearls produc'
the almost overpowsring sense OF lux
ury. One dress, an Egyptian robe, il
certainly a most wonderful creation
The material in itself is of gold col
ored gauze, appliqued with design o
laurel leaves. The belt OF pearls ant
turquoises that holds the delicat
fabric in at the waste also secures
barbaric drapery at the hips, made @
tigers skin. Fancy the contrast O
embroidered gauze and tigers fur
For a head dress she wears a skull ca
of pearls, fringed with coral and tul
quoises.