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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-12-20
She Knew meGIn,r

One day in my wandering along
the Clover fork of the Cumberland
river, stopped at farmhouse to
get dinner, and as sat in the shade
of the porch waiting, I was whistling
for lack of thought and something
else to do, the reading supply of the
establishment being painfully short.
My hostess was knocking around in
side. getting the dinner ready, and
evidently heard my sweet and gentle
melodies, for she stuck her head out
of the door.
do yer whistle by note, misterT'
she inquired, 'er-jist simultaneous
ikeG"
Most simu1taneousiike," I re
sponded, laughing.
II never heerd them chunes
afore," she went ON, ian I kinder
had an idee they wuz book chunes
got out fer extry."
"Oh, no." assured her; 'sfhey are
merely little bits from the popular
airs of the day that everybody whis-
ties"
"'S that soT' she asked in surprise.
II hain,t never heerd 'em up this
way. What's Their names7"
Well, Comrades, Annie Rooney,
Maggie Murphy's Home Tara
Boom GcGinty' and so forth.
Didn't you ever hear of McGinty7n
She became thoughtful.
whats the nameS" she inquired.
Seems kinder like ez eff 1 knowed it. -
''McGinty, " I repeated slowly, and
her face frightened.
"Oh, yes, she exclaimed, Iknowed
1 knowed it. but somehow couldn't
quite see wnar it b1onged. Amt he
the Teller that they named the tariff
after7"
said it was and went in to din
ner.-Detroit Free Press.
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A Picture Factory.

A picture factory is a place in
which they put blank canvas ON
shelves running around the walls.
Then aman comes along and paints in
the sky on canvas No. /; then passes
on and paints in the sky on canvas
No. 2, and so on all around the room.
Then another man comes along and
paints in sandy shore; then an
other and paints in tree; then an
other and paints in the sea; then an
other and paints in ship upon the
sea. Then those pictures, which are
as like each other as two pins. are
by beautiful division of labor fin
ished, SO to speak, in less time than
no time.
And they can the first, "On a
Smiling Shore;" the second, 'rwhere
the Wavelets Kiss the Sands" the
third, The Ship that Sailed" They
give each picture different title. /
believe they keep man whose sole
business is to find the titles. He
must be the most ingenious, not to
say imaginative, man in the place.
The whole affair is a beautiful ex-
position of the applicability to com
mercial purposes of the fine arts
An the Year Round.
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The Psean OF Peace.

With ever some wrong TO be righting,
With self ever seeking for place,
The world has been striving and fighting
Since man was evolved out OF space.
Bold history into dark regions
His torchlight has fearlcssly cast;
He shows us tribes warning in legions,
In the jungle OF ages long passed.
Religion. forgetting her station.
Forgetting her birthright from God,
Set nation to warning with nation
And scattered dissension abroad.
Dear creeds have made men kill each other.
Fair faith has bred hate and despair.
And brother has battled with brother
Because OF n difference in prayer.
But earth has grown wiser and kinder
For man is evolving a soul;
From wars of an age that was binder
We rise to a peace girdled goal.
Where once men would murder In treason
And slaughter each other in hordes,
They now meet together and reason,
With thoughts for their weapons. not
swords
The brute in humanity dwindles
And lessons as time speeds along,
And the spark of divinity kindles
And blazes mp brightly and strong.
The seer can behold in the distance
The race that shall people the world
Strong men OF godlike existence,
Unarmed. and with war banners furled.
No longer the bloodthirsty savage
Mans vast spirit strength shall unfold;
And tales of red warfare and rayage
Shall seem like ghost stories of old.
For the booming OF guns and the rattle
or carnage and conflict shall cease,
And the bugis call leading to battle
Shall change TO pecan OF peace
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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The Plneapp1e :. : nires,Ire.

Among the most wonderful dis
coveries of recent times is the effect
of various vegetable products pos
sessing digestive properties of an ac-
tive character. The digestive prop
erty of the papaw has long been
known and utilized More recently
it has been ascertained that the juice
of the pineapple contains very i'm
portant digestive property, which is
capable of digesting albumen and al
lied substances, not only in acid, but
In nutritive alkai media, which
gives to it the combined properties
of the gastric juice and the pancre-
attic juice. This excellent fruit may
be found valuable aid to digestion.
The coarse pulp is wholly indigesti-
BILE, and only the juice should be
swallowed. 1t should be taken only
at mealtime. Good Health.
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pLAclNe TAg alAME.

Incidents Which Led Up TO the Losing Of
ti.e Head OF Mrs sIccarthy's Coat
He was a boy about twelve years
of age and he had in his hand rail
road torpedo which he had picked
up off the tracks As he came along
by Mrs. McCarthy's cabin he looked
in and shouted:
Mrs Mccarthy, your old billy
goat Is following me about for an
applel''
..Then give him one, she bluntly
replied, without iooldng up from her
washtub.
But I amt got none"
Then give him somethin else.
Would you mind his chewin up a
small tin box full of ointment, Mrs.
Mccarthy
Indade Iwouldn't. I'm a-thinkin
he'd be all the healthier fur havin
his insides CREASED bit. Don't kape
him on the ragged aige, as they call
it, but hand it over
1T may not be ointment, Mrs. Nc
Carthy,n said the boy as a doubt
arose in his mind
Then it's glue, and glue won't
hurt goat If itdon't do him no good.
Is he loolzin at yer"
HE is
is he smellin av the boxf"
HE is
''Is he Vaughn av his tail7"
''The same, Mrs. Mccarthy
Then give it to him His sinse of
shmen taches him that there's sum-
thin refreshin in the box
The boy hesitated no longer, but
dropped the box and crossed the
street The goat seized the box in
his mouth, turned around three or
four times. and then stood still and
worked his jaws. He couldn't re-
member of ever having tasted of such
fruit before, and he was hurrying to
get down to the core, when there was
flash and an explosion and he turned
a back handspring and lay quiet.
"Ah, now, what's the racketg" de-
manded Mrs. Mccarthy as she APP
peared at the door.
rs he dead2" called the boy.
Houly mither of Mosesi He's no
longer a head on himr"
You told me to give him the box. "
Il did that, and don't you worry
about it. 1t was niver the box that
got away wild my goat in this fashion
after his eaten over thousand of all
sorts. It's them fellers down at
Sandy Hook agin. They've fired
another shot as big as barl, and
another hape of sand has got in the
way and detected the ball into me
dooryard. Kape shtill ON the box,
Dennis, and don't breathe word fur
your hfel I've got clear case agin'
Sandy Hook, and I'll niver let up till
the government puts a new, roof on
me shanty and hands me fifty av the
long green dollars that buys provi-
sions and rides you down to Coney
Island av a Sunday afthernoonr'-
New York Herald.
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A Knlfe in nls nreast Tor 81. Yenrs.


Captain Philip Osmont. a native of
the Island of Jersey, who has been a
resident of Stafford county for sew.
eral years, has had a remarkable ex-
perience. Before coming to America
Captain Osmont was of the men who
go down to sea in ships. A mutiny
occurred on the vessel with which
he was connected and hand to hani
conflict took place between the mu-
tineers and the officers of the ship.
During the fight knife blade sever
al inches long was driven into the
right breast of Captain Osmont.
When the fight ended he drew the
knife (as he supposedly from his
breast and threw it overheard. He
suffered greatly from the wound,
but finally recovered through the
careful nursing Of his wife, who was
on the ship with him. When Cap
tain Osmont threw what he sup
posed to be the entire knife over
board he had simply caught the
handle, which was loose, and threw
that over the ships side, leaving the
long blade remaining in his breast.
oolhO eihO ago NdpCeln OSnOnI
suffered good deal with pains, and
supposing he had the rheumatism
he consulted DR.. S. W. Carmichael,
of fredericksburg, who discovered
the presence of the knife blade and
extracted it. DIR. Carmichael is of
the opinion that the case is quite a
remarkable one, the knife having re-
manned in Captain Osmont's body for
six years. DR. Carmichael still has
the blade in his possession 1t is a
dangerous looking instrument A
inches long and one inch wide, and
Is covered with rust and dry blood.
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..sry Ruthers."


tell you what I'd ruther do
Ell only had my ruthers-
I'd ruther work when / wanted to
Than be bossed round by others.
I'D want to kind o. git the swing
o. what was needed first, by jingi
Afore 1 sweat at anythingi
Fl only had my ruthers
In fact. I'D aim TO be the same
With all men rs my brothers,
And they'd be all the same with me.
Ef only Ind my ruthers,
The poor 'ud git their dues sometimes
Ell only had my ruthers-
And be paid dollars Std o. dimes.
Fer children, wives and mothers:
Their boy at stokes; their girl at sews-
Fer others, not herself, God knowsl
The grave her only change Of clothesl
Ef only had my ruthers.
They'd all have -stun~ and time enough
To answer one anotherss
Appealin prayer fer ''loyin care"-
Ef only had my ruthers
They'd be few folks 'ud asst fer trust
Ef only had my ruthers-
And blame few business men TO bust
Themselves or hearts OF others;
Big guns at come here durin fair
Week could put up Jest anywhere
And md a-fuil and plenty there,
Ef only had my ruthers:
The rich and great 'ud 'sociate
With all their lowly brothers
Feelin we done the honorun-
Ef only had my ruthers.
James whitcomb Riley.
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A Great scheme.

A human phase of city life down
town, whose verbal brilliancy disap-
pears when he puts himself ON pa
per, owing to the badness of his
spelling, thinks he has lit upon q de-
vice for relieving the embarrassment
of all who are as sensitive in regard
to this failinga as he is. Here is the
scheme In his. own words: 'sTalley-
rand says that speech is the art of
concealing thought. BY the same
token writing should be the art of
concealing bad spelling. What we
bad spoilers need is a system of PEN
manship upon a basis of radical re-
form. Let teachers be sent out who
viii teach us to write a pleasing
hand, but in which poor spelling can
not be detected. ! have no time to
work out system, but it ought to
be easy and very profitable. For in
stance, why not have 'e' and T. writ
ten alike in words In which they oc-
cur together, with the dot midway
over them7 Bigmoney is waiting for
somebody who will work out the COM
plete scheme New York Times.
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Beautiful Things.

Beautiful faces are those that wear
II matters little IL dark or fair
Whole souled honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow.
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like song OF birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that Is earnest and brave and true.
Moment by moment, the long day through
Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro,
Down lowliest ways, II God Wills Il SO.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer
Beautiful lives are those that bless
Silent rivers and happiness
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.
Beautiful twilight at set of sun;
Beautiful goal, with race well won:
Beautiful rest, with work well done
Beautiful graves. where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall. where drifts lie
deep
Over wornout hands-oh, beautiful sIeepi
Ellen p. Allerton.
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Yearning for Home.


1t comes TO me often In silence,
When the freight sputters low
When the black. uncertain shadows
Seem wrniths OF the long ago:
Always with throb Of heartache
That thrills each pulsive vein
Comes the old. unquiet longing
For the peace Of home again.
I'm sick OF the roar OF cities.
And OF faces cold and strange:
know where fhere'swurmth OF welcome,
And my yearning fancies range
Back to the dear old homestead
With an aching sense OF pain;
But there'll be joy In the coming.
When so home again.
When go home againi There's music
That never may die away,
And 1t seems the hands of angels,
On n mystic harp. at play,
Have touched with ayearning sadness
On n beautiful, broken strain.
To which is my fond heart wording
When go home again.
Outside OF my darkening window
Is the great worlds crash and din,
And slowly the autumn shadows
Come drifting. drifting in.
Sobbing. the night wind murmurs
To the splash of the autumn rain:
But dream OF the glorious greeting
When go home again.
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Az amusing story is told of wen
known and popular young minister
who returned from vacation spent
In Europe TO his home IN Brooklyn.
on Prospect heights. The ship on
which he had sailed was not expected
to arrive until Sunday night or Mon
day, and as quarantine was at that
time difficult to pass there was
thought to be no possibility of the
dominic reaching home sooner than
expected. His wife felt no hesitancy.
therefore, in going out to make q
call, leaving the house in the care OF
q new servant on Saturday, with in
structions TO tell any one who called
and inquired for the doctor to saw
that he would be home Monday.
Hurried ON by favorable winds and
currents the steamship did arrive,
and in the afternoon, expecting to
take his family by surprise, the min
lister ran up the stoop of his residence
and rang the bell The servant IN
response to the summons opened the
door a few inches and said, THE
misses is out. sir"
Are any of the children inf" asked
the doctor.
They are all out and the doctor
won't be home until Monday, sir. y
Somewhat taken back by the idea
that he was some one else and that
he was still on the ocean, the min
lister said, Il am the doctor" and
pushing by the girl entered the
house. Then, as thestory goes, there
began a game of follow your leader
which was extremely embarrassing
to the minister Wherever he went
the servant. who was not convinced
of his identity, followed, until finally
in fit of desperation the young
divine left the servant in sole posses
sion and went around the corner to
wait for his wife to come and intro
duce him to the new acquisition to
the household. Brooklyn Eagle.
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thyng. Deficient social education
is therefore a cause of bashfulness.
Habit alsc predisposes to it. A
mere indisposition to exert ones self,
INDUCED in for too long time, may
eventually result IN confirmed bash
fulness. This indifference may be
due 10 want of sympathy with the
surroundings. or may have its origin
in unalloyed selfishness-for many
bashful men are extremely selfish
or may be due to vanity. = asseIrs.
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aashfulness May Come from vanity.

Bashfulness is natural to youth.
Modesty IL the graceful, calm, vir-
tue of maturity; bashfulness the
charm of vivacious youth, /" and M
less a young man takes advantage of
opportunities of entering society he
VIII retain San air of bashfulness.
which is in reality the want of habit
ual intercourse with the world" eva,
verify. As long ago as 1870 Ascham
wrote that 'tf young gentleman
be bashfull and soon blush, they call
him q babsshe and i'll brought up
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Ak oLD DUTCH FARMHOUSE.


curious and Interesting Features OF some
Real Ancient Dwellings
The old farmhouse usually con-
sists Of a kitchen, large living room.
cheeseroom, a dairy, two small
bedrooms in the garnet. and at the
back forming part of the main build
lng) the big COW stable with its huge
loft, and a wide space in the middle.
where thrashing and winnowing are
still done in primitive fashion. Hay
ricks with movable roofs ON four.
poles, various barns or sheds, and an
outside kitchen called the baking
house" where the rough work is
done food cooking for the cattle,
etc., surround the main building.
The "balSing house is often used
as a hvil room IN summer, and is
more cheerful than the solemn apart
ment into which the visitor is in
varlably ushered A wide chimney
lined with tilesstretches nearly across
one nde of this room, but the open
fire ON the hearth has long ago dis
appeared and given place to an ugly
stove. Quaint brass fire irons hang
behind it, and on either side is an
armchair, differing from its humber
brethren only in the possession of
wooden arms. If there is a baby in
the family it is likely to be reposing
in a cradle, with green baize curtains,
as near as possible to the fireplace, in
defiance of all laws of health.
Two or three large cupboards,
sometimes handsomely carved, and
always kept well polished, stand
against the whitewashed walls. One
of them generally has glass doors in
the upper part, and ON its shelves the
family china-often of great value
is exposed to view. Unfortunately
these heirlooms in old families have
been largely bought up by enterpris-
ing Jews.
Sometimes, however, sentiment has
proved stronger than the love of
money, and the farmer has not part
ed with his family possessions. In a
corner of the room chintz curtain.
or sometimes double door, shows
where the big press bed is-an in.
stitution of prehygenic times, which,
to the peasant mind, has no in
conveniences whatever. In the mid
die of the room table stands on a
carpet, and as people take off their
shoes at the door and go about in
their thick wooden stockings. neither
it nor the painted floor ever shows
signs of mud.
Another table stands near one of
the windows, of which there are two
or three. The linen blinds so closely
meet the spotless muslin curtains.
which are drawn stifiy across the
lower panes on two horizontal sticks.
that a stray sunbeam can hardly
make its way into the room, even if
it has been able to struggle through
the thick branches of the clipped lime
trees that adorn the front of the
house. On one of the tables tray
stands, with a hospitable array of
cups and saucers, teapot. ETC., and is
protected from the dust by crochet
or muslin cover.
The huge family Bible, with its big
brass clasps, has an honorable place,
often on a stand by itself. Rough
woodcuts or cheap prints and a group
of family photographs, which do rot
hatter the originals, are hung on the
walls. National Review.
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Stockholders, Meeting.

THE Annual Meeting of the shareholders
of the Merchants National Bank OF West
y. virginia at Point Pleasant, will be held at
the 10th day of january, 1888. AT 10
O'Clock a. M, for the election of Directors and
the transaction OF such other business as
may be brought before Them
~ 100 I. STRIBLING, Cashier.
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wanted-A Word.


beg TO ask, What word should we clergy
use In stating our performances of the marriage
ceremony II say. II married Miss So-and-
So" Il Is liable to the construction that am
now her husband. To say, ~ performed the
marriage service ut the nuptials of Mr. and
Miss -" Is rather prolonged. What one
word would you suggest as descriptive of the
clergyman's part7 Would "marrified, be suit
ADLER Il marrified Miss So-and-so."
A PERPLExED CLERGYMAN.
No, ''marrify" will not do. There
would be too strong temptation to
use it as rhyme for "scarify." Per
haps 'weddify" would be better
But the resources of the language do
not furnish any word to meet the
real requirements of the case. Orig
inally the marrying" was the work
of him who united others in wedlock.
Those who were so united were
welded" persons. Gradually those
thus Joined have secured the use of
the word which once belonged to the
priest till the priest is crowded off
his own ground or made to share 1t
in such way as leads 10 the dilemma
of our correspondent.
The fact is, the men who marry
In the original meaning of the word
have allowed the welded ones to
usurp and take possession of philo-
logical stronghold. In their salts
faction in doing good work and,
incidentally, receiving the fees at
tached thereto, the priests have failed
to insist on their rights, and SO have
been forced into an chronological
quandary. The only escape is by
some word labyrinth, and the only
satisfaction will be to increase the
fee.-Grand Rapids Democrat.
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TestIng . Lorer in the aretropolia.

A woman recently tested her low
er's devotion In a ridiculous way.
1t was more whimsical than that of
the beauty who flung her glove to
the lions and ordered her knight to
pick it up, and decidedly more abb
surd.
"WaIk from the Battery to -Four
tenth street with soda water bot
tie as a scarfpin, and III marry you
tomorrow said she. He did She
kept her word. York Press.
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Among the ancient Greeks both
cremation of the dead and burial in
the earth We're practiced, though it is
uncertain which was the more COM
mon. The ashes of the dead were
sacredly preserved in urns.
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In 1883 Zalie sivar, of Haute.Loire.
France, after quarreling with her
husband over some small matter.
heated heroutdoor bake oven redhot
crept into it and cremated herself.
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Alma Archer,
VS..
Amanda j. Archer,
In Rbanqpry

Yo1s, nv .u"S, the otn uay Oh december, n. ID.
Alma Archer,
Amanda ]. Archer,
In chancery.
The object of the above entitled suit is to
obtain a divorce for said Alma Archer from
said Amanda j. Archer for. desertiOn and
adultery. And Il appearing by affidavit filed
that the said defendant, Amanda ]. Archer
Is nonresident OF this State, the said de-
i i' Is required to appear here within one
month after the date of the first publication
tect h9r interests.
Teste: r. E. MITCHELL, Clerk.
To Amanda j. Archer:
You will please take notice that on the Sis
day OF December, 1892, between the hours of
o'clock a. m. and o'clock p. m. OF that day
Mt the law Office of Lon T Pilchard In the
town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, will
take the deposition of C. Il. Long and others
10 be read as evidence in my behalf in n GER
tain suit pending in the Circuit Court OF Ma
son County, West Virginia, wherein I am
plaintin and you are defendant, Mt which
time and place you can attend II you see
proper. ALMA ARCHFR
uec o-4W By Council
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Young Mamma-Did you have a
nice time at the picnic7
Little Johnny-Nice enough, 'cept
at the lunch. Twas rowin and didn't
get back in time.
MY poor ANGEL And was every
thing eaten up7"
''Yes,m. Everything but the things
you sent EN- Good News.
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There is nothing more precious to
a man than his Will; there is nothing
which he relinquishes with so much
reluctance.-J. g. Holland.
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j. F. Chase, veteran Of the Fifth
Maine battery, is reputed to carry
ON his body forty-eight scars. He
exhibits an empty coat sleeve and an
artificial eye, all the result Of a
bursting shell at the battle Of Get
tysburg.
Mamma-How' did you get
Little Daughter-I was putting
dollyls shoes am stockings ON the.
$50 she couldn't scwatch. Good
News.