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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-07-12
LITeRARY WOMEN.
7aI "Bluestocling" of the Past and Fai
scrfbblers of Today.
st. Nicholas.

TnI "BlueStocking" of the Past and Fair
Scribblers of Today.
A hundred years ago woman who
wrote for the press was looked upon
as remaEkable individual. Popular
opinion fs.uted her as sour. stern
oddity, with blue spectacles over alb
sentminded eyes and dancing cork
screw cuI:ls about face as wrinkIed
us an English walnut. There was
nothing lovable in her whole make
up. No touch of feminine tenderness
leavcned the hard, stiff mass of in
tellectuality; no soft breath from
loves passing wing lifted a curl on
the stern forehead. At least there
are no traces of such frailties in the
types handed down by dead gen.
Grafton.
OF course she was a bad house
keeper. Any woman who did such an
unmannerly thing as to appear in
print couldn't know anything of u
wife's or mothers domestic virtues.
Then her hands were supposed to be
perpetually covered with ink stains,
for the reign of the festive type
writer had not yet begun. And she
wore pink dress, blue hood and a
green shawl to keep up her charac-
ter. OF course she couldn't have any
feminine taste in dress.
Whether these pictures of literary
women in the past were in a preju-
diced vein and exaggerated or not, it
can be truthfully stated that many
of the present stars in the literary
armament are as we'll known for
their domestic talents and charmin"
personages as they are for their
graceful and bewitching writings.
Examine closely, and you will find
most of them fine housekeepers-
cooks as we'll They dress as well if
not better than any other class of
women. They keep abreast of the
times, are pleasant in conversation,
and not Il few are famed for their
personal beauty
Blue spectacles and corkscrew curls
have vanished in the shadows, and
we see instead a dainty form in a tea
gown of soft, shimmering silk whose
cllnging folds show the pretty figure
to perfection-th form of one whose
pen commands attention from thou
sands, whose home is the well kept
shrine of happiness and love.
Because q woman can write "Odes
TO Spring" is no reason she is going
to neglect to curl her bangs or to
make the dressmalccr fit the basque
right in the back. One can easily
describe Il hero dying in his sweet
hearts arms and then descend to see
if the cook has mixed the buckwheat
batter for morninS-at least with Il
little practice. There is no reason
why the science of well kept table
should not trip hand in hand with
THE Descent of Man" OrSt. Thomas
Aquinas' philosophy. Younever find
a man SO absorbed i'll Kant that he
forgets to grumble if his steak is
tough or his soup cold Mind and
matter are married by law that rec
OgniZes no divorce
In the women writers of today one
finds that admirable blending which
gives tenderness to strong intellec-
tuality and smooths the sharp cor
ners of study into the soft curves of
homely duties.-New York Adver-
tiSer.
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Good spop-cs.

There is a great difference in the
quality of sponges. A good bathing
sponge has rather coarse pores, but
is soft and strong i'll texture. The
most expensive sponges. however,
are the tiny ones. which have the
very finest holes and sill1en texture.
They are used for washing little chil
dren and hy surgeons. 1t is always
better to purchase a sponge of a
wholesale healer, who handles them
from the original package as they
come to market, or from a trust
worthy druggist.
The sponges that are sold by side
walk vendors ard are very white and
clean looking are said to be often the
refuse sponges thrown away by hos
pitals and afterward collected, clean
ed and bleGched by acid. A sponge
that has not been bleached is Il brown.
ish yellow or Il light yellow in color.
New York Tribune.
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Only "A Little Thing.

This little story will serve to illus
trate that it is good thing to know
something of the little things, the
trifles that make up the sum of lifes
profit and loss. A west side girl
made a trip down town one day re-
Gently for the sole purpose of ex-
changing pattern that her mother
and the dressmaker were waiting for
to cut new gown. The pattern had
never been opened and was wrapped
up carefully to be returned, but the
west side girl was not quite satisfied
that it was all right and investigated
matters to make sure She discov-
cred a bent pin, and commenting on
her mothers carelessness in placing
it there removed the pin and threw
it away.
Arrived at the store the attendant
refused to accept the pattern since ii
had been opened, and the west side
girl went away indignant and carried
the pattern and her woes to friend
she knew, related her experience and
abuse and was brought to a knowl-
edge of what she had done when the
friend, wiser than she, observed that
she had taken out the pin, and that
one little act had caused all the trou-
ble-Buffalo News
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MR. YALE,s COSTLY CANE.
A Remarkable Walking Stick Which Con
tains Many Rare Isits of Wood.

Remarkable Walking Stick Which Com
tains Many Rare I:its of Wood.
William E. Yale, wealthy bachc-
lor, who has had several winters in
southern California, has come again
from Brooklyn to spend few weeks
in this region. He is Il remarkable
traveller, and his delight is historical
study. He has cane that he carries
with him which is undoubtedly the
most costly and unique of anything
of the kind in the world The stick
contains about l 100 pieces of wood.
Each piece is cut in Il curious and ar
tistic shape, SO that the cane with the
various colored and shaped woods
has strange appearance.
Mr.. Yale planned and made the
cane, and work upon it consumed
weeks of labor at different times in
the course of several years. Sixty of
the l 100 pieces of wood are of great
value to relic hunters The head of
the cane is made from post i'll the
house of Shakespeare birthplace at
Sh,atford Set in the head is q small
lock of white hair from Martha
Washington's head, the lock having
been given Mr.. Yale 30 years ago by
Robert E. Lee, Il descendant of Mrs.
Washington.
There is a piece of wood from the
birthplace of Napoleon on the island
of Corsica and one from Napoleon's
writing desk at st. Helena Other
pieces of the cane came from the
Charter oak, from the home of John
Adams. from a chair of Oliver Crom-
well, from the home of John Han
cock, from the Mayfower, Roger
Williams pew, from a desk of Abra-
ham Lincoln, from a penholder of
Gladstone, from, ruler that Garfield
used at school, from a penholder of
Longfellow, from trunk that Lafay,
cite used during the Revolutionary
war, from the bed upon which John
Wesley died and from the guillotine
upon which Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette We're beheaded.
Mr.. Yale spent years and much care
in collecting the relics. He has been
offered 1000 for the cane, which is
truly wonder He will leave it to
the historical department of Cornell
university when he dies.-Pomona
Cali Progress.
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For anybody who has been bitten
by cobra or rattlesnake or puff ad-
der there are many remedies, but few
people recommend them from per-
sonal experience 1t is to be feared
that most of them unfortunately die
before writing their testimonials.
Perhaps they We're too long in decid-
ing which thing to take.
The most famous of these remedies
and probably the best on the whole
is to get excessively drunk 1t is ex-
pensive to get drunk after poison
Gus snake bite, because something in
the veins fortifies the head against
the first bottle or two of whisky.
Getting drunk before the bite won't
do, although there would appear to
be avery widely prevalent impress
sion that it will, and very common
resolve to lay up n good store of cure
is merely misdirected prudence and
nothing else, but there is often a diff
ticulty in persuading a magistrate to
think so-Arthur Morrison in Strand
Magazine
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Strongest Kind OF ErIdepcs.

a robust woman was before Judge
McAdam of the superior court of
New York recently, asking for sep
aration from an evidently henpecIed
husband. While the husband was
timidly giving evidence that showed
the true state of affairs the wife
scowled ominously. AS he left the
stand She went for him A court at
tendant who was about to restrain
her was called back by Judge Nc
Adam. The woman, who charged
cruelty. hit the little man blow
that knocked him over chair
That will do, madam" said the
judge; your physical evidence is
much stronger than the oral testi-
mOny. Your case is dismissed. y
Exchange.
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Guaranteed Cure.

We authorize onr advertised druggist
to sell DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon
this condition. If you are afflicted with
"a Cough Gold or any Lung Throat sur
Chest trouble. and will use this remedy
as directed, giving it fair trial, and ex-
perience no benefit, you may return tn e
bottle and have your money refunde :.
We could not make this offer did we
not know that DIR. Kings New Discovery
could be relied on. 1t never disap-
points. Trial bottles free; at a. c. Van.
Gilder's Drug Store. Large size soc.
and 100.
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"A clerk should be something more
than a mere displayer of goods and a
price encyclopedia, said the wife of
Il prominent business man to The
F.. Man About Town. "Whyf" was
asked. We'll, III give you an ex-
ample that will demonstrate my
proposition and will firmly convince
you that an clerks must be much
more if they are good ones than
mere statesmen. y few days ago /
wanted to buy n golden wedding
present. My means were limited.
and did not know exactly what
could be obtained that would be APP
prOpriate. So concluded to ask the
advice of the clerk. l went to a
large jewelry store and told clerk
the circumstances. Don't you know
what you wantl' he asked. re-
piled that l did not and asked him to
suggest something. He seemed sur
prised and arched his eyebrows as
he replied that if didn't know what
| wanted he was sure he didn't
know. l left the store with some
disgust, but did not give up my idea.
l then went to another jewelry store
Again told my story, and the clerk
said: Certainly, just step this way
Now, how will this suit2 All, too
much? Well, here is something. etc.
In 10 minutes l had through his aid
secured what l wanted, and he had
made a good sale. st. Louis Re
public.
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The Nape of .Lonaon."

The old name for the city of Lon
don was Lynden or Llynden, mean
ing the city by the lake An oil
tradition gives us to understand that
London was founded by Brute, d.
scendant of 441neas. and that it wos
first called New Troy or Troynovant.
In the time CT Lud it was surrounded
by wall and was then known -
Lud's Town. or C3er-Lud. This lat
ter is probably the correct version of
the origin of the name of London, if
for no other reason, because it is such
an easy matter to detect Il similarity
between the expressions London and
Lud's Town. 1t is claimed by some
writers that there was a city on the
present site of London in the year
1907 B. c., and it is known that the
Romans founded a city there and
called it Londinium in the year 61 A.
D.-Chicago Tribune.
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Head Il Little Gray, but Heart All Right.

Head II Little Gray, but Heart All Right.
Jason, said Mrs. Calliper to her
husband as they We're riding home
from the theater, what should you
say of a man of middle age and with
gray mustache who wept ever the
troubles of the people i'll the play2"
Why" said Colonel Calliper, Il
should say that whatever his yea1s
might be God had blessed him with
II young heart"
And am sure, :" said Mrs. Cali.
per as she looked the colonel square
in the eye, that he is duly grateful
for it. New York Sun.
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Now the snakes are fed in strict
privacy lest the sight overset the
morals of visitors. the killing of a
bird, a rabbit or a rat by snake be-
ing almost quarter as unpleasant to
look upon as the killing of the same
animal by a man in a farmyald or
elsewhere. The abject terror inspired
b. the presence of a snake is such
that an innocent rat will set to gnaw
ing the snakes tail in default of more
usual provender while rabbit placed
with a snake near skin shedding time
will placidly nibble the loose rags of
epidermis about the snakes sides
Arthur Morrison in Strand Magazine.
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dangerous Admissions,

1t is dangerous to make confes-
sion unless one really means it, and
we may add that it is sometimes
dangerous to take a confession as
honestly meant. a husband and
wife, between whom little unpleas-
ant passage had occurred, had made
the matter up, and the wife said as
if to clear her conscience:
'Oh, well, l suppose that have
my faults"
Yes, my dear, said the husband.
"Whatl
Il simply said yes"
That / have my faultsr ex-
claimed the wife Indignantly. What
are they, l should like to knowl"
We'll, to begin with
No. Idon'twant to hear Lon
don Tit-Bits.
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Why Nothing Loves a Snake.

This is why nothing loves a snake.
1t is not because the snake is feared,
but because it is incomprehensible.
The talk of its upaslike influence, its
deadly fascination, is chiefly pictur-
esque humbug. Ducks will approach
a snake curiously, inwardIy debating
the possibility of digesting so big a
worm at one meal; the moving tail
tip they will pick at cheerfully. This
was the sort of thing that one might
have observed for himself years ago
at the zoo, at the time when snakes
lived in the old house in blankets, be-
cause of the unsteadiness of the ther-
mometer. and were fed in public.
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NO. 5.

ton, copy or facsimile, but the
actual family dining room of the old
Astor mansion which stood on the
site of the hotel.
The skill of the builder was only,,re-
quired to raise it one floor, ard there
it is set just over its former place.
complete in every detail, from gSone
painted walls topolished rug covered
floor as when it offered a feasting
place to the fur dealers family. 1t
is of course not yet hoary with age
and tradition, but it is the thin edge
of the wedge and is doing well-very
well for 50, young country. New
York Times.
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Since its first Introduction, Electric
Bitters has gained rapidly in popular
favor, until now ii is clearly in the lead
among pure medicinal tones and a!tcra.
tivcs-containing nothing which per.
mits It's use as beverage or intoxicant
it is recognized as the best and purcst
medicine for all ailments of Stomach
Liver or kidneys.-lt will cure Sick
Headache, Indigestion, Constipation,
and drive Malaria from the system Sat.
isfaction guaranteed with each bottle or
the money Will he refunded Price
only 5Gc. per bottle. Sold by A. c. Van
Glider.
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SEVERAL SLIGHT DRAWBACKS.

Few a the Reasons Why "a Bright Scholar
Took Low Rank In Glass.
''YOur boy Jeems is master hand
at his books, amt he, Pete!" inquired
one of the natives of Cornerville of
Mr. Hobbs. He is, an no mistake, -
replied the father proudly. He is
good at everythin, Jeems is, an
calc'late he takes his head worl1in's
from me. His ma want no great of
n scholar" Il expect you must "a
ben head of the hull class when you
tended deestrict school, want yer
inquired the neighbor. Il didn't
come along till some years after, We
know"
"Well, no." responded Mr.. Hobbs
after 4 slight hesitation, II can't
rightly say 1 was, but it want for
any lack of head workin's. 1 was
a smart scholar, but twas like this
There was writin-I sh'd "a ben a
fust rate writer, but it cramped m
fingers up SO it most set me crazy,
an l had to give it up. There was
readin-I sh'd a ben head O. the class
i'll readin if it hadn't made m head
kind o dizzy.
IAN there was geography" con-
tinued Mr.. Hobbs after a pause;
geography allus come as easy as pie
to me, but couldn't seem t get m
tongue round the names O the places,
an so jest give up tryin.
Then there was 'rithmetic. Twas
right at home with figgers, but I'd
add an divide an so on so plaguy
fast that I'd get all snarled up an con
fused, an I'd have to stop right in the
middle"
How about spellinl' inquired the
neighbor respectfully after a mo
ment's silence.
We'll, when you come to spellin, u
said Mr.. Hobbs, there want nam
able word in the spellin book or the
dictionary that I didn't know-not
one. But ye know how it's about
words now an ag'in. You may know
'em jest as well as ye know your par
ents, an yet they'll sort of embarrass
ye, some way! That's how twas with
me about spellin. There was few
words .(say hundert or so, an allus
hes ben, that embarrassed me, as ye
might SAY, an one way or mother
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rlln 1rond to yester,la,-

Wilt someAIiso man who has journeyed
Over land and over sea
To the countries where the rainbow
And the glorious sunsets be
Kindly tell n little stranger.
Who has oddly lost her way,
Where's fhc fuad that she must travel
To return to YesterdnyT
For, yon see. she's unfamiliar
With To-Day and cannot read
What its strange, mysterious signposts
Tell of ways and where they lead,
And her heart upbraids her sorcly,
Though she did not mean to stay
When She 1cll asleep last evening
And abandoned Yesterday.
For she left deal neglected
That She really should have done,
And she fe2rs she's lost some faNors
That she fairly might have won,
So she'd Ike to turn her backward
To retrieve them If she may
Will n0tscmc one kindly tell her
Where's the road 10 Yesterday?
ST. NicholuS
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The Capacity of the Lungs

The lungs contain abouto one gallon
of air at their usual degree of intla-
ton. We breathe on an average
1900 times per hour, inhale 600 gal
Ions of air or 81, ,OOO gallons per day.
The aggregate surface of the air
tells of the lungs exceeds 10000
square inches. an area nearly equal
10 the tlC u of Il room - feet SOU ire.
Popular Science Monthly.
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a revival meeting was going on at
n country church in Texas town.
a party of young men were engaged
on a railroad survey and could not
attend meeting in daytime, but went
at night. After a stormy sermon
from the preacher, who gave a vivid
description of he'll, its climate and in.
habitants, followed by n redhot ex.
hortation from one of the brethren,
they literally stormed the fort. One
of the railroad fellows was sitting in
the back end of the church, and the
preacher went up to him and said:
Don't you want to go to heaveni"
NO, " he replied.
This Mortified the preacher, and he
said to the congregation
Here is a young man who says he
doesn't want to go to heaven. Now,
my friend, why don't you want to go
to heaven!''
Because l would have to die To 20
there. Texas Siftings.
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Some Foreign uistakes About Americans.

Some Foreign 0Iistakes About Americans.
1t is always to a certain degree
amusing to note the ignorance prev
alent in European countries concern
ing matters and things in the United
States. My French almanac, for in
stance, sets forth as its prominent
incident for the 11th of April that
that was the date of the outbreak of
the war between the States of North
America and the States of South
America"
But still more astonishing is the
advertisement of a life of|Admiral
FaI1agut by Messrs. Sampson, Low,
Marston e. Co. the London publish
ers, the work being declared to be "a
biography, based on family papers,
of the great Confederate admiral, {"
said advertisement appearing in The
Athen8um, that most serious and
presumably accurate of English lit
erary publications. - Philadelphia
Telegraph
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An Old Family Dining Room.

America is getting ON certainly.
There was a time that when we
wanted to make our houses fine we
had to bring over doors and vain
scotings and panels and pillars from
old world palaces and castles. But
now we get them from our own an
cestral halls Every patriotic Ameri-
can should feel a thrill of pride on
entering the small dining room atthe
Waldorf. which is not q reproduc-
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noxcotttnr a Minister.

a Leeds Scotland gossip writes;
An amusing story comes from 'Aber-
deem ava, where the minister of a
certain kirk has incurred the dis
pleasure of his congregation by wear,
ing scarlet socks i'll church He has
been demonstrated with ON the vanity
of such bright colors. but remains
immovable, and his congregation are
in the meantime severely boycotting
him until he relinquishes the red
hose
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The First Gold Prom California.

On Monday, the 9TH of May, 1s49,
there arrived in Boston the ship So
phia Walker, Captain Wiswell, from
Valparaiso the I'd of March previous.
She brought with her the first gold,
in dust and bars, ever received IN this
city direct from California.
The whole amount was something
more than $50, 600. OF this amount,
Captain j. H. Spring, a passenger.
lately the commander of the ship
Huntress of New York, which was
sold on the coast, had $40, 900 in dust
on account of his owners, and the re-
mainder went principally to BaIti-
more in other consignments. Three
of the bars, however, valued at $1S,-
600, We're taken to Philadelphia the
following day to be converted into
Boston Herald.
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He Got the Ticket.

Nowhere excepting i'll this free and
beautiful country of ours could an
incident combining the humorous
and practical have occurred like the
following: 1t was between Mr. Bliss,
a conductor on the Chicago and Rock
Island railroad, whose height is j
feet, and Mr.. Henry, passenger,
who stood Z in his stockings. Mr..
Henry put his ticket in his hatband
and stood himself up when the brief
conductor came along Mr. Bliss
could not reach the ticket, even when
standing on his toes, and his unavail,
ing efforts to do SO made all the pas,
sengers "laugh consumedly" But
he rose TO the occasion. Without
changing countenance, he brought q
stepladder, lconcd it against the elon,
gated Henry, climbed up to and
picked off the ticket, and went on as
though nothing had happened.-Troy
Times.
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Rheumatism Cured in Day.-"Mys-
tic Cure" for Rheumatism and Neural
gia cures in to 3 days. Its action up
on the system is remarkable and mys-
terious. 1t removes at once the cause
and the disease Immediately disappears.
The first dose greatly benefits, 20 cents.
Sold by A. c. VanGilder, Druggist Point
Pleasant. Toctll-Sm.
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SAINT MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY JULY H. 1893
they allus ten 10 my turn, come

they allus teIl TO my turn, come
speliin lesson.
L was a fust class scholar, and
Jeems favors me in his head worllin's,
1 calc'late," concluded Mr.. Hobbs;
IAN considerin he don't suffer from
the set backs I did 1 shouldn't be
surprised mite if he was reckoned
take it by an large better scholar
n his pa was. YOUTHS COMPANION.