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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17

The immense amount of money
spent by the shah in the purchase Of
furniture and curiosities In Europe
excited a feeling of discomfort, and
his second tour was unquestionably
unpopular among his subjects. That
he was able to venture upon a third
is proof of the absolute security Of
his position, but it is also due to the
sentiment which he has taken care
to diffuse among his subjects that
the princes of Christendom vie with
each other in anxiety to entertain so
great potentate and squabble for
the honor of his alliance.-"P Persia
and the Persian Question"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
A Hero.

He is hero who when sorely tried
Hath yet a firm control
Ger all his passions as they strongly rise
To battle with his soul.
The silent battle which the spirit fights,
Warning against desires
Unholy and impure, II right shall win
To higher good inspires.
The soul that crucifes an evil thought.
That keeps guarded gate
OF Christian love and brotherly good will
Between his soul and hate,
Shall stand, in all his manliness and worth,
As mightier than he
Who takes city in his strength and pride
Or boasteth vauntingly.
The shield of purity when nobly worn,
Where faith has been confessed,
Is stronger than the cunning coat of mail
Upon warriors breast.
He is a hero who to truth is true,
Though lowly and obscure.
Long after earthly honors fade away
His triumphs shall endure.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
rre uonn Annnrinn,.

An aquarium in which plants are
grown will not require the changing
of water. except occasionally, when
the tank needs to be cleaned. The
growing plants give off oxygen and
absorb carbonic acid. TO arrange
an aquarium with plants, cover the
bottom of glass globe or tank with
gravel which has been thoroughly
washed. Half fill small fowerpot
with earth, and plant in it small
Egyptian lily; then fill the pot with
well washed sand. Place the pot in
the center of the tank and surround
it with stones, so that it may be held
in place and at the same time con-
cealed. On top of this pot, and
around it in the rocks and gravel,
set out few fine moses and vines,
such as grow in fresh water. Let
watercress and hornwort be among
them. A north exposure is best for
this aquarium. Put in the fish and
feed them on bits of meat, crumbs
of bread and worms. ms.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
Forever.

Two little streamlets leaped andfowed
And sang their songs together:
They felt alike the summer rays
And bore the stormy weather;
The self same blossoms decked them both
In colors rich and rare.
And in each stream the song birds woced
Their bright reflections there.
And ON and on and on they danced.
Each leaping toward the river,
And then they met to kiss and part
Forever and forever.
Two human lives, two kindred hearts.
By destfny's decree,
Net in the spring of life to learn
Its deepest mystery.
They dreamed their morning dreams Of
hope
Through fair, unclouded weather;
They opened loves bewitching book
And read it through together:
They saw in one another's eyes
A deep, unspoken bliss,
And from each others lips they took
Loves ever ready kiss.
And then the fate that crushes all
The sweetest pleasures here
Turned hopes glad music to sigh,
Its glory to q tear.
It stepped between them. All. It Knocked
The love it could not KILL
It bade them in its fury live
And love and suffer still.
They tried with outstretched hands to spar
Fate's wide, unyielding Never"
The voice of destiny replied.
Forever and foreyeri''
-Chambers' Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
Preferred Their Own society.

Emerson suggested to his wife that
Bridget and Mary, instead of taking
their meals in the kitchen, should
thenceforth be accommodated with
seats at the family table. 1t being a
case of conscience, Mrs. Emerson,
like a good wife, acquiesced in the
proposal, and an attempt was made
TO carry it out. But the servants OBJ
jected; it made them very uncom-
Portable; they preferred their owl
society and surroundings, and tho
family of course cheerfully acqui
esced. Buffalo Commercial.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
Remembered.

1 need not be missed If another succeed me
To reap down the fields that in spring have
sown.
He who plowed and who sowed is not missed
by the reaper:
he is only remembered by what he has done.
Not myself. but the truth that in life have
spoken:
Not myself. but the seed that IN life have
sown,
Shall pass on to eges-all about me forgotten.
Save the truth 1 have spoken, the things I
have done
So let my living be. so be my dying;
So let my name be unblazoned, unknown:
Cnpraised and unmissed shall yet be remem-
Yes, but remembered by what have done.
-Horatius Bonar.
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An Saints.

Men may not mark them in the crowded ways.
The noisy world forgets to blame praise
The poor in spirit, yet they pass along
Through silent paths and make them glad
Theirs is the kindgdom where Love reigns su-
preme
And Faith scars higher than the poets dream.
Wrapped in the sunlight of eternal day,
Blessed are they.
God knows the patient souls who do his will:
The mourners who can suffer and be still,
Waiting in silence for his healing balm;
The meek, whose hands shall clasp the victor'a
palm;
The hungry ones, whom he aione can feed:
The merciful; the pure in heart and deed:
The peacemakers-oft these hear him say,
Blessed are they.
Father. we pray thee that thy light may shine
Upon the world through every child of thinei
Into the haunts of darkness and distress
They come with all the power of bicssedness.
When thou hast called them to thy purer
The fragrance of their lives shall linger here,
And through deaths silence We shall hear thee
% Blessed are they.
Sarah Doudney.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
GEMS IN VERSE.
ZINC Ynller of Gettr.bnrr

Tho Wiley Of Gettysburg.
One dusk. long summers gone, the white
checked moon
Beheld this valley reel with war. But now
Where yon still hamlet windows redly glow
At eve the housewives gossip or else Groom
Soft lullabies. Through the long afternoon
The children gambol in the vale below;
The lustrous lilies at their moorings blow;
The mowers move with scythes In merry tune;
Chime family far from out the white church
spire
Those evening bells; slow move the creakine
wains
Down purple glens ablaze with sunset fire,
And low necked kline trudlse home Through
thick lcafed lanes.
Sweet vale. the only sword now there that's
Is the moons scimiter in skies serene
James S. Sullivan.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
Electricttv I'm Mining.

One of the latest applications of
electricity to mining operations is
seen In lead mine in Belgium.
Each bucket arriving at the top of
the shaft makes an electric contact,
and a needle in the office indicates
by red line upon a revolving drum
the number of buckets brought up.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17

All, who can tell the joy feel
To see him pass. the jest of all the crowd
That throng the asphalt paye7
His brow is dark with gloom,
For vain is his attempt to look unccncerned
Despite his feeble, sickly grins-
This man who. when an office interview we
crave.
Keeps us four hours his pleasure waiting in an
anteroom-
Mighty is he at morn; at eve a nursegirl turned
Wheelinga baby carriage and red faced squall.
ing twins. "A Reporter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
Near the Sight of the crueia1iop.

The hill near Jerusalem where the
crucifxion of Jesus occurred is formed
of limestcae. The shores of the
Dead sea are lined with pumice
stone, showered out of some volcano
that destroyed Sodom and Gomor-
rah, which cities finally sank be-
meath the waters of the Dead sea-
New York Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
a Great F..a.r.

NJ. de semblacay, bishop of Bour-
ges, for many years eat six meals a
day and attributed his talent IN this
direction to the fact that al say
grace not only before and after each
repast, but at each removal of q
Eervice. ."1Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
The Man who Always Smiles.

Ahe HAan VINO Always Smiles.
His house may not a mansion be; his place in.
side the line
Where common people stand and note their
richer neighbor's shine;
But yet his life's a grander one, though lacking
much of style.
His title is the Prince of Hope-the man who
always smiles.
Though he never limned a landscape he's an
artist in his way;
He's a picture fair of joyousness in frame
that's always gay;
His life's useful sermon, and he's preaching
all the while,
And he's better on than governors-the man
who always smiles.
He's one of LIES physicians without antidotes
orpills;
His cures are freely given to all mems current
ills;
He's a missionary worker. leaving out the
heather isles.
And he's aiming straight for heayen-the man
who always smiles.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
slade 20 R.nen.

In his memoirs the Marshal de
Luxembourg relates the following in
cident The occurrence took place
during his service In the army of
Flanders.
Noticing one lay on :t march that
several soldiers were not in their
places, he sent an aid-de-camp to re
call them All olleyed promptly ex-
cept one. The marshal. then Count
/ de Bouttevillc and lesser officer,
hastened to him. stick in hand, and
threatened to strike him.
If you do that you viii repent it, .
cried the soldier.
Boutteville struck him several
times and forced him to return to
his regiment.
Two weeks later the count Offered
n large sum of money to any man
who would execute periloas errand
for him. A soldier who was con
sideled tho bravest in his regiment
presented himself for the commission
and acquitted himself with great sue
cess and courage
Boutteville praised hini highly and
presented him with the reward which
he had offered The soldier irnme-
diateiS distributed the money among
his comrades and said:
II did not serve you for money,
but if you think deserve some rec
ompense will you make me an of
ficer2 Do you recognize me, sir7"
The count replied that he had never
seen him.
Il am the soldier to whom you
gave a severe beating two weeks ago.
] said that you would repent it. !"
The count embraced him with
emotion, promised to be his friend,
and the man received an officers
commission that very day.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17

It is bad enough for a young worn-
an to receive typewriter letters from
him. But when she discovers evi-
dence of manifolding she is entirely
justified in being only a sister,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17

trance.
/ only know my love lies cold and still;
No more It stirs at smile or tender tone.
loved you once. but coldness love can kill
Then blame me not that now you walk alone
You swore you loved me in the days now dead
And on that oath gave you all you claimed
Then for love you gave neglect instead;
So all my heart shrank back to me. ashamed
That for a stone its jewel had been given.
Then what seemed love to passing fancy fell
And when thought you ope'd the gates OF
heaven
You only paved the downward path to hell
Now go your way. Henceforth cease to be
The loving woman whom you did not love.
The futures gulf lies broad 'twixt you and me.
You pass from out my life. Have mercy,
God above! Jessie Leo Randolph.
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WE WANT YQu

TO net our agent. We furnish an expensive
outfit aud all you need free. 1t costs nothing. TO
try tile business. We will treat you well, and
help you TO earn ten times ordinary wages. Both
sexes of all ages can live at home and work in
spare time, or all the time. ANY one any where
can earn a great deal of money. Many have made
Two Hundred Dollars Month. No class of
people in the world making so much money
without capital as those at work for us. Business
pleasant, strictly honorable, and pays better than
any other offered to agents. You have a clear
field, with no competition. We equip you with
everything, and supply printed directions for
beginners which, If Obeyed faithfully, will bring
more money than will any other business. Inn
prove your prOspectsi Why not? You can do so
easily and surely at work for us. Reasonable
industry only necessary for absolute success
Pamphlet circular giving every particular is sent
free to all Delay not In sending for It.
GEORGE STINSON & CO.,
Box No. 4SS, Portland, Ne.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
A Proverb.

Johnny, give me a proverb.
nAmputation is the thief of legs.
Razar.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17
What 1rIll Fenred.

John Stuart Mil could get little
pleasure from music In the later
years of his life because his over
strained mind reasoned that music
was only a combination of notes, and
mathematically considered the time
must come when all such possible
combinations would have been ex-
hausted.n y
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-01-17

Ask me not why strive and strive in vain
To wake again the thrills of dead romance:
To feel once more the pleasure or the pain;
To wake my heart from out its deathlik
trance.
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Finished.

Blessed are they.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-14

mately hold when filled to any Ger
tain level; partially, wholly, or as
might be desired to supply each
tree, the water being run i'll quick
ly say from a hose. If the soil is
SO absorbent as to prevent any
thing like correct filling, stream
delivering a certain number OF gal
Ions or cubic feet per minute can
be turned in for the time necessary
to furnish the quantity Of water
wanted for each tree. Every de
tail cannot be absolutely given,
owing to different soils and condi-
tons, and the quantity of water
per tree cannot, of course, be lnva-
riabIv stated here, since this would
depend on a number of Considcra-
tons which at once suggest them
selves, such as local and indiVidu-
al necessity, age of trees, occasion
and experience. Several streams
of water could be employed at once
without requiring many hands.
The plan is certainly not hard to
carry out and thereby sounder
practice may result. With this
hope | submit the matter
c. II. BAKER.
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Florida and California Side by Side.

Editor Florida AgricuIt uriSt:
The orange season is nearly ended
here; only few Sicily oranges being on
sale and many of these are Of an inferi
or quality. Some few stores have few
California nayels but they cut a small
figure as they have all along since com
ing into the market and since the disap-
pearance of the Floridas.
A California navel is of good favor
and juicy but rather tart. But they
have no chance beside the Florida fruit
which holds the mark et against all cor
ners as long as it lasts. Why, [ do not
know unless people are used to
our fruit and always call for it. One
thing is certain, the price would condemn
any fruit, for people are not going to pay
from 40 cents to so cents for oranges per
dozen and | saw none quoted less than
40 cents and the most were up to so and
60 cents while the highest priced Messi-
mas were 40 cents. Blood oranges have
a great reputation and the retailers
have few cut open on their stands to
show their genuineness; these bring the
highest price. One wholesale dealer
i,ere who handles about 10000 boxes of
Florida oranges, sold one car Of Califor-
MIA oranges and advertised another car
"to arrive next week" But [ never
heard of it's coming.
Notwithstanding the better prices re-
ceived by the growers the retail price
was little if any higher than year ago.
Very few sold for less than % cents a
dozen.
The great majority of purchasers of
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question, but a careful inVestiga-
ton of conditions, and an econom-
ical adoption of means to an end
practically embodying the results
of such investigation. Here is the
case roughly stated. These trees
want a drink; their mouths are in
their roots Why not put the
drink to their lips in stead of vast
ing fuel, water and time, by put
ting their heads under the pump?
That this is correct no one will
question and it is plain enough to
need no specific proof, hence | be
heVc that the unprej udiccd jud8-
ment must be against shoWering as
a systematic method of irrigating
There can be no objection to show
ering or Wetting the tops of the
trees thoroughly from time to time,
it is not however essential, and in
California where dust cuts such a
figure they get along bravely with
out it, but the actual watering for
thrift and fruit had best be done
right where it is of most use, name
ly, at the roots.
Such watering may be done with
out much difficulty. To most Flor
ida soils, however, the neatest way
of carrying a STANDARDIZATION
would not be applicable. | would
therefore suggest for the purpose a
modification of what is we'll
known as the "basin-system." Ac-
cording to this plan ridges of soil
of greater or less height and thick
ness are raised in the center be-
tween every two rows Of trees, run
ming throughout the grove in both
directions, lengthWise and cross
wise. Each tree is thus left stand
ing in a rectangular basin, and the
water is run into these basins, be-
ginning with the highest, and end
ing with the lowest point of the
grove, until all are full, remaining
in this state until the water is alb
OOI OOO Wy l1lC SOI1. LII ldlSII1S lIlC
ridges that enclose the basins a
simple implement operating like
corn pillow and known as a '|ridger"
is employed, In default of this
two ordinary pillow burrows turned
against each other, or indeed a sin
gle furyow, might here in Florida af-
ford the requisite depth to the ba-
sins, according to experience. In
these sandy, absorbent soils, they
need not perhaps be very deep, they
wou!l at any rate involve less la
Dor in their formation than prepar-
ing / u the simplest method of sur
face irrigation does in the soils of
Ca ifornia. The basins being
abe 1t equal in size, and the depth
known, an easy calculation would
show how many gallons, or cubic
feet of water each would approx
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The Trench System Of Irrigation.
From the May Irrigator.l

The Trench System OF irrigation.
From the May Irrgatorl
| beg the privilege of your col
umns In order to make some re
marks and suggestions relating to
the important movement with
whose cause you are identified.
When in Florida some three
years ago, | scarcely heard irriga-
ton mentioned, much less advo-
Gated by horticulturists, who kept
putting on long faces and praying
for rain; while plants or systems
for the artificial distribution of
water for cultural uses must have
been few and small throughout the
length and breadth of the State.
Things are very different now.
Returning here but recently, find
it interesting to note how necessi-
ty, or the proper appreciation
thereof, is bringing intelligent
growers to the one inevitable con
clusion, whose demonstration, if
any we're required, has existed for
ages; a conclusion, be it said, that
must yet be arrived at in many
parts of the country at large not
now under the pressure of the ne
cessity already mentioned.
A considerable part of my alb
sence from Florida has been spent
in growing oranges and raisin-
grapes in Southern California,
where irrigation is no longer
question, but fact, and the prim-
tive or surface method of applica-
ton is adopted almost exclusively.
The water may be brought and dis
tributed in one or another manner,
but to effect it's purpose, it is run
directly upon the ground.
Having become acquainted with
this method, and having regularly
praCticed the same where it's adj
vantages are fully recognized, l
have been somewhat surprised to
find that, in exploiting irrigation
in Florida, the actual application
of water tends to the form of arti-
fetal rain; the opinion seeming to
prevail that, as rain comes from
above, all water acting the same
part, should take the same course.
| have in fact, heard this view ex-
pressed, and the equipment of
many Of the irrigating plants now
installed would appear to indicate
that showering, SO to speak, was
regarded as the principal, if not
the sole reliance.
Such method, cannot but think
illogical, wasteful and injudici-
Gus. Is this justified, let me
ask, by the conditions to be met,
and is it the outcome Of a scientif-
ic consideration of the case? By
this, | do not mean the mere phys
les or the bare mathematics of the
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any cUmmodlty are poor people, and the
problem of putting good orange at a
| Nv price before the consuming public
should, and probably is, receiving the
attention it deserves.
There is one shop here, to illustrate,
that employs about 500 girls making cor
sets, and nearly all carry their lunch.
Oranges are favorite and are in great
request when reasonable in price.
Dufing the latter part of the season
The commission men We're anxious to pur
chase grape fruit. 1t seems to be scarce
at the time it ought to be eaten freely.
Very few people know how to eat it. and
alter trying one orange fashion they have
no further use for them. II shippers
would place in each box card, say u
loot square, giving description of the
frult, how it is prepared for the table, aud
It's medicinal qualities, think it would
pay them. A Autographed card of rath-
er stiff material with a string to hang it
up by and picture of the tree in colors
hanging full OF fruitfollowed by the read.
ing matter would be a good scheme.
This would apply also to the persim-
mon. II people knew that a persimmon
is not ripe until it is soft more would be
eaten. A little enterprise in these mat
ters would work wonders.
People have to push things these DAYS.
II one has a new breakfast dish, or buck
wheat flour, or cocoa, or perfumerv, or
coffee, be hires hall or a place in some
store ADD after due advertising, the pub
lie is invited to freely sample the article
made before their eyes. And if pres
ent to each purchaser is offered there is
no end to the crowd.
In one OF your Issues you speak of the
demanded of an orange pre-
sentative. | am eating oranges now
picked in Florida about the first of Feb.
ruary. The yare fill of juice and as
plump and fresh looking as when picked.
Oranges might keep here when they
would not in Florida. Mine were sbipr ed
in ordinary crates and packed after arri-
val. | should think if the oranges or
lemons were taken carefully from the
trees and packed in the material and
placed in a cool place they would keep
as well in Florida as here.
packed several boxes and up to May
Is when [ last examined them none had
decs yed or dried 6p. 1 do not know at
what price the material could be furnished
as the principal ingredient is not COM
mercial product. But it would not be
over few cents box the first year and
can be used Indefinitely with but slight
loss as it is lighter than bran and about
as fine. And the oranges can be packed
n it as easily. [ have better luck keep
ng oranges and grapefruit than apples.
June 1st [ saw the first peaches; they
were Peentos small and shriveled.
F. H.
Springfield, Mass.