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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-06-21
A stunned Cat,s influence.

You can reproduce the likeness of
a cat or dog or any other animal on
canvar. animal will not OF
cannot recogn17s = even though ii
is considered perfect liteilke repro
duction. How different when the
interloper is q rag cat! 1t seems
ridiculous to write it, but neverthe.
less it is true. A Hartford child had
been presented with one of those
stuffed rag cats, with the expression
painted, and altogether a fairly good
looking specimen. Recently wish.
ing to see what effect would be pro.
duced by showing it to the tiger cat
that lay sleeping behind the stove,
the writer quietly placed the dummy
in sitting posture about three feet
from the sleeping feline and by fair
means or foul began to attract her
attention.
1t didn't take long. With a gentle
"biff' ON the side of the head to give
her the impression that it was a cat
blow she awakened, and with a fiv-
ing side leap she met the stuffed
beauty on the jaw. A rough and
tumble fight ensued. Graphing the
dummy the genuine proceeded to un-
joint it i'll a very rapid manner;
rags, wood and other members of the
decoy began raining in showers.
With not little difficulty the fight
ers were separated. New York Tele.
gram.
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The HUMAN MOUTH.
II. Expression Gives a valuable Key 70 II

y
passessor's Character.
Thenext time you are on street
car or in a crowd notice attentively
the faces of those about you and see
If am not right in saying the expires
sion of the mouth gives you the KEY
to the whole character.
You will find the women better
subjects than the men In Che latter
mustaches adroitly conceal much
that might otherwise mar a good
looking face, for IT Is true that very
few mouths wear the graceful curves
nature cast them in. Take the worl-
an who sat opposite you tonight.
She was beautifully dressed, but
how you pited the people who have
to live with her, for every time the
EAR gave lurch or some one rubbed
against her she scowled in the face
of the poor unfortunate beside her as
if he were presumably responsible
for the discomforts She suffered, and
you shuddered to think what that
woman's face would be were the cof-
fee cold or the cakes white. You Sc
cretly adored the gracious looking
woman sitting next the door, who
caught all the drafts and was crowd
ed and jostled by every passenger,
but still maintained that gentle equi-
hbriTm so delightful to look upon.
Yes, know it requires immense
courage and fortitude to look cheer
tul when your dainty patent tips are
being ruthleSsly trodden on, but
there is your chance TO be truly
heroic; besides, if you allow your
self to be annoyed and show it, some
one is sure to observe 1t, and it may
be Tho" himself.
Study yourselves, if you will, some
day when the whole world seems
clouded from the day outside to the
domestic atmosphere inside, when
the indigo tints predominatc every
where; hunt out the best mirror You
can find and take good square look
at yourself. Does the reflection
please youl How quickly you pub
up the corners of the mouth you
didn't know you could look so ugly,
for most of us, no matter how read
lily we infiict discontented express
sions on the world at large, dislike to
confront the same in ourselves.
Every one has his hobby; maybe
this is mine, but love you too well,
girls, to see the faces that should be
bright and happy rejecting every
passing jar and annoyance
Therei have had my say.lChi-
cago Tribune
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Forty-nIne Day at Sea.

Two hundred and ninety-six pas
sengers had narrow escape from a
watery grave on board the steam
ship Smidt, owned by Mr. Lange of
Bremen. She had been given up for
lost, when on March IL, 1870, she
limped into New York 40 DAYS
from Bremen, with a tale to tell
of the fury of the ocean that made
men shudder to hear. She had
been out in the gales in which the
City of Boston had probably found
cred. Captain Sinners of the Smidt
reported that hurricane which be-
gan on Jan. 30 lasted 13 days, and
that 1t took his engineers IL days to
repair the damage to the boats ma
chinery. New York World.
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Eeto loage 1n a punlic

aGlO tOIS6 In q DuDl1C
hou4 view to robbing it
asked - ion to pass the night by
the fire ancN Obtained it. When the
house was quiet, the servant girl,
suspecting mischief, crept down stairs
and looked through the keyhole.
when she saw the men open a sack
and take out dried, withered hand
They anomted the fingers with some
unguent aud lighted them. Each FIN
ger famed except the thumb. which
indicated flat one of the household
was not asleep.
Grose gives full account of this
charm as Used by the French house
breakers, and a variation of the same
belief prevailed in Belgium. Not far
from Bailleul, in West Flanders. a
thief was captured ON whom was
found the foot of man who had
been hanged, which he used when
engaged i'll his robberies for putting
persons to sleep. Similar instances
are quoted from Spain and Germany.
and it is noteworthy that Mexic m
thieves have been known to carry
with them the left hand and arm of a
woman who died at the birth of her
first child.
Then there is the corpse candle, a
weird implement of the robbers
trade, which, although common
throughout Europe, seems to have
been more general in Germany than
any other country. Pail Mall Ga
Zette.
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A visitor from Manchester had
been invited to address the Sunday
school. 81 am reminded, children, -
he said, "of the career of a boy who
was once 10 larger than some of the
little fellows 1 see here before me.
He played tuant when he was sent
to school, went fishing every Sunday,
ran away from home when he was
10 years OIL, learned to drink, smoke,
chew tobacco, play cards. He went
into bad company, frequentcd stables
and low taprooms, finally became a
pickpocket, then forger, and one
day in a fir of drunkenness he com
mitted a cowardly murder. Chill
dren," he continued impressively,
where do you think that boy is
nowl"
He stands before us.' cried the
children with one voice.-London
Tit-Bits.
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Lett His Hat In Good Hands.

THE most remarkable experience
which 1 had abroad, said a woman
just home, happened before 1
touched foreign shore. At Brem-
en-, where we landed, we were tax
en- OFF in tug. AS we were steam
ing to the wharf we approached very
close to a vessel crossing our path.
and for a few seconds a collision
seemed imminent. A man whom 1
had noticed on the passage over, but
did not know at all, completely lost
his head at this crisis. He was sit
ting near me, but he suddenly rose.
took off his high hat, put it in my
lap, and with the hasty exclama-
ton, Please keep this, leaped over
board.
Though every attempt was made
to resc;Ie him, he was drowned there
before our eyes, and I landed short
time later, carefully holding his silk
hat, which, by his last will and testa-
ment, was certainly though most
uselessly and 9ewsomely mine. -
New York Times.
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You Would Live.

If your name is to live at all, it is
so much more to have it live in peo-
pies hearts than only i'll their brains
1 don't know that ones eyes fill with
tears when he thinks of the famous
inventor Of logaIithms, but a song of
Burns or hymn of Charles Wes-
ley's goes straight to your heart, and
you capt help loving both of them,
sinner as well as saint The works
of other men live, but their 1I,sfsSa
ality dies out of their labors; the
poet who reproduces himself in his
creation as no other artist does or
can goes down to posterity with all
his personality blended with what
ever is imperishable in his song
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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It is not easy to ascertain with pre-
cision the total amount of Irish capi-
tai, the fund which sets in motion
whatever of commerce, trade, indus
try and employment exists in the
island, but ''Thom's Almanac" helps
us to form very fair estimate. The
tenement valuation in 1894 of
lands, houses, etc, was e14, 900, 600
value of crops, esq, 900, 600; value of
horses, cattle, sheep and pigs, e73,-
600, 600; capital of joint stock banks,
e1O, 900, 600; deposits in joint stock
banks and savings banks, e35, 600, 600;
investments in government stock
transferable at Bank of Ireland, s31.-
100000; stock and share capital, etc,
of railway companies, e36, 600, 600;
fisheries, 81, 900, 600; total, 9233, ,O0O,-
600 st. James Gazette.
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now . Keep the reet 1NarIn.

Gold feet seem never to DO
teamsters and car drivers, said
Elmer E. Jones of Atlanta.
seem to understand how to keep
feet warm even in the coolest "
er. l do not know that they
aware that the secret of comic
winter consists, not In keeping
out but in keeping warmth in|
they apply the theory all the 81
Besides the arctic overshoes VI
careful car drivers wear In
weather, they wrap brown
around their feet over wooden
and this has the effect of i'm
ing the natural warmth Of tha
Der and preventing sufferins
cold. st. Louis Globe-D Demo
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a Difficult and Dangerous Operation.

Ependicitis is an operation per
formed in New York, and which oc-
cupies large place in the attention
of surgery. 1t always has deep in
terest for the general public, because
it consists of the removal from the
human body of an organ that is a
mystery to the medical profession.
This organ, the vermiform appendix,
is about the only thing in the human
structure for whose existence science
has been unable to discover a reason.
The vermiform appendix is small
tube or tissue about as big as half
lead pencil, and depending from one
of the intestines.
In this position it is apt to catch
cherry pits, seeds of fruit and other
small objects likely to incite infam-
nation. When that takes place, the
only way to save the patient is to re-
move the vermiform appendix, and
it is SO situated in the body that the
operation of taking it out is attended
with much deep cutting and conse-
quently much danger.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
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4 MoNu lgN1 .foR rHg SOLDIERS.


A mon lent for the soldierai
And 1T will ye bniId it of
Can 81 sliid IL of marble or brass or bronze
Outl ing the soldiers love9
Can Sd 'ptify 1t with legends
SD as their blood hath writ
From inmost shrine OF this land OF thine
Tot utermost verge ofit2
And til answrrc came: We would build IT
Out q rur hopes made sure.
And on our purest prayers and tears.
And Of our faith secure.
We yxo| build it out of the great white
Their .ath hath sanctifed.
And scniptured forms of the men in
And eir faces ere they died.
And heroic figures
Can ~ sculptor carve in stone7
Can tiI1 marble breast be rnade TO bleed
And marble lips to moan?
Can III 1arblc brow be fcvered?
And lnfgrLic eyes be f;raved
Tolod neir last as the flag floats past
On 4 eountry they have saved2
And snswer came: The figures
ShaI N be fair and brave,
And. 4 fittffC, as pure and white
AS sars above their grave!
The m ri-le lips and breast and brow
whe i tho laurel lies,
Bcqucath Us right TO guard the flight
or ltl' old flag in the skies!
A mo-, .ent FOR the soldiersi
~ q, ~ ~ ssls,s lSres. s----,
AMI bla--ned and decked and panoplied
With the hearts ye build it of!
And see that ye build it stately,
In pillar and niche and gate,
And high in pose rs the souls OF those
1t twOuld commemorate
James Whitcomb Riley
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Do Not XIII Robins.

There are persons at the present
day-and not all old women, either
who believe that killing a robin will
bring bad luck. According to an
cient belief the stormcloud was a
huge bird, the Arabians represented
his wings as measuring 10000
fathoms This bird lived on worms,
the latter being the streaks of
lightning accompanying storms.
The Germans remodeled the fiction
by creating the god Thor, whose bird
was the robin; consequently to kill a
robin first meant death by lightning,
then bad luck.-New York TeIe-
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Decay of uandwrit,nr

Will handwriting soon become an
extinct art7 1t seems like it, judg-
ing from the number of kilograms
that do duty instead of letters and
FROM the multiplication of the type.
writer. kilograms of coincidence.
kilograms of congratulation, tender
messages of love, invitations to din
ner-all are conveyed by the electric
wire. 1t saves time; it saves trouble;
it spares all expenditure of pretty
phrases. Then as to the typewriter;
active men of business first began to
use it; then lazy people followed suit;
now even intimate friends write their
notes with it.
In many houses may be heard the
aggravating click of the typewriter,
so utterly unimaginative and unro-
mantle, while the conversation turns
on the respective merits of the lead
ing machines, the speed with which
they write, and the latest American
method of using the little finger.
Alas, for the old days! We shall have
no more charming letter writers, no
more gossiping epistles, no more in
dividuality in handwriting. Our
hearts will not beat when we are
handed n letter, for we shall never
know if it comes from our sweetheart
over the seas, or from the butcher
round the corner, inclosing his new
circular of prices.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
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Going Over the nrool,l,n nr,Jre.

stop showing sol" Look out who
you're pushingr' Don't try to run
over me, 1 say" These are notes
from the chorus of the solid mass of
persons that crowd up the stairs to
the Brooklyn bridge cars. On the
upper platform the trains sweep away
regiments at a time. Burly bridge
policemen are there, urging every
one forward, and at times-until the
newspapers cry out periodically
putting their h&nds ON their betters
-Sy-a..;s,;,5:;,,,,;; y, en-, ..:-ato the cars
through three doors at ~o4s1-MsSaa..
volvers ale charged. There are ii
other ways to Brooklyn, all by ferry
boats, and between and 6 o'clock
in the afternoon all these are crowd
ed. They are not mobbed like the
bridge, to be sure, but they are
packed with people so that you can
only see the rims of the decks as you
see the edge of a grocer's measure
that has been filed with peas.-Ju-
lian Ralph in Harper's.
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DEAD MEMS HANDS.
Weird and Ghastly Charms and Imp
nlent& Some Criminals Employ.

Weird and Ghastly Charms and ImpIe-
nients Some Criminals Employ.
Onoof the most curious and strange
phases of, superstition relates to the
criminal classes The mystic code
which regulates the lives of these en-
enies of society is in many cases a
survival of fetichism of the Oldest
kind. Believing tenaciously in the
dread efficacy of certain ghastly
charms aud incantations, the male
factor boldly enters upon his enter
prise, occasionally carrying with him
"a dead mans hand" taken from
one who has died a violent deat'l.
Such a charm being supposed to over
power with sleep those who come
under its influence, it is naturally an
invaluable adjunct to the implements
employed by thieves.
Some years ago an attempted rob
hery was made by burglars on an es-
tate in the County Meath, and, to
quote contemporary account OF the
affair, they entered the house armed
with dead mans hand, with a light
ed candle in it, believing that can
die so placed Will not be seen by any
but those by whom it is used, and
also that if candle in dead mans
hand be introduced into a house it
will prevent those who may be asleep
from awakening. The inmates, how
ever, were alarmed, and the robbers
fled, leaving the dead hand behind
them. !"
Many similar stories are told of the
"a the dead hand by thieves, one
nicated by the Rev. S. Barring
zinc, rrn1.tlnn, of r,nfica Trn
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rsie Lihrarlan or tho Conr
brary Ts Able 60 Locafr'-
The prodi eiOus .nenolT of
rian Ainsvoith. Spofford of
gressional library, his reni
abllity to locate any book anao1l
hundreds of thousands unde
charge and his familiarity wit
contents of most of them IS
known. In R5chat Assistant P5
master General 81. Clay Evans n
lated an interesting instance Of 1Il
Spoford's ability
General Lew Wallsce, while
ing with me some time acc, N
General Evans, told me ist',
some OF the material for the~
which deals with the chariot IsiO
tween Ban-Hur and AIessala.
doubted if taere existed \ book in Il
United States that contained what d
wanted and referred TO his part
Qlar matter aud at the period.
B. C.-but concluded that il It n.
not in the congressional library
Spoford could aid him.
He came to Washington and
Mr.. Spofford, explaining wha,
wanted. No hook was on the sid
of the congressional Ifl5iaT5-
would aid him, he was informed.
there was bat one book IN the Bnil
States that had any bearing spon Z
subject.
You Will find it. said aIr. Spo
ford, in the Athen@um library
Boston. Idon't remember Its title, i
fact, it has none. 1t is an old. plaiI
" bound volume The librarian wi
probably tell you he hasn't it, but b
has, because 1 have seen it, and
contains the material you want. r
draw diagram of the library so 20
can so 10 the book
He drew the diagram and e,
planned how General Wallace was I
so down this aisle and into that
cove, and that the book would
found upon a certain shelf SOMA
books from the end Armed with
diagram, General Wallace proceed
to the Athenamm library and "
informed that they knew of no y
ume that contained the material
sought.
He received permission TO insp1
the library, and consulting his d
gram soon placed his hands on
old. musty volume, just where N'
Spolford had told him he would fiI'
it, and sure enough it contained ~
the material which he lacked as
the customs, chariots and races
the people of whom he wrote.
Il recall another instance. It "
during the debate in congress o1
the rules, Speaker Reed rHesidi1
Attorney General John
Nashville, reading of the.ql ~,
the newspapers, recalled like
tion having come up in the I'D
house of lords. he telegraphe,
that somewherein the parliane
ports the debate and its result
DO found. / hurried with th,
gram to Mr.. Spofford. He cont
his brows, thought a lnomei
then pulled out volume of tl
glish reports, thumbed oyeT-;r
z4asS1i6, TnGre' s wiiaclsotr-
ran with it to Tom Bayne, who
then speaking and who used it in,
argument, Speaker Reed afterwa
using it in an article in one of Cd
magazines. Washington Star.
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T1ustee Sake OF. a Farm.

Py virtue oil authority vested in me by a
Deertain deed ortrust executed by VaIaild-
insnilm Jackson, to the undersigned trustee,
bearing date ON the 9Th day OF June. 1887 and
recorded in the Clerks Office of the County
court OF Mason county, West Virginia, in
trust deed book No. 10, folio ~, to secure the
payment OF "A certain prOmiSSOTy note, exc
cuted 10y said Nalandingham jackson and
payable one year after date to the order of C.
e Miller, for The sum of $4,000, and default
having been made in the payment of said
note, and being requested by G. c Miller the
owner thereof, to make sale of the real estate
conveyed by said deed of trust. The under
signed trustee, will sell at public auction, in
Point Pleasant, at the front door of the Court
House of Mason county on
Thu rsday, July 9th, 1893,
the following property tO-wit= a certain traet
OF land situated in Cooper District Mason
county, West Virginia, and bounded as fol-
Iows- beginning at "A poplar in Gratz line
same being a corner to $50 acres. SURVEYED
for William George and Hiram Cooper
thence running with the same =. lie w lI0
poles to "A white oak, same being a corner TO
lot No. 3, thence with same -. 81 w. 40 poles
to "A stake corner to lot No. =, thence with
the same y. p 90 +. 100 poles to n hickory
ON a hill in Gratz line. thence with same n
- +. % poles to the place OF beginning, con-
thinning - acres, more less. There are
some credits on said note, and sale will be
made for the balance due, with legal interest.
TERMS or SALE CASH.
June i-w w II. TOMLISsoS, Trustee.
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Prouae Fish.

No wonder the fiah crop is never
'fshort" The founder lays 2, 600. 600
eggs annually; several others from
1000, 600 to 5, 900, 900, while the t1r-
bot is credited with depositing from
IL, 900, 900 to 1900, ,Ooo during each
breeding season.-Exchange.
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when BanaIo noI,,. No. :

Up to about 1869 the IND
nually killed the buffalo
sands. During many gel
they slaughtered them onI
meat and skins which til
selves could use. Then IL
time wnen SS15sgg al
tho hides and tongues. ami
other thousands were slau
this purpose. As late a
could buy a beautiful fur
coat, well made and lined
mel, at the retail clothin9
Paul for SO. There was
too, for the choicer port
flesh, but this only cut a
in the dreadful total, so
the trade In robes con
only incentive for sIaug
lin Russell In Ha1Der's
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Commissioners Notice.
Annie F. Austin, ct ais.
w J. Brown, b, ct ais


In Chanccry.
Il VIE parties to the above entitled cause
will take notice that in obedience to the
requirements Of n certain decree entered in
the above named cause on the 18th day OF
May, 1898, by the Circuit Court of Mason
County, West Virginia, the undersigned
Commissioned in Chancery, will on the 3rd
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West VIr-
ginia- proceed TO take, state and, report an ac-
count in said cause showing:
FirSt-The value of the rents, issues and
profits OF the farm mentioned in the bill OF
the plaintiffs in the above entitled cause,
since the death of Mary A. Brown.
SecOnd-The value of the permanent i'm
prOvements put upon said farm by defend
ants w ]. Brown and u. L. Brown, and the
taxes thereon paid by them during said time.
Third-The difference between the value oi
said rents. issues and profits. and of the said
permanent improvements and taxes.
FOurth-Any other pertinent matter that
either party in interest in writing, may re-
quest
Given nnder my hand this the 3rd day OF
June lsst5. joins E BELIER
June T-i-w. Commissioner in Chancery.