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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-06-07

Gents SOC unlaundried Shirts, now 3
for Sl00.
Gents 25c Outing Shirts, now Zoe.
Gents SOC Outing Shirts, now soc.
Gents Teck or four-in-hand Ties,
choice styles, only gle.
Gents SOC Teck or fourth. hand Ties,
SOC.
Ladies' Windsor Ties, 25c quality for
100.
Ladies' cotton Hose, black 25c quality,
now l1c.
Ladies' cotton Hose, black. regular
made, fast colors, 19c quality. now
II &c pair.
II 12 gents seamless Hose, regular
made, good quality, now SC pair.
Gents cotton Hose, tan, grey or black,
II Lee pair.
Boys ribbed seamless Hose. black,
fast colors l9c quality,now II Lee pair.
Boys 25c extra heavy ribbed Hose,
black, now l9c pr.
Ladies Csc Jersey Vests, bargain,
while they last, ~ 1-2clLa
Gents Balbriggan' Shirts or drawers
bargain, only PIC.
S1.OO GOWNS FOR 50 CENTS.
We have just received large invoice
of ladies Night Gowns, made of Fruit
of the Loom cotton, trimmed with col
ored or white Hamburgs, never sold less
than Sl.00, our price to close this lot
CO..
Silk UMBRELLAS, 10.
To-day we place on sale 500 silk I'm.
brellas, sizes "a and 26 inch, with
natural wood handles, at Sl.l9. They
are special value and guaranteed to give
satisfaction.
Sd Chenille Table Spreads, CSC.
Regular price, Sl,00.
81 Chenille Table Spreads, extra
heavy, choice colorings, 81 25 quality,
now Csc.
$1.25 Suede Gloves, Now SOC.
We place on sale to-day our entire
stock of fancy colored 4-button Suede
Gloves, colOrs assorted greens, navy
blue and many other desirable colorngs.
They are the Sl,25 quality. We will fit
and guarantee every pair at s9c.
Chenille POrtieres $3.50 a pair.
At this price we offer thirty pairs
chenille PortiereS, large size, with deep
border and heavy chenille fringe at
top and bottom. We can give you about
any coloring you want at 50 50 pair,
regular price So IS.
Curtain Poles 10 cents.
10 cents will bny a cherry, walnut or
ash Curtain Pole with end sockets,
rings and hooks complete.
Extension Sash Rods 15c. each.
During this sale we will sell a brass
extension sash rod with end pieces COM
plete for 10 cents.
Lace Curtains 20 cents.
Lace Curtains 81 yards long, tapped
edges, were Sl.00, now 70 cents a PAIR.
Lace Curtains S112
Lace Curtains, 81 yaeds long, extra
wide, our 81 80 quality, now on sale at
$ II a pair.
Special prices on all high grade cur
tains and curtain muslins.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-06-07

ZNHigh class Paris novelties in
~ lengths Of I, 8 and 9 yards. each
10. A and as inches wide, formerly from
Sl2 80 to SlS 90 per pattern, including
the cream of this seasons very choicest
weaves. All go at $3.50 per pattern.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-06-07
Children's Refers, @l.9S.

Children's Refers, ages to - years,
all wool cloths, trimmed with fancy
braids, reduced from SO 90 and $500 to
81 IS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-06-07

The above cut represents our regular
two dollar wrapper now on sale at 81 81.
They are made of fine Frence lawns,
Challies, Sateens, and fine Ginghams
and are very much under price, buy
them now for Sl37.
Special values in wrappers at Sl,75,
$500, S2.25 and $3.50.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
he wouldn't Give Up HIS Foot.

"You would never think that I
once had hole clear through my
ankle bone, would you2p asked a
West Garland man who steps around
as lively as any of them. "No2's
aWeIl, that's what they all say.
But it's a fact, just the same.
When 1 was in the army / met a
a bullet going in a different direc-
tion from what 1 was and it declin-
ed to turn out and let me pass.
1t struck my ankle fair on the side
and bore its way straight through
it. AT the hospital the doctors in
dressing it would draw cloth right
through the ankle. They said the
foot must be amputated, but 1 said
no. They said 1 would die if they
did not cut it of, but 1 said L would
die with my foot on my body, if at
all. They. said they would chloro-
form me if l resisted and cut it off
anyway. The Chef Director of
Hospitals in the department hap
pened to come there, and the doc
tors referred the matter to him. He
spoke to me pleasantly and gave
the wound a carfuI examination.
He said it would have to be cut off
probably to save my life, but they
would wait a few days before doing
it. Well, it wasn't cut of, as you
may see-and 1 think it's a foot
worth fighting for, don't you2',-
EeiotstOn (Me9 Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
Mothers Lasting Love.

Half hiding the windows of the
room hung soft, fleece curtains. A
low seated rocking chair stood mo-
tionless awaiting to keep time to
soft lullabies. The glass in the
dresser leaned forward rejecting a
half turned glove, bit of veil, a
piece of needlework. The presence
of a woman filled tho room. Beside
the couch stood a little bed covered
with a white spread tucked closely
in all round. A pillow plump and
white rested at the head. Quietly
the mother stepped about the room,
as if she feared to waken someone
sleeping in the little couch. Coming
closer she leaned over and smoothed
the pillow softly and tucked the
cover closer. Then she bent over
the couch and laid her head upon
the little pillow, thon her eyes filed
with tears. For over a year the lit
tie bed had been empty of the
precious form that once rested there,
the only one the great God had Civ
en- her, but a mothers love still
hovered about the little couch. She
saw again the little face that once
sIumbered there, the little hand SO
plump that SO often had rested out
side the cover, and over the pillow
fell again the soft brown hair. The
soft light of evening, the calm of
twilight, seemed like benedictiou
to her sorrow; and as she rose her
face calm, peaceful, but full of holy
love and resignation, silently she
prayed: 81 thank Thee, oh, Heav-
enly, Father, that Thou gavest her
to me even for SO short time, and
Thou will love and tenderIy care for
her until 1 come."-C Chicago Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
Rub the Other BYE.

Nine persons ont of every ten
With a cinder or any foreign SUBJ
stance in the eye will instantly be-
gin to rub the eye with one hand
while hunting handkerchief with
the other. They may and some-
times do remove the offending Gin
der, but more frequently they rub
until the eye becomes infamed, bind
a Ihandkerchiefa around the head and
go to bed. This is all wrong. The
better way is not to rub the eye
with the einder in it at all, but rub
the other eye as vigorously as you
like, according to a writer in The
Medical Summary. who relates the
following experience:
"a few years since I was riding
on the engine Of q fast express.
The engineer threw open the front
window, and I caught cinder that
gave me the most excruciating pain.
/ began TO rub the eye with both
hands. Let it alone and rub the
other eye Qhis from the engineer9
I thought he was chatting me and
rubbed the harder. 1 know you
doctors think you know it all, but
if you will let that eye alone
and rub the other one the cinder
will be ont in two minutes, persist
ed the engineer.
81 began to rub the other eye.
Soon I felt the cinder down near the
inner canthus and made ready to
take it ont. Let it alone and keep
at the we'll eye, shouted the doctor
pro tenn. I did SO for a minute
longer, and looking in small glass
he gave me found the offender ON
my cheek. Since then 1 have tried
it many times and have advised
many others and have mover known
it to fail in one instance unless it
was as sharp as a piece of steel or
something that cut into the ball and
required an operation to remove it. !"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
THE TWO LANDsLIDEs.
o. Tuesday Only Equalled by the
One OF 1892.

be Democratic defeat in the
g try on Tuesday is not unpre-
e pted. Il is closely paralleled
b he great landslide against the
z obIieans IN the second year Of
p dent Harrison's term.
the Fifty. first Congress the
Rs hblicans had working majority
in House. In the elections Of
is this was converted into a Dem-
oc c majority of about one hun
dr and fifty. AS far as the new
tai law was involved in the cleo
tic tho condemnation of the Nc
Ki1 y law was far more emphatic
tha 8 the disapprovaI of the Dem
era measure.
as reversal Of the State cleo
tiQs 4as quite as general in 1890 if
hos 50 pronounced rs i has been
this year. PennsyIvania, the rock
ribbed Republican State which
gave Harrison 10000 majority in
1888. elected Democratic Cover
nor by 10000 in 1890. Illinois,
which gave Harrison a majority of
$4,000, elected a Democratic Treas
urer by 10000 in 1890. Massachus-
etts, which had been Republican
with only two exceptions for thirty
years and which gave Harrison a
majority of $4,000, elected Demo
cratic Governor two years later by
over 5000 majority. Michigan,
Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin,
all Republican States, went with
the avalanche for the Democrats in
the middle of Harrison's term.
If Wilson the champion of DEM
ocratic tariff reform in the House is
defeated this year, was not McKin.
ley beaten in 1890?
A political reverse in the middle
of the administrative term has been
the rule in our history. No Presi-
dent since the end of the war and
reconstruction period has carried a
party majority in Congress through
his term.
There is discipline in the Demo
cratic defeat, but it is neither un-
precented nor final. The Republi-
cans have rope enough to hang
themselves, and their record indi-
Gates that they will do it before
1s96.-Ne,o York World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
All She Wanted.

One of the richest men living,
whose immense wealth makes him
target for poor people, has recent
ly been in Paris, and the way in
which he repelled one of the appli-
cants on his generosity is related
like this: On the opposite side OF
the hotel table sat a woman who
had once been rich.
"Monsieur, you Englishmen are SC
chivalrous, SO ready to assist those
in distress"
"Yes," said the man of wealth
hesitating. He had heard that be
fore, and thought he knew what
was coming next.
"Would You with your usual gen
erosity do me a favor and great
kindness?"
@Yes, madam. that is, it depends
somewhat"
"Think we'll, monsieur, before
you promise, for it is a great kind.
ness.,'
1t was the same old plea that he
had heard many times before from
people who wanted a loan.
81 am afraid, madam, that 1 shall
have to-but what is it you wishP''
.only that you would be kind
enough, monsieur, to pass me the
mustard. You have everything on
your side of the table,"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
Small Calibre Rifles.

~
In paper read recently by
Liutenant Styles, of the United
States Army, on the new small cali
bre magazine rifle, it was held that
the new gun would be efficient for
the penetration of earthworks and
walls, and wosld produce wounds
more manageable than those pro.
duced by the old fashioned gun.
Experiments with similar guns in
Europe show that the smaller bull
let. having greater velocity and be-
ing encased in a hard mantle, "
will at close range pierce stone or
brick walls and yards of earth.
The fire being concentrated, the
effect is to produce regular breaches.
AT 1000 yards and over the bull
let trayerses the body of a man
readily, suffering no diversion from
impact upon any of the harder
parts Not lodging and making a
straight hole, the wound produced
is the better understood and more
easily treated There will be no
need of probing, and a source Of
standardization will be absent.
Bones and joints will be less crush
ed and torn, and amputations will
not be SO often required. But when
the mantle has been torn off and
the bullet deformed by striking the
ground, the wound then produced
will be worse than that produced
by the larger ball of the old fash
ed gun. As the new gun fires
faster and with greater accuracy.
more men will be hit, however, and
killed in a given time, other things
being equal Much will depend
still Of course, on the man that
holds the gun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
seDon,t Give up The Shin. ),

No man should be discouraged
because of past mistakes or failures;
neither should he think that be
cause of these mistakes he must for.
ever suffer. Natnre-and we are
all her children-is just, but not
vindictive; she will resent any and
all wrongs, and will demand full
restitution, and have it, too, but
once the debt is paid she asks no
more.
This is your hope. If you have
made mistakes, you have paid the
penalty; if You have failed in an
undertaking, your disappointment
has been keen, and for time you
have felt a degree of discourage
ment; but do not allow these things
to deter you from making other and
more effective efforts. Profting by
your former mistakes, you stand a
much better chance for success in
your next attempt. Try again.
Make a new impression and follow
it up with others until the old
wounds and scars are covered from
sight. Good men will respect your
resolutions and efforts and will well
come you again to the place you lost.
A few narrow-minded, Insignificant
people, who are perhaps envious of
your ability or natural worth, may
sneer at you for a while and taunt
You of the past, but persevere in
What you know to be right. At
the worst they can do you no per-
mar ent injury and will soon see
thatVou are in earnest and credit
r II.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
Tho village Paper.


No man is to poor to take his
village newspaper, says an ex-
change, and it is false economy to
get along without it.
Hardly a week passes that some
thing does not appear in its columns
that will be financial benefit to
the subscriber and by the end OF
the year he has made or saved from
one to twenty times its subscription
price.
The city papers do not take the
place of your village paper although
some people seem to think they do.
The city papers are all right in
their way, bat they don't give you
what you are most interested in
your local and county news. You
cannot learn from them when and
where public meetings are to be
held, who are dying or who are
marrying, who are moving in and
who re moving out, court proceed
ings who wants to sell land-in
fact, hundreds of items which might
be Of particular importance for you
to K pw. Such matter city papers
cam furnish, but your village
mar ~, and does
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
Right at Last.

Human nature continues to dis
play itself in street cars, and once
in while a newspaper reporter
happens to be on hand 10 sketch
the scene. Ono of the latest in
stances of this kind is borrowed
from the Utica Observer, and read
ers will probably find it credible, al
though exceptional. AS rule it is
needless to say, human nature is at
its best in the feminine.
A small woman of perhaps fifty
years, one of the nervous, quick
spoken sort, on her way into town,
paid her fare and called for trans
fer ticket.
Ican't give you one said the con-
ductor.
Yes. you can, answered the wo.
man, and you will. insist upon It.
The conductor repeated that he
had none.
Yes, yon have, and ] II report you
if you don't give me one.
The conductor explained the case
again, and more fully, but the pass
enger would not believe him, and
continued her demands. Finally,
finding tho battle going against her,
she rose suddenly and said: "Well,
I'll get off here.
The conductor rang the bell, the
motorman went through the neces-
sary motions, and the car stopped
but not till it had passed the cross
ing. The conductor waited for
Madam Spitfire to alight, but she
kept her seat.
I said I'd get off back herel she
cried. l won't get off here.
The conductor smiled and rang
the bell, when up jumped the little
woman again.
Yes, she said, 1 guess 1 will get
off here, after all; and as she left the
car, she added:
Say, guess I'm little bit cross
amt II
And all her fellow passengers
felt that she was right.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
Proparfng for tIie Future.

when I'm 4 man. sid little Tom,
eAnd big, aud tall, md strong,
I'm going to keep drug store and
Drink soda water all day long.
s'And ] p said little Polly Ann.
"I'll tell you what III do;
I'll come and make you awful rich
BY buying things of you.
I'll buy toothbrushes and outline,
And squilIs and things like that.
And postage stamps and caster oil,
For my old pussy eat.
"And maybe 1 will buy SO much
You'll get so rich, you see,
That you will have enough some day
To come and marry me"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
DIFFIcULT JOURsALIsM.
Setting Type in Japanese Is a Most
Eaborious Process.
IHenry norman IN the Real Japan.l

Labor1Ous Process.
Henry Norman In the Real Japan.l
There are keen iournalists in tlis
land of the chrysanthemum but it
must be allowed that the business
is carried on under difficulties from
which even the hardened Western
newspaper man might shrink ap-
palled. "The internal organization
of newspaper office is a sad specta
Gle of difficulties unknown else.
where, and really unnecessary here.
@The Japanese written and print
ed character consists of the Chinese
ideographs, those complicated square
figures made up of an apparent
tumble of zigzags and crosses and
ticks and triangles and tails-sthe
footprints of a drunken fy'-and of
the original Japanese syllabary,
called kama. OF the former there
are 10000 in all, of which perhaps
IA 900 constitute the scholars vo-
cabulary, and no fewer than 1000
are in common daily use while the
AZ simple characters of the kama are
known to everybody. Therefore,
the Javanese compositor has to be
prepared to place in his stick any
one of over 10000 different types
truly an appalling task.
"From the nature of the problem
several consequences naturally fol-
low. First, he must be a good deal
of scholar himself to recognize all
these instantly and accurately.
Secondly, his eyesight suffers fear
fully, and he generally wears a
huge pair of magnifying goggles j;
and, third, as it is physically i'm
possible for any one man to reach
10000 types, a totally different
method OF case arrangement has 10
be devised.
"The typo therefore, of whom
there are only three or four on a
paper, sits at a little table at one
end of q large room, with his case
containing the AZ kama syllables be-
fore him. From end to end of the
room tall casses of type are arrang-
ed like the shelves in crowded
library, passage three feet wide
left between each two. The com
positor receives his copy in large
pieces, which he cuts into little
takes and hands each of these to one
of half u dozen boys who assist him.
The boy takes this and proceeds to.
walk about among the cases till he
has collected each of the ideographs
or square Chinese picture words,
emitting all the kama syllables
which connect them. While these
boys are thus running to and fro
snatching up the types and jostling
each other, they keep up continu-
al chant, singing the name of the
character they are looking for, as
they cannot recognize it till they
hear its sound, the ordinary lower
class Japanese not understanding
his daily paper unless he reads it
aloud.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

We propose to fight high
prices as energetically as
ever, and anybody antici-
pating the purchase of
goods in our line, would
do best to come to us di-
rectly. We always guar
antee lower prices, better
qualities and later styles
than any other house in
the city.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21
ToO Modest for AnIthing.

An exchange expresses a few
points of weakness in some women
in this language: ga Philadelphia
girl is SO modest that she will not go
TO bed while the Christian Observer
is in the same room. A Tabor SEM
mary girl declines to walk up a
steep hill for fear her breath will
como in short pants. A Malvern
woman will not bathe in the same
room with potatoes until she has
picked out their eyes. A Hamburg
maiden refuses to wear chatelaine
watch-chain attached to her person
because the watch has hands. An
Emerson girl locks herself in her
room every time she hears brass
band approaching. She VOWS she
will never look at any drum-major
who parades in his bear skin. A
Pacific Junction belle is too modest
to be sympathetic. She cannot toll
crate a .felIow-feeling.' Decota
City has a yeang lady so bashfpl
she refuses to at at a table where
lettuce is served undressed. And
Bakersfield has a young lady who
always goes without gloves, because
she don't want any undressed kids
about her" and a young lady who
lives in the Extension, refuses to
eat from table. because it has legs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

George Gould has 1000 clippings
from English newspapers, concern
ing his yachting experience in Eng
land. If George is a wise man he
will not collect what American
newspapers said about the same
subject.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

Thus far this season Is tourists
who started out to climb the Alps
have lost their lives in the venture,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

Tommy.-You say December is
the last month of the year, pag
Tommy's Father-Yes. Tommy
And January is the frsa Father
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

Father.-Ifyou want a good hus-
band marry young Moss. He is al
ready seriously in love with you.
Daughter-How do you know
thatP
Father-He lent me fifty dollars
six months ago and has hever once
troubled me for it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

There are nowabout GOO, 900 tele-
phones in service in the United
States.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-21

aI was not aware that yos.
him" said Tom Snack to an E.
friend the other d.
he exclaimed. al knes
his father was boy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-15
rlyLURE or A LUMBER FIRM.

uenrv " Benedict and Robert A. Fowler, COM
ro.,ry the firm of Benedict Fowler lumber mer-
chants. at No. 42i East Flfty-third-st made an as
signment yesterday to Frederick G. Gron' giving
preferences for yIGO. They were brought up IN
the businers by Leander Stone and succeeded MN
six years with the hrm name Oh ne"eu',,
,soY,ro, g. Fowler They continued together until
January /. 1892 when that Arm was dissolved by
49, ,,,,hdrawa, of William McIlroy and NJ. T.
Green. OF Chicago. Mr.. McIlroy afterward went
into building operations in this city. which dld mol
turn out successfully and he committed SUICIDE IN
Chicago eighteen months ago behe'ic. ~ ro"'e,
49, Continued the business, but found It hard
struggle to keep above water on account OF the
hard times and depression In the lumber ana build
ing trades IL the last year. In June SS Mr "a lie
Sties $4,000 Since then. 1t 10 said. they have been
reducing expenses and curtailns business Inc ia