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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
Quick Meal.

The quick meal Stove Co., sold up
to 1894 two hundred and ninty-fiye
thousand and four Quick Meal Gaso-
line Stoves. Greatly improved for
1894. Call and see them, for sale only
by Eden & Blewett.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

Gundry & Gray are selling off their
stock of cloaks and jackets at II great
sacrifice. Come early and secure n
good selection.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

\ REIGN OF LOW PRICES
Has taken full possession Of the
ECONOMY.

The edtct has gone forth that pieces
muSt be put down to the very lowest
notch.
For instances: Sc calico down to Sc.
DomeStjcs and GinghamS also suffer
sweeping
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

Constipation or Sick Headache? Ii
so, why not try Begg's Little Giant
Pills 1t Only takes one pill a day;
forty pills In u bottle. One bottle will
cure you and only costs 25c. Sold and
warranted by w. II. Pridea,lx.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
We Have

An entire new stock We want to
sell you your suit. Come and see us.
This means you. Yours with new
goods and low prices.
II. H. CHANDLER Co.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
Millinery.

A fine line of very latest styles, at
Xiegin & Wearnes, just west of
Economy store.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

Room moulding, fancy and plain, at
Isaac Dellrr's.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
Sun Umbrellas.

We have the largest stock OF sun
umbrellas OF all kinds ever brought
to this city GuNDRY Il GRAY.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
See Chambers

New stock of Gents furnishings All
the novelties.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
\. +. BISHOP,
Furniture and Undertaking.
Corner of High and Chestnut Streets

Select your wall paper from Isaac
Deller's large new stock.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
The Best Flour.

II you want the best Flour, 90 TO
G. 4. Gales.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
ChildrCn'S Week

At Nj, " Lenahan's millinery store
commencing Saturday, May s. See
announcement elsewhere.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

At II. ii. Chandler Co.'S,
81, So, 50 and 80 suits Of clothes, for
$500.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

Afternoon passenger leaves Chicago
at 2:l0 .. NJ. All trains carry passen-
ers. N. II. Sso W, Agent.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
IL You Want

Coflees and Teas 20 to Q. Il. Gales
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
Grand Display
or Crockery and Lamps, Mt Gales.
Ii You Wnnt

Some Fine Home made Lard, call Mt
the New Central Market.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03

Wanted Butter and Eggs
u exchange for cash, at G. Il. Gales
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
Mixed Paints.
Are You Troubled with

For sale cheap Eden & Blewett's.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
Garden, Field and Flower

Seeds-All new-at Prideaux's Drug
Store.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-03
TIME TABLE.
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railway.

Trains depart from and arrive at
Mineral Point as follows:
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
4 COMMON NUISANCE.

He is In Evidence Everywhere, and He
Is Known as the CrOaker.
May the saints have pity on a
town or city with croaker in i'll
If it has two, three or half dozen
croakers living in it, it is to be com
miserated that much more. The
croaker comes in two forms-dead
and alive. The croaker has moss
on the north side of him, no matter
whether the winter be mild or Sc.
we're. The moss indicates nothing
especially, except that he should be
removed from the community at
once. The croaker always views
his own town from a pessimestic
point of view. He has no word of
praise for any one nor anything
that tends to assist in the progress
of the community. You tell a
croaker that much is going to be
done toward booming the town and
exploiting its superior advantages,
and he will say: "Well, you go
ahead-advertise it, boom it. I'd
like to see you do it," with shrug
of the shoulders. "You'll never
boom this town."
The croaker is generally too lazy
to labor under an impression. He
may have made some money in his
life, but he does not live-he simply
exists. If he is in business and is
asked to advertise, he says hisgoods
do not need advertising, and besides
he is located on prominent corner,
and everybody sees his goods as
they pass. Yes, Gas they pass" for
they rarely go in. The croaker
never gives his neighbor or fellow
man credit for anything he accom-
plishes.
If you go to local merchant and
show him a plan or suggest to him
an enterprise which if carried out
will be of great benefit to all con-
cerned and ask his co operation,
and he says: "Well, who is in this?
Go and see the other business men,
and if they go into it L may do SO,
too," look out for him. He may not
be a croaker, but he has dangerous
symptoms. He is vaccinated, and
the probabilities are that it will take
unless something is done for him.
He needs hypodermic injection of
"enterprise" to cure him of the
"follow your leader" habit. He is
the first to expect benefits that ac-
crue from the united efforts, energy
and enterprise of others, but is the
last to lend hand. The croaker is a
pusillaninous, Insignificant, incon-
sistent encumbrance.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
Society and ssThese Things. >


Colonel Breckinridge, being un-
der Mr.. Wilson'S searching and mer-
ciless cross-examination, said that
under certain compromising cir
cumstances he would advise the
woman to marry the the man, and
to the man be would say, abetter
death or. hell" His advice to the
man would be different from his
advice to the woman because ssoci-
ETY. looks upon these things differ
ently."
What Colonel Breekinridge says
of society is true. 1t has one-code
of morals for a woman, another for
man. ofthe two parties to athese
things" one party is sure of having
the offense condoned under ordinary
circumstances; the other may rely
with equal certainty on being cast
out and branded with the scarlet
letter. In a man "these things are
sowing wild OATS" in woman
they are in the sin-which society
will not pardon. A man may live
down almost the worst and most
fiagrant of "these things" woman
goes to the grave blistered with dis
grace.
To him all avenues are open; to
her all closed. He may mount to
the top of the ladder; she sinks in
evitably to the lowest depth. Soci-
ETY. will help him up; society will
push her down and jump on her.
he will be the honored guest in.the
parlor where she would not be al
lowed to put her head in the kitchen.
In the seventh commandment
there is no discrimination on ac-
count of sex. "Thou" means the
man as well as the woman; but So
ciety has a revised version in which
the terror of the law is directed
against the woman alone. Pardon
ed before he offends, the man has no
dread of the social punishment that
shall not be visited on him.
Society cannot take human weak
ness out of human nature. 1t cannot
make men perfect any more than it
can make women perfect. 1t can
not perfect mankind. Society can
be honest and fair. To the equally
guilty it can mete out equal justice.
If there is to be a discrimination let
the heavier burden be laid on tho
stronger back.-Intelligencer.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
Keep Off the Rails.

The other day Mr.. Frank Vance
went to pull out of the road to pass
another team, up on the river road
near where Col. Vance lives, and as
he did so one of his horses fore feet
struck one of the street railway rails
and received a shock that knocked
his horses fore feet into the air, the
horse falling stunned as though
dead. 1t was pulled off and was
five minutes coming TO. Just few
days before the above happened
Thos. Humphreys son, about Is
years old, was driving some COWS
and happened to step on the track,
and received a shock that knocked
him insensible and tore the skin of
of one hand, where it laid across the
rail where he fell. He must have
lay nearly a half hour before recov-
ering consciousness. 1t is certainly
a warning to every one to keep off
the rails. 1t is likely that at the
joints of the rails, which are Joined
by wire, is where the place of con-
tact GaHipoEis Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
Cool.

Some men never get excited, no
matter what the provocation. One
of this number is employed in a
foundry in this city.
The other day he strolled into
the foundry Office in very casual
way inquired, "What's become Of
that extinguisher 1 used to see
around here?"
"oh, it was little out of order
and sent it back TO be repaired" !"
said one of the clerks.
Still putting TRANQUILITY at his pipe
the man inquired, "You don't hap
pen to have a pail handy, do your
"No. What do you want pail
for2" was the answer and question.
al thought 1 could use it. The
shops afre.''
There was scramble to get ont
and when the shop was reached the
fire had made some progress. The
steamer company near at hand was
notified, and after short fight the
flames were Albany Journal
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
OId.FashIoned Bnslness.

The money panic and depression
of business ought to teach us few
lessons in economies that we much
need to learn. When illusions are
dispelled, realities become palmer,
and, it may seem sweeter. False
theories of business, false standards
of values and false ideas of life will
wreck any man or any country. II
we can, by any means, get back tc
the old=fashioned business methods,
in which transactions were real and
not ideal, honest and not fictitious,
SO much for SO much, the money to
be paid when the goods are deliver
ed; when "corners" had no com.
mercial meaning, when "syndicates'
and monopolies could not regulate
the prices of farmers wheat and
corn and potatoes and turnips and
hogs; if we could get back to the
good old times of honest trading
and economical living, what bless.
ing it would be to a country over.
full of all the products of field and
forest and orchard and mountain
and stream. Such abundance no
people ever had from the ehands ol
the Giver of every good and perfect
gift. But SO long as the business Of
the country is regulated by few
brokers and gamblers we need moi
be surprised at any time for the bot,
tom to drop out. Gambling in one
form makes man dishonest in every
form, SO when the bank presidents
and cashiers steal honest money ii
is only the whirlwaind which comes
of sowing the wind.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
INLAND Items.

A LITTLE REMARKABLE-THRRE OLD.
EST MEMBERS OF FAMILY DIE IN
APRIL.
In 1892, c. a. Vaughn, sr., died
in April, suddenly, of appoplexy.
He filed honorable positions in this
county, being a representative and
justice of the peace, and good citi-
zen. Last April his esteemed widow
died. Both were inferred at Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, of which they
had been members. The 9th inst,
w w Vaughn, their oldest son,
owing the old homestead, died.
All three died in the same room.
In young Yaughn's early illness he
selected a spot near their fine or
chard, at the root of chestnut tree,
that has never borne nuts, in which
to be buried. There are three good
sized chestnut trees there, two OF
which bear well. He was buried
on the 9th inst, Rev. w. J. Weaver
officiating. His funeral was largely
attended. His grave is the first on
the farm; he wishing his little chill
dren to visit and play around their
fathers last resting place.
By little legal pursuasion we
have secured L. S. Mccoy, the pres
ent County Superintendent, to teach
select term of 10 weeks school
at White Oak, district No. 8.
Well, our Republican friends keep
crying hard times at the expense OF
the Democrats. L never saw any
thing but hard times, so it does not
effect me. The worst thing the
Democrats have done is causing the
late freeze, killing all the fruit and
ipjuring other crops. Well, when
Coxey returns over the hills to the
almshouse, and all the other calam-
tiles happen, look, through the
Jeffersonian principles, by faith, for
better times. 1 can raise black
berries and have freedom. ]. ii. L.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
Clever.

A story which shows of how much
use guess-work may be to dealer
in the supernatural is related by a
historian of the reign of the French
King Louis XI. An astrologer had
gained considerable celebrity, par
ticularly at the Kings court. After
the manner of astrologers of all
times, he had done a great deal of
clever guessing, and, thanks to this
and to some lucky condolences, va
rious of his predictions had been
fulfilled. 1t happened that he pre-
dicted the death of a lady of the
court within eight days, and on the
eighth day she died.
This created a sensation, and the
King was superstitious enough to
believe that the charlatan was a
master of the black art. He sent
for him, previously having ordered
some of his attendants to throw the
astrologer out of the window.
"You, who profess to be SO skill
full, and to foretell the fate of every
one, tell me the date of your own
death" said Louis blandly.
Luckily for himself, the "magi-
clan" guessed that the King had
some direful plan, and his readiness
at playing upon the superstition
and credulity stood him in good
stead.
He answered promptly, "Three
days before Majesty"
1t is pleasant to know that the
French King did not give the signal
for the reader of horoscopes to be
thrown out of the window, and it
may be hoped that that parsonage
was SO badly scared that he adopted
less perilous and more respectable
occupation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
IfYou wish 10 Helm the Torn
Don't fail to sound its prais,

OOu ldll W sOunu llb praises
wherever you are.
Don't make your money ont of
its citizens and spend it somewhere
else.
Don't frown on every public i'm
proyement simply because it will
cost you a dollar or two.
Don't sneer at the efforts of your
fellow citizens to build up the town,
but lend a hand yourself.
Don't talk a great deal about
what should be done and remain on
the back seat waiting for some one
else to do it.
Don't say board of trade is "no
good on earth" until you can prove
it by statistics.
Don't say the public schools are
failure because your boy has been
up setting the schools discipline
and has been punished for it.
Don't stay at home on election
day but get cut and sshustle'' for
good men and good government.
Don't let good local paper that
is the towns untiring chsmpion
abandon the champion business
because of lack of deserved pat
ronage.
Don't forget to drop your dollars
in the slot when the committee that
is after a new enterprise comes
around with the subscription list.
Don't forget that in building up
the town hearty co operation, united
endeavor and spirit of get there
are what win the day. There is no
pull like long pull, a strong pull
and pull all together.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
SIGNS OF YOUTH.


When your mind is on the future,
And the wondrous things you'll do
And you think the world revolves around
For no one else but you,
Although you may not know 1t,
tall the same it's true,
It's sign-you're rather young.
When you will not even listen
To suggestions or advice
From those who've stumbled DER the road
And slipped upon the ice,
And you're bound to buy experience
At the highest market price,
It's sign-you're rather young.
When you brag abont your smartness.
And how smart you've always been
In getting best of every trade
With all the boys and men,
And how you've beat most other folks
In muscle and with pen,
It's sign-you're rather young.
When you think man at thirty
Is going fast to seed,
And one who reaches forty
Is very old indeed,
And a man who's really fifty
Is a withered. broken reed,
It's fact- you're rather young.
Albany Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
a GiImer Countr Genfns.

Young @Wid" Hess is a genius of
the first water and is going to 'get
there" with both feet one of these
days. Some time ago he lost one OF
his front teeth, and not having the
wherewith to pay dentist for a
new one, he went to work and whit
tied one ont of a piece of mussel
shell. This he fitted in place with
the aid of lead, and the new tooth
now shows up about as well as the
others and does its whole duty as a
Chenille Banner.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18

Judge Hanna issued marriage
license to day, Tuesday, to Mr.. Jos.
Hostettert to wed Mrs. Christina Sad
dler, and they were probably mar
ried to-day as the groom started
out on the hunt of Squire. Mr..
Hostetter claims to be a nephew of
the celebrated original proprietor of
Hostetter's bitters. The lady is a
resident of this county, living op-
posite of Point Pleasant, on the
widow Crook farm. We presume
that the celebrated bitters will be
served at the wedding feast instead
of wine-that is it would be appro-
pirate to do SO if anything in the
exhilerating line should be required
to add cheerfulness to the occasion.
-GdHipoIis Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18

West Virginia, with less than
100000 inhabitants, has but three
cities, and is especially rural and
half settled region. In spite of her
enormous wealth in timber and
mines also, many of her counties
number only a handful of people.
No West Virginia county has so,
600 inhabitants, and only ten have
more than 10000 while 19 have less
than 1O,OOO, and two less than 5000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18


One of the most beautiful trib-
utes to Mr.. George W. Childs was
written by his wife during his last
illness. In letter to a personal
friend she wrote: Il wish that he
CMr. Child0 was well enough to
know how many good devoted
friends he has who have shown so
much anxiety in regard to him. I,
his wife, cannot find words strong
enough to show him to the world
as he is in his own home. he is in
character more than human, and a
beautiful example to all those who
have the privilege of being near
him."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18

The Montreal Gazette favors ere
nation: "Properly conducted, Gre
nation may be made as reverent as
burial in the earth, and to many
minds it seems far less repulsive.
OF its greater safety to the living
there can be no doubt, and so far as
the balance of argument is in its
favor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
The Cause Of the ConfIagratiOn.

One of the rooms on the second
floor of house was discovered the
other day to be on fire. The flames
were, however, happily extinguish-
ed before any great mischief had
been done, but special interest is
attached to the origin of the fire.
1t appears that the day had been q
very bright one, and the SUMS rays,
condensed by passing through a
water bottle, had set fire to a mack
intosh hanging on the wall, and
this in turn had ignited the bedding
Immediately below. At first it was
supposed that one of the inmates
had set fire to the place, but the
cause was clearly demonstrated by
actual experiment. 1t is not the
first time that similar accidents have
taken place, and though for month
to come the suns rays are not likely
to be fierce enough to do much mis-
chief, the event should be remem-
bered as indicating a possible dan
ger, in summer time especially.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
JIM nILsINeER,s MIssINe LEG.
He Lost Years Ago, and 1t Has Just
Been Found,

7
He Lost Years Ago, and 1t Has Just
Been Found.
New Yorl sun.
slim Reisinger found his leg"
said re ident of Roulette, Pa, who
recently returned from the Butler
county eiI regions. "Jim lost his
leg twelve years ago this spring.
He was taking a can of nitro
glycerine to Centerville to shoot an
oil well. He had it suspended from
the reach of his wagon, where he
thought t would be safe from any
jar and consequent danger of ex-
plosion. jim would have been
right in bis calculation, no doubt, if
/ it hadn't been for a bear that rose
suddenly from a wallow hole at the
side Of the road, just as the team
was passing The unexpected ap-
pearance Of the bear frightened the
horses and they ran away. They
didn't run far, though. The wagon
sstruzs5E rf,i "a he road. The
suspended can of nitro gIycerine
was Knocked with such force against
a stone as the wagon jolted down
that it was exploded When Jim
came to he was hanging to the top
of rail fence fifty feet away from
where the Intro -glycerine had ex-
ploded, if he could judge from the
hole half as big as cellar that
yawned in the road. There wasn't
a fragment of anything in sight to
indicate that few seconds before
there had been team of horses and
a spring wagon where the hole was.
Then Jim discovered that he only
had one leg, his right one having
been blown away from just above
the knee. Fortunately for Jim
some drillers had heard the explo-
sion, and hurried to the spot to see
how little there was left of Jim and
his outfit. They were amazed to
find SO much of Jim left, and they
quickly carried him to the nearest
house and got a doctor. Jim was
around all right in few weeks. No
evidence of the previous existence
of the team, wagon or Jim's lost leg
had been discovered.
"One day last week Geo. Dickson
chopped down a big oak tree that
stood in field 300 yards from the
spot where Jim Reisinger's blow-uP
had occurred. In crotch of that
tree, fifty feet from the ground, he
found some funny looking bones
lodged. He took them to Center
vile to doctor.
"sWhyr said he, those are the
lower bones of the. human leg! A
complete set of them, tool!
"tJim Reisinger's leg, surel' said
Dickson.
"There couldn't be any doubt
about it. No one else had ever lost
a leg in that locality and never
found it, and SO it was Jim's long
lost leg, and no mistake. They
boxed the bones up and sent them
to Jim at Prospect, where he lives
now, and when 1 left Butler county
he had just written back and said
that while the leg wouldn't De of
much use, he was glad to see it, and
was much obliged"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18
MereIr an Investment,

Hones-What have you raised
that young bookkeeper's salary fort
Don't you know that the young
spendthrift squanders all his salary
giving presents to some girl he's
infatuated with?
Bones-ofeourse do. The girls
my daughter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18

The unpopular Columbian postage
stamps will in a few weeks be en-
tirely sold out. Then there will be
a return to the small red two-cent
stamps and others which were sold
before the Columbian series came
out January 1, 1893.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18

1t sometimes happens that man
will sue another for thrashing him,
but New Jersey man has brought
suit against Corbett for negleeting
to keep an engagement he had made
to pummel him. This is one of the
Inconsistencies of life.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-04-18

Having survived the Pollard
Breckenridge trial the people OF
Washington have no occasion to
worry over the prospect of having
to entertain Coxey's army.