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The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
Buying Apples in Maine.

"The apple buyers have to be fellows
who can see through millstone," says
one of the Maine fraternity. "We do
not often get taken in, for there's a
sort of mental telegraphy that tells us
when to investigate, and that's what I
mean by seeing through milestone.
was taken in once, though, by man
who brought seventeen barrels dozen
miles, and looked me calmly in the eyes
rs he assured me quietly they were all
Al in size and quality. looked one
barrel all through, and as they were
all right, my mental alarm bell re-
mained quiet So paid him first
class price and he went off with his
money. In less than ten minutes, hav-
ing occasion to move one of the other
barrels, loose heading dropped out
and the contents rolled upon the floor,
displaying as mean a deaconing as il
was ever my lot to see. There were
good apples at the ends, but the middle
part was good.for nothing. 1examined
the other barrels and found every one,
except that looked through at first. a
rank fraud. ! went for the seller be.
fore he had time to leave town and
made him pay back the money and take
his apples home with him. You can
bet i notified all the other buyers in
that part of Maine, and now that man
can't sell peck of potatoes without its
being well looked over beforehand. -
Lewiston Journal.
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
He would Live Always.

A man who was deeply lin debt was
sick unto death.
"Ah," he sighed, ''if could only live
until had paid off my debts"
"Humph!' sneered the doctor, blunt
ly, "you want to live forever, do your"
Texas Siftings.
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
STREET STORIES.
Interesting Etchings Gathered in
the Western Metropolis.

He had lived in bachelor apartments
in Lake Park avenue for number OF
years, but when he married and needed
house of his own he moved to Lake
Forest. 1t was good move, too, sc
far as can be judged by mere outward
appearances.
Since last spring his face has taken
on healthy bronze and the daily ex-
ercise of long walks to and from the
station has served to put an athletic
springiness into his step.
There have been other changes even
more remarkable. and, although he is
not conscious Of them, they are plainly
evident to those who had been his as.
sociates for long time.
When he lived on the South side and
put in his leisure time at club he
would have sacrificed one arm rather
than walk four blocks along State
street with q bundle under his arm.
The slightest purchase at any store
had to be delivered. If he bought a
pair of shoes he sent them home by a
messenger boy rather than ride home
with car load Of people, who would
nary person, from the fact that he had
a shoebox resting in his lap.
lie was stickler for good form" in
other respects. He believed gentle
man should always wear gloves when
on the street. except he should be in
neglige attire. He believed that no
should carry newspapers In his
pockets, and he had strong prejudice
against anyone who persisted in smok-
ing while in public assemblage, such
as might be found in any street.
His friends rather admired him for
his fastidious notions. 1t was crafty
ing to find some one who stuck to his
ideals. But all this was before he
moved to the suburbs.
What changed him? Perhaps it was
the fresh air direct from the prairies.
Perhaps it was the open-air life and
the daily contact with rural popula-
tion. At any rate there was change.
He became more sociable, neglected
the creases in his trousers, carried
newspapers in his pockets and lighted
a cigar each evening as he started for
his train. He began to talk familiarly
OF his neighbors and display an un-
wonted interest in family horses The
hide bound city man, with his stereo.
typed rules Of form" was developing
into suburban 'good-fellow." known
to all the children along his street.
The fall was complete when he began
to carry things home-dress patterns,
garden seeds, books and pictures. One
day he was met at the approach to the
bridge. Under one arm he carried
cross-cut saw about seven feet long.
The great blade of fattened steel
swung from side to side, so that pedes'
trians had to leave wide path for the
suburban friend, on whose face there
was no expression of humbled pride, but
rather one of joyous determination.
Hello, there" he said. "You must
excuse me; can't shake hands. I'm
going to lay off tomorrow and help my
hired man clear the small timber of
nv new lots. That's what I'm doing
with this saw. Good-by-train goes II
two minutes"
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
Unalloyed Bliss.

When a man works all week and
then goes to the window and gets his
salary in an envelope he is reason, a on
ably happy over the possession OF the
money, but there is no particular eia.
tion, as he had known all week that II
was coming.
When a man picks upa qnar.er'iron,, ,,' /,
the sidewaikaie experiences urn -
surprised pleasure but there Is an ,in. in
prohably that, coin was droppeA .iby
some moor widow who had gone Quito
do a days shopping. a ,h.
friend saws: .By the way, here's that
sro Won loaned me that day at the
urv uo,,d,s fair" the soul exults for a
m '.omsnt But there comes deep sus-
n;c;on that next time he will ask for
ten and then lose his memory
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
He Went shortly After,

Miss Amy fat 1910 a. m, after Goslin
has related an anecdote)-That story
reminds me of you, Mr. Goslin.
Goslin Observation-Disclosures it
is bright, l suppose.
Amy Not at all. Because it won't
go.-Detroit Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
Learning = Lesson.

Judge-You are charged with assault
and battery; what have you to say?
Prisoner-Not word, yeronner. 1t
was sayin' too much got me into this
scrape Detroit Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
An Inquisltive Young Woman.

An 1hquhBItIve HOuh8 WOm8ms
$50 this is your studio, Mr.. Dobb?"
"Yes."
"And these are your brushes?"
"Yes."
"And where do you keep the trowe
with which you lay on your color?-
Judge.
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10

Wade = Young Spendley is trying
hard to raise the wind.
Butcher-What for?
wade-Same old thing Wants to
blow himself-Puck.
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
A Cinder Policeman.


A conversation heard in State street.:
DO you see that policeman over
there?"
1.-THE one leaning against. the cor
ner?"
"Yes. Well. he's called the cinder
policeman.
"Why SOP"
because of his job. Every stranger
in town and about half the people who
live here stop at the corner every day
to gaze up at the Masonic temple and
count the stories. 1t takes them some
little time to do it, and about one per-
son out of four, while he is standing
in that awkward attitude looking
straight upward, catches cinder IN
his eve. As soon as he. or especially
as soon as she, begins to rub the eye
and show signs of distress the police
man steps up and says: Here III tako
that out for you.' He does it, too, for
he has had much practice and is really
cxnert. Some Of us around the corner
have watched him day by day and are
thinking of sending in petition 70
have him promoted because OF his val
liable services"
The Van Buren press., 1894-11-10
4o,T0 In one year,
A Kentnckx Indictment.

No wonder he lost forty pounds
Chicago Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
sPEcIAL NOTICE

From and after this date. all Resolu-
tions. Obituary Notices, Tributes of Res
pect, Cards of Thanks, or other matter
of like nature, inserted in our respect
i've papers, will be charged for at the
rate of four ca cents line. II you de-
sire anotice of this character ublished,
count eight Isl words to the line, and
accompany the same with the cash, 9TH
erwise no attention will be paid to the
order.
Local advertising interspersed with
regular local matter ten (I0) cents per
line. each insertion, but when pub
lished under the head of preferred To-
Gals only five f5) cents per line will be
charged. Legal advertisements at the
rates provided by law Transient adj
yertisements payable in advance. All
yearly advertisements payable quarter
ly. Yearly rates furnished on applica-
ton. GEO. w. T1PPETT,
PUBLIsIIER REGISTER.
LIVIA n. POFFENBARGER,
PUBLISHER STATE-GAzETTE.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
Mhat wives Demand.

Mankind in general would rinse up
in honest revolt if they were accus-
ed of cruelty to their wives, yet
nine-tenths of the married men in
civilized lands are bound to plead
guilty to the charge, even though
they may not dream that they are
SO condemned. What does cruelty
consist of? That is the question
which again nine tenths of the mas
cuIine world would answer by say
ing: Cruelty means beating ones
wife, it means wilfully starving or
annoying her; it means not giving
her sufficient money to look as well
as other women, or it means neg
lecting her for outside people and
affairs"
What lot of genuinely bright
and truthful replies these are. They
prove that men do not know the
least thing about cruelty-so far as
the heart and sentiments of a wo-
man are concerned. a woman does
not define cruelty on the same lines
as man. He may never be guilty
of a single one of the actions which
he quotes as being representative
deeds of cruelty, but he can wound
just as deeply by losing sight OF
those little tender offices he was
wont to perform before marriage,
but which he regards as silly after
ward. Little attentions are moro
to a woman than great sacrifices
The daily care, the chivalrous de-
votions atones in her sight for shah
by clothes lack of money or any other
sordid considerations that a man
thinks in giving means everything
A woman's heart is like a flower,
it will wither away if it is not look
ed to carefully from day to day.
The prosaic way that man settles
down to married life does not please
the average wife, and even though
the superior masculine mind argues
"what is the sense of making love
after you've got the GIRL" the wise
man is he who realizes how far a
little kindness goes and endeavors
to keep mp TO the line of grace
which he never faltered from in the
days of his courtship.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
Little Curious innings.

The surface of the Dead Sea is
1917 feet below the level of the
Mediterranean Sea and the Indian
Ocean.
The highest point reached by a
railroad in the western hemisphere
is the tunnel on the g. & o. r. R.
Peru-15.645 feet above the Pa
cifc.
Palladium is the only known
metal that is absolutely nonpolor-
liable and rust-proof. 1t was dis
covered by C. a. Pallard of Geneva,
Switzerland.
Explorers declare that no flower
ing plant has ever been found with
in the Antartic Circle. In the Artic
Circle 762 different kinds are known
Washington's second inaugural
address contained but 143 words
Lincoln used the personal pronoun.
al" 43 times in his first inaugural
and only once in his second
The manuscript complete of the
first Bible CoId TestamenD was fin
ished in the year 4sO B. c. 1t was
first translated into Saxon in 637 a.
D., and into English in 1884.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
A honopoIIst IN That Line.

Ny father remarked the Con :.
gresham in a story telling humor,
'swas a queer old fellow. He was a
man ofonly ordinary education, but
his natural abilities were great, and
a shrewder man 1 think l never
knew. One of his pet hobbies was
to take the conceit out Of his four
sons at every opportunity, and he
had it-strong even up to the time of
my first election to Congress. I
had been elected on an independent,
down-with- monopolies ticket, and
as soon as tho count was in and 1
was sure of my prize, l went to the
old gentleman for congratulations,
"'Well, my son. he said, pretty
much as if 1 were about ten years
old, you have been elected to Con-
gress2'
ayes, father, said /, feeling very
proud and happy.
"'And you'll De going to the ma
tons capital before long and ming
ling there with all the great men of
the land"
ayes, SIR
"'And you'll be making laws for
your country?
aGYas sir
"'And be laboring for the high
est and best interests of your dis.
trict and your constituents
eyes
".And very likely it won't be
long until you begin to think you
are great statesman YOURSELF
every likely, father
"He put his hand on my shoulder
very kindly"
"fMy son. he said solemnly,
don't think so; don't think SO, L
beg of you; you were elected on the
anti moDopolist ticket, and it would
be betrayal of the trust reposed
in you by your constituents for you
to have such a monopoly as that
during your very first term"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
He Had Found 1t.

The young man and the young
DmaH from half mile beyond the
Imber line came hesitatingly into
the Office, and the young man in
quirOd if they couldn't look round
a bit and see how a newspaper WIS
made, says the Detroit Free Press.
OF course permission was granted
at once, and a guide was furnished
to do the honors. They went every
! where, and, on the principle of
@saziDg the best for the last, they
wound up in the editorial rooms.
About the first thing that attracted
their attention in chat department
was a smooth-looking young fellow
bnsily at work on a typewriter.
The young man left his fair com
panion in the hands of the guide
and sided over to the writer. He
had no idea what it was, but in a
minute or two he noticed the writ
ten page as it slowly emerged from
I he roller, and he beckoned hastily
for the girl to come over.
al say, Maria" he said as he
caught her by the arm and dragged
her closer, "look at that, will your"
"What is it, ''she asked.
"You've heard tell of machine
poetry they have in newspapers,
haven't your
She nodded.
"Wsll, he explained, "that's what
they make it on. You watch the
young Teller and see how fast he
can turn it out" and they stood by
)the busy writer SO long that it al
most gave him cOnniption fit, and
then broke him all up by asking If
he couldn't give them a sample to
take home with them
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
Four Big Successes.

Having the needed merit to more thar
make good all the advertising claimed
have reached a phenomenal sale. DIR.
Kings New Discovery, for consumption,
coughs and colds. each bottle gnaran-
teed-Electric Bitters, the great remedy
for liver, stomach and kidneys. Buck
lens Arnica Salve. the best in the
word, and DIR. Kings New Life Pills,
which are perfect pill. All these rem
edies are guaranteed to do just what is
claimed for them and the dealer whose
name is attached herewith will be glad
to tell you more of them. Sold at Hoof's
Drug Sore.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

If men are the salt of the earth,
the women are undoubtedly the
sugar. Salt is necessity, sugar a
luxury. Vicious men are the salt
peter, old men the rock salt and
nice men the table salt. Old maids
are the brown sugar, good-natured
matrons the loaf sugar, and pretty
girls the pulverized white clarified
sugar. Pass the pulverized sugar,
please.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
BnckIen,s Arntca Salre.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores. ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-.
lively cures piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect salts
per box. For sale by q. w. N. Hoofi
Druggist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

At Fairfield, Ohio, there formerly
resided family by the name of
Bafiff, each of whom claim the dis
tinction of having double teeth
throughout, both above and below.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

ted Time and Opportunities.
slips by rs almost unheed-I
+ to return. It cannot be
like money, to be used
lie, or stored as in a reser-
lch moment is given to us
We must make use of il
h pass away, never to re-
This is one of the serious dis
ges under which the wage
Iabors in a strike against
His employer may have
up resources with which he
aintain himself for some time
b idle; the wage worker has
opportunity to save, and every
fidleness is a dead loss to him
much time and so much wa
The employer may even suffer
sses during a strike, the in
ed value of his stock on hand
ling up for the enforced idleness
lis works. To the wage worker
PeaialIy time is of very great val
HeeARnot afford to waste any
This docs not mean that he
Id never be idle. On the con-
,, he will make a great mistake
everlasting himself he Grip
IS his powers of work. Time is
asted Unless it is used SO as to
deep a sound mind in a sound body.
finere1must be an adequate allow
lnce of time for rest and time for
-eereation, or the time for work
annot be fully utilized. The great
st waste of time and opportunities
.1wever, is committed by young
81 and young women. They do
realize the value of time until
RS have rolled away and they
t6emselve bound down to hard
oE that they might have escaped
had taken time to improve
inds or develop some kind
al skill that would put their
in demand. Much of the
SD of the world falls upon the
orkers of little skill, whose places
an easily be filed from a great
hrong of other incompetents, al
Jays seeking a job. Very many of
ese CDot all perhaps have wasted
eir time and opportunities in their
They have sought recrea-
I'D amusement when they
have been studying; they
efused to work at any calling
Iequired them to soil their
leEtheir clothes, they have
pied easy situations and have
led manhood, or womanhood
g nt, lazy, and incapable of
1seful service to their en-
But they cannot recall
lutte of the wasted hours and
pftheir youth. No repentance
ring back to them lost oppor-
Sc. They are doomed as by
COR which they are themselves
responsible, to a life of i'll
or of shame. This lesson
Be too often held up before
ng, for they are thoughtless
Eays more or less indifferent
essons of experience. Here
ere, however, one may be
who will listen to the warn
d guard against the waste of
In doing SO he need not sac
the, rational enjoyments of
There is abundant time for
as well as for study and work
no rest, if one will make a proper
|ivision. And there will be no
Easte of time if each hour is made
help build up the physical, men
b or moral qualities or to develop
ONE special skill that will be use
III in the bread-winning contests of
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

elf you have any last WISH said
the clergyman to the convicted
man in the electric chair, "tell me
and 1 will try to carry it out.
ayes" replied the poor wretch: 81
want to learn to play the Piano"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

OF saw Mill, Boiler, Engine ana
Fixtures, Work Oxen and other
Personal Property.
T I NDER and by the authority vested in
me by a certain deed of trust executed
by George E. Fadelev, TO the undersigned
Trustee, bearing date on the 10th day of April,
1898, and is recorded in the County Court
Clerks Office of Mason county, West Virgin
ia, in trust deed book No: IS, pages 1911 and
promissory notes therein described, and hav-
ing been required by Henking, Bowie & Co.,
the owner and holder of said notes, to make
sale of the property in said trust deed de-
scribed, the undersigned Trustee, will sell at
public auction, at the front door of the Court
House of said Mason county, on
Wednesday, August 10Th. 1894,
commencing at O'Clock p. m. of that day, the
following personal property: Four yoke of
work oxen, two heavy OK wagons, two log
carts, one lot of log chains and OK yolIes for
said cattle, and two extra Jokes. Also one
Standard saw mill, boiler and engines, with
all the fixtures attached or belonging there
to. Said property is set forth in trust deed
and described therein.
Terms Cash on day of sale.
VIII. ToMLINsoN, Trustee.
~
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

When a Japanese audience wish
to express disapproval of a play,
they silently turn around and sit
with their backs to the stage. If
this be done by a considerable
number the curtain promptly de-
sends.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and
Blemishes from horses, Blo,l Spavins,
Curbs Splints, Sweeney, Ring-bone,
Stiles, Sprains, all Swollen Threats,
Coughs, etc. Save $50 by the use of one
bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
Blemish Cure even known. Sold by A.
C. Van Glider, druggist, Point Pleasant.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
ReIiefin Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the NEW
GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE"
This new remedy is great surprise on
account of its exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder. kidneys,
sages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention OF water and pain in passing il
almost Immediately. tfyou want quick
relief and cure this is your remedy.
Sold by A. G. Van Glider, druggist,
Point Pleasant. [nov. 20 ly
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

As soon as a man makes a little
money, it is discovered that his
wife is qualified by birth and educa-
ton to shine in the best society.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

When Baby was sick, we gave her castOria.
When she was Child. she cried for castoria-
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children. she gave them castoria.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

More than forty-ono per cent. of
the English people could not write
their names when Victoria ascend
ed the throne. Tho proportion in
that condition has now been re-
duced to seven per cent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

A mans idea is that he is not do
ing the things his wife doesn't want
him to do, if he keeps her from
knowing he does them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

"Fm thinking of taking turn at
the Wheel said the river. $50
ahead" replied the dam, "l'll back
you up"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

Pathos sometimes is very near to
humor; and some peoples humor is
very near to patbos, too.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

Once every fifteen years the
planet Mars comes within $4,000,
900 miles of the earth. At all other
times q distance Of something like
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15
COOPER DISTRICT.

Election Precinct No. BOUNDARY
Beginning at the Ohio River at Graham
District line and with said line to the
Old Town creek road near VIM. Gray's,
thence up the Old Town creek road to
the mouth of Hoop Pole Run to the line
between John Blake and VIM. Thomas
to the public road, and thence with the
public road to Cologne District line
near Morgan school house, thence with
the Cologne District line to the Ripley
turnpike road, thence with said road
west to Joshua Sayre lower line. and
with said line to the river, thence down
the river to the place of beginning. Vo-
ting place-Letart School house.
A copy-teste:
J.P.R. B. SMITH,
Clerk County Court OF Mason county,
West Virginia.
aug I'm.
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"was the play as pleasant as you
thought it would be2"
May 4"Perfectly enchanting.
Five acts, and we cried through
four of them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

NJ Meyer, of Paris, has invented
kind of paper that is indestruct-
able by fire. Specimens after re-
naming 14s hours in the heat of a
potter's furnace still retained the
glazc.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-15

"Do you go through your hus-
bands pockets at night after he is
asleep2" asked one lady of another.
"No," was the reply; "John never
comes home while he has q cent
left