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table, but my wife.to.be rather scouts the

table, but my wifetOvbe rather scouts the
idea. LIS my view correct!
! have not the pleasure of knowing the
girl you are to marry, but i feel perfect
y safe in saving that she does not scout
the idea" OF saying grace at table. she
may, for some reason best known To- her
self, pretend to do so, but in her heart
she knows your view is right II il one of
the surest indications of the highest and
best domestic life to bow the head i'm
thankfulness at the table before partakfng
of a meal. These little customs are. in
reality, the foundation stones of the hap
piest homes. Edward w. Box in Ladies'
Home Journal
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Very Near Ii

As an exercise for the smaller children
the other day in one of the pubic ischools
the blackboard, and asked the youngsters
to write a few sentences descriptive Of
the article and its uses. One of the con-
tributions submitted contained this some
what startling and original suggestion:
"a goblet Is q turkey that struts in the
ward n BIZ >sfS=Ss- $: IA
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His High Water Mark.

Mamma.-'You may open your school
report. Tommy, and tell me how you have
been doing this week" ~ :.
Tommy-'Oh, here is the highest mark,
mamma-A1.' T.. = -
my?' 4, x E e.. :. :: z..s. }.
Tommy--''Days absent, 1.'-Harper's
Round Table. ~ ~,-.- - IT.
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Bridal MOdesty.

The latest freak of fashion is that a
bride in evening dress shall be modestIy
covered about the shoulders and neck
Not for a year or SO after her marriage
may she appear in the blaze of low
necked attire. In Difference to this the
evening gowns of choicest trousseaus
are being made with extreme simplicity
There is fancy. too. for rich cloth and
for delicate shades of ivory gray. smoke
blue and dull green. rosy colors and
white being avoided. a very handsome.
rousseau evening gown has plain skirt
that just clears the ground all around
of ivory gray broadcioth that has all the
luster and more softness than silk. The
great puff sleeves of the bodice are of
dull blue satin. their fulIness all coming
below the shoulder. Smoothness is given
to the shoulder by the wide epaulettes
of gray satin that extend in narrowing
reyers to the waist line and are edge'l
with close-set spang1es of blue, gray
silver and green. Between the rpvers.
over the bust and to the waist there are
soft folds of mirror chiffon, showing
all delicate shades of gray. blue and DUH
green,
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sanne ola E Il

A Lewiston man tells the most start.
ling fish story. -Four years ago he was
fishing ut Lake Auburn with 4 long silk
line and /. hook Of his own manufacture.
In the afternoon of one May day he
hooked d monster ssalmon which ca,mc to
the surface three or four times and
then broke the line under the keel of
the t,s.il One day Int week he. was up
1tllefe HUH ~ 6I 10 yards south
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Gold in Salt Water.

the assertion that there hs a certain
quantity of gold in every ton of salt wa
ter, and has discovered that there are
about 1O,0OO,0O0 tons of gold in the va
rious oceans of the globe. Should com
pany be started to draw these treasures
from the bosom Of the vastly deep its
stock might be described as ..waterei. -
New York Herald.
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The BabY,s Name.

what are you going to call your new
brother, JackY' -. H. r. i :
ooh, I don't knoW-Jack, guess h
"But that's your name.' . 95z s.55 81.
''That doesn't make any difference. 1t
was papa's before ] had it. Pa and ma.
have a way of maxim us boys use up
their old things. "--Harper's Young Peo-
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An Electric Sax

In the northern part ut Clarke county,
Wash. near La Center. y M efr-rfris-
saw. the invention of Clark sssrrfv
man. which bids fair tn rgvasstIa5Jszp r}is-
weosi-euttiu@ business. It sscflsss that Tn.
plan ~ te generate steam by ftts- uSs~ tF .
b.iisr burning wossT and tn rist. sIyRau,ss
with Oh" engine. From tis.. sfyTs:fys,s y
long wire II stretched out aatI ssr.ls-h4.si 81,
n,oter. which operates y .Ir;s- saw r.
only requires three minutes for this S4vr
TO cut through tive~fs,t,s 5as and then Il
rs the work of but an instant 90 utavts thu
saw and naotor along the isf- - attssfss~
cut. Tine hundred eprIS IN Saisf 70 b. =
fiir dlrsx trnrk f.,r ff,fs rr,s,Isk,.....
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GOSSI FOR THE LADIES.
scarf to Death.

God made this world. an folks lived here
.s In peace, content an hope,
Till some darncd idjut went an made
a DOGGY microscope
Y I'd like to we he'd these science chaps
At hungry old "Mine Rum
Wet our hard-tack worms an all
fs 1Met Is, ef we had one. Pro
The worms they never made fuss
S0t on the stnmmuck well;
Tho most 5onwhoiesome germs for US
Ware bullet, grape an shell. r.
! e. Bradshaw.
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Tall Weeping Spruce Trees.

William Mackey, an old coast range
logger, disagrees with Prof. johnson in
the latters statement that the weeping
spruce is found only in one spot in the
world, to-wit, in the Siskiyou mountains.
Mr.. Mackey has seen the tree more than
once both in the Yaquina and Coos bay
regions, Wash. One Of them, 100 feet
high, with long, slender, leaf-coyered
limbs dropping to the ground, he says, is
q heautiful SIGHT - -
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To Make a Daisy Chain.

In the story books all the girls make
daisy chains the very moment they get
out into the fields. Perhaps all of them
know how, but if so they are wiser than
is almost picnic time. and it viii be a
novelty for the girls outside of books to
know how to make flower wreaths for
their hats, SO that they may spend one
day doing as their favorites about whom
they read always do. First, be careful
how you pick the flowers. Break them
with as long stems as possible. Make
the stem into a loop, slip the head of the
next daisy through it, draw the loop
tightly, loop the next and keep on loop
ing and slipping in flowers and tying
until you have a string long enough to
fasten around your hat. Another way to
make make a. daisy sy chains a is to silt the stems
through another, thus making a close
set wreath.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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Pists snueak Frencl1.

guess those little pigs must be
French, just like our nurse, said Mat
tic, :. 'cnllse when / asked them if they
were hungry, they said, Wee, VICE.
which Nlsie says means Yes., Z, Penny
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How He Won.

FaISt One! ne: nlSSeH.
The beautiful blue eyes gazed steadily
into his, Meaning me?" asked the own
er of the azure orbs. ''You bet. Last
Christmas the candy / bought for you
came: to S7.43. Valentines day sent
you $13 worth of dollhouse roses. In
March l blew in $11 for theater tickets.
And now comes along that odious Smith
ers and takes you to the music; festival,
sets up the ice cream, pays for car
riage and a corsage bouquet, at less than
half the time and money l expended on
shake"
The azure eyes twinkled. "Well, you
see" she said, .":Mr. Smithers punched
his hits N=India nanolis journal
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A Texans First olive.

Texan Cat the grocery store) -"What
do you call them things?' .7a
Grocer Those are Olives ~
Are they good to eat?' Es
Certainly Try one Of them. y
Bites into one.) Jest as expected
Got a wooden core Come from Connect
Sicut, don't they Chicago Tribune.
Hit it at Once.
ian see You apart for d moment ~ Us
Sss.3s. on mean alone, don you q.
fo lew York C,Qr1Iner-
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Fees on and OFF shipboard.

On all the large transatlantic steamers
the room stewardess is entitled to and ex-
poets fee of 10 shillings $3.50 from
each passenger upon whom she waits,
writes Mrs. Hamilton Mott in an exhaus-
tive article on THE Art of Travelling
Abroad in the May Ladies' Home Jour
nal. The dining room steward receives
the same amount. If the passenger is i'll
most of the journey, and but seldom at
table. then the fee of $3.50 should be
given to the deck steward instead of the
dining room steward. Where there is q
party of ladies, three or four in one state
room, smaller amount may be given by
each to the room servant. On land, fees
are optional but usual. One receives
cheerful and competent service, and a
sixpence az cents is the largest fee ex-
pected for actual service. The railroad
guards, who hold positions similar in rank
to our American conductors, will accept
and expect fee if they reserve compart-
ment for the traveller. One shilling as
centsl is the usual amount for such serv-
ice The railroad porter will meet the
take her trunk upon his shoulder. her
bags and boxes in the hand which he is
not using in stealing the trunk, will 90
with her to the booking or ticket office
while she purchases tickets, will proceed
then to secure the labels for her .destina-
ton, will label the baggage, and then
earring it out on to the platform will
put it into the goods van of the carriage
in which she herself gets. For all this he
is given sixpence.
Demand for Slippery Elm Bark.
A peculiar industry mas sprung up at
Mt. Etna, eleven miles southeast of Wa
bash, Ind, in supplying elm bark-slip-
perry elm-used largely in drug stores.
Recently G. A. Devine, Michigan man,
appeared at Mt Etna and along the
Salamonie river and proposed to buy of
the farmers the bark OH their elm trees.
He offered $40 a ton for the commodity
and as the farmers were allowed to take
the timber they readily made terms, and
Devine has stripped the bark from hun
dreds of elm trees. He says that he
sells the bark to Chicago wholesale
house for 800 ton, and is making con-
siderable money in the business.
Green No Protection to the Eyes.
The rage for green as the color which
protects the eyes is severely condemned
by Prof. Fuchs Of Vienna He denies
that it has any beneficial effect whatever,
end that green newspapers, green glasses
and green umbrellas are all mistake.
His theory is, at all events, plausible. 1t
is that each different color tires a differ,
cnt set of nerves and vision, and, there
fore, looking at one particular color saves
one set Of nerves at the expense of anoth-
CT. The best method, he points out, is to
dim ali the rays Of light by smoked, Or
gray glasses, which rest all the optic
nerves.--LOndon Globe.
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No Time to- Lose

n professor esleusatvs siisst che earth y
shrinking about two inches a year Tint
accounts for the nsrvonS anxiety plani-
Tested by some people q, r,ssr~s Il s7,sEs
it is of some size.-lThs- Bits.
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of the island hooked d salmon which he
pulled In by the MD Of scoop net. I'M
sbedded in the lower jaw was his old
hand made hook. II lewiston 3. Evening
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The best beef comes from heifer or
young steer anywhere from ; to { or =
years of age. After this age the animal
is known as Il COW or an OK, and if it has
been well cared for and is well fed it
may for two Or three years vet furnish
fairly good meat, but not the best Ac-
cording to age the meat becomes coarser,
tougher and darker. until il is finally unfit
for use on a refined table.
Good beef should be emooth-grained.
elastic and juicy, but never wet To tell
whether it is fresh or not, press against
it with the finger, and if it is elastic and
resumes its place quickly it is fresh: If
the dent made by the finger remains, or
if it is slippery or wet, avoid it, for it is
already in the first stages of decay and
is unwholesone. The mistake of getting
meat that is too old is often made by
those who like what we call high favor
AS matter of fact, beef that has very
high flavor has begun to decay. and is not
only poisonous and unfit to eat, but tine
idea of it is disagreeable to people of fas-
tidious tastes, or would be if it were
called by its right name.
The color as well as the texture of beef
varies with age. 4 good young beef
should have the lean a dark and rather
dingy red when first cut, changing in &
few minutes to bright. clear red. as red
ais a cherry. The older the animal WAS
when killed the darker and less clear the
lean meat will be. When it is pale and
pinkish it is immature. The fat should
be light straw-co.or, the suet, or kidney
fat. being somewhat brighter than the
fat of the muscles.
The texture Of good beef is smooth and
close grained. and when cold should APP
pear marbled with fat. When it is very
lean-looking, or stringy, or rough. it is too
old. The fat should not be solid and hard
like that of mutton. but should be faky-
and the suet fat should be so dry that it
will crumble. When the fat is oily or
dull in color, the beef is sure to be of
bad quality.-"Hints Concerning Market
ing in Demorest's Magazine
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Grace at Table, J.

am about to marry and set up q
home. like the custom Of grace ut
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Customs of Polish Women.

In Poland, princesses and peasants
wear around the throat several rows of
huge coral beads which are supposed to.
be lucky-the bigger the beads the great
er the luck-and the dingy-Iooking mer-
chants of the ''Zwierjenetz" Dewish
quarter of the town, at Cracow. realize
small fortunes from the sale of these
coral necklaces, for a Pole of the lower
classes will almost sooner go without
food or without her beloved 'yodki
(brandy) than forego this cherished orna-
ment. The ''grande-dame" is so Ioath
to separate from her lucky beads that
when donning evening dress with it's par
aphernalia of pearls and diamonds. she
carries them in her pocket or in the inside
of her corsage. While Oil the subject of
Poland | may add that the orthodox
Jewesses herewith whom the country
literally swarms-are easily distin
guished, apart from any physical mark
of race. by the silken wigs which they are
forced to adopt ON the morrow of their
wedding day. Their religion exacts that
on the wedding night the rresses should
fall under the bites of pair of silver
scissors, and the massacre is so complete
that, shorn close to the scalp they con-
ceal the skull under hideous construc-
ton of coarse silken strands. highly orna-
mented in mos: cases with bands of black
velvet sewn with small pearls and tHF-
quoises.-Corresponde in New York
Tribune.
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never to feel hungry. aud my wife III
with me. Resides. 1 was growing old,
and II took me often Il long time t0
Clutch my dinner. Did you ever havoSto
dinner ~
Never, It's always caught Tor md. 81
I, it makes oil the difference,
doesn't 1t Then you don't know how
mad It makes you to chiYyy To- meal
about among q lot of thorn bushes and
perhaps not catch 1t after all. Q
AND here he gave a prodigiOus yassM,
showing the few blunt teeth Ia had LEFT;
and stretched himself out at full length
with his back to me.
That's very uncivil way of saying
good-bye. suppose. you aged repro.
blte,.5you mean me to 80 ?'' ss'sgs3
L But his eyes We're already closed, and,
except for the tuft ut the end sof lis
tail, which kept tapping the floor, tie
shabby old monster was asleep, Dream
ing, perhaps, Of a scri,nnnage az the
desertsand Of the flying figure with tie
white lburnouse streaming out behind
It: of.'rippoo lib. the slave hunter
Phil Robinson, in the English Illustrated
Magazine 5zs - 81. Z s.2s5 $50
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The Lions View. of 1t.

tsYou are very disreputable-looking
old lion. How do you account for being
so dreadfully out Of repair? Where's
your name gone" Pr III 4 ~. -. %ss'.}$
'*Thorn bushes" said the seedy old
beast, with lazy yawn. .-.-.'.-
"And what's that scar?''
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From Saturdays DaiIy.]

John Healy returned yesterday
from a visit TO his sister, Miss Mary
Healy, at Parkersburg.
Mrs. Sherman SHIRLEY, of Charl-
eston, is here on u visit to her
mother
F. L. Evans, of Parkersburg, was
registered at the Phoenix last
night.
Hon. Jas. B. Menager and E. C.
Winger were down to Ben Lomond
yesterday taking dispositions.
Miss Viola sprague, who has been
here on a visit to Capt. VIM. Par
sons and family, leaves to-day for
BeIlaire, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen W. Love, y.
E. corner of Sth and Vine streets
were the happy recipients of q
plump, well developed, III pound
boy at 400 p. m, 18th. inst.
We have regarded our old friend
Capt. ". r. Gum as truthful man
and now we are convinced of it
He went with his family and some
friends, up to Eight Mile fishing
and on his return said plainly thai
he didn't catch any fish.
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Thieves Arrested.

Last night officers Smith and
Foglcsong, of this place and officer
White of Ravenswood, lodged in
Jail Harry Jarvis, C. L. Jarvis,
Perry Il. Jarvis and J. ]. Wilson,
who are wanted in jackson county
for stealing and carrying away
about $500 worth of marketable
ginseng from q dealer named Stone
at Ravenswood. They will be taken
back to Jackson county today.
They were captured on a shanty
boat on this side of the river just
below Eight-mile Island, and only
about two pounds of the ginseng
was found on the boat. The thieves
had disposed of the article in small
quantities to merchants in Cheshire,
Addison and other places. These
fellows are said to be bad set, and
now that they have them in the
clutches of the law they are pretty
certain to do time at Moundsville.
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Miss Kate Van Matre, of Wash
ingtoD, will arrive homo to-day OF
a visit to her parents in the Flats.
Mr.. J. W. Roche, of Charleston
was in town yesterday, the guest O
Col. ]. P. r. B. Smith.
Miss Lena Yolleft, who has been
visiting friends in Parkersburg, has
returned.
c. E McCullooh, Esq. and son
Howard, from up the Kanawha, are
in the city, today.
Mrs. Curtis Hysell, of Galiipolis,
who was dangerously i'll Saturday,
we are glad to announce to her
friends here, is much better.
Mrs. Will O'Brien, was called by
telegram, to Charleston Saturday,
on account of the sickness of her
husband.
Mrs. Rankin Wiley returned
home Saturday evening, from a
visit to C. w. Young, Esq, and
family, at Charleston.
Misses Mary and Lizzie Brown, of
Hartford, are visiting friends here,
and the family of J. II. Brown, of
Hickory Flats.
Hrs. Margaret Jones and daugh-
ter, Hiss Jessie, of Charleston, are
here on a visit to Hrs. Jones broth
er, Capt. Owen Roseberry and
family near town.
Mrs. Henry Stafford, of Circle
vile, Ohio, and Mrs. Chas. Wilder
muth, of Pomeroy, who have been
the guests of Mrs. David Price, have
returned home.
Hon. John B. Floyd, editor of the
Charleston Daily Mail, was a dis
tinguished visitor to our city Satur-
day. He is Il prominent candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor.
This morning the following gen
tlemen went up on the early train
to Gauley river, where they will
camp and fish and hunt, and have a
good time generally for the next
two weeks. The party is as follows:
Fl. c. Bailey, w. w. Bryan, a. l..
Cottrill, los. H. Holloway and E. b.
Thomas. VIM. West, better known
as "Spudix" went along as cook and
general manager.
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The Henderson School.

Editor Register: Will you kindly
publish the following reply to the
statement made in your valuable
paper last week in regard to the
Board of Education of Clendenin
district refusing to furnish ample
accommodation for the pupils OF
Henderson. There was no petition
presented nor was there any rep
resentative present at the July
meeting, and the statement alleged
to have been made at the meeting
chat Henderson wanted the earth, y
is untrue, but on the other hand l am
requested to say that the Board
stands ready to furnish the thrifty
little village of Henderson with
commodius school room for all the
pupils, let it be one hundred or more
J. P. A.
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From Thursdnv,s ONLY.


Mrs. Louise Noffsinger, of Win.
field, was a visitor here yesterday
Col. d. Sealey, of Charleston, i,
in the city. Our people are Away,
glad to see the Colonel.
Miss Paullna Bridgeman is visit
ing Mrs. Young, at her home above
New Haven.
Mrs. Ed. Miller, of Huntington
who has been here on a visit tc
friends, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. Jas. NH. Beale and daugh.
ter, Miss Vausie, of MERGERS Bot.
tom, leave today for Red Sulphur
Springs.
We are sorry to say that our old
friend Patrick Douer, at Graham
Station, is a very sick man, suffer-
ing from something like Bright
disease.
W. J. Yielding, accompanied by
Miss Grace Munford, left yesterday
on a visit to relatives in Canada.
His wife and child who have been
there on quite an extended visit, will
return home with him.
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Personal Mention.
lFrom wednesdar,s nnilr.

Rev. 7. W. Williamson, of Win
field, was a guest at the Phenix
yesterday.
Oscar Greer, who has been in
Columbus for some time returned
last night.
Mrs GatewoOd and sister, Miss
Fannie McCIeIlen, of Gallipolis,
were the guests of A. II. Cable and
family, yesterday.
Mrs. P. G. Holloway and son,
Fred, left this morning via the X.
& NJ. Railway for Baltimore and
Washington, where they will visit
relatives.
Mrs. Rankin Wiley, leaves to day
on a visit to Chas. w. Young and
family, at Charleston. Master Ray
mOnd Young, who has been here
on quite an extended visit, retured
home with her.
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From Tuesdays Daily.)

Miss Alice Kimberling is on the
sick list.
Miss Maude Day, who has been
visiting up Kanawha, will return
home today.
Bert Thomas, the village black
smith at Leon, and good fellow, is
in town.
Mrs Hal Smith, who has been the
guest of Mrs. Dr. Carpenter, at Poca,
returned yesterday.
Mute Lowe is moving his family
from the Allen property, to Smiths
property on Main street.
Mrs. Eva Hutchinson, who has
been here on a visit to her parents,
left this morning for her home at
Chicago.
Mrs. John l. Whitten who has
been visiting her parents at Glen
wood for a week or more, will re
turn home today.
Mrs. Peter Bettinger, who has
been visiting at Leon, also her
daughter, Mrs. John C. Stortz, of
this place, returned to her home at
Mason, yesterday.
Mrs. Chas w. Young, of Charles
ton, a sister of Hon. Rankin Wiley,
of this city fell down the stairs of
her residence a few days ago, and
badly sprained one of her ankles.
Mrs. C. M. Whittier gave a riding
party last night. After delightful
ride of about two hours the party
returned to Mrs. Whittier's home on
Wand street, and were served with
delicious refreshments.
Miss Jessie Fabian who has been
visiting her sister Miss Edith, in
Philadelphia, has returned home
accompanied by her sister, who will
make her father, Mir. Sam Fabian
quite an extended visit.
Hon. II. r Howard will leave to.
day at noon, on a business trip to
PitLsburg and Wheeling His little
daughter, Miss Gertrude will &C.
company him as far as New Mar.
tinsville, where she will make Rev
and Mrs. R. U. Brooking a visit.