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, 1898-10-21
YOUNG AT SIXTY.

Serene comfort and happiness in ad-
vanced years are realized by compare
lively few women.
Their hard lives, their liability to Sc
rious troubles on account of their peeu-
liar organism and their profound igno-
rance concerning themselves, all COM
bine to shorten the period of usefulness
and fill their later years with suffering.
Mrs. Pinkham has done much to make
women strong. She has given advice
to many that has shown them how to
guard against disease and retain vigor-
GUS health in old age. From every cor
ner of the earth there is constantly COM
ing the most CONVINCING statements
from women, showing the efficacy of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in overcoming female ills. Here
is a letter from Mrs. j. G. Orms, of 220
Horner St., Johnstown, Pa, which is
earnest and straight to the point:
"DEAR MRS. ~PINKHAM:-I feel it nv
duty to tell all suffering women that 1
think your remedies are wonderful. I
lad trouble with my head, dizzy spells
and hot flashes. Feet and hands were
cold, was very nervous, could not sleep
well, had kidney trouble, pain in
ovaries and congestion of the womb.
Since taking your remedies 1 am better
every way My head trouble is all
gone, have no pain in ~ovaries, and am
cured of womb trouble. l can eat and
sleep well and am gaining in flesh. I
consider your medicine the best to be
had for female troubles"
The present Mrs. Pinkham's expert
ence in treating female ills is unparal-
lelled, for years she worked side by
side with Mrs. Lydia e. Pinkham, and
for sometime past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department. of
her great business, treating by letter
as many as a hundred thousand ailing
women during q single year.
, 1898-10-21

AS a young woman she married Gen,
r. D. Mussey, an able Washington law
yer, and with him she studied law.
Some years after their marriage Gen.
Mussey had a severe illness, and Mrs.
Mussey went into his office to conduct
the business, intending to retire on his
restoration to health, but the general
insisted on retaining her as his part
per, and the relation existed for six
teen years, terminating only at his
death in 1892. Mrs. Mussey has ever
since conducted the business, retain
ing the large clientele Of her husband,
as well as becoming the attorney for
many women and women's associa-
tons. She practices before all the
courts of the district, including the
Supreme Court of the United States.
She has been dean of the law college
a number of years.
, 1898-10-21

VII
humiliation of their ships, one of them
the executive officer of the Maria Ter
esa-exclaimed to Lieutenant Command
er Wainwright, of the gallant little
Gloucester:
hit every time. How do you do it?
What is the secret?
cit is no secret was the reply. eve
keep our men constantly at practice.
They are at the guns day after day
week in and week out. And we train
regulation charges and projectiles every
three months"
The Spaniard was astounded.
"You fire real shots?" he exclaimed.
at costs very much!"
In hat last sentence will be found one
of the most potent reasons for the defeat
of the Spanish naval vessels during the
present war. And if the details of his
tory be carefully searched the loss of
the Armada and the whole series of
naval disasters experienced by the Span
ish flag during the past centuries can be
laid to the fact hat they have been par
simonious in expenditures and dilatory
in training.
A visitor to one of our warships will
find the various guns as spotlessly
clean as a good housewives kitchen.
The gunner's gang on board each vessel
is always at work securing, polishing
and Frightening. The guns are taken
apart at stated intervals, and the intri-
cate mechanism of the breech given
special attention. 1t is worth a ~gunner's
warrant to have a spot of rust discov-
cred on the bright work of a piece of
ordnance under his charge.
This strict care tends to foster a pc
culiar affection of the men for their
guns, and they grow to speak of them as
animate beings. There is hardly a gun in
the navy but has a pet name, and in time
of battle, like that of Santiago, there is
actually a rivalry between the different
crews as to the successes of the special
pets. If the casual visitor to one of the
big w%arships carelessly places his hand
upon one of the shining "big beauties
or leans against its polished sides, he
will find the salty tar who has that
special piece in charge g~laring at him in
silent rage if the deck officer is about.
If that officials eye is turned the other
way the gunner will resent the uncon-
scious sacrilege with a picturesque and
piratical flow of language that makes the
move to a safe distance. But if
one manifests a friendly interest in
learning about the good record of the
gun he will find that there is no surer or
quicker road to Jacky's heart, and that
he can be eloquent by the hour in praise
of the fine points of his favorites.
All this is wisely ordered. The Amer
lean system of gunnery in all its details
stands indicated and upheld before the
world, and in future years, when the his
tory of this war is treated dispassionate
ly, a prominent niche will be reserved
for that peculiar product of Yankee in
genuity and ~wisdom-the man behind the
gun!
, 1898-10-21
DEAFNESS Cannot BE Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have a rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing butan In
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that cam
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send
for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY g Co., Toledo. O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
, 1898-10-21
The Rankrunf

Few words have so remarkable a his
tory as bankrupt" The money chang
ers of Italy had benches or stalls In the
bourse or exchange in former times. At
these they conducted their ordinary
business. When any of them fell back
In the world and became insolvent, his
bench was broken, and the name of
"broken bench" or banca rotta, was
given to him. When the word was first
adopted into English, 1t was nearer the
italian than it now is, being bank.
erout," instead of bankrupt"
, 1898-10-21

"I was finally induced through reading
some accounts in the newspapers regard
ing the wonderful cures wrought by DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, to try
them. took the pills according to direc-
tions and soon began to notice an improye-
ment in my condition. Before the first box
was used / could get about the'house, and
after using five boxes was entirely cured.
"Sinee that time | have felt no return of
the rheumatic pains. 1 nm confident that
DIR. Williams Pink Pills saved my life and
| try to induce my friends who are sick 70
try the Same remedy. l will gla1ly answer
inquiries concerning my sickness and Won
derful cure, provided stamp is enclosed for
reply. FRANK LONG,"
Sworn to before me at Venice, Mich, this
18th day of April, 1893.
G. [. GOLDSMITH, Justice ofthe Peace.
, 1898-10-21

Practically every flagstaff is sur
mounted by a truck having a shieve
set in it, or two holes bored through
it, through which the flag halliards
are rove. The truck thus commonly
used is in the form of a disk, which is
placed flat Upon the top of the staff,
with the edges projecting a little all
around. The shieve is set, or the holes
are bored, III the part that thus
projects.
Trucks are made of lignumvitae.
and they are made of various sizes.
according to the size of the fagpole
and the weight of the flag they are
to hold. There is often seen rising
above the truck a gilded ball. This is
supported upon a steel rod which is
set down into the top of the pole
through a hole in the centre of the
truck mad for the purpose. Sometimes
on boats, usually on smaller crafts.
there is used in this manner a gilded
ball that has rising above it a slender
spindle fitted to carry a little triahgu-
lar flag called a fly, which serves to in
dictate the direction of the wind.
Trucks are often made with both
shieve and holes. the shieve near the
edge on one side and holes on the
other. Such trucks are commonly
used on yachts and other smaller
vessels, the shieve being used for flag
halliards, and the holes for signal hal
lizards.
On deep-water ships and steamers
and other larger vessels the truck
commonly carried at the top of the
masts, on American vessels, is a ball
truck. This also is made of lignum-
vitae, but round like a ball. This
truck is sometimes gilded. The bal
truck makes a better finish than a fiat
truck on the top of a mast, n it is
also stouter and less likely to be
broken. The ball truck is bored and
fitted down upon the top of the mast.
The shieve in the ball truck is placed
in the upper part of the ball and not
far from the top, with holes leading
down from it through the wood and
coming out underneath on the same
side of the ball with the shieve. The
ball truck is so set on a mast that
the shieve and the holes leading to it
come on the after side.
While on American ships a trucks
are commonly used. there are often
seen on British ships fiat trucks
, 1898-10-21
ygravely deciN that It was.

Nme's words. N'because OF a
zsecrer~a11 in ~gnnuerXl"-- How our gallant
forefathdrs who manned the Constitution
and the United States would have laughed
at thatl They knew, as weEknow to-day,
that our skill in gunnery comes from
a system which has as its keynote
one pregnant word-Praetieel Prac-
ticei
When the torpedo boat Morris dropped
in at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on her
way to Cuba several weeks ago, among
the different members of the crew who
went ashore for a short run was a young
man, smooth-faced and b~lue-eyed, and
with a placid, calm expression, such as
might be worn by a youth studying
theology. He was clad in the pictur-
esque uniform of the naval sailors, and
there was nothing in his attire or bear
ing to indicate that he had among his
effects on board a medal won for expert
craftsmanship with great guns. He was
a seaman gunner, had graduated from
the gunnery school at Washington, and
could place a 13-inch she'll in the vitals
of an enemy's warship with the ac-
curacy of a rough rider using a re-
volver.
That young man had entered the SER
vice as an apprentice when he was
scarcely IL. He early attracted the no.
tice of his superior officers, who are al
ways on the lookout for promising ma
terial, and was sent, after learning the
, 1898-10-21

of the Japanese group. Its rugged
peak rises 800 feet above the e aud
1t can be seen twenty-five miles away.
There is a great cavern in the base of
the pinnacle, and through this the e
dashes with thunderous roar. at the
water line the rock is fifty feet in diam.
eter. Another strange island of the
Pacific is Bird island, which lies some
distance off the Hawaiian group.
, 1898-10-21
HEAD OF A LAW COLLEGE.

Unique Position Held by Mrs. Ellen
spencer Mussey, of Washington.
Dean of a law college is certainly a
unique position for a woman to occupy.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey fills this
position in the Washington College of
Law. Mrs. Mussey is an Ohioan by
birth and is the daughter of the author
of the Spencerian system of writing.
, 1898-10-21
New Shoe.

A new shoe for soldiers is being test.
ed in Germany. 1t consists of a kind of
paste of linseed oil, varnish and iron
filings with which the soles of new
shoes are painted. 1t is said to keen
leather flexible and gives the shoe
greater resistance than the best nails.
Already, in many regiments, the usual
iron nails have been exchanged for
nails of aluminium.
, 1898-10-21
"A Curious Law.

In the sixteenth century there was
a curious law in England Whereby
street hawkers were forbidden to sell
plums and apples, for the reason that
servants and apprentices were unable
to resist the sight of them, and were
consequently tempted to steal their
employers money in order to enjoy the
costly d~elicacies.
, 1898-10-21

DEAR EDITOR IF you know of a solicitor or
canvasser in your city or elsewhere, especially
a man who has solicited for subscriptions,
insurance. nursery st elk, books or tailoring,
favor by telling him to correspond with US or
If you will insert this notice in your paper and
such parties will cut this notice out and mail TO
US. we may be able to furnish them a good
position in their own and adjoining counties.
Address,
AMERICAN WOODEN MILLS CO., Chicago.
, 1898-10-21
sTRENoE ISLANDS.
Two Lonely Rocks Which Stick On
of the Pacific Ocean.

Sea captains newly arrived at San
Francisco from Japan and China deny
the report that the island known as
Lots Wife had been damaged by an
earthquake. This lonely rock sticks
out of the Pacific ocean some distance
to the southeast of Nippon, the largest
, 1898-10-21
Reauty Is Blood Deem.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty
your blood and keep 1t clean, by stirring up the
lazy liver and driving all impurities from the
body. Begin to-day to Danish plmples, boils,
complexion by taking Cascarets beauty for
ten cents. All druggists, satisfaction guaran-
teed, lOc. 25c., SOC.
, 1898-10-21

duties of a sailor, to the Government
Gunnery School. There he spent a num-
Der of months under theoretical and
practical tuition in the science of gun
manship. When he graduated at the end
of the course he was detailed TO the New
port Torpedo school, and there absorbed
more scientific training. A few weeks
spent in a private arms mandatory, and
he has returned to the service and to the
blue Jackets uniform as a seaman runner.
Although almost fitted for a commission,
he is permitted to occupy a position pay
ing him the meagre salary Of $50 a month
and rations.
MANY SUCH.
There are many young men such as he
in our naval service. They are to be
found on every ship, and there are nun
dreds and hundreds of naval apprentices
in training for the same station. 1t was
either the seamen g~unners or men rem
dered expert by constant practice after
our thorough system who manned the
batteries of the Olympia, Baltimore and
Boston in the battle of Manila Bay, and
of the Brooklyn, Oregon, Iowa, Texas,
and the rest of SIMPSONS feet in the de-
struction of Cervera's fugitive squadron
off Santiago. The "man behind the gun"
in the American navy is no magician.
He can shoot with marvellous accuracy,
and he can make a sieve with a rapid
fire gun of any warship ahoat, but he is
enabled to do it simply because he has
been Instructed efter that fashion.
When officers Of Cp1Vp Iais snual-
, 1898-10-21

Tired Torrey-Yes, mum, | wuz roilin'
IN wealth a few years ago.
Kind Lady-Rum lowered you, l sup
pose?
Tired Torrey-No, mum; I wuz a sue
cessful burglar three years ago, but yer
see 1 got religion, and now l can't work
at me trade.-St. Louis Republic.
, 1898-10-21
LoTncIdent.
From The Oh etoer, Flushing, MI,

@FD'E ~ F"FFVVJf f1sWes
..S'Early In November, 1884," says Frank
Long, who lives pear Lennon, Mich, ION
starting to get up from the dinner table, 1
was taken with 4 pain in my back. The
pain increased And I was obliged to take to
mvbed. The physician who was summoned
pronounced mypase muscular rheumatism
accompanied BY lumbago. He gave me
remedies and injected morphine into my
arm to ease the pain.
my diseased gradually became worse un-
til 1 thought that death would be welcome
release from my sufferings. Besides my
regular physician | also consulted another,
but he gave mt no announcement.
, 1898-10-21

Right in one thing becomes a pre-.
liminary towards right in everything
the transition is not distant from the
feeling that tells us that we should do
harm to no man to that which tells us
thai we should endeavor to do good to
all men.
, 1898-10-21

School yourself to bear no other
trouble than hat of the living present.
Some people pear three kinds: troubles
of the past, the present and the fu-
ture.
, 1898-10-21

"Then you gave Mr.. Hindbad nearly
two hundred dollars just for listening
to your account of n voyageT"
"Yes; to say nothing Of the purse and
q big dinner-and how that mai could
eatv'-St. Nicholas.
, 1898-10-21

Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC. or 81. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Ster
ling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
, 1898-10-21

There are three principal essentials
to happiness in this life: something to
do, some one to love, and something
to hope for.
, 1898-10-21

A word that has been said may be
unsaid; it is but air. But when Il
deed is done, it cannot be undone; nor
"a our thoughts reach out to all the
mischiefs which may follow.
, 1898-10-21

A man should not allow himself to
hate even his enemies; because if you
indulge this passion on some occasions,
it will rise itself in others.
, 1898-10-21

There is nothing so difficult for a
horse to do as to keep his heels level
when he feels his oats. 1t is just SO
with mortal man.
, 1898-10-21

There is perhaps nothing that pleases
a bum than to fill his tank with
beer, and criticise the president.
, 1898-10-21

For whooping Cough, Piso's Cure is a sue.
cessful remedy.-M.P p. DIETER, 81 Throop Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Nov. IA. 1894.
, 1898-10-21

Fits permanently cured. NJ fits or nervous.
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline 5 Great
Nerve Restol er. 81 trial bottle and treatise free.
DR. r. II. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch ST., Phila. Pa.
, 1898-10-21

The world is a workshop, and none
CT us are expected to lay down our
tools until summoned to the court
above.
, 1898-10-21

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teethipg. sof.ens the gums. reducing intamma.
ton, allays pain cures wind collie, 25c a bottle.
, 1898-10-21

1t takes adversely to bring a man
down on his knees.
, 1898-10-21

Do good constantly patiently and
wisely, and you will never have cause
to say that life was not worth living.
, 1898-10-21

Words are not arrows, but they fly
farther.
, 1898-10-21

The elevator in a department store Ia
merely Q shoplifter.
, 1898-10-21

There may be people who are beneath
flattery; but we never have met one
whom we thought was above it.
, 1898-10-21

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
10c. 25c. If {. {. q. fail, druggists refund money.
, 1898-10-21
DROPSYNsEE;,w..D! DIS Isc 10y .a.s! civ. sd,:,
Wheat in Olden Time.

From the time of Alexander the
Great down TO the time of Columbus,
the average price of wheat was 1912
a ton; from 1751 to 1900 the price aver
aged four times as much.
, 1898-10-21
To Cure A Cold in One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
Druggists refund money fit fails TO cure. Soc.
, 1898-10-21

Men seldom repent Is long as they
are prosperous.
, 1898-10-21
No To-Bac For Fifty Cents.

Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weak
men strong, blood pure. Que, IL. All druggists.
, 1898-10-21
RJPEJRE

ARCH ST., PHILA., PA. Ease at once; no
operation or delay from business. Consultation
free. Endorsements of physicians. ladies and
prominent citizens. Send for circular. Office
hours 9 A. NJ. to l P. NJ.
, 1898-10-21

Sour grapes car never make sweet
wine.
, 1898-10-21

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic, 10c or 25c.
Z. c.. {. fail toscure, druggists refund money.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-07-20

We believe Teachers Institute
is to be held somewhere in this
county during this month, but at
what point or on what day, the
County Superintendent has not
officially informed us, by sending
us for publication the notice of the
meeting of the Institute, Hispa
tisanism prevents him from max
ing publication of the Institute,
only in the State Gazette. Prob
ably he does not desire Democratic
Teachers to attend. IF the County
Superintendent can ease his con-
science by such dirty partisan
work, we have no objections. He
must have been taking lessons
from the Kanawha "Hog Combine.
1t is a piece of littleness on the
part of Mr.. Banks, that will be
condemned by the people, and par
ticularly by the Teachers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-07-20

Bears the n The Kind You Have Always Bssght
s s;': :: ;'' lM5.23!z;73z:z:5z@:l e.
Ignored the People.

The County Court utterly ig-
nored the resolutions presented to
them as adopted at the taxpayers
meeting, asking that the levy be
laid at 40 cents on the 500 valua-
ton, which was sufficient to pay
the current years county expenses,
and some $1,000 on the outstand-
ing indebtedness. The Ringsters,
robbers and pilferers, however,
could see no chance for "iobs'' OF
steals" under such a low levy.
and prevailed upon the court to
keep the levy at about the same as
it was last y ear. The court will
find that it has run up against q
"buzz-saw."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-07-20
MURDER.
Lum Washington. a Negro,
Shoots and Kills Ills
Wife Early This
Morning.
from Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
About half-past five O'Clock this
morning, the people in the neigh
borhood of the old colored school
house were aroused by the screams
of women, and the calling for an
officer. Investigation on the part
of reporter of the Register show
ed that Lum Washington, negro,
had shot and killed his wife few
minutes before.
The couple had not been getting
along we'll together, and had fire.
quent quarrels. The murderer says
that her conduct had almost driven
him crazy. and that he had decided
that he could live with her no
longer. He said she did not come
home until after one o'clock last
night, having been out bicycle rid
ing, a negro known as 81. P" hay-
ing rented the bicycle for her, and
here is where the trouble came to
focus and eliminated in her
murder. The pistol used was So
calibre, and the shot took effect in
the right breast. She lived half
an hour after the shooting.
The murderer was arrested by
officer Chas. Smith, in Davis &
Sons stable, where he was employ
ed. He offered no resistance, and
does not seem to regret his act, and
does not deny committing the
crime.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-07-20
sUlCIDED.
John B. IaidIey Hangs Him.
self.


John b. IafdIey Hangs Him.
self.
Special TO Register.
HUNTINGTON, July John B.
LaidIey, who recently won his law
suit against the Central Land Com
pany, hung himself in the county
jail yesterday about noon. He
had been on a protracted spree, aud
had immagined that O. p. Hunt
ington had sent man to Hunt
ington to assassinate him, and had
armed himself with a revolver and
was hunting his supposed enemy
His friends fearing he might in
iure some one placed him in Jail
the evening before. In the morn
ing he seemed reconciled and his
physician called and gave him a
little whiskey to stimulate him,
and some medicine for nervous
ness. The doctor advised that he
be kept in Jail for the day. When
the jailer went to his room to give
him his dinner he found him
hanging and dead. He had made
the rope to hang himself out OF
the sheets of the bed. His suicide
created great excitement in the
city. He was a lawyer of much
prominence.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-07-20

People who want to break up
says the Parkersburg Sentinel,
ought to know that there is now a
National Bankrupt Law, passed by
Congress and approved by the
President last week. 1t provides
for both voluntary and involuntary
bankrupts. AS men informed alb
out the law, as they themselves
think, disagree as to the construct
ion of many of the provisions of the
new bankruptcy act, it is not in or
der for us to explain it. 1t was a
measure and not en-
tirely satisfactory to anyone. The
chief fault of the law in the eyes
of many is its failure to provide for
massive fees for registers and other
officers known to the old bankrupt
law. There isn't job worth hav-
ing under this new act.