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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

The unholy, inglorious and I'M
fruitful war in the philippines is
costing the American taxpayer at
the rate of $2O0,OOO,0Oo year,
saying nothing of the lives of our
heroic soldiers. And all for what2
For nothing on earth butthe beue-
fit of a few speculative syudicutes
to whom Mr., Mckinley is mort
gagged. Wheeling Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

jackson county pedagogues ge
asalary of S22 and 1913 per montl
this winter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

After you fellows get your diff
oulties settled down there at CALI
polls, between your street car line
and the city Fathers, you ought to
go to work and procure right of
way up over and across the X. & M.
bridge in this city. Point Pleas
ant people will extend to you a
welcome and good patronage.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

1t is noteworthy fact that our
farmers are getting the advantage
of the potato bug pest. There
were not 80 many of them this year,
and they are now to be found lying
dead, about on the ground.
So many cattlo are killed by
lightning while standing near wire
fences that it has been proposed to
diminish the danger by means of
ground wires, which would con
duct the electricity during thun.
der storm from the fence wires in
to tho earth.
Mr.. Dave M. Dickens the cham.
pion watermelon grower, left at
this Office yesterday fne water
melon, for which he has our thanks.
This morning he brought to town
a watermelon that measured AZ
inches around.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

WRBE carry a line of Disc Harrows, two
horse Cultiya a1 Spike tooth I'll Harrows,
w Points, Double and single Shovel Points,
Plow Beams and Handles, Rope and Binder's
Irvine, Milwaukee Binders and Mowers. Gall
and see our Wickless Oil Cook Stove. We carry
in stock Tin and Iron Roofing, Spouting, &c.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06
saved Hcr From Drowning.


Dirt. b. Camden performed n
heroic act at Atlanta City during
his recent stay at that popular re-
sort. On the second day after his
arrival he was enjoying bath
when he heard scream for help
and saw woman struggling in the
surf. He went to her assistance
and caught her just as she had
swooned. 1t was with the greatest
difficulty that he got her to shore,
and in doing so he wrenched the
tendons of his foot. AS conse-
quence his pleasures were marred
for the remainder of the stay as
his foot became SO badly swollen
and painful that he could not get
around without great discomfort.
The consciousness of having saved
human life has repaid him for
any discomforts he might have
suffered. Parkersburg Sentinel.
If the people of Letart would
lease their lands as they should do,
it is altogether possible they might
induce some capitalists to come
there and put down we'll for oil.
There is this about it, there is no
one there that will do this and un-
less some inducement is held out
to foreigners to come in and devel-
OPP the territory, it will not be done
soon. This is the way all oil terri
tory is developed, and Letart should
follow the precept to the end, that
if we have oil in this county to pay,
the territory must be opened up
now, at once. Let no one stand in
the way of oil development.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

Laying all jokes aside. whichnre
usually free in harvest, does not
our claim to the Philippine Islands
appear like q wild visionary scheme
that governments with we'll bal
anced heads would not consider,
under any circumstances. What
this government wants with l,4O0
volcanic islauds in the tropics of
Asia where people born in the tenn
perate zone cannot live, isa ques-
tion too large for the large majority
of Americans to,understand. And
yet this administration paid Spain
$2o,OO0,0O0 for these same volcanic
islands, and went TO war with the
inhabitants without the sanction
of congress.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-06

Martin Kelly came in from the
country yesterday to remain with
friends until after the Fair He
has been spending his time in 60
ing about calling on old friends, Of
whom he has many, Mr.. Kelly, at
one time was Marshal of this city,
and it is said made one of tho best
the town has ever knew.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
Smart Little Girl.

A little girl who has just entered
school j%ubilantly announced to her ia
ther that she had beaten all the girls
above her in the arithmetic class and
gone to the top.
''That was clever of you," said he
encouragingly. "How was it?"
well, you see, the teacher asked the
girl at the head how much was 8 and
5, and she didn't know and said 10,
and the next girl said 9, and the next
one said IL. and the next one said Ia.
Such silly answersl Then the teacher
asked me, and ] said IS, and she told
to go to- Course it was 10.
"That was nice, said the father. II
didn't think you could add SO well.
How did you know it was 1871"
"Why ! guessed it. Nobody said
10. "-Pearson's Weekly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
Tobacco In England, 1s45.

When I was a lad, fully half the pop
ulation of both sexes, rich as well as
poor, the banker equally with the work
ingman, were snufftakers. My first
schoolmaster always carried his snuff
loose in his waistcoat pocket, and in
Vulnerable were his dips into it with
two fingers and a thumb in the course
of the day, while the big gauffered frill
which protruded from the bosom Of his
shirt was always thickly sprinkled with
it. We used to notice that he never
seemed to relish one of his huge pinches
SO much as Immediately after having
administered a sound castigation to
some recalcitrant pupil.
On the other hand, there was little or
no open air smoking, except. in the case
of laboring men going to or from their
work. In this respect lucifer matches
have something to answer for; but for
them the practice of outdoor smoking
would nev have grown to it's present
emo proportions. - Chambers
Journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
An ~ceptabl Clock.

A well known professor sometimes
became SO mach interested in his lecture
that when the noon bell rang he kept
the class five or ten minutes over the
hour. Certain restless spirits among the
students thought they would give hin
a gentle hint, so they bought an alarm
clock. set it to go off precisely at moor
and placed it on the professors desk
when they came in to the next lecture.
They knew that he was a little absent
minded and expected that he would not
notice it.
As the moo hour struck the alarm
went off with a crash, and those Of the
class not in the secret started and took
in the joke at once. There was a round
of applause. The professor waited until
the alarm and the applause were over
and then said: Young gentlemen, l
thank you for this little gift. Ihad for
gotten it was my birthday. An alarm
clock is something my wife has needed
for our servant for some time. It is a
very kind remembrance on your part.
The professor then went on to finish a
demonstration interrupted by the
alarm. London Tit-Bits.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
A Porto Rfcan shave.

The Porto Ricans. who are all. from
their highest to the lowest, great dan
dies IN their way. make soap out Of CO.
coanut oil and homemade I've. And Il
hne soap it is, smooth and fragrant.
This ocoanut oil soap is used for shay
ing. When a nan wishes to have a
shave in the morning. he starts out
with his cocoanut shell cup and his
donkey tail brush and bottle. It is
never any trouble to find an empty bot
tie in Porto Rico, Cuba. Jamaica or al
most any Of the larger West India is
lands. even in remote spots in the
mountains. At least 20 generations Of
thirsty people have lived there and
thrown away the bottles.
The mar carries no mirror. He is too
poor to W such a luxury, Not one
house in 20 in Porto Rico has even the
very. cheapest looking glass. But gen
orally rich nature provides the mirror
as well as the soap. The ma goes to
ONE convenient pool in the mountain
stream where the water is quite still.
There is his mirror. He breaks his bot
tie on a stone and deity picks out a
sharp piece of suitable size. Then he
fathers his face p~rofusely and begins to
scrape away with his piece .of glass,
which in his hands works as we'll as the
best steel razor A cut. or even a slight
scratch. is extremely rare as a result Of
this al fresco form of shaving. -Chica.
go Times-Herald.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
The boy and the Hare.

A pleasant story Of the Duke Of Dew.
onshire comes from Chatsworth. He
was strolling, gun in hand, through one
Of his W fields near Baslow when he
started a hare, which he shot, and was
going to pick it up when a small boy
jumped out of a neighboring hedge and
warned him off. Here. meester, y cried
the small boy peremptorily, ''yo must
a touch that.
why not?' asked the duke, amused.
seeing that he was not recognized.
"Why, it's tn dukes. answered tn
boy, IAN he'll have you locked up if he
knows.
"ohl' said his grace. .'Then will
you take charge Of it2"
faye, that I will" answered the boy
promptly. "Me fayther's a keeper.
Half an hour afterward the boy and
the hare arrived in the kitchen at Chats
worth. The duke had taken a short cut
home and had the boy brought to him.
The little chap was dumb with terror
when he learned what a mistake he had
made, but the duke gave him a s shil-
ling piece, called him "a good lad and
sent him away rejoicing.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
FIRST TO r o ORANGES.
Jesuits introduced Them Into the
Pelican State.

Jesuits introduced Them Into the
Pelican State.
The orang Of Louisiana is an excep-
tionally fine variety of that fruit. and
commands q good price in the market.
The orange was first introduced into
colonial Louisiana by the Jesuits, hav-
ing been first grown by the members of
the society on their grounds, which
formerly comprised that part of the city
Of New Orleans which constitutes the
lower part of the first district, down to
Common street.
While st. Bernard and Plaquemines
parishes are the chief centers Of the
orange culture of Louisiana, the fruit
also grows well in the parishes Of Or
leans, Jefferson, st. James, st. John
Baptist, st. Charles, Assumption, st.
Mary, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Vermil-
ion, Cameron, Iberia and Sabine. The
orange tree begins to bear at about the
seventh year, although it is not reck-
oned to have reached it's full growth
until it's twelfth or fifteenth year.
The orange culture in Louisiana is
probably the most profitable industry of
the state under favorable conditions, q
full grown tree producing from 5000
to ., 900 oranges, the fruit on the tree
generally selling for $40 a thousand,
and as some Of the largest orchards in
the state yield as many as {, 900, 900
oranges their market value gives a
princely income to the owners Of the
trees. Comparatively a very small acre
age Of the state is devoted to the growth
Of oranges-possibly not more than
z, 900 acres.
The sweetness, delicacy and juiciness
Of the Louisiana orange, the best Of
which are regarded in the markets out
side Of Louisiana as superior to even the
oranges Of Cuba, to which island the
fruit is indigenous, render the Louisi-
ana oranges highly priced in the north
and west of the United States, SO much
SO that the supply is not BY any means
equal to the demand New Orleans
Picayune.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
The street. o. new York.


II was lunchti1ne and the ..frankfur-
ter and roll men of Frankfort street
were doing their best to appease the ap-
petites Of the 200 or 800 newsboys who
throng Park row. One Of the dealers in
giving change to a buyer accidentally
dropped a dime, and before he had time
to pick it up his brother dealer quickly
stopped down and grabbed it. Then en-
sued an argument in a way which only
.frankfurter men" can argue. each
claiming that he had dropped the dime.
1t is very likely they would be arguing
yet had not a young fellow Of the Bow
cry type who had CHANGED to witness
the trouble interfered. Walking up to
the one who had really dropped the
money he said:
Oats yer dime dat bloke has. amt
it2"
YES"
well. say, how much will yer GIN,
me if I gets it back fer yer2"
IA nickel. was the answer.
Then. addressing the other contestant.
the Bowery boy said:
'Say. yer got dat feller's dime, cause
| saw yer take it. But. say. if I don't
take it away from yer how much will
yer gimme"
six CENTS" was the quick reply.
"All right: hand over. The bargain
was concluded just as a policeman came
rushing up and grabbed the one who
had dropped the dime and took him to
the station house for disorderly conduct.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
The Tyua.

My introduction to this prince Of the
Pacific was on this wise: My brother
and I were trolling for yellowtail off the
island Of SANTA Catalina. Suddenly out
of the summer sea a flying fsh-the
humming bird Of ocean-fashed
athwart our bows and then, not a dozen
yards distant, the waters parted and a
huge tuna, in its ~resplendent livery of
blue and silver, swooped with indescrib-
able strength and rapidity upon its
quarry. catching it, mirabile dictu, in
midair. In a fraction of a second the
deed was done. The ocean, recording
the splash of the leviathan, rippled ap-
plause, and u questions battered like
hail upon the somewhat hard under
standing Of our boatman, a son of AL
SAGE.
Eyes" he said, his white teeth in
curious contrast to a lean, bronzed face
Eyes, messieurs, that is a tuna, a 400
FOUNDER. at leastl"-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
4 Man.

A certain Mr.. Scott Of Exeter whose
business required him to travel con-
stantly was one of the most famous
characters for punctuality in the king
dom. By his methodical habits. com
bined with unwearied industry, he ac-
cumulated a large fortune. For a great
many years the landlord of every inn
in Cornwall or Devon that he visited
knew the exact day and hour he would
arrive. A short time before he died, at
the advanced age Of so. a gentleman
who was making a journey through
Cornwall put up at a small inn at Port
Isaac for his dinner. He locked ove1
the bill Of fare and found nothing tc
his liking. He had, however. seen a fine
duck roasting on the fire. ''I'll have
that, said he.
"You cannot, sir, replied the land.
lord. sit is for Mr.. Scott of Exeter
~ know Mr.. Scott very WE'LL" re-
piled the traveller. HE is not in your
house.
Very sorry said the landlord,
''but six months ago, when he was last
here, he ordered the duck to be ready
for him this day exactly at 2 o'clock.
And to the amazement of the travel,
er, who CHANGED to look from the win
dow, the old gentleman was at that
moment entering the inn yard about
five minutes before the appointed time.
-Harper's Round Table.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
The Larxnx.

The larynx has been compared to a
wind, a reed and a stringed instrument.
The comparison Of it to a violin gave
rise to the not very accurate phrase
'svocal cords, as the name of the two
cushions which are it's most prominent
features. But no string so short as those
''vocal cords could produce a musical
bass note. In fact, the comparison of
the larynx to any instrument which
produces only musical tones is made
quate, to begin with. There is no in
strument but the larynx which pro
duces both song and speech, and as
those comparisons view the larynx
merely as a producer Of musical sounds
we have n further concern with them
at present. Besides, the voice can be
trained for speech, elocQtion and ora
tory without a knowledge Of the physi-
ology of the larynx.
We have the power Of adjusting the
larynx: of varying the tension of its
cords, cushions or ligaments, as they
have been yariously called. We can do
these things without scientific technic-
al knowledge Of how they are done,
without any knowledge at all Of vocal
physiology, and it is the work of the
trainer Of the voice to teach his pupils
or her pupils we may be allowed to
say-how to do them. ~ Chambers
journal.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
SCOTCH SIMPLICITY.
The Mason. the Budding Architect
and n Conscience Stricken Lad.

h Mason. the Budding Architect
ard n Conscience Stricken Lad.
The Scotch are fond Of telling stories
which illustrate the peculiar simplicity
of mind of their country people. This
simplicity at least saves them from
wicked guile.
One of these stories relates that an
honest mason once had a contract to
build a small house Of stone. He came
early and began from the inside to lay
the stone, working very fast. At noon
his young son brought him his dinner.
peeping owe the wall as he handed the
basket to his father. With honest pride
in his eye. the mason looked over to the
boy.
"Weel, Jock, hoo dye think I'm
gettin M" he asked.
"Ye're getting on famous, feyther,"
answered Jock, looking at the solid
wall, in which there was no break.
"But hoo dye get oot?"
The mason looked around. It was
true. He had provided the house with
no door at all, and he was on the inside.
He looked kindly and very admiringly
at the boy.
"Mon, Jock, ye've a grand held on
vel" he exclaimed. 'Ye'u be an archi-
tect yet, as sure as yer feyther's a ma
son!'
Another story shows how unsuccess-
full as a thief the rustic Scot may be.
Two young plowmen went into a gar
den at night to steal gooseberries. The
bushes surrounded a plot Of potatoes,
and as n of the lads CROPPED about he
got a handful Of potato plums, which
he quickly put into his mouth. Then he
gasped to his comrade:
ooh, Jock, I'm poisonedl For ony
sake, shove me through the hedge again,
for I waudna like to dee i the auld
mans gairdenl''-Youth's Companion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
TAYLOURS AND SMYTHS.
They Were the CommOnest Trades
In the Thirteenth Century.

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In the Thirteenth Century.
The manufacture Of leather in the
thirteenth century seems to have been
important, showing that leather jenkins
and breaches were commonly worn. We
have 10 skynners, 40 barkars, 6 sad
delers, 3 cordeweners, 1877 souters,
~(shoemakers) and s glovers. The sur
name feuster is a trade name denoting
a maker Of pack saddles.
The commonest trades are taylour and
smyth, since one lived in almost every
village. The taylours number 4O7, of
whom 40 are called by the Latin name
of cissor. In addition to 261 smyths,
several are specialized. There are two
a%rusmyths, three lokesmyths, three
goldsmyths. five fferours (shoeing
smiths) and six m%arshalls (farriers).
The wright wrought both in wood
and metal. The number ~catalogued is
1856, of whom 81 are called by the Latin
name faber French ~favre), one of the
few cases in which the Latin transla-
ton Of a trade name has become a com-
mon The wryghts' trade, like
that of the smyths, was specialized.
The arkwryght made the great arks OF
chests in which the clothes or meal
were stored, and we find a plowwryght.
a wheelwryght, two shippewryghts, II
cartwryghts and two glasswryghts (gla-
%ziers), who were probably concerned
with the windows of churches. Glass
windows in houses were rare, as is still
the case in Sicily or Egypt.
The bakesters are few (15), suggesting
that families baked their w bread.
There are 26 butchers (feshewer, bocher
OF carnifex) ,,whence Labouchere, while
the surname potter shows that this
trade was in existence. The fysshers
(43), were opulent, being taxed 10 times
as much as laborers. -Notes and Que
ries.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
The Libelou. .erhey Saw.

The one term ''they say" is respon-
sible for nine-tenths of the lies which
repetition and familiarity finally con
vert into seemingly bona fde evidence.
One usually hears ar exciting bit of
gossip launched forth with these words,
while at the same time the speaker
adroitly shields herself by declaring that
personally she does not know it to b.
true. The man or woman who thus
screens himself or herself is nothing
short of a coward. Josephine Fill in
Woman's Home Companion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
ABSORBED IN WHIST.
4 Game That Cost General Dorb1e.
day . Fortune.

4 Game That Cost General Dorble.
day . Fortune.
Not many years ago a famous whist
game was played at Sudbury, Vt, two
Df the sitters in being General Double
day and Henry ater Of the well known
6rm Of Dater, Thompson e Go. It was
something like 5 or 10 cents a corner;
70 you see it was easy for a mar to lose
as much as 81. 80 in IN afternoon. Play
began after the Sudbury dinner hour,
half past I, and lasted until teatime.
The old ROSTERS became SO wrapped up
in the game that nothing short OF an
earthquake could have disturbed them.
Brokers in New York could do nothing
to shake the interest.
The game was played at the time Of
the historic Hannibal and st. Joe cor
ner, engineered by Kennedy, Hutchin-
son & Co. in the interest of their client.
John Duff Of Boston. Doubleday was
selling the stock short through Van
Schaick & Co., and at a quarter to Q on
the eventful day he received a telegram
from his brokers advising him of the
situation. The game was stopped just
long enough for him to read it and lay
it aside. In 30 minutes a second dis
patch arrived, was read and cast aside.
Doubleday was winning at the rate Of
SO cents an hour. What did he care
about Hannibal and st. Joe? Later in
the afternoon a third summons came
from Van Schaick & Co., and at s
o'clock a fourth. Then Doubleday arose
and remarked: Gentlemen, I have en-
joyed the game. My winnings are ex-
actly 81. 65. I must say good afternoon,
as it is necessary for me to take the first
train for New York" The next morn
ing his brokers informed him that he
could settle for 800, 900. At the time
the first telegram was sent he could
have settled for $25, 600, at the time of
the second for $50, 900, the third for
$50. 900. He had ample warning, but
in the thick Of the Sudbury game Of
whist he believed the rise was only a
threatening furry. New York Press.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
Smoke one with Me.

"Do you smoker asked the middle
aged man. "You didn't two months
ago. You oughtn't to smoke, my boy;
you're too young and not strong look
ing Then the elderly adviser started
to light q cigar. "Have a cigar2" he
said absentmindedly, as he scratched a
match. The young man took the cigar
and bit off the end.
"These are very mild" ended the
speaker, presumably for the benefit Of
his conscience-"very mild. and won't
hurt You any. New York CONNER.
clal Advertiser.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
An Call.

"You are just going out, I see"-
eyes, an important engagement.
What was it you wanted
1T was about that little debt I owe
YOU.
"Ah. yesi Take q seat"
II was going to ask you for q little
delay
"Oh-excuse me. but I'm already
Late.
II say, ] was going to ask you for a
little delay when ! met q fellow who
paid up what he owed me. and
"Why on earth don't you ait down
viii you take q glass Of wine s"-Faris
Figaro.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-02-10
Capacity OF st. Paul's.

Az many as 80, 900 people have been
accommodated In st. Paul's cathedral.
but that has been with temporary gal.
leSies. etc., erected. On festivals only
between I. 1000 and 1000 people and
seats. AT an ordinary service about
1000 people viii make the cathedral
lock quite full.