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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

Over the Mason County Tele.
phone Co.'S. line you can reach
most any city or town in Ohio.
Their long distance service is got
ten by connection with the U. S
Long Distance Telephone.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26
She: Recommend Chamberiain,s Cough
Remedy. -

81 have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy for a number of years and have
no hesitancy in saying that it is the best
remedy for coughs, colds and Group /
nave ever used In my family. I8have
not words to express my Confidence in
this Remedy.-Mrs. J. A. Moore. North
Star, Mich. For sale by G.. w. N.
Hooff. Druggist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26
Fighting IN PROGRESS.

Cerbere, Spain. Feb. 2O.-Serious
fighting is proceeding in all parts OF
Barcelona. A number of persons have
already been killed or wounded.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

Secretary j. o Thompson, of the
State Board of Agriculture has ar,
ranged for the holding of Farm
ers' Institute, at No. 3 School
House, this county, or March 9th.
The institute will be conducted by
Assistant Secretary. Mr., J. B Gar
vim, who will be assisted by Mr.. q.
FL. Mccormick, of Gallia county,
Ohio.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

We have just turned out lot of
nice work for P. S. Lewis & Son,
breeders of short horns.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

Confession is nine points of the
law.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

William Rice. of McMechen,
his state. eloped with his brothers
wife.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

There is not Republican in the
Legislature of Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi, or Georgia, only one
in that of South Carolina and two
each in those of Alabama and Ar
kansas.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26
Mr.. Wheeler Got Rid Of His Rheuma.
tlSm.

''During the winter of 1898 L wa. so
lame in my joints in fact all over my
body, that could hardly hobble around
when bought bottle of Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. From the first ap-
plication began to get well, and was
cured and have worked steadily all the
year.-R. Wheeler, Northwood, n. Y.
For sale by Hoof, Druggist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26

Drop in when in town and look over
our stock and sample our goods. BE
low we quote you prices in some of
our many brands.
One of our specialties Royal Rye
one case of four quarts, pIice $500.
Other brands. prices as follows:
Rogers Old Stock, per qt.,..$2 25
Mount Vernon Rye GO yrs oldl, %
Old Barbee, per OF, &c
Old Smoke House, per qt.,...... 90
Gtlded Age. per qt.,............. / 90
Golden Wedding, per OF, $1,000. 90
Cognac Brandy, Zine, per qt.,.. 1 90
GuckenheimerP Pure Rye, per Of, %
JAS. e. Pepper, Sour Mash, per OF l %
Montereal Malt Rye, per qt.,.... 20
Maj. Paufs, per ct, rs
Strawberry Wine, (Fine,) per OF 75
st. Julien, per Of 60
Port Wine, (Best,) per qt.,..... 70
Port Wine, per OF, 60
Sherry Wine, per qt.,. 90
Catawba Wine, per qt.,.... 20
NUNS Extra Dry Champagne 4 %
All orders promptly attended to.
THE POINT PLEASANT LIQUOR HOUSE,
Point Pleasant West Virginia.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26
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While Governor Taft is minimiz-
ing the difficulties to be encoun-
tered in the Philippines, the pub
lie is reading of the terrible march
of our soldiers through Samar.
What the country wants is "the
truth. the whole truth and nothing
hut the truth about the Philip
pines. AT present, the administra-
ton is giving out some statements
that are-well-inharmonions.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-02-26
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

a roufs unrivaled book proposition.
= New standard works All
rapid sellers Liberal terms. Cur guaran-
teed FOUNTAIN PEN n specially. Iescrip-
tabiished 1891 Warren st. \. Y. feb IL Nv
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L =. CAMPBELL.
Physician and Surgeou

T'enders his services to the citizens
u OF Point Pleasant and vicinity
Q a. NJ, to 10 NJ, 2 p. NJ. to 8 P. M.
and p. M. TO p. NJ. novstf.
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COST OF THE NEW NAVY.
,s99,sO3, 92s Expended for YES
sels.and S9.443,235 for.

Repairs.
The Secretary of the Navy has
sent to Congress statement show
ing the st of the vessels of the
modern navy of the United States
to have been s99,soS, 92s, and So
343,235 in addition has been ex-
pended for repairs. The total of
vessels included in the list is 76
which does not include those un-
der construction. The detailed
figures for the battleships Illinois,
Wisconsin, Alabama, Kentucky
and Kearsage are not given. OF
the'others the Oregon heads tbs
list for greatest cost-S6,575, 032.
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G. w. NJ. HOOD:
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
TO QUIT WESTERN UNION.
Pennsylvania Notifies the Company
That 1t Will Run Its Own
Telegraph Line,

Philadelphia, May 19.-An official
of the Pennsylvania Railroad com.
pany Saturday practically confirmed
the statement that the company has
notified the Western Union Tele-
graph company to remove its poles
and wires from the lines controlled
by it. The contract between the rail-
road company and the telegraph
company expired in September last
and, according to the Pennsylvania
railroad official quoted, the latter
has given the Western Union COM
pany six months from June in
which to remove it's wires and poles.
1t is stated that this does not neces.
sarily mean that the contract be.
tween the two companies will not be
renewed. If it is renewed, however,
it is probable that it will be on some.
what different terms from the pre-.
vious contract.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
THE MARKETS.
GRAIN, frovislon., Etc,

Chicago. May H.
WHEAT-Ruled quiet. July sold at 741kG1
i5hc; September, 72A@73Nc
CORN-Very weak. July sold at 6l16lAc:
September. 59H060Ac.
OATS-Show little change. July sold at
36as0367sc.
RYE-Dull and easy. July, 56A@6skc.
BUTTER-Market steady. Creamery, Is
@e1hc per pound: dairies. N@2Oc.
POTATOES-Feeling easy. Rurals, ia
SIC: Burbanks, T0g75c; new potatoes, Tri-
umphs. s2.75Q4.50 per bbl.; Florida Rose,
$35Og4.O0.
EGGS-Holding steady to firm. At mark,
cases returned, l3aD14Hc; "firsts," new cases
included, 15c.
LIVE POULTRY-Feeling easter. Tur-
keys, 10g12c; chickens, 12c; ducks. S1k91Oc.
New York. May II.
WHEAT-Steady but quiet. May, SOAc:
July, S07s@8 13-16c; September. 7SAQ7S12c;
December. 795s979Ac.
RYEcSteady. State, 62@s2c C. I. I. New
af1oat.
CORN-corn developed moderate weak
ness again because Of prospective larger
receipts. May, 67@67kc: September. CSC.
OATS-Dull. but steadied by western
manipulation. Track white. 501s@65c.
BUTTER-Firm. State dairy, 19a2ec;
state creamery. 2o@22Ac: renovated, $50
21c; factory. 10000; init ton creamery, u
Ql21c.
EGGS-Steady. State and Pennsylvania.
TIC; western, at mark, 16AI17Ac; southern.
at mark, 15c.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
Hedxehos XIII. . viper.

A resident at Versailles, NJ. Guignet,
sends to Nature vivid account OF a
duel he saw between hedgehog and a
viper. The two enemies knew very well
at first sight who was who, and eyed
each other as if they knew moments
inattention would be fatal. The viper
was the first to get tired of gazing and
it began to glide away. Just then the
hedgehog rushed for the viper's tail,
and having nailed it fast with his teeth,
it rolled itself up. The hedgehog was
very careful, however, not to cut the
tail of. The viper curled back, and
delivered furious assaults on its ag-
gressor, wrestling and rolling with the
curled-up hedgehog all over the place.
At length the snake, wounded in hun
dred places, died. The hedgehog be-
gan its repast on the tail of its victim,
and was careful not to eat the head.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22

was so morose that Nlendes questioned
him until he confessed the reason.
He was in love with his employers
daughter and she with him. The mas
ter printer had risen from the case
himself, and his present fortune and
social position did not warrant expec-
tation of rich son-in-law, so that the
young printer had been confident and
serene until, having decided that there
was no use in waiting longer, he had
recently asked for the young woman's
hand.
Then he had painful surprise. The
girls father was financially embar-
raised, it appeared, and penniless
son-in-law was not to be thought Of.
The favored sutton must have six thou
sand francs, at least. So the poor fell
low was in despair and talked about
drowning himself. Mendes himself
was pretty hard up in those days. He
advised the disconsolate lover to ap-
peal to Victor Hugo for assistance.
The young printer naturally objected
that Hugo had beggars on his hands
and would not be likely to do anything
for total stranger. But Mendes in
sisted and the printer complied.
On Mendes next visit, two weeks
later, the young man met him at the
station and showed him 5000 francs in
bank notes which Hugo had sent him
with these words:
"T am not rich lust now, Please ex-
cuse me. Here are 5000 francs"
The printer said that he would
marry his Clementine next month. Al
though her father had demanded twice
the sum he could not refuse when he
learned of Victor Hugo's part in the
affair.
So they were married. How long or
how happily they lived together Mr..
Mendes neglects to state.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22

Road Mal1ing.)
name, connected indissolubly with it,
was handed down to future ages with q
certainty that it would endure as long
at least as the language continued to
exist.
But, curiously enough, at almost the
same time when the great roadmaker
was achieving Immortality, another in
ventor, with no less obviously Scotch
name, was treading the same path to
linguistic fame.
The labors in the field of chemistry
which enabled Macintosh to perfect
and patent a new sort of clothing-and
that in time when travelling by stage
coaches rendered it particularly well
come-were almost as prolonged as
those which qualified his fellow-coun-
tryman in long life to solve the prob
lem of constructing durable roadway
for wheeled traffic.
A third notable specimen of the con-
version of name into a vernacular
word may be taken from France,
where DIR. Guillotin found himself eff
fecually, though not perhaps very
agreably, immortalized in connection
with the lethal implement which still
bears his name. The popular belief
that he persisted by the machine which
he had introduced appears to be erro-
neOuS.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
A GREAT MONUMENT ii n
The Hieroglyphic Stairway Found
at Copan, Honduras.
Ciaest specimen Of Aberixinal Amer.
lean Architecture In Existence
Its Beauty IL Puxxle to
Archaeologists.

The remarkable hiel uglyphic starr
way at Copan, in Honduras, not far
from the boundary of Guatemala, is in
many ways the most important and in
teresting monument of aboriginal
American architecture that has ever
been brought to light by the excava-
lions of the archaeologist.n Ten years
ago it was practically unknown, but
since then it has been uncovered and
studied as whole by the various Co
pan expeditions of the Peabody mu-
scum of American archaeology and
ethnology ut Harvard, under the di-
rection of George B. Gordon, whose
elaborate report On the discovery and
restoration of the stairway-just is
sued to subscribers by the museum au-
thcrities-affords much incidental in
formation concerning a memorable
prehistoric civilization that may prove
to be older than even the Assyrian or
the Egyptian-that of the ancient
Maya people which once dwelt in the
plains and valleys of Central Amer
lea.
How many hundreds-or thousands
of years old the hieroglyphic stair
way really is, even the archaeologist
hardly ventures to guess. 1t is prin-
cipal feature of the ruined acropolis
of what is known to be one of the most
ancient cities on the American con-
tinent, the annals of which, however,
were no more than shadowy legend
even when the spaniards came to
Mexico; and in spite of the fact that
the steps of the stairway carry, craven
in a series of picture characters Or
hieroglyphics, what is apparently
some kind of continuous chronology
ical record, these "glyps" are still, for
the most part, quite undecipherable,
and the record which they contain is
as yet little more than an archaeolog-
ical puzzle-though to solve it might
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
SECRETS IN CIPHER.
bow Diplomatic Transactions Are
Guarded in England.
Dispatches Are Carried by Kings
Messengers who Are -Shad0yvea
by Government Detectives
While en- Route.

It says much for the integrity of gov
eminent officials, comments London
Tit-Bits, that all knowledge of our re-
cent important treaty with Japan was
successfully withheld from foreign ma
tions until the compact had been ac-
tually sealed, but the great care eNer-
cised in guarding diplomatic secret
renders premature. announcement
very rare indeed.
born is ever committed to paper, ex-
cept on the rare occasions when min
utes of cabinet meeting are taken
and forwarded to the sovereign. As
rule, our ministers meet and transact
business without anyone being the
wiser. for no official of any kind is al
lowed to be present.
Once the government has decided
upon an important piece of foreign
policy it has to be transmitted to our
representative abroad, and for the
first time the secret is put in writing
in the form of ineligible cipher, the
key to which is already in the hands
of our ambassador. The men who
draw up these intricate cipher codes
are reliable officials specially em-
ployed by the government, and they
often obtain from 6 500 to s70O for a
single code.
The dispatch having been prepared,
it is given into the care of kings
messenger, who wears attached to his
person bag fitted with secret lock.
To this lock there are only two keys;
one in the possession of the foreign
office and the other retained by our
ambassador. who must unlock the bag
himself or instruct his secretary to do
so upon the messengers arrival.
The journey between this country
and abroad is risky one, because the
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
ABORIGINAL SCULPTURE.
<Rare Work of Art Discovered at Copan, in
Central America.)

ABORIGINAL SCULPTURE.
(Rare Work of Art Discovered at Copan, in
Central America.)
we'll mean the opening up of a chapter
of history as romantic as it is mys-
terious.
At one end of the main structure of
Copan, as the acropolis of the city is
called, broad pyramid, which at one
time was crowned by some public
buiding-a temple or palace-rises to
a height of about IS feet. On the
western slope of this pyramid is the
hieroglyphic stairway, originally af-
fording access from a square or plaza
below to the temple above and sys-
TEN of terraced courts beyond. At
some time ii the past, however, a land
slide swept away the symmetry of
two large faces of the pyramid and
brought down the upper steps of~the
great staircase in an almost indistin-
guishable mass of debris which COM
pletely buried the lower. stairs, SO that
when Mr.. Gordon first visited Copan
the whole plan of the stairway was en-
tirely obliterated, and the pyramid it.
self was little more than an overgrown
mound of earth and broken stones.
Four entire seasons were required
to bring something like order out of
this chaos. From so to 100 laborers
were at one time constantly employed,
and the fragments which were re-
moved covered an acre Of ground.
Every important fragment was care
fully nodded, and the molds shipped
to Cambridge in order that some day
restoration of the whole staircase
may be made and set up in the Peabody
museum. Only Is of the 40 or so up
per steps which went down in the land
slide retained in any degree their iden-
tity or their relative positions, how
ever
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
HERBERT G. sQu1ERs.
United States to the New
Cuban Republic.

Herbert Goldsmith Squiers, who
was selected by the president as the
first United States minister to Cuba,
though a Canadian by birth, has spent
nearly all his life in the service of the
United States. He was appointed a
lieutenant in the army from Minnesota
in 1877, but disliked his assignment to
the infantry, because there was no In
dian fighting in it, and exchanged into
the cavalry. Here he was again disap-
pointed. Instead of Joining his regi-
ment, he was sent to the cavalry school
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
MORE WORK FOR MITCHELL.
Ainers OF liaanoas Leae In
Alo Aaaos.

Hazleton, Pa, May 19.-President
Mitchell's time Saturday morning
was given up almost entirely to con-
sideration of the local difficulty at
the bituminous mines at Springfield,
Ill. The conference Friday night
with the Illinois operators headed bv
Herman Justi, of Chicago. president
of the Illinois Cooperators' associa-
ton and the delegation of mine
workers from the same state, headed
by w. r. Russell, of Danville, presi-
dent of the Illinois State organiza-
ton, lasted until after midnight.
The operators have yearly con-
tract with the miners and they de-.
sire to renew it. Messrs. Justi and
Russell, acting for their respective
sides could not agree on several
points and it was decided to submit
the matter to President Mitchell.
Each side was heard and thes settle-
ment of the disputed points was left
to w. w. Keefer of Danville, an
operator, and Mr.. Mitchell. They are
now trying to reach a settlement.
Both sides say the matter will be
Strengthened out. A strike had been
ordered there, but the order was
rescinded pending the present nego-
tiations.
Thirty-6ve hundred men are in
volved.
The regions hereabouts were very
quiet Saturday and every one is pa
tiently awaiting developments. Pres
ident Mitchell was frequently inter-
rupted during his conference with
the soft coal men by calls to the tele-
phone. Most of these consultations
have been with district leaders in the
field.
Washington, May 19.-President
Gompers, of the American Federation
of Labor, Saturday said that no
propositions had been outlined for
submission to either side Of the
anthracite coal mine strike, looking
to adjustment of the troubles. He
stated that as president of the fed.
GRAFTON, member of the Civic Fed
Grafton and as citizen, he proposed
to do everything possible to settle
the differences, but that if an adjust
ment satisfactory to both sides could
not be reached he proposed to stand
by the miners in their fight for what
they deemed their rights. He said
there was nothing in the air" as the
result of Friday nights conference
between himself, Senator Hanna and
Secretary Easley, of the Civic Fed
GRAFTON, and no line of action had
been outlined Us the result of that
meeting.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
Tbi. Dor chew. Tobacco.

"Old Peter jenkins, of our town, has
the only tobacco-chewing dog I ever
heard Of" says Bristol (Pa.) man in
the Philadelphia Record. '"The dog is
now over ten years old, and, so far az
anybody knows, he has been slave to
the habit ever since he was puppy.
Peter himself says he doesn't remem.
Der how the pup acquired the taste;
maybe he was born with it. At any
rate, Peter never takes chew without
offering one to the dog if heis around,
and the dog never refuses. If Peter
should happen to forget he would soon
be forcibly reminded of his oversight.
It is curious thing to see the dog
lying with his head in his paws, work.
ing his jaws over juicy guild. He swal-
lows it, too, and 1t never seems to make
him sick"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22

messenger is beset with spies, and,
although he travels incognito and we'll
armed, there is always the chance of
his being set upon and robbed. To
avoid this, when an important dispatch
is being carried, he is Swallowed by two
detectives throughout the journey, so
that they can instantly come to his as
sistance if necessary.
When travelling by rail he engages
a special compartment, and if called
upon to do so he wilfhave to lose his life
before sacrificing the dispatch. In re-
turn he receives salary of 6 400 a year,
in addition to one pound day when
travelling and all expenses found, but
before being employed he has to be
nominated by an official filling an inn
portant position under government
who will hold himself responsible for
his being reliable messenger and not
foreign agent. Sometimes, to avoid
danger, the courier carries with him
the special sanction of international
law. whereby every country through
which he passes becomes responsible
for his safety.
On arrival the messenger goes to the
embassy and hands over the bag either
to the ambassador personally or his
secretary, who has had verbal orders
from his chief to receive it, no written
instructions being accepted as genu-
Inc, nor must the bag be given to any
one holding an inferior post to that
of confidential secretary. In every
embassy there is strong room where
in dispatches are stored in an enor-
nous safe, the key of which is held
only by the ambassador, and no one
but himself is permitted to enter the
chamber. Every night two watchmen
remain outside the door with loaded
revolvers, having orders to shoot down
any marauder.
Obviously great care has to be taken
that no information shall leak out
from the officials themselves. and with
the exception of Britain and Italy no
European nation will permit any MEM
Der of an embassy to marry a woman
of the country in which they are en-
ployed. Even the ambassadors them
selves are bound by the same rule; and
some years ago, when Germany's rep
resentative in London, Prince Henry
of Pless. wished to marry Miss Corn
wallis West, he had to surrender his
position before being able to do so.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
Dresses Up for Elections.

"Uncle" David Higgins, of Abilene,
Kan. has owned silk hat for 81 years,
which he wears only on election day,
when he dresses up in long Prince
Albert coat and other good clothes
and makes the business of voting quite
a ceremony. 'Uncle" David is soyears
old. and he has voted the republican
ticket ever since there was repub-
lican party. His annual appearance
in the plug hat has grown to be quite
an event in Abilene, and on account Of
It there are people in Abilene who re-
eret the change to biennial elections.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-05-22
HUGO AS A BRNEFAcroR.
Hsw the Famous Frsnch Author once
Helped a Poor Pressman who
Was In Love.

Catulle Mendes, writing in the Cour-
rier des Etats Unis, tells an interesting
tale of how Hugo helped a poor press
man who was in love. The following is
. condensation of the story: 's
During Hugo's exile Mendes was ed
itor of struggling journal which, for
reasons of economy, was printed in a
small provincial city. There Mendes
became acquainted with a poor press
man who was we'll educated, and intel
ligent and very entertaining com
panion. Usually he was very cheerful
and light-hearted, but on one occasion