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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13

it's his Christmas gift felt that he should
nave a chance to approve or lt.and then
he is so critical about clothes, and always
depend on his judgment"
The husband arrived in few moments,
and the lace wrap was thrown over the
lady's shoulders.
isn't ii a dream. john" she said enthu-
siastically, wrigglng around In front of the
mirror, so that she could get good view
of the sweep down the back.
COLOR he said judicially. ''It makes you
look kind of sallOw and black, and 1t is too
puffy, and kind of loose looking" he said.
WAS DULY SQUELCHED.
Mrs. John faced him Indignantly. ''Why.
it's no such thing!' she said in staccato
tones. Its very becoming to my complex
ion, and the cut just suits my style-doesn't
it?" she appealed to the saleswoman.
The latter chose the wiser plan of siding
with the feminine half. II think it is ex-
actly your STYLE" she said sweetly. Per
haps your husband isn't quite used to this
Husband had taken his stand. and he felt
IL due to his self-respect to maintain it, so
he ventured few more objections against
the coat. He failed TO realize that he had
been asked 10 approve, MOTTO criticise.
Finally Mrs. John delivered her ultimatum
in low but decisive tones.
well. I'm going to have this coat or
none. John Smith. so you might as well
stop making remarks about il. You dom
know anything about styles, anyway, and
you might as we'll not have come"
We'll told you didn't want to come in
the beginning, he muttered as he made
for the elevator, and the saleswoman
smiled to herself she thought how in
terested Mr.. John was and how Mrs. John
depended on his judgment.
One young man played a shabby trick
on girl friend the other day in one of
the-'shops, and it will be long time-at
least another year-before she invites a
man to help her out with her purchases.
She telephoned him to say that If he were
not too busy she wished that he would
| please come down town and help her pick
| out a travelling bag for her mother. She
| had found one that she liked. but she
wanted some one else's opinion before she
decided to purchase IL.
The obliging young man put on bis hat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-13

you think a gent like him would ruther
have new furnitures? / amt sayin any
thing bout the cheapness. because he GER
seem funny to me that he wouldn't a-taken
that money and bought a new sofy; he
could a-got lovely one with figgered
plush an tuftings fer that. But folks Is
queer"
Not all the happenings are funny ones,
either, in this holiday season OF joy and
mirth. Now and then one runs across lit
brings tears to the eyes by its sharp con-
trast with the happiness about.
In the basement of one OF the stores the
other day a little bent old woman stood
lingering some cheap toys which were
heaped on a table surmounted Il by the
placard Ten Cents" One funny bit of a
woolly dog. which emitted a faint squeak
when squeezed, seemed TO fascinate her;
probably she thought OF the pleasure it
would bring to some mite of grandchild-
but nobody could tell. Two or three times
she brought out shiny dime from the re-
cesses of her carefully mended wooden
mittens. then slipped it back again unde-
cided.
''Something?" queried the sharp voice of
the shopgirl, leaning across the counter
Forced to decision. the bent little woman
drew the dime out again and rendered il to
the pompadoured maiden behind the coun-
ter. extending the little woolly dog with
The girl took the toy carelessly from the
outstretched hand. "Oh, Mayme." she
called over her shoulder to another girl
further up In the department. ''aint this
thing of the 25-cent counter?'
Mayme glanced down the counter. "Yeh. %
she responded laconically.
The pompadoured one turned back to the
little old woman Its % cents. not TO-
she said. briskly. Want it?'
The little old woman shook her head for
answer. The pathetic smile OF ready resig-
nation which belongs 10 the very poor was
on her lips. AS she turned away patiently
a girl who was shopping at the same coun-
ter leaned forward impulsively.
Wont you let me buy that for your
she said. I'D like TO so much.'
There was something of haughtiness In
the negative shake of the bent little wom-
ans head. And the girl drew back as the
woman tolled UP the stairs away from the
little woolly dog and the toy counter. whose
destinations were not for her slendfr purse.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Ill-health in woman IS generally trace
able to disease of the delicate Womanly
organism. Many women have been re-
stored to happiness by the use Of Dr..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription If there
is an invalid woman, suffering from
female weakness, prolapsus, or falling Of
womb, or from leucorrhea who has used
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription With
out complete success DIR. Pierce would
like to hear from such person-and It
will be to her advantage TO write IS he
offers, in perfect good faith, reward Of
$500 for any case Of the above maladies
which he cannot cure.
III feel Il my duty to inform you that had
been a sufferer for many years from nervous
ness with all its symptoms and complications, y
writes Mrs. o. N. Fisher, of 1851 Lexington Ave-
New York, n. Y. NJ was constantly going to
see physician. ] was induced 10 ask Dr.
Pierce's advice. I then took i've bottles Of pa
irritable, and have good color in my face |;
have also gained about ten pounds In weight
and one Mon5and q comfort, for am new
The dealer who offers a substitute for
uFavorite Prescription does so to gain
the little more profit paid on the sale of
less meritorious medicines.
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser is sent free ON receipt of star1ps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send az
one-cent stamps for the paper-covered
book. or 81 stamps for the cloth bound.
Address DR.. r. v. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Pension Commissioners Ware
has issued an order that arouses
the wrath of the old soldiess who
are enjoying the joint benefits Of
a liberal pension and government
cfice.
The Commissioner lays down
the rule in the first place that if
a soldier is suffering from such q
disability as to entitle him to a
pension it may be accepted as
conclusive evidence that he is not
fully able to perform all the duties
imposed in an office. Therefore
where a veteran is receiving a
pension and also salary from the
government the amount paid him
as a pension will be deducted from
the salary paid him as an officer.
On it's face this proposition
seems to be fair one. but it does
not please the soldiers who are
affected by it, and there is move
ment on foot among them to force
the recall of the order.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
A Good woman Gone.
Weston Democrat ]

Entered into eternal rest. Tues
day, August 2S. 1903. hrs. love
B Smart. nee eating, relict of the
late Chas. Selden Smart. of New
York. and mother of Mrs. Harry
Q. Bailey. of Weston.
Mrs. Smart was born in Gallipo,
lis. Ohio. about 60 years ago. and
there she resided most of her life
For few years she lived with hel
daughter, Mrs. Robert Menifee, in
Florida. After Mrs. Menifee's
death she returned to Galiipohs
and since then has made her home
with Mr.. and Mrs Harry Bailey.
After living in Point Pleasant and
Clarksburg respectively. they came
last fall to Weston.
True. loving aud pure. she won
for herself in a short time many
friends who depiore her death, and
were greatly shocked at the sud-
denness of it. She was faithful
worker to the last in the Episcopal
church, of which she was most
loyal and devout member.
The funeral was conducted from
st. Paul's churoh. Thursday morn
ing by Rev A G Grinnan. Inter-
ment at Machpelah cemetery.
''Tne strife is DER, the battle won,
The victory of life is won,
The song of triumph is begun,
-Allelula-"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Fifteen years ago life insurance
companies refused to insure wo-
mems lives, and until five years
ago companies who did insure
them Disseminated against them
So in the thousand and only very
few companies now insure women
on the same terms as men. And
yet, according to statistics the lives
of women are better by 10.6 per
cent than those of men, the aver
age death rate of all males being
21 8 per thousand and of women
1877 per thousand.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
Triumph of the Gross.

By the crucifxion of Christ,
men thought that they had forever
stamped out His teachings; but,
outlined upon the cross against the
dark background of world of sin,
the personality of Him who was
slain was only the more profoundly
impressed upon humanity. There
in exists the triumph of the cross
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
Fatally stabbed.

Two young boys, named Jesse
Hudnell and Finley Nelson, 13 and
II years old. out near Dyesville,
Ohio, attended festival last Thurs
day night and got into a scuffle
which was indnlged in too long and
the boys got out of humor. They
went to the road and there. urged
by older boys, fought it out, when
the Hudnell boy was fatally stab.
bed in the breast with a knife, caus.
ing death in very few minutes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Our schools omit to emphasize
the Importance of kindness to ami
mails, ito those who cannot speak
for themselves" The boy is
father to the man and if he is cruel
to or inconsiderate of dog, or cat,
or bird, the chances are that he
will grow into selfish, brutal man
A half hour a week with Dumb
Animals, Black Beauty and similar
publications would be time we'll
spent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

There has been much said lately
in favor of women removing their
hats when they go to church, leo.
ture or theatre. 80 as to give bet
ter view of the pulpit. platform. or
stage. but now there comes dis.
cordant note from the rector of
Trinity Episcopal church of As
bury Park, N. j, who reminds his
congregation that it is his wish
that women should appear in the
church with their heads covered,
quoting st. Paul as saying that
every woman that prayeth or
prophesieth with her head un-
covered, dishonoreth her head, for
that is even all one as if she were
shaven." And now, what are wo-
men to do? They have manifested
desire to do what is right in this
matter. Some one, in a spirit of
worldliness which cannot be too
strongly condemned makes these
inquiries: al. Was it the fashion
in st. Paul's time for women to
wear hats as screen to badness?
2. Was it the fashion in st. Paul's
time for women to wear hats of the
big. fiaring. soaring kind, with
room enough on top for such dis.
play of fruits, flowers and stuffed
birds that it was impossible to see
over, under or one side of them in.
to the beyond without the aid of q
rubberneckp
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

From the professional schools of
the United States there were grad
uated last year: In theology. /, ,5S5;
in law. 1886; in medicine, 5,472;
in dentistry. 2.5I1; in pharmacy.
1878; in veterinary medicine, 1O9.
The number of students in theol-
ogy has remained practically sta
tionary since 1890; medical stu
dents have increased 73 per cent,
and students of law to the remsrk-
able extent of 202 per cent. In
this period the men attending the
colleges have increased 68 per cent,
and the women 159 per cent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
POMEROY COFFIN FACTORY

1 have on hand four hundred thous-
and red cedar shingles, one hundred
and fifty thousand white IS-inch hem
lock shingles, two hundred thousand OF
the Baily cut poplar and one hundred
and fifty thousand 16-inch white pine to
take the place of poplar, for 25c more
than poplar. This makes the cheapest
shingle ever offered in the market. ]
have dimension cedar shingles, plast-
ering lath, general hardware, doors sash.
glass, paints, oils and yarnishes.
Come TO the factory to buy funeral goods
and save the jobber's profit You can
select from three hundred finished cas-
kets and finer goods. Embalming and
the best attendance with fine hearsee
and good hacks, fine horses and plenty
of men L make fine G. A. r, casket in
the national colors for soldier burial. ]
am the only maker Of this casket in the
state. have one of the finest under
takers rooms in the state. All under
takers goods delivered at all points free
of charge. am closing out 30 sets OF
buggy harness below cost.
B. II. BIGGS.
Roznexoy, Ohio.
July % lmo
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

When Gen. Shafter was placed
on the retired list the President
per Secretary of War. per Adjutant
General. slobbered gush all over
him. When Gen. Miles was put
on the retired list it was as if g
servant were being let out the back
door.
Skaters greatest exploit was
to lie in hammock at San Juan,
drinking mint juIeps, and issuing
an order for the American army to
retreat. which the officers in di.
rect, command of the troops re.
fused to obey.
Shafter's greatest measure oi
admiration in the eyes of the
administration grows out of his
taking the Sampson side of the
SchIeyl controversy over the San
tiago ight. and his membership
in tue cabal of traducers of Gen
Misunderstanding Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
A Physical Wreck Honored


"Curses are like young chickens,
and still come home to roost,D say
be Arabs. The Grand Army OF
The Republic has elected as CON-
nander-in-chief General John
eharles Black. of Chicago. who
vas commissioner of pensions OF
Tho first Cleveland administration.
viii it tax the memory of such
IRENE partisans as General Gros-
Pnor, of Ohio, and w. p. Hep
burn, of Iowa. and few perspir-
Ing patriots who have passed from
che scene of their congressional
viiuperation of this hero of Praire
Grove. to recall when they were
Viiifying him as a physical wreck
making money from his honorable
wounds? Can they recall how they
deplored aud howled over the fact
thst General Black, always q
Democrat. drew the biggest known
pension for offering his body to be
riddIed by rebel bullets, and at the
came time drew the salary of the
Office whose duties he faithfully
performed while enduring almost
intolerable torture.
Physical wreck" was a great
taunt to hurl from the stump to
infiame the old soldier with the
notion that some veteran was traffic.
ing in his politics and wounds.
of course General Black has been
much honored since those days of
bitter partisanship. when every.
thing done in that administration
was accounted more or less traitor
GUS because it was such frie ehtful
wrench to the Republican office
holder to be wrested from the food
trough after SO many years of feed.
ing. 1t is true that General Black
is physical wreck, but he has
been able to sustain himself in
life, and is entitled to the richest
emoluments possible of bestowal.
He has served as congressman
at-large from Illinois and as district
attorney. He got little wobbly
in his Democracy on the one issue,
but he has never deserted the faith.
He has been commander of the
Loyal Legion, and thus the "physi.
cal wreck" in his Gath year has
made the circuit of tributes within
the hands of old comrades, and the
young man who charged with Gen.
eral Lew Wallace's zouaves at the
very start of the war no longer
need feel that petty sneers at his
wounds affect popular thought,
-Pittsburg Post.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

or crime and criminals strike them
with the same horror again.
The gang camps. with their
strange and weird songs have a
peculiar fascination for young chill
dren. The child forgets the crime
and the chains lose their horror as
they listen to these songs and feast
upon the excitement of the crowd.
AT certain church, not SO long
ago. the good church people put
the little girls out to beg to raise
money for some purpose. One
little girl was so persistent that a
bad boy said she was "cheeky."
She inquired the meaning of the
word, and was informed that the
word was slang" but in the talk
she learned that an overabundance
of what was known as "cheek"
might prove to be naughty if not
criminal. Anyhow, she was led to
remark that crime was not such a
bad thing "for" said she, "the
lohaingang has been working and
camping near our house and they
are not near SO bad as / once
thought they were"
Of course there is not not much
danger of little girls becoming in
jured by contact with these crimi-
mails, but it might affect little boys
especially negro boys But, to
return to politics. no good man or
set of men-such men as have
to managed the ohaingang system
of our county for years, should
have to suffer the embarrassment
of such as have limited, and no
bad men or man should have the
power to accept such polluted pro-
positions, thus holding himself in
Office by trading on the trust of
the people and prostituting our
great American ballot to thing of
infamy.
hope that these grumblers. or
whoever they may be that go
about stirring up county strife
against measures and men by
bowling that I'VE will get you next
election" and words to that effect,
will consider the matters I have
mentioned If I have not made it
plain, study out the thing for
yourseIves-read between the lines,
aud then decide with me to let the
gangs go if we cannot correct these
evils and remove the system entire
ly from political favoritism or in
Limitations.
Brown and 1 hoped to spend the
Fourth among the good people of
Campbell county, but we could
not, and we are the losers, not these
good people. Next year, or some
time earlier, we hope to have the
pleasure of mingling among the
Campbellites, and until then we
must abide.-SARGE PLUNKETr.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Don't invest your hard earned
dollars in the fake mining compan-
les that are flooding the mails with
their literature. When enormous
dividends are to be made you will
find the financial kings dabbling
in that kind of thing themselves
The fakir always preys upon the
credulity of man with few hun
dreds, and IN most cases succeeds
in getting his money without Civ
ing anything in return but little
worthless paper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Emerson said that there was
something of directness. vigor and
truth about the uneducated man,
or woman which the half-edu Gated
and the sophisticated lacked. II
is true This letter expresses the
right idea of public education,
while boards of education, educa-
tional conventions, professional
pedagogists even seem to have
gone far astray. "Fisical torture
or physical culture is an admirable
thing; nature study is good; clay
modelling may serve a useful pur-
pose in it's place; instruction in the
avoidance of alcohol and scores of
other things, of themselves and in
their places are inocuous; but when
these and many others are made a
part of the public school curricu
lum at the expense of sound and
thorough knowledge of more i'm
portant things, they become posi-.
tive stumbling blocks and nuisan.
ces. Lizzie needs other things
more.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
Coal Exhibit tor Worlds Fair

AT a meeting of the coal opera
tors who were appointed to prepare
the West Virginia coal exhibit for
the st. Louis Exposition, 1t de-
veloped that the Fairmont coal field
alone would spend S15. 900 on it's
coal exhibit, and that the whole ex-
hibit would be twenty times as
large as that at the Chicago
Worlds Fair. 1t is expected that
the coal exhibit of West Virginia
will be the best at the exposition.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
PennsyIvanta's Fat Man Dead.

PennsyIvanta's Fat Man Dead.
Wilson Lippinoott, So, known
as the heaviest man in the State,
died 17th. inst of heart disease
He was extremely proud of the
fact that he gained 100 pounds in
weight during the last year, and a
few days before his death he tipped
the scales at 544 pounds. He was
in good health up to the minute
of his death His funeral is causing
the local undertakers great anxiety
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
TnE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
Interests of Every Town Require
That IL Shall be Supported.

That IL Shall be Supported.
CAtIanta Constitutional
II is to the interest of every town
to support good newspaper, not
through local pride alone, but for
practical business reasons. A news
paper is constantly doing ten times
as much for it's town as it could
ever hope to get pay for-more
than it could charge for, if it would.
The more prosperous paper is
the more it is able to do, Show
MS a good weekly paper, full of
live local ads, with a general cir-
culstion throughout the county,
aud we will show you an up-to-
date. prosperous. progressive COM
munity
Show us community that per
sistently proceeds on the idea that
the editor of the home psper can
live or "pi" that accumulates in
the office, whose official bodies
think it waste of public money
to throY him a bit of public print
ing occasionally at living prices.
whose citizens have come to re-
gard it as one of their inalienable
rights to work him for long -winded
obituary notices and I'm memori-
ums," with three inches OF hymn
book poetry at the end, to say
nothing about an occasionetnotice
of lost COW or some farm seed for
sale, and we will show you CON-
munity that is living from hand to
mouth and is always on the ragged
edge of adversity
People ought to stop and think
about these things 1t is an i'm
portant matter 1t is their own
good that is involved, the welfare
and progress of their community,
therefore of,themselves.
A local newspaper is absolutely
necessary to any community No
merchant, no grand jury. no town
council that spends every year all
it can afford with the home paper,
whether that expenditure is actu--
ally necessary or not, makes a
wiser, more profitable investment.
They are not giving" the home
paper something. On the ocn-
trary. it is earning every cent it
gets, and more. provided it is
paper that is worth picking up in
the road.
And if it isn't that sort of
paper It is usually the fault of the
town in which it is published
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02
About the Sale of Fruit frees.


1t is well enough for persons
who propose acting as agents fo1
fruit tree companies to recall the
law regarding the licensing of fruit
tree agents. To travel, as agent
for any nursery company, either in
or out of the state, without first
obtaining license is violation of
the law. So far license has bee n
issued in this county. to but one
company, the Gold Nursery Co.,
of Mason City. w. Va. @. L. Po.
land, of Ruokman, is their agent
for this oounty.-Hampshire Re-
view.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

The WON q p
who suffers
from ill-health
casts a shadow
on her own hap
piness and the
happiness Of
others. She
cannot help It
Those who suf
fer ca mn OF
arr11le and r1un
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Grasshoppers are SO thick in
Montana that they get upon rail
road tracks and cause the looomo
tive wheels to slip SO as to stop the
trains, and they eat every greer
thing in sight.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-09-02

Despite the general belief among
physicians that women live longer
tban-men. many of the leading life
ins1rance companies decline to ac-
cept othe gentler sex at risks. But
why should that cause any worry ?
Themen of this country are amply
able TO care for the women, and a
man with. spirit does not need to
have the life of his wife insured
If he has any money to spare he
prefers to devote it to insurlng her
happiness during her lifetime