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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-07

H. c. DECKER, Phone John sal
II. c. DECKER.
LEADING RoONING- HOUSE AND HOTEL
BROKER
9O6 MARKET ST 90e MARKET ST
OVER p YEARS SELLING HOUSES IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
JUST A FEW SPECIAL BARGAINS.
20 rooms; north OF Market st........... SI4OO
ONLY 5000 CASH REQUIRED.
rooms; Hyde and McAIlister sts..... $500
p rooms: one floor; rent so. .......... $3.50
p rooms; electric lighted; rent $50 0....... $50
ONLY $3.50 CASH REQUIRED.
y rooms; must sell: only. y................ 500
rooms. snap ...-..................... .ST5
= rooms; Pine ana Hyde SITS: a beauty. $3.50
u rooms. O'Farrel ST: see it.......... $500
20 rooms; north Market St rent $50 - S115U
u rooms; rent only SS5. $3.50
j rooms: Mason St: snap. .......-.... $3.50
p rooms; rent $50; money-ma ker. j.. Sl5O0
10O-roofn corner house. se............. S5:sdO
i60-room apartment house .-......... .si3 coo
4lV-ffODh bDl Eli -------.-.....-.- - % .
rooms and bath: upper fiat . ss95
Groom house on Minna st..........-..... $50
3i-rcorc house FOR exchange. ...-........S < ~ .
9o-RoOM HOUSE; MUST SELL: SMALL
AMOUNT CASH EASY PAYMENTS:
SIRE TO CLEAR $3.50 PER MONTH. $500
SiCo.Co 10 LOAN on FURNITURE.
ii. q. DECKER o0e Market ST
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-07
HELP wANTED-FEMALE.

A-THE DOMESTIC CLUB.
233 Geary st. 80.
FirBt-class Swedish cook $50 to $50
F1rst-class house.
Good young German cook, little housework,
$35
Cook and little housework $50.
Girl. help kitchen, little housework $40.
Housework general in family. $50
Second girl and wait $25.
Second girl and wait $40
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-07

McALLISTER, 1T23-A fine sunny nat;
rooms and bath; elegant hardwood finish;
rent cheap. S26. ASHTON & GARDINER,
All MONTGOMERY ST
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
He said Nothing.

He was standing on the scaffold
with the moose hanging loosely
about his neck. A crown of stur-
dy and stalwatt westerners were
lounging about the structure.
"Have you anything to sayP" the
doomed man was asked.
"Indeed he hain't," a woman
shouted, elbowing her way through
the crowd. He'll have nuthin' to
say while I'm around" He he'd
nuthin' to say sence we were mar
ried these last eighteen years, an
I'll be switched eff he'll hev any
thing to say now. Ef there's any
sayin' to be did, I'll say, so you
mought as we'll go on with the per-
formance."
The doomed man turned pale,
lodged as though expecting some.
thing to be hurled at him and went
to his death without even SO much
as a whisper.-New York Times
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15

Announcements of a heavy ad.
vance in merchandise rates have
been sent out to all the shippers
by the express companies. The
new schedule went into effect July
l by joint agreement, shenceforth
the shipper of packages weighing
less than 80 pounds will have to
bear the burden of the increase.
While the express companies in
sist that they have no association
or joint agreement, the unanimity
with which they acted in lifting
the rates show that each knew
what the other was doing. The
announcements do not contain
the signatures of the different
companies. but all the companies
are demanding the same new grad
ed scale on printed matter and
freight. The business houses
having q large order business, in
which packages are shipped by ex-
press, will suffer heavily under the
schedule.
Some of these firms send out
catalogues twice year, thousands
of them going by express, for
which-they pay 8 cents a pound.
1t is estimated that the express
companies alone carry more than
L 100000 of these catalogues,
many of them weighing as much
as three and four pounds. The in
creased cost under the new shedule
will be 2 cents per catalogue, or
$50. 900 a year to these firms alone.
But of course, the heavy in.
crease really falls on the general
public. For instance, under the
old schedule, one pound package
could be taken to nearly any point
in the United States for 20 cents
now it will cost 80 cents west of
Dodge City, Kansas. Two-pound
packages will cost 80 cents, in.
stead of 30 cents, as under the old
graduated scale. Advances will be
found in the same PERCENTAGE of
increase up to so pounds.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Broke UP the Campaign.

Daniel Webster Brown of the
mountain district of Tennessee
was running for Congress and was
wsging a hot campaign. Daniel
had once travelled as far as Knox
vile, fact that made his constit-
uents look up to him with awe as
having "seen the world" His op-
poIent had not travelled as far, but
still possessed much of the native
wit that makes the dwellers of the
mountain: region famous Daniel
was not ashamed of blowing his
own horn and one day in the
course of a speech said: "Yes, tie
name of Daniel Webster Brown is
known from Maine to CALI
"You bet two-thirds of it is, any
how" broke in the opponent. and
the laugh that followed ended the
campaign.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
rHE ANGEL OF DEATH
Takes From our Midst a Prom-
ising Young Man.

Takes From Our NllOsC q FrOm-
ising Young Man.
1t is with the deepest sorrow for
ourselves, as well as untold sorrow
to the loving father. mother. broth
er and sister. that it is our duty to
announce the death of Charles Ed
gar Rayburn, eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs Robert Rayburn, which co.
cured at Ripley Landing. Friday
evening. at p m, July 8. 1908.
About the 3rdof january he was
stricken with fever, and after a
long illness reco sered and gained
in strength and his parents who
spent most of their time with him
became encouraged and were con-
fident of his recovery. he taking a
visit out to the Doctors home.
DIR. Heranco. feeling splendid.
went out on the portico. the Doct-
or's wife hearing noise ran ont to
his relief. but blood vessel had
busted. he passed away on the
above named date. this loving and
obedient SON answered. His Ma
ker's call
Eddie Rsyburn. as we all knew
him, was young man 16 years. s
months and Z days of age.
He was associated with his faith
er and mother on what is known as
the Hiram Douglas farm. He was
honest, industrious in all his works.
The sorrowiDg parents and other
relatives mourn not alone, and may
God in his infinite mercy, who
maketh and doeth all things we'll,
comfort this sorrowing father,
mother, brother and sister.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Owens at the Baptist
Church at Millwood, Saturday
afternoon at 2 pm, July 4th.
All that is mortal of a young
man who will be sadly missed and
whose vacancy can never be filled
was laid to its last resting place in
the home cemetery at Flat Rock.
A large number of sorrowing
friends assembled at the last rest
ing place, thus evidenoing the high
esteem in which the deceased was
held. J. F. F.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Curiosities of Heat.

: The thermometer marks the tenn
perature, but the bulb of quick
silver and the human body are
affected differently. AS to what
feels hot or cold to one is a matter
of conduction of heat. Silver, iron
wood and air at the same tempera-
ture feel differently. Silver will
burn the akin at 156 degrees F
1t will blister the tongue at 150
degrees F. Iron to do that would
have to be considerably hotter.
Wood can be handled when at a
temperature of 200 degrees F.,
aud it is on record that men have
stood an oven heat of 600 degrees
T for a short time without ap-
parent injury.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
A Surgical Operation

is always dangerous-do not submit
TO the StlrEeon's knife until yon have
tried DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. 1t
viii cure when everything else fails
1t has done this in thousands of cases.
II ere is one of them: ] suffered from
bleeding and protruding piles for
twenty years. Was treated by differ
ent specialists and used many reme-
dies, but obtained no relief until /
used ,DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Two boxes, of this salve cured me
eighteen months ago and / have not
had a touch of the piles since.-H A
Tisdale, Summerton, s O.. For Blind,
bleeding, Itching and Protruding
Piles no remedy equals DeWittSs
Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by G. w NJ
Hooff
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15

A South Side of Kanawha man
who raises chickens tells the fol-
lowing good story on himself:
"The other day." said he, al had
a Plymouth Rock hen that I was
very anxious to sell. One of my
neighbors seemed fully as anxious
to purchase the fowl. and he went
to work to clinch the bargain. He
asked me how much 1 wanted for
the chicken and when I told him
forty cents he almost went wild.
Too much, too much, was all he
seemed able TO ejaculate. But che
lays every day and sometimes twice
a day, / answered. Well, that may
be very true, said my neighbor,-
just put her under that barrel
and 1 will return in an hour and
let you know whether / want her.
or not. / put the old hen under
barrel and rushed into the house
grabbed up an egg and placed it
under the chicken. In short time
my neighbor came around with a
companion and said he would look
at the chicken. I lifted up the hen
and there YVES q fresh egg. At this
juncture the friend of my neighbor
began to tell how he loved to suck
fresh eggs, SO I gave him the round
warm egg that 1 took from under
the pullet. He broke one end of
the shell and went to work with all
power of suction he possessed. but
nothing came In my excitement,
IL had got hard-boiled egg.
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Book of the Royal Blue.

The July number Book of the
Royal Blue" published by the
Passenger Department, B. & o. R,
R.. has two leading articles. The
Fortieth Anniversary of the Battle
of Gettysburg on July 1st. 2nd and
Bird. and new and intensely inter.
esting story of the battle by Gen
81. s. Huidekoper, leads off. The
story is tersely told and profusely
illustrated with scenes and maps,
and is probably one of the most
condensed text books of the
battle ever written. The story OF
Barbara Fritchie, which has been
told and retold, proved and denied,
over and over again. is retold by
interviews of the surviving rela-
tives of the parties concerned.
The book contains its usual
bright poems by we'll know writers
Single copies can be had for five
(5) cents, on application to d. B
Martin. Manager. Passenger Traffic
Baltimore, Md. Annual subscrip,
tion fifty (5O) cents.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Newspaper Proverbs.

S. w. GILLIAN, the funny man
of the Baltimore American, and
secretary of the recently organized
Association of Newspaper Yersi,
6ers and Hnmorists. has coined
the following proverbs out of 20
years experience.
The chap who tries hardest to
work a newspaper for special
favors is the one who never spends
cent with it and is not even a
subscriber.
The one who demands the
highest excellence in Typography,
subject matter and quality of con-
tents does the least to help the
cause along.
The man who kicks most about
the inaocuracy of newspapers in
general is one who does least to
assist in getting the facts accurate
ly when he has an opportunity to
do SO.
The man who has it in for news
papers in general had the bitter
truth told about him once by some
unusually frank reported and re-
porter and has a big sore spot.
The man who brings in the long,
est obituary of the late deceased
was not a model husband always.
The man who begs that his
name be left out of the list of
drunks for fear it will hurt his
mothers feelings never considered
that goood lady's sensibilities be-
fore in his life.
The men who spend the most
money with the paper kicks the
least.
If you expect a man to find a
compliment about himself. you
must put it on the front page in
boldface type.
If you put in a one line roast in
nonpareil between two patent
medicine ads on the seventh page,
he'll find it and come hunting the
man who writ the piece.
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Saw the Bluff.

81 was little fresh when 1 got
around to Indianapolis on my last
trip" said New York drummer,
"and being in a drug store one
evening where politics were red
hot, 1 thought I'd make a grand
bluff, There was a church deacon
present who was rather opinionated
and knowing that he wouldn't dare
make bet, / pulled out my stock
of the long green and shook it un-
der his nose. Yes; 1 offered to bet
him five to one that Bryan wouldn't
carry two States. 1 wanted to make
the deacon squat"
"And, of course, you didP" was
observed.
"Of course 1 didn't, and that's
why I'm wearing seedy-looking
clothes and stopping at second
class hotels. / had $3.50 in that
wad, and the way the deacon hust-
led into his hind pocket to bring
up his plunks and take the bet
gave me chill. He was a good
Christian and an exemplary church
deacon all right enough, but he
wasn't going to see good thing
swim away from him on that ac-
count, and of course he won my
$3.50 in canter. 1 may bluff again
if heart disease doesn't carry me
off. but 1 shan't select that sort of
man again. He doesn't squat worth
cent"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Flat RooK. July 6. 1903.


Cooper District Board of Educa-
tion met at Flat Rock school house.
G. w. Board, President and j. T.
Greer and d T. Howell, Commss-
ioner, were present E. Mckinney
was chosen Secretary, The fol-
lowing Trustees were appointed:
Sub. District No III n Roll
ins, 3 years.
No2-G w Wiles 8, A g w
Brinker, 2.
No 3-W b Blessing. 3.
No 4-Harve Gerlach, 8.
No 5-Hugh Oaugherty. 8.
No 6-Thomas McDermitt, 8,
Thomas Windcn, L.
No IS g Thornton, 8
No S-Chas Carper, 8. Granville
Rayburn, 1.
No-Jas MoDermitt, 8, John
Sebrell, 2.
No 1o-Sam Roush. 2. T B
Gray, 3.
No 11-Wm Hesson, 3.
No 12-W r Gill, 3.
No 13-Bud Chattin, 3.
No 14-C s Mari, 3.
No 15-John Ellis, 3, j w Te-
ford. 2
No 16-Cal Grimm, 3.
No ia Frunz, 8. Philip Will
son. 2.
No 1s-R S Hart, 3.
No 19-Wm PulIin, 3
No 2O-Wm Wolfe, 8. Oscar
Weigand. L.
No. 2l-Geo Gibbs. 8.
Twenty-Five teachers to be en-
ployed in the district. 1t was or
dered that the salaries of teachers
be for No. 1 grade of certificate,
$50 per month; No. 2, S25. and No
3. $1S. A levy of-o was placed
for teachers fund and 800 for
building fund on the property OF
the district.
The Secretary's salary was fixed
at SIS per year.
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May Empty The Penitentlary.


1t may not be generally known
that, under the parole system
adopted by the w Va. Legislature.
all the prisoners in the State peni-
tentiary. except those under life
sentence, may be released at the
option of the Governor and the
B ,ard he appoints The new law
went into effect Msy l3. and is be-
ing established at the pepitentiary
by Warden Haddox
In pursuance of its provisions a
prise ner may. under certain coudi-
tions. be paroled and allowed to re-
turn TO his home and resume his
former occupation aud family
relations, but be must report
monthly to the warden of the peni-
tentiary Should be be subject to
complaint for any violation of Law
or misconduct during his pro-
visionaI release. he may be arrest
e Z aud retnrned- the institution
and his case acted upon, evidence
of improper or criminal conduct
meaning the end of the parole.
The parole system will have
tendency to induce good behavior
on the part of the prisoners and
will often be helpful to relatives
who are dependent upon the
prisoner for living. On the 9TH
er hand it may be used to set aside
the verdict of juries and the sent
ences of courts. and prevent the
punishments solemnly decreed
against convicted criminals.
Monroe County Watchmsn.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15

] Taylor Roth of Allentown.
Pa, WAS greatly troubled with rats
in his barn until last week when
he built an embankment around
the barn and flooded it, and this
drove the rats out of their holes
and 947 of them were killed by So
persons stationed around the
building with clubs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
BOttling .rears.

In Persi,, it appears, they still
bottle up tears as of old. This is
done in the following manner: As
the mourners are sitting around
and weeping the master of cere.
monies present each one with a
piece of cotton wool, with wich he
wipes his tears This cotton is
afterward squeezed into bottle,
and the tears are preserved as a
powerful and eficacious remedy
for reviving dying man after
every other means has failed. 1t
is also employed as a charm against
evil influences. This custom is
probably alluded to in Psam lvi,
g. Put thou my tears into bot
tle." The practice was once uni
versal. as is manifested by the tear
bottles which are to be found in
almost every ancient tomb. for the
ancients buried them with theil
dead as proof of their affection.
The year 1903 is on ITS home
stretch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Bryan opposes Gambling.

Gambling is wrong no matter
where it is practiced, no matter
what amount is risked and no
matter whether the person play
ing wins or loses. 1t is wrong be-
cause it gives one false view of
life's rewards and demoralizes the
victim of the habit.
To get something fer nothing is
as bad as to give something for
nothing and one should be as
anxious to give full pay for what
he receives as he is to receive full
pay fer that which he gives. "For
Value received" should be the
motto of the young man, and he
ought to be taught to scorn the
methods of acc umulation. which
ignore the principle mutual ad-
want age as the basis of exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Let Him Have His way.
(Atlanta Constitutions
Tfo f.fr~.- f~~1- ILL., .1-....,;.,. T., y,

(Atlanta Constitution
fla fellow feels like dowsin' in this
weather. let him browse
Go dreamin' with the daisies or loaf
in with the COWS.
Though he thinks it's time for bliz-
yards, an the heat should call a
halt.
Yet, the good Lord runs the weather
an it amt feIler's fault
If a feller feels like singin. in this
weather, let him sing.
An roll in summer sweetness where
the honeysuckles swingi
If we never know it's winter IL the
summer never halt,
Thego Lord runs the.weather, an
it amt a feller's fault. ~
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Don't Nag at the Boy.

From the New Orleans Times Demo
Crat
Its a curious thing to me that
we fiud SO many persons in the
world who are inclined to nag at
the boy because he is lazy. or be-
cause they are precocious. too fresh.
may be. or something of the kind. :"
said man who gives much
thought to child study. A little
reflection, it seems to me, would
put a different color on this ques-
tion. this problem. # you please.
of dealing with the young men of
the country. Mind you, 1 do not
mean to defend laziness. lido not
mean to defend prscocity. Both
are very annoying. All lezy boys
do not turn out we'll. AS much
may be said for all precocious
boys. Bnt some of them do. Ex-
actIy here is the point You can't
tell what the boys are going to do.
Edison was lazy fellow dull,
sleepy telegraph operator. He
was lazy physically Mark the
distinction. Mentally he. was the
most active thing on the continent.
Witness the discoveries which
have originated in the mind of
this dull, sleepy operator-an oper-
ator, by the way, who was 30 lazy
that he did not want to be troubl.
ed with answering calls on his line
at night, and to protect him in the
full enjoyment of this physical
laziness, his active and energetic
mind rugged up an automatic
ticker that would do the answer
ing for him. So he slept. In the
present ruler of Germany we find
an example of the precocious
youth. William. according to his
biographers, was a devilish,
mischieyous sort of fellow, and not
little lax in his studies. What
is he nowP In my judgment,
broadly measured, he is the smart
est man in the world. by which /
mean, he has a broader grasp of
general information, knows. more
about more different things. than
almost any other man of his time.
These examples bear me out in the
statement that you can't always
tell just what the boy is going to
be. His lazipess or preoocity may
be the earlier expressions of some
phenomenal genius along certain
lines, the fore.runners of great
undertakings and great achieve
ments. Quit nagging the boys"
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"Dr. Fee.''

Huntington Herald.
J.A. Fee, of Cincinnati, the we'll
known cigar drummer, is at the
Adelphi. He is the "Dr. Fee" of
the famous Parkersburg joke. Last
season he was travelling with Geo
Hamilton, the Maysville tobacco
drummer. Hamilton had a trick
of introducing Fee as doctor, and
sending all sorts of afflicted people
to see the great specialist. They
were at dinner at the Blennerhass.
ett. A waiter complained that he
had severe pain in his side. Ham,
ilton told him he had appendicitis.
what sightersP" said the darky
in evident alarm.
Appendicitis; and you would
better see DIR. Fee, at once"
"Why. is it so bad as dat, Boss?''
"Badl you may live few min.
utes, or you might live few hours
but you would better see the doctor
at once"
The negro gave a hollow groan
and fell to the floor. A panic en-
sued in the dining room, and it
took four sure enough doctors an
hour to bring the oolored man
around again, and when he found
how he had been hoodwinked he
got gun and swore he would "kill
dat Hamilton. sho."
Hamilton now introduces his
friend as a plain "Majah."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15

1t is estimated by good authori-
ties that the corn crop of 1903 of
the United States will amount tn
1000, 100000 bushels The
amount of corn raised by different
countries is about as follows.
United States. 74.9 per cent;
Europe. 1914; Mexico. 3.6 South
America, 2 4, Africa and Australia,
l.5; Canada. 9 per cent,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Cheap Trips TOR Homeseekers
via y. q Lines.

Greatly reduced rates for one way
tickets to points in the South and
West. Also special low rates for
round trip tickets, LIST and Sd Tues
day of each month. Full particu..
lars may be obtained by calling on
Agents of o G Lines. Moufton
Houk, q P A, Toledo. o.
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Notice of the Dissolution of the
Royal Salt Company.

Notice is hereby given that the
Stockholders of the Royal Salt Com
pany, body corporate created under
whose main Office is situated at Hart
ford, Mason County, West virginia,
at a meeting held by them on the 27th
day of December, 1902, at which. all of
the Stockholders of the company were
present, by unanimous vote adopted
a resolution dissolving the corpora
The royal SALT COMPANY,
VAL p. COLLINS. President.
BY T. l.. CLIFTON, Secretary.
jne244w
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15
Fishing Rates to Northern micb.
via Ohio Central Lines.

Special reduced rates to the best
fishing grounds in Mich. Tickets
on sale daily with a return limit of
IL days after date of sale. Ask
Agents ofO O Lines about these
low rate fishing tickets. MouIton
Houk, q p A, Toledo, ..
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"AHTED-SaIesman 70 handle 4 line OF .
w staple drugs and well-knoWn patenH
medicines. Must furnish horse and bunrJ.
and give bond. Liberal commission paid.
Spencer Medicine Co.. Chattanooga. Tenn
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15

All dat education does fob some
folks, said Uncle Eben. is to learn
'em few mo- words to talk fool
ishness wifi.
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just as the average man is about
to get struggle hold on fame his
pipe goes out.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-07-15

Massachusetts, has a lay provid.
ing for payment by the state of all
damage to crops done by wild deer.