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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

Eogland and France the periodi-
city of panic is more noticeable
than in other countries. This is
attributed to the fact that these
nations, along with high degree
of development and large aooumu-
lations of available capital, have
also reached a stage of greater un-
ifcrmity in commercial and indus
trial operations.
For this reason the tendency to-
ward regular increase and de.
Grease in industrial activity is
more noteworthy. In countries
like the United States. the indus
trial changes are more severe but
less regular. This is attributed to
the fact that in such countries new
fields for enterprise are constantly
being opened, which causes a more
defined but less regular alterna-
tion of prosperity and depression.
In the United States it appears
that panic and business depres.
sion recur about once in every 20
years. According to the twenty
year theory the first three crises
during the last century were due
in 1917, 1887 aud 1857. The cris-
es actually occurred in 1914, 1887
and 1857.
The first crises was hastended
three years before it was due by
the capture of Washington by the
British. This was followed few
months later by the suspension of
specie payments by the banks of
Philadelphia and New York. This
precipitated the crisis
The second and the third crisis
were in 1887 and 1857. The next
one would have been due in 1877,
but it was also .hastened by the en-
ormous business disturbances
caused by the after effects of the
Civil war. As result the crises
occurred four years earlier, in
1878. The next panic occurred ex-
actly 20 years later, in 1898. Ac-
cording to the twenty-year theory
the next panic is not due until
1913. By that time it is contend.
ed the present prosperity this
country is enjoying will have
spent itself, an enormous amount
of capital will have been wasted
by being invested in improbable
enterprises, there will be a large
overproduction in certain lines,
which extravaganoes, speculation
and initiation will be rampant.
The inevitable result will be a
panic, followed by few years of
extreme conservatism during which
sufficient amount of new capital
will be created to fill up the gaps
and losses caused by the extrava.
gauoy and recklessnes of the prev
ious years New York CONNER.
cial.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
Sam Jones on the Price of Men
and the Price ofHogs IN Iowa.

toaA-@ -WnCo On Tic IIlc6 OF wen
andfpe Price ofHogs IN Iowa.
Sam ones recently lectured in
Sigout1 1ey. Iows, and justly "roast-
ed" thee who signed saloon petit
tione This report is from a ST.
gourne5 paper:
"This nice little Iowa town, with
a farming region around it, makes
one Of the garden spots of the
world; but with all your blessed
ness yon can't get along without
three sAloons to debauch your vii
lsge and ruin your boys, because
you need the money"
HereIMr. Jones inquired of the
surprised audience. "How much
is the license herep Some one an
swered three hundred dollars
each to the town Nine hundred
dollars altogether resumed Jones.
.W314;a your popnletion2' An
swer, Two thousand. The speak
er then did little lightning oaIcu-
lation and, resumed:
THE liquor dealer walked up to
you and said, "If you will let us
damn this town, we will give you
forty cents apiece" Say, what
would two hundred pound hog
bring?'
Answer, Twelve dollars
49, resumed Jones, hogs
twelve dollars a piece and folks
forty cents head. Say brother,
don't you wish you were hogP
You and your whole family
would not bring enough in this
town to buy sucking pig This
is little lower down than I have
ever found them. For the pitifuI
sum of forty cents apiece you turn
your boys to be debauched, the
hearts of mothers to be crushed,
the town ruined-all for forty
cents. That is cheap; but 1 ex-
pect that is all you are worth, eh?'
81 want to drop this out. There
is not man of you that signed
that petition TO bring saloons to
this town or county, but deserves
that every boy you have in your
homes shall fill a drunkard's
grave and your daughters to live
in the embrace of drunken hus-
bands.
What did you sign it for, you
lousy devilsf If you did not want
your boy to drink, or your daugh-
ter to marry drunkard you damn
able scoundrels, what did you do
it for? Stand up on your hind
feet and talk back. You surely
did not sign hoping your boy
would not drink, but that your
neighbor's would Why don't you
say, Tell you the God Almighty's
truth, l did it for the forty cents :"
If the devil don't get you for it, it
is just because he don't want you,
and every man that will sign that
petition-the devil will get the last
man of you-.but thank God he
won't get much. If you fellows
that signed that petition don't feel
like hog, you don't feel natural
that's all.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
NEXT GREAT PANIC
Not Due Until 1913, according
to Strange Ironclad Kule.

In the general discussion which
has been going on during the last
year regarding how long the gen.
eral prosperity in this country
will continue the subject of the
periodicitY of panics and depres-
sions has played large part.
Years of general prosperity and
years of general depression have
alternated go regularly in the past
that many prominent writer's are
of the opinion that the panics and
depressions, which have REQUIRED
with such singular regularity, are
the result of causes as inevitable
as the laws which govern the phys
icsl world.
The financial history of every
country which has reached high
stage of industrial activity furn-
ishes a strong corroboration of the
theory of the periodicity of crises
and depressions. During the last
two centuries industrial depres-
sions occurred in England with
striking regularity at intervals of
about 10 years.
1t is pointed out, for instance,
that depressions in England dur
ing the last century occurred as
follows: In 1915, 1925, 1886,
1877. 1857, 1866, 1875. The
panics and business depressio rs
of other countries show almost
equally as striking a regularity.
Commencing on the periodicity of
panics and depressions promi-
nent economist said some years
ago:
"The instances are already too
numerous, regular and persistent
to allow any foot-hold for theory
of fortuitous coincidence. There
ID no region of scientific inquiry
in which the idea of SO distinct
and prolonged a series occurring
by accident would not at once be
secuted"
Economists now do not believe
anything like general overproduc-
tion is possible. They have modi-
fed Rodbertus's theory by chang
ing it to misdirected production
Another theory which gained
wide adherence some years ago
was that the periodicity of panics
aud depressions Was due to spots
upon the sun W. Stanley Jew
ons was the most prominent edvo-
cate of the suns spots theory
He claimed that sun spots were
the most potent agency in deter
mining the quantity of agricultur-
al products, and consequently con-
ditions of prosperity from year to
year.
While no really accepted theory
has yet been offered it is admitted
by every one who has studied the
subject that panic and depression
have REQUIRED with astonishing
regularity. In countries like
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
Fiduciary Notice.

The following accounts are before
the undersigned Commissioner for
settlement:
w. NJ. Duffy, guardian for F. A.
Mourning. partial settlement.
w. Nj. Duffy, guardian for Samuel
Love, partial settlement.
w. NJ Duffy, guardian for Augustus
Love, partial settlement.
w. NJ Duffy, guardian for Sarah.
Minnie and Frederick Mcdaniel, par
tial settlement.
Given under my hand this the 18th
day of March, 1903.
JOHN L. WRITTEN,
Commissioner of Accounts for n ason
County, w. Va. mar. 25 2-w.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
Found Great Lake OF Pure Car
donated Water.

Fayette, w. Va.-Wm. Green
who has just returned from the
Gauley mountains. reports the find.
ing of a lake of what is apparently
soda water about thirteen miles
back through the woods from Nioh-
olas roads
He and one or two others had
been surveying an old line and
came upon a lake which is small
sheet of water less than a half
mile long and about one half as
wide, one side being surrounded
by woods, while the other side is
clear of timber.
When the surveymen came upon
the soda water lake, being thirsty,
they tried to drink of the water
and to their surprise found the
taste to be exactly the same as soda
water, without favoring, and Mr..
Green says that later in running
back in that direction he carried a
small bottle of vanilla flavor back
and from the lake had better
glass of soda than he had gotten in
many of the stores. 1t is his idea
to form company. purchase the
lake and form natural soda water
trust.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

When the Democratic admins
tration was putting up all the great
public institutions of the state and
the appropriations finally got up
to 81 100000 at a session of the
Legislature, the Republicans raised
great howl about the waste of the
public money. With no public
institutions to build the Repub-
lican Legislature run the appropria-
tions up TO 50. 100000, or nearly
two and one half times great, T
than any Democratic Legislature
ever Observation-Disclosures News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

That meteors contain gold has
been demonstrated before the
Royal Society of New South Wales
This suggests that the thousands
of tons of meteoric dust which fall
upon the earth each year deposit
gold everywhere.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01


The Anthracite Strike Commits
sion has made its report. Among
other things it awards 10 per cent
increase in the wages of contract
miners over the rates paid in 1902.
Water hosting engln GERS get an
increase of 10 Per cent and eight
hour shifts.
Cther engineers and pump men
get 5 per cent. increase and Sunday
holidays without loss of pay.
Firemen get eight hour shifts
without increase of pay after April
1st, 1903. but an increase of 10 per
cent from November, 1902, until
April 1st, 1903.
a minimum wage as we'll as a
sliding scale is fixed.
All disputes that arise during
the life of the award, from April
1903, to March 81, 1906, shall be
settled by arbitration.
Provision is made against dis
elimination on the part of mine
owners or the mine workers on ac-
count of membership in a union.
The report discusses the quest
ion of recognizing the union but
makes ino recommendations as to
that matter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

The demand for Worlds Fair
exhibit space in all departments is
such that it will undoubtedly be
all taken months before the open.
ing day Allotments are being
made rapidly. The value of the
annual product of manufacturing
industries in the United States
has increased,ffty per cent since
the Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago Notwithstanding the far
greater area of exhibit space for
the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
tion in comparison with the Chi
cago Fair it is really less in pro-
portion to the probable demands
from the manufactures and pro-
ducers in the United States and
foreign countries.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

Taxpayers want to keep before
their eyes the fact that the cost of
clerks and other help of the legis-
lature run by the Democrats, cost
the State $4,000 and when run by
the Republicans it cost S24, 900.
Do not forget this. Also keep in
mind that the Republicans declar-
ed in their party platforms that the
Democrats were wasting the public
money.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

The public will look for largely
increased appropriation for the
purchase of drugs" in the nation.
al Capitol next year.. The liquor
selling privilege has been taken
from the Capitol restaurants.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

How would it do for the govern
ment to spend less money prepared
for wars that should not be fought,
and more money in building roads
for the people to live in peace and
prosper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

President Roosevelt is assured of
one bear on his western trip, the
rough riders of Southern Arizona
having captured big black fellow
which they will present to him on
his way through that territory.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

The saw and the hammer are
making music in the ear of these
glad spring days.-Point Pleasant.
Many improvements to property
are being made. and all our labor
ers are busy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

George Reno. a nephew of Il Q
late Robert q. Ingersoll, has be-
come a citizen of Cuba the first
foreigner to be naturalized and
nows bears the name of Jorge
Renokinni.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

In one Texas county there is but
one negro and, despite the lamen-
tations of the President and Sena-
tor Hanna, he refuses to become a
postmaster, and doesn't want q
pension.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
Smallpox at MaysviIle, Ky.

There is much anxiety over Il Q
smallpox situation. Over 100 cases
since December and sixteen deaths
have been reported. Flemings.
burg has quarantined against Mays
vile.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

Steam transports having a ca
pacity of 9OO,oO0 bushels of wheat
each will soon be plying between
the Pacific coast and Japan.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

81 owe my whole life to Burdock
Blood Bitters. Scrofulous sores
covered my body. Iseemed beyond
cure. B. B B. has made me a per-
fectly we'll woman" Mrs. Chas
Hutton, Berville, Mich. mch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
The Beauty of Shop Girls,

When shop girls enter the store
they are as rule above the aver
age in beauty. and they soon learn
to improve their looks just as they
do their manners, only in more
definite ways. When a girl is en-
gagged by the superintendent she
is assigned to the department to
which she is best adapted. Well
built girls, who can trail skirts to
the best advantage, are sent to the
millinery department, or to the
cloak and suits department. The
dressing-room down stairs, with
i!s mirrors on every wall, is most
popular resort. Girls walk in az
on ths stage, give a swift touch 10
their hair, and pass out with a
j1ke. On the walls about there are
pasted announcements such as
"Look Pleasant when you Speak
to Customer" The girls whose
duties conceal their skirts behind
the counter devote all their atten-
tion to their dress above the waist.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

Pittsburg Philadelphia and CIeve-
land capitalists have purchased
1900 acres of coal land in Barbour
county. and will organize a compa
ny to be capitalized at 100000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

The Point Pleasant
National Bank-The
N ew B ank-is now
open for business in
the Kisar block, Main
Street. Don't forget
the name.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

The losses by reason of hog
cholera last year in the state of In
diana are placed at near sc. 100000.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

A man may have a large fol-
lowing, simply because he doesn't
pay his bills.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
Here for Business.

now have the buyers; have
you the farms to sell? If so,
write me now, giving the very
lowest price and terms.
r. F. NORRIS,
Mi!lwood, w. Va.
mar s wks
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

When you cast your bread upon
the water don't tie stone to it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

The gift of CAB often results in
a man giving himself away.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01
Keep out of the frying pan and
you won't get into the FIRE.

Lots of people become sadder
without becoming any wiser.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

Those who show the least CON-
sideration for others usually ex-
pect the most for themselves.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

Perhaps the President can help
candidate Crane Stewart to be.
come Mayor of Chicago by speak
ing there on the eve of election but
those in p position to know say he
will only hurt Roosevelt.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

A household necessity-Dr.
Thomas Eclectric Oil. Heals burns
cuts, wounds of any sort; cures sore
throat, Group. oatarrah, asthma;
never fails.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

There is more coal in Montana
and Wyoming than in Pennsyl-
vania.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-04-01

ga dose in time saves lives" DIR.
Woods Norway Pine Syrup; ma
ture's remedy for coughs, oolds, pull
monary diseases of every sort. mch
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-21

the disease out OF nv system in few
DAYS and did not hinder me from puF.
suing my daily work.
II should like to ste our Board Of
Health give II Official recognition and
have II used generally among our poor
sick people in Greater New York.
Joseph A. Finn.
y. L. Wallace. a charter member Of
the international BARRIERS Union.
writes from IS Western avenue. Min
nenrolls. MINI;
Following q severe attack OF Ia
grippe | seemed to be affected badly
all over. ! suffered with a severe back
ache. indigestion and numerous ills. 80
could neither eat nor sleep. aud l
sh0ughs I would give up my work.
which could not afford TO do.
"one Of my customers who was
greatly helped by PerunA advised me
20 try s.. and I prucured & bottle the
same day. used II faithfully and felt
a marked Improvement During the
next two months took Ave bottles,
and then felt splendid. Now ms head
Is clear. ms nerves steady. enjoy food.
and rest well pernna has been worth
a dollar d0ac 10 me. I'D 4. Wallace.
sMr. o. II. Perry, Atchison, Kansas.
writes:
again. after repeated trials of your
medicines. Psruna and MAnalin. give
this as my expression Of the wonderful
results OF your very valuable medicine
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-21
----s==s' --i-7-----=as----a-.==
TIMELY DAIRY NOTES.

Cows need some succulent food in
winter TO enable them to do their
best.
A dairy authority says: Butter
that has been properly made will not
stick to the knife blade when 1t is
cut.
A poor cow takes M as much room.
eats almsot as much feed and re
quires almost as much care as good
one. Weed them out.
The man who furnishes unclean
milk for consumption or TO the
creamery deserves no consideration.
Unclean milk from one herd may
spoil the whole days receipts
The Dairy and Creamery recently
received a letter from a firm in Ger
many asking where skim milk can
be bought eheaply and in large guam
titles. The firm making the inquiry
proposes TO start factory 10 manu-.
facture a new hy-product Of milk
after the butterfat is taken out Of il.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-21

New Berlin, H., Mar. i6th:-Mr
Frank Newton Of this place speaks yery
earnestly and empbatlcaIly when asked
BY any Of his many friends the reasos
for The very noticeable improvement il
bis health.
For 4 long time--0ver two years-hs
has been suffering a great deal with pains
IN his back and an al over feeling 4 III
ness and weakness. His appetite failed
him and he grew gradually weaker and
weaker till he was very much rau dawn
A friend recommended Dodd's kidney
Pills and Mr.. Newton began to take 1--WE
al dose three times a day. In vsry
short time be noticed an improvement;
.he pains left his back and he could eat
better He kept on improving and aov
he says.
s'Yes, indeed | am a different mar
and Dedd's Kidney Pills did ii all. j
canHet tell you how much better | feel
! am rev man aud Dodd's Kidney Plh
deserve All the credit"
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-21
FEEDING DAIRY cows
Care West He Es~srlses ~ Psrfsetiy
sattsfaefaFT hesaiis Are 10
ne obsafaed.

Farmers % not realize the heavy
losses they safer from fsiiure 10
feed cows properly. IL Is estimated
that TIE average annual yield 0f but
Ter per COW i ie5 pounds. Every
COW must 6rst be Furnished with
enough food for body maiutenauce;
then whatever she gets over and
above that amount goes 20 make
milk or meat. II = COW is bred
along dairy tnes-that is, n her sire
l. a fuil-blooded dairy snimal--she
viii not have q strong tendency 10
convert feet into meat and will there
fore convert IL in.l milk. So II she
is well fed from the tirs= she drops
her calf. IL regularly MIXED and
made comfortable quiet and content
cd, the more feed she gets the more
milk she viii give. says the Michigan
Farmer.
Under careful feed. ing and good man
sgement the yield Of butter can easi-
y be raised 20 800 ps unds a year. We
have about if.0oo. 900 dairy cows in the
country. which are yielding about
i,375,o00.oo0 pounds Of butter. which
at IS cents a pound. amount TO $780,
a0s,OO0 II the iI.o0oo00 cows were
properly fed. they would produce
, 3,g00. 900, ,o00 pounds Of butter. which,
at Is cents = pound, would amount to
st95,0o0,oo0. Allowing for the extra
;ost that good feeding would neeessi-
ate, there Is an annual losa Of over
s25o,oo0.ooo because OF poor feeding,
II may be thought by some that such
an enormous yield Of butter would
bring ruin 20 the dairy industry. 1t
would 10 certain countries and locali-
ties where feed is expensive. but the
farmers Of the northwest need have
no fear on this score. for they could
and would in a shcrt time be called
upon TO furnish European countries
with their butter. as we could furnish
IL and make more money than we do
at prices that other countries could
not possibly meet. In round numbers
II costs aboes twice as much to pro-
duee butter in Denmark as Il does in
the northwest. 1t will take many
years 10 bring the average up TO even
200 pounds per COW, and those who be-
gin now TO feed right will have the
benefit Of the good prices. Present
prices win be found entirely satisfac-
tory II cows are literally and proper
" fed. During the year 1895. under
good management. COWS returned
net profit Of $40 per head; during the
year 1896 they made a net profit of
$40 per head after deducting the cost
OF feed; during the year 1897 the net
profit per COW amounted 10 S3s per
head. making the average for the
three years s36 per head, without Civ
ing any credit for skim milk and young
stock.
Woodville Republican., 1903-03-21
A ROUGH ESTIMATE.
Newell arthod ef AaeertnAnin@
n Loss Of Turaty foands
ToGEed Lfke.

A ueu-kzoFu jaigs, Who = a. famous
a. III. Ut as his oorpulency, vas mpeA
S.stu-bfs iu mind b. be tendency % ever
;-rr,sgrz stoutness He TIRED many rem
go A. lenr.h = friend suggested that
Il sborid take a course q Treatment a.
esr,ain ho. springs. He Immediately .set
CT for the place. solourned Tor a rev
weeks AZ it, managed 70 get rid Of 2 goo9
Ss.f of sunerhous hesh, and returned
bor,e in a most happy and loeuiar ifAne
AZ mind. rsiates an e1change-
On TIE fret morning alter DIS retlIh,
when be was vending hl= way 70 tns
eourthouse. be- came 20 the butcher snop
where his family we're supplied with meaE'
Marching inside, be sad:
"Cut ne Of % pourSs o- --pork
TIE butcher sharpened his knife and az
orce complied. TIE judge looked al the
msat for a minute or two and then walked
of.
aSbar I send the pork 70 your hoose, ny
lord," inquired the butcher, who felt that
lie Judge had overlooked Instructions,
"Oh. no." was the reply. given with =
smile. Il don't want it. have fallen on
inst % pounds. and only wanted TO have
an idea Of how much II wasl"