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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
The Opportunity
Is Yours.

Our Own Make of Lard
At Cut Prices.
3pound Buckets were 10 oents.
now 30 cents.
now so cents.
10 pound Buckets were $50.
20 pound Buckets were $500.
Bulk Lard was I5 cents per
pound, now 12A cents per pound.
We have over 1000 pounds of
our own make of Lard and We
mast sell il in the next 30 days.
As long as it lasts the above prices
are good.
We guarantee every pound of It
to De pure. DAVIS q SONS.
Everything good in the meat
LIE.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
WHO CANNOT BR CURED.

zshked mp by over third of century
o. charitable and uniform cures. a record
sue. rs no other remedy for the diseases
ara t,akneases peculiar to women ever
at~.cS =, tbs pfop.ictofs and makers OF DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel
fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in
legal money of the United States, for any
case of Leueorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro-
lapsus, or Falling of Womb which they
cannot cure. All they ask Is a fair and
reasonable trial of their means OF cure.
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL Asso-
CITATION, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y
Miss Stella johnson, of Is Brady St Davtou
Ohio. writes: NJ was troubled with severe pains
every month when wrote to YOU for advice
After following your directions, / am happy to
say that after hve years Of untold suffering
have not had any pains since first using YOUR
.Favorite Prescription I thank God and DR.
R v. Pierce for the health now enjoy I shall
your medicine.p
Take DR.. Pierce,s Pleasant Pellets instead
of any other laxative.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Keeping Friends.

Friendship is worth taking
trouble about. 1t is one of the
things about which we should
remember the Apostles command,
Hold fast that which is good"
Thoresu said: "The only danger
in friendship is that it will end"
Correspondence and conversation
and social courtesies are the ways
in which we throw guards around
our friendships lest they end. A
man who loses friend for want of
a letter now and then il like man
who loses his money for lack of a
pooketbook. He is losing a very
precious thing for lack of very
little expense and trouble. How
carefully Jesus selected the close
circle of bis friends. and how
watchfully he guarded their mu.
tual friendship after he had select
ed them. The friend who sticketh
closer than a brother is always one
who has taken some trouble in the
matter of his friendships. Let us
be careful that we do not go
through life with holes in our
pockets through which our friend
ships slips. s.. Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
How Pat Got the Rooster.

General Ian Hamilton, now visi.
ting in this country. figures in one
of the best campaign stories of the
Boer war. The incident happened
during the campaign east of Bloom
fontein, when Hamilton had com.
mand of an assorted column, hall
Canadian, half regular, that COM
posed the extreme right wing OF
Roberts army.
General Hamilton reviewed the
Canadian infantry one day in a
small village for the purpose of tell
ing them they must stop the plum
dering for which they were SO no.
torious that they had earned the
nickname of 1.-THE Thousand
Thieves"
The column had just drawn up
and was waiting for Hamilton to
begin the review when a ragged
rooster ran out from hut and
across the front of the line. A kind
of shiver ran through the volun-
teers. Suddenly a private left the
ranks and took after the rooster.
HALT" shouted Hamilton.
The soldier ran on. He shortly
overlook the rooster and turned
back. wringing the neck of the
fowl. AS he passed the General
he noticed the fierce scowl on his
face. The soldier was an Irish boy
from Toronto and not easily daunt.
ed, but this time he temporized.
Throwing the defunot rooster at
the Generals feet, he said:
There, now, I'll taohe ye t. halt
when the General says sol"
History records that the column
laughed aud the General smiled.
Also that the soldier got only two
days in quad" for one of the most
barefaced breaches of discipline in
the records of the most irregular
corps in the army.-PhiladeIphia
Leadger.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
what Is The Matter With Dads

I'VE happened in home the
other night. and over the parIoI
door saw the Iegsnd-worked letters
of red, What is home without
a mother Across the room was
another brief, God bless our
home
Nov, what is the matter with
God bless our dad2' He gets up
early, lights the FIRE, boils an egg,
grabs his dinner pail. and wipes
off the dew of the dawn with his
boots while many a mother is
sleeping. He makes the weekly
hand-out for the butcher, the gro
Ger. the milk man, aud baker, and
his little pile is badly worn before
he has been home an hour. He
stands off the bailIff and keeps the
rent paid up.
"It there is noise during the
night dad is kicked in the back
and made to go down stairs to find
the burglar ana kill him. Mother
dtrns the socks, but dad bought
the socks in the first place aud the
needles and the yarn afterward
Mother does up the fruit, Well,
dad bought it all, and jars and
sugar cost like the mischief.
Dad buys chickens for the Sun.
day dinner, csrves them himself,
and draws the. neck from the ruins
after every one else is served.
What is home without a motherP'
Yes, that is all right; but what is
home without father? Ten chan.
ces to one it is Il clearinghouse,
father is under a slab, and the
landlady is the widow. Dad, here's
to you; you've got your faults
you have lots of 'em-but you're
all right, and we will miss you
when you're gone"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

Chicago, having had an expert
ence without parallel in the hor.
rors of the great Iroquois disaster,
seems to have learned the lesson
as to the necessary and needful
precautions and safeguards, and
the councils are considering an
ordinance more exacting than any
ever before adopted in this oc untry,
applicable to theaters or other
places where the multitudes gather
1t was carefully prepared by what
may be called commission of ex.
perts. 1t requires that every thea
ter in Chicago must have at least
two exits upon streets or alleys,
and a freproof passage five feet
wide must run entirely around the
stage and the auditorium. A steel
fire curtain must be lowered after
the performance and also after
every act. These thorough safe.
guards should and, it is to be
hoped, will act as incentive to
other cities. The lesson is before
them, and other warnings are moi
requisite.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

According to the Railway Age
the total railway mileage of the U
S. on January, 1, 1904, will be
209.655 miles. This mileage takes
into account all of the year.
Compared with 1902, the present
year is about on a parity in matter
of railway construction. The con-
struotion reported was done on $50
lines. and in thirty. nine States and
Territories, including Alaska Barly
in the year it was shown that there
were 8 500 miles of railroad under
construction, but labor troubles
and financial difficulties caused
some of the work to be Abandoned
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Death on che culm Bank.

No matter what form death as
sumes it is never welcome. The
grim messenger makes his appear
ance in many forms in the anthra-
cite mines of Pennsylvania, but
only in one form is painless and
pleasant, and to only one the VIC
Tins go unconsoiously. 1t is the
death of the burning cuIm bank.
Many times during the year is
such death recorded when one of
these great culm banks is burning.
The fire is not seen in the daytime
and at night it shines only with q
faint glow through the layers OF
ashes which separate the live GOALS
from the outer air.
To these burning banks trampe
and other unfortunates, forced tc
spend q night in the open air, &c
when the nights grow chilly. The
warm breath of the culm lures
them on with promise of warm
bed for the night. and they lie
down to sleep in the comfortable
atmosphere of the bank and never
open their eyes again.
The noxious gases emanatine
from the bank watt over them &C
softly that they are soon ASLEEP
and in many cases they never re
awaken, being suffocated during
their slumbers.-Detroit Ere,
Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

The mileage scandal, in which
both parties are equally involved
comes up again IN humiliatine
shape. The regular session of Con.
gress followed the extra session SO
closely that there was but a few
minutes intermission, yet the
members. with few exceptions,
drew the entire mileage of twenty
cents a mile for journeys that were
never made. Ordinary travel costs
about two cents mile by rail.
But not only have Congressman
drawn pay for journeys never made
in whole or in part, but they have
very orally travelled on passes
issued to them by railroads CON-
corning which they are often call.
ed upon to legislate. This is q
national disgrace and a national
grief, and it is high time that a
crusade was begun similar in fer
vency to that against the franking
abuses and Credit Mobilier which
sent so many statesmen into
oblivion.-Ceredo Advance.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Wait on Her.
The philosopher remarks:

The philosopher remarks:
"Once 1 was young, but now 1
am old, and 1 never have seen a
girl who went back on her mother
who ever came to be worth a one
eyed button to her husband. 1t is
the law of God 1t is not exactly
in the Bible, but it is written large
and lawful on the lives of many
misfit homes IF one of you chaps
ever run across girl with her face
full of roses, who says to you when
you come to the door: 81 cannot
go for 30 minutes. for the dishes
are not washed" you wait for that
girl. Sit right down on the door.
step and wait for her, because
some other fellow will come along
and carry her off, and then you
lose an angel. Wait for her and
stick to her like burr on a mules
tail"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
FORGOTTEN
y. Taylor. Died 1850. I"


That is the inscription on the
tomb of Zachary Taylor. twelfth
President of the United States.
A correspondent who recently
visited the tomb of "Old Rough
aud Ready" says for over half q
century it has lacked the care of 8
kindly hand and is fast falling in
to decay
Apparently nobody cares.
The tomb lies five miles from
Louisville. KY, and is off the road.
Ivy riots over the weatherbeaten
blocks of granite. The fastenings
on the door are red with rust. So
far as is known no key has turned
the look for fifty years. Visitors
are rare. It is doubtful if half a
dozen tourists visit the tomb dur
ing a twelvemonth.
And this neglected spot is the
last resting place of the hero OF
Black Hawk and Florida wafs.
Here is the dust of that great
soldier who, with 1000 American
rifiemen, drove in retreat 10000
Mexicans under Santa Anna at
Beuna Vista. Here are the re-
mains of the American Cortez and
President of the United States.
He who conquered the swamps
and everglades of Florida and made
Mexico surrender is forgotten by
his countrymen. Not one in 10,
600 knows the place of his sep
nlcher.
The plaintive words of Rip Van
Wrinkle are appropriate: allow
soon we are forgotten when we're
gonel"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

1t costs 81, 900 to fire 12-inoh
coast gun. Ten shots were fred
last Monday from two of these
guns at Fort Greble. near Newport,
&. L the largest being a moving
raft towed by government tug at
distance of 1000 yards. The pro.
jectiles weighed 1000 pounds,
and 500 pounds of smokeless pow.
der was used at each charge.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
How They worked II.

A teacher in a Texas public
school received the following let
ter the other day" Sir: Will you
in the future give my SON easier
SONS to do at mite? This is what
he's brought home two or three
mites back: If fore gallons of bere
will fill thirty-to pint bottles, how
many pints and half pint bottles
will nine gallons of here Flip Well,
we tried and could make nothin' of
it at all, and my boy cried and
laughed, and sed he didn't dare to
go back in the mornin, without
doin' it. So I had to go and buy
nine gallin key of bere, which
could ill offord to do, and then he
went and borrowed lot of wine
and brandy bottles. We filled
them and my boy put the number
down for an answer. Idon't know
whether it is right or not, as we
split some while doin, it. 2. s.
Please let the SONS be in water, as
I am not able to buy more bere.n
Chicago now pays her superin-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

Hereafter no man will speak of
the Republican party of West Vir
ginia for there is no such thing as
a PARTY. There is a political ma
chine, however, doing business un.
der that name. but it exists only in
Washington City whence orders
are issued to the servitors like the
old plantation owner used to issue
orders to his overseers concerning
the field hand. A man who sup
poses himself a republican dare
not any more be a candidate for
Office unless he first goes to Wash.
ington and has the label of the
bosses approval pasted on his FORE
head -Parkersburg Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
The Old and New.

In looking back over the twelve
months elapsing since celebrating
the beginning of another New
Year. now old. how many young
men will feel satisfied that the very
most was always attempted
Losing sight for moment of
the instances where success or fail
ure made or married fortune. how
many of them will there be enjoy
ing the feeling arising from simp-
ly knowing they have little or moth
nothing to regret from neglect to
improve to the fullest the oppor.u-
mites the year presented2 There
may be few, but there will not be
many
When failures are reviewed, how
many of them will recognize the
causes leading to them as neglect
to put forth the greatest effort of
which they were capableP Some
few.
They will be the wise ones, who
gather wisdom from defeat.
Old men. have learned that whole
soul application is the price of suc-
cess; it is the lesson which all
young men have to learn.
There is a word in the English
language which every young man
should look up today and beware
of the future. The word is-Per-
functory.
Ability is very much the result
of habits. Few men are apprecia.
bly, lacking in it if they only un-
ders'ood how to develop it. There
is but one way 1t comes through
thoroughness in doing things
thoroughness in doing little things
at first The clerk who thinks it
makes little difference how letter
is folded preparatory to mailing it
is sure to be equally careless in
other respects. The shipping clerk
who fails to understand the neces.
sity of neatly lettering the name
and address on the package he is
sending out will not appreciate the
value of the time which customer
loses while missent package is be-
ing traced. The bookkeeper who
resorts to forcing balance and the
cashier who makes up a small
shortage out of his own pocket un-
consciously come to lose their own
self-respect, and, sooner or later.
that of their employers. The man.
ager who excuses carelessness on |
the part of subordinates eventually |
becomes careless himself and worth
less.
There is another word in the
English language which every
young man should look up today.
have engraved on little disc and
wear as watch charm. The word
is "Thoroughness."
1t is the secret that will make
the review of one year hence tell of
Success.
Most young men Judge success
by wealth, and, estimating it by
that standard, they should remem-
Der that wealth seldom comes ex-
cept as the reward of merit, and
merit is essentially the result of
thoroughness. The mere accumu-
latio1 of dollars is not necessarily
wealth, but even the ability to ac-
oumulate them is the reward of a
certain kind of worthiness founded
in thoroughness.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Preacher Killed a Bear.

Rev. s. M. Engle, of Parsons,
was one ola party of eight that
went on a deer hunt recently on
Cheat Mountain. They came across
bear tracks and the dogs took the
trail and soon freed she. bear and
two cubs. Mr.. Engle was first on
the scene and found the bear furi.
GUS with rage. He fred a load OF
buokshot into her and she came
down the tree in hurry and made
off. With another shot he killed
one of the cubs and then ran after
the old bear. He found her dead
about hundred yards away. The
other hunters arrived about this
time and killed the second cub.
The old bear weighed 200 pounds
MIR. Eugle got a fine robe
and generous supply of bear
meat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

The old man was sitting on the
top of his house in Kansas afte,
the floods, and was gazing plaoidIy
across the rushing watsrs.
Washed all your fowls awayP'
asked the man in the boat.
Eyes, but the ducks swami
smiled the old man.
Tore up the peach treesP"
Don't mind it much. They
said the crop would be a failure
but the fioodl 1t is up to your
windowsI'
oval, them windows needed
washing, anyway, stranger"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Chung to His Religion.

An old negro in neighborhood
town arose in prayer meeting and
said: "Bredderin and sisterin,
been a mighty mean Niger in my
time 1 had a heap er ups and
downs-'speoially downs-since
iired da church. I stoled chickens
and watermillins. ! oussed. 1 got
drunk. / shot craps. 1 slashed
udder coons with my razor. an
done er sight er udder things. but
thank the good Lawd, bredderir
and sisterin, / never yet lost my
religion"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

Tin City is the name of a new
town that has sprung mp within
the last year near Cage York, not
far from Behring Straits. Tits re.
ported that there are immense de-
posits of tin there, enough to save
the country the $40. 100000 which
we now pay annually for foreign
tin.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Nothing Doing.

t'well, and how is business with your
Said the coal hod to the bin,
Creeping closer to the furnace
AS the cold came slipping in.
'Businessf' said the empty coal bin,
Shivering till ITS door hinge broke.
"Businessr There is nothing in it,
1t has all gone up in smoke
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

The gas man and the coal man
are having their pull now. but the
ice man is saving Zoe and singing,
an the Good Old Summer Time. .
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

A model schoolhouse is being
built in New York, which contains
bathrooms. restaurant, library,
mending bureau and other convsn-
fences.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

The Washington clerks are in a
heap Of trouble. The Cabinet has
decided that they must hereafter
work seven hours day, instead of
the regular six and a.half. The
clerks are indignant and point to
the way in which their distinguish
ed chiefs waste the time of the
government, being present at their
desks several hours day less than
the law requires. and going picnic
ing around the country and stump.
ing for their party in violation to
the civil service law of which the
President has been such a siren
uous advocate. Clerks threaten &c
get even by soldering"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

Every virtue when too far devel-
oped degenerates into vice. Con-
scientiousness easily passes into
stubbornness and economy into
stinginess, and prudence into cow
ardice.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

There should and must be law
for the protection of the sheep
raisers of this county. Something
must be done to protect our pro-
gressive stock breeders and rid the
county of the worthless ours that
infest it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

Chairman James K Jones OF
Arkansas called the Democratic
National Committee to order at
noon on Tuesday in the ballroom
of the Shoreham hotel in Wash
ington, to select the time and place
for the Democratic national con-
vention. Distinguished Demo-
Gratis were present from all parts OF
the country. There was strong
sentiment in favor of the central
west, the meeting to be week o,
two after the Republican conven-
ton. Great harmony prevailed
with tendency to minimize contest.
ed questions.
LATER.-The National Execu.
tive Committee has selected st
Louis as the place for holding the
next Democratic National Ccnven
ton, and fixed the time on the 9th
of July.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

The making of bogus Indian
relics has become quite flourish
ing trade in the Southwest. Al
nearly every railroad station from
Albuquerque, New Mexico. to San
Bernardino. Cal. there are Indian
girls who peddle historic pottery
made few days before and the
same is the case with stone idols
and other ''relics Of the stone age"
A cool reception often precedes
a hot finish.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
Why He Stayed.

The chapel of northern fishing
village used to depend for its SER
vices on the occasional help of the
clergy of the nearest town. One
very wet Sunday the clergyman
who volunteered to do the duty
drove over in a fly. Telling the
chapel bell himself, he announced
his arrival to the natives. but for a
long time no one appeared.
at last one solitary person came
in and took seat at the very back
of the chapel. The clergyman then
found his surplice and conducted
the service. That ended, he re-
marked to his audience of one that
perhaps a sermon was superAuous.
"Oh, please go on, sir" was the
aattering reply. and the clergyman
mounted the pulpit.
In the course of his address he
expressed the fear that he was
wearying his hearer, and was graf
fled to be told that he could not
be too long. The sermon, conse-
quently, was heightened out to
some forty minutes.
When it was ended the preacher
expressed a desire to shake hands
with the gentleman who had lis
tensd to him with such evident ap-
probation. Imagine his conster-
nation at discovering on a nearer
view (for he was somewhat short
eighted) that he had been preach
ing to the driver of his fly, who
was all the while charging over
time.-London Tit Bits.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20

Guilty of murder in the FIRST de-
gree. Finley Preston. colored. has
been sentenced to hang at Knox
vile. Tenn. March 2, the same
jury finding his father not guilty.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-20
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