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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23
HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS GIFTS
How One Girl Solved the Problem
of Selection.

How One Girl Solved the Problem
of Selection.
If girl wishes to remember
many friends at Christmas. and
has not an unlimited amount of
money at her disposal. she will
want to make many of her friends
prsents and now is the time to
begin on them.
One clever girl solved the pro-
blem of getting ideas for Christ
mas presents in quite a novel way.
This girl thought over all her list
of friends, and selecting eleven Of
the most resourceful, invited them
all to luncheon. In each invita-
ton was request that the guest
should bring with her list of ten
ideas for Christmas presents, and
the statement made that the lists
handed in would be read at the
luncheon identified by number
only. and that a prize would be
given to the girl who should be
voted to have brought the best list !
The plan worked excellently. The
luncheon was great success. the
voting On the lists was most spirit
ed. and became possessed of one
hundred and ten Christmas hints.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

1t is said of an Indian Territory
editor that he visited an insane
asylum while in st. Louis recently
and was mistaken by lunstio for
fellow sufferer just arrived.
Becoming confidential, the inmate
asked the editor what made him
go crazy, and to humor him the
editor replied: Trying to make
money ont of the newspsper busi-
ness." Rats" said the lunatic.
you're not crazy. you,feiuat ad-n
fool"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23
Hauled Dead Man and Did Not
Know It.

Hauled Dead Man and Did Not
Know It.
Frank Deremer ON Monday en-.
tering from Belford with two young
men, fell from the wagon and
struck his head on a rock. He
sustained a severe ont and was
placed in the wagon by his COM
panions Not thinking Deremer
was seriously injured. they drove
on. When they reached home in
Cumberland Valley, they were hor-
rified in lifting Deremer from the
wagon to find that he was dead.
The man had been drinking elect
ion day. which indirectly are re
sponsible for Deremer's death
Cumberland News.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

William Pitt Mitchell. wealthy
printer of New York city, oelebrat-
ed his sixtieth birthday recently
by giving away 10000 to his three
children. They found it under
their plates at the birthday dinner.
Mr.. Mitchell began his career as
q poor boy and worked long hours
for 81 q week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

The o. s. postal authorities have
decided that more than one family
may use one rural free delivery
mail box. provided they notify the
postmaster of the distributing sta
ton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23
A Few Split Tickets.

In Massachusetts the Dsmocra-
tic candidate for Governor ran 120.-
600 ahead of the Presidential tick
ct and was elected.
In New York the Der. ocratic
candidate for Governor ran lOO,.
600 ahead of the Presidential tick.
ct.
In Rhode Island the Democra-
tic candidate for Governor ran
more than 5000 ahesd of the
Presidential ticket.
In Michigan the Democratic
candidate for Governor ran $4,000
ahead of the Presidential ticket.
In Missouri the Democratic can-
didate for Governor ran $4,000
ahead of the Presidential ticket
and was elected.
In Colorado the Democratic can
didate for Governor ran 25. 900
ahead of the Presidential ticket and
was elected
In Minnesota the Democratic
candidate for Governor ran 1885,.
600 ahead of the Presidential ticket
and was elected.
In West Virginia the Democrs-
tic candidate for Governor ran 25.-
600 ahead of the Presidential tick
ct.
The voters know how to split
their ticket when they wish to do
so.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

There was an earthquake ON the
Island of Formosa at 4:30 a. M,
November 6, which killed 6S peo-
pie and destroyed 150 houses at
Klayih Formosa was oeded to Ja-
pan from China in 1895. 1t is
245 miles long and 65 miles wide
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

An Ohio weather crank predicts
mild winter from the fact that
the trees have shed their leaves
slowly this fall. He is evidently a
friend to the human race, however
be arrives at this benign result.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

One of Senator Tillman's favorite
stories concerns an old darky who
was taken very ill. He called in q
physician of his own race. but
after time, as there were no signs
of improvement, a white doctor
was summoned. Soon after arriv-
ing the doctor felt the old mans
pulse and then examined his
tongue "Did your other doctor
take your temperatureY" was the
first question he asked. 81 don't
know, bose." replied the dsrky;
II hain't missed anything but my
watch as yit "-Ex.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

The egotist is apt to develop q
bad case of insomnia from lying
awake for the purpose of thinking
about himself.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

A young man always puts in a
lot of time looking at his new gold
watch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

Winning candidates always say
that it was q case of the Office seek
ing the man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

Her ideal man is usually the one
she had a chance to marry, but
didn't.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

A barber may not be able to eat
sawdust. but he can live on shaw
ings.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

IfCupid ever grows up and gets
married he'll probably see the error
of his ways and quit acting as q
matrimonial agent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

Those same men who foolad the
boats during the summer ~ now
busy talking straw yotes.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

One Father of all must mean one
family for all.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

a convincing orator is one who
has sense enough to shut up before
his audience acquires that tired
feeling.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

A man is never too poor to send
prayer dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

The voters know how to split
their ticket when they wish to do
an
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23
L F. oAMPBELL.
Phvsioian and sureeon.

TENDERS his services to the citizen
J. of Point Pleasant and vicinffy-
ONCE at Hooff's Drug Store. Hours
9 A. n, to 12 n, p. NJ, to 8 P. ~.
and Z p. H.. to 9P. n. novetf
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

e.Ss D. m. Kenorn Kxprssa.
Daily For Kenova and intermediate
points
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

D.B. KARTIT. n. p. T. BaitImore.- e. "a.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-23

500 D. m. Accents odnfffon.
Daily tx For Parkersburg, s5iHterBTfil
Sunday. and intermediate pofnL>
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
RAILROADS.
@0U|1T H]IE|RM RAILWAY.

Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station
7:35 am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg. War.
10.EI am. Daily. Washington and Florida Linn.
tied. Through coaches and sleeper to Columbia,
11:I5 am Daily. United States Fast Mall.
First-class coaches and drawing room sleeper to
New Orleans. Dining service.
4.01 pm. Week days. Local for Harrisonburs
and way stations on Manassas branch.
4:55 pm. Daily. Local for Warrenton and Char.
7:so pm. Daily. New York and Atlanta Ex.
press. First-class coach to Atlanta, sleeper to
Columbus, Ca, via Atlanta Sunset tourist sleeper
and FRIDAYS. Sleeper to Pinehurst Monday Wed.
$50 pm. DAILY. New York and Florida Ell.
bia Savannah and Jacksonville. Sleeper to An.
gusta and Port Tampa. Dining car service Q Ia
io:6O pm Daily New York and Memphis Linn
tied (via Lynch ,lrg. Firstclass coach and sleep.
ing car to Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga and
Memphis; sleeper to New Orleans. Dining car
1O:4s pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
Limited. All Pullman train Cub and observation
atlanta a4 Maeen i Memphis STle.ns
TRAINS ON BLUEMONT BRANCH.
Leave Washington $40 an, 1870 Pm. 4:4S
6:2s pm. week days for Leesburg only. Sunday
trains leave Washington 9:10 am. sos pm. for
Through rains from the South arrive Washington
pm. $50 pm. and $50 pm. daily. Local trains
pm. daily. From Charlottesville. s:25 a.m and
Tickets. sleeping car reservations and detailed
street. Gil Pennsylvania avenue and Pennsyivani:
Station. Baggage checked through from hotels and
Phone ie4o P r. R. Cab Service.
HARPWEcE n Pass es.s Trs ase Mgr
L, &, BROWN, Gen. Agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Education and the Professions.
From American Medicine.

From American Medicine.
A majority of the teachers of medicine
while recognizing the desira bility of a gen.
eral education, have felt equally convinced
of the unsuitability Of the old strictly
fession. Some have even condemned col
lege education for prospective students of
medicine, overlooking altogether the efforts
of those educators in our colleges and uni
versities who are working for a broader
and more elastic college course. Reluctant
ly, but apparently forced by the demands
of the times, Princeton has this year intro
duced changes in the curriculum, retaining
minimum number of prescribed studies in
the first two years of the college course,
and attempting to secure concentration of
the work of the junior and senior years. al
though attempting to avoid the narrowness
and fnelasticity of the so-calIed group sys-
tenn. We are glad to see these changes be-
cause, since greater requirements have been
made for the medical degree an increasing
number of students have felt that they
must be deprived of the benefits of a liberal
education. With a properly adjusted elect
I've system 1t is possible for the student to
select such studies will be the most val
liable to him, and experience has shown
that very considerable proportion of stu
dents may be trusted to make such a selec-
ton. Within fifteen years the majority of
medical schools in the United States have
increased the course of study from two to
four years, and the more progressive
the term of study which formerly counted
for years work, SO that the amount of
time spent in study for the medical degree
has really been much more than doubled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Is It Your Daughter?
From the Syracuse Journal.

Fathers and Mothers: If you have a
young daughter this picture-which is no
fancy one-is for you. 1t is long after cur
few. The Washers lean on the Sidewalk
ratings and wait at street corners. There
they come down the street arm in arm
two young girls with fresh rosy faces.
Abundant braids of hair fall down their
backs. Natty little gowns come to the shoe
tops. They are school girls and in their
early teens.
e There is no chaperon and no escort. The
girls are out alone and the hour is rather
late. A couple of smart young men
knowing young men-folow the girls.
Young men and young women are strangers
to one another. and yet there is some sort
of the young men are bold. The eyes of the
girls are not timid as they turn them back
ward with the hint of a smile. Flippant
words are exchanged.
But what can one do? If their natural
guardians are not there to protect, what
right have you to interfere? Here and
there may be found a brave spirit whom a
great pity will move to stay and warn, and
take the risk, but such good Samaritans
are few And so young girls-infant wo-
men with fine passions and powers of wo.
MISUNDERSTANDING to tread the primrose
path of dalliance, go down to ruin.
Whose fault is it? Is it the fault of the
girls? Who sent them out into the night
or permitted them to go unprotected? Who
failed or neglected to warn them of tempta-
ton? Who supposed when they had dress
ed their girl as well as the neigh Dor girls
their duty was done?
There is only one answer to these ques-
tfons--Father and Mother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Pile Driving Stopped.

The heavy ice which has formed on GRAY
ely creek, on the Virginia side of the river,
near Jackson City, has put stop to the
driving of the piles across the creek, on
which the construction track Is to be laid
for the purpose of making fill for the
new railway bed across the stream. The
cold weather and snow has not greatly in
terfered with the railway construction
work at the foot of 14th street. large
force of hands are at work driving the piles
on which the big stone piers will be built,
and doing other work preliminary to the
starting of the stone work. Much of the
stone to be used on the piers is on the
ground, and it is stated the stone work will
be started in a very short time. The work
on the new tracks across the tributaries of
the Potomac south of Alexandria has not
been greatly interfered with by the cold
weather and the Ice. The building of the
high entertainments is being pushed, and
they will, it is said be ready for the rails
early in the spring.
The freezing of the river and the bleak,
ice-laden winds which blow across the river
have interfered greatly with the construc-
ton of the highway bridge. and in the past
ten days but little progress has been made
on that structure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
TO DIsPEAcE PNEUMATIC TIRES.
New Spring Wheel Said to Be Perfec
and inexpensive Substitute.
From the London Express.

Aiom the LohuoH Express.
The difficulty of securing a motor wheel
which shall combine the resiiency of that
fitted with the pneumatic tire with the hard
wearing qualities of that fitted with the
solid is. apparently, some degrees nearer
solution, inasmuch as a Beccles engineer
has produced spring wheel of which great
hopes are entertained.
Considerable ingenuity has been expended
upon its construction, and it is claimed not
only that it is vastly more durable than the
wheel now in use and equally easy running.
but that the strain set up by contact with
the road is distributed over the whole of it's
mechanism, that it has spring drive, that
the shock of impact with any object is re-
ceived by the tire alone and absorbed by
the spring drive within the wheel. and that
the chance of side slip is sensiby dimin-
ished. The principle of the invention con-
sists In number of short, laminated
springs arranged tangentially within the
wheel and connected at their extremities
by a system of levers with the apices of the
star-shaped frame of the wheel and with
each other. The center of each spring is
also attached to carriage, which is free
to move along curved groove on the in
ternal periphery of the wheel. To the outer
periphery is attached a solid rubber tire.
The star-shaped frame already mentioned
is rigidly fixed to the center of the wheel.
On starting car provided with wheels of
this character, when the turning movement
ia given to the center of the wheel, the
whole frame, springs and carriages move
forward under resistance from the springs
until the eXtremities of the grooves in the
periphery are reached by the rollers of the
little carriages. When this happens the
wheel is rigid, and frame and periphery
turn one. Gradually, however, the ten
sion between the periphery of the wheel
and it's frame relaxes, and then a steady
balance is maintained between them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Window in Service.

The United States revenue cutter VIM
dom, which has recently been overhauled
and made ready for hard service on Chesa-
peake bay during the winter, left Baltimore
yesterday on a cruise on the bay. The Win
dom is under instructions to keep lookout
for vessels in trouble in the ice and to rem
der them all the aid possible Last winter
the Window was the means of saving
dozen or more vessels from being crushed
in Ice drifts. The vessels were caught in
the ice in such a manner to be unable to
extricate themselves, and the ice was piling
On them when the Window appeared and by
timely assistance averted the disaster. She
will repeat the performance this winter if
necessary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
A Pirate Among Plants.
From the Geographic Magazine.

From the Geographic Magazine.
Among all the forms of vegetable life in
the Mexican tropics the wild fig trees are
the most remarkable. Some of them show
such apparent intelligence in their readi-
ness to meet emergencies that it is difficult
to not credit them with powers of volition
In the tropics, where the wild figs -four
ish, there is a constant struggle for life
among numberless species of plants. Ger
tain of the wild figs appear to have learned
this and provide fruit which Is fayorite
food for many birds; then an occasional
seed is dropped by bird where it finds
lodgment in the axii Of a palm frond high
in the air.
There the seed takes root and Is nour-
ished by the little accumulation of dust and
vegetable matter. 1t sends forth an aerial
root. which creeps down the palm. some-
times coiing about the trunk on its way.
When this slender. cordlike rootlet reaches
the ground 1t secures foothold and be-
comes the future trunk of the fig tree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Chesapeake & Ohio Ry.

Schedule Effective November 80, 1904.
Trains leave Pennsylvania Station.
$50 Pm. Daily.-CHICAG0 AND ST. LOUIS SPE-
CIAL. Solid ycstibuie, eiectric-lighted Dining
Car train to Cincinnati. Reaches Cincinnati 500
am, Louisville II 100 an. St. Louis CPS m.
Chicago $3.50 pm. Pullman Sleepers TO Louis.
VILE Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago and St
Louis. Connection for Virginia Hot Springs
week days. Dining Car from Washington;
meals a la carte.
i1:lO Pm. DAILY. r. '. LIMITED Solid YES
tibule, electrlc-Iighted Dining Car train to Gin
cinnafi Pullman Sleepers to Cincinnati, Lex
ington and Louisville without change Com
parfment Sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs daily
except Sunday. Sleepers Cincinnati to Chicago
and st. Louis Dining car serving meals . 10
carte.
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
ofice, 6IS Pennsylvania avenue; GOO fourteenth
street near r. and at the citation. Telephone call
1870 tor Pennsylvania II. r Cab Service.
II. w. FULLER.
Telephone Main 1000. General Passenger AEsi&.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Ice in, River Still HEAVY

While the ice on the river is broken I'D
and floats up and down with the tides, it is
quite heavy and offers a great obstacle to
the free passage of vessels. Until last night
new ice has made every night, and on the
creeks. where it has remained undisturbed,
It is from three to five inches thick Ex-
cept for an occasional steamboat or tug the
river Is deserted and covered with broken
masses Of ice, piled one on the other, pre-
senting dreary spectacle. A return of hard
freezing weather. TO knit the floating masses
OF ice solidly together. would mean the
closing of navigation on the river to all but
the more powerful propeller steamers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
FLORIDA.
Atlantic Coast Lime.

Effective November 81. 1904.
4:3O am. daily-sleeping Cars New York to
Jacksonville, Fla.
3:45 pm. daily-sieepng cars New York to Jack
sonville. Fla. New York to Port Tampa, Fla, via
jacksonville; New York to Augusta. Ga; New York
to Charleston. s. c. Washington. ID. O.. to Wils
mington, N. G. Connects at Petersburg for Nor.
folk. via N & W. DINING CAR SERVICE on thu
train.
For tickets and all informa ton apply at the
OFFICE OF THE LINE, Col PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE NORTHWEST. and PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD STATION.
A. L. REED,
District Passenger Agent. Washington. d. o.
W. ]. CRAIG, Il. M. EMERSON,
Gen. Pas. Agt. Trafnc Manager,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
Marine Corps Orders.

Capt. John G. Muir, on the expiration of
his sick leave of absence, will take station
at the marine barracks. League Island, Pa.
First Lieut.. Albert N. Brunzell, from the
marine barracks, navy yard, Boston. to
command the marine guard on the u. s. s.
Cleveland, relieving First Lieut.. Robert Y.
Rhea.
Capt William H. Clifford from the U. S.
S. Columbia, to command the marine guard
Of the u S. s. Kentucky. relieving Capt.
Melville J. Shaw, who is ordered to take
charge of the recruiting district of st.
Louis.
First Lieut.. Frank C. Lander, from duty
at St Louis to command the marine guard
on the u s. s. Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23
The Evening Star Patterns.
Ladies' Costume.

Nos. 6232-6233 (two patterns). Notwith-
standing that this Is an age Of extraya-
gance in dress, the winter season has ush-
cred in a number of fashions where prac-
teal common sense is evident and which
luckily seem planned for those women who
must wear their clothes for some time and
who cannot follow every within decreed by
suggestions for those who have unlimited
incomes or who can order whatever they
like from the dressmaker or tailor, but for
the women who must do their own sewing
the problem is not an easy one. In the
making of the home gown there is no one
thing which assists one so materially as a
correctly cut pattern to follow With 1t
one is assured of the right width of the
skirt, the proper blouse of the waist and
the proper dimensions of the new sleeves.
With the vogue of soft materials which
ionable shirrings, puffings and ruffies. the
expense of the gown which is made at
home is almost TOO trifiing to consider.
Happily such trimming $ so very effective
and these Self-made gowns leave the wom-
an possessed of more ingenuity than bank
notes independent of expensive trimming.
In the model shown we have a full round
blouse attached to a deep yoke. The cir
cular sleeve puff, attached to a deep cuff,
makes a very pretty sleeve The skirt is
circular style with narrow front gore The
fuilness in the upper part is taken up by
tiny tucks and. being smooth fitting en-
ables the slender woman or her sister of
stouter build to enjoy the mode. The whole
costume is simple to make and no one who
has the slightest knowledge of dressmaking
need have any fear as to the result. Sizes
6Z32-32 to AZ in. bust; 6233-20 to 30 in
waist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-23

UNITED STATES MARSHAIfS SALE.-BY VIR-
tue Of writ of fere facous issued out Of the
clerk office of the Supreme Court of the District
OF Columbia, and to directed, | will sell at
public sale for cash. at the auction rooms of James
W: Ratclihe, Q20 Pa. ave, in this city FRI
DAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY
1905. AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK AN, all the right,
title claim and interest of the defendant Augustus
j. Stabler, In and to the lease on the east 80 IT.
6l2 ins. of original lot in square S7S by a depth
of lsi IT. 10l2 ms, running back to a soft alley
seized and levied upon the interest of said Au-
gustus j. Stabler to said leasehold and sold to
satisfy execution at law No. 4737s in favor of the
p 20 fMrp Buggy Co, incorporated AULICk
CLlFFE. Auctioneer. RALSTON K SIDDONS H.