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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25
what the Moon Can Tell.

A clear moon indicates frost.
A dull looking moon means rain
A single halo around the moon
indicates storm.
If the moon looks high, cold
weather may be expected.
If the moou looks low down
warm weather is promised
The new moon on her back al
ways denotes wet weather.
A double halo around the moon
means very boisterous weather.
If the moon changes with the
wind in the east, then shall We
have bad weather.
If the moon is bright and clear
when three days old. fine weather
is expected.
The first Mormon temple ever
erected in Europe has just been
completed in Stockholm.
From the West Virginia School
Journal.
/ looked at my watch and it was
about eleven O'Clock. In about an
| hour 1 looked again and the hands
had exactly changed places What
time was it at each observation?
The country school is not full
filling its mission unless it makes
the children more in love with
country life. It's main purpose
ought to be to fit the child for the
life he is to live when he comes tc
be man.
The killing of an aIbino bear il
reported from Nicholas county
Some hunters had sought refuge
from storm in a cave and came
upon the bear, which in color re-
sembles the polar species, bat had
pink eyes.
Austria has 100000 divorced
persons most of whom desire te
marry again,
A locomotive will consume ar
average of s., 900 worth of coal PEI
annum.
The value Of the crops raised il
this country last year amounted t.
Iover So, 600, 600. 900.
You can always tell a milk trair
lby its cow-catcher.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

The biggest sheep ranch on
earth is said to belong to Sir Jer-
vaise Clarke of Australia. 1t CON.
tains 100000 sheep.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

The Memphis Soimiter says
that the recently invented ootten
auto-pioker is to be tried there
The loaing men who auto pick,
but don't, ought to be tried in the
police courts for vagranoy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Ifthere is any person to whom
you feel dislike, that is the person
of whom you ought never to speak.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

People can be much more sweet
tempered after a fist fight than an
argument with their tongue.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

A girl takes a lot of trouble to
prove to people that it is no trouble
at all for her to keep her complex
ton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

One of the encouraging things
in our politics at present is the
high stand taken by number of
governors of States in their annual
or inaugural messages for the
elimnation of corruption from pub
lie life. and for honest elections.
The necessity for the better safe
guarding of the peoples interests
in the matter of granting fran
ohlses and of an economical and
efficient government, and also OF
protecting the ballot, has been ac.
centuated by the experiences OF
Pennsylvania, Missouri and other
States, and the faot has been pro.
perly taken note of by a number OF
governors. In an address a few
days ago Governor Oummins. OF
Iowa, also extoIled the press fol
its work in exposing public cor.
ruption, thereby taking radically
different stand from our own re-.
markable governor. who is in 8
GLASS all by himself in believing
that there is no need for reform
Pittsburg Post
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Flatter the vain, seek fattery
from the modest.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Some men waste a lot of valu.s
able time explaining their actions.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Harrisville. Ritohie. county. has
500 year to pay a man to ring
the curfew bell. but hasn't any
money for policeman. The child
rem pay no attention to the bell as
the curfew law lis not enforced.
Such a foolishness.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

A herd of cattle recently attack
ed an automobile near San Fran.
DISCO. Some of these days the
horse will realize his danger and
there will be trouble for the ben
zine go.carts.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

A few nights ago Baltimore
policeman arrested sleepwalker
Who had wandered away from home
in his night clothes. On arousing
from his slumber the prisoner
queried: Surely you are not
going to look me up. I can't be
responsible for the condition you
found me IN. 1 am a somnambu-
list" II can't help what church
you belong to-" replied the cop,
.'if you belong to every church in
the oity you can't walk the streets
of Baltimore in your shirt-tail."
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

AHme Iaoie IN oHeot NOV. &1s lBOls
Pullman Buffet Parlor Car now IN ser.
vice on trains IA and ZIG north, and trains
700 and 7l9 south.
NORTH BOUND.
9:z5 a. m. New York Express.
Daily. For Parkersburgs Mheeling,
Pittsburg, Baltimore, Waahtnasi
ton, Philadelphia, New York rni
all points North and Fest. Rms
solid TO Pittshurg. Pullman
Buffet PArlor Car.
Daily Elk. For Park kersburg, Wleeiine
Sunday. Pittsburg, Buffalo, Baltimore,
Mashington, New York and All
Holid to PittsburE. Pullman
Buffet Parlor Car.
Parior Car.
$500 p. m. Accom1odRttion.
Daily. For ParkersburR, sistersyille
ersburg and intermediate points
Sunday only.
SOUTH HOUND.
1912 n. m. mmOdatfon.
Daily For Huntington, Renova, Gin
cinnati and intermediRI points.
l:45 p. Ohio Valley Express.
Daily TX. For Huntington, Kenova, Iron
Sunday. ton, Portsmoptel, Cincinnati and
all points South and West.
Pullman Buffet ana 1-arlnr Car.
500 p. m. Kenoya Express.
Daily For Kenova and intarmedjat,
points. Pullman Buffet Parlor car
W. @. JORDAN, Agent.
u. r. MARTIN. NJ. p. T., Baltimore. Nd
J. McC. MARTISs TIP a, ParkersburG. .va
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

When you are arguing With q
fool, just remember the fool is do
ing the same thing.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

The girl who is keeping her
hands white and wearing her
good clothes every day in hopes
that she viii capture millionaire
husband would really have a bet
ter sho, of ofsuooeeding if she would
go in the kitchen and help her
mother wash the dishes. A wise
man hesitates to take silk. Glad
daughter from calico Glad mother
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Everything comes to him who
waits, except the waiter.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

The Indian population is now
slightly increasing in the United
States. The prophets of twenty
years ago who said the Indian
would soon be a creature of the
past didn't seem to know.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Now it is claimed that physioi.
ans have discovered a method of
causing looked jaws to relax That's
fine. and will they next look for
somo way of causing relaxed jaws
to look.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Admirers of Mark Twain be-
lieve he has never written any thing
more effective than the little verse
he had out in the modest block OF
marble which marks the resting
place of his wife in Woodlawn
Cemetery, Elmira, New York
Warm summer sun,
Shine kindly here.
Warm Southern wind,
Blow softly here
Green sod above.
Lie light, lie ligat,
Good night, dear heart,
Good night. good night.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Mayor George B. Mcclellan
of New York walked down the
steps of the city hall the other
evening and bought paper from
newsboy. While waiting for
his change he said; well, my
little man, how is business to-
day." The little merchant look
ed up and answered, "On de
0um." The mayor thought for
moment and finally said: "Keep
at it, my little man, You have
a chance to become President
some day The little fellow
answered Immediately: Dat
might be SO, but I'll sell me
chances for a nickle right now"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25
Think Over These.

Why are all cowpaths crookedi
How old must grapevine be
before it begins to bearp
What wood will bear the great
est weight before breaking3
Can you tell why leaves turn up
side down just before rainP
You can see any day white
horse. but did you ever see white
oolt3
Why does a horse eat grass back
ward and cow forwardP
Why does a hop vine wind one
way, and a bean vine the other?
Where should chimney be the
larger, at the top or bottom, and
whyf
How many different kinds of
trees grow in your neighborhood
and what are they good for?
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Some old stories become new
by change of venue, time or per-
son. A writer in the New
York Press attributes 20. K" to
John Jacob Astor, who, the writer
says made it the abbreviation of
his method of spelling nOrl Kor-
reot t" As the archives of the
United States Government con-
tain Revolutionary papers. in
dorsed 10. K" by Major General
Israel Putnam, in his reports to
his military superiors we may be-
lieve that the Press writer has
been trying an old shirt on a new
man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

James w. Buck, of Portland,
Maine who is IS years old and
declares he will live to be a CEN
tenarian, was a caller at the
White-house the other day. Mr..
Buck says he has a medicine that
will keep him alive for twenty
five years. This is the formula:
81 buy one pound of EPSON salts
and add to this five tablespoon
fuIs of sulpher and the juice of
four large lemons, dsssolving the
sulphur and salts in the juice.
Then 1 ponr in about a quart of
distilled water or any other kind
of water. I put this away in
bottle and when 1 feel little
poorly [ take some for few
days.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Five hearses, three in black and
two in white Good hacks, plenty
of horses. good men.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

A locomotive will consume an
average of s., 900 worth of coal per
annum.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Instead of doing things to. day
the wise man did them yesterday.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

The lawyers of San Frisco have
organized a club whose object is
to reduce the expenses of litiga-
ton. They will doubtless take all
the money saved by charging lar.
ger fees
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Austria has 100000 divorced
persons most of whom desire to
marry again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

1 have in stock full line of Me.
talic Caskets and Zinc and Copper
lined. A full line of Metallic Grave
Vaults--I make full line of Couch
Oaskets in all styles. My child
ren's Caskets are mnch finer than
any others and all new designs, and
cannot be bought outside.
L WILL PAY
all ferriages, furnish horse feed.
give you your dinner and deliver
all goods free of charge Drive
your teams over, I will pay your
fare by rail or street car, give you
better attention and save you
money.
Having doubled the Undertak.
ing in Mason county caused me to
buy property and build in Mason
City. an Undertaking room and
Office, and fine stock of finished
woork for the Mason county trade
will be kept on hand. with a fine
Hearse, Undertakers Wagon, Hack
and Four Horses. You will find g
man to wait on you and give
prompt attention to all customers
at Mason City and the surround.
ing country. At New Haven Mr..
VIM. Allen will attend to the trade.
1 nave on hand 100000 Perfec-
ton 18in. Washington Red Cedar
Shingles at reduced price 20O,-
600 No. 2 Washington Red Cedar
16 in. shingles at 81 SO per thou
trnd. 100000 White Pine 16 in.
shingles at reduced price. 15O,-
000 White Hemiock shingles lSin.
No. 1, at 81 90 per thousand. 1OO.-
600 PIastering Lath at q reduced
price.
Hardware. Paints, Sash and
Doers.
Is. r. BIGG8,
PoMEROY. OHIO.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

There were only 100000 gold
ooins struck at the Philadelphia
mint last year. That may explain
Rhy We did not to see any of them
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Thevalue Of the drops raised in
this country last year amounted to
over s.. 600. .OOO. 900.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

BilI-Did you have your head
shingled when you were lad?
Jill-No, not my head.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

You can always tell a milk train
BY its cow-catoher.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Henry F. Chase. who killed a
man in Ripley,this State Sonic time
ago, wants to get out on bail be-
cause confinement in Jail is injur-
GUS to his health. He seems to be
more careful of his wn health than
be was of his victims
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Drinking cold water neither
makes man rich nor in debt. nor
his wife widow; but this mighty
fine ale of his will do all this for
him, and make him a beast while
ne lives. and wash him away fhia
grave before his time. O.: H
geon.
B & o detectives are endsayor-
ing to run to earth a gang of
thieves who have been systemati-
cally robbing the various stations
between this city and Point Pleas
ant. They have been operating for
several weeks and have secured
great deal of booty. 1t is believed
by those who reside in the vicinity
that the work is being done by
river rats" who live in the house.
boats along the Ohio river and who
nave heretofore given the farmers
\ great deal of annoyance by their
differing propensities. Hunting
ton Advertiser,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25
BALTIMORE s. OHIO q. R.
COHIO RIVER DIyIsIONa

Time Table In eneot Nov. "a, 1904.
Pullman Buffet Parlor Car now in ser.
vice on trains IA and ZIG north, and trains
700 and 7l9 south.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Electricity, for the frat time in
the history of the world, was used
in the defenses. Hundreds of
miles of wire entangIements sur
rounding the SCORES of forts that
formed the double line of defenses
of Port Arthur were charged with
electricity, heavy currents passing
through the wires at all times.
Esrly in the siege the Japanese
discovered this and, within few
weeks, the American Rubber Trust
mad shipped hundreds of dozens of
rubber gloves to Japan. Using
these the Japanese sappers were
enabled to tear away the live
wires.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

General Nelson A. Miles has
written q strong letter protesting
against the erection of monu-
mentS to Frederick the Great in
Washington. The ground of his
,bject is that Frederick was not a
,hampion of liberty. bnt q mon
lrch. General Miles is not alone
ais criticism.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

The first Mormon temple ever
erected in Europe has just been
completed in Stockholm.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Ffeddy-Grandpa. did you once
have hair like snow?
Grandpa-Yes, my boy.
Freddy-Well. who shoveled ii
off!
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

Oliver Wedall Holmes said:
"The human race is divided into
two classes-those who go ahead
and do something. and those who
sit still and inquire why wasn't
it done the other way"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-01-25

On the night when Wilkes Booth
entered Ford's theatre, in Wash
ington, and shot President Lin
coin. his horse was held in an alley
in the rear of the playhouse by a
boy who received a dollar for his
service. The boy was John L.
Seamark, whose death is announc-
ed in Washington For many
years he had made living selling
cough drops in the national capital
A young lady of this town re-
GENTLY received the following note
and is heartbroken:
you needn't expect me up to
yure house no moar sunda nights.
"A girl that Leaves taffee stiokeh
on the parlour chairs for a feller to
sit on amt no gurl for me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-05
CALLS 1T VICIOUS.
John R. BIuIvane Doesn't Approve of
Fight on Standard.

John R. Mulvane does not approve of
the many attacks made on the Stand
ard Oil company. He believes many of
them are unjust and vicious, and he
fears that the agitation will be carried
to an extreme.
Il am very sorry to see all these at
tacks on Rockefeller" said Mr. Null
vane today. I think a great deal Of
this agitation is all wrong. Rockefeller
is not a candidate for office-he is not
asking for anything, and he should not
be subjected to all this criticism.
ut is true that the Standard Oil COM
pany has made mistakes" continued
Mr.. MuIvane, but do not know that
they were Rockefeller's mistakes. I do
not know that he runs the Standard Oil
company. The company made a big
mistake here in Kansas. We had that
state refinery measure beaten two
weeks before it was passed, but after
the Standard Oil company tried to bull
doze US we were all for it.
These attacks on Mr.. Rockefeller
are vicious and unjust. They are made
on him simply because he has been sue
cessful in business. The question in
my mind is, how far will it gO2 Who
will be attacked next, and who next2
You can't tell how far this sort of thing
viii spread"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-05

There was a time, Robert - she be-
gan, after the silence had lasted ten
long minutes, there was a time
"Oh. nonsensel" he, INTERRUPTED. ~
suppose you are going to say that
there was time when I talked
twaddle."
There was a time, Robert, when
you. said you couldn't live without
mot on your nfe4'r
But you did say so"
Il deny it. 1 may have been a fool,
but not such a fool as that"
Robert, you wrote me that if I did
not promise to be yours you would
commit suicide. Yes. you did, and
Never! Never in this world! once
or twice when l had a headache ]
might have written you that I was
lonely or wished / was dead, but as for
threatening suicide on your account
it's all nonsense! You want new
hat, and because I can't spare the
money just now you bark back to thai
old nonsense. - 9i $
'RObert!" 2
Eyes, that IS my name"
You wrote me and threatened sui
'''T deny it If youth produce one
single letter in which I Threatened
suicide III give you the money for the
hat Come, now
They had been married seven long
years, and if anybody had wondered
if the wife had kept the old love let
ters the husband would have bet a
hundred to one against 1t. The wife
rose UP and left the room a moment
When she returned there was a pack
age in her hand Slowly and with
dignity she united the string and
passed over twenty-onee letters. Each
one was duly labeled in red ink:
fC IN
eide" He took them and ran his eye
over the first two, and then with a
groan of despair he handed over three
ten-dollar bills. The wife had care
fully preserved each and every epistle
of course she had. They always do.
It's a little way they have of getting
their own way and of getting even in
after life.-M. Quad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-05
NEWMAN IN RACE.
Shawnee County Clerk Announces
Candidacy for Auditor.

County Clerk A. Newman, who has
been looked upon for some time as an
aspirant for the position of state
auditor, has finally SHE'D his castor
into the ring and has announced him
self as a candidate for the Republican
nomination on the state ticket in 1905.
From the present indications New
mans candidacy will mean three
cornered contest for the Shawnee dele
cation to the state convention, for 7,
A. McNeal will likely want the dele
cation to secure the nomination for
state printer and J. S. West is looked
upon as a probable candidate for at
torney general and he will want the
Shawnee delegation solid.
The making of the next state Re
publican ticket is a long time off but
already the candidates are coming out,
with the warm spring weather, and
button-holing and medicine making
has commenced.
County Clerk Newman will run on
the record he has made as clerk and
as he is well known over the state he
will keep up the temperature on his
end of the triangle if there is a three
cornered contest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-05

third basemen dashed to the sack.
Mighty few have anything on the tall
fellow at that, even allowing for Lake
Erie enthusiasm.
Flick. Bradley and Turner are the
heaviest hitters among the Cleveland
players in the exhibition games at At
lanta- Larry will come down the
stretch alone when the real race is be-
ing run.
Manager McGraw has wiped out the
lazy streak in Third Baseman Sammy
Strangs and the former Giant and Troll
ley-dodger is again showing good base
ball qualities for the National cham
pions.
Dick Padden says he enteFtaina no
fears that any of the youngsters viii
Louis team Sir Richard has seen en-
bryo Lajoies, McPhees, and Pfeffers
come and go, so he is not worried.
The latest from Memphis, where the
Giants have been playing, is that Out
fielder George Brown covered the thirty
yards from home to first base in three
seconds fiat. 1t all depends upon who
holds the watch.
Walter Clarkson, the last of the fam
Gus family to adopt baseball as a pro
fesslon, looks very good this spring. His
work with the New York Americans In
the south is such that there is no dan
ger that he will not be a. fixture.
Some of the major league teams in
the south have divided the squads into
two teams and sent them transforming
for the purpose Of making a. pot of
money, but so far they have gotten only
pains for their trouble. The south seems
to be getting too much spring baseball,
and consequently the games do not at
tract as large crowds as was anticipat-
ed weeks ago.
Outhelder George Stone, who was Sc
Iected for the Washington team, but
switched to Boston and later traded to
St. Louis, has done but little stickworlx
in the practice games of the Browns.
American League players predict that
Stone viii not last long in the major
league. for he will be up against star
pitchers all season and unless he bats
well will be Of no use to the Browns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-05
GRAND JURY RESUMES.
Investigation of Beef Trust to Proceed
Without interruption.

Chicago. April 5.-After a recess of
three and a half days the federal
grand jury today resumed investiga-
ton of methods employed by the meat
packers. The sixty-sixth witness was
called to the stand. With the excep-
ton of the Sunday adjournments the
jury, it is said, will now proceed stead
lily. to the end of the inquiry. The
United States attorney has announced
that May Is would probably see the
close. It is said the hearing of the
plea and the demurrer of Thomas J.
Connors, the indicted superintendent
of the Armour company, will be dis
posed of before the jury presents 9th
err true bills involving persons on
charges of tampering with the wit
nesses.