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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-08-19
POOR SCHOOL GIRLS
SURELY THEY HAVE GRIEvoUs
TROUBLES OF THEIR OWN.

About Cliques-The Girl Who Is mot
in Ny Setback Of Gown Keeps
Girl from Commencement - Over
Dressing az Grammar School Grad
uation-Changing Schools - Moth
ing Finer Than Tussle with Irreg-
ular Verb.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-08-19

Mrs. witte tsweetiy) Pardon mel
Are'fhese chairs engaged,
Mrs. Cleverleigh imore sweetly)-No.
married.
Mrs. witte tstill more sweetiyD--Ah,
Then I'll divorce them Cwalks OF with
one )-The Lounger.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-08-19


Another reason for uueasiness at
school may be summed up in a single
word-clothes school girls should
dress very simply. am not sure that
a uniform would not be + good solu-
ton OF some school problems: Just a
blouse AID a skirt with gymnasium
shoes and cap. There ought 10 be no
great difference IN the dress OF girls
who are about on a plane IN their
work. But once in awhile girls
mother has fads. or is eccentric. and
sends her little daughter TO school
dressed in an odd or conspicuous fash
Ion which is torture TO a sensitive dis
position.
Sometimes a girls poverty inter
feres with her comfort She cannot
dress as well as others do. and at GER
tain times. commencement for in
stance. she must either look inferior
to the rest or stay away from the pub
lie exercise.
Girls are apt 10 be over-dressed al
graduation from the grammar school.
There IS no atness in anything except
great simplicity when a Winsome little
maiden passes from one graded school
10 another. Decked out like little
brides. with tucks and dounces. friIls.
puffs and embroidery. with white
gloves. white slippers. white ribbons.
and an amount OF costly elegance. that
makes needful carriage. the daughter
OF the banker may go TO her gradua-
ton, and 70 one at home suffer a
pang.
Side by side with her in class may
be the bright little daughter OF a clerk
On a small salary. or of a day laborer.
The pride and ambition OF the latter
will deprive his home Of necessaries
and saddle him with debt. but his Flor
encs shall sit by his employers Imo-
gene. and the one shall be dressed as
extensively as the other. / have
known school girls TO forego the grad
Mating hOnors because their parents
could not compete with Others in the
dress that custom has enioined. A
diploma costs too much for a scaaty
purse
The question OF dress should never
be question CT perplexity To the
SCHOOLGIRL. yet II far too often crops
mp and makes trouble Really. a school
girl should have no bother about her
dress. Any plain neat stua that win
do her good service Is the right thing
She requires TO ornaments. Her orna-
ments are the roses IN her cheeks. the
brightness ~ her eyes.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-08-19

some men are lucky players
With academia, fame
And seine must be the umpires.
And simply take the blame.
Washington Star.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-08-19

At Is Sweet E-eough Sometimes.
tnsEeetor-W What are perfumes?
SeAolar-Fhings that smell nice
scents.
lnspeetor-What are they obtaine<
frcm2
sehoIar--An kinds of flowers. and
er--er-silence.
Inspector-silence, What do yos
mean?
scholar-Wby. IL says In my copy
book that silence gives ASCENT
Ally Sloper,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-17
SCHOOL TEACHING IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,
Teaching the English
Language to Sixty.
Nine Tribes.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is the main de-
incidence of the American government
in it's attempt to reconstruct the Philip
pines The school teacher is the head
line performer in the experimental
drama that is being enacted in the eff
fort to civilize the motley tribes who
make up the population of the archi-
pelago We found here sixty-nine kinds
of people speaking thirty-four lam
guages and sixty dialects. The COM
plication became more serious when it
was learned that this mixed mass was
heterogeneous-less than 10 per cent Of
the whole being able to converse in
a common tongue.
1t has been an age-old belief that
the Oriental is incapable of enlight-
enment; that nature intended MIN
merely for a newer of wood and a
drawer of water Those who claimed
to know the East were quick to adj
wise saying that it would be well
but that any effort to develop his mind
would be a waste Of time and money.
Uncle Sam is always ready to profit
by the experience of others, neverthe-
less he is a great believer in the virtue
of the little red school house, and SO
one morning in August. 1901. the army
transport Thomas dropped anchor
in Manila Bay and began to discharge
it's human cargo of $50 American
teachers. 1t was a merry, Hght-heart-
to work out the greatest experiment
any nation in the world has ever at
tempted.
PIONEERING IN THE ORIENT.
Other pedagogues followed until 900
were at work here. The total num-
Der who have come out for service is
1900 It would be difficult to describe
the obstacles which these pioneers met
and overcame. They went into dis
tricts that We're so unsafe no army Of
fcer dare leave his tent without arms.
Having no knowledge of the local ver-
naculars they had absolutely no way Of
making their wants known to those
upon whom they had to depend for
supplies and assistance in their work.
AT first their lives were altogether
lacking in the comforts and convent
ences to which they had been accus-
toned at home. That they remained in
the face of all these discomforts and
dangers is an everlasting tribute to
their courage.
The mortality among the teachers
n
only fifty have died from all causes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-17

More have been lost from drowning
than in any other way, the loss of life
from this source resulting from at
tempts to cross swollen streams and
perilous straits. For a time smallpox
caused one or two deaths a month, and
several have been victims of cholera.
Six teachers have been murdered by
bandits, four having been killed at one
time. They were captured by 1adrones
and carried around for week or more
before being put to death, the OUT
laws seemingly being undecided about
what to do with their prisoners, and
it has occasoned much regret that a
more determined effort was not made
to rescue them.
Another teacher was killed while
leading a party in repulsing a band Of
desperadoes. This brave fellow en-
gagged the leader of the ladrones in
personal combat and both were killed.
Still another pedagogue was waylaid
and killed because it was thought a
book satchel which he was carrying
contained money. None of the teach
ers have been molested within the last
two years, although on a number of
occasions different ones have fallen in
with bandits on their travels.
THE SCHOOL EXPENDITURES.
No small amount of criticism has
been offered by those who believe that
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-17

the government is spending a greater
amount of the revenues on education
than is for the common good of the
people. In 1902 sixteen per cent of
the revenue of the islands were used
in educational work, but this decreas-
ed until last year the proportion was
only eleven per cent. The appropria-
ton for 1905 is 81 ,206, 225, which is about
$40, 900 less than that spent during the
previous year.
Although the amount of the ex-
penditure is being gradually dimin-
ished, the volume of work accomplish
ed is increasing, which fact is due to
the benefits of organization. It is
shown that the amount the government
is investing on education in the Phil
ippines is not excessive when compared
to what is being done in other places
Japan has a population about seven
times that of the Philippines, yet it is
spending sixteen times as much on
general instruction. while more than
one-fourth of the entire revenue of
Porto Rico is being used in furthering
the cause of education.
The school authorities have their
general scheme of education. well for
mulated, and merely ask for time in
which to demonstrate the practicability
of their plans. The total humber of
children in the Philippines between
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Rai1inE siaTea Fer nIaTl1set.

''No slaves. no slaves says the Atlas
Moo impatientIy. sand in the town
they are slow to raise them" / want
an explanation of this strange COM
plant
What do you mean when you say
they are slow to raise themY' ask.
I'm Marrakesh, now" he explains.
dealers buy the healthiest slaves they
can find and raise as many children as
is possible. Then so soon as the chill
dren are old enough to sell they are
sold. and when the pothers grow old
and have no more children they, too,
are sold, but they do not fetch much
then"
The infamy underlying this state
ment takes all words from me, but my
informant sees nothing startling in the
case and continues gravely:
From six years old they are sold to
be companions. and from twelve they
go TO the harems. Prices are good, too
high indeed: $54 must have paid this
afternoon to purchase one, and when
Mulai Mohammed reigned the price
would have been $50. perhaps less. and
for that one would have bought fat
slaves Where there is one caravan
now there were ten OF old times."-
From 1.-The Slave Market at Maria,
kesh." in Harpers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Dining with John Ademr.

In the year 1913 Henry Bradshaw
Pearson, an EngIishman, dfned with
John Adams. second president of the
United States, at the Boston home of
the fine old statesman, then eighty
four years old. The Sunday dinner
was as follows: First course, a pud-
ding made of Indian corn, molasses
and butter; second, veal, bacon, neck
of mutton, potatoes, cabbages, carrots
and Indian beans; madeira wine, of
which each drank two glasses. 1--WE
sat down 70 dinner at o'clock. At 2
nearly all went a second time to church.
For tea we had pound cake, sweet
bread and butter and bread made of
Indian corn and rye. Tea was brought
from the kitchen and handed round by
a neat white servant girl" Pearson
says further. 1.-The establishment of
this political patriarch consists of a
house two stories high, containing, 1
believe. eight rooms, of two men and
three maid servants, three horses and
a plain carriage"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
A Ysr1 Gay Ghost.

mo" said the widow. with a sigh;
Mrs. Buttin does not call upon me
any more She called right after l
moved In here and was perfectly love
ly. She did not know l was a widow,
and l did not take the trouble to en-
tighten her. She spied photograph
Of the late Iamented on the mantel
Your dearly beloved, 1 presume
she said, with smirk, and a nodded
assent.
"she called again a few days later.
After few commonplace remarks she
glanced at that photograph again and
said in poor child how pity you sort
OF way:
MY dear, 1 don't want to make
any trouble, but saw him at the the
ater the other night with big, stout,
blond girl
"'Great heavensr 1 gasped, with af,
fected horror. THAT is strange. /
buried him five years ago. What
would you advise me to doY"
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Mary MaKdaIene,s Grave,

Fifteen thousand pilgrims annually
visit st. Baume, in Provence. not far
from Marseilles. where Mary Magda.
Icne is said to have spent the last thir.
y years OF her life.
The legend. according to the Nouvelle
Revue. runs that Mary AIagdalene came
from JudRa In a small boat with Laza.
rus. Martha. the two Marys and Sa.
lone. bringing with them the body OF
ST. Anne. the head of st. James the
Less and few wee bones of the limo.
cents massacred Ivy King Herod. But
from early ages this story has been dis
puted. and the Able Duchesne, one OF
the most erudite writers on the early
Christian saints and martyrs, cousid.
ers that the relics OF Mary Magdelene
we're probably sent from Constantine
pie about the seventh century. a
Greek breyiary, however, speaks of the
saint - having died at Ephesus.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Rock cnren Home.

A large number of the natives of
Tenerife dwell in rock caves at the
present time, while those who have
made more progress inhabit huts that
resemble the caves.
The dwellings of these islanders are
simply large boxes, often built, II such
term can be used, on the rock. They
have three completed sides without
openings of any kind; the roof is prac
tically fat, except that in the center
it dips little in order to catch the
rain water.
The front of the hut mas door
which forms the only ventilation, and
often the only means by which light
can enter. This door is generally open
and the family sits either inside the
hut quite close to the door or outside
in the open. They usually have kind
OF cellar, which is a natural or arti.
fetal excavation in the rock founda-
ton, and in this cellar they keep pig
Sanitation is decidedly primitive.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Earth shane Tb.orI.,.

1t was Thales who first propagated
the theory that the earth is round, and
Anaximander held that it moved on its
own axis and that the moon shone by
reflected light of the sun. Pythagoras,
Eve centuries before the Christian era,
anticipated Copernicus by saying that
the sun and not the earth was the cen
ter Of the planetary world. But the
Ptoienaic system, which made the
earth the center, superseded the specu-
lations of the philosopher whose opin-
ion concerning wild fowl has gained
wider currency than his more sensible
views. And, in spite of the researches
OF many astronomers of eminence, IT
was left for Copernicus in the sixteenth
century to convince the world of the
truth of the Pythagorean hypothesis.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
IMITATION PEARLS.
The Chemical Process by which They
Are Produced.

The Chemical Process by which They
Are Produced.
Among all precious stones few are
SO extensively initiated as the pearl.
The real article is e silvery white,
tridescent gem extracted from the
pearl oyster. The genuine pearl is
really an unfructified egg of the oys-
ter.
Its imitation is arrived at by chem
ical process. The liquor employed in
the manufacture is called "essence
dorient." The base of this compound
is prepared by throwing into water of
ammonia the brilliant scales of a small
river fish called the blay.
The scales are first carefully washed
and put to soak in water, when the
pearly-like film falls away and forms
sediment at the bottom of the vessel
This sediment is worth to the manu-
facturer E5 an ounce.
White wax of mucllage or gum ara
bic forms part of the mixture proper
for the more important and expensive
limitations, such as those made to imi-
tate the rare oriental pearls which
fetch fabulous prices.
The emerald is another stone which
is cleverly initiated. A perfect emerald
is the rarest stone in the world, though
the trade ranks it after the ruby and
the diamond. The best emeralds come
from Peru. the limitations from France.
The real article becomes electric by
friction, and herein lies the difference
between it and the imitation.
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E1ce.. md nencienex.

Error and evil are located in deficien.
cy or excess. Even excess in virtue is
evil, an excess of humility being alb
jectness; of courage, rashness; of pru-
dence, cowardice; of patience, indiffer.
ence; of economy, parsimony; of gener-
osity. waste; Of Difference. obsequious-
ness. And so also an excess of learn
ing is pedantry; of ease. Incidence; of
comfort, self indulgence;-of zeal, IA
naticism. Right and justice are found
in moderation. in the golden mean, in
the true balance, between OVERRIDING
and undertaking, going too fast and too
slow.-Frorn Balance: The Fundamen.
tai Verify" by Orlando ]. Smith.
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There are hundreds of Point Pleasant
people similarly situated.

Can there be any stronger proof of.
fered than the evidence of Point
Pleasant residents9 After you have
read the following, quietly answer the
question.
w d dimes, steamboat captain,
residing at $40 Wand St, says: 81
cannot say too much in favor OF
Doan's Kidney Pills. Through expo
sure in my occupation as an Ohio
River steamboat captain contracted
a severe form of Kidney trouble and
for years / doctored but unsuccess-
fully. The pains across the small OF
my back and through my kidneys
were almost unbearable. The kidney
secretions were much discolored,
scalding and irregular. Seeing the
good results others obtained from the
use of Doan's Kidney Pills, called
at g. w. NJ. ooffs drug store and
procured box. They worked like a
charm with me. gained relief after
but u few doses and when I had fin
ished the second box / felt myself a
new man. Doan's Kidney Pills to
me proved a useful friend"
For sale by all dealers, price so cts.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y,
sole agents for the q. 8.
Remember the name DOANS and
take no other.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Naturr,n sveet Kefr.,n.

A former assistant secretary of the
interior who lives in Washington bears
the same name as a poet who halls
from Pennsylvania. The ex-oficial re
ceived letter which he considers a re-
markabIe epistIe. The writer confound-
cd him with the poet and wrote:
Dear friend and statesman: 1 rite you
the earliest DAFT to be so cind as to do me
a fafor- l hat trid ali cinds of paten
medisin for hart decease an no avail
read your little pome on Hart deces be-
ginin
THE hart which sad tumultus beets.
with throbs of keenest pain
viii oft recover it's defects
Thro' naturs sweat refrane.''
1 hat never trid an injun doc but hat
took all cinds of CRIBS. 1 now ask you to
send me by return male 2 bottles of your
medsin naturs sweat refrane. Send to -.
- Postoffice Pa.
P 81 will sen prise by return male.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29

If trout are large enough they, like
pike, will seize almost any living thing
that comes in their way when hungry.
l have one pond in which are two
Islands. On one of these are some
farmyard rats. On one occasion a full
grown rat started to swim across. Be.
fore it had got halfway a twelve
pound trout rose and took It under
l have given them young mice and
rats when the farmers have been
thrashfng. They are very fond of these
and they take the largest frogs with
avidity, but l have never seen them
eat toad. 1 have known them to
take young water hens, and young
birds of any kind thrown on the water
are instantly made away with.-Lon-
don Field
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Make the breath as swee-

Make the breath as sweet as a
1859 by curing Indigestion, and
Sour Stomach with Kodol Dyspep
sia Cure. A pleasant, palatable. It.
constructive tissue building digef.
tant 3 L Babcook, Amherst. Mir I
says: 81 have taken great many
remedies for indigestion but have
found nothing equal to Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure Kodol digests what
you eat. cures Indigestion, dyspep
STA, sour stomach. belohing heart
burn and all stomach troubles
Great care is used in the prepare.
ton of Kodol-the greatest digest
ant that has ever been discovers
Sold by all druggists
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Taken With CramLs

Vim. Kirmee. a member of the
bridge gang working near Little
polt was taken suddenly i'll Thurs
day night with cramps and kind
of cholera His case was SO severe
that he had to have the members
of the crew wait upon him and Mr.
Clifford was called and consulted
He told them he had medicine il
the form of Chemberlain's Colo
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
that he thought would help hin
out and accordingly several doses
were administered with the result
that the fellow was able to BIZ
around next day. The incident
epeske quite highly of Mr.. Gifford'l
medicines -Elkader, Iowa, Argus
This remedy never fails KeeE
it in your home. it may save life
For SIDE by g. w. NJ. Hocf
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
The Moon and tbe we,,h.r

The moon is the most powerful
agent in producing the tides on the
earth. 1t also produces some slight
variations in the earth's magnetism.
So far as science has been able to in
yestgate there is absolutely no change
In the weather which can be attribut-
ed to the moon, although half or more
OF mankind seem to believe that the
moon does have some control over the
weather. All such beliefs, including
the time for planting gardens and for
going fishing, are mere superstitions,
the survivals Of an age oe lsnoranco-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Sick Headache.

For several years my wife waf
troubled with what physicians
called siok headache of very SO
we're character She dootored with
several eminent physicians and al
great expense, only to grow worse
until she WAS unable to do any
kind of work About year age
she began taking Chamberlain
Stomach and Liver Tablets and
today weighs more than she ever
did before and is real WE'LL" says
Mr.. Geo E. Wright of New Lon
don, New York. For sale by q
w. M. Huoff,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Silent Great Men.

The list of silent great men is long
one. Especially is this true of noted
warriors. WalIenstein, Wellington. Won
Moltke. Grant. Marlborough, Charlie
imagine. Hannibal. Caesar. all gave their
orders in as few words as possible and
demanded like brevity from their sub
Ordinates. 1t is said that Marlborough
never allowed more than a minute for
verbal report, and it is told of Won
Moltke that when an aid-de-camp
brought written message that France
had declared war the great general
simply ordered it filed in the second
pigeOnhole on the right, first tier" In
that pigeonhole were complete plans
for the successful campaign that fol-
lowed
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Grotesque Costumen.

Both in Mostar. the capital of Bos-
mia. and in Sarajevo, the capital of
Herzegovina. the attention OF the trav-
eler- is arrested at every turn by the
varied costumes of the natives-veiled
Mohammeian women with henna
stained nails: men in red fezzes. enor-
NOUS blue trousers and zouaye gar
ments; young girls in almost trans
parent white garments. beneath which
voluminous trousers droop over fiat
so.ed. peak toed shoes of deer iIiue
profusely decorated. wit. red leather,
and yet other women whose headgear
is a cross between coal scuttle bon
net and chimney cowi. horrible to
look upon and suggestive of suffocation
and unapproachable prudery. Though
these countries are ruled by Austria.
the people are essentially oriental
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
Gum R.rre1. Fron, Na,I..

Horseshoe nails kicked about the
roads of the world by horses innumera-
BILE are far from the useless fragments
we might think them. Gunmakers tell
us there is no iron so well fitted for
their purpose as that derived from
horseshoe nails and similar worn frag-
ments. The nails. made originally of
the best stuff ObtainabIe, receive from
the constant pounding of the horses
feet on hard surfaces a peculiar an
healing and tOughening. making them
"A most perfect substance for the man.
ufacture of the finest gun barrels.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-29
saved From Terr1ble Deatb

The family of Mrs NJ. L. Bobbit,
of Bargerton, Tenn saw her dying
and were powerless to save her,
The most skiifull physicians and
every remedy used, failed. while
consumption was slowly but surely
taking her life In this terrible
hour DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption turned despair
into Joy. The fret bottle brought
immediate relief and it's continued
use completely cured her. It's the
most certain cure in the world foI
all throat and lung troubles. Guar.
anteed bottle free at Hooff's drug
store