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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13
COINAGE OF SILVER DOLLARS.
Has Ceased For Ever Unless Some
New Law is Enacted.

Have you any silver dollars? If
you have and wish to keep them
you had better deposit them in a
oistern, fill it up and then go over
the ground with plow and harrow
For there is remote chance that
the supply may be exhausted, es
the coinage of this particular kind
of medium of exchange has ended.
Director George E. Roberts,. of
the United States mint, in his an
nual report, announces that all sill
yer bullion purchased under the
aots of 1878 and 1890 is now gone,
the accounts with it closed and the
coinage of the silver dollar is at an
end. unless in the future new legis-
lat1on upon the subject is passed
He says:
"The silver dollar was originally
authorized by the act of April 2,
1892, the first coinage act of the
United States, The first dollar
pieces were struck at the mint in
Philadelphia in 1898. At that
time French and Spanish silver
coins were a legal tender in the
United States and in common cir
culation. AS they were more OF
less abraded, they drove the new
and full weight Unsted States
coins out of circulation and caused
them to be exported almost as soon
as they left the mint. As result
of this movement, President Madi-
son issued an erder on May 1, 1906
in which he ordered, no coins big.
ger than helt dollar coined.
Following this order, not anoth.
er dollar was struck for 30 years
In 1886. dollar coinage was resum.
ed. but only 1000 pieces were is
sued. In 1887 and 1888, none
were issued. The acts of 1884 anc
1887, revising the coinage laws
undervalued siluer as compared
with gold, and the annual ooinege
of silver in the succeeding years
except for change. was small, never
reaching $l.0oo.0oO until 1871
The sct of February IL, 1878, drop
psd the silver dollar from the lisr
Of coins and none was issued il
1874. 1875, 1876. or 1877.
THE act of February %. 1878
authorized and directed the secre
tary of the treasury to purchase al
the market price not less than 50,
100000 worth of silver bullion pei
month, nor more than 81, 900. .OOC
worth per month, and to coin tn,
same on Government account
These purchases continued unit
the act of July IA. 1890. went int
effect. The total coinage nndei
1.-The act of 1878 was $S7S. l66. 1872
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NO l6

Many q good hearted girl Is sent
10 life of shame by the persecu-
tion of q wicked tongned woman.
She 10 first misrepresented. her
motives are impugned, her actions
misconstrued, her friends are cans-
ed to desert her. psople begin to
view her askance, TO shun her, then
to openly sn1b her, and she is aofu-
ally driven into wickedness because
those who ought TO help and pro-
tect her become her viTulent enc
mics. Then the vicious and gossipy
canse of her shame pirates to every.
one about how much she has done.
for the church and the cause Of
Christ The. judgment will even
up many things that are violently
wrong here and there be those who
are in the foremost seats on the
Sabbath, and who draw up their
garments when passing q weaker
sister on the street. for fear of con-
tamination, who will have q harder
sentence at the judgment than the
one who has been cast beyond the:
pale Of our social bounds. The
pity is that the world doesn't pass
it's sentence now, for it is often
richly deserved.-Bsptist Banner.
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upon which a seigniorage of $50,
S87 ,532 was reaohed.


The act of 1890 provided for
the purchase at the market price
of 4,500,000 ounces, or SO much
thereof as might be offered in each
month at the market price, not ex.
ceeding one dollar for 37l and 25-
hundredths grains of pure silver.
Under this act. which was repealed
November 1, 1893. $187, ,O28.3 .345 in
dollar pieces and $33.11S,575 in
subsidiary coins have been issued.
and $64, ,277, ,453 has been realized as
seigniorage.
The total issue of silver dollars
from 1893 to the cessation of dol
lar coinage, has been $758, ,303.84
The aggregate of all seigniorage on
coinage under the acts of 1878 and
1890 was LIZA. 1856. The aver
age purchase price of silver bought
in the fiscal year 1878, was $1.504
per fine ounce and the average
price in the last year purchases
were made, the fiscal year 1904,
was 73.1 cents per ounce. The
bullion value of silver dollar in
1873 was 93.1 cents and in 1894,
56.5 cents"
The stock of gold in the world
on January 1, 1905, in use as money
is estimated in round numbers al
$6,o0O,OOO,0OO. The amount actu.
ally in sight in reporting banks
and Government treasuries. was
So. 1864, 100000.
The domestic coinage. for the
year amounted to S91, ,172. .729, and
to 152, ,422. .SO2 pieces. The coin
age for the Philippine Islands wal
80. 800 526 pieces; for Panama, g..
435 and for San Salvador. 100000
pieces; total coinage. 189,097, 1875
pieces.
The original deposits of gold Al
the mints and assay offices amount
ed to S143. 379,y69
A summary of all earnings and
expenditures. including seignior
age, on silver and minor coins
elbows that the total earnings anc
Igqins of the mint service exceeded
expenditures by s.. 2s9,o19.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13
The Mothers Duty.

How many articles we read
condemnlng farm life, and the
life of the farmers wife. Well, /
am one of those overworked far
mer's wives, but / must say we
are not ashamed of our calling.
We work, SO do our city sisters;
we are happy and hope they are
too. We enjoy the beauties of
nature and have the love of our
husband and children. Society
does not crowd out home, pleas
ure and home happiness. We
enjoy our cows and chickens and
ducks, our garden and our flow
ers. We have plenty of room to
cultivate flowers, and time too.
What woman would change? We
are thankful of our beautiful
country and our children, those
precious blossoms given into our
care. How we want them to
grow to pure manhood and wo-
manhood, and where can we have
a better place to raise them than
on the farm? Let us never think
of giving up farm life on account
of work, for who want to help
their husbands will find work
anywhere they go. / have tried
hoth, and I would not go back to
the city lite for any consideration
Let us enjoy our life and try to
make those around US happy, cul-
tivate loving disposition it we
do not already have it, and make
our home one that husband and
children will want to spend th ell
evenings in with wife and moth
er, and they will if that home is
what it should be. Let US have
plenty ofgood reading and music
No home should be without mus.
ic, nothing is more refining fol
either boys or girls. Let the boys
play the organ or piano as vel
as the girls and see how they en-.
joy it and see if you do not have
your boys at home in the even.
ings instead of loafpg at the
store. Do not let them form thai
habit. Spend time and money
and make home mole attractive
than such p aces, invite company
to your home to spend the even
ing often, not always your OWL
company but your children's com
pany.-Pansy in National Stock
man and Farmer.
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A Grand Old Man.

In the general rejoicing that the
people of Charleston will do over
the completion of the Coal and
Coke railroad place must be given
4he grand old man to whose bust.
ness acumen. energy and activity
the completion of the great enter
prise is due. When Senator Davis
purchased the Elk river road sever.
al years sgo, then built up Elk az
far as Big Otter, it was supposed
it was done as a matter of specula
ton, and that it would soon be
turned over to the Wabash, which
system had then but lately secured
the West Virginia Central. Even
when ssSenator Davis announced
that the road was not for sale, and
that he would extend it to con
nection with the Roaring Creek
road, making a line clear through
to Elkins, it was supposed that he
was dealing in romance. for it could
hardly be believed tina, he would
at his age enter upon the arduoue
work of building such a line OF
road. But that is exactly what he
did. and now it lies across the state
from northeast to southwest like
bands of steel binding the two SEQ
tions together. and graphing tc
the hearts if the people of both the
typical American citizen whose
genius thought ont the plan and
whose courage accomplished it
Senator Davis, Charleston belongs
to you, come down and enter int
your own.-C Charleston Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

Domestic Drudgery.


Mrs. Russell Sage says there il
an imense amount of feminine
talent and energy wasted in the
world every day, not beOause of the
indifference or laziness of woman
for she is eager to do. to accom.
pIish, to get out into the field OF
life and achieve for herself and her
kind-but because che simply does
not know how.
Mrs Sage contends, in a maga.
zine article, that one of the most
important movements of the day
in the reawakening of woman. the
building her up on a new basis of
self help and work for others.
"It is absurd. I she says. to sug-
gest that women who have a talent
for music. or literature, or art.
should Sc enslayed By domestic
7dFudgsfy while the struggle for
the civilization of the world is
going on
There is chanoe that Mrs. Sage
is in error. The wife of a multi
millionaire, whose idoa of doing
good in the world consists chiefly
in giving away money that she
does not know what else to do with,
o4n hardly be in full sympathy and
have a thorough understanding of
woman in general
The average woman is not so
anxious about getting out in the
world and doing for others es she
is about doing. with insufficient
means and strength, all that needs
to be done for he'd own family.
"Enslaved by domestic drudg-
cry" has a hard and forbidding
sound. But the fact remains that
the vast majority of women are so
"ensIaved" voluntarily and gladly.
finding in the manifold domestic
duties, upon which the happiness
of the home is founded, not only
their highest pleasure and profit,
but their highest. truest mission.
The woman who does faithfully
andcheerfully the duties of her
home need not worry about her
mission"
She is at the very source of civ-
ilization and human development.
She who makes happy home
a living spring or honor and right
endeavor-does more for the world
than she who establishes a great
art institute.
She may not see the full result
of her work. Like the cloud that
is dissipated in rain, like lhe rain
that disappear in the steam, and
like the stream that is lost in the
ocean, she may feel that her mis-
sion has been naught; but such are
the missions that are worth while,
and the while time endures.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

The Judges Of the Court of Ap-
peals of this State now don the
judicial robe when occupying the
bench. It is told that when they
came out the first time in their
robes and started up the steps to
their respective seats Brannon j.
stumbled (not the first time. We
imaginel and. in catching himself
to avoid a fall. ioaught hold of
Judge Poffenbargsr's robe ripping
the fine gros grain silk garment
nearly off the back of the Point
Peasant iurist Greenbrier Inle-
pendent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

were made to the recent atrocities
IN Russia only as one of the trials
which have beset the Jewish peo.
pie. but which have not daunted
their spirit OF stopped their march
to success where political condi.
tions have permitted. Former
President Cleveland was the first
speaker.
The letters from President
Roosevelt and Vice President Fair
banks were next read.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

It has been semi. ofioially an
nouncsd that L. B. Dellicker. clerk
in the o. S. Circuit Court of West
Virginia, who has held the posi-
tion for over thirty years is to re-
tire 1t is said that United States
Judges Goff and Dayton will select
his successor before the first of the
year. The position is a very de.
sirable one. and while it is really
Judge Goff's appointment. he will
consult with Judge Dayton.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13
Rural Free Delivery.

Farmers who are interested in
the rural free delivery routes do
we'll to read notice that has been
sent out by the postofice depart
ment, concerning public roads on
which carriers are compelled to
travel. Every winter there is trou-
BILE because the carriers cannot
make quick delivery of mail. The
notice is sent out this early in
'oIder to give the road overseers
time to prepare for winter 1t is:
"The department looks to the
patrons of the rural free delivery
service who are receiving benefits
of the service, to use their utmost
personal endeavors, and also to
exert their influence with the road
supervisors. or with those officials
who are responsible for the con-
ditions of the highways, to the end
that the roads travelled by rural
carriers may be always kept open
and in such psssRble shape that
the service can be punotually per-
formed. Should the regularity OF
the service be needIessly destroyed
as the result of inattention and lack
of care bestowed on the highways
the permanent withdrawal of the
delivery will very likely result
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

Buy your father. brother, son
or relative one of those up.to date
suits of clothes made by O. G Tip
petit, the tailor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.

AdSOOAOAo WOAO AAA' ~ - - -
cities and many were thus kept
from locating in or about Pitts-
burg. Owners of small coal
mines and manufacturing estab-
lishments were forced to the wall
or obliged to sell out at great sac
rifce. They could not secure
necessary cars for shipping.
Thousands of workingmen, min
ers and skilled workmen were
kept living from hand to mouth
for the reason OF this dearth OF
empty cars. For years conditions
were thus serious, relieved only
now and then by some ludicrous
incident, as for instance the rail
road company refused to haul a
circus train from a small town
explaining its inaduquacy to care
for the traffic. The climax came
in 1901 and 1902 in the midst of
the then prevalling great wave Of
prosperity. There was a total
collapse of freight service in and
around Pittsbnrg. All the freight
yards and side tracks were crow
ded and jammed with thousands
of freight cars that could not be
moved; train crews labored day
and night, powerless to bring or
der out of chaos. At the same
time there was an unpreceedent-
ed food of products from miH,
mine, factory and sarm, pouring
in. Great armies of workingmen
we out of employment, waiting
for materials, rusting in cars
blocked on side-tracks, probably
within few squares of their des
tination but inaccessible. Orders
were cancelled, rorfeits were paid
by owners of mills, while many
factories were compelled ia close
down No such condition of af-
fairs ever confronted great rail
way system before In the history
of the world, and it is safe to say
the managers of the Pennsylvania
system will never again be caught
SO unprepared to meet such emer-
gency. But here it was the pub
lie became aroused to relization
of the vital issues between the
two companies, the Pennsylvania
and Wabash.
1t had long been believed that
there was no other practicable
route on which a railroad could
be built to enter the city. The
Pennsylvania Co. seemed irwin
chile, unassailable, financially,
politically,physically. Both banks
of all the rivers were occupied by
numerous tracks of thisgreat cor
poration and its allied lines-all
found in a community of inter
est" contract. Every valley in
every direction was crowded
with steel tracks. nearly always
blocked with freight cars, and
the whole of south side, Pitts
burg, was believed to effectively
barred by the solid rock ribbed
ramparts of Mt. Washington and
Duquesne Heights; rising more
than a thousand feet above the
rivers. The managers of COM
peting railroads simply smiled
therefore, when it was first rum
ored about the Wabash entering
the city. PILoHARD.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

The odor of "By-lo" Violet Bo.
rated Talcum P ,wder is true violetI
the fragrance of the fresh flowers.
It doesn't change. Buy the By-lo
at Van Gilder's.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13
And the Largest Dealer in
SHINGLES
In the Ohio Valley.

Six hundred thousand on hand of
all kinds. Dimension shingles, fancy
and plain in stock.
am the only house in the trade
that manufactures all of the fuDeral
goods that sell, others are merely
jobbers in the business. They pay ali
of the manufacturers profit save
all of the manufacturers profit. You
can save the midnle mans profit.
Come to the factory where there is
no lost time, all are at work. You
time watching the shop for some one
to come in as they can earn nothing
unless they sell
My cloth. silks and plush are,
bought from importers In New York.
ALI of the Innings and laying cloths
done by a woman in the factory. The
The men working for me are ali wood
workers and no time is Lost. Cometo
the factory. l pay
Railroad, Street Car Fare and
Ferriage,
Deliver all goods. Drive over the
ferry. / pay the ferriiage, feed your
horses and give dinner In all calls for
funeral goods-new, not second hand.
have bought the finest Funeral Car
ever bought In Southern Ohio. Have
some ofthe finest rubber tire hacks
and a fine Coupe for the minister ]
have fine Child's white hearse the
only one in the county. 1 don't haul
chiidren in large hearse. / have 6
hearses. covered delivery wagons.
make very fine
Couch and Grand Army Cask-
Our children's caskets are finer
goods than you can find In the mark
ct. have bought and built q new
house in Mason City where carry a
fine line of undertakers goods. Have
a fine Office with two telephones. You
can call us through my Office In Ma
son to Pomeroy. We tend both places.
built this room in Mason to take care
of my large increased trade in West
virginia.
Plastering Lath, Paints, Oils, var
nish and general hardware.
3. F. Biggs,
] Pomeroy and Mason City.
Oct. il, 1905.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

VHE FARMER REAPS what he has pre-
ytously sowed. The human body reapa
likewise the natural crop Of wealness
pain and death If the seeds OF disease
have been sown by bad habits of careless
ness in eating, sleeping and exercising.
KEEP WELL II YOU CAN and when You
need little help In keeping well use
Natures remedies, that do not roughly
STIMULATE but gently quicken the action
OF Natures functions In natural WAY.
Natures laboratory furnishes the follow
ing plants which enter into the manufac-
ture of DR.. Pierce,s Golden Medical Dis
coyery. Golden Seal root. Oueen,s root.
Stone root. Black Cherrybark, Bloodroot
and Mandrake root.
ii In doubt as to your trouble or need
ing advice, you can consult, free Of
cnaEge, Dr. K Y Pierce, chief consulting
physician 20 the 1nvalids' Hotel and
leteers are considered confidential and
returned n seenrelE sealed envelopes.
NJ n sq.e eEsd .oE nearly eight searS. writes
sheriff. with Inaisris. which rols1'node my nv
entire system and deprived me OF my VI
tAtity. Twas cured In three months by uainR
Dr.. Ptercess Golden Medical Discovery.
know IL was largely due TO NEGLECT and I
peto little attention to my trouble until
became 30 run-oown and weak that knew
health began 20 feel better within four
days after used the Golden Medical Dis
covery. and after uging nine bottles I was
restored 70 my usual health. feeling better
than for years.
The most valuable book for both unan
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-12-13

and women IS DR.. Pierce's
Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser. A splendid I00S-page
volume, with engravinEs
and colored plates. A copy,
paper-covered, will be sent
to anyone sending 81 cents
In one-cent stamps, to pay
the cost of mailing only, to
DIR. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo. n.
Y. Cloth-bound, 81 stampa.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
e ? F

sULPHIDEs COMING IN.
 ?. A. RattenGeld. who has been with the American Prospecting and
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30

has diminished until now the pumps are handling three hundred gallons less per minute than a month ago. An average of about two thousand gal Ions per minute is being pumped al the present time. The Briggs will be put down to the HOO and then drift ing will be in order Before the first of the year the newspapers will no doubt announce the location of the ore bodies of the Calumet & Pittsburg group. The Hoatson shaft and the drifts from the HOO in the Briggs should tell the story. Up to this time a piece of ore on the C. & P. territory has been a curiosity. None worthy of the name showed in the Briggs shaft and the nearest approach has been seams of leached material Calumet & Pittsburg was "pinched' for spending money about the first Of the year. In fact. the report of the directors showed a deficit of some thing like s114.000. Lately the re- maining 50.O0O shares of the treasury stock has been issued which gives the company a working capital of an aG- ditional half million. The number of shares outstanding heretofore has been 200.000 The issuance of this additional fifty thousand shares ham, mered down the price of c. & P. on i the boards about one fourth falling from oo 10 ro % 10
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
< < . SHATTUCK & ARIZONA.

Among the outsiders the Shattuck 6 Arizona has made the best record during the week. As published in Tuesdays issue of the Review the mine can now about be considered a proven property. With a drift hay ing penetrated over e feet of high grade ore on the roo foot level, to- sether with other discoveries in the mine. there is little question now that it can enter the producing list at any time the company desires. The ci- mensions cf the ore body lately open ed up are, of course. not entirely known but work will shortly be begun to fully explore it's limits. A new and larger plant will also be installed before the end of the year. provision having been made for the same. at the last meeting Of the board of di- rectCrs.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
DENN-ARIzONA.

At the Denn-Arizona the sallows frame has been finished. One boiler has been placed and another is on the way here. The shaft is down 25o feet and progress is being made at the rate of 100 feet per month. The gen eral formation through which the shaft lis going at present is an altered sand stone. closely approaching a quartzite, and it is not expected 10 get into min eralized ground until several hundred feet more depth is reached. As the diamond drill only encountered a body of ore at the 900 foot level it will prob ably be six months before that zone is reached by the shaft