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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
Saturday, May 10, 1906,

commencing at IL O'Clock A. NJ, sell at pub
lie auction at the front door of the Court
House of said Mason County to the highest
bidder, the following property, situated in
the State of West Virginia, County of Ma
son and District OF Cooper:
a certain tract or parcel of land lying and
being on branch of the waters of Ten Mile
Creek, and bounded and described 8 follows,
to-wit: Beginning at q large black walnut
stump in the bottom North OF Wolf Pen
Run. and corner TO q tract of land formerly
owned by Perry Collins, thence 3. 47e 20 E.
Is. 5Oo K. l5S poles to white oak, thence
=. E2o 3O w. IS. 4Oo W. 81 poles TO u stone
with large oak pointer. thence N. z!e 90
line, thence with said line N. 42S so e. IN.
40 E. 50 poles to the beginning, estimated to
contain Eighty-one lSlI Act es, ana being the
same tract or parcel of land conveyed to
the said Mahala ]. Gibbs by William P
Klingensmith, by deed dated the 18th day
OF May, 1882, recorded IN the Office OF the
Clerk of the County Court of said County
in Deed Book No. SO, Page 05, ETC.. to which
deed reference is hereby made; saving and
accepting therefrom, however, a certain
portion thereof containing about Thirty one
t3l) Acres, more or less, conveyed by said
Mahala ] Gibbs and husband to Charles h !.
Selby by deed dated the BIRD day OF June.
1888 and recorded in said Clerks Office in
Deed Book No. a, Page 430, etc, TO which
deed reference is hereby made.
Terms of Sale: CASH.
apr is st ]. s. SPENCER, Trustee
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
Stomach Troubles

Mrs Sue Martin, an old and
highly respected resident of Feis
sonia, Miss. was sick with stomach
trouble for more than six monthe
Ohamberlaln's Stomach and Liver
Tablets cured her She says: II
can now eat anything / want and
4m the proudest woman an the
world to find such a good medi-
cine" For sale by g w M Hooff
and A O Van Glider Samples
free.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
Fortunate MissOurians

when 1 was a druggist, at Lii
vonia, Mo- writes T j Dwyer, now
of Graysville. Mo, three of my
customers we're permanently CURED
of consumption by DIR Kings New
Discovery, and are we'll and strong
to day One was trying to sell his
property and move to Arizona, but
after using New Discovery short
time he found it unnecessary to do
SO l regard DIR. Kings New Dis
covery as the most wonderful medi-
cine in existence" Surest Oongh
and Cold cure and Throat and Lung
healer. Guaranteed by g w M
Hoof druggist SOC and 81. Trial
bottle free.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

The West Virginia Geological
Survey, under the very capable di
rection of Prof. 1. G. White has
just compiled Vol. III, of their re-
ports which embraces the olays.
limestones and dement's of the state
The work is very exhaustive one
and it's course the counties are all
touched upon for their share of re.
sources. Aside from the technical
feature the book is also interesting
from historical one, as it tells OF
the fret discovery of a field, the es-
tablishment of factories and plantt
and then the growth from. in many
cases a small beginning. till tn,
manufacture was one of the indne.
tries of the state.
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yards about, and had counter
ance like the new moon.

"ANS oOOuC, duO ndu d COuuCeu.
ance like the new moon.
OF the two men, we should un-
hesitatingly say that Cochunka
was the happier. We argue moth
ing from this. We say that it is
a condition that we know exists.
Cochunka is a hog. Hehas none
of those finer feelings that can be
hurt. The brother is a gentle
man, yet his life is full of sorrow
and woe.
Why is this Mrs. Wilcox? Here
is condition; here is fact and it
is not extremely exceptional at
all. We believe that the secret
of happiness is locked in the
breast of the Almighty. No man
can know it, and therefore all
theories as to attainment are fall
lacious. That many people, per-
haps many people, are happy
goes without saying, but there is
no royal road to its goal. 1t is
the reward of a we'll spent life?
Well, 80 far as this world is con-
cened, history, both sacred and
profane says no, and observation
confirms in use the teachings of
history. Happiness is mental
condition, it is a state of being
that you may be powerless to en-
ter. That the environment of
the ego influence the mental state
in vast degree cannot be denied.
The human mind is wonderfully
complex-so complex that it Is
not understood and that it de-
pends on physical conditions can
not be denied. Diogones pretend
ed to be happy in tub but no
body else that we ever heard of
could follow his rule of life. Dio
cones was Diogones. You are
yourself. You could perhaps no
more get happiness out of Diog-
ones way of living than you
could write Shakespheare's Son.
nets or the Psalms of David.
For that reason you will read in
vain all directions to the goal of
human happiness. If as Mrs.
Wilcox says the seat ofhappiness
is within you it seems to US to be
presumption on the part of any
one else to try to tell you any,
thing more about it than you can
know and feel yourself. Mrs.
Wilcox, and we say SO through
no spirit of adverse criticism, be-
cause it is all right, is dosing her
many readers on intellectual theo-
ries that are to the mental condi-
ton what numerous patent med
icine frauds-are to the physical
body that is suffering from pain.
Mrs. Wilcox can no more heal
your mental suffering by writing
out directions to you than DIR. T.
A. solcum can cure you of con-
sumption "by mail" We have
no objection to Mrs. Wilcox
working off her harmless fraud.
In fact we have not so much fight
with DR.. Slocum. If you have
consumption. gentle reader, the
truth is you are a goner. DIR.
Slocum can do just as much for
you as the most learned physician
on earth and what they can both
do is nothing except to relieve
you of some surplus cash that
viii be no use to youin the grave
where you are going. And SIo-
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
Roosevelt and the Democracy.


Theodore Roose ;elt, Republican
president of these United States.
is showing a wonderful tendenc,
toward the appropriation of those
ideas which have been advocated
by the Democracy in the past. and
nearly every popular measure OF
the presidents suggestian has beer
lifted bed ly from Democratic
platforms of past years.
But in his latest utterance, in
the famous Man With the Muck
Rake" speech. the president goet
even beyond what has been advo
Dated by even the radical Demo
orats. Witness the following re
commendation:
..I feel that we shall ultimately
have to consider the adoption of &
progressive tax on all fortunes be
yond acertain amount. either given
in life or devised or bfqueathed up
on death to sny Individual tax
go framed as TO putt ont of thf
power of the owner of one of these
enormous fortunes to hand over
more than a certain amount to any
one individual"
The proposition>of the president,
put into plain words. is practically
to tax the immense fortunes OF
modern days out of existence, the
enrichment to go to the national
government.
The Baltimore Sun, an able
edited and conservative indepen
dent newspaper, thus reviews the
presidents Legislative projects:
"The fact remains that he hat
been singularly fortunate in the
past in extracting prizes from tht
"muck" piles of his former politi-
cal opponents. The railroad ratt
regulation bill which he has beeb
pressing with SO much energy il
both houses of congress was taken
from the Democratic waste basket
and is now supported by Demo.
orats because it embodied one OF
their principles The proposition
to levy an inheritance tax and to
limit the amount of the great for.
tunes which may be bequeathed
by American multimillionaires far
exceeds any proposition which the
the statesman delving in the curit
sities of Democratic literature ooulo
reasonably hope to discover. Tn,
Democrats did, indeed, favor an in
come tax, but it was not as far
reaching in its consequences or as
grandly populistio or socialistic az
President Roosevelt's latest plan
to impose progressive tax on all
fortunes beyond certain amount.
"If President Roosevelt cen
tinues to advance on similar econo.
mic lines. 1t may not be long be-
fore all that is left of Mr. William
j Bryan's platform of 1896 will be-
taken from the Democratic muck
heap by the aggressive gentleman
now in the White House and trans
ferred to the storehouse in which
the president keeps his poIiticsI
convictions In fact, Mr.. Roose
veIt has made such vigorous use of
his rake that about all he has left
on the Democratic muck pile is
Mr. Bryan's 16-to-1 theory. Thst
seems to be dead beyond resurrec
ton, but there is ground for the
belief that if the emergency should
arise Mr. Roosevelt might even
add it to his political creed. In
history there is no parallel for the
industry and apparent success With
which Mr.. Roosevelt has raked
over and turned to practical use
he muck heap of defeated and re-
jected Democratic doctrines. -
Huntington Advertiser.
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TRUSTEES SALE
OF Real Estate in Cooper District,
Mason County, West
Virginia.

HNDER and by virtue of a certain deed OF
~ trust executed by Mahala Gibbs and
Geo. W. Gibbs, her husband, TO the UNDER
1902. recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the
County Court of Mason County, West Vir-
etc, to secure the payment of a certain debt,
therein fully described. in favor of the
Modern Building & Loan Association, in
manner and form and according TO the
terms and provisions in said trust deed
specified, and said debt having becone due
in the payment thereof, and being required
by said Modern Building q Loan Associa-
tion, the creditor secured by the deed of
trust aforesaid, 1, the undersigned Trustee,
shall on
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
ON HUMAN
HAPPINESS.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a
lady who writes many nice and
pretty things that you can read
to no sort of advantage. We read
her last Sundays directions how
to be happy, and we are no hap
pier than before.
Mrs. Wilcox asseverates that
happiness must come from with
in you; that is, it is not depend
ent so much on the environment
of the ego as it is on the ego it.
self. The Sunday newspapers
paid her a large sum of money to
to reiterate a theory and likewise
a fallacy as old as the hills. The
old Fourth Reader says that if
happiness has not her seat and
center in the breast, we may be
wise or rich or great, but never
can be blest. And she further
says that you have got to get
yourself right, for if you do not
you may find out that after you
have attained to that upon which
you have set your heart you
may find it but dust and ashes.
Truth is stranger than fiction,
and herei is proposition we know
to be true: There was an old man
who had two sons, and these two
sons were brothers; Josiah was
the name of one, Cochunka was
the other, for purposes of illus
tration. In early life he joined
the Baptist church and went reg
ularly to Sunday school. He is,
for all the world has the right to
say, really a Christian, and we
believe he is a Christian. He
prospered on earth. He made an
enormous fortune and lives in a
palatlal residence and has
charming and noble wife. He
was always kind to the poor and
needy, and his life was that of a
good citizen, Christian and a
gentleman. Some time ago we
met him. Was his face lit up by
the smiles of happiness and love?
No; more detected, heart broken
looking man we never saw. Ills
wis wife has been for years an in
valid. All the children born to
the union have gone to the grave;
he himself has lost his health and
his voice and looks like one "who
treads alone some banquet hall
deserted"
We looked at him and the
words of Solomon flashed across
our minds: vanity of vanities,
and behold all is vanity"
But Cochunka led different
life. He early gave his attention
to two important subjects-get
ting drunk and getting sober. in
terspersed by jumping board bile
and borrowing quarters. He is
no account, nor never was, nor
never will be. In a few days after
we saw Josiah we met Cochunda
painful y sober, but fixing to get
drunk. He was fit companion
for Lazarus dog-seedy, dirty
and greasy. Were there any
signs of detection or unhappiness
about Cochunka? Not that could
be noticed. He was the very pic
lture OF health, in the waist two
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
Telephone Etiquet.

Telephones are now in such com
mon usage. in private life as vel
as in business, that it would seem
as if rybody ought to know how
to handle one and how not to abuse
SO great convenience. But many
do not seem to. Women in partic.
ular. probably because their voices
are, as rule, thinner and higher
pitched than the average mans
commonly speak in tones that re,
yerberate and set mp q confusing,
buzzing sound. It is a common
fault, too, to shout through the
phone as if the transition of the
message depended on the noise
made
In using the phone remember
that your voice does not actually
bave to carry to the other end of
the wire. 1t is simply reproduced
there. Consequently. you needn't
scream. just speak in low, dis
tiuct voice. and low and distinct
voice will be reproduced at the
other end.
Here are some rules of telephone
etiquet it might be we'll to master
Never telephone to private
house too early in the morning or
too late at night. The hours are
governed by the customs of the
household.
Never telephone during meal
hours.
Never use the phone of person
of slender means without at least
Offering to pay for it's use.
Employees should never use the
wire in a business office for long
and protracted conversations with
personal friends
Don't forget that even if you are
not seen across the phone wire
you are probably being overheard
by third party, and possibly by
others.
Don't shout out your private
affairs over a public 'phlne.
Don't, when some one is speak
ing at the phone within your hear
ing, stop your conversation. Go
on talking and get out of hearing
distance.
Don't talk for effect. Your con-
versation may be amusing to the
friends beside you, but will prove
puzzIing to the person at the other
end of the wire.
Learn to spesk in we'll modu-
lated musical tone.
An invitation delivered over the
phone is most informal and is only
possible between CLOSE friends.
Don't get languid or lackadai-
sic i when "phoning." Speak up
in healthy tone of voice
Keep the mouthpieoe and the
telephone receiver clean and steril-
iz4d by swabbing both eff with a
cloth dipped in alcohol.
Don't be in hurry.
Don't lose your temper.
When answering the phone, give
the name, or the name of the house
ur person whom you represent in
stead of saying Hello"
Remember that the telephone
box or instrument is part of the
furniture in your house, and should
be given just as much attention as
any other article in your house.
Keep it clean and shining.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

A company has been formed TO
unearth a monster meteor which
fell at Holbroeke. AIiz 1t is es-
timated that the meteor contains
gold. silver aud lead worth more
than $1,000 600
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

Let the rich still remember that
Jesus is sitting over against the
treasury. Ia proportion 60 their
means the poor are casting in of
their penury more than the mighty
The Lord has a oommendation for
all who give, but on some offerings.
He can see the marks of sscrifce.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

Orino Lsxative Fruit Syrup is
best for women and children Its
mild action and pleasant taste maks
it preferable 20 violent purgatives.
sucb as pills. tablets, eto Get the
booklet and sample Of Orino ut
All dealeHs
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

Our paved streets have all been
nicely cleaned and the people now
should keep them clean by sweep.
ing in front of their property every
few days Do this, and see how
nice the street will always look.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

There is one reward no man
seems to be in great hurry to gel
to, and that is the reward piled
mp for him in heaven.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
A Mountain Of Gold

could not bring as much happiness
to Mrs Lucia Wilke, of Caroline,
Wis, as did one 25c box of Buck
lens Arnica Salve, when it oom-
pletely CURED a running sore on
her leg. which had tortured her %
long years. Greatest antiseptic
healer of Piles, Wounds and Sores
25c at 6 w M Hooff's drug store.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

There is only one way to raise a
child-as if it belonged to some
one else.
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COUNTY.

zJu 'ge of Circuit Court w. A. Parsons
Point Pleasant
Clerk of Circuit Court, A L. Boggess
Ohicial Stenographer,.. E. C. Winger
Point Pleasant
Clerk of Co. Court j. P. R. B Smith
Co. Comm'rs u. H. johnson, Pres't
-HaTtfor,
-. Bird Stone, Leon
:" wv. H. Vaught,
Point Pleasant
Sheriff. ...........J o McDermitt
Prosecuting atty. L. s. Echols
Assessor lst Dist r e Musgrave
Point Pleasant
.s I'd Dist. Walter E. Sturgeon
MERGERS Bottom
County Geo. E. ChiIds
Point Pleasant
supt Schools A Green
Circuit Regular term be-
gins on first Tuesday of March, June,
September ard December.
County Court-Regular term be-
gins on first Monday of January, April,
July and October.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
NOTICE. TO TEACHERS.

Teachers examinations for 1906 will
be held at Point Pleasant on the fol
lowing named dates:
May oath and 25th.
July 18th and 20th
September 18th and 14ih.
Very Tespec fully,
G.. A GREEN.
apr 25tf County Superintendent.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

A man who knows he does not
deserve confidence has very little
confidence in other people.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

James Lick, founder of the OBJ
servatory and San Francisco mil
lionaire, always tested any one
entering his service by telling
them to plant a tree wrong end
up. Ifthey objected he dismissed
them, saying he only wanted men
who could obey orders.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

Teach thy tongue to say. Il do
not know"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

A fool doesn't envy you because
you are smart; a fool never kn ows
he is fool
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

at IL o'clock, a. m, at the front door of the
Court House of Mason County. West Vir-
ginia, offer at public sale. to the highest
bidder, that certain lot in the Town of Point
Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, de-
scribed as beginning At the southeast corner
OF lot now owned by-Stortz, thence
earterly along Fifth street TO a lot owned by
Joseph Helm, thence nOrtherly along the
line of said lot to the north end of what was
formerly krown as the "mil lot" thence
westerly to the corner of lot formerly owned
by Tippett, now John G. Stortz, thence
sOutherly to the place of beginning, ''bu re-
serving from said sale q ten foot lane on
west side of said lot to J. W. Ish, his heirs OF
assigns, for the purpose OF hauling coat and
and other necessary hauling to his lot"
Terms OF Sale CASH.
H. r. HOWARD,
Special Commissioner.
1, A. L. Boggess, Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Mason County, West Virginia, do hereby
certify that the above named H. r. Howard,
Special Commissioner, has given bond in
the sum of $4,000, as required by the decree
of the Court in the cause Aforesaid, April l6,
1906. A. L. BOGGESS, Clerk.
april Is 4w
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02
Permits to Marry.

Marriage license issued by
County Clerk Col. j. P. R. b.
Smith, since our last report;
April Goth, Homer Roush and
Ella Fisher, Grover G. Hall and
Write NJ. Priddy; 21st, William
d Holloway and Minnie A.
Gwinn, Alfred d. Hill and Efie
Badgley, William C. Hill and
Hattie Greenlee; oath, Daniel II,
Matheney and Emma Thomas.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

A lords heart and a bezgar's
purse agree not.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-05-02

A generous confession disarms
slander.
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DIRECTORY.
CITY.

Mayor. R Howard
City CLERK. w. G. Whaley
City Marshal. John w. Love
Citv Assessor. NJ. Burdett
CITY Solicitor .....L c. Somerville
CounciImenlChas F. Filson, Capt.
w. r Gum, J G. Franklin, John
ii. Che, sebrew, George Miller.
City Treasurer r. IL Tippett
Pres. Board of Health, DR.. E. j.
MossInan
Health Officer. B. Smith
Overseer Poor. Will j. Kenny
City CounciI-Regular meetings,
first Monday of each month.
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Commissioners Sale
Of Lot in Point Pleasant,
West Virginia.

HNDER and by virtue of decretal order
~ of the Circuit Court of the county of Ma
son, West Virginia, entered on the 18th day
OF March, 1905, In the chancery cause of G. F.
ard Josephine Hess vs. The Point Pleasant
National Bank and others. Therein pendin9
shall, as Special Commissioner, appointed
for the purpose,
On Saturday, the 1ath day OF
Nav, 1906.
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Some people speak three times
before they say anything.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-01
FOR SALE.

A GOOD FARM. SIXTY ACRES, ONE-HALF
mile from CSntfe Grove School House, on tn
main road. leading from Cedarville to Millville.
WIN. M. BROWN, Cedarville. N J
1129 If & wy
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-01
MiDch Bills to Protect Forests.

MiDch Bills to Protect Forests.
Backed by the State authorities Sem
ator Minch, of this county, has intro.
duced important measures in the Sem
ate looking to the establishment of for
est park reservations and providing
for efficient forest fire fighting force.
The bills by their titles are as follows :
S. 35, by Mr.. Minch. provides for
the establishment of forest park re-
servations and for the appointment of
State board of forest park reserva.
tion commissioners.
S. 81. by Mr.. Minch, supplement- to
forest park reservation act. Empowers
forest park commissioners to enter into
contracts with the governing bodies of
cities, towns, ETC., for the acquire.
ment of lands.
S. No 38, by Mr.. Minch, provides
for the appointment by the State for
est park reservation commission of a
State fire warden; regulates the ap.
pointment of local fire wardens and
the establishment of fire patrols, EN-.
powers them to summon any male in.
habitant of their district between the
ages of 1S-and so years to assist in ex-
tinguishing fires and to require the
use of horses and other needed prop
erty, and provides for the fining of
such as may refuse to serve; regulates
the burning of grass, charcoal, ETC.,
and provides for fine of not less than
$50 and not more than 5000 for infrac-
tion of it's provisions; provides for the
payment of So per day to fire wardens
while fighting fires and 50 day while
otherwise employed, and repeals pre-
vious legislation on this head.