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, 1907-01-03
MEN ARE IN THE MAJORITY.
oUtnumber the Women In the World
Except In Europe.

The Statistisches Jahrbuch, pub
lished by the German government,
contains every year about so pages Of
comparative statistics of the world.
This is a source to which writer's on
the comparative statistics of nations
very often go for information.
In the Jahrbuch for this year the
statistics of population as to sex are
collated. Some countries, as France
and China, give only the total popula-
lion, without distinguishing the sexes
and they have to be lett out of the cal
culation.
In Europe the only countries in
which the number of males is given as
exceeding that of females are Servia,
Roumania, Bulgaria and Greece, all of
which are Balkan states. The Teu-
ionic, Latin and Slav nations have a
slight xcess of females. which Is
often only a few thousands and rarely
rs much as 800 900.
In every other continent most of the
nations have an excess of male popu-
lation. Thus in the western world
Jamaica, Mevico and Venezuela alone
have an excess Of females. The Unit
ed States. Canada, Brazil. Argentina,
Uruguay and other countries have an
excess of males.
So far as accurate statistics have
been oltained in Africa only the
French possessions and the Gold Coast
colony have an excess of females,
while in Egypt. the French posses
'ions, the Transvaal, Orange River
'olony and Cape colony males are the
more numerous.
In none of the Asiatic countries are
females in excess of males, according
70 the statistics. In the Philippines
the males are in excess of the females.
, 1907-01-03
FRENCH TIE CAMP ITEMS

Clyde Wirant was up to headquart-
ers Thursday.
Osea Nelson returned from Elk
Mountain Saturday.
Mrs. Della Harden visited Mrs.
Lucy OrviIle Friday.
Lon Reynolds was up to Osea Mel
sons camp Monday.
George Simonius Was up from the
Sterrett ranch Saturday.
Mrs. Susan johnson has been quite
sick with IA severe cold the past week.
l.. @. Thompson returned to camp
and has gone to chopping in the Brush
Creek camp.
Earle Scott, George Madison, Mike
Kelley, Frank Williamson and Billie
Carlson all returned from Saratoga
Thursday where they had been for the
Christmas festivities,
Every II has returned from Sara
toga and different places where they
went to spend the holidays and have
settled down to hard work again. The
weather is unusually favorable for tie
making so far this winter and the
choppers are all taking advantage OF
, 1907-01-03

Down in South Chine, Me, vas a
good old Quaker, Uncle John Jones,
whom everyone kuew and respected.
A slight defect in his speech added in.
terest to his remarks. Uncle John
raised poultry along with the other
products Of his farm. One morning
he discovered that d number of his
chickens were missing. Having his
suspicious as to who the thief might
be, he 10y low, and finally recovered
his loss.
Upon his ney, visit to the corner
grocery store the loungers were in.
teTested to know how he recovered
them, Uncle John aid: 81 went to
thai fellow for the third and last
time, and told him to being back my
chickens, and he brought back chick
ems that | had and chickens that |
never knew | had"
, 1907-01-03
Psrsrldseq Hatched by Bantam.

Mr.. Mary Smith, wife of John
ST. h, a Hartford county (Pa.) farm.
er. has IN her possession a chicken
tn las become a foster mother for
tie y9ung .partridges.
La. winter and early in the spring
q -Iuber of Kansas quail were lib
er Il by sportsmen in the vicinity
of IT. Smiths farm. One night Mr..
ST. ms cat brought an expectant
pa ldge mother in dead. Mrs. Smith
In aliately went to the nest, and
in ng is eggs still warm, transferred
the to a bantam hen, and in a short
while ten Matched out. The little birds
arc as domestic as ordinary young
chickens. When night comes on they
he rer under tneig mother Just as
ms. irallv as = they were bantams.
, 1907-01-03
He Excepted the Captain.

Passing the pantry Of his boat one
day, Capt. Birch of Gloucester, Mass.
overheard n of the cabin boys in.
dulging in administrations on the Of
fcers and crew. He turned a very
severe c~ountenance upon the boy and
said: Young man, hereafter when
you have anything to say about any
one about the boat, please except the
captain"
A few days later, when the captain
happened to be on deck, the same
cabin boy carried past him a dish Of
food prepared for the table, and a pet
hog running between the boys legs
upset him, scattering the food.
Picking himself up. with a most
rueful c~ountsnance, the boy com.
menced berating the hog. You are
the m~iserabiost hog | oven seeA," he
began, when. catching a view of the
old man, and remembering his iniunc-
ton, he added, except the captain"
The boy has had d secure berth on
Capt. Birch's boa ever since.
, 1907-01-03
Ako HE BLAMED THE DEACON.
cha ge of Cheating R4pueed by Truly
Good Man.

you internal old lying hypocrite,
20 ,old me | could trust tina horse"
We'll, the fact that you did shows
tn I was right"
SHOWS that you a right? What
dc Ou mean? He ran away the first
til I tried to let MIN stand"
My friend, permit me to tell you
sc thing j is evident hat you have
ne become aware of the importance
of -gealIing the English language prop
err. When you We're bargaining for
tn horse in .Iastion you asked:
C. ! trust him?' l replied that you
&C --7 Literally that was true. You
di- rust him, hence you could, II
yc Lad asked: Will it be safe for
N TO trust him?' l would nave had
&c 'n the negative, for | am
q t-uthful man. as every deacon
s. Ia. my dear sir, how often
dc -oopls in this world blame men
70 HronES that they have not COM
n ID. Hsge you have accused me
OF Locating o when your faulty
Ell l,sh alone was to blame. But l
fo IN you never harbor resent
II Go, sir, go. In my magnanim-
It. ! will mot even reproach YOU
Cl--aE0 Record Herald.
, 1907-01-03
JAIL BARRED TO HIM.
american Prisoner In China ReoeIvse
Cold Welcome.

When the Chinese day watchman ~
the American consulate went his
rounds the other morning he discov-
cred that one of he cells that should
have contained a prisoner was empty.
Door and window were intact, n
there was no sign to show how the
occupant of the cello. s. Buttrick-
had effected his escape. Buttrick was
serving a sentence of three years i'm
prisonment on a charge Of embezzle'
ment, which was heard at Tien-tsin.
The night Waterman, who was at
first suspected of connivance in the
D.. m. as usual. He told a perfectly
straightforward story. He came on
duty, he said, as usual, at seven
o'clock the preceding evening. But
trick was then put for his daily walk,
but returning at about nine p. m.
called for 4 tansan and then retired
to his cell. The Waterman saw moth
ing more of him, and when he left
at seven a. m. he placed the keys, as
usual, on a table where the day watch
man would know where to find them.
Another version Ia that when But
trick returned from his evening walk
he was unable to get into the consu
late. He knocked me rang for some
time without any response, and fin
ally, in high dudgeon at the inhos'
pitality of the consulate, went else,
where for his nights lodging. Our in
formant adds that he would not be
surprised If Buttrick turned up some
day to lodge a complaint against the
American authorities for locking him
out in this inhuman manner.-North
China News
, 1907-01-03
HAD FOUND NEW DELicAcY.
City Bred Youngsters Must Have Had
Peculiar Taste.

Ron Inc Reg were two lear little
eoys who had bee born and bred in
a big city and knew nothing at all Of
country life. So when they were
taken to the real country this year.
far away from towns. they were quite
overcome at first by the marvels that
they saw everywhere.
In the beginning they were afraid
Of everything from the lows to the
grasshoppers, but after a short time
tleir naturally enterprising spirits
overcame all t timidity and soon
their mother / 'er hands full try
ing to rrnvent from bring home
such II. npoI pets As green
toads.
One day she saw them busy II the
garden picking something up and eat
ing it delightedly between them.
Boys! boys!" she cried, what are
you eating there"
20, muvvsr, muvver!" answered
Reg, we Just finded two Turning
taterpillars. a moove one and a fuzz,
one. and the smoove one was %licious!"
, 1907-01-03

A rolice justice was trying 10 i'm.
press upon a prisoner, who was 10 tes-
hfy on his own behalf, the sole M
nature of an oath. Assuming his most
pompous tone, the magistrate thus
addressed him
prisoner at the bar! In takiuc iris
solemn oath to tell the truth the
whole truth, and nothing but he
truth, take care that you do not Al,
iow yourself to be tempted to commit
3 wiilful perjury. Remember tNa5 lu
eye of an all-seeing providenc. O. :
Of the village constable are u.u
vow"
, 1907-01-03
Crane Fled From is.

Actors are VIGOROUSLY suporstitious
and w II. Crane is no exception. One
day. when he found himself in room
10 at a hotel. he Immediately demand.
ed that he be transferred.
But eNpostulated the clerk, this
is the hest room in the house. It's a
room, TOO, in which many eminent
men have lodged. Why, your old
friend John T. Raymond often occu,
pied it,
Indeed unused Crane, somewhat
molliulI; dear joint and he really
stnyed aere?"
"Yes, sir; he died In tLls .
room"
Crane fed 10 another hotel.
, 1907-01-03
STRANGELY Eamlhar.

The great editor had, t~houghtless.
ly, fallen in love with the young lady
whose contributions he had frequent
~ returned. He wrote her a letter,
n which he stated that his heart had
zen in her possession for some time.
stc.
The reply staggered him:
Sorry she wrote, ito have kept
he article sent in by you SO long.
re you sure you inclosed sufficient
stage for It's return, in case 1t was
Unavailable? In returning it, We
,5h to thank H1u for your consider
ion In oferiur r., and to assure sou
at u rejection implies no lack ~
crit in the arliy' self. simply taal
'e have already . 'ulnd mort ar'
'rles OF a like cl er than We can
Sc for some time te come.
Yours n.n
IN emily BROWN"
, 1907-01-03

l.. B. Chlse, the freighter, will
move his family down to the Stone
ranch IA Pass creef. His residence
will be occupied by the family of j.
e. Cornell during his absenca az Pass
creek. MIR. Chase thinks he will be
able to handle his freightIng business
to ii better advantage from that point.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Animals Tried In Court.

Down to a comparatively late pc
riod in continental Europe the low
er animals were considered amena-
Bile to the laws. Domestic animals
were tried in the common criminal
courts. Wild animals fell under &C.
clesiastical jurisdiction. French an
tiquaries have discovered the rec
ords of ninety-two processes against
animals, conducted with the strict
est formalities of justice, from 112O
to 1740, when the last trial and ex-
ecution, that of a COW, took place.
Thus there was q lawsuit that lasted
from 1445 to 14S7 between the in
habitants of st. Julian and kind
of beetle, and at Lavigny in 1457 a
SOW and her six young ones were
tried on a charge of having murder
ed and partly eaten a child. The
SOW was found guilty and condemn
ed to death, but the little pigs were
acquitted on account of their youth,
the bad example of their mother
and the absence of direct proof
against them.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
A Conscientious Parsen.

A wedding took place a short
time back in a large town In the
north of England, the service being
conducted by a rather eccentric VIC
ar. Two days after the ceremony
he called at the house of the bride
groom's mother, but she happened
to be out, SO he said he would call
again, which he did later in the day,
carrying two large bags under his
arm.
This time he found her in. So
he began by asking them to clear
the table a little. Then he opened
the green bags, from which he took
the registers. These he opened and
in most solemn tone said:
"Mrs. Williams, you have forgot
ten to dot the 81 in Elizabeth"
The family breathed once more.
London Answers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
FELL INTO MILLIONS.
The Slip by Which a Rich Gold Mine
Was Discovered.

One of the most productive mines
in California was discovered through
an accidental fall of the discoverer.
He was one of a hunting party that
had gone out from San Fr SEQ
during the Christmas he lys.
While passing along the side of a
steep hill on narrow trail his horse
suddenly slipped and with his rider
went down into the gulch.
Happening to be the last in the
line and some distance behind the
others, he was not missed for some
moments, but when his absence was
noticed the party turned back to
look for him, fearing some unit D
ward accident. He was nowhere to
be seen, but the place where his
horse had slipped and fallen over
the bank, together with the traces
of the fall was plainly visible. Fol
lowing the tracks made by the fall
ing horse and man, and when near
the bottom, the men suddenly came
upon an interesting spectacle. Just
behind a cluinp of bushes which the
man and his steed had crashed
through on their way down stood
the horse, apparently uniniured,
while near by, on slab of rock
projecting from the snow, the man
was capering like an Indian at q
ghost dance.
The first impression of the rescu-
ing party was that the man had gone
suddenly crazy, but as he caught
sight of them he suddenly ceased
his gyrations and shouted for them
to approach. They came, when he
showed them several Jumps of al
most pure gold he had hastily
knocked from the edge with stone
for hammer and announced his
discovery of a gold mine. The slid
ing horse had brought up against
the ledge, and the restive animal,
kicking vigorously in the efforts to
rise, had struck off the moss from
the stone and disclosed the fact that
it was a gold bearing ledge of un-
usual richness. The find was ap-
propriately named "The Christmas
Gift" and a valuable gift it proved
to be.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Bad Stomach Makes
Bad Blood.

You can not make sweet butter In a
foul, unclean churn. The stomach serves
as ehurn In which TO agitate, work up
and disintegrate our food as 1t Is being
dIgested If 1t be weak, sluggish anu
foul the result will be torpid, sluggish
liver and bad, impure blood.
The ingredients Of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery are Just such as best
serve to correct and cure all such de-
rangements. It is made up without q
drop Of alcohol in It's composition; chem
ieally pure, triple-re6ned glycerine being
used instead OF the commonly employed
alcohol. Now this glycerlne Is OF itself q
valuable medicine, instead OF deleteri-
Gus agent like alcohol, especially in the
cure Of weak stomach, dyspepsia and the
various forms Of indigestion. Prof. Finley
Ellingwood, n. D., of Bennett Medical
College, Chicago, says OF 1t:
ain dyspepsia it serves an excellent pur-
pose. 1t is one OF the best manufact-
ured products OF the present time in its
action upon enfeebled. disordered Stomachs;
gastritis catarrhal Inflammation Of stomach.
It is most efficient preparation. GlyceFine
will relieve many cases of pyrosis (heartburnl
and excessive gastric acidity. II is useful In
chronic intestinal dyspepsia. especially the
natulent variety. and In certain forms OF
chronic constipation. stimulating the secre-
tory and excretory functions OF the intestinal
glands"
When combined, in just the right proper
tions, with Golden Seal root, Stone root,
Black Cherry bark, Queens root, Blood
root and Mandrake root or the extracts OF
these, as in DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, there can be no doubt Of its
great efficacy in the cure of all stomach,
liver and intestinal disorders and derange-
menta These several ingredients have
the strongest endorsement in all such
cases Of such eminent medical leaders as
Prof r Bartholow. NJ D.. OF Jefferson Med
ical College. Chicago; Prof. Hobart A. Hare.
NJ. D., Of Medical Department, University Of
Pa; Prof Laurence johnson. NJ D.. Medical
Department, University OF New York: Prof
Edwin N. Hale. NJ d.. Hahnemann Medical
College Chicago; Prof. John NJ. Scudder NJ D.
and Prof John King. NJ. D.. Authors Of the
American Dispensatory. and scores Of Others
among the leading medical men OF our land.
WHO can doubt the curative virtues OF
q medicine the ingredients OF which have
such professional endorsements
Constipation cured by Doctor Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. One or two dose.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Tho Rival Hairdressers.

One of two hairdressers by way
of advertising himself cuts his hair
in the most faultless mannar, ac-
cording to the latest fashionE'plate.
The other, on the contrary, cuts his
in the most clumsy way imaginable.
The first customer who entered his
shop did not fail to take him to task
about it. "How in the world, being
yourself a barber, do you have your
hair so'badly cut?"
"Why, sir, the reason is simple
enough. l cannot possibly cut my
hair myself, but am obliged to have
recourse to my colleague over the
way, and he is such dufferp
"And 1 suppose you cut his in
turn?"
"of course. And you can judge
for yourself whether he oughtn't to
be satisfied. Rome Journal.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
SACRED HORNS
me Queer Adornmsnt Of Peculiar
Chinese People.

OutttsSe rSSPtSs
Adjoining the Chinese prefecture
of Chienchang is a deep gully
barred by river which no China
man is permitted to pass until he
finds bail for his good conduct in
Lolodom.
The Lolos are a slim, well made,
muscular race, with oval reddish
brown faces, high cheek bones and
pointed chins, from which the beard
has been carefully plucked. They
are far taller than the Chinese and
indeed than any European race, but
their marked peculiarity is the horn.
Every male adult gathers his hair in
a knot over his forehead and then
twists it up in cotton cloth so
thattit resembles the horn of a uni
corn.
The horn is considered sacred,
and even if Lolo settles in Chinese
territory and grows a pigtail he still
preserves his horn. The Lolo
mans principal garment is a wide
lsleeyeless 1mantle of red or black
Ifelf tied about the neck and de-
lscending almost to the heels. The
trousers are of Chinese cotton with
felt bandages. No shoes are worn,
but a conical hat of woven bamboo
covered with felt furnishes head
covering as well as an umbrella.
The Chinese divide the Lolos into
two classes, which they call respec-
lively "black bones" and white
bones," the first being the mobiles
and the latter their vassals and re-
tainers. There is also third class
of captive Chinese and their de-
scendants, called "watzu," practical
ly slaves, who are tattooed on the
forehead with the mark of their
tribe.
The Lolos never marry except in
their own tribes, captive Chinese
women being given to their bonds
men. The marriage of "a fFblack
bone" is time of great festivities
and many banquets. The betrothal
is celebrated and ratified by the
present of the husband to the
brides family of pig and three
vessels OF wine.
On the wedding morn the bride is
richly dressed with many orna.
ments. She is expected to weep
profusely, whether she feels SO in.
clined or not. In the midst of he,
tears the qroom's relatives and
friends dash in, seize the bride, the
best man carries her out of doors
on his shoulders, she is clapped on q
horse and hurried off to her new
home. Here she finds horses, cat.
Tie and sheep, provided by the
groon's family, while her own peo.
pie sead clothes, ornaments and
corn. Wor.en occupy a high posi-
ton amonr the Lolos, and a woman
chief is rct unknown among the
tribes.-New York Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
BEARS IN EUROPE.
They Plague the Hsrdsmsn by RaidIns
Their FIocI<s.

Although the last bear was shot
in Germany in 1885 near Traun-
stein, il Bavaria, bear hunting and
trapping still go on in the very
heart of Europe. In Transylvania,
Hungary, Bosnia and Croatia, all
mountainous regions, there are hun
dreds of bears, and scores Of them
are killed and caught every year.
They are the plague of the shep-
herds and cattle herders who pas
ture their fiocks among the hills.
They seem to fear neither dogs nor
men and boldly carry off sheep and
calves into the woods before the
eyes of the watchers.
The peasantry retaliate by using
the stolen animals as bait for the
robbers. The bear seldom consumes
the entire carcass at one meal. He
either b1ries the rest or hides it
with leaves to serve another time.
The country people know this, and
they follow the bears trail to the
place of concealment. When this is
found they determine the direction
in which he departed from his prey,
knowing he will return when he is
hungry by the same path.
The trap is placed in this line
about yard from the hidden car
cass. 1t is carefully concealed with
leaves and grass, and bruin cannot
help stepping on it with either his
fore or hind paws. When he is Sc
curely caught the herdsmen, who
are mortally afraid of him, appear
and kill him at leisure and in per-
feet safety.
Of course the landowners and
sporting class generally do not get
their bear in this cowardly way.
They hunt with dogs and shoot the
game when it is run down.
But this is not easy work. Al
though there are plenty of bears in
a mountain region, it is not uncom-
mon for a hunting party to travel a
whole day without getting shot at
one.-Exchange.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
A Chestnut LIaht.

A simple and economical suhsti-
Eute for q night light may be pre-
pared in the following way: Take
some good sized cheStnutB Of itTegu-
lar form, and with the aid Of IN or
binary needle riddle them with Rne
holes. Then soak them In oil for
twelve hours. To convert q chest
nut thus prepared into a night light
you have but to bore hole In It,
but not quite through it, and All tbs
space with cotton threads to form
q wick. Set it in a glass Of water,
on which it will float. If You liGht
it at night on retiring you may
count ON its lasting until morning. /.
The only precaution necessary 70
take Il 10 make sure that the chest
nut viii maintain its upright posi-
tion in the water. It Is therefore
well TO choose one of irregular shape
and to mako It Aoat before placing
the wick, in order to determine the
exact point at which the latter
should be inserted, 90 that these
may be no danger Of its touching
the water.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-04-17
Claiming the Child.

She may have been either a wick
ed little girl or simply one of those
children who refuse absolutely to
"stay put" but whatever her all
ment her mother certainly made
enough of parade of it. The pair
we're strolling along the other after
nooD and around the left wrist of
the child was stout dog collar OF
leather, to which was fastened a
heavy chain of steel links, the end
of which was held firmly in the
mothers right hand. The chainng
might have been done in all kind
ness, but the effect on the passing
throng was to arouse keen sense
of pity for the child.-New York
Press.